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Help Desk v 6.2.4
released 1/30/2012
  • SMS notifications (for US hosted users only).
  • KB fixes and improvements, better performance. Added attachments for KB articles, stripped BBCode in previews
  • Custom fields fixes and UX improvements
  • Saving sorting direction in the tickets grid (ascending \ descending)
  • New setting "Always notify administrators about new tickets"
  • "Comment and close" button in the ticket view
  • Lots of improvements in mail sub-system: fixed body loss in some languages, added loop prevention, fixed messages duplication
  • Double mail-checker interval after 5 errors in a row, not in 3 like before
  • Gmail web-interface now shows HTML-version of a message
Help Desk v 6.2.3
released 1/18/2012
  • Fixed "The member CompanyID of type System.Object cannot be used as a parameter value" error
  • Assets improvements
  • Categories tree - always shows all categories
  • Showing correct tag numbers in the tickets list
  • Tables support in wysiwyg editor
  • "Invalid cast" error fix
  • New-ticket page Windows-auth fix
  • KB redesign
  • Hosted version improvements
  • No notification for KB-only ticket creation
  • Added tag 6.2.3 for changeset 9bede495563b
Help Desk v 6.2.1
released 1/7/2012
  • Source codes license fixes
  • Updated translations. Fixed user-popup in Firefox (encoding bug)
  • POP email module fixed (using an improved component)
  • Helpdesk now has a RESTful web-service for external app integration
  • Updated manual (API docs)
  • Performance improvements
  • Ticket-tagging improved
  • KB tag editor
  • "Close ticket" button moved to the right, after custom ticket status buttons
  • Minor UI tuneups
  • No more Ssl certificate validation errors or POP and IMAP
  • Ticket-list date sorting fixed for 12-hours clock regions
  • Search-box searches for username/email as well
  • Showing thumbnails for image-attachments in tickets
  • Client-side caching improvements for attachments and thumbnails
  • Double-click comments fix
Help Desk v 6.2.0
released 12/24/2011
  • Mail-checker fixes and improvements
  • Datetime error on German locales fixed
  • Status filter fixed
  • General UI improvements
  • Quoted emails finder improvements
  • Redirecting merged tickets
  • Added "company" field to CSV import
  • Order tags in the sidebar
  • Login problems on iPhone fixed
  • Techs-only comments via email, closing ticket via email - improved
  • Fancy html emails, updated default email templates
  • IMAP fixes
  • Advanced tooltip when clicking on a user in a ticket: phone, ip, etc, prev tickets and the "view full profile" link
  • Processing only 5 messages at a time, timeout settings for IMAP mailboxes
  • Updated translations
  • Alphabetic sort for comment templates list, other template fixes
  • New jQuery 1.7.1
  • Removed "do you wanna take over the ticket" alert
  • Added plain text emails part (to fix email display on Blackberries etc
  • Search fixes
  • Inline Ticket editing
  • Lots of performance issues fixed
  • Showing similar tickets from KB, comparing by subj
  • Ticket-Escalator improvements
Help Desk v 6.1.9
released 11/26/2011
  • Fixed JS error in report-summary
  • Showing tags in the Knowledge-base (both list and ticket)
  • "Save as" filename for image attachments
  • No tags for non-techs on new-ticket form, light redesign
  • Showing file date, performance improvements
  • Welcome ticket on the first run
  • Lots of visual improvements
  • Deleting tickets from grid fixes
  • Source-codes version improvements (updated Visual Studio project file)
  • User-autocomplete now searches email as well
  • Correct company-name in the email-templates
  • Updated manual (CRM integration)
  • Cross-page user sorting
  • Remembering the sort order in the ticket list
  • Resetting stats-cache when closing tickets
  • Added "#ticket#" tag to message subj on ticket forwarding
  • Date sorting is Search
  • Fixed - "techsonly" notes were sometimes sent to regular users
  • New comment-templates manager, names for comment templates
  • Slow typing on iPhones/iPads fixed
Help Desk v 6.1.8
released 11/9/2011
  • Search UI redesigned
  • Search performance improvements
  • Old IE-versions support improved
  • AD_integration improvements and fixes
  • Simpler KB design
  • Auto-update in the tickets list
  • Many other improvements
Help Desk v 6.1.7
released 10/27/2011
  • Fast-search box on the top
  • Lots of visual improvements
  • LOTS of minor improvements and bug fixes
  • Support-widget fixes
  • Tags-list on the home page
Help Desk v 6.1.6
released 10/13/2011
  • Fixed mail-importer errors that prevented importing emails in some cases
  • Fixed the suggestion-box when changing the "from" user on the ticket page
Help Desk v 6.1.5
released 10/10/2011
  • Ticket tags
  • Lots of more visual improvements
  • Performance improvements (e.g the ticket list's database backend is now 2 times faster)
  • Lots of minor fixes and improvements
  • New setting - "disable avatars"
Help Desk v 6.1.4
released 10/2/2011
  • Fixed a minor error with the user-editing form
Help Desk v 6.1.3
released 9/30/2011
  • LOTS of visual improvements
  • User-avatars (via Gravatar)
  • Mail-importer fixes (filtering out-of-office replies, notification issues)
  • Showing email in the users list
  • Improved subscriber editing
  • Lots of minor fixes
Help Desk v 6.1.2
released 9/19/2011
  • Source code version improvements (solution file)
  • Some design-improvements on the Users page in the Admin panel
  • "Sync all users from AD" feature
  • Now a ticket does NOT change its status to "in progress" when a tech is assigned
  • Ticket-followers are now controlled by checkboxes, better usability
  • JavaScript fixes on the "new ticket" page
  • Nice "recent comments" rendering in email templates
  • More "readable" default email templates
  • Searching by ticket-ID now redirects to a ticket page right away
Help Desk v 6.1.1
released 9/17/2011
  • sorting now work after clicking "more" link
  • Fixed assigning techs
  • Time-tracker fixes, tickets-list fixes
  • Changing ticket's user - suggestion box instead of the drop down
  • Hosted version improvements
  • Custom fields fixes
  • Lots of minor fixes
  • Date custom fileds now allow range search
  • Better charts
  • Improved search
  • Visual improvements
  • Nice warning message when closing a support ticket with unset mandatory fields
  • Showing company names in user-suggestion boxes
  • Helpdesk reports improved
  • Emailing the tech's name when submitting a ticket "on behalf"
  • Lots of visual improvements, logout/login buttons
Help Desk v 6.1.0
released 8/31/2011
  • Due-date sorting fixes
  • Email settings moved to a separate admin page to optimize and simplify UI
  • Lots of UI improvements (better design, CSS3 features - shadows, rounded corners)
  • Messages from ticket-technician have different background for better readability
  • Separate email templates for "new ticket" message and updates to existing tickets
  • When submitting a support ticket "on-behalf" - user search box replaces simple drop-down
  • Search-results page now also allows deleting, linking tickets
  • Performance improvements (esp. the mail-checker thread)
  • Mail-importing fixes - no more adding extra line-breaks
  • Attachments are now sorted by filename
  • Lots of minor improvements
Help Desk v 6.0.9
released 8/11/2011
  • Minor fixes
  • Ticket page visual fixes
  • WYSIWYG-editor fixes (JavaScript)
Help Desk v 6.0.7
released 7/29/2011
  • New setting Users from same company can see each other's tickets
  • Lots of design improvements
  • Translation improvements
  • "http" is now parsed in custom fields and rendered as links
  • Summary report daes are now saved in cookies
Help Desk v 6.0.6
released 7/7/2011
  • Fewer trial version restrictions
  • Improved search page
  • Performance improvements for the email-importing module
  • Multiple file attachments
  • Custom fields in the "summary report" shown correctly
  • User's company is now synced from AD as well
  • UI improvements onthe ticket page
Help Desk v 6.0.4
released 6/20/2011
  • Improved error handler in email-importer
  • Number of "Recently viewed" tickets increased to 10
  • JavaScript editor fixes (when pasting from Apple-Mail and Outlook)
  • Slightly improved UI
Help Desk v 6.0.3
released 6/16/2011
  • Minor Firefox CSS fixes for the "new ticket" button
Help Desk v 6.0.2
released 6/15/2011
  • JavaScript fixes when adding a comment
  • Email-notifications issues resolved (sometime when a ticket is unassigned, the technician did not get email notifications)
  • Translation improvements
  • General minor improvements
Help Desk v 6.0.1
released 6/14/2011
  • Simpler, improved interface, "Tickets" page is not the default page of the helpdesk app
  • "Unanswered tickets" filter - main technician's dashboard
  • Precise support time tracking - hours : minutes : seconds.
  • Automatic time tracking - a loggable stopwatch starts every time you open a support ticket
  • "Techs only" filter in the users list
  • Some SQL 2000 compatibility issues resolved (though we do not officially support SQL Server 2000)
  • Performance improvements
  • Attachments in incoming email-notifications - fixes and improvements
  • Category filter in the "dynamics" report
  • UI fixes on the ticket page, AJAX fixes (comments box was erased if you click some other button etc etc.)
Help Desk v 5.5.3
released 5/29/2011
  • Fixed sending attachments in helpdesk emails
  • Lots of web-interface fixes and improvements
  • Multipage user deletion fixed
  • Escalation notes do not mess-up the "updated by" fields any more. Also, ticket-updates by non-technicians and non-submitters do not touch the "last updated" field any more.
  • User-creation improvements
  • Ticket-sorting fixes
Help Desk v 5.5.2
released 5/5/2011
  • iPhone/iPad minor fixes when working with comments
  • Fixed saving the "User From-Name" setting to DB
  • Other minor fixes
Help Desk v 5.5.1
released 5/1/2011
  • Ctrl+Enter fix
  • Some more visual improvements
Help Desk v 5.5.0
released 5/1/2011
  • .NET 4.0 (check the upgrade notes)
  • Improved incoming email module (embedded images processing)
  • Visual improvements
  • Files are now attached to particular comments (not just tickets) and sent out with notifications emails
  • Assets are now visible to technicians (not just admins)
  • Due date field for tickets
  • Many minor fixed in both UI and business-logic
Help Desk v 5.4.10
released 4/10/2011
  • Improved & simplified category selector on the ticket-submission page
  • Fixed in the email importing engine
  • Improved helpdesk reports and knowledge-base
  • Improved ticket search (searching in multiple helpdesk-categories)
  • Ticket-page is now fully AJAX-ed (assigning tickets, changing category, submitter, etc)
  • CRM-integration fixes
  • New template "#Most_recent_message#"
  • Security improvements
  • Other improvements through the help desk software
Help Desk v 5.4.7
released 4/1/2011
  • "More" button fixes
  • Adding subscribers fixed
  • Company column in summary report
  • JavaScript fixed on the ticket page (WYSIWYG editor fieed, suggestions engine)
  • Performance improvements
  • Security improvements
  • Confirmation on the "close" button when clsing a "new" ticket by submitter
  • Lots of minor fixes
Help Desk v 5.4.6
released 3/22/2011
  • Jitbit CRM integration
  • List of companies in the system - in the admin panel
  • UI-design improvements (shadows)
  • New setting: "don't send escalation note to ticket submitter"
  • Lots of minor fixes
Help Desk v 5.4.5
released 3/16/2011
  • Trial version fixes
  • Minor UI-improvements, translation improvements
Help Desk v 5.4.4
released 3/12/2011
  • Companies report
  • Javascript fixed for the ticket page
  • Lots of huge performance improvements
  • No auto-closing tickets in custom statuses
  • Translation improvements
  • IMAP support
  • "last updated" date fixed
  • Correct handling of multiple "to" in incoming support emails
  • Server-time-offset fixes
  • Company name can now be added to email templates
  • Safari compatibility issues
  • clearing custom field values when changing its type to "selectioncombo"
  • BBCode parser improvements ([code])
  • High-priority incoming email result in a high-priority ticket
  • Fixed mandatory fields check when closing
  • Showing section in summary report
Help Desk v 5.4.3
released 2/16/2011
  • Fixed filename when downloading attachments
  • Per-user language setting (in addition to the global setting)
Help Desk v 5.4.2
released 2/13/2011
  • When ticket is assigned to a tech, status changes to "in-process" only if it was "new"
  • No email notification when ticket is re-opened via sending an email
  • Security improvements
  • Admins can now set user passwords
  • Saved replies (templates) are now appended to the text, instead of overwriting
  • Performance improvements, SQL-upgrade script improvements (backward compatibility with really OLD versions)
  • New-ticket page fixes (validation errors)
  • Support widget iPad/iPhone issues fixed
  • "Ticket has been taken" message is now posted on behalf of the helpdesk technician
  • When the help desk receives an email with CC-addresses in it - it adds them to the newly created ticket as "subscribers"
  • Auto-closing inactive tickets after X days
  • Performance improvements
  • CSV user import
  • Logging users IP addresses for agents convenience
  • User assets are now shown on his profile page
  • Help Desk v 5.4.0
    released 1/24/2011
    • Fixed the dynamics report error
    • Fixed redirecting to tickets list after closing
    • Helpdesk now keeps track of merged tickets, so no emails are left behind
    Help Desk v 5.3.9
    released 1/23/2011
    • Improved new ticket notification format
    • Merge tickets improvements
    • Dynamics report correctly processes the ticket close date
    • Technicians report improvements
    • Closing a ticket redirects to the ticket list now
    • User search
    • Paging in the admin area users list
    Help Desk v 5.3.8
    released 1/19/2011
    • More improvements in the quoted-emails parser
    • Removed confirmation on closing a ticket
    • Translation improvements
    • Removed the full-trust setting from web.config
    Help Desk v 5.3.7
    released 1/17/2011
    • More improvements in the quoted-emails parser
    • Medium-trust improvements
    • New feature: removing subscribers from tickets. Some improvements when adding subscribers
    Help Desk v 5.3.6
    released 1/12/2011
    • Says "today" for current date events
    • Improved quoted-text remover in the email-checker
    • New feature - "hide comment from the Knowledge Base"
    • Minor helpdesk UI-improvements
    • New settings "disable assets"
    • If a file attachment is being added via email - a notification is also being sent
    • Ticket page now uses AJAX and comes with improved performance
    • When adding comment, it's not being "re-added" to the "recent ticket comments" section of the notifications email
    • Occasional SQL timeouts in 5.3.5 fixed
    Help Desk v 5.3.5
    released 1/9/2011
    • Minor Spanish translation improvements
    • Improved inline help
    • Fixed the occasional JS-error in the support widget under IE8
    • Fixed editing text-fields on iPad
    • Fixed the rare SQL issue with custom field names
    • No user-registration is sent when user is auto-created from the incoming email
    • Recent ticket history sent in the notifications formatted to look like quotes messages
    • Many general improvements
    • Fixed POP-email checker stops after being idle
    • Tickets list is now sorted by "last updated" by default - most recent tickets on top
    • Ctrl+Enter to add a message
    • Lots of UI-improvements, bigger fonts etc
    • When you add comment to a 'new' unassigned ticket, the helpdesk prompts it you want to take it over
    Help Desk v 5.3.2
    released 12/22/2010
    • Dynamics chart now supports https
    • Hosted version fixes
    • Fixed error when helpdesk app-pool was stopping itself accidentally because of the internal thread error
    Help Desk v 5.3.0
    released 12/21/2010
    • Recurring tickets - now you can schedule a repeating ticket
    • Fixed "potentially dangerous" error when submitting a ticket to the helpdesk
    • After editing a section - now redirects back to the list
    • Section is now shown when adding/removing category-permissions for a helpdesk technician
    • Closing a ticket is now prohibited when there are unset mandatory custom fields
    • Ticket subject now shown in the browser title bar.
    • Sections are now displayed in the email templates
    • Merging tickets
    • Minor fixes
    • Showing a number of tickets on all tabs
    • "Linking" related tickets together. Shown in "related tickets" section when viewing a ticket
    • Custom fields are now included into email notifications
    • Performance improvements for custom fields
    • Fixed editing ticket comments in the Knowledge-Base
    • UI-improvements: removed bold fonts from some headers, tabs etc (to keep users focused on tickets)
    • "Test email settings" button now allows selecting a custom email to send notification to
    • New awesome date-picker
    • New report: "Dynamics" chart shows how many tickets submitted/closed per day
    • Homepage open "recent messages" instead of news for admins/techs
    Help Desk v 5.2.6
    released 11/30/2010
    • Fixed the category-selection error on the "New ticket" page when there's only one section and all categories are in it.
    • Saving category details now redirects to the category list
    Help Desk v 5.2.5
    released 11/29/2010
    • Fixed Google Charts API when working over SSL
    • Fixed the DateTime-error on the homepage in v5.2.4
    Help Desk v 5.2.4
    released 11/29/2010
    • Assets: export to CSV
    • Fixed the "logout bug" when using windows-authentication with Chrome and FireFox
    • Fixed a serious bug with autocomplete user-suggestion box
    Help Desk v 5.2.3
    released 11/26/2010
    • Correct URL in email notifications for custom domains in hosted version
    • Translation improvements
    • Adjustable "Title" of the app
    • Number of tickets initially shown on the page increased to 70
    • Fixed: sorting tickets after clicking the "more" link
    • Shared secret generator (for the autologin feature)
    • Improved ajax category selector on the new-ticket page
    Help Desk v 5.2.2
    released 11/17/2010
    • Fixed error on the tickets list
    • Custom domains for the hosted version
    Help Desk v 5.2.1
    released 11/17/2010
    • Fixed adding subscribers Javascript
    • AJAX "more" button in the tickets list when there's a lot of tickets to show
    • Fixed SSL-issues with POP email checker on 64 bit systems
    Help Desk v 5.2.0
    released 11/10/2010
    • Adding comments to closed tickets (with an "are you sure" confirmation)
    • Minor UI improvements
    • Hosted version POP-checker improvements
    • Category routing for POP-email accounts
    • New admin page design
    • Automatically checks for new versions
    • Fixed adding issues/comments from iPhones/iPads and Androids
    • Company is now shown on the tickets list, clicking the company name show tickets from that company
    • Improved design for the "tickets from user" and "tickets from company" filters
    • Filtering Assets by name and/or location
    Help Desk v 5.1.9
    released 10/30/2010
    • Fixed company-filtered ticket list (tab links)
    • Support for MULTIPLE incoming email-accounts
    • Some visual improvements
    • Fixed reopening a ticket
    Help Desk v 5.1.8
    released 10/29/2010
    • Fixed the "updated by tech" flag right after submitting an issue
    • Fixed the bulk actions error when performed on ALL tickets in the list
    • Time-spent editing permissions
    • Better tracing user "companies" - viewing tickets by company etc. etc.
    • Fixed the "ajaxutils" false error notification
    • Users-autocomplete suggestion list is now sorted alphabetically
    • Email template now renders ticket-submitter fullname (if specified)
    • New-ticket notifications are not sent to techs if this setting is disabled
    • Tech-only comments are not shown on the homepage "recent messages" section
    • Source codes converted to VS 2010 format
    • Fixed: submitting tickets straight to the Knowledge Base
    • Added user export to CSV
    • Custom fields are now displayed on the ticket-print page
    • Can now print tickets right from the Knowledge base
    Help Desk v 5.1.6
    released 9/26/2010
    • Deleting ticket improved (performance issues)
    • "Recent messages" list on the homepage now does not show closed tickets to save space
    • BBCode parser now supports the [font] tag that can be used for editing the email templates
    • Search can find tickets by ID by entering the ID right into the search field
    • Improved email-checker - does not stop after the server has been idle for some time
    • Minor notifications-engine improvements
    • Ajax-based priority changer, more ajax-improvements when editing a ticket
    • Tickets "last-updated" field now corresponds with "server time offset"
    • Working with tickets right from the "tickets" list - assign to techs, change priority
    • Improved installer, updated manual, new, simpler database version upgrade procedure
    • Russian language
    Help Desk v 5.1.5
    released 9/5/2010
    • Incoming email HTML-parser improvements
    • Correct "ticket hours spent" validation for non-US cultures
    • The "today/tomorrow/yesterday" splitter now works with server time offset correctly
    • Recent updates area added to the homepage
    • A default "new ticket" message is not added to a ticket when it's created
    • Fixed a small error when clicking "take" button
    Help Desk v 5.1.3
    released 8/29/2010
    • Improved installer
    • Priority filter in the ticket report
    • Numbered list support in the WYSIWYG editor
    • Saving answer-templates aka "canned responses" for tickets
    • AD-sync improvements, new button "sync this user from AD" on the user page
    Help Desk v 5.1.2
    released 8/2/2010
    • Disabled users are not shown when submitting a ticket "on behalf"
    • Incoming email parser improvements
    Help Desk v 5.1.0
    released 8/1/2010
    • Improved the user-suggestion box when adding a ticket subscriber
    • Disabling a user now works even with Widows-authentication enabled
    • Visually improved rich-text editor
    • BBCode engine optimizations
    Help Desk v 5.0.9
    released 7/23/2010
    • Fixed comment line-feed issue in Firefox/Chrome/Safari
    • Fixed the ticket comment-editor
    • New option "disable the close-ticket notification"
    • The rich-text editor now auto-resizes itself when typing text - in the new ticket submission form & ticket commenting window
    • User-creation modules improved (when used with windows-authentication)
    • After changing the ticket category, a notification is not sent anymore if there's a technician assigned to a ticket
    • Setting/removing the "techs only" flag when editing a comment
    Help Desk v 5.0.8
    released 7/11/2010
    • Improved bounce-emails filter
    • Attaching a file with the same name overwrites it
    • Adding comments to a tickt is now asynchronous (AJAX)
    • New feature: deleting a comment from a ticket
    • Report diagrams now show numbers in the legend
    • Improved incoming emails MIME parser
    • Fixed: custom status buttons shown to administrators and techs only
    • Fixed: if an incoming email contains an link - it's saved correctly in the system
    • Active category/section is no highlighted in the tree on the "tickets" page and knowledge-base
    • "Check availability" link when registering a new helpdesk user
    • Other minor improvements
    Help Desk v 5.0.7
    released 6/25/2010
    • Section name shown in the ticket list
    • Improved "tree" in the list
    • Some Chrome/Safari improvements
    • Fixed the non-latin cheracters in the subject of outgooing email notifications
    • Lots of minor improvements
    • Email notification about a file attachment now contains a link to the file
    • No more notification about a file deletion
    • Improved incoming emails parser - efficiently removes quoted messages
    Help Desk v 5.0.5
    released 6/20/2010
    • Improved custom helpdesk ticket status deletion
    • Ticket section is now displayed on the ticket page
    • Some CSS improvements
    • Fixed the auto-focusing on the new comment box in Opera, Safari and Chrome browsers
    • Fixed saving the SMTP/POP passwords after testing them
    • Fixed the "ticket updated by user/tech" icons
    • Fixed validation error when editing a message in the log
    • Enabling/Disabling users
    • "Techs-only" comments are not being sent in the "recent messages" notification emails
    • Improved helpdesk user registration engine
    • Minor visual improvements
    • Fixed double line-feed in the ticket wysiwyg editor in Chrom, Safari and other webkit-based browsers
    • Incoming email-2-ticket parser improvements
    • Improveed default email template
    Help Desk v 5.0.4
    released 6/9/2010
    • Email-sender improvements
    Help Desk v 5.0.3
    released 6/8/2010
    • Fixed custom status deletion
    • The ticket subject is now limited to 100 characters, not 40
    • Fixed incoming emails checker
    Help Desk v 5.0.1
    released 6/6/2010
    • Fixed: rare error when adding subscribers to a ticket
    • Fixed: disabling the knowledge-base now also removes it from the dashboard
    • Fixed: "Out-of-memory" error when showing really bug tickets (50k+ text).
    • Customizing the menu-tab text color
    • Correct "Updated by tech/customer" flagging when attaching/removing a file to/from a ticket
    • Improved email engine and "test SMTP" button
    • Correct log message when removing a file from a ticket
    • Administrators can now remove any file attachments from any ticket
    • Minor disabling-escalations issues fixed
    • Improved GUI - better icons on the main page etc
    Help Desk v 4.9.7
    released 5/20/2010
    • Major email-module improvements, fixed a bug that prevented sending message-log updates under some conditions
    • Some usability improvements on the user editor forms
    Help Desk v 4.9.6
    released 5/19/2010
    • Some bug fixes in the email notification module
    Help Desk v 4.9.5
    released 5/17/2010
    • Slightly improved knowledge-base interface
    • Fixed email sending module ("loop" protection)
    • Improved "update by tech" ticket flagging
    • Fixed adding the unneeded "arrow" when the comment is addressed to all "ticket subscribers"
    • Fixed the default sorting issue with IE8
    Help Desk v 4.9.4
    released 5/11/2010
    • New setting - "Disable Knowledge-base"
    • Status filter in the summary report
    • Fixed date-time parse error in the summary report
    • Slightly improved UI of the assets and reports pages
    Help Desk v 4.9.3
    released 5/7/2010
    • Correct news rendering at the home page
    • Custom fields date sorting
    • Improved escalation engine: "smart" algorythm that prevents spamming
    • Improved HTML-markup for webkit-based browsers compatibility (Chrome, Safari)
    • Mail-checker improvements (turns off after 5 fail attempts)
    • Mail-sender improvements (bcc-engine)
    • Improved manual
    • Improved homepage
    • "Recently viewed tickets" dropdown
    • Fixed report Excel-export for non-english characters
    • Better charting in the summary report (using Google Charts engine)
    • Some fixes for Webkit-based browsers
    • Default category can now be set to an empty value
    • New asset attributes - "Serial Number", "Location", "Comments"
    • Summary report can now be based on a custom field
    • Many other improvements
    Help Desk v 4.9.1
    released 4/14/2010
    • Finally fixed custom fields date sorting
    • Manually added subscribers can leave comments on the ticket
    • Fixed https-warnings on sortable pages
    Help Desk v 4.9.0
    released 4/13/2010
    • Minor fixes
    • Hosted version SSL improvements
    • Email-sending module improvements it now works through CDONTS, instead of .NET-builtin smtp-support which has known bugs confirmed by Microsoft
    • Admin panel - improved custom-status deletion
    • Fixed: re-opening a ticket
    • Fixed: subscriber permissions - when a subscriber added to a ticket, he receives permissions to open the ticket and post replies etc.
    • Hosted version improvements (instance name check)
    • Fixed: Email template processing (latest messages)
    • Minor ticket updates (re-open ticket or change category) is now emailed to technicians only
    • Clickable Sections in the Knowledge-Base tree navigation
    • Improved date sorting in the lists
    Help Desk v 4.8.2
    released 4/3/2010
    • WYSIWYG editor improvements
    • HTML email notifications (optional)
    • Mandatory custom fields option
    • Custom fields custom sorting
    • Performance improvements
    • UI improvements
    • Fixed error when viewing custom fields ticket under non-admin account
    • Fixed email-sending latencies when creating a new user
    Help Desk v 4.7.1
    released 3/26/2010
    • Improved asset deletion procedure
    • Some IE7 compatibility issues fixed
    • Restored TicketID in the ticket list
    • Minor improvements
    • Sections are now clickable in the tree
    Help Desk v 4.7.0
    released 3/25/2010
    • Asset management
    • Proper redirection after logging in in Firefox
    • "Assign" link in the tickets list
    • Proper sorting of the tickets list
    • "Assets assigned" field on the user profile page
    • Email replies processing fixes
    • Prevent dupe notification "ticket reopened" when user replies to a ticket by email
    • Tooltip for the ticket submitter that shows his company, email, phone etc.
    • Fixed the tickets list date filter
    Help Desk v 4.6.4
    released 3/18/2010
    • Backup email accounts
    • Subscribers engine improvements
    • Fixed ticket deletion from the tickets list
    • Minor ticket list improvements
    • 5 recent news are now shown on the homepage
    • Fixed the custom field editor (not saving the "techs only" attribute properly)
    • Custom menu tabs color
    • Email-sender performance improvements
    Help Desk v 4.6.3
    released 3/12/2010
    • Mail Checker improvements (null reference exception when adding a new user during incoming email parsing)
    • Performance improvements
    • Incoming email parser improvements (preserving line breaks)
    • Removed email truncating modules
    • Interface improvements, IE7 compatibility improvements
    • "Default category for new tickets" fixed
    • Improved admin area documentation
    • Support widget for websites! - a great way to integrate the helpdesk into a website
    • Ticket category is shown in the list when the "all categories" mode is active
    • "For technicians only" custom fields
    • Fixes when editing "unset" custom fields
    • Hindi translation improvements
    Help Desk v 4.6
    released 3/1/2010
    • Fixed the "NewIssue" error
    Help Desk v 4.5.4
    released 3/1/2010
    • Lost password email fixed
    • Some multithreading fixes for the helpdesk settings engine
    • Imcoming email processor improvements (ticket URL in the welcome email)
    • Showing Custom Fields in the Summary report
    • Faster chart processing in the Summary report
    • Correct redirection after the login form
    • Improved AD-integration (queries for user's email, names etc.)
    • Improved email checker (filters out bouncing emails)
    • Notes and Tickets database types changed to nvarchar(max) to store unlimited texts
    • Spanish translation improvements
    • Updated manual
    • Performance improvements
    • Hindi, Arabic languages
    Help Desk v 4.5.3
    released 2/17/2010
    • Fixed saving the email subject template
    • Escalation engine improvements
    • User permission editor fixes
    • German translation improvements
    • New user field - "Company"
    • Trial version now allows changing the language
    Help Desk v 4.5.1
    released 2/15/2010
    • Small bugfix, when automatically adding a new user after getting a ticket by email
    Help Desk v 4.5.0
    released 2/14/2010
    • No more "My issues" and "Others issues" separate pages. There's only one page now - Tickets. That shows all tickets that the current user has permissions to view.
    • "Issues" are renamed to "Tickets" throughout the application UI, an industry standard
    • All new redesigned main ticket page
    • Lots of visual improvements in the admin area
    • new feature: editing user's permissions on both user page and ticket-category page
    • Incoming email handler was not sending a "welcome" email after creating a new user in the HelpDesk
    • Custom statuses fixes for the hosted version
    Help Desk v 4.0.4
    released 2/2/2010
    • Hebrew language
    • When a right-to-left language is selected in the admin panel, the pages are automatically rendered right-to-left ("dir=rtl" is added)
    • Logout link is removed from the "home" tab for Windows-authenticated users
    • "Ticket Status" added to the email notifications
    • Custom statuses for tickets!
    • Overall improvements
    Help Desk v 4.0.2
    released 1/19/2010
    • Fixed error, sometimes fired when deleting an issue
    • Passwords on the "settings" page are changed back to regular text-boxes instead of "password-fields" due to a popular demand.
    • Improved escalating job, better error processing
    • Slightly updated images
    Help Desk v 4.0.0
    released 1/18/2010
    • Design improvements
    • Hidden passwords on the settings page
    • New tab-based design and a new tab "Unassigned issues"
    • Migrated to ASP.NET 3.5
    • AJAX improvements
    • New feature - "Ticket subscribers", a list of users who get notification of ticket events + addressing particular comments to particular users
    • New feature - Escalation - if a ticket is not updated within X hours, a notification is sent to all subscribers and an administrator
    • "Last updated" field, great to sort by.
    Help Desk v 3.7.0
    released 1/4/2010
    • Fixed email subjects in notifications
    • Improved notifications engine - DisplayName
    Help Desk v 3.6.9
    released 1/3/2010
    • Nowrap on the Active-Issues page
    • Fixed bug: error when saving settings
    Help Desk v 3.6.7
    released 12/29/2009
    • Hosted helpdesk email-checker improvements
    • Fixed: space in custom field names lead to errors sometimes
    • Sortable users list in the admin panel
    • Fixed: possible null-exception when submitting a support ticket when admin edits the custom fields at the same time
    • Transactional category deletion
    • Search custom fields
    • Improved helpdesk search page and engine
    • New language - Turkish
    • Captcha-image is now served by an HttpHandler which is much faster
    • Improved BBCode-HTML converter, email-parser
    • Fixed installer (proper password generation)
    • No "takeover" notification for user
    • "Start date" field for helpdesk tickets
    • Design improvements
    • New language - Polish
    Help Desk v 3.6.4
    released 12/2/2009
    • Hosted helpdesk version improvements
    • Removed unneeded attachment notifications
    • Quoted messages are not removed from an incoming email if the email is not a reply but a new ticket from a user
    • Fixed: hitting F5 and resending info to a browser after deleting an issue from a grid was leading to deleting the next issue in the list
    • UI improvements
    • Fixed: editing some tickets in the helpdesk's Knowledge base was throwing a "potentially dangerous" exception sometimes
    • "Add all" and "Remove all" buttons on the permission editor page
    • Correct ticket lists displaying
    • Enlarged "username" and "email" fields in the database
    • Search now looks at the message-log also
    • New setting - "ServerTimeOffset"
    • Edit messages in the ticket message-log
    • "Print ticket" command
    • "Submit ticket on behalf" - users list is now sorted alphabetically
    • SQL performance improvements (indexes)
    • Custom fields are now shown on the "Active Issues" page
    • Improved full-version setup
    • "Average time spent" added to the "Summary" report
    Help Desk v 3.6.3
    released 10/21/2009
    • Removed domain-name from the "assigned to" label
    • Fixed the "test" error message when posting a ticket
    Help Desk v 3.6.2
    released 10/7/2009
    • Fixed the bug when admins were sometimes unable to assign issues to help desk technicians
    • Proper priority sorting on the "my issues" page
    • Fixed the "not yet" error on the autologin-page
    • Improved WYSIWYG editor
    • Custom fields
    • News engine fixed (hosted version only)
    • Fixed new-issue error on databases with case-sensitive collation
    • Updated helpdesk installation manual
    • Editing issues in the Knowledge-base
    • Improved admin panel
    Help Desk v 3.6.1
    released 9/21/2009
    • Fixed sorting in the ticket grids
    Help Desk v 3.6.0
    released 9/20/2009
    • Fixed the "noaccess"-page error
    • Optimized and compressed date javascript
    • Users list in the category permission editor is now sorted
    • Fixed Firefox problems with spaces in file attachments
    • Fixed helpdesk news RSS feed
    • Fixed email subject template saving
    • Fixed incoming email attachments processing
    • Improved WYSIWYG ticket-text editor
    • Proper priority sorting in grids
    Help Desk v 3.5.9
    released 9/4/2009
    • Better exception handling
    • HoursSpent is now shown in the summary report
    • Translation improvements
    • Fixed the "validation" error on the ticket-submission page
    • Fixed the "Assign a technician" button on the ticket page
    Help Desk v 3.5.7
    released 8/27/2009
    • "Add comment for techs" fixed
    Help Desk v 3.5.6
    released 8/22/2009
    • News - add news and announcements to your helpdesk
    • Section field is now optional - it's not displayed on the new-ticket page when theres no sections
    • Slightly redesigned ticket page
    • Fixed the message log design in Knowledge-Base
    • General UI improvements
    Help Desk v 3.5.2
    released 8/20/2009
    • Some hosted help desk version improvements
    • Improved MIME parser for insoming email messages: optimized performance, correct non-latin chars handling, HTML-parser
    Help Desk v 3.5.1
    released 8/18/2009
    • Removing CRLFs from incoming emails
    • Hosted version improvements
    • Unicode support (varchar fields upgraded to nvarchar)
    • Fixed: incoming emails incorrect encoding, quoted-printable parsing and umlauts
    • Optimized and compressed javascripts
    • WYSIWYG rich-editor with a color-picker for ticket text and comments
    • Security improvements
    Help Desk v 3.5.0
    released 8/14/2009
    • Fixed: lost carriage returns in email notifications
    • "Hours Spent" now accepts decimal values
    • Nice "no access" message
    • Improved "Lost password" functionality
    • When a technician or administrator creates a user - a "welcome email" is sent to that user with his login/password
    • When a technician creates a new user to submit a new issue "on behalf" - the newly created user is preselected on the new-issue page
    • The last 5 comments are now included in email notifications for convenience
    • Feature: sending email to the ticket user from the ticket page and from the user-profile page (via "mailto" link, admins and techs only)
    • "Get issues by user" search improved
    • Improved Date-Picker
    • Improved AD-module (timeout added - if AD-server is not responding)
    • New admin feature - deleting multiple issues at a time, multiple users at a time
    Help Desk v 3.3.9
    released 8/10/2009
    • Logo image always reverted back to original when saving settings
    • Older SQL Server versions compatibility (2000)
    Help Desk v 3.3.7
    released 8/4/2009
    • Preventing duplicate email notifications
    • Default issue subject for empty emails
    • Customizable logo and header/menu colors (via the admin panel - and you can still simply edit the HTML-code in the files in downloadable version)
    • Fixed - "Close date" was not always set when closing an issue
    • File attachments are now about 5% faster by using IHttpHandler instead of pages
    Help Desk v 3.3.6
    released 8/3/2009
    • Detailed message when POP-connector throws an error
    • Fixed the captcha error that sometimes happened on the "New-Issue" page
    • Spanish version
    Help Desk v 3.3.5
    released 7/30/2009
    • "Hours spent" field validation
    • Sending a welcome email (with username/password) when a user submits an issue without registering
    • JS error in user editor fixed
    • Improved category permission editor (backend)
    • Summary report now shows recent log entries next to issues
    • Ticket search results now also show recent log entries
    • Improved design
    Help Desk v 3.3.3
    released 7/27/2009
    • Domain-Name removed from the "issue taken" notification
    • Improved installer
    • The "get help" link moved to top
    • Option - everyone sees everyone's tickets
    • Option - to use Jitbit's SMTP server (for hosted version only)
    • New ticket-property - "Hours spent"
    • Proper "remember me" checkbox processing
    Help Desk v 3.3.2
    released 7/17/2009
    • Fixed the occasional "Null reference" error when sending a ticket notification
    Help Desk v 3.3.1
    released 7/16/2009
    • Redesigned "new ticket" form
    • Minor design improvements
    • Fixed email checker when reopening a ticket after getting an email
    • Categories tree on "My tickets" page
    • Improved user deletion functions
    • Improved IE6 (and lower) compatibility
    • Removed domain-name from the "logged in as" label and emails
    • Option to switch off error logging in the "web.config"
    • Improved incoming email attachments processing
    Help Desk v 3.3
    released 6/14/2009
    • admin GUI improvements
    • Comment in the subject line
    • "Add comment" buttons disabled if issue closed
    • Replaying to a closed ticket by email reopens it
    • Improved SQL setup scripts
    • Fixed BBCode parsing when creating issues from email
    • Fixed email attachments handling
    • Email uniqueness check improved
    • Quoted-Printable parser improved
    • Performance imrpovements (mail-checker timer)
    • MD5 password
    • Timeout brute-force protection
    • Optimized POP-email connector
    • New cool buttons in the admin panel: "Test SMTP settings" and "Test POP settings"
    • Email Subject Template
    • New "#Originator#" template field for emails
    • Improved default template
    Help Desk v 3.2.2
    released 5/13/2009
    • Optionally disable Knowledge-Base for unregistered users
    • Slight design improvements (icons, backgrounds)
    • "[table]" BBCode tag support
    • Rich-formatting in message log
    • "New ticket on-behalf" improved
    Help Desk v 3.2.1
    released 4/18/2009
    • Fixed category drop-down lists in the admin panel
    • Fixed some email-checker errors
    • An option to enable/disable anonymous ticket submission
    Help Desk v 3.2.0
    released 4/17/2009
    • Option to remove the anonymous ticket submission from the login page
    • Less limitations in the trial version
    • jQuery upgrade
    • "Datepicker" on date field in the reporting area
    • General UI improvements
    • Search tickets by date
    • Dutch language fix - nl-NL
    • Minor bug fixes
    Help Desk v 3.1.8
    released 4/7/2009
    • Adjustable "new issue" text when changing category
    • Default category for new issues
    • Separate email notification when changing category
    • Assign tech - changes status, sends localized tech msg
    • Fixed: POP email checker dies when IIS recycles an app-pool
    • Tech only KB - nice icon
    • KB fix (not logged in), KB switch fixed
    • en-GB language added (for correct date formatting)
    • Error email notifier
    • Attach multiple files when posting a new issue
    • "Send email" user flag (if one does not want any emails)
    • Get phone, location and username from AD
    • Improved HTML-parser for incoming emails
    • Bigger textarea for adding comment
    • In-plce user creation when submitting an issue "on behalf"
    Help Desk v 3.1.6
    released 1/20/2009
    • Improved installer: fixed the "could not load type HelpDesk.Global" error at startup, improved strong password generator in the database creation module
    • Fixed the "peekaboo" bug in IE6
    • Danish language
    • Techs can also submit issue on behalf (not just admins)
    • Change category module fixed
    Help Desk v 3.1.5
    released 1/9/2009
    • "del from kb" button is shown in KB
    • Visual Studio 2008
    • KB now shows non-system log entries only
    • Phone, location attributes for users
    • Italian language
    • Dutch language
    • moving tickets between categories allowed for regular technicians (non-admins)
    • IE6 fix
    Help Desk v 3.1.4
    released 10/24/2008
    • fixed "techs only" email notifications
    • AD email is not overwritten when the email field is empty
    • AD errors and email errors are now logged in the Windows Event Log
    • enlarged textbox when posting a comment to the log
    • some server 2008 compatibility improvements
    Help Desk v 3.1.3
    released 10/10/2008
    • Swedish language
    • fixed "user already exists" error when there's a problem getting user's email from AD
    • "logout" link is hidden when using windows auth
    • fixed email-import module address parser
    • improved performance
    Help Desk v 3.1.2
    released 9/26/2008
    • adding a log record when assigning a rep
    • French language
    • fixed error message when email is already registered
    • short email subject when a new comment is added
    • techs only notification option
    • updated inline help
    • populate email from AD every time a user connects
    • improved performance
    • improved error processing in email checker
    Help Desk v 3.1.1
    released 8/8/2008
    • Improved installer
    • When moving an issue no email to mover
    • shortened email notification subject
    • some typos corrected
    • only admins can see other users emails
    • issues list ordered - newest on top
    • techs only Knowledge Base
    Help Desk v 3.1.0
    released 6/24/2008
    • Improved search
    • Updated manual
    • Strip HTML from incoming emails
    • BBCode support and Rich formatting
    • Usernames are displayed without the domain
    • Improved message-log (now looks like a forum), improved formatting
    • Attaching files is now logged
    • Improved comments engine
    • Redirecting to the ticket submission form after registering
    • Easier human readable captcha
    • Improved CSS
    Help Desk v 3.0.0
    released 5/27/2008
    • All-new interface design
    • Handling incoming email attachments (files are attached to an issue)
    • Improved installer
    • Updated manual
    • User email confirmation when an issue is submitted
    • Improved admin panel (user management)
    • Other minor improvements
    Help Desk v 2.8.6
    released 4/10/2008
    • Improved sections processing in search and "change category" dialogs
    Help Desk v 2.8.4
    released 3/18/2008
    • Sections (organize categories to "folders"
    • Issue ID is clickable in the grids
    • edit issue (admins only)
    • search KB
    • localized "lost password" email
    • improved user report
    • "issues by user" stats
    • many minor improvements through the Helpdesk application
    Help Desk v 2.8.3
    released 2/29/2008
    • Hotfix - new issues hidden from the active grid
    Help Desk v 2.8.2
    released 2/27/2008
    • sometime hang with incorrect email settings
    • proper HTML-formatting in KB
    • improved async email thread performance
    • notify technician when he is assigned to an issue
    • notify technician an issue moved to his category
    • techician name in active issues grid
    • CSS improvements (grid formatting)
    Help Desk v 2.8.1
    released 2/8/2008
    • Fixed: close/re-open issue email was sent even when notifications are disabled
    • Localized priority description
    • Priority is included in email notifications
    Help Desk v 2.8.0
    released 1/28/2008
    • Portuguese language
    • Norwegian language
    • Better Active-Directory integration (automatically gets user's email from AD)
    • Improved email parser
    • Export reports to Excel
    Help Desk v 2.7.8
    released 12/19/2007
    • Email-template being reset under certain IIS timeout settings - fixed
    • Improved issue commenting
    Help Desk v 2.7.6
    released 12/5/2007
    • CR/LF comment error fixed
    • German translation improvements in reports
    Help Desk v 2.7.5
    released 12/3/2007
    • <br/> problem fixed
    • categories are sorted alphabetically
    • German language improvements
    • performance improvements
    Help Desk v 2.7.4
    released 11/30/2007
    • Email sending fixed
    • Improved pie-charts
    • Improved comment parsing
    Help Desk v 2.7.3
    released 11/28/2007
    • Customizable email notification text
    • Pie-chart diagram in "Summary" helpdesk report
    • "Comments" field for a user, where admin can store some additional user info like a hardware profile
    • Email notifications are enabled in the evaluation version
    • "From" field added to issue grid
    • Limiting the attachment file size
    • More general improvements
    Help Desk v 2.7.2
    released 11/9/2007
    • Email SMTP integration may not work under certain conditions - fixed
    Help Desk v 2.7.1
    released 11/8/2007
    • Much improved HelpDesk installer
    • Added "FirstName", "LastName" columns to the user reports
    Help Desk v 2.7.0
    released 11/1/2007
    • Improved email checker, which creates helpdesk issues from incoming emails
    • Fixed improper "remember me" behaviour
    • "Home" link always visible (even for non-authenticated help-desk users)
    • More detailed email notifications
    • Improved user deletion procedure (clean-up)
    • Reworked statistics (performance optimizations), added "closed date" parameter and "issue duration" stats
    • Now Multilingual German language added, more to come!
    • Issue formatting: line-breaks are preserved
    Help Desk v 2.6.1
    released 9/21/2007
    • Minor email-module improvements
    • Optimized performance
    Help Desk v 2.6.0
    released 9/20/2007
    • Fixed error converting too large emails into helpdesk issues
    • Fixed incorrect saving POP-port settings
    • Fixed empty issue body when HelpDesk imports multipart MIME messages with nested structure
    • improved injection-security
    • confirmation dialog when closing a helpdesk issue
    Help Desk v 2.5.10
    released 9/7/2007
    • Fixed a email-password swap bug when registering users
    Help Desk v 2.5.9
    released 8/27/2007
    • "My Issues" page now show issues submitted by user, AND handled by user, with an option to switch views (handled only/submitted only/all/archive)
    Help Desk v 2.5.8
    released 8/20/2007
    • Search Issue by ID
    • Show issue ID in grids
    • Fixed bug with adding a category
    • General improvements
    Help Desk v 2.5.7
    released 8/16/2007
    • Clean XHTML-code
    • CSS-improvements
    • Ability to browse the HelpDesk's Knowledge Base without logging in
    • Storing first/last users' names
    • Improved performance
    • Reduced page size
    • other general improvements
    Help Desk v 2.5.5
    released 7/29/2007
    • Submitting helpdesk-issues on behalf of other users
    • Issue-priority feature
    Help Desk v 2.5
    released 7/6/2007
    • Mail-IN feature which allows auto-creating helpdesk incidents based on incoming emails
    • Improved postback verification when submitting a new incident to help-desk
    • administrator panel improvements
    • "Lost password" link for registered users
    • SSL option to connect to SMTP-server
    • "Phrases.config" file which holds common phrases for emails and comments
    • Ability to restrict incident-deletion
    Help Desk v 2.0.1
    released 4/30/2007
    • Improved email engine
    • "Captcha" image on a registration form
    • Improved design, look and feel
    • Configurable SMTP-Port
    • Many other improvements
    Help Desk v 1.9.0
    released 1/20/2007
    • Added Windows-integrated authentication support
    • Cheaper prices, source code available (ASP.NET, C#)
    Help Desk v 1.8.1
    released 12/26/2006
    • Sortable grids
    • Reports
    • More settings
    • Improved user-interface
    • Improved installer
    • File attachments
    • and many more!
    Help Desk v 1.6.1
    released 12/7/2006
    • Updated installer - allows installing Jitbit HelpDesk on a remote SQL-server
    Help Desk v 1.6.0
    released 10/24/2006
    • Added single sign-on feature for easy integrating Jitbit Help-Desk into existing ASP.NET websites and applications

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