What's new in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 7.58.2812
Feb 11, 2024
- Fixed:
- Intermittent failure to submit query
- Internal browser failed to install/update correctly in some cases
- Uninstaller failed to remove x64 components
- Updated:
- Installer .Net Framework checker plugin
- Database:
- Added:~120,000 words (as a corpus) in etymologies, transcriptions, definitions, examples, and thesaurus entries
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 7.56.2810 (Jan 14, 2024)
- Updated:
- Extensive refactoring
- Database:
- Added: ~125,000 words (as a corpus) in etymologies, transcriptions, definitions, examples, and thesaurus entries
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 7.54.2808 (Nov 20, 2023)
- Changed:
- Dropped support for Windows XP
- Fixed:
- Online tool failed to restore enable website state in some cases
- Database:
- Added:
- ~50,000 words (as a corpus) in etymologies, transcriptions, definitions, examples, and thesaurus entries
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 7.52.2806 (Nov 5, 2023)
- New: Accelerator keys for pattern textbox and result's window
- Updated: Extensive refactoring
- Database:
- Added ~355,000 words (as a corpus) in etymologies, transcriptions, definitions, examples, and thesaurus entries
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 7.50.2804 (Aug 30, 2023)
- New: Reports approximate number of new words added to TheSage after an update
- Fixed: Resolution of capitalized inflected forms
- Database:
- Updated: Database indexing system to handled very large amounts of data
- Added: ~550,000 words (as a corpus) in etymologies, transcriptions, definitions, examples, and thesaurus entries
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 7.48.2802 (May 2, 2023)
- Fixed: Intermittent crash of Window's text-to-speech engine in e-paper and retro views
- New: Optional rounded bottom-left margin of tool window (can be disabled in advanced options)
- Database:
- Updated: Paging system
- Added: 350,000 words (as a corpus) in etymologies, transcriptions, definitions, examples, and thesaurus entries
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 7.46.2800 (Oct 22, 2022)
- Updated:
- Improved performance of Etymology tool
- Changed:
- Processing of license purchases to better handle credit cards
- Added:
- ~200,000 words (as a corpus) in etymologies, transcriptions, definitions, examples, and thesaurus entries
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 7.42.2714 (Aug 30, 2022)
- New: Automatic folding of inflected forms (can be disabled in advanced options)
- Updated: Improved performance in Wildcard and Anagram search tools
- Database:
- Added: ~550,000 words (as a corpus) in etymologies, transcriptions, definitions, examples, and thesaurus entries
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 7.40.2712 (Aug 30, 2022)
- New: Automatic resolution of inflected-only entries (can be disabled in advanced options)
- Fixed: Inconsistent display of multi-word lemmas in wildcard and anagram search tools
- Fixed: Inconsistent display of multi-word transcriptions in dictionary and phonetic search tools
- Fixed: Crash when changing dictionary views before any lookup
- Fixed: Crash when choosing an etymology font multiple times in retro views
- Database:
- Added: ~100,000 words (as a corpus) in etymologies, transcriptions, definitions, examples, and thesaurus entries
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 7.40.2714 (Aug 30, 2022)
- New: Automatic folding of inflected forms (can be disabled in advanced options)
- Updated: Improved performance in Wildcard and Anagram search tools
- Database: Added ~550,000 words (as a corpus) in etymologies, transcriptions, definitions, examples, and thesaurus entries
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 7.36.2708 (Feb 7, 2021)
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 7.28.2686 (Feb 21, 2019)
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 7.15.2672 (Mar 30, 2017)
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 6.10.1816 (Feb 15, 2016)
- Fixed: Rare, intermittent error of lemma formating in example concordancer.
- Updated: Improvements in startup time.
- Updated: Clipboard handling.
- Fixed: Typos in Options dialog.
- Database:
- Added: Transcriptions.
- Added: Definitions.
- Added: Thesaurus entries.
- Added: Examples.
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 6.4.1806 (Jan 23, 2015)
- Fixed: Formatting issues on the 'System Information' tab in 'About' dialog.
- Updated: Improved the performance of index searching.
- Updated: Improvements to the anagram search algorithm.
- Fixed: Concordancer returns mangled definitions in some rare cases.
- Updated: Improved the precision of inflected definitions.
- Database:
- Added: Transcriptions.
- Added: Definitions.
- Added: Thesaurus entries.
- Added: Examples.
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 6.3.1804 (Jan 23, 2015)
- Updated: Option pages backends for better performance and easier maintenance.
- Updated: Multi-word lookup logic.
- Updated: Exceptions and inflections algorithm.
- Updated: Improved error handling and reporting of database exceptions.
- Database:
- New: Example subsystem.
- Added: Transcriptions.
- Added: Definitions.
- Added: Thesaurus entries.
- Added: Examples.
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 6.2.1802 (Feb 10, 2014)
- Updated: Default Google translation addresses for the Online search tool.
- Fixed: Packer/unpacker block misalignment.
- Fixed: Indexing of lemmas containing non-alphanumeric characters.
- Fixed: A glitch in the new build system skips a subset of example sentences.
- Fixed: Multi-word lemmas in definitions of inflected forms.
- Database:
- Added: Transcriptions.
- Added: Definitions.
- Added: Thesaurus entries.
- Added: Examples.
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 6.1.1800 (Feb 10, 2014)
- Updated: Inflections algorithm for wildcard/anagram, spellchecker, and 'As you type' tools.
- Updated: Lookup performance tweaks.
- Changed: Internal representation of inflections.
- Fixed: Redundant code in the application settings logic.
- Database:
- Fixed: Interface system inconsistencies.
- Fixed: Example logic in DB interface.
- Updated: File format.
- Updated: Build system.
- Added: Transcriptions.
- Added: Definitions.
- Added: Thesaurus entries.
- Added: Examples.
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 6.0.1798 (Jan 17, 2014)
- New: Lookup engine.
- New: Wildcard/anagram engine.
- New: Transcription engine.
- New: Concordancer engine.
- New: 'As you type' engine.
- New: Semantic similarity engine.
- New: Spellchecker engine.
- Updated: Documentation.
- Database:
- New: Database schema.
- New: File format.
- New: Build system.
- New: Interface system.
- Updated: Packer.
- Added: Transcriptions.
- Added: Definitions.
- Added: Thesaurus entries.
- Added: Examples.
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 5.0.1790 (Feb 6, 2013)
- New: Installer for mouse-capture Firefox/Chrome browser extensions.
- New: Check for updates module redesigned from scratch.
- New: Configuration module.
- New: (Installer) Option to install one-click mouse capture browser extensions.
- Fixed: Apply button logic of delay activation entry field in Word Capture options page.
- Fixed: UAC conflict in the Check for updates module.
- Fixed: Typo in options tree.
- Fixed: Typos in the following option pages: history, word list tools, and keyword word capture.
- Fixed: Font in mouse word capture option labels.
- Fixed: Font in "Check for updates" dialog.
- Fixed: Typo in the introduction to the documentation shown in the splash window.
- Fixed: Corrected spelling/typo errors in Changelog.
- Updated: (Installer) Database configuration logic.
- Updated: Paypal icon and logic.
- Fixed: Label error in Word Capture options page.
- Fixed: Broken links to online documentation.
- Updated: Detection of newer Windows OS versions ('System Information' tab in 'About' dialog).
- Updated: Documentation.
- Changed: Banner on splash window.
- Database:
- New: Faster compression algorithm.
- New: Build and packing system.
- Changed: Interface tweaks regarding the assignment of semantic relationships.
- Added: Transcriptions.
- Added: Definitions.
- Added: Thesaurus entries.
- Added: Examples.
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 5.0.1788 (Feb 6, 2013)
- Updated: One-click mouse-driven word capture library.
- New: Option to capture text via OCR when the native method fails.
- Changed: Word capture tool options rearrangement (new pages and icon).
- New: Word capture extension for Chrome.
- New: Word capture extension for Firefox.
- Fixed: HotKey word capture 'Register' button logic.
- Changed: Removed UPX from the development toolchain.
- Changed: Removed the option to toggle icons in buttons.
- New: Option to ignore acronyms in Wildcard search.
- New: Implementation of several shortcut keys for buttons throughout.
- Fixed: Snapper width and grip position.
- Changed: The focus automatically shifts to the "OK" button after clicking on the "Apply" button
- in the Options dialog.
- Changed: Donor's message ('Private Releases' tab in 'About' dialog).
- New: Miscellaneous icons in buttons throughout the GUI and dialogs.
- New: Disabled buttons display gray-scale icons.
- Updated: Detection of newer Windows OS versions ('System Information' tab in 'About' dialog).
- Changed: In the 'System Information' tab ('About' dialog), certain OS details have been removed
- from the 'Operating system' field, an 'Edition' field (x32 vs x64 bit) has been added,
- and the 'Windows version' label has been renamed simply as 'Version'.
- Fixed: Miscellaneous inconsistencies in button labels.
- Updated: Documentation.
- Fixed: Internal version resource discrepancy.
- Changed: Readability improvements via font size/family adjustments throughout the entire GUI.
- Database:
- New: Build system.
- New: Interface system.
- Added: Transcriptions.
- Added: Definitions.
- Added: Thesaurus entries.
- Added: Examples.
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 4.5.0.1784 (Jan 28, 2012)
- New:
- Option to limit the number of open tabs.
- Fixed: Documentation failed to display in 64bit systems.
- Updated: Documentation.
- Changed: Donation button.
- Changed: Small improvements to the Exceptions algorithm.
- Updated: Miscellaneous optimizations of the index search.
- Updated: Improved speed performance of all word list operations.
- Changed: Miscellaneous small misalignment errors in the option pages.
- Updated: Detection of newer Windows OS versions ('System Information' tab in 'About' dialog).
- Updated: License agreement.
- Changed: Display of the operating system information ('System Information' tab in 'About' dialog).
- Fixed: Rare write error in settings file.
- Database:
- Added: Transcriptions.
- Added: Definitions.
- Added: Thesaurus entries.
- Added: Examples.
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 4.0.1774 (Nov 18, 2010)
- New:
- One-click word capture; Mouse-driven library (implementation + options).
- Implementation of the word list tool (GUI + algorithms + options).
- Word list operations (union, intersection,...), import/export, etc.
- Multiple selection in wildcard/anagram result tabs + context menu to save to word list/clipboard/etc.
- Multiple selection in similarity tool result tabs + context menu to save to word list/clipboard/etc.
- Multiple selection in phonetic search tool result tabs + context menu to save to word list/clipboard/etc.
- Greedy antonym search option for Lookup tool (algorithm + GUI). Triples the amount of antonyms returned.
- Greedy antonym search option for Semantic similarity tool (algorithm + GUI).
- Option to start/stop the (random) animation of TheSage's system tray icon.
- Detection of all Windows OS versions on the market plus some additional data (About dialog, System Information tab).
- Chronological and alphabetical list for history tool (implementation + options).
- Copy entire lookup to the clipboard.
- Copy entire thesaurus entry to the clipboard.
- Copy all definitions of a part of speech to the clipboard.
- Option to ignore anagrams smaller than user-defined number of characters.
- Option to ignore acronyms in Anagram search.
- Option to purge history of duplicates.
- Wildcard search option to automatically detect search patterns in lookup entry field if [ENTER] pressed.
- "Private release" tab in About dialog as well as small modifications in Splash page (added clickety).
- Changed:
- Small reorganization of pages related to the Lookup tool in the Options dialog.
- Anagram algorithm now searches for largest anagrams rather than alphabetically nearest in index.
- Wildcard and anagram tools have their own pages in the Options dialog.
- Middle-click on the Lookup search box, the box is cleared before pasting the clipboard contents and triggering a lookup
- Update dialog modifications to work with new versioning system.
- Update dialog now announces private releases to alert donors.
- About dialog now includes release type (public vs private).
- Documentation update.
- Fixed:
- Typo in lookup tree context menu.
- Calling up the documentation form the Options dialog failed on some browsers' new versions.
- Concordancers failed to carry out lookups when multiple lemmas were listed.
- If a default installation is detected, the history and search pattern files are now placed in the user's [application data] directory. Also, TheSage now automatically relocates these files if they were misplaced by an earlier version of TheSage.
- The 'Apply' button became permanently enabled on certain occasions.
- Depending on which tool's appearance was affected, the 'Apply' button was not enabled after selecting a default font.
- In an extremely rare case, the lookup queue was not processed entirely.
- Database:
- Added: Transcriptions, Definitions, Thesaurus entries, Examples
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.8.1770 (Nov 18, 2010)
- Changed:
- "Support" tab in About dialog (remove PayPal link)
- Database:
- Added Transcriptions, Definitions, Thesaurus entries, Examples
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.7.1766 (Nov 18, 2010)
- New:
- Middle-click on the Lookup search box triggers a "Paste and Go", that is, paste clipboard contents and lookup.
- Database:
- Added Transcriptions, Definitions, Thesaurus entries, Examples
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.6.1764 (Nov 18, 2010)
- Changed:
- Improve speed performance of Wildcard search
- Improve speed performance of Definition/example searches
- Database:
- Added Transcriptions, Definitions, Thesaurus entries, Examples
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.5.1762 (Nov 18, 2010)
- Changed:
- Improve speed performance of Lookup search
- Improve speed performance of Phonetic search
- Improve speed performance of Anagram search
- Database:
- Added Transcriptions, Definitions, Thesaurus entries, Examples
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.4.1760 (Nov 18, 2010)
- New:
- Interface to faster, learner, meaner database format
- Database:
- Faster, learner, meaner database format.
- Added Transcriptions, Definitions, Thesaurus entries, Examples
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.3.1758 (Nov 18, 2010)
- Fixed:
- Small memory leaks (24 bytes) in GDI.
- Small memory leak freeing library module.
- Corrected spelling/typo errors in Changelog.
- Database:
- Added Transcriptions
- Added Definitions
- Added Thesaurus entries
- Added Examples
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.2.1752 (Nov 18, 2010)
- Fixed:
- In some cases, duplicates were included among thesaurus results.
- Changed: Versioning system. The first number will refer to major feature upgrade, the second to other upgrades (minor features, fixes, changes), and the third to betas (which will continue to be absent from this Changelog). Thus, when releasing, the third number now will stand for the database version.
- Database:
- Added Transcriptions.
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.1.2.1746 (Nov 18, 2010)
- Database:
- Added Transcriptions
- Added Definitions
- Added Thesaurus entries
- Added Examples
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.1.2.1744 (Nov 18, 2010)
- Fixed:
- 'Check for updates' did not function properly if it had previously failed to connect.
- Changed:
- (Vista only) If installed in the [Program Files] directory with UAC enabled, all sorts of kooky behaviour affected the saving of settings, history, etc. These files are now saved to the user's [AppData] directory.
- Other installs are unaffected and TheSage remains fully portable.
- Database:
- Added Transcriptions
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.1.1.1742 (Jan 7, 2009)
- Fixed: Kooky behaviour when a previous instance is running (only affected the termination of the second instance).
- Fixed: Erratic crash on some machines caused by invoking the Lookup search box context-menu right after starting TheSage.
- New: Lookup search box steals focus after a database operation.
- Changed: (Installer for Vista only) Requires admin level for UAC.
- Database:
- Added: Transcriptions.
- Added: Definitions.
- Added: Thesaurus entries.
- Added: Examples.
New in TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.1.0.1740 (Jan 5, 2009)
- New: Documentation.
- Database:
- Added: Transcriptions.
- Added: Definitions.
- Added: Thesaurus entries.
- Added: Examples.