The performance of AQdevTeam Client has been improved greatly. Now if the Audit Trail panel is not displayed, AQdevTeam Client does not read items' status change history from the database. Note however that if you put the TAuditTrailControl control onto the Edit Form or Preview Pane, the performance will not improve in comparison with the situation when the Audit Trail panel is hidden.

New field type and new control. AQdevTeam includes a new field type, HTML memo, that lets you store data in HTML format into a database field. Using these fields makes your items look like messages in Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express: with hyperlinks and e-mail addresses, with bold, italic, underline and other font formatting, etc.

To display and modify data stored in such a field, AQdevTeam offers a new control - TAQDTDHTMLEdit. Editing of fields in this control is similar to writing messages in Microsoft Outlook.

AQdevTeam's Visual Macro Builder includes several new operations:

• AQtime 4 - Lets you profile your application with AQtime 4 directly from AQdevTeam macros.
• Send News Message and Receive News Message - These operations let you post messages to and receive them from a newsgroup. If your support department offers one or several newsgroups for customers, these operations will help you employ AQdevTeam for maintaining the support services.
• Receive E-mail Message - Receives one e-mail message.
• E-mail Enumerator - Receives all e-mail messages that were sent you and that were stored on your incoming mail server.

The Root Project property of the Project Enumerator operation now accepts the full name of the desired project including its version.

Now it is possible to pass a variable to the Project property of the Item Type Enumerator operation.

Changes in the Administration | Database Options dialog.

• The dialog has a new tabbed page - Server Macro. It offers two new options for customization: Store server logs only if errors occurred and Enable line logging in server scripts. For more information on these options, see description of the Database Options dialog.
• The Auto-notification tabbed page holds a new option - Authorization type. It lets you specify whether your outgoing mail server requires authorization for sending e-mail notifications.

Now each user can change and delete his (her) personal Issue Explorer views.

It is possible to hide and show descriptions of views listed in the View dropdown list box. This box is displayed on the toolbar at the top of the Issue Explorer.

Now users can create and configure Project Explorer views that specify which projects and item collections to display in the Project Explorer panel.

Now for client shared macros it is possible to create not only personal events, which are available only to the user who created them, but also shared events, which are available to all the users registered in the database.

Now you can link items to each other if they are open in the Edit Form. This is useful if you cannot locate them in the Issue Explorer or in the Bookmarks window.

There is no need to close the Edit Form and call it again for the next new item if you need to create several items in the same collection one by one. Instead, you can simply select File | Save and Create New Item from the main menu of the Edit Form. This will save the changes in item fields and then clear the contents of the Edit Form to let you create a new item.

The context menu of the Full Text Search panel includes a new item - Show All in Issue Explorer. It lets you quickly locate found items in the Issue Explorer panel.

Now you can add items found via the Full Text Search panel to the Bookmarks window. For this purpose, use the new Operations | Add Selected to Bookmarks context menu item.

Now you can add the item, for which the Edit Form is called, to the Bookmarks window. To do this, select Edit | Add to Bookmarks from the main menu of the Edit Form.

The Project object contains a new property - Manager. It specifies the user who is the manager of a project. This property makes the SetManager and GetManager methods obsolete. These methods are supported for backward compatibility, but they are not shown in the Code Completion window.

A new method of the ItemRecord object - UndoLastAction - lets you easily undo the last action applied to the item and remove the appropriate record from the item's Audit Trail list.

Another new method of the ItemRecord object - BreakParentChildRelationship - allows you to make the given child item a stand-alone item (an item that is not a child of any other item).

The ItemRecord object also contains a new ChildItems property. It returns a collection of child items for an item.

The Utilities plug-in is no longer an external plug-in, which can be installed, removed, enabled and disabled at will. Now the functionality of the Utilities plug-in is implemented in AQdevTeam Client, so this plug-in works as an internal plug-in which is always enabled.