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	Release Notes
	Release notes detail what's changed from release to release. Here you will find the release notes for the most recent releases.
	Version 4.71  February 8, 2008 at 10:15AM ET:
	2/1/2008 Added support for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars extended server query. 2/1/2008 Added player Experience column for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. 2/1/2008 Added player Deaths column for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. 2/1/2008 Added player Kills column for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. 2/1/2008 Added player Team column for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. 2/1/2008 Fixed "include bots in player count" so that it saves/loads correctly. 2/1/2008 Fixed "Disable Music" checkbox in Settings->General->Music. 2/1/2008 Fixed reserved slot detection for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. 2/6/2008 Fixed bug which allowed the default Mapshot image from a modification-specific Mapshot Pack to display on servers not running that modification. 2/6/2008 Fixed similar filters. All of your servers would be filtered if you activated more than one filter for the same rule (ie map or game type filters). 2/6/2008 Added fake server rule "si_gamestate" for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. Contains any of the following values, comma delimited if multiple values exist: "warmup", "game_in_progress", "game_over", "stopwatch_return_match". 2/6/2008 Added fake server rule "si_servertype" for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. Unsigned integer value as returned from server. 2/6/2008 Removed +exec config file connect method for: QuakeWorld, Quake 2, SIN, Heretic 2, and HexenWorld. Switched to standard command-line connection method. 2/6/2008 Fixed "Spectate" Connect context menu item so it's not always grayed out. 2/6/2008 Added spectate on connect support for QuakeWorld. 2/7/2008 Fixed name resolution when adding a server using its hostname instead of the ip address. 2/7/2008 Fixed ip address field in the server properties tab to accept a hostname. 2/7/2008 Updated Half-Life 2 rule packet parser for new format used in TF2 and other mods. Fixes value/rule swap issue.
	Version 4.7  January 30, 2008 at 8:45PM ET:
	11/1/2007 Added fake Enemy Territory: Quake Wars server rule called "si_ranked" to allow filtering on ranked servers. 11/8/2007 Fixed bug in View->Settings->General->Sounds settings pane that would not save your cleared sounds properly. 11/8/2007 Fixed "could not connect to qtracker master" error some users were getting. 11/8/2007 Added support for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. 11/8/2007 Added remote administration support for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. 11/16/2007 Fixed rcon password not being appended to command-line (if set in properties) when connecting to a Call of Duty-series game. 11/16/2007 Added support for Theme color schemes. The Theme menu will now include sub-menus for any Theme that has additional color schemes. 11/20/2007 Added support the Unreal Tournament 3 demo. 11/20/2007 Added support for Crysis. 11/27/2007 Fixed focus bug that caused the active Qtracker dialog (ie, Settings) to move behind the application window when a tooltip appeared while moving the mouse outside the active dialog window. 11/27/2007 Added support for Unreal Tournament 3. 11/27/2007 Fixed Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force packet parser issue that caused incorrect player data to display. 11/27/2007 Removed color column for Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force. 11/28/2007 Added new filter variable: [$server_free_public_slots]. This variable will return a numeric value from this equation: (server_players_max - server_players_reserved_slots) - server_players_active. 11/28/2007 Changed filter variable: [$server_free_slots] to return a numeric value from this equation: server_players_max - server_players_active. 11/29/2007 Fixed Mapshot timing issue that would cause some images from a multi-shot to not display for the correct amount of time. 11/29/2007 Added Mapshot caching system to reduce CPU utilization while displaying multi-shots for a map. 11/29/2007 Fixed multi-shot description not displaying on image change for multi-shots that contain different descriptions for each image. 11/29/2007 Fixed Mapshot download URL icon to display tooltip. 11/29/2007 Added new option in View->Settings->General->Mapshots to permit you to change the default image displayed when no Mapshot exists for a map. 12/12/2007 Game command-line arguments can now contain variables such as [$application_startin]. Variables will be replaced with the corresponding value when connecting to the game server. Variable pop-up controls have been added to: New Folder->Program->Application, Settings->Games->Installed, Settings->Games->Connecting. 12/12/2007 Added new Settings->Appearance pane called Tooltips to allow you to turn tooltips off in: Friends list, Server list, Player list, and Rule list views. 12/12/2007 Fixed 1-byte buffer overrun at startup after dynamic content was downloaded from the Master server. 12/12/2007 Server Full dialog now remembers your selection and will restore it the next time the dialog appears. 12/17/2007 Added Settings->Games->Disconnect settings panel to perform operations when disconnecting from a game server. 12/17/2007 Can now execute XChat commands when connecting to a server and/or when disconnecting from a server. 12/17/2007 Fixed potential deadlock/crash when closing the application (will disappear but stay as a running process). 1/2/2008 Re-wrote "Search for Servers" window. Added additional search criteria, and the search pane can now be navigated entirely with the keyboard. 1/2/2008 Added checkbox to Settings->General->General to allow you to turn off the startup Splash screen. 1/28/2008 Introduced new lanaguage XML configuration file to permit language packs to be added at a later date. 1/28/2008 Rcon password is now set (if known) at join for: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Enemy Territory. 1/28/2008 Added static Master server ips in the event of DNS resolution issues. 1/28/2008 Fixed map name display for Mapshot Packs using the new XML file structure. 1/28/2008 Added "modification" tag to new Mapshot Pack XML file structure to permit mod-specific Mapshot Packs. 1/28/2008 Introduced new settings XML configuration file to move settings from the registry into a local file. 1/28/2008 Added fake server rule called "si_timeleft" for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars servers to indicate the number of minutes left in the current level. 1/28/2008 Slight CPU usage reduction while applying filters to servers. 1/28/2008 Fixed cut, copy, paste, undo keyboard shortcuts to work in the Remote Administration password/command edit box. 1/28/2008 Fixed possible deadlock while writing history XML file. 1/28/2008 Added new option to Settings->Appearance->Servers: "Exclude reserved slots from maximum players" to toggle this option on or off. 1/28/2008 Added shortcut creation to full version installer to permit a desktop or quick-launch shortcut to be created for you while installing. 1/28/2008 Fixed filtering bug that would cause filters to not work properly when multiple filters were active using any function. 1/29/2008 Updated Enemy Territory: Quake Wars packet parser to support ETQW 1.4 packet format. 1/29/2008 Updated Enemy Territory: Quake Wars packet parser to support left or right justification of clan tags. 1/29/2008 Updated Warsow game icon. 1/29/2008 Fixed Warsow color code rendering. 1/29/2008 Fixed Settings->Friends->Friend List color code rendering to match the rest of the program.
	Version 4.6  October 30, 2007 at 10:00PM ET:
	5/29/2007 Fixed sorting in the Search Results window for the follow columns: Game, Network Address, Users. 5/29/2007 Fixed missing submenu items from Customize keyboard shortcuts dialog. 5/29/2007 Added "Ping" and "Response Time" columns to Search Results window, also added color coding for "Users" column. 5/29/2007 Double-clicking a folder/view item in the Games & Folders pane will now refresh that folder/view. 7/23/2007 Servers are now properly selected when drawing a "selection rectangle" in the server listing view. 7/23/2007 Fixed Quake 4 remote administration issue for servers that returned a session id parameter. This resulted in the server timing out and the inability to remotely administer the server. 7/23/2007 Updated the Half-Life 2 packet parser to correct the Insurgency modification rules so this modification can be properly detected. 7/23/2007 Fixed bug in Initial Setup Wizard which prevented it from saving the game executable location if it was changed in the Setup->Games panel. 7/23/2007 Added support for the Enemy Territory: Quake Wars beta. 9/7/2007 When adding a server using the Add Server dialog, if an ip address is entered it will no longer be passed to the DNS resolver. 9/7/2007 When pasting an ip address into the "server address" edit box in the Add Server dialog box, if the ip address is actually an ip:port string, the port will be extracted and put into the "query port" edit box and the :port removed from the ip address. 9/7/2007 Fixed Quake 4 and Warsaw color codes (added gray). 9/7/2007 Fixed Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory color codes (added orange). 9/7/2007 Added "do nothing" option to View->Settings->Friends double-click actions. 9/7/2007 Added single-click action to View->Settings->Friends, has all the same options as the double-click action. 9/7/2007 Renamed "Reset" button to "Clear" in the View->Settings->General->Sounds panel. 9/7/2007 Application is now properly maximized at startup when maximized at last shutdown. 9/10/2007 Added remote administration (rcon) support for Warsow. 9/20/2007 Added remote administration (rcon) support for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. 9/20/2007 Added a "Bots" column to the server listing view to indicate if a server has bots playing on it, and if so how many. This only works for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars at the moment. 9/20/2007 Added a "Bot" column to the player listing view to indicate if a play is a bot. This only works for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars at the moment. 9/20/2007 Added new filter variable: [$server_players_bots]. This variable will return the active bot count on a server. This only works for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars at the moment, all other games will return 0. 9/20/2007 New columns will now be added at their preferred position, and no longer on the far right which is typically only visible by scrolling. 9/20/2007 First time users will now see the preferred column layout and no longer the columns added by their id #. 9/20/2007 Added Appearance->Servers settings pane to Settings window. From this pane you will be able to specify the color to use when display player counts on a full server, and you can include or exclude bots from the active player counts. 9/20/2007 Added History pane to track the servers you've connected to. Tracks the last 365 days of usage. History is stored in an XML file for parsing outside of Qtracker. Servers can be connected to from the history listing, and they can also be moved to folders. 9/25/2007 Added "Hide" option to the context menu for the Modification and Game types branches in the Games & Folders pane. This will permit you to hide modifications and game types that you do not wish to play. 9/25/2007 Added "Modifications and Game types" submenu to Games & Folders pane context menu to permit you to toggle the visibility of modifications and game types. 9/27/2007 Added "Default" button to View->Settings->General->Sounds to restore the selected event to it's default sound. 9/27/2007 Removed the Application->Command-line pane from the Folder Properties dialog. You can now use Program->Application "use this command line" to set an alternative command-line for the folder. 9/27/2007 Added Appearance->General settings pane to the View->Settings dialog. This will permit you to set the password mask used when prompting for passwords. You can clear it if you would like to see the password as you type it. 10/1/2007 Fixed several issues in the player name edit box which would cause color codes to be messed up for games like Warsow and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. This would prevent friends from being found correctly after adding them to your friends list. 10/1/2007 Marginal CPU usage reduction while calculating statistics for the statistics view. 10/1/2007 Added total player slots display to statistics view. 10/1/2007 Reworded statistics view to take up less space: "Servers: x (active: x) Active players: x Player slots: x" 10/2/2007 Added support for: OpenArena. 10/8/2007 On machines that have multiple ip addresses, the non-private ip is now used first. This should help to eliminate 10-30 second connect times when using Find Internet Games. 10/8/2007 Modified Mapshot Pack file format to include an XML definition file called "qtracker_pack_file.xml". This file replaces the "author.txt" and "maplist.txt" files. A sample XML file can be found in the Mapshots forum. All previous Mapshot Packs will continue to work. 10/8/2007 Mapshot Packs now allow for a default set of images to be defined for unknown maps (maps not listed in any Mapshot Pack). 10/15/2007 Unreal Tournament servers now display team names and colors correctly. Added Red, Blue, Green, Gold, and NONE teams. 10/30/2007 Fixed "bug" in Red Orchestra packet parser that would cause extremely high player counts to display. 10/30/2007 Completely re-wrote PlayerWatch as a new Friends system. 10/30/2007 Fixed color code issue for some games (Quake 4, Enemy Territory, Warsow, etc) that would cause a Friend to not be found. 10/30/2007 Replaced floating PlayerWatch skinned window with a resizable Friends window that inherits the application theme. 10/30/2007 Added Friends pane that can be docked into the application. 10/30/2007 Added Regions pane to the Initial Setup Wizard to permit new users to easily configure which regions they'd like to see servers in. 10/30/2007 Fixed issue which would cause remote administration of some Call of Duty 2 servers to fail with a time out during authentication. 10/30/2007 Added Auto-Login support for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. 10/30/2007 Added remote administration support for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. 10/30/2007 Fixed remote administration issue that would cause server output to not always be properly formatted with linefeeds.
	Version 4.52  May 10, 2007 at 9:30PM ET:
	4/16/2007 Fixed two Battlefield 2 filters (Version-1.3, and PunkBuster-Enabled) to set default state to off for Qtracker full installation. This will prevent all Battlefield 2 servers from being hidden for new users. 4/19/2007 Improved toolbar appearance for Office 2007 theme. 4/19/2007 Deleting a filter no longer causes all folders and game groups to expand in the Game Filters pane. 4/19/2007 Soldier name is now properly reloaded when View->Settings->Games->Auto-Login Battlefield 2142 pane is displayed. 4/24/2007 Added support for the WON2 network (non-Steam) and Half-Life 1 as a separate game called "Half-Life (WON2)". 4/24/2007 Removed "Steam" checkbox from Half-Life 1 in View->Settings->Games->Installed since Half-Life 1 is now entirely on the Steam network. 4/27/2007 When right-clicking a server in the Search Results window, the main Qtracker window is no longer brought to the foreground, obscuring the Search Results window. 4/27/2007 Application window is now properly restored to maximized size if the application was maximized, then minimized, then made visible again. 4/27/2007 Fixed Quake II packet parser to prevent identifying the Rocket Arena mod as Alien Arena. 5/8/2007 Fixed crash when DMW client was running and themes were applied in Qtracker. 5/8/2007 Fixed lockup when launching Qtracker right after all the games and folders were loaded. The cpu would hang between 50% and 100% utilization. This would sometimes occur when grooming servers out of the registry after 30 days of inactivity. 5/9/2007 Added tooltips to icons in the following columns: Private server, Status, Steam, and Game. 5/9/2007 Added new sound event system which uses an XML configuration file stored in \Configuration Files. 5/9/2007 Added several new sound events. 5/9/2007 Added Refresh Selected server menu item to the main menu and server list context menu. 5/10/2007 Fixed bug in View->Settings->PlayerWatch->General which caused the wrong double-click operation to be displayed when the panel first appeared and "Highlight the server where this person is playing" option was set. 5/10/2007 "Open Containing Folder" option is no longer grayed out in the server list context menu.
	Version 4.51  April 12, 2007 at 10:00PM ET:
	3/22/2007 Region filter settings no longer effect LAN servers; LAN servers will always be visible. 3/27/2007 Integrated new light-weight, high-speed, XML parser. 3/27/2007 Added connect port to network address column display: "ip:query_port/connect_port". 3/27/2007 Added support for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. 3/28/2007 Updated LAN server icon. 3/28/2007 LAN servers now have their region set to "LAN" and show the new LAN icon. 3/29/2007 Added tooltips to the server and player listing views. This will permit you to see region text if you have the region column set to icon only, and will permit you to see clipped text entries without expanding the columns. 3/29/2007 Added CTRL+F keyboard shortcut to open the "Search for Server" window. 3/29/2007 Fixed filter rule() function to return NULL string ("") if the rule was not found. 3/29/2007 Fixed Folder "..." button in the filter window Properties tab to actually bring up the Browse for Folder dialog. This bug was introduced in version 4.5. 3/31/2007 Fixed bug that prevented batch files from executing properly when using a batch file to join a server. 4/2/2007 If the server rcon password was saved when using the Administration tab, when joining the server the rcon password will be set for Quake 3, Urban Terror, or World of Padman. 4/2/2007 Fixed Tron 2.0 command-line arguments to fix join issues. 4/2/2007 Added support for World of Padman. 4/3/2007 Added View->Customize sub-menu with the following items: "Keyboard Shortcuts...", "Menus...", and "Toolbars..". This submenu will provide easier access to the customization features for new users. 4/3/2007 When saving a filter, the filter will now be scrolled into view and selected in the Filters pane. 4/3/2007 When connecting to a server and there is a problem launching the executable, the application will be restored if your connect operation was set to Pause and Minimize. 4/3/2007 Player context menu will now appear if server has no players or no player was clicked on. This will permit you to use the context menu to connect to the server when the server is empty. 4/3/2007 When using "Where is this Person Playing" PlayerWatch context menu item, if the application is hidden or minimized it will be restored. Additionally of the Players pane is hidden it will be restored. 4/3/2007 Added "Connect to Where this Person is Playing" PlayerWatch context menu item. When selected you will automatically be connected to the server the person is playing on. 4/7/2007 Added "Background Color" menu option to the player listing context menu. This permits you to change the background color used to render player names. 4/7/2007 Updated PlayerWatch icons, tooltips, and context menus. 4/7/2007 Updated player list icons, tooltips, and context menus. 4/7/2007 Column configuration is now saved and restored for each individual server in the floating server details window. 4/7/2007 Added Vietcong support to QtUplink. 4/7/2007 Added "minimize" connect option to minimize the application when connecting to a game server. 4/9/2007 Relocated Fiji to the Pacific Ocean in the Region Filters pane. 4/9/2007 Relocated New Zealand to below Australia in the Region Filters pane. 4/9/2007 Renamed "Game type" property to "Game" in the Filter Editor properties tab. 4/9/2007 Added "Create..." menu item to Filter pane context menu. 4/9/2007 Tooltips are now displayed in the Filter pane context menu. 4/9/2007 Added clipboard format edit box to View->Settings->General->General, including a variable popup-menu. This will permit you to customize what is copied to the clipboard. 4/9/2007 Added "Allow Filtering" checkbox to the Folder Properties dialog, General pane. When enabled, servers in the folder can have the visibility effected by the currently active filters. 4/12/2007 The Game Filters pane will now hide filters for games that you do not have installed (hidden). 4/12/2007 Renamed server list context menu item "View Players, Rules, and Settings" to "Open Server Window..." and updated icon. 4/12/2007 Added "Highlight the server where this person is playing" option to the View->Settings->PlayerWatch->General "When a player is double-clicked, do the following" drop-list.
	Version 4.5  March 15, 2007 at 9:30PM ET:
	10/20/2006 Fixed Auto-Installer copy error when installing a filter that specified a sub-directory ("directory") to install to. 10/20/2006 Added Region Browser menu item to Filters->Show menu and Filters->Show toolbar icon. 10/21/2006 Fixed team score repaint issue in server details window which prevented team scores from updating. 10/21/2006 Fixed slow/flickering player display in server details window when you first open the window. 10/21/2006 Fixed missing team names for Battlefield 2142. 10/26/2006 Fixed crash when Office 2007 theme was active and you chose "Customize" from a toolbar context menu, or View->Toolbars->Customize, or Servers->Watch Server. 10/26/2006 Improved pane heading appearance for Office 2007 theme. 11/16/2006 Fixed region and comments not being saved when dragging a server into a folder. 11/16/2006 Filtered trailing 0x0D character from Half-Life 2 player names which would cause a square character to appear at the end of the playername. 11/16/2006 Added UTF-8 player name support for Half-Life 1 and Half-Life 2 engine games. This will permit display of Unicode characters for foreign languages. 12/22/2006 Fixed player reserved slot detection for Battlefield 2142. 12/22/2006 Renamed $gametype array in PHP output to $game. This provides a string value of the game running on the server. 12/22/2006 Added $gametype array in PHP output to provide a string value of the game type running on the server. 12/22/2006 Added "Best Fit" option to the server list header control context menu. This will resize the column to the largest item in the column. 12/22/2006 Fixed header edge double-click in server list control to resize the column to the largest item in the column. 12/22/2006 Added support for Armed Assault. 1/7/2007 Added Vista blue, silver, and black themes. Includes glass support when running on Vista. 1/7/2007 Fixed missing Half-Life server data and garbage map name due to unexpected packet formatting. This was an intermittent issue. 1/7/2007 Fixed America's Army honor display to actually display a players honor value. 1/9/2007 Fixed bug which caused incorrect ip to be pinged after changing the ip address of a server using the Properties window. 1/9/2007 Reduced memory usage by approximately 20 percent. 1/9/2007 Added Players pane to display players on currently selected server. 1/9/2007 Added Rules pane to display rules for the currently selected server. 1/16/2007 Added read-only server connect port display in server properties tab. 1/16/2007 Fixed filter value parser so you can now perform comparisons to null strings (ie: if rule("test") != ""). 1/16/2007 Users column now displays maximum player count minus reserved slots. 1/16/2007 Player current/maximum count text in User column is now colored red when server is full. 1/18/2007 Updated all dialogs to use system font. 1/18/2007 Added "Appearance" section to View->Settings navigation pane. Moved Remote Administration and Pings panels to this section. 1/18/2007 In the "Add Server" dialog, moved ip address and query port to be the first controls, folder is now last. 2/1/2007 Added support for Alien Arena. 2/15/2007 Added Stop Filtering option to temporarily disable all game and music filters. 2/15/2007 Added Stop Region Filtering option to temporarily disable all region filters. 2/15/2007 Removed "Disable All Filters" option. 2/15/2007 Improved all tool-tips to include a 48x48 icon and feature description to help new users. 2/15/2007 Added "Sticky Panes" option to permit easy alignment of panes to other windows/panes. 2/15/2007 Added pane menu icon to all panes with "Sticky Panes" menu option. 2/15/2007 Added Mapshot pane to display the Mapshot for the currently selected server. 2/15/2007 Changed Mapshot image scaling to use interpolation for greatly enhanced image quality when shrinking or enlarging the image. 2/15/2007 Added different Mapshot scaling options: stretch, centered, original size. 2/15/2007 Fixed bug which would sometimes cause the Theme menu to not be right-justified. 2/15/2007 Fixed pane bug that sometimes made it impossible to make a pane visible again. 2/15/2007 Added hi-res (320x240) Mapshot Unavailable image. 2/15/2007 Added Mapshot image sharpening option. 2/17/2007 Eliminated flickering and item jumping in the player listing of the server details window. 2/17/2007 Now display the player team name in the color column in the player list, if team name exists. 2/20/2007 Added View->Panes->Reset Pane Layout to restore all panes to their default positions and to make all panes visible. 2/22/2007 Fixed bug in Region Filters pane which would not change the state of child checkboxes when the top-most parent item was collapsed and the checkmark was toggled. For example, if you collapse "United States of America" so you don't see any states, then click the checkbox, the checkboxes of the states will not change to match the checkbox you clicked. 2/22/2007 Fixed bug in Region Filters pane which sometimes caused region filters to not be re-applied when clicking the checkbox on a parent item (the ones with an expand/collapse box). 3/5/2007 Added "show" Qtracker-URL action. This action will launch Qtracker, add the server specified in the URL to the appropriate Internet Games view, select the Internet Games view, and query/ping the server. 3/5/2007 Changed "connect" Qtracker-URL action to not close Qtracker after connecting. Instead the View->Settings->Games->Connecting "qtracker operation to perform" setting will be used. 3/5/2007 Now force "All Servers" entry to the top of the Games & Folders pane. 3/5/2007 Folder/view selection is now restored at startup. 3/15/2007 Added support for Urban Terror 4.x and ioUrbanTerror. 3/15/2007 Improved error detail in application launcher error dialog when joining a game. 3/15/2007 Added "Pause the application" connect option. 3/15/2007 If minimize connect option is specified, Qtracker is now minimized prior to launching the application. 3/15/2007 Added pane keyboard navigation with CTRL-TAB or ALT-F7.