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Version History:

 1.0 2008-01-25 initial release

 1.1 2008-01-25 new Opera beta, add VerCheck itself

 1.2 2008-01-26 automatically restore default apps on every use, to automatically keep them up to date.

 1.3 2008-01-29 4NT incremented build number 8.02:102 to 8.02:103

 1.4 2008-01-30 4NT/TCC now repackaged as Take Command. Better thread isolation. Goldwave 5.23

 1.5 2008-02-01 new Take Command, new Opera Beta

 1.6 2008-02-01 remove obsolete entries. better check for Corel and Safari

 1.7 2008-02-03 new version Take Command, add iTunes

 1.8 2008-02-06 new version Take Command

 1.9 2008-02-07 Firefox 12.0.0.12 and SeaMonkey 1.1.8

 2.0 2008-02-09 Adobe Acrobat 1.1.2, requires regex and new Take Command

 2.1 2008-02-11 BitTorrent 6.0.2, new Take Command

 2.2 2008-02-14 new version FastStone 6.0

 2.3 2008-02-16 new version Take Command. New icon for apps released in last week.

 2.4 2008-02-27 new Take Command, Boot-It, iTunes, Copernic, Opera

 2.5 2008-03-03 fix bug causing user apps to disappear, redo persistence, reorg way icons computed.

 2.6 2008-03-09 remove restore defaults button, many version change marker changes.

 2.7 2008-03-26 new firefox, SeaMonkey, intellij

 2.8 2008-04-17 many version detection string changes.

 2.9 2008-05-06 reorder columns so date last updated more visible.

 3.0 2008-08-20 new look under Vista with native fonts, and easier to read background.

 3.1 2008-08-31 all user to add a description field to each app. Export all data to HTML.

 3.2 2008-09-02 make sound work on Vista/JDK 1.6.0_11+ and in application mode.

 3.3 2008-11-17 retry probes of apps that could not connect.

 3.4 2008-12-17 add DONE sound (kettle switch clicking off) when all apps checked

 3.5 2009-01-11 arrange that two copies of VerCheck running at once do not interfere with each other.

 3.6 2009-02-20 refactor to use new HTTP library

 3.7 2009-03-20 define default sand obsoletes in files rather than hard wired into the program.

 3.8 2009-03-31 change order of fields in defaults.csv

 3.9 2009-05-18 now check in three passes so see interesting results sooner.

 4.0 2009-06-03 extra status information about how the check went.

 4.1 2010-02-01 now display date and time last probes all sites.

 4.2 2010-03-24 user selectable Look and Feel.

 4.3 2011-09-22 suppress autoscrolling to avoid conflicting with the user scrolling.

 4.4 2012-03-23 sometimes bypass rechecking when we have done it recently

 4.5 2014-06-06 app names and descriptions may now contain entities.

 4.6 2014-06-15 changed order of columns in defaults.csv to make version URL more accessible.

 4.7 2015-01-04 do probes on multiple threads for speedup

 4.8 2015-11-30 countdown status, ensure important result visible at end.

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