{"id":3933,"date":"2024-06-11T11:46:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T16:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/?page_id=3933"},"modified":"2025-11-04T15:42:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:42:03","slug":"alpha-release-notes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/alpha-release-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha Release Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Alpha Release Notes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>FieldWorks 9.3 contains updates and enhancemenents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>issues fixed in 9.3.4<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-10590\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-10590 <\/a>Include all text metadata (info tab) fields in flextext export.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-19598\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-19598 <\/a>Grammar sketch shows wrong order of slots in affix template.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-21904\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-21904 <\/a>Allow duplicating a phonological rule.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-21960\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-21960 <\/a>Export while viewing reversal misses reversal with filters\/sorting (COM problem).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22142\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22142 <\/a>Add information on use of exception &#8220;features&#8221; in compound rules to Helps.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22155\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22155 <\/a>Merge entry\/sense is losing some custom fields.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22165\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22165 <\/a>Hermit Crab parser does not handle multiple compounds in a row.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22182\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22182 <\/a>Add ability to use &#8220;Find&#8221; in Try a Word and in Grammar Sketch.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22190\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22190 <\/a>Hermit Crab adds wrong POSes to compound rules when there are more than 64 POSes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22261\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22261 <\/a>Problems with copied text when importing from flextext.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22276\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22276 <\/a>Crashes when clicking the blue arrow next to a slot after deleting an existing slot.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22280\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22280 <\/a>Yellow box when parsing a text (specific project).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22290\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22290 <\/a>Crash on deleting disapproved wordform analysis.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22291\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22291 <\/a>Old link in Export dialog box opens unsupported doc.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22298\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22298 <\/a>Patching Broken.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22304\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22304 <\/a>Change for HermitCrabInput.dtd for FLExTrans.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-3646\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-3646 <\/a>Unchecked checkboxes should count as &#8220;no data&#8221; for field visibility.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>issues fixed in 9.3.3<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22197\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22197 <\/a>Do more cleanup when subentries are deleted.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22124\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22124 <\/a>Sense homographs in Lexical Relations not working correctly with publications.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22187\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22187 <\/a>Allow reordering fields even with &#8220;Show Hidden Fields&#8221; off.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22249\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22249 <\/a>Importing a copy from flextext damages original text.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22267\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22267 <\/a>Slow response in interlinear combos.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22256\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22256 <\/a>Other fields should not be allowed to move above Lexeme Form field.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-21757\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-21757 <\/a>Allow moving templates and slots up or down in Category hierarchy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Parser Related<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22225\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22225,  <a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22226\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22226 <\/a>Crash moving templates.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22206\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22206 <\/a>Indent allomorph-level fields.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22194\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22194 <\/a>Pre-fill MSA for words added with Novel Root Guesser.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22235\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22235 <\/a>Guessed Word Gloss should use Root gloss not affix glosses.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22239\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22239 <\/a>Missing updates in Parsing Development Mode.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22245\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22245 <\/a>Fix incorrect matching of MSAs.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22237\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22237 <\/a>Duplicate analyses created when there is a Disapproved analysis.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22236\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22236 <\/a>Interaction between Word Gloss and parser approval.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22243\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22243 <\/a>Parser status changes when analysis is approved.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22241\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22241 <\/a>Parsing Dev mode: User Disapproved analyses should stay in the list.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22204\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22204 <\/a>Intermediate phonological rule output displayed incorrectly in Try a Word.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-20337\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-20337 <\/a>Crash navigating to Phoneme Features after undo.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-21042\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-21042 <\/a>XAmple derivational infix has wrong orderclass sign.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22156\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22156 <\/a>Ad hoc rules for clitics.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22137\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22137 <\/a>Add ability to use exception &#8220;features&#8221; in compound rules.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22171\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22171 <\/a>Refreshing &#8220;Natural Class&#8221; view makes &#8220;Phonemes\/Features&#8221; column disappear from the middle pane.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22241\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22241 <\/a>Parsing Dev mode: &#8220;User Disapproved&#8221; analysis should stay in the list.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22251\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22251 <\/a>Phonological Features field missing feature labels<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22254\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22254 <\/a>New slot name no longer highlighted<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22258\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22258 <\/a>Metathesis rule has no Help link in its blue triangle menu.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22259\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22259 <\/a>Crash when creating affix slot with same name.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-14122\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-14122 <\/a>Name for unnamed slots doesn&#8217;t properly increment as more are added.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22263\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22263 <\/a>Mismatch between &#8220;Parse current word&#8221; and &#8220;Try a word&#8221; (HC).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22264\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22264 <\/a>Indicator for Parsing Dev mode should only show in Texts &amp; Words area.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-3356\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-3356 <\/a>&#8220;Indent Subclasses label.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>issues fixed in 9.3.1<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22189\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22189 <\/a>FW9.2 does much worse with multiple objects in data entry than FW9.1.??<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22122\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22122 <\/a>Word Export: Performance concern if project has large number of pictures.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22127\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22127 <\/a>Change a language code crashes with qaa.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22059\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22059 <\/a>In XLingPaper word-oriented interlinear export, if the first word had no analysis, only the first line of interlinear was output.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22203\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22203 <\/a>XLingPaper word-oriented export: three cases of missing output.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Parser Related<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-20848\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-20848 <\/a>Word gloss\/cat doesn&#8217;t get inserted automatically for a computer generated parse.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-21902\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-21902 <\/a>Allow duplicating a slot.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-21907\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-21907 <\/a>Change &#8220;Stem Name&#8221; to &#8220;Stem Allomorph Label&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-21908\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-21908 <\/a>Create a utility to &#8220;remove user-approved analyses&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22133\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22133 <\/a>&#8220;Display Label&#8221; should apply to Inflection Features field, not just to Gram Info.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22140\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22140 <\/a>Add use of exception &#8220;features&#8221; for compound rules to Hermit Crab processing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22161\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22161 <\/a>Show approval source in parsing development mode.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22165\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22165 <\/a>Hermit Crab parser does not handle multiple compounds in a row.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22191\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22191 <\/a>Approval checkmarks change when hovering.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22193\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22193 <\/a>Change in Yellow Bar behavior in Interlinear Texts \/ Analyze tab.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22198\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22198 <\/a>Not all Hermit Crab tracing messages were shown.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22199\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22199 <\/a>GenerateHCConfig.exe crashes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22210\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22210 <\/a>Is Abstract Form field Help in Allomorphs opens the topic for the Lexeme Form&#8217;s field.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Changes in version 9.3.0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-826\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-826 <\/a>Allow affixes to be overtly reordered.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-5408\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-5408 <\/a>Show which parses are valid in chooser.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22153\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22153 <\/a>Analyses marked as &#8220;guess&#8221; in .flextext file should not get imported as &#8220;approved&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22149\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22149 <\/a>Exported Interlinear text is duplicated.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22146\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22146 <\/a>Darken guess text colors in interlinear text display.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-21945\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-21945 <\/a>New modes for &#8220;developing parser&#8221; versus &#8220;glossing text&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-21867\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-21867 <\/a>HC rule doesn\u2019t work for optional C.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-21441\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-21441 <\/a>Reversal entries field existing data hidden.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-18767\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-18767 <\/a>Yellow box warning in HC for XAmple-style reduplication.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-22101\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LT-22101 <\/a>When creating an affix template slot in a subcategory, store it in the subcategory instead of the parent category.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alpha Release Notes FieldWorks 9.3 contains updates and enhancemenents. issues fixed in 9.3.4 LT-10590 Include all text metadata (info tab) fields in flextext export. LT-19598 Grammar sketch shows wrong order of slots in affix template. LT-21904 Allow duplicating a phonological rule. LT-21960 Export while viewing reversal misses reversal with filters\/sorting (COM problem). 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