We're planning to release a minor update to Axure RP 5 in October. Here is a link to the first release candidate. We appreciate any feedback or bug reports.

http://axure.cachefly.net/5-1-0/AxureRP-Pro-Setup.exe

Installing 5.1 will uninstall 5.0. The file format is backwards compatible with 5.0 (5.0 can open 5.1 files). 5.1 will be a free update for everyone who is licensed for 5.0 (purchased a license or renewal after 3/15/07).

This update is primarily to enable storing shared projects on an SVN server for remote collaboration (see below).

It also includes other enhancements like:

- Interactions pane improvements for handling many cases
- Cancel options on interactions dialogs
- Ability to have "placeholder" cases with no actions
- Word 2007 specification generation fixes
- Menu widget fix that affected prototype generation
- Context menus on table cells

More on Shared Projects with SVN:

By default, the shared projects feature in Axure RP uses a file server to store the project. If the network connection is slow or if you connect through VPN, the performance can be slow. Setting up an SVN server alleviates this because SVN can optimize the data being sent.

The first step is to setup an SVN Server for your projects. If you or your IT team is not yet familiar with SVN, there is a free SVN book which is a good resource for getting started.  You can find it here:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/. For Windows environments, VisualSVN has a free product called VisualSVN Server that automates setting up an SVN server.

Another option is to get a hosted SVN server. Searching "SVN hosting" yields numerous results. Here are a couple that we have used:

http://www.cvsdude.com
http://www.svnrepository.com

After setting up the server, you can create users to access the SVN server.
The hosted SVN sites should provide an interface to add users.

Once you have an SVN server setup, you can use the link (or the URL) to the SVN server as the "Shared Directory" when you create a shared project. After that, everything should work the same as connecting to a file server.

Hello Victor,

could you briefly explain the enhancements?

- Interactions pane improvements for handling many cases
- Cancel options on interactions dialogs
- Ability to have "placeholder" cases with no actions
- Word 2007 specification generation fixes
- Menu widget fix that affected prototype generation
- Context menus on table cells

It would be great, thanks!

The context menus on table cells work great!
But i did find a little "bug"...
The images in front of the "Insert Row" option are wrong...
<edit> The image in front of "Delete Row" also...</edit>

And it would be great if it we would be able to set each cell border independently.

(but this is a "Feature Release Request")

- Interactions pane improvements for handling many cases

When you have a lot of cases in an interaction it used to go beyond the viewable area on the panel. Now a scrollbar will appear and you can size the interactions section relative to the annotations section.

- Cancel options on interactions dialogs

Some or the interactions dialogs did not have cancel buttons before.

- Ability to have "placeholder" cases with no actions

A case used to be removed if no actions were added to it. Now you can have a case (with or without conditions) with no actions in it, and use it as a placeholder until you want to add actions to it.

- Word 2007 specification generation fixes

The option not the include dynamic panels in the specification did not work without also unchecking another option. Also, the label for the masters list was not displayed correctly.

- Menu widget fix that affected prototype generation

A series of undos and redos on menus sometimes led to errors during prototype generation.

- Context menus on table cells

Menu items to insert and remove rows and columns now appear when you right click on a table cell.

Hello, can You make this software multilanguage please :-)

We really liked it, i know english that's ok, but my workers doesn't.

I'm asking about including Russian lang pack... If You need any help with that, just let me know - or ask any software reselller you work with in Russia. Thanks and regards, Dimo

Hey Victor,

did you found my other "bug"?
I probably found a new one too.
When I'm in the Release Candidate and I want to import stuff from an .rp file made in version 5.0 of Axure.
I get this message... (see attachement)
I think it's weird if a newer version of a program, can't reed the old versions items...

Bye bye!

Hi, thank you, yes, we found the issue with the icons. For pre-5.0 files, you will probably need to resave the file to the current version, but we may be able to avoid the message for 5.0 files.