Collanos Workplace 1.4.0.1 - Release Notes

[Franco Dal Molin]

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SUMMARY

Collanos Workplace 1.4.0.1 is one of the most important releases in years, if not the most relevant since Collanos' inception. This version contains several important new features, major improvements to existing functionality, and – as usual – many minor enhancements and bug fixes. The focus of this release was to deliver to the user community some of the most frequently requested features, as well as lay the technical foundation for even greater things to come.

New Features

The release targets have been achieved with the following measures. The Task Management part was improved significantly, adding Task work flow, automatic reminders, and Gantt chart project visualization. A new core Contact Management subsystem was introduced, making it simpler to invite other users to join, connect with them, and manage all contacts in one place. The Collanos Phone application is now integrated into Collanos Workplace, blending voice services – including high-quality conference calling – seamlessly with Collanos' main team collaboration platform. A set of key improvements addresses importing, exporting, and organizing of data, which also includes copying of whole workspaces, pervasive clipboard support, like Copy/Paste of content between workspaces, and exporting of tabular data to files. Usability improvements include customizable and fine-grained notifications settings, restoring all “last opened/closed states” of workspace folders, and saving modified files directly back to the workspace under a new name. See chapter “6 Detailed Descriptions” for
extensive and illustrated explanations of all new features and improvements.

Platforms

As always, Collanos Workplace 1.4.0.1 is available in three main versions, for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. See chapter “5 Supported Operating Systems” for a list of all operating systems we tested on.

Languages

The software has been fully translated into English and German, and to a large part (about 80-90%) into Simplified Chinese. New languages will be added very shortly, using the dynamic auto-update mechanism for new language packs. See also chapter “8 Ambassadors Program” about how users can help to translate.

Compatibility

This release is minimally compatible with the previous version, which means workspaces will still synchronize and members be able to exchange messages with each other. Nevertheless, it is strongly advised to update to the latest version as soon as you can. New features will not be available for old users. See chapter “3 Compatibility” for more details.

Updating / New Installer

This release is available only as a full installer package, which you must download from Collanos' web site. The nature of this release made an auto-update process from 1.3 to 1.4 difficult and risk-prone. Hence this release is being rolled out with a complete Installer/Updater. See chapter “4 New Installer / Updater” for more details.

Premium Services

Collanos is gradually rolling out more premium services. At the moment we offer users the possibility to buy Phone Credit to place dial-out calls to regular phone numbers. In the very near future, additional services will be made available, such as subscription of real phone numbers (dial-in capability), or least-cost routing for internationals mobile phone calls.

Ambassadors Program

Collanos – being very community-oriented in its nature – is rolling out new community management tools to better support and engage with active community members. If you like to promote Collanos, support other users (in your language), write or blog about what Collanos does, test preview software releases or help translate into new languages, then you should sign-up as Ambassador. See chapter “8 Ambassadors Program” to learn more about this opportunity.

Unified Collaboration

With this release, Collanos is marching boldly into the Unified Collaboration application domain. We will continue to deliver professional-grade solutions on a global scale, team-enabling the computers of networked professionals. Our sweet-spot is the ad-hoc formation and support of cross-organizational teams, working together with the help of the Internet. Collanos basic solutions are – and always will be – offered for free. Our gratification is a steadily growing and vibrant user community.

Help Us

We look forward to your feedbacks! And please help up by spreading the good news. You can and should use the new built-in “Add Contacts” function and request many of your friends and colleagues to join. Add them to your contact list! If you continue to use and enjoy our free services, then the best thing that you could do for us at this point is to spread the word and invite others. Thank you for your contribution!


This was just the summary, get the real release notes here:
http://www.collanos.com/files/documents/Collanos_Workplace_1_4_0_1_Release_Notes.pdf