{"id":2334,"date":"2017-07-28T16:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/?p=2334"},"modified":"2017-07-28T16:00:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T16:00:46","slug":"fw839","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/fw839\/","title":{"rendered":"FieldWorks 8.3.9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"announcement\"><p>We are glad to announce that FieldWorks version 8.3.9 is being released.  This version fixes some serious problems we have seen with version 8.3.8.<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"announcement\"><p>As of this release, XP is no longer supported.  This is due to some of the changes made so FLEx will work with Paratext 8.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>FieldWorks for Windows will work with Paratext 8.  FieldWorks for Linux will have to wait until version 9 to support Paratext 8.<\/p>\n<p>Most machines already have .Net 4.6.1 installed.  But, especially on Windows 8\/8.1, this may need to be installed for the Paratext 8 interface to work.<\/p>\n<p>After upgrading to this version, the data will not open in any version prior to 8.3.3, so make a backup before upgrading.  If you are sharing data with others, the entire team should use a version of FieldWorks with the same data model.  For more specifics about version 8.3 and the changes made, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/release-notes\/\">release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bugs fixed since 8.3.8<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-18329\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-18329 <\/a>Preserve glosses when focusing sandbox when there is an analysis but no gloss.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-18313\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-18313 <\/a>Fix &#8220;FieldWorks has stopped working&#8221; bug in Try a Word parser.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-18294\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-18294 <\/a>Relation abbreviation and name configuration order no longer ignored.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-18267\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-18267 <\/a>Fix and preserve some font attributes.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-18270\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-18270 <\/a>Give a better message when a dictionary configuration part cannot be migrated.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-18390\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-18390 <\/a>Fix SFM import of restrictions.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-18256\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-18256 <\/a>Fix problem where reversals were lost when changing a writing system.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-18324\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-18324 <\/a>Fix crash displaying tree relations between senses.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-18171\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-18171 <\/a>Fix crash in the dictionary view when an SFM import has created an invalid file link.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-17408\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-17408 <\/a>Fix concordance search hiding the first character with Right-to-left writing systems.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-18304\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-18304 <\/a>Fix refresh problem when deleting an entry and attempting to view it in the Configure Dictionary dialog box.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-18344\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-18344 <\/a>Fix that some projects wouldn\u2019t open in version 8.3.8.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-18413\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-18413 <\/a>Fix duplicate nodes crash when migrating from version 8.1.4.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-18395\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-18395 <\/a>DB4O\/fwdb sharing works in version 8.3.9.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-17880\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-17880 <\/a>Special characters &amp; and &lt; are now allowed in custom list names.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-18462\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-18462 <\/a>Paratext 8 now works with FieldWorks for Windows.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-18460\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-18460 <\/a>Fix the Wasta 16 package so that a fresh install should work.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-2352\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-2352 <\/a>Improve SFM import preview.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-18450\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-18450 <\/a>Speed up merging .fwlayout files with custom fields.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-18470\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-18470 <\/a>Referenced Headwords now show up under Reversal Subentries.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-18489\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-18489 <\/a>Correct adding subcategories from catalog.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jira.sil.org\/browse\/LT-18519\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Look up JIRA issue\" rel=\"noopener\">LT-18519 <\/a>Morpheme ad hoc rules in a group are now passed to XAmple.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FieldWorks for Windows will work with Paratext 8. FieldWorks for Linux will have to wait until version 9 to support Paratext 8. Most machines already have .Net 4.6.1 installed. But, especially on Windows 8\/8.1, this may need to be installed for the Paratext 8 interface to work. After upgrading to this version, the data will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2335,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions\/2335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fieldworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}