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New in 3.8.3:
(2009-05-30)

• Use now the locale defined by the current language when launching the application being localized.
• Do not mark a nib file layout as modified when a comment is modified.
• Fixed a bug that prevented to read correctly certain TMX files.
• Fixed a bug where exporting did not save modified files.
• Fixed a bug that prevented a previous search to be reset when searching for file.
• Fixed an invalid formatting character detection with certain UTF-16 encoding.
• Fixed a bug that prevented a folder from being selected to update a project.

New in 3.8.2:
(2009-03-26)

• Preliminary support for xib file
• Now use existing language folder at same level when creating non-existing localized files
• Now save correctly the symbolic links when compressing the exported bundle
• Fixed a problem updating a project when lproj folder are aliased
• Fixed a crash when a file column is added if not all columns are visible
• Fixed a crash when updating a project with some specific duplicated files

New in 3.8.1:
(2008-11-29)

• Use now Sparkle to update iLocalize
• Display all language variants in the New Project Assistant
• Handle old-style property value in .strings file (read-only)
• Fixed a bug where modified files were not saved when closing the project
• Fixed a bug where the file content could be lost if an old copy of the file was copied in the source bundle
• Fixed a bug that prevented the drag and drop of bundle into the New Project Assistant
• Fixed a bug that prevented the reset of warnings on strings when no warnings were detected
• Fixed a bug that prevented flat-optimized nib files to be reported in the New Project Assistant
• Fixed symlink problems in included frameworks

New in 3.8:
(2008-10-25)

• Ability to open previous version of a file
• Refactored the Application menu by removing unnecessary items and moving the remaining in the File and Project menus
• Export dialog preferences is now per project
• Improved sort order in progress column (files)
• Toolbar is now customizable
• Added fields in preferences to set the Interface Builder 3.x or Interface Builder 2.x paths
• Added the launch button back into the toolbar
• Don't refresh the glossary list when the glossary window or main window is selected
• Default encoding for language is now UTF-16
• Display warning when creating project where a localized file is both in ISO or legacy language
• Display warning before generating an application with missing files in one of its localized language
• Display warning when read-only files are detected in a bundle
• Display warning before export/build if strings/files still need to be verified
• Make sure selected files are visible when the project is opened
• Alert when exporting a bundle will overwrite one already existing on the disk
• Fixed a bug where no alert was displayed if creating an already existing glossary
• Fixed a bug where iLocalize would fail to detect unused keys
• Fixed a bug to detect invalid formatting characters when they are not separated by a white space
• Fixed a bug where changing the encoding of selected files would sometime fail
• Fixed a bug that prevented to create a glossary when the translation is null
• Fixed a bug that caused a unknown selector exception when importing text glossary
• Fixed a bug that caused the backup nib file to be not removed when exporting the project
• Fixed a bug where changing the project folder in the new project wizard did not update the description text
• Fixed a bug where cleaning the project would replace double-quotes with escaped double-quotes

New in 3.7.1:
(2007-12-02)

• Check the project automatically after project creation
• Add xml as a type in the Text editor
• Optimized nib file version 3 causes iLocalize to abort prematurely the reading of folder content
• Global/local buttons are hidden if no local file available in the current language

New in 3.7:
(2007-11-15)

• Added full compability with Leopard ibtool (Xcode 3 and Xcode 2.5)
• Ability to choose the format of the project (Leopard only or Leopard and previous version)
• Ability to ignore empty strings
• Added contextual menu to copy translation from the Glossary Inspector
• Added Select All/Deselect All button in preview dialog when updating a project
• Check inconsistency after editing a string
• Duplicated keys are now indicated in the strings table
• Better performance when loading project
• Better performance when updating a project
• Fixed file selection if the name of the file is not unique
• Fixed file update if the name of the file is not unique
• Fixed double-click to edit strings (Leopard)
• Fixed Enter key behavior when editing a string (Leopard)
• Fixed the optimized nib detection mechanism (Leopard)
• Fixed a bug where the operation sheet would not be closed if iLocalize is in the background
• Fixed a bug in the statistics computation of strings and words
• Fixed a bug that would prevent encoding from being detected on PowerPC machine

New in 3.6:
(2007-10-14)

• Handle both legacy and ISO language naming convention (i.e. English, en or en_US)
• Ability to have files belonging only to a specific language (local files)
• Ability to ignore files
• Ability to export or import glossary in TMX format
• Handle now .strings file in XML format
• Language can be renamed
• Create a backup each time the project is saved
• Ability to show only project files in the Open Recent menu
• Added encoding with no-BOM option
• Ability to rename the source or target language of a glossary
• New 30 days evaluation period without limitation
• Requires now Mac OS 10.4
• Early Leopard support
• Empty folders in base language are now properly copied in localized languages
• Modification date of nib file is now correctly reported after each nib modification
• Fixed a crash when closing the glossary inspector
• Fixed a bug when trying to drag and drop glossary from a read-only volume
• Fixed a bug where the progress bar would not report correct information when updating more than one language
• Fixed error reported when processing symbolic links
• Fixed the way iLocalize launches applications (e.g. OmniWeb and SubEthaEdit are now properly launched)
• Minor bug fixes.
• Minor UI enhancements

New in 3.5:
(2007-05-12)

• Possibility to create glossary with another language than the base language
• Smart filter attribute to check has been split into translated strings to check and invariant strings to check
• Path fields of dialog Update From Bundle are now editable
• Added select all/deselect all button in dialog Update From Bundle
• Add name of the file when exporting the warnings related to it
• Left align file progress column
• Do not remove duplicates entries in a glossary that have different translations
• Reset localized layout when updating a project now correctly mark each nib file with the check layout status
• Drag and drop file from project to Finder now copy file to the Finder
• Individual settings of the editor can now be changed in the preferences
• Mark strings as to check when creating a non-existent localized file from the base language in a new project
• Don't display nibtool error when nib file does not exist (it will be marked in the project file status column)
• Create localized file from base language if it does not exist during update of the project
• Updated file status is now displayed even if the not found status is displayed too
• Do not try to rebase a localized file that does not exist
• Fixed a bug that prevented the enter key when editing a glossary entry to jump to the next non-translated entry
• Fixed a bug when rebuilding files other than .strings/.nib
• Fixed a bug where exporting a project with no .strings/.nib files would display an overflow number in the progress column
• Fixed a bug that prevented the editors in the preferences to be persistent after quitting and relaunching iLocalize
• Fixed a bug that prevented a new project from being created on Mac OS 10.3.9

New in 3.4.1:
(2007-01-13)

• fixed a bug when reading empty file when trying to detect the encoding of the file
• fixed a cosmetic bug in the Save All dialog when the default button changes its title
• fixed a bug when exporting a localization that would delete any generated application in the build folder
• fixed a bug that would cause iLocalize to crash when exiting the application with a newly created glossary window open
• fixed a bug that would prevent RTFD files to be correctly updated by drag and drop

New in 3.4:
(2006-12-17)

• new file encoding handling: default preferences per language, new column in the files table
• labels are now available for files
• smart filter improved to handle labels for strings and files
• added contextual menu in files table header to customize which columns is displayed
• improved file warning dialog to display warnings in a table instead of a pop-up
• improved display of file name and path by truncating if too long to be displayed in the cell
• use the Finder icon for each file
• new preference to choose the update dialog selection by default
• new menu shortcuts
• added ability to rebuild a base language file: for nib and strings files, it means that new and deleted elements will be reflected into the project (useful if a palette was missing when creating the project)
• new project assistant: iLocalize now accepts all bundle extensions and tries to auto-detect which ones are suitable for localization
• prefs: new external editor dialog to help choosing the external application for a given extension
• fixed column header text alignment
• remove duplicate entries button in merge glossary dialog
• save file columns width
• removed item Save Modified Files as it was duplicating the function of the standard Save command in the menu File
• file names are sorted correctly now (ignoring case)
• LaunchAppPlugin: new contextual menu plugin to launch an application with one of its languages in one click only!- fixed a bug when reading HTML page with BOM header
• fixed a bug where file with identical smart path would not be correctly selected after re-opening the project
• fixed a bug where new project window would not be correctly positioned and sized on screen
• fixed a bug where the preferences window position would not be restored after launching iLocalize
• fixed a bug where switching from one language to another with the propagation mode set to all files would propagate the translation in the wrong language

New in 3.3.3:
(2006-11-27)

• fixed a bug where updating the base language with a bundle with identical base language files would delete all localized languages

New in 3.3.2:
(2006-11-24)

• fixed a bug where iLocalize would not perform an update if all localized files are identical (but the underlying code and other non-localized files did change)
• fixed a bug where iLocalize would crash when comparing strings with different escape characters

New in 3.3.1:
(2006-11-14)

• added Italian localization
• improved German localization
• fixed a bug where keys not specified with a double-quotation mark and having a - character would not be correctly parsed
• fixed minor UI bugs

New in 3.3:
(2006-11-04)

• Universal Binary version
• new menu items and dialogs: Update Using Bundle and Update Using Files (it is now possible to update at the same time the base and localized languages)
• project search field can now find file names using the contextual Search Menu
• automatically try to fix inconsistencies when checking the project
• drag and drop of files is now allowed between projects
• language percentage is now computed relative to the number of strings (not anymore related to the number of files)
• enhanced strings parser to handle comments between keys and values
• remember now the type of EOL (end of line) based on the first EOL of the base language (previously used only Mac EOL)
• auto-save after update operation
• export localization now includes the name of the exported languages
• remove any ~.nib file after a nibtool operation
• can now specify in prefs if the list of files should be updated automatically after an operation that modify it (i.e. smart filter, etc)
• improved the file content column to display the number of total strings when filter(s) - from the preferences - is enabled
• find results now filter all languages (previously only the base language was filtered together with the localized language)
• can now delete glossary entries by hitting backspace or delete
• can now use the Enter key in glossary to jump to the next untranslated entry
• added shortcut for Generate and Launch
• added horizontal scroll bar for the file table in the project window
• remember selected languages in the Generate dialog
• display an alert if nothing to update instead of empty preview dialog
• contextual menu in the glossary inspector to open and select the glossary corresponding to the selected matching entry
• added strings with inconsistencies option in smart filter
• added table content size (regular or small) option in general preferences
• UTF-8 encoding by default for strings
• fixed a cosmetic bug in the file table when resizing columns
• fixed a bug where language completion percentage were not the same in the language project's pop-up menu and the generate dialog
• fixed a bug where cancelling the multiple file match dialog before the update process begins would lead the interface disconnected
• fixed a bug where creating a glossary with a filter activated would prevent strings to be added
• fixed a bug where updating a normalized project with a non-normalized application would cause iLocalize to add/remove files that were identical
• fixed a bug that prevent tooltip from being displayed for strings status when the string table was scrolled
• fixed a dead-lock issue when performing multithreaded translation operations
• fixed a bug when displaying matching score in the glossary inspector when ignoring case is selected in the preferences
• fixed a bug that prevented the clean feature to replace three dots with ellipsis under specific preferences settings

New in 3.2:
(2006-07-29)

• export localization has been rewritten to export all the files of the language
• export localization can be extended to support other mail clients (see Help for more information)
• project can be checked against strings and nib file inconsistencies (new smart filter to detect such files)
• files modified or added during an update operation are now flagged
• strings can now be labeled
• find now accepts regular expression
• glossary can now export source or target strings
• comments can be now displayed in light gray in the string table (prefs)
• new HTML/HTM smart filter by default
• display progress of each language in the generate dialog
• inspector size is now correctly restored
• prefs: custom mapping from built-in file editor and extensions
• prefs: can now specify the default project folder used in the new project assistant
• prefs: recognized bundle extensions can now be customized
• ignore files located in Resources Disabled
• can export the update preview list of operation
• glossary text zone can now also display invisible characters
• drag and drop entries between glossaries
• files not existing on the disk are now identified by a red bullet in the status column
• smart filter enhanced to detect file not existing on the disk and file having inconsistencies
• smart filter results (the list of files) are now updated in more situation
• rebuild from base language can now preserve the nib layout
• corresponding base language files and strings are displayed when find filter is selected
• new project assistant: better feedback about optimized nibs and nibs that are outside langage folder
• display tooltip over file or string status icon
• new nib preview process using a separate application
• display status if base string is changed externally (this should not happen in a normal workflow)
• display the number of nib/strings files in stats dialog
• clean project can now replace apostrophe by quotation mark
• update the structure list after an update operation
• can now specify the position where the element will be displayed in the nib preview inspector
• select now the current language in both application and file update dialog
• improved a lot the speed of removing the duplicate entries in a glossary
• enhanced operation report when warnings/errors are detected
• improved drag and drop into the project window (no need to drag over a table view anymore)
• improved console visualization
• improved glossary translation speed
• improved glossary inspector layout
• improved performance when typing in a strings or nib file while filters are activated
• add white space between comment and key=value pair in strings file if they are in the same line
• progress dialog when translating using glossaries is now attached to the project window
• added a section about workflow and symbols in the Help
• fixed a bug where found substrings were not correctly displayed and iLocalize could stop responding (mostly for double quote)
• fixed a bug when replacing a string with a shorter string
• fixed a bug where imported text glossary would not be correctly saved (entries did not exist)
• fixed a bug where the history inspector entries could be modified
• fixed a bug where the table highlighting was incorrectly displayed
• fixed a bug where the base language would still be editable even if the preference was set to read only
• fixed a bug where base language nib file could have the 'check layout' status icon displayed
• fixed a bug where merging a list of glossary could fail if one of them was empty or damaged
• fixed a bug where the glossaries would not be displayed immediately in the inspector
• fixed a bug where creating a glossary after closing a project with opened inspector could cause a crash
• fixed a bug where the project timer would stop if another window was closed