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Changes Made During the Preview Period

• Flash previews no longer cause crashes on Snow Leopard with Flash 10.1
• The CSS Menus Action now outputs links correctly when more than one link is applied to styled text
• The Google Maps Action now displays correctly on pages using the Relative Page Layout Action
• Fixed a JavaScript error when using custom font sets containing double quotes for captions
• The Showcase Action now always correctly outputs the thumbnails after switching from Slideshow to Thumbnail Gallery
• The Simple Site Search Action now supports accented characters and non-latin alphabets
• The Simple Site Search Action no longer automatically sets an input items type to "text"
• The Simple Site Search Action now correctly displays alternating background colors for each result on the results page
• The Showcase Action now correctly cancels the large image loading if the user clicks on the page background before the image has loaded
• The Showcase Action now works correctly in Internet Explorer 8
• Fixed a conflict between the Simple Site Search and Rollover Actions
• The Google Maps Action no longer displays an error when it is set to not publish
• The Simple Site Search Action is now case insensitive
• When contained in a folder structure the Simple Site Search Action now points to results correctly
• Removed MoreOver from the list of search engines in the Site Mapper Action
• The Site Mapper Action now uses the correct date format
• The Simple Site Search Action for input can now only be applied to a Text Field item
• Showcase slideshows now work as expected in Internet Explorer
• The Create Email Action now displays the plain text version of the email in the default text editor
• The Showcase Action now centers the thumbnails within the item
• The Showcase Action now adds default alignment, spacing and padding to thumbnails
• The Showcase Action no longer requires Applescript
• Added a way to add custom text to the results page of the Simple Site Search
• The controls and image information in the Showcase Action can now be manually hidden or autohidden
• The JavaScript for the Showcase Action is now minified
• Added Live Preview to the FLV Player Action
• Correct tooltip for iPhone height drop-down menu.
• Webaddress field updates correctly after user tabs out.
• The background and border of the sidebar in the Charcoal template now extends with the main content when it grows
• Save Log checkbox removed from upload methods where it doesn't apply.

Complete Release Notes of Changes in Freeway 5.5

• Verify Peer checkbox has been added to the FTPS upload dialog page. The checkbox is named Authenticate Certificate.
• Added the Site Mapper Action
• Added an Action for converting absolute positioned CSS layouts to relative positioned layouts
• Added the Simple Site Search Action
• Added the Amazon Associates Action
• Created an application to help make galleries and slideshows
• Added Showcase, an Action for generating galleries and slideshows
• Added a Remove from Relative Page Layout Action
• Added the Create Email Action

• Improved resilience to documents crashing when the site folder alias was incomplete
• Fixed a crash where Actions with 0x0 dimensions would crash in Snow Leopard
• Flash previews no longer cause crashes on Snow Leopard with Flash 10.1

• Freeway no longer strips empty trailing paragraphs

• Fixed a phrasing error in the Google Maps Action
• The FLV Player Action no longer uploads all its associated files on each publish
• The QT Reference Movie Action no longer uploads all its associated files on each publish
• Fixed a bug that prevented the AdSense for Search Action from displaying search results
• The FLV Player Action now supports h.264 encoded files
• The Google Maps Action now supports multiple output languages
• The Google Maps Action now allows users to choose up-to-date default controls
• Sequence Timer works correctly on pages using cross domain iFrames in Firefox
• The QuickTime Reference Movie Action no longer fails when the path name contains apostrophes
• Fixed a bug in the CSS Menus Action that prevented pages containing certain characters from being recognised as the current page
• Fixed a bug in the CSS Menus Action that caused live preview to display an incorrect image
• Fixed a problem that prevented the click state of the CSS Menus from working
• Fixed a bug that caused the CSS Menus Action to output incorrect styling when the item had a percentage based width
• Fixed a validation bug in the AddThis Action
• Fixed a problem that prevented movie generation in the FLV Player Action
• The Google Analytics Action now supports all valid IDs
• Updated the error messages in the Transition FX Action
• Fixed a problem in the QT Reference Action that prevented movies being generated when Japanese Characters appeared in the path to the movie
• Fixed a problem that caused two anchor tags to be output when using inflow items in the CSS Menus Action
• Fixed a bug that caused links to become incorrectly underlined in the CSS Menus Action
• The CSS Menus Action now wraps anchor tags completely around the contents of each list item
• Fixed a problem that prevented borders from being edited in the CSS Menus Action
• The copyright information in Google Maps is truncated when an item is too small to contain it
• The Google Maps Action no longer breaks when a graphic effect is applied to it
• The CSS Menus Action now outputs links correctly when more than one link is applied to styled text
• The Google Maps Action now displays correctly on pages using the Relative Page Layout Action
• Fixed a JavaScript error when using custom font sets containing double quotes for captions
• The Showcase Action now always correctly outputs the thumbnails after switching from Slideshow to Thumbnail Gallery
• The Simple Site Search Action now supports accented characters and non-latin alphabets
• The Simple Site Search Action no longer automatically sets an input items type to "text"
• The Simple Site Search Action now correctly displays alternating background colors for each result on the results page
• The Showcase Action now correctly cancels the large image loading if the user clicks on the page background before the image has loaded
• The Showcase Action now works correctly in Internet Explorer 8
• Fixed a conflict between the Simple Site Search and Rollover Actions
• The Google Maps Action no longer displays an error when it is set to not publish
• The Simple Site Search Action is now case insensitive
• When contained in a folder structure the Simple Site Search Action now points to results correctly
• Removed MoreOver from the list of search engines in the Site Mapper Action
• The Site Mapper Action now uses the correct date format
• The Simple Site Search Action for input can now only be applied to a Text Field item
• Showcase slideshows now work as expected in Internet Explorer
• Added the Relative Page Layout Action for automatically generating in-flow layouts
• Actions that add the Prototype and Scriptaculous JavaScript libraries now use the most up to date versions of the libraries
• Added a Remove from Relative Page Layout Action
• Live preview is now available on Master pages when using the CSS Menus Action
• The Google Analytics Action code now produces live results
• Added the Modify Height Action that will set the height of items to be undefined or min-height
• The Transition FX, Attention FX, Sound FX and Target Show/Hide Layer Actions now only load the Scriptaculous libraries they need
• Added iPad support to the FLV Player Action
• The Create Email Action now displays the plain text version of the email in the default text editor
• The Showcase Action now centers the thumbnails within the item
• The Showcase Action now adds default alignment, spacing and padding to thumbnails
• The Showcase Action no longer requires Applescript
• Added a way to add custom text to the results page of the Simple Site Search
• The controls and image information in the Showcase Action can now be manually hidden or autohidden
• The JavaScript for the Showcase Action is now minified
• Added Live Preview to the FLV Player Action

• Added fwContentTop, fwContentLeft, fwContentBottom, and fwContentRight properties that provide the actual content area of an item.
• FWListData objects now work as specified in the Actions documentation.
• Fixed a bug in the fwScreen* dimension functions which would cause the incorrect dimensions to be returned for graphic items with outer shadows and glows applied
• fwGetTextContent() now returns the correct text for an instance item if the text has been changed in the master item without switching to the instance page.
• Added an allow-packages attribute for action-file Action parameters
• Added boolean property fwHasSlicedBackground to layout elements in Actions to indicate if the element is using background slicing
• Added an fwPageDiv property to FWPage
• Added fwUsesMasterContent() and fwUsesMasterSettings() functions to the Actions API.
• Added fwWritePNG, fwWriteJPEG, and fwWriteGIF functions to the Actions API to allow easy creation of output files from an FWImage.
• A new fwTextHeight() function that returns the height of text in an item has been added to the FWItem class in the Actions API
• Added a fwTextHeight property to FWItem that returns the height of text in the item
• Added fwBeforePublish() and fwAfterPublish() callbacks for Folder Actions

• Fixed a memory leak that would happen at startup
• Graphics Preview works correctly for images with alpha
• Freeway's network protection no longer makes the name of the application protocol too long.
• Actions publish the correct files
• Actions on master pages publish the correct files when a site is republished
• Actions on master pages republish their files correctly during Publish Everything
• Splash Screen no longer uses 100% CPU time
• Fixed a crash that could occur when checking an FTP link
• Changing the upload method in Document Setup now works
• Fixed a situation where Freeway was republishing unchanged pages
• Fixed a crash that occurred while resampling small scaled-down graphics
• Fixed a crash that occurred while resampling small scaled-down graphics
• Freeway doesn't crash when editing background effects from a master page
• Graphics that are resized or moved when the page is zoomed don't get fractional coordinates
• Save Archive no longer crashes or generates an error with pasted graphic content.
• Correct tooltip for iPhone height drop-down menu.
• The "Height can shrink" setting is no longer lost from old documents
• The size of a page is updated when it is set to use a different master page
• Duplicating folders doesn't discard master/instance links for items and pagedivs
• Webaddress field updates correctly after user tabs out.
• The background and border of the sidebar in the Charcoal template now extends with the main content when it grows
• Save Log checkbox removed from upload methods where it doesn't apply.
• Secure FTP (FTPS) upload
• SSH File Transfer (SFTP) upload
• In the upload and document setup dialog Freeway now has a port number field for ftp upload.
• If the user pastes a full ftp url into the server field, we will extract any of server, directory, port number, user name and password from the url that we can and insert them into the other fields when the user tabs out of the server field.
• Updated the list of page sizes for new documents with more modern and appropriate values.