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WeatherMate Changelog

What's new in WeatherMate 4.21

Apr 23, 2023
  • Bug fixes:
  • Forecasts were not available.

New in WeatherMate 4.20 (Jan 8, 2023)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Current conditions for some locations in Germany and India weren't available.

New in WeatherMate 4.19 (Dec 20, 2022)

  • Weather forecasts for several US locations were sometimes not available.
  • Reported 2022.12.19 by Jim T, Dennis, Dennis' aunt
  • When selecting a language other than English, weather forecasts sometimes contain unrecognizable text.
  • Reported 2022.08.06 by Jean Pilier
  • The application would sometimes crash with an "Incompatible security protocol" error when running on Windows 7.
  • Reported 2022.08.06 by Ricardo Thompson

New in WeatherMate 4.18 (Jul 31, 2022)

  • Bug fixes:
  • The application would sometimes freeze while updating its weather retrieval progress.
  • Current conditions, weather forecasts and severe weather alerts were incorrect for some locations.
  • The application would sometimes crash with an "Incompatible security protocol" error.

New in WeatherMate 4.17 (Jul 21, 2022)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Incorrect sunset and sunrise times were displayed for some locations.
  • Incorrect current conditions and severe weather alerts were displayed for some locations.

New in WeatherMate 4.16 (Jul 18, 2022)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Current conditions and severe weather alerts for Sheffield, Tasmania were being displayed for Sheffield, UK.
  • The application would sometimes crash when a severe weather alert had just been cleared.
  • The application would sometimes crash when the computer was awakened.
  • Reported 2021.07.17 by several users

New in WeatherMate 4.15 (Jul 16, 2022)

  • Enhancements:
  • Implemented ability to display times in 24 hour clock.
  • Severe weather alerts are now available in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
  • Bug fixes:
  • The current conditions were sometimes not displayed.
  • Severe weather alerts were not displayed.
  • Restored display of radar images (wide-region only) for US location maps.
  • Restored animated radar images for non-US locations.

New in WeatherMate 4.14 (Oct 3, 2020)

  • The current conditions could not be displayed on some PCs running Windows 7.

New in WeatherMate 4.13 (Aug 2, 2020)

  • Bug fixes:
  • The current conditions could not be displayed.
  • On some PCs, the application would sometimes crash with the error "A generic error occurred in GDI+".

New in WeatherMate 4.12 (Jul 12, 2020)

  • Bug fixes:
  • The current conditions could not be displayed.
  • A new installation of WeatherMate no longer hides the application's main window by default.

New in WeatherMate 4.11 (Oct 13, 2019)

  • Bug fixes:
  • WeatherMate no longer displays the "(403) Forbidden" error message.
  • WeatherMate no longer displays the message "A shortcut couldn't be created on this version of Windows."

New in WeatherMate 4.10 (Apr 1, 2018)

  • Enhancements:
  • Reinstated display of radar images and US maps.
  • Increased the number of locations from 50K to 1M.

New in WeatherMate 4.9 (Jan 30, 2017)

  • Enhancements:
  • Improved the performance of weather information retrieval.

New in WeatherMate 4.8 (Aug 30, 2016)

  • Bug fixes:
  • On some PCs, clicking the severe weather alert link fails with the error "WeatherMate was unable to open the default web browser. Please check your browser settings.". Really fixed this time!

New in WeatherMate 4.7 (Aug 29, 2016)

  • Bug fixes:
  • On some PCs, clicking the severe weather alert link fails with the error "WeatherMate was unable to find the application to open this document."

New in WeatherMate 4.6 (May 30, 2016)

  • Enhancements:
  • Improved the performance of radar image and US map retrieval.
  • Bug fixes:
  • On some PCs, exiting WeatherMate caused the WeatherMate settings file to be unreadable when the application was restarted.

New in WeatherMate 4.5 (May 30, 2016)

  • Enhancements:
  • On older Windows systems, if WeatherMate was prevented from creating a desktop shortcut, the message displayed when this happened required it to be manually dismissed. Now, the message automatically disappears after 10 seconds
  • Bug fixes:
  • Radar images and US weather condition maps were sometimes not available
  • Metric long descriptions of forecasts for Tonight and Tomorrow Night specified wind speeds in mph instead of kph
  • Changes to the metric units and auto-hide modes were sometimes not saved

New in WeatherMate 4.4 (Mar 21, 2016)

  • Bug fixes:
  • WeatherMate would sometimes crash with a "Parameter is not valid" exception.
  • If a radar animation sequence isn't available for a location, the location's base radar image is used. Previously, no radar image was being shown for that location.
  • The application would sometimes crash when adding more than 6 locations.
  • Selecting some locations in Mexico (e.g. Tijuana) would cause the application to crash.

New in WeatherMate 4.3 (Apr 14, 2015)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added an option to allow the splash screen to be moved to the lower right corner if it takes a long time for WeatherMate to perform the initial retrieval of weather information.
  • Bug fixes:
  • WeatherMate now displays an error message (instead of crashing) if the computer's speech settings prevent the application from speaking the weather.
  • The application crashes on some systems when updating the weather when there's no severe weather alert indicated for the current location.
  • WeatherMate's position switches to "Custom" when the system wakes up from sleep mode. (This bug continues to exist when WeatherMate is not displayed on the primary monitor.)

New in WeatherMate 4.2 (Mar 23, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • On Windows XP systems, the application crashes when attempting to create a shortcut on the desktop or in the Start menu's Startup folder.
  • The application's up time (in the "About" window) is invalid on WinXP systems.
  • Fixed intermittent network connectivity issues.

New in WeatherMate 4.1 (Mar 16, 2015)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added button to hide WeatherMate so that it only runs in the system tray.
  • Double-clicking the system tray icon hides/reveals the WeatherMate window.
  • Added option to start WeatherMate with Windows.
  • Added option to speak the weather for the selected, first or all locations.
  • Reduced time taken to retrieve weather information.
  • Added indicator to inform user that unseen severe weather alerts exist. Clicking the indicator displays the location with the alert.
  • Severe weather alert text tooltip now displays the detailed description of the alert.
  • Location tab displays the full location name in a tooltip.
  • Added timestamp to error log filename.
  • Installer improvements
  • Installer now creates a desktop shortcut.
  • Installer now verifies that the installation folder can be written to.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed crashes that occur when
  • Application is installed in a folder to which it doesn't have write access.
  • A null reference exception is thrown at WeatherInfoControl.cs:221 and DlgWeatherMate.cs:1558.
  • The system tray icon's tooltip is too long.
  • The application is unable to retrieve the list of voices in the Settings | Speech options.
  • No application is associated with the .html extension.
  • The user attempts to add a seventh location.
  • Corrected/added radar maps for US states: DE, FL, ID, IL.
  • Fixed inability to use default proxy when connecting to the internet.
  • "Today" and "Day by day" forecast text now displays tooltips without requiring WeatherMate to be the active application.
  • The "Always show temperature of first location in system tray icon" option did not work.
  • Reduced memory consumption (worked around nasty .NET PictureBox memory leak).
  • Installer wouldn't allow installation to be cancelled at the folder selection step.

New in WeatherMate 4.0 (Mar 5, 2015)

  • Enhancements:
  • Rewrote the application from scratch.
  • Application is now 100% portable (can run off a USB stick).
  • Greatly improved performance of weather retrieval.
  • Weekly summary forecast includes detailed forecast in tooltips.
  • Selectable radar map detail for many US locations.
  • Application now displays severe weather alerts.
  • Application now displays additional US weather maps.
  • Application's window can be widend to show large radar images and maps.
  • Weather can be displayed in English, French, German, Spanish or Italian.
  • Fast switching between US and metric units.
  • Application can check for new versions and update itself in place.

New in WeatherMate 3.4.6 (Nov 19, 2012)

  • Bug fixes:
  • WeatherMate was unable to display radar images for locations in Brazil due to changes at The Weather Channel.
  • WeatherMate would erroneously indicate a new version of the application was available, when in fact it wasn't.

New in WeatherMate 3.4.5 (Nov 6, 2012)

  • WeatherMate was unable to display radar images for some US locations due to changes at The Weather Channel. Radar images are now displayed.

New in WeatherMate 3.4.4 (Mar 28, 2011)

  • Bug fixes:
  • WeatherMate was unable to display radar images for some European locations due to changes at The Weather Channel. Radar images are now displayed.

New in WeatherMate 3.4.3 (Mar 16, 2011)

  • WeatherMate was unable to display radar images for US locations due to changes at The Weather Channel. Radar images are now displayed.

New in WeatherMate 3.4.2 (Mar 27, 2010)

  • WeatherMate was unable to display radar images for several European locations due to changes at The Weather Channel. Radar images are now displayed.

New in WeatherMate 3.4.1 (Jan 25, 2010)

  • Bug fixes:
  • The icon in the Current Conditions section was not displayed for some locations. The icon is now displayed for all locations.
  • Enhancement:
  • Improved data retrieval performance.

New in WeatherMate 3.4 (Nov 20, 2009)

  • Bug fixes:
  • WeatherMate was unable to display current conditions due to changes at The Weather Channel. Current conditions are now displayed.

New in WeatherMate 3.3.4 (Jul 10, 2008)

  • WeatherMate was unable to display radar images due to changes at The Weather Channel. Radar images are now displayed.
  • Improved performance of radar image retrieval.

New in WeatherMate 3.3.3 (Jun 17, 2008)

  • WeatherMate was unable to display radar images due to changes at The Weather Channel. Radar images are now displayed.

New in WeatherMate 3.3 (Mar 24, 2008)

  • Bug fix:
  • Changes at The Weather Channel prevented WeatherMate from sometimes displaying current conditions.
  • Enhancement:
  • Added option to always display temperature of first (instead of selected) location in system tray icon.

New in WeatherMate 3.2 (Feb 11, 2008)

  • WeatherMate would sometimes hang if a location's radar image was not available.
  • WeatherMate now displays an appropriate informational graphic in place of the missing image.

New in WeatherMate 3.1.1 (Nov 9, 2007)

  • WeatherMate's static radar image showed the first (i.e. oldest) frame of the animation sequence, instead of the last (i.e. latest) one.

New in WeatherMate 3.1 (Nov 5, 2007)

  • Changes at The Weather Channel temporarily prevented WeatherMate from displaying radar images.

New in WeatherMate 3.0 (Sep 8, 2007)

  • WeatherMate would sometimes display spurious text after the icon in the current conditions area. This no longer happens.

New in WeatherMate 2.9 (Jul 11, 2007)

  • Added the ability to speak the weather.
  • Implemented "Check for new version" feature.
  • Speeded up the retrieval of weather information.
  • Updated the list of available locations.
  • Added support for up to 32 locations.
  • Added a "Locations" button to the WeatherMate window.
  • Added display selection menu items to the "Options" menu.
  • Made the WeatherMate Settings window easier to use.

New in WeatherMate 2.8 (Apr 4, 2007)

  • A change in the format of The Weather Channel's data feed would cause WeatherMate to sometimes lock up and crash on startup. This no longer happens.