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Version 2.0 Public Beta 8

• From this release on DEVONnote requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later. This beta expires February 28, 2010.
   
• NEW: Tagging including a (still incomplete) tag view; OpenMeta is supported while importing and exporting files/documents.
• NEW: An alert on startup asks whether the application should be installed in the global Applications folder in case it's not installed in one of the recommended locations for applications.
• NEW: Option Preferences > General > Appearance > Colorize icons with label. By default this option is disabled and labels are (more or less) displayed like in the Finder. Enabling this option colorizes icons/thumbnails (including favorites in DEVONthink Pro's sidebar) with the label's color like in previous versions.
• NEW: Option Preferences > General > Appearance > Mark duplicates and replicants in color that switches between coloring duplicates and replicants in blue and red instead of marking them with an icon.
• NEW: Optional Check/Uncheck toolbar item.
• NEW: Preferences option Destination on Import tab.
• NEW: Preference option Web > Web Content > Zoom text only to enable Safari-4-style zooming.
• NEW: Read-only databases (e.g. locked in the Finder, on read-only volumes like CDs/DVDs or with wrong permissions/ownership) and their favorites are marked in the Database Properties panel.
• NEW: Finder labels with same name (preferred) or same color are used while importing/indexing (Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard' only).
• NEW: Support for .vncloc bookmarks and for 'ilvn' HFS type; support for plain text file formats defined by third-party applications added.
   
• Improved: Interface section of Preferences, General tab, splitted into Appearance and Interface.
• Improved: Polished appearance of dividors, borders, tabs, icon views, drawers, group selector and the icon size slider. Fixes also harmless console messages on Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard'.
• Improved: Status and file property icons revised.
• Improved: Slightly revised background color of highlighting of occurrences to distinguish it from the default highlight colors.
• Improved: Data > Mark > As Read/Unread, As Locked/Unlocked, and As Checked/Unchecked combined and therefore the commands toggle now these values (e.g. like Apple Mail)
• Improved: The unread icon does not replace the file icon anymore.
• Improved: Automatic scrolling added to tabs.
• Improved: Data > New > Bookmark downloads and sets the name automatically if no name is entered.
• Improved: Double-clicking on items in the icon pane of split views opens them in the same pane instead of opening a new window or hoisting the current window (depending on the preferences).
• Improved: Optional pop-up menu to the right of tabs bar includes all tabs now.
• Improved: Pressing the Option modifier key while clicking on the URL in a document's navigation bar opens the URL in a new tab if possible.
• Improved: Shortcut Option-Tab (now supported by main, search and document windows) supports the tags bar, too. In addition, the new shortcut Option-Shift-Tab cycles through all panes in reverse order. Finally, both shortcuts select the first search result if necessary after navigating to the search results.
• Improved: View > Columns > Comment and View > Sort > by Comments renamed to (by) Spotlight Comment to distinguish them from the comment of documents.
• Improved: Command Open Link In New Tab added to contextual menus of text views.
• Improved: Tab management in general.
• Improved: Escape key can be used to cancel renaming of search results.
• Improved: Some keyboard shortcuts revised.
• Improved: Go > First/Previous/Next/Last Document support visible toolbar search results.
• Improved: Number of results of simple smart groups (without using search terms or tags) is immediately displayed in all views now.
• Improved: After moving the selected items to the trash, the next item is selected in split and three-pane views.
• Improved: Many more minor interface enhancements.
• Improved: Recognition of duplicates.
• Improved: Advertisement filter.
• Improved: Sorting.
• Improved: Rebuilding is more reliable.
• Improved: Handling of user style sheets.
• Improved: Memory management and performance.
   
• Fixed: Grouping items selected in the upper right pane of the three-pane view used the wrong destination group.
• Fixed: Command-D shortcut for 'Don't Save' didn't work on English systems.
• Fixed: Various pop-up menus (e.g. of search fields, tabs or the Label/Highlight toolbar items) do not contain contextual menu items anymore.
• Fixed: Count of smart groups wasn't always up to date.
• Fixed: Temporarily wrong item count of groups after duplicating.
• Fixed: After setting custom icons for the inbox of databases, the icon wasn't always flushed and therefore usually gone after restarting the application.
• Fixed: Switching between views does no longer reset/remove additional tabs.
• Fixed: Rare crash after switching views.
• Fixed: Localization glitches.
• Fixed: Minor bugs and glitches.
   
• Removed: View > Show/Hide State removed.
• Removed: Danish localization.