Internet Quotes Assistant - Release Notes
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* Release v4.46 (January 2009)
  - Updated sample portfolio file 'Brazil.iqa' (new quote symbol prefix)
  - Updated server settings: 'CH-SWX'

* Release v4.46 (August 2008)
  - Updated server settings: 'DE-Yahoo Finanzen', 'ES-Yahoo Finanzas', 'FR-Yahoo Finance'
  - Updated hist. quotations import server settings: 'Oanda Currencies'
  - Solved minor Windows Vista compability issues

* Release v4.45 (June 2008)
  - Improved testing of advanced quotation extranction rules (regular expressions)
  - Improved handling of damaged portfolio files
  - Updated server settings: 'DE-Deka', 'DE-Maxblue', 'DE-Yahoo Finanzen Fonds (Rücknahme)'
  - Removed support for server that is not available anymore: 'DE-DWS (Rücknahme)'

* Release v4.44 (May 2008)
  - Added configurable decimal cases to column '# Units Invested'
  - Improved download of quotations specifying zero negociated volume 
  - Updated FAQ documentation
  - Updated server settings: 'DE-Yahoo Finanzen', 'ES-Yahoo Finanzas', 'FR-Yahoo Finance'

* Release v4.43 (April 2008)
  - Improved download of historical quotations for a single item
  - Bug fix: configuration wizard

* Release v4.42 (April 2008)
  - Improved traceability
  - Updated FAQ documentation
  - Updated server settings: 'DE-Yahoo Finanzen'

* Release v4.41 (March 2008)
  - Improved view refresh during quotation download (investment history)
  - Fixed issue in user-defined formula 'Annualized quotation variation in current year'
  - Updated server settings: 'Yahoo International Indices'

* Release v4.40 (March 2008)
  - Added download progress bar to application status bar
  - Improved view refresh during quotation download
  - Improved quotation extraction speed (multiple quotation updates based on a single downloaded file)
  - Updated FAQ documentation
  - Updated server settings: 'DE-Yahoo Finanzen Fonds (Rücknahme)'

* Release v4.35 (February 2008)
  - Added integrated application update download & install
  - Added total file size info to download status dialog
  - Added variable to user-defined formula 'Annualized quotation variation in current year'
  - Minor enhancements
  - Improved robustness

* Release v4.30 (January 2008)
  - Extended quotation date range (allows importing historical quotations before 1970)
  - Improved selection of default server configuration
  - Enhanced quotation download test
  - Updated server settings: 'AT-Wiener Boerse'
  -> New IQA file format: please back-up your portfolios before opening them with this IQA version!

* Release v4.25 (November 2007)
  - Added support for importing historical currency exchange rates
  - Added import server settings for historical currency exchange rates: 'Oanda Currencies'

* Release v4.22 (October 2007)
  - Fixed sporadic bug in new item insertion
  - Updated server settings: 'DE-Börse Stuttgart'

* Release v4.21 (October 2007)
  - Improved export into Excel format: added investment history transaction list; auto-create multiple files if portfolio is too big for a single Excel sheet; sort items by name
  - Updated server settings: 'BR-Tesouro Direto'

* Release v4.20 (July/August/September 2007)
  - Added program option: 'Disable storage of intraday quotations (auto-overwrite previous intraday quotation)' 
  - Improved chart's context menu
  - Added main menu option 'File - Import quotations for all items'
  - Fixed IQA version up-to-date check
  - Updated documentation
  - Updated server settings: 'CH-SWX', 'BR-Yahoo'

* Release v4.11 (May/June 2007)
  - Added math expression evaluation to transaction dialog
  - UI Enhancements
  - Fixed cash account debit/credit taxes
  - Fixed issue related to auto-quotation update while new item is inserted
  - Updated documentation
  - Added server settings: 'BR-Tesouro Direto'
  - Updated server settings (06/2007): 'DE/ES/FR/IT/UK-Yahoo'

* Release v4.01 (April 2007)
  - Improved stability
  - Updated server settings: 'DE-Yahoo', 'DE-DWS Rücknahme', 'LU-DWS Invest SICAV'

* Release v4.00 (April 2007)
  - Added program option: auto-save portfolio after quotation download/update
  - Added colors to item's quotations: green/red -> up/down
  - Added sort icon to column headers, made columns "+- Time Frame" and "User-defined Value" sortable
  - Added clickable status bar (download status)
  - Added detailed quotation info to Excel export: open, close, high, low, volume
  - Improved time frame selection on chart
  - Updated documentation
  - Updated server settings: 'Yahoo Historical', 'PT-BVL'

* Release v3.95 (March 2007)
  - Updated documentation
  - Updated server settings (PT-BVL)
  - Bug fixes: 
    - locale decimal separator in user-defined column formula
    - import of historical quotations using regular expressions containing IQA variables such as [&symbol]
    - sorting of "+- Last Day" column
    - time frame selection in chart view

* Release v3.90 (February 2007)
  - Improvement of regular expressions support
  - Updated compiler settings
  - Updated server settings (AT-Wiener Boerse)

* Release v3.80 (January 2007)
  - Added item category property: Share, Fund, Currency, Bond, etc.
  - Added new quotation formats: 9'999.99 and 9'999,99
  - Fixed investment sum recalculation trigger: trigger is also set when latest quotation of an item is deleted
  - Updated server settings (CH-SWX, LU-DWS Invest SICAV)
  - Minor improvements
  -> New IQA file format: please back-up your portfolios before opening them with the new IQA version!

* Release v3.70 (December 2006)
  - Added support for importing historical quotations for multiple items (multiple selection in list view)
  - Added exception logging
  - Removed currency conversion tab from 'cash account' and 'Investment History' item property dialog
  - Minor improvements

* Release v3.60 (November 2006)
  - Added feature 'automatic currency conversion upon quotation update / import'
  - Extended feature 'multiply quotations' to quotation details (low, high and open)
  - Improved copy/paste of items containing user-defined column properties
  - Enhanced auto-creation of recurring transactions (date-check)
  - Enhanced up-to-date check info
  - Updated Help/FAQ
  - Updated server settings (DE-DWS Ruecknahme, Yahoo Currencies)
  -> New IQA file format: please back-up your portfolios before opening them with the new IQA version!

* Release v3.50 (October 2006)
  - Added quotation details: open, close, high, low, volume
  - Updated server configurations: added support to quotation open, close, high, low, volume.
  - Improved historical quotation import: added support to importing quotation open, close, high, low, volume.
  - Added export of quotation details: open, close, high, low, volume
  - Improved advanced quotation extraction rules
  - Changed high/low columns (main window) to display current quotation high/low
  - Changed installation directories for providing Windows Vista compatibility (sample portfolios are now stored under "My Documents")
  - Updated documentation

* Release v3.40 (September 2006)
  - Added configurable time frame to quotation variation column (30 days, 60 days, 90 days, 180 days, 1 year, ...)
  - Minor improvements

* Release v3.30 (August 2006)
  - Added user-defined formula column (formula defined in item's advanced property page )
  - Added option "enable/disable item's quotation download"
  - Improved server configuration management
  - Fixed cash account balance update whenever a new recurring transaction is automatically created
  - Minor bug fixes

* Release v3.20 (July 2006)
  - Added portfolio transaction list to item "investment history"
  - Added note field to transaction
  - Added toolbar icon "new transaction"
  - Improved handling of transactions/quotations that occur in the future
  - Added currencies portfolio: USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, BRL
  - Minor bug fixes (e.g. status bar info)

* Release v3.10 (June 2006)
  - Added standard cash account item, incl. auto-update for buy, sell and dividends transactions
  - Added compressed portfolio file format (program options)
  - Updated Help/FAQ

* Release v3.00 (May 2006)
  - Added storage of historical quotation server settings
  - Added format conversion option (semi-html, text) to historical quotations server settings
  - Enhanced regular expression support (added regular expression test dialog to quotation server configuration)
  - Added recurring transactions (e.g. for periodical interest payments / bonds)
  - Added feature "one-click deletion of multiple quotations within a time frame" (daily/monthly basis)
  - Enhanced import data format conversion HTML->Text includes special HTML characters, such as "&nbsp;", "&lt;", etc.
  - Updated server settings (DE-DWS, DE-Finanztreff, BR-Yahoo)
  - Minor improvements (e.g. speed of historical quotation import)

* Release v2.95 (April 2006)
  - Added feature "apply math expression to quotations"
  - Added automatic application up-to-date check
  - Improved UI
  - Updated download server settings
  - Minor improvements

* Release v2.90 (March 2006)
  - Added true-color toolbar with larger icons
  - General UI improvements
  - Improved printing
  - Fixed bug in new item insertion

* Release v2.82 (February 2006)
  - Added support for secure connections (HTTPS)
  - Updated download server ticker info
  - Minor improvements

* Release v2.81 (December 2005)
  - Fixed import for case-sensitive URLs
  - Updated server settings for: AU-Yahoo, ES-Yahoo, IT-Yahoo and PT-BVL
  - Minor improvements

* Release v2.80 (November 2005)
  - Updated server settings (symbol info and symbol search URL)
  - Added finish button to historical quotation import dialog (one-step import)
  - Added column show/hide option
  - Added more info to investment transactions dialog
  - Changed calculation of investment +-
  - Updated FAQ documentation
  - New IQA file format: please back-up your portfolios before opening them with the new IQA version!
  - GUI improvements

* Release v2.70 (October 2005)
  - Added quotation server symbol format info (e.g. ticker, WKN, etc.)
  - Added server-specific symbol search URL
  - Added auto-select preferred quotation server when new item is added
  - Added investment result column to investment dialog
  - Improved server configuration wizard
  - Set right alignment for colums "Investment" and "+- Investment"
  - Updated URL for importing historical quotes from Yahoo's server
  - Fixed auto-store format for importing historical quotations
  - Fixed import of historical quotes (single digit date bug)

* Release v2.63 (May 2005)
  - Extended Help/FAQ documentation (server configuration wizard, etc.)
  - Corrected initial column width for 'Investment +-'
  - Improved chart plot
  - Added server configuration for 'DE-Yahoo Finanzen Fonds (Rücknahme)'
  - Updated server configuration for 'DE-Yahoo Finanzen', 'PT-BVL'

* Release v2.62 (April 2005)
  - Improved server configuration wizard (support for csv files, etc.)
  - Extended Help/FAQ documentation (incl. import of historical quotations, etc.)
  - Added server configuration for "LU-DWS Invest SICAV (Rücknahme)"
  - Updated server configuration for PT-BVL
  - Minor bug fixes - improved application stability

* Release v2.61 (March 2005)
  - Added tool tips to item's properties
  - Separated Investment volume column into columns: "Investment" and "+- Investment"
  - Minor bug fixes

* Release v2.60 (February 2005)
  - Added vertical grid lines to chart (begin of year)
  - Improved selected interval status text
  - Fixed yearly performance extrapolation in chart status text (composite interests)
  - Updated server configuration for DE-Yahoo

* Release v2.52 (December 2004)
  - Added current selection's investment volume calculation to status bar
  - Added buy/sell transaction marks to chart when price beyond chart limits
  - Updated server configurations for several countries
  - Minor bug fix

* Release v2.51 (October 2004)
  - Updated server configuration for DE-Börse Stuttgart

* Release v2.50 (July 2004)
  - Added performance calculation for selected chart interval (click-and-drag mouse cursor on chart to select interval)
  - Added chart zoom for selected chart interval
  - Added stock ISIN/WKN/symbol search button to item properties dialog
  - Added link to windows calculator to toolbar
  - Added current item investment volume to investment transaction list
  - Optimized performance of historical quotation import
  - Fixed recalculation of portfolio's investment volume history
  - Improved import of historical quotations with date values not containing separators, e.g. 20040701 instead of 2004-07-01
  - General GUI enhancements

* Release v2.41 (June 2004)
  - Improved responsiveness of server configuration wizard GUI
  - Improved import of historical quotations from internet (multiple chunks)
  - Added average investment price (break-even) to investment transaction list
  - Added server configuration for DE-Boerse Stuttgart
  - Updated documentation on server settings (regular expressions, etc.)
  - Fixed preliminary investment result calculation in investment transaction list
  - Updated server configuration for BR-Yahoo
  - General GUI enhancements (menus, etc.)

* Release v2.40 (May 2004)
  - New IQA file format: please back-up your portfolios before opening them with the new IQA version!
  - Updated FAQ documentation
  - Added thousands separator formatting to list view (values displayed as e.g. 12.345,00)
  - Added configuration option for number of decimal cases displayed in list view
  - Added separate options for displaying investment infos on graphic (average buy price and buy/sell/dividends transactions)
  - Fixed "+-Last Day" column values
  - Fixed import quotations interval suggested in import dialog
  - Fixed export of large files to Excel: limit number of columns to a maximum of 256
  - General GUI enhancements

* Release v2.31 (April 2004)
  - Added function to recompute portfolio's investment volume history based on investment transaction list
  - Added # units invested column to list view
  - Added delete quotations in interval button to item quotations dialog
  - Added import quotations interval selection dialog
  - Added server configuration for DE-DWS (Rücknahme)
  - Fixed bug in list view drag-and-drop column reordering 
  - Enhanced GUI
  - Minor enhancements

* Release v2.30 (March 2004)
  - Added investment transaction tracking/history (new IQA file format)
  - Added graphical representation of investment transactions on chart (buy, sell, dividends/interests) - new chart option
  - Enhanced server configuration wizard
  - Minor enhancements

* Release v2.20 (February 2004)
  - Added support for user-defined proxy
  - Added support for importing multiple quotation files (Yahoo Finance limitation: max 200 quotations per download)
  - Added import format list to quotation import dialog
  - Changed menus to Windows XP style
  - Added overwrite server configuration template warning
  - Updated server configuration for PT-BVL, added server configuration for DE-Fidelity
  - Fixed quotation mark redraw upon graphic redraw
  - Minor enhancements

* Release v2.10 (January 2004)
  - Added portfolio investment volume tracking/chart (new IQA file format)
  - Added item quotation multiplication feature (e.g. for currency convertion)
  - Added column Drag & Drop Reordering functionality to item's list view
  - Added URL Drag & Drop functionality to IQA Server Configuration Wizard Dialog (URL can be draged from Internet Explorer to the IQA Server Configuration Wizard Dialog)
  - Added update quotation on specified date/time feature (requires specific download server configuration)
  - Added chart option 'draw square mark' on quotation update point
  - Added break-even line to chart
  - Fixed bug in quotation import from local file (file path might now contain spaces)
  - Fixed item selection status after inserting/deleting an item
  - Small modifications in the user interface
  - Minor bug fixes
  
* Release v2.01 (December 2003)
  - Added support for exporting quotations into MS Excel 2.1 format
  - Improved support for importing historical quotations directly from the internet
  - Improved configuration wizard engine
  - New install/uninstall pogram
  - Fixed accelerator keys pressed when mouse is over chart view
  - Minor bug fixes

* Release v2.00 (November 2003)
  - Added server configuration wizard
  - Added historical quotation import feature
  - Added support for regular expressions in the definition of quotation extraction rules
  - Updated server configurations and sample portfolios
  - Minor graphical user interface adaptations

Bug reporting:
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Marcos Rocha <IQA@gmx.net>
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