Axure RP Release History

Version 5.1.0.1699
10/21/2008  (free update for everyone who is licensed for 5.0 - purchased a license or renewal after 3/15/2007)

• Installer fix - NSVN component missing error

Version 5.1.0.1696
10/15/2008  (free update for everyone who is licensed for 5.0 - purchased a license or renewal after 3/15/2007)

• Enable storing shared projects on a SVN server for remote collaboration
• 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

Version 5.0.0.1529
6/12/2008  (free update for licenses purchased after 3/15/2007)

• Prototype updates to support Firefox 3
• Fix for importing Word 2007 generator configurations
• Fix for 'Export to image' to handle page name with special characters
• Fix for gradient rendering for various shapes
• Removed unnecessary warning in condition builder
• Shared projects allows bracket characters '[', ']' in shared project names and shared folder paths
• Shared projects "Send changes" checks in new pages or masters when necessary
• New variables in shared projects cannot be added in the condition builder
• Word 2000 generator warning to save preface, postscript or template when closing the generator dialog

Version 5.0.0.1515
5/1/2008  (free update for licenses purchased after 3/15/2007)

• Shared project fix for renaming and deleting specification generators
• Shared project fix for compatibility with svn command line client
• Fix for Word 2007 specification generator for initializing dynamic panel states in screenshots

Version 5.0.0.1513
4/22/2008  (free update for licenses purchased after 3/15/2007)

• Fix for tables and menus in CHM prototypes
• Fix for transparent and gradient fills for menus
• Fix for nested raised events
• Fix for including rollover images in the specification

Version 5.0.0.1509
4/16/2008  (free update for licenses purchased after 3/15/2007)

• Shared Projects
  • Create shared projects on a network drive without installing a server
  • Manage page and master edits through a simple check in / check out system
  • Maintain and browse a history of revisions
• Interactions and Enhancements
  • OnFocus and OnLostFocus events
  • Enable and Disable Widgets action
  • Scroll to Image Map Region action to simulate anchor links
  • Move Dynamic Panels action
  • Wait action to pause before performing other actions
  • Up to 25 variables to store values across pages
• Specification Enhancements
  • Faster specification generation to Microsoft Word 2007 format (compatible with Word 2000+ with Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack)
  • One column and two column options for layout
  • Easier customization of Word templates
  • Many new options to configure specification content
• More Enhancements
  • Improved Tabbed Interface
  • Option to detach panes (like Sitemap and Widgets) from the main window
  • Better preservation of the environment when closing and reopening a file
  • Gradient and Alpha Color tools
  • Print settings are preserved between prints

Version 4.6.2.946
9/21/2007  (free update for licenses purchased after 6/1/2006)

• Dynamic panels used on a prototype page no longer automatically cause the browser to have a horizontal scroll
• Fix for prototype error when single and double quotes were used in Labels
• Fix for curly braces being duplicated in text panels when rendered in the prototype
• Fix for prototype error when a menu item that had a submenu with interactions was deleted
• Unofficial support for viewing prototypes in Safari

Version 4.6.1.945
8/14/2007  (free update for licenses purchased after 6/1/2006)

• Added OnKeyUp event to the Text Area widget
• Added the ability to set the value in a Text Field to the value in a Droplist or List Box
• Fixed an intermittent error generating prototypes that results in a Windows error dialog

Version 4.6.0.942
7/16/2007  (free update for licenses purchased after 6/1/2006)

• Fix for showing widget labels in the annotation windows in the prototype
• Fix for importing masters to maintain all interactions affecting widgets in the master
• Fixed bug generating prototypes for files converted to 4.6 from 4.2 or earlier where pages with masters were copied using the Duplicate feature
• Fixed Clear All link in the Condition Builder dialog

Version 4.6.0.939
7/2/2007  (free update for licenses purchased after 6/1/2006)

• New Features
  • Conditions can be added to Interaction Cases to conditionally perform the Actions in a Case based on field or variable values
  • Ability to read values from form fields like text field and radio buttons for use in conditions or to store in variables
  • New action in the Interactions Case Properties dialog to set values on widgets like the text in a text panel or the checkstate of a checkbox from any interaction
  • Ability to put variable data in rich text widgets like text panels and button shapes
  • Use up to 10 variables to store and pass data from page to page in the prototype
  • New OnKeyUp event on text fields and text areas to respond to keyboard entries in those widgets
  • Ability to use OnPageLoad event on Masters
  • Raised Events can be created and used on masters enabling masters to have different interactions on each instance
  • New Menu widgets for quickly creating vertical and horizontal menus with flyout submenus
  • Rollover styles can be defined for Button Shapes
  • Ability to set a text field to behave like a password field
  • Ability to set the maximum length on text fields
  • Text fields and text areas can be set to read only
  • Tooltips can be added to most widgets
  • Line style is supported on Button Shapes and Flow Shapes
  • Line ends is supported on horizontal and vertical lines
  • Text labels can be entered on Connectors
• Usablity Enhancements
  • Option to Not Autoflow a connector
  • User-defined styles are sorted alphabetically
  • Hotkey for horizontal scrolling using Shift + Mousewheel
  • Last image extension is remembered in the file dialog for importing images
  • Help dialog is no longer always on top
• Bug Fixes
  • Annotation icons in dynamic panels scroll with the dynamic panel contents
  • CHM will compile for page names with foreign (UTF-8) characters
  • Expand and collapse works in the prototype sitemap in Firefox
  • Better handling of Clipboard error if a copy fails
  • Open Link in Parent Window reloads the page even if the linked page is the same as the one currently in the window
  • Fix for generating selected fields in the Page CSV file
  • Added custom widgets to a wireframe no longer offset the location
  • Preserve OS style on widgets in the prototype in Internet Explorer if background color is white
  • Fix for sporadic error when importing annotation fields and removing all existing fields
  • Fix for generating selected fields in the Page CSV file
  • Annotation icons in the prototype are now in the same layer as the annotated widget so they do not show through dynamic panels placed over them
  • Fix for cleaning up autosaved files in the temp working directory

Version 4.4.0.741
1/22/2007  (free update for licenses purchased after 1/1/2006)

• Improved handling of read-only files
• Suppressed IE image toolbar when mousing over images in the prototype
• Fixes to Replace All when spell checking

Version 4.4.1.745
2/27/2007  (free update for licenses purchased after 1/1/2006)

• Fixed rendering UTF-8 characters in Firefox 2.0.0.2
• Suppressed beeping when editing interactions
• Fixed error when Export to Image is selected and no wireframe is open
• Made the Default color for the Text Color selector black
• Fixed a text panel image caching issue for pages duplicated in version 4.2 or earlier
• Optimized switching between wireframes
• Fixed error when generating specification with no pages selected for generation and the option to only generate masters on generated pages selected
• Fixed issues surrounding table editing
• Fixed issue where Ctrl+Arrow caused a nudge in the opposite direction on the first key press
• Fixed issue where the annotation note on a table appeared in the wrong location in the prototype

Version 4.4.0.741
1/22/2007  (free update for licenses purchased after 1/1/2006)

• Improved handling of read-only files
• Suppressed IE image toolbar when mousing over images in the prototype
• Fixes to Replace All when spell checking

Version 4.4.0.736
1/16/2007  (free update for licenses purchased after 1/1/2006)

• New Features
  • Prototypes can be generated to HTML Help file (.chm) for single file transfer with no player installation
  • OnChange event for droplists and list boxes providing the ability to specify an action based on the value selected
  • Ability to affect dynamic panels within masters from the containing page, allowing for increased reuse of masters
  • Fill color on form widgets like text boxes and droplists
  • New action to link to parent frame
  • New action to describe a generic "Other" action
  • Placeholder widget for the "rectangle with diagonals" shape
  • Option to show Page Notes names in the specification
  • Ability to import styles from one RP file to another
• Usablity Enhancements
  • Text search and replace across widgets, annotations, and page notes
  • Spell check across widgets, annotations, and page notes
  • Ability to specify colors in hex or with a color picker.
  • Ability to add and remove masters to multiple pages at once
  • Ability to clear all annotations on a page
  • Esc button closes all dialogs
  • Copy and paste preserves text formatting for text copied within Axure RP
  • Single undo of align and distribute
  • Ability to automatically renumber footnotes based on location
  • Duplicate does not affect the clipboard
  • Ability to generate single page to the prototype
  • Enhanced table editing
  • Holding spacebar enables the hand tool for panning
  • Master report showing which pages and masters a master is used on
  • New startup dialog linking to recent files and tutorials
• Bug Fixes
  • Improved placement of imported pages in the sitemap
  • Text area obeys default and applied styles
  • Pasted images no longer can have fraction of a pixel locations causing blurry images
  • F2 to edit selected dynamic panels works properly
  • Links to external sites do not add Axure querystring values
  • Imported selectlist annotation fields properly import options
  • Fixed error when importing views containing fields not in the target document

Version 4.2.0.592
8/27/2006  (free update for licenses purchased after 8/15/2005)

• Fixed error when switching between a page and a master and then back when the page contains the master and one or more of the master's nested masters

Version 4.2.0.590
8/22/2006  (free update for licenses purchased after 8/15/2005)

• Flow Diagrams
  • Pages in the sitemap can be marked as flow diagrams
  • New flow widgets with connection points for constructing flow diagrams
  • Flow widgets support a reference page to keep them "linked" to pages
  • Dragging and dropping a page from the sitemap automatically creates a flow widget referencing the page
  • Flow widgets with reference pages automatically link to pages in the prototype
  • Ability to draw connectors to connect flow widgets
  • Automated connector routing to avoid intersecting widgets
  • Ability to format connectors with line patterns and line ends (arrows) in the toolbar
• OnPageLoad
  • OnLoadVariable can be set in interactions
  • Interface for editing page interactions in the page notes pane
  • Ability to define conditions on OnLoadVariable in OnPageLoad cases
  • Prototypes simulate OnPageLoad events
  • Specifications include OnPageLoad descriptions
• More Features
  • Quick Link making it faster to add a simple link
  • Prototypes support foreign (UTF-8) characters
  • Ability to select widgets behind widgets by clicking on the widget location repeatedly
  • Alt text on Image Map Regions

Version 4.0.4.465
5/30/2006  (free update for licenses purchased after 3/1/2005)

• Inserting table rows and columns applies styles of neighboring table cells
• Invalid licensee or key message was changed 
• Fixed issue with folder order being reversed when importing masters
• Fixed rendering radio buttons and checkboxes when disabled
• Fixed prototypes with font sizes containing decimals generated on non-English computers
• Fixed prototype issue with having "<" or ">" in droplist or list box options
• Fixed prototype issue with having carriage returns in text areas
• Fixed issue with printing pages when pages had been duplicated and text panels were edited
• Fixed issue rendering "Ä" in prototypes
• Fixed issue updating the editing background color when editing text panels with colored fonts
• Fixed issue with Ctrl+double-click on a dynamic panel throwing an error
• Fixed issue with preserving changes to current open wireframe after import

Version 4.0.3.460
4/18/2006  (free update for licenses purchased after 3/1/2005)

• Fixed issue when generating a specification with Include Page Section unselected
• Fixed issue with location of radio buttons and checkboxes created masters in the prototype
• Fixed issue with user-defined styles updating widget styles after the style is edited
• Fixed issue with fill color of a style being set to transparent after editing the style
• Fixed issue with an extra line between bulleted list items in text panels in the prototype when viewed in Firefox

Version 4.0.2.455
3/31/2006  (free update for licenses purchased after 3/1/2005)

• Fixed issue in Generator Configurations when no configuration is selected and user clicks to edit a configuration
• Footnotes in the prototype for radio buttons and checkboxes render to the upper right of the entire widget including text
• Fixed issue with Render text panels as images for the prototype 
• Fixed issue where zoom changes when editing the wireframe of a dynamic panel state
• Fixed issue loading a file with no CSV configurations
• Fixed adding new CSV configurations
• Prevented dragging of a master from the Masters pane to the Sitemap
• Fixed memory leak when editing dynamic panel states
• Fixed issue rendering text panels in Export All Pages to Image and the screenshots in the specification when a page was duplicated and the text panels are edited
• Fixed issue loading a file with no pages
• AutoSave creates a copy of the file on load and save as and continues saving at the configured intervals regardless of when the user saves. Three copies are maintained.

Known Issues

• Version 4.0.1.448 files will not open in version 4.0.0.444

Version 4.0.1.448
3/13/2006 

• Fixed issue with text area on a wireframe greater than 2100px in width or height
• Plugged a memory leak and an object leak
• Fixed error when undoing table creation then redoing a table resize
• Made drag images and copied images not include footnote boxes
• Support for 64-bit processors

Version 4.0.0.444
3/6/2006 

• New Functionality and Usability Enhancements
  • Interactions that support click, mouseenter, and mouseout Events, each supporting multiple Cases, each supporting multiple Actions (replaced links)
  • References and templates combined in masters
  • New toolbox for organizing masters
  • Zoom!
  • Ability to create multiple annotation field views
  • Ability to create multiple page note fields
  • Ability to export image of wireframe and export all page images
  • More flexibility in page names
  • Ability to have duplicate page names
  • Ability to duplicate pages and entire branches of the sitemap
  • Page previews in the sitemap
  • Hotkeys for navigating the wireframe tabs (Ctrl+F4 to close, Ctrl+Tab to go to next, Ctrl+Shift+Tab to go to previous)
  • Ability to enter values for the location and size of widgets
  • Ability to enter table cell size
  • Ability to lock widgets into place to prevent them from being moved or sized
  • Holding Shift while dragging widgets moves the widgets along an axis
  • Object and Table toolbars are available
• Generator Enhancements
  • Ability to have multiple generator configurations for prototype, specification, and report generation
  • CSV reports generator to generate reports of annotations, interactions, and page notes
  • New specification configuration options including specifying pages and masters to generate, ability to change headers, and option to not include unused masters
  • New configurable specification content including support for dynamic panels, displaying list options in droplists, and showing masters used on a page
  • Better notification of the specification generation progress and ability to cancel
  • Optimization of specification generation
  • Ability to specify Word styles used in the specification
  • Fine-tuned prototype rendering
  • Annotation window in prototype appears above droplists and listboxes in Internet Explorer
• Widget Enhancements
  • Dynamic Panel widget for designing dynamic pages and prototyping AJAX applications and RIAs
  • Inline Frame widget
  • Image Mapping Region widget
  • Ability to group radio buttons for grouped behavior in the prototypes
  • Support for Alt tags on images
  • Ability to inlcude rollover images on image widgets
  • Ability to set enabled and disabled state on form widgets
  • Checkboxes and radio buttons support rich text and text wrapping
  • Button Shapes widget supporting various common button shapes like tabs and rounded rectangles
  • New table handle for selection and context menu accesibility
  • Custom Widget behavior on masters
• Import
  • Enhancements to importing pages and masters
  • Import annotation fields and generator configurations
• Performance
  • Significant reduction in memory use
  • Faster load and save
  • Upgrade to .Net 2.0 Framework for significant performance improvements

Version 3.2.3.163
11/9/2005 

• Better error handling for creating bitmaps and metafiles on copy
• Resolved stranded Word applications during specification generation
• Resolved prototype generation on non-English computers of designs with objects that have decimal places in dimensions
• Set focus to the designer after switching pages
• Edit Link hotkey changed to Ctrl+Shift+I
• Resolved footnotes issue with objects with links but no annotations

Version 3.2.1.160
9/21/2005 

• Removed the delete contents of target folder before generating prototpe feature

Version 3.2.1.159
9/20/2005 

• Resolved issue with undo of delete of multiple widgets
• Fixed issue with creating index.html file for the prototype 
• Ctrl+drag to copy widgets does not do the copy offset 

Version 3.2.0.156
9/7/2005 

• Label of the default color in the color selector changed to "No Fill" and "None" for fill color and border color
• Transparent border on rectangles render no border in prototype
• Delete contents of target folder before generating prototype
• Create an index.html file in the prototype
• Rename page error leaves the page name editor open in the sitemap
• Multi-selecting cells will not switch to a table selection if a border is clicked
• Scroll the design pane when selecting a region beyond the current visible area
• Paste offsets the pasted objects when pasted on the same page 
• Ctrl+D duplicates the selection
• Clicking the font dropdown menu selects the text of the font name for easy editing
• Toolbar buttons are brighter 
• Inserting table rows makes the row the same height as the row above
• Rectangle widgets contain rich text
• Editing light color text changes the editing background color for visiblity
• Temporarily turns off spelling and grammar check during specification generation
• Option to optimize a large image on the import of an image
• Hyperlinks can wrap
• A popup window can be closed and at the same time redirect the parent window
• Render text as image option for prototypes works for text in tables
• Generating specifications in non-English versions of Word works without needing to create a "Normal" style
• Text editor saves and closes before tabbing to another page
• Undo delete no longer places widgets on top
• Generating a specification for a page with only one widget in a negative, non-visible region does not cause an error
• No more abbreviated filenames in the title
• Resolved a table cell editing error that occurred after cells had been deleted
• Checkboxes and radio buttons render properly in centimeter units
• Admininstrator can install and a different user can run the application without issue

Version 3.1.2.149
5/31/2005 

• Resolved issue with extension keys

Version 3.1.1.147
5/4/2005 

• Fixed error resulting from visual style settings
• Additional error handling around verifying Word styles in the specification
• Resolved an issue with deleting annotation fields and re-adding them
• Fixed issue with importing empty groups
• Built-in reporting of file loading issues
• Resolved customized fields type issue

Version 3.1.0.145
4/26/2005 

• Table Widget 
• Paste Excel data into a table or onto the designer to create a table
• Horizontal and Vertical line widgets
• New licensing system with customer portal
• New install including the .Net Framework 1.1
• Multi-document specification generation more evenly divides the specification
• Click Enter to begin editing a widget, Esc or Tab to exit editing
• Memory optimizations
• Opening browser for prototypes generated to a network drive fix
• Hyperlinks in prototypes viewed in Firefox work on one click

Version 3.0.7
2/25/2005

• Files can be AutoSaved for recovery
• Files can be recovered through the Recover File menu item
• Error dialog descibes the ability to recover a file

Version 3.0.5
2/2/2005

• Addressed some issues with graphics errors
• Double-clicking references opens them for editing
• Mouse cursor changes to a cross to indicate the ability to move a widget
• Grid size can be changed with no diagram open for editing
• Optimized drawing and nudge
• Clear Template menu item added to the context menu of the editor
• Font size droplist reordered properly
• Text panel no longer has a height limit

Version 3.0.4
12/1/2005

• Modified the frame page in the prototype to avoid a refresh error
• Tables in the Word specification are set to AutoFitFixed so the Object tables do not exceed the margins
• Edit Link in menu opens the target dialog if there is one target and shows a message to use the link pane if there is more than one target
• Pages with an applied template but no widgets print properly
• Shortcuts for generating the prototype and specification were set to F5 and F6 respectively
• Button to clear all annotations in the annotations pane

Version 3.0.0
10/25/2004

• Usability Enhancements
  • Tabs interface for editing pages, references, and templates
  • New icons
  • Left sidebar navigation for Sitemap, Widgets, References, and Templates
  • Right sidebar for annotations and links featuring a full view of annotations
  • More shortcut keys
• New Functionality
  • Create and apply styles
  • Support for multiple measurement units: pixels, cm, and inches
  • Ability to add notes to pages
  • Ability to prototype popup windows
  • Table widget
  • Horizontal and Vertical Line widgets
• Prototype and Specification Enhancements
  • New look for prototype annotation windows
  • Prototype includes page notes
  • Prototype runs in Netscape 6 and Mozilla in addition to IE 6
  • Ability to customize the text styles in specifications
  • UTF-8 tag in prototypes to support foreign characters in annotations
• Collaboration and Use of previous work product
  • Ability to import/sync references, templates, and pages from file to file
• Support for larger designs/files
  • Optimization of file saving and loading
  • Optimization of file sizes
  • Reduced memory usage
  • Option to split Word specifications into multiple files
• Non-English computer language setting support