Release Notes

0.9.23

Released on 2024-05-04

Features:

• Added command line flag to hide “Created with TaskFalcon” banner
• Added support for Intel based Mac

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0.9.22

Released on 2023-05-06

Bugfixes:

• Fixed bug when a resource was set to active: false during an update
• Improved error handling when project settions were missing or empty
• Fixed bug that claimed taskfalcon was out of date

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0.9.21

Released on 2022-03-30

Bugfixes:

• Fixed bug where rescheduling milestones failed during an update if the milestone’s due date was already in the past

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0.9.20

Released on 2022-03-27

Features:

• Accounts and billing: TaskFalcon can now track project finances. See Account Configuration

Bugfixes:

• Groups with completed tasks (where a configured buffer no longer applies) were calculating the total efforts including the buffer if other tasks we also part of the same group if they were eligble for buffers
• Fixed error when network was down during software update check

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0.9.19

Released on 2022-01-22

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a bug where a task that ended before “today” but not at start of day was still using configured buffers at that day
• Fixed a bug where multiple filters on the same resource for different tasks (e.g. T1:50% + T2:25% + T3:25%) didn’t allow resources to work their whole available hours per day. See Using filters to work on multiple tasks

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0.9.18

Released on 2021-12-20

Features:

• Added Efforts Spent column

Bugfixes:

• Fixed issue with incorrect efforts left displayed when having an update after today, that sets effortsleft to 0
• Fixed bug where a task that ended “today” but not at start of day was not showing configured buffers

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0.9.17

Released on 2021-12-11

Features:

• Added JSON export via command line parameter -export-json
• You can now add an external link, which will be shown in JSON/CSV/XLS exports

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0.9.16

Released on 2021-12-05

Features:

• Tasks/Milestones/Groups can be tagged with one or multiple tags
• Added command line option to filter tasks by tags when rendering. This does not affect scheduling, just which tasks are displayed in the output
  See command line option -tags

Bugfix:

• Fixed crash without error message when some command line parameters were given but no TaskFalcon file was provided
• Projection phase now starts after today, not on today. This caused problem when tasks with buffers were set to have 0 efforts left in an update, which was on the same day as today
  See parameter -today

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0.9.15

Released on 2021-11-29

Features:

• Improved error handling. TaskFalcon is now less forgiving with syntax errors in the project file.
  This might break existing project files with errors (until fixed), but will lead to a better overall stability
• Exporting ClickMaps. With the parameter -export-click-map, TaskFalcon will export an additional JSON file for each generated chart to improve integration in editors like Visual Studio Code. This allows clicking on a task or resource in a chart and being navigated to the corresponding task/resource in the project file

Bugfix:

• Fixed problem with rescheduled tasks after a project update where a task buffer lead to resources not showing their efforts correctly on a gantt+resource chart.

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0.9.14

Released on 2021-11-07

Bugfix:

• Project update in update section modified start date of project, so that -start/-end command line parameters did not work correctly

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0.9.13

Released on 2021-11-06

Features:

• Added task buffer feature
• Added Efforts Done % column with parameter -show-done
• Changed default behaviour of update processing based on today parameter. Replaced command line parameter -no-updates-after-today with -all-updates

Bugfix:

• Fixed changing the tracking setting during task updates

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0.9.12

Released on 2021-10-20

Bugfix:

• Update for tracking parameter was not processed inside project section

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0.9.11

Released on 2021-10-19

Features:

• Added resource bookings for tasks to tell TaskFalcon explicitly when someone has worked on a task
• Added tracking mode for tasks and project settings to only accept explicit bookings for a task/project
• Added command line paramter -no-updates-after-today
• Added documentation for updates

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0.9.10

Released on 2021-06-28

Bugfixes:

• Bugfix when project tasks starts before the project begins

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0.9.9

Released on 2021-01-25

Features:

• You can select the charts to render via the command line parameters -export-charts and -no-charts (link contains examples).
  This was added to support the Visual Studio Code Extension for TaskFalcon
• Replaced _ in exported files to - (e.g. myproject.gantt_with_resources.png -> myproject.gantt-with-resources.png)

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0.9.8

Released on 2021-01-03

Bugfixes:

• Parameter -show-closed-tasks was showing tasks, even if they were not visible in a given scope (i.e. closed before the time range provided by -start/-end)

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0.9.7

Released on 2021-01-01

Features:

• You can set start and end time of the rendered gantt chart by using the command line parameters -start and -end (link contains examples)
• TaskFalcon can create a task overview for each resource. This resource slip only shows the tasks the given resource is supposed to work on.
  This feature can be enabled with the command line parameter -export-resource-slips (link contains examples)

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0.9.6

Released on 2020-12-30

Features:

• A major redesign enables support for flexible business hours per day and flexible resource working time per day. See DefaultWorkingTime, TimePerDay and BusinessHours in the Project configuration page

Changes:

• Renamed exported output files from <project-file>_gantt.png to <project-file>.gantt.png for better sorting in file browser.

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0.9.5

Released on 2020-10-24

Features:

• Added legend at the bottom of each chart
• Performance improvement when scheduling updates

Bugfixes:

• Bugfix when evaluating locked tasks in an update
• Fixed resource chart summaries for groups, when a group id is a substring of another group id (“test.group1” and “test.group10”)

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0.9.4

Released on 2020-10-20

Features:

• Added column “Efforts Left” to display the remaining task efforts at the time of scheduling (i.e. today). Needs to be enable with command line parameter -show-effortsleft
• Showing relative progress of effort based tasks as a bright line inside a task bar
• The date used for rendering the date line and for determining the efforts left for a task can be overridden with the command line parameter -today <YYYY-MM-DD>

Bugfixes:

• Bugfix when reviving an already closed task during an update
• Bugfix when finishing scheduling despite having more updates left (i.e. having updates beyond the regular end of the last task)

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0.9.3

Released on 2020-10-04

Bugfixes:

• Bugfix when a task has 0 efforts left at the time it starts
• Bugfix where adjacent updates were applied at the same time despite being for different days

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0.9.2

Released on 2020-10-01

Features:

• You can export the scheduled results to CSV by using the -export-csv command line flag
• You can export the scheduled results to XLSX by using the -export-xlsx command line flag

Bugfixes:

• Fixed problem with empty resource names in assignments, e.g. by a trailing , or +

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0.9.1

Released on 2020-09-17

Features:

• A list of scheduling issues (e.g. broken dependencies, incomplete tasks, etc) is displayed in the console output

Bugfixes:

• Fixed rendering issues, where dependencies could have shown up on resource charts

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0.9.0

Released on 2020-09-12

Features:

• Task dependencies can be displayed. By default only dependencies of failed tasks are visible. Use command line argument -show-dependencies to show all dependencies
• TaskFalcon can use custom color tables. Use command line argument -colors to export/import a file with a custom color table

Bugfixes:

• Bugfix when scheduling tasks in a group, where the group has dependencies

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0.8.10

Released on 2020-09-09

Features:

• Performance improvements when rendering charts

Bugfixes:

• In some circumstances, an update can interfere with the evaluation of monthlymax/weeklymax settings for a task
• Fixed some rendering issues with wrong background colors

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0.8.9

Released on 2020-08-29

Features:

• Milestones are locked by default, as soon as they are scheduled for the first time
• Added property reschedule: true in updates to reschedule a task/milestone once for this update
• Added task properties dailymax: <duration>, weeklymax: <duration> and monthlymax: <duration>

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0.8.8

Released on 2020-08-25

Features:

• Closed tasks will be hidden from the GANTT chart
• Added command line parameter -show-closed-tasks to show closed tasks again

Bugfixes:

• Fixed bug when closing a task with an update by setting effortsleft: 0d
• Fixed bug when resources/tasks contain a ‘.’ in the identifier
• Fixed rendering issue in resource chart with tasks.
• No longer showing resources without booked efforts on resource chart

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0.8.7

Released on 2020-08-22

Features:

• Added resource chart with tasks to see which resource will be working on which tasks
• Added command line flag -sub-projects to render charts for each imported sub project instead of main project file
• Added command line flag -show-group-resources to show resource utilisation on task groups on gantt charts and resource charts

Bug fixes:

• Under certain circumstances, resource utilisation bars were not aligned correctly with the grid on a week scale
• Tasks were hidden when no resource could be assigned. Now they will show as errors on the chart.

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0.8.6

Released on 2020-08-18

Bug fixes:

• Update for resource set working time for this resource back to 8h per day

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0.8.5

Released on 2020-08-12

Bug fixes:

• Converting invalid dates (non-working days) to next or previous business day
• Fixed problem when importing the same file multiple times

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0.8.4

Released on 2020-08-09

Bug fixes:

• Improved input file validation

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0.8.3

Released on 2020-08-07

Features:

• Added command line flag -no-updates to ignore all updates in the project file Bug fixes:
• Fixed problem with inactive tasks inside a task group

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0.8.2

Released on 2020-08-04

Features:

• Added efforts in resource chart

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0.8.1

Released on 2020-08-03

First official release of TaskFalcon

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