Changelog

4.26 (Feb 10, 2025)

• Scorebar for the Main board, and also Browser windows and Fics observed games
• Analysis board improvements from Hanish
• - Scorebar, Colour PV Bar, Move-Sequence arrows, and board coordinates


• Clicking Crosstable 'Player' column title to sort
• New 'Store Movetimes' option in Play UCI Game
• Show longer variations in the EnterVar button at game end
• Twin Game Checker has a few new clickables
• Font Selection dialog has a working preview
• Game saves don't interrupt engine analysis, and tweak engine help icon
• Gamelist current game colour option (via switcher context menu)
• Player Ratings context/history menu
• Cut down our excess Resize event handling
• Properly handle 'Stop Analysis' for Xboard engine with no 'analyze' (eg Scidlet)
• Minor Fics improvements
• More Latex export improvements


• Hack to avoid MacOS Tree/Bestgames window crash
• Fix Multi Browse BestGames didn't work for 'other' bases.
• Fix Pgn column mode with big fonts
• Enable proper horizontal gamelist scrolling for MacOS
• Truncate long DB filenames in the Gamelist Tab and DB switcher
• Disable Tree adjust after a General Search
• Fix Undocked App fails to quit with an open engine
• Update "Enter Var" button when we create a variation
• Try to remove unicode related fluff when pasting text as fen

4.25 (May 20, 2024)

• Extra Tags - bulk add Extra Tag feature
• Enable pattern matching in the Name Editor
• Show Comments in Game Preview/Browser windows, change colours to match PGN, and ControlKey+Load does not close the Browser window
• LaTex Game Export - draw Marks in chess diagrams, indent variations, and other minor changes (from Bruno)
• Crosstable: add clickable column headings for Nationality, Rating and Score
• Engine Annotation - Score last move in case of checkmate (and stalemate)
• Tree mask - Options to hide Markers (default), disable tooltips, and make the mask move colour steelblue
• Engine - Right-clicking AddAllVars adds all first moves only
• Comment Editor - Remove 'Apply' button, instead automatically apply miniboard changes. Add wheelmouse move-forward/back bindings
• Player Info - don't show 'filtered games' stats if they duplicate the normal stats
• Make the Tree Bargraph height similar to the font height (for high def displays)
• Add a few Keypad bindings, re suggestion from Patrick
• Pressing Home-key inside a variation moves to var start instead of game start

• Twin Game checker minor fixes
• Some spinboxes (annotate(blunder)) had erroneous error checking and threw exceptions
• Some graphs didn't show the correct final/current year, gah!
• Minor optable.tcl fixes/clean-up. Opening Table max games is now 100,000 (was 25,000)
• Add current decade to Opening report Current popularity
• EPD analysis hardening
• For a few widgets - dont scroll text windows when using control-scroll to alter font size
• Update stats/etc on Game quickSave

4.24 (May 1, 2023)

• Gamelist (and Best games) 'Copy to filter' context-menu/feature
• Support for Graham O'Neill's (UCI engine) eboard drivers
• New 'Country' feature/option for the Player Finder (though it's slow with big databases)
• Global background colour option, and use BWidget::SelectColor (if found) on Linux
• Player Ratings Graph now has a history context menu, and Player Info binding for the Player Name
• Arrows in the small engine boards can now be clicked to add moves, and fix these arrows with Xboard engines and MultiPV
• Big toolbar icons option, and a new GameInfo toolbar icon
• Gamelist (and Best games) have an option for custom font (Selectable in the Switcher context menu - using the Small Font)
• Some comment editor / drawing improvements : Support for Chessbase arrow/squares diagrams. Shift+Button now draws the last symbol from the commenteditor (instead of always a full square). Change circle size.

• Reinstate the Suggested Move feature
• Simplify batch annotation feature
• FICS - Enable use of zseal (an opensource timeseal)
• Some Edit menus were missing undo points
• Undo for clipbase copy and paste was kindof broken / leaky
• Add sanity checks for CC and CXX to configure
• Little colour theme change, and high DPI doco, from Aditya's wordpress blog ;>
• Explicitly kill all engines when program close and at program exit, be nice and wait a little for uci (and eboard) engines to close
• Add a check for Carbon macOS, and don't enable transient noborder for engine/gamelist popups if Cocoa
• Text-search / FlashEntryBox improvements
• Disable the nasty, persistent ComboBox entry highlighting after selection

4.23 (Feb 27, 2022)

• From the gamelist context menu it is possible to move single games to any position in the DB. Seems robust, but please backup DBs. Short 'moves' only require a few si4 writes, longer ones basically rewrite the entire si4 file, and if interupted DB will be broken

• Browse multiple games feature - please read help topic
• Player Ratings graph can now (optionally) use the ratings history in the spelling "ratings.ssp" file
• New Online tablebase lookups by Michael Brown (lokasoft bases are gone), and other minor tablebase window tweaks
• PGN Window has a new 'Delete Comment' context menu
• MS Windows bugfix - can now have sg4 files larger than 2gb
• Allow for globbing/wildcard matches in the Name Editor date fields
• Time graph: when we are calulating movetimes from %clk, allow for a TimeControl tag
• Give the comment editor some decent colours, and increase board size
• Player vs UCI Game - nodes do not have to be in 1000s (helpful for some new chess engines)
• Tree mask/cache - change 'fill with base' to 'fill with filter', speed up mask fill, and fix up the progress window
• Don't auto-focus text widget in comment editor as there may be timing related side effects
• New treeviewFont.diff patch which allows the gamelist font to be configured (system Small font)
• Nicer board arrows
• Ensure Stockfish w/d/l percentiles total 100 - author Michael
• Better allign the UCI config window widgets - author Aditya
• Epd load random position (Control-?)

4.22 (June 10, 2021)

• Show Stockfish Win/Draw/Loss (as White/Draw/Black) infos in information window
• Add an 'Extra Tags' field to the header search (eg 'Annotator')
• Revamp colours and size of the Comment Editor
• New 'Highlight' colour option (affects crosstable, reports, pgn moves and name-editor)
• Animate the Rook in Castling. (author Uwe - Nice)
• Engine analysis: option to wrap long lines
• Engine annotation: option to disable adding an end-of-game variation
• Playing an opening against an UCI engine - openings can be imported from the ECO Window
• Improve the tree training feature by automatically enabling Trial mode
• Minor tweaks to the spacing in long comments in the PGN and Gameinfo windows.
• Export Games: add option to disable inserting newlines every 80 chars or so
• Serious game: When using book, leave a comment when book is exited / exhausted
• Add an undo point at the start of every annotation game
• Add a Switcher menu item to show/hide the gamelist buttonbar
• Update Player Data (spelling) file

• Help and translation updates
• Book tuning tweaks
• Graph window tweaks
• ECO window tweaks

• The Gamelist 'next moves' feature didn't work for transpositions at differing depths
• Remember arrow lengths/widths
• Batch stripping comments/vars could sometimes break the namebase
• Fix / enable hiding of 'Colored Squares and Arrows' on the main board
• Windows drag and drop typo/fix from Oz

4.21 (Jan 7, 2020)

• Gamelist (and Best Games) can now show 'Next Moves' instead of just the 'Opening Moves' if the tree is open and adjusting filter
• Text foreground colour option for listboxes and text windows. (and remove the 'global' colour option which is too rough)
• Fics: allow moves made by examiners to be seen by other examiners/observers, and fix longstanding init fail
• Mac: 64 bit macOS port. Poor performance but mostly working

• Allow multiple engine logs at once, which can be nicely updated in real-time (and bind 'space' to engine stop/start)
• Small engine boards now have an alternative display mode: Arrow shows best move
• Free up right-click for windows 'copy text'. (Use middle click instead for toggling analysis modes)
• Can now always show 'Infos' via an option in the main Engine config widget
• Low level support for alternative "GO" modes for UCI engines. (::uci::goCommand)
• Give transient engine popup buttons the same bindings as their originals

• New annotaion/analyze features (UCI only): Count best moves and (optionally) show/store results. Allow selecting the engine
• New 'find' entrybox searches EPD file for matching text
• Basic EPD/FEN export feature
• Menu rearranges, including enabling more translations, and changing menubuttons to standard menu widgets
• Paste analysis now removes previous analysis opcodes
• Bind space in listbox to start/stop engine

• Tree window - options to hide buttonbar, and always 'Adjust' filter
• Display a board in the Player Report (if applicable)
• Full German help update from Christian
• Improve Gamelist 'see' issues
• Brazil-Portuguese language update from Gilberto de Almeida Peres
• Opening Books - don't clobber existing game mainline with book import (was 'export'). Unneeded 'update -pgn' was slowing everything down too
• Refresh score graph at end of fics game
• Pressing End key twice always goes to game end
• Show Tux in the comment editor, and update the gifs
• Update chess 960 patch
• New flip board button
• scidt reverse sort feature. Also - don't accept empty sort criteria, and accept 'si4' filenames
• Don't ask to 'Save Game' if the game length is zero, and try to stop ECO window clobbering (any) game changes (New 'sc_game info halfmoves' command)

• PGN - Properly handle all level of var indentation.
• Windows: Fix extra text in the Player Info windows
• Fix Tree cache getting saved with app close

4.20 (Apr 7, 2019)

• Fix serious built-in-engine and PGN-import errors
• Tree - the greying of the tree moves (if the progressbar is hidden) disabled the tree mask's move colouring
• Disable gamelist flag/delete menus if read-only
• Mate in N fix and hardening
• Ignore Country names if they dont look right in the gamelist and database sort
• Disable MS Windows screenshot feature (broken in Tk)

4.19 (March 15, 2018)

• New 'Default Databases' feature (Options-> Save Bases as Default)
• CQL 5.2 search feature (Search-> CQL). Thanks Lionel and CQL authors
• General search can now match any (non-hidden) pre-game or final move Comment
• Export Scid Flags feature
• Big speed up for bulk Strip Comments/Variations feature. (Also make the 'Stop' button work)
• Improvements to loading games at the correct position (resolve a conflict between the tree window and search results), and small Tree speed-up
• Remove 'Magnetic' for Paul's chess pieces. New 'Ascii' chess pieces (thanks HGM), and 'Green' colour scheme
• New Turkish translation (thanks Ali Sen)


• Right-clicking button bar changes, including right-click Window button shows Splash window
• Some tree tweaks and doco updates, and tree Fast+Slow mode now doesn't break the win/lose graph
• Tweak progress bar update frequencies (base export, game copy)
• OS X has a faster build
• New Windows build system from Oz
• A new script, 'sc_filter_pgn', which filters multiple PGN files for games matching a certain position
• FICS - Offers Graph is disabled while playing a game. Change the censor button a little, and control+censor censors person chatting to you
• Escape key in main board cancels piece dragging/move
• Input engine fixes (DGT board). Widget now resizes ok, and bitmaps display properly on OS X. Thanks to Davy De Roeck for debugging it on OS X

• Fixes regarding other language piece letters
• Fix up showing the first gamelist/game in searches
• Fix up the days of the months in the calender widget
• Fix up window placement on multi display desktops
• Best games 'Reset Column titles' was broke
• sc_game startPos segfaults if !HasNonStandardStart

4.18 (July 1, 2017)

• New Best Games widget, similar to the Gamelist
• Score Graph now highlights the current move
• New annotation feature: Show missed/shorter mates
• A little new Gamelist button to reveal hidden/squeezed buttons (finally!)
• The GameInfo Window has a right-click menu, and other minor menu changes
• Basic support for horizontal scrolling (in gamelist, crosstable and bestgames) for mousewheel buttons with horizontal capability.
• Finnish translation, from Mika Kaakinen


• Engines: if an engine shows a Mating line, show the whole line in Analysis Window, disregarding Max-Ply variable
• Don't show an error message when importing null PGN tags... too verbose
• Fics: try to handle case when move is made after run out of time. (We don't want to mark the game as out of sync)
• Minor Translation, Mask and Fics tweaks
• Hide Board resize buttons in docked mode if auto-resize is enabled
• Revert Control-b binding to Book window
• Focus the text box of Comment Editor when raised
• Show a busy cursor when backing-up databases in the finder
• Game Save: also use previous Round with the 'Use Previous' button/feature
• Running Engine 1 in the statusbar needs special handling if using docking, as it cannot be withdrawn properly and was confusing before
• Show correct position in the pgn window after adding a new var/move
• Show PGN scrollbar by default

• Redock Windows after they have been undocked then destroyed. Before, such windows were remade undocked, and *without* menus
• Keep comments when truncating game from start
• Fix broken 'Copy' button in Engine's config window
• Promoting variations didn't handle precomments

4.17 (October 25, 2016)

• Analysis/Engine window
• * Show checkmate/stalemate messages instead of sending 'no-move positions' to engine
• * In engine configuration window the 'Date' field of an engine is now its exe modification time (mtime)
• * Speed enhancements for processing UCI engine moves (pv)
• Gregor's improvements to the player and tournament finders (which Shane never implemented properly)
• * Previously - only the *first* 50 tournaments were used (eg) when looking for the 50 tournaments with most players
• * Compilers must now support c++0x / c++11


• Custom player photos (Place correctly named gifs in $HOME/.scidvspc/photos or bin/photos)
• Resign button for playing UCI engines and Phalanx, analog clocks can now be hidden ('x' button in the white clock), and add the 'Skill Level' to the pgn header (eg - as used by Stockfish)
• A patch to include Gregor's tk::text improvements
• New Chess 960 patch! Thanks to Britton Farrar, who now has a project at https://github.com/brittonf/scid-vs-variants
• New 'Under Promotion' search item in General Search


• Computer Tournament: when 'First engine plays others', flip board to show games from first engine's view
• Flip game browser if matches myPlayerNames
• Clipbase game limit is now 5,000,000, and game undo buffer is 20
• Chess Pieces: remove 12 piece-set limit, and adventurer and kingdom pieces. Reinstate old Merida1 as Merida3
• Row colour is now configurable for Player/Tourney/DB finders and Crosstable rows
• Fics
• * Offers graph is updated in a better manner
• * Save game and add message disconnected while playing
• * Top three buttons are now configurable
• * Add a 'follow+' command, which automatically saves followed games
• Tweak Find Best Move feature, which now also recognizes non-standard starts
• Game Save dialog: extend use of 'Use prev tags' to 'Use previous' (for Names, Site, Event, Elo, dates)
• Switcher - replace readonly foreground color with a '(readonly)' message, and add a 'Confirm Copy' option menu
• Disable tree updates while annotating games and computer tournament
• Tree: Instead of having a 'stop' button, grey the tree text when updating (if progressBar is hidden)
• Change a few shortcuts. control-b board colours. control-B setup board. control-G general search
• Control-TrialMode button, automatically adds a null move, and tweak the trial mode button pic
• Gregors namebase hardening
• PGN Import now converts any empty Name/Event/Site/Round tags to '?' (according to pgn standard, these should not be empty)
• Minor fixes for Setup Board
• Allow Merging Games with non standard starts
• Bind pressing 'vv' keys to enter first variation
• Remove Crafty specific command 'mn', and it seems unsupported in Crafty 25
• In the tree window, when deselecting "Adjust Games", we now keep the current gamelist/filter
• Make hideNextMove non-persistent
• Right clicking 'Exit Var' button will exit all vars


Bug fixes
• Fix a nasty memory leak (in PgnParser)
• Fix name counts when using globbing in the name editor
• Fix Mate-in-N (Tactics) bug
• Some charsetconverter (internationalisation) fixes from Gregor
• Removed xdg-open for opening URLs which just doesnt work for me
• Tree info button (short display) was broke
• Bugfixes for compiling on some linux platforms (including Raspberry Pi 2)
• Some clock fixes. Digital clock was busted (counting up). CompTournament clocks are now digital only
• Stop tacgame/phalanx from failing to restart

4.16 (January 24, 2016)

• New Checkmate/Stalemate general search option
• Make fics premove work properly, and with promotion
• New Switcher menus to Open Tree/Best Games/Change Icon, and negate any open base filter
• The Best Games window can now be unsorted (on ELO)
• Tree window has a short-display option (default is on)
• New Merida1 piece set with large sizes (from Richard)
• Change the colours of the switcher current-base, and of book/book-tuning/tree next-moves
• Update all Latex export features from Chess12 to the modern Skak (author Richard Ashwell) and add Latex previews for game exports (linux only)
• Some Opening-Report and Player-Report fixes, and fix the Opening-Table options window
• Show the custom flag names in the statusbar
• Player Info: Add an extra 'Filter Games' hyperlink
• Tournament finder: Change behaviour re showing tournament crosstable
• Portugese update from G. Silva. Spanish update from Benigno
• Add 50 move draw detection to Phalanx and UCI computer games
• And new fics 'smoves+' command stores move-time (%emt fields)


Bug fixes
• Export PGN bugfix introduced in 4.15
• Properly handle OpenRecentAsTree, if base is already opened
• 'Round' wasn't getting shown in the gameinfo if Date was unset
• Annotation: try to handle zero move games
• Work aroud for occasional Tcl issue which affects piece dragging
• Game Save dialog didn't have translations
• Remove a heap of compiler warnings
• Tournament finder was showing incorrect number of games

4.15 (November 20, 2015)

• Limit engine ply option
• Bind Control+Enter to add whole line
• Tweak variation creation to avoid occasional var staggering
• Show 'Ponder' as a UCI configuration option (now that engines may play with Ponder on)
• For the addmove button '+'. If move exists, just move::Forward

• Options for the score format (which allows them to be hidden in the PGN window)
• When finished annotating game, move to last move (instead of sometime staying at second last move)
• Dont show out-of-book messages for non-standard starts
• Use-book feature didn't work under certain condition

• Columns can now be reordered, hidden, or right/left alligned (right-click column titles)
• Replace the Flag button with context menus
• Left/right keys scroll the gamelist view
• 'Merge Game' menu item (patch only)

• When deselecting 'Adjust Filter', make the current adjusted filter remain
• Fix up a few tree translations/text formatting issues
• Option to show/hide the progress bar. (On OS X, the progressbar makes searches much slower)
• Fix unusual coredump closing unused tree

• Make Spellcheck interuptible, and remove limit of 2000
• Update spelling file against Franz' June 2015 release
• Skip spelling date check if game has no date
• Tweak AddEloRatings feature to work properly with FIDE rating data newer than 2012
• Don't ask confirmation of spellchecking clipbase

• Databases can now be exported to PGN using either UTF-8 or Latin-1 character sets
• Detect correct charset of imported pgn and convert all to utf 'Avoiding a mix of character sets inside a database.'
• Support for ChessBase proprietary character set in PGN header

• Add flip-board buttons to the mini observed games
• Add a 10 minute line to offers graph
• Hack to destroy the results messageBox if we are being 'rematched' or challenged
• Unhide fics boards when a new observed game is announced
• New takeback code (better, but needs more work)
• Add a 'Time' tag

• Remember selected engines when changing number of engines
• Use new is-check routine for stalemate detection (sc_pos analyze could cause core dumps)
• Change the tournament per-game time controls from min/secs to secs/secs (base/incr)
• Don't add time increment for in-book moves

• Update for French from Dale Cannon
• Minor Portugese update from martinus

• Player Info history feature (right click window)
• Add 'Total' separators to the playerinfo stats
• Filtering opponent games wasn't working if tree open

• MS Windows - preempt/fix possible db compaction failure due to inherited engine file descriptors remaining open
• OS X Board Options colour buttons were not coloured
• OS X and maybe win32 - game import wasn't automatically pasting the text copy buffer
• The pgn middle-button board popup could rarely be placed off-screen
• Fix occasional (but annoying) bug regarding game truncation and variations
• Creating a new database - board wasn't getting refreshed
• Browsing a game - autoplay didn't stop straight away when requested
• Some EPD fixes. Notably - auto save position

• Minor Compact database fixes; create a new game when compacting db (instead of leaving the current game as game 0, which is confusing), and ask for SaveGameChanges before compacting
• Autoplaying multiple games - pause at each game end
• Database switcher uses font_Tiny, so handle/resize this font a little better
• Usual Help updates, including add a help button for the NAG window and Correspondence Chess / Xfcc / email help update
• OS X hack to activate shortcuts keys when wm gives app focus
• Setup board should always start with the current position
• Try to make all base filenames absolute, hoping to fix duplicate file history entries and db opens
• Add a string length validation procedure, and use it to limit Custom Flag entry boxes to 8 chars
• Dont reload last/first game if already active
• Gregor's qsort implementation for player finder sorting (sc_name plist)
• Bump player/tourney finder defaults
• Make tournament finder respect EventDate tag
• Patch to always load last game (ignoring base autoload)
• Bind Control+Wheel to font resize in the player and tournament finders
• Merge game: move the merge game comment to the start of variation, and simplify comment

4.14 (April 7, 2015)

• Mask auto-load option
• Automatically add move to mask instead of showing silly error message
• Holding Control while opening the Mask context menu (marker/nags/color) adds a marker to the whole line (etc)
• Make Mask moves easier to see, and tweak menus

• Enable piece dragging
• Flip the setup board if main is flipped
• Make 'Clear Setup board' have Kings

• Add End-Position-Only option to Material Search
• Knight+Bishop sanity check was wrong, and we werent saving Knight+Bishop joint totals in saved searches
• Tweak the other-base combobox in Board Search

• Double clicking an observed game makes it your primary game (number is shown as bold)
• Refine Offer Graph layout (most games are short), and add a close button (previously was only escape key)
• New 'Censor' button (+censor opponent)
• Add a show/hide buttons feature
• Control+Wheelmouse alters Fics console font size
• Only save games a few moves long

• Automatically adjudicate in simple cases of insufficient material
• Make the window more ergonomic
• Fix ponder not working with non-standard starts

• Comments now have their own line, and move some infos to the Statusbar
• When Gameinfo is hidden, make the mini Player Names clickable

• Add/Remove Line features
• Clicking on Book Tuning next move (in yellow) moves forward
• Bugfix - truncate the polyglot books when using Remove Move

• Remove the errant rounding up of +10 to +11 in y-axis, and raise border over graph bars
• Add backGround colour to graphs
• Middle button pops up the game position for any move

• New Portuguese translation from R. Silva (martinus at FICS)
• Update to Phalanx XXIV. The Tactical Game feature is a proper challenge now
• Place Best Games window beside Tree window (in docking mode)
• Playerinfo: still show Bio info (if available) when there are no games in database
• Automatically add the final move if adding a var at game end with the AddVar button
• Minor improvements for html/html+javascript Game Exports
• Set filter to deleted games prior to compacting game file

• Document how to alter the Game List fields
• Update OS X build notes
• Update chess960 patch (no code changes), and document known issues

• Xboard engine annotation was ignoring 'Use Book'
• Correspondence chess tls/encryption bugfix (Alexander)
• Properly flip comment editor board (if applicable) and other tweaks
• 'Find Best Move' feature was broke
• When saving game, throw error for badly formed extra tags (instead of silently discarding)
• When adding a var to end of game, make sure to auto enter *this* variation, in case of vars already existing
• Exit trial mode when changing bases
• Gamelist sort confirmation column-name was not translated
• Change move overwrite behaviour of eco browser and Opening Table moves
• Remove superfluous padding from OS X aqua theme

4.13 (October 25, 2014)

• Analysis Engine: exclude move(s) feature. Mouse-hover shows excluded moves (UCI only)
• Analysis Engine: button to pop-up unrevealed buttons, and redo a few icons
• Maintenance: Bulk strip Comments/Variations
• Depth-based Engine Annotation improvements
• Tweaked Key Bindings (including FilterReset Control-r and GameSave Control-s)
• Improved Background Colour feature
• Add 'Find' entry boxes to more windows (including spelling corrections).widget can now use regular expressions
• Splash widget console now has a simple command history (up-arrow)
• Better Repair Base feature (from Gregor)
• Include Gregors fast file opening with the windows 32-bit binary
• Bind Control-Wheel to alter fixed font size (in some windows)
• New Russian translation (from Sergey Nikolaevich Koyankin) and updated German one (from surrim)
• Enforce all tags (eg Event names, etc) to be less than 256 chars
• Tweak Scid's Linux installer is to properly allow custom SHAREDIR
• Windows drag and drop file open wasn't being init properly
• Better handle language translations/encoding
• Crosstable: bump max-player limit, tweak menus and bind right-click to menu, fix occasional allignment bug, and dont' automatically update (fixing busy cursor bug)
• Bump Opening Table limits, and minor bug-fixes
• New (Skak) Latex export-games feature (author Mark Dennehy)
• Update Xfcc to handle secure connections (thanks to Andrew Hunt)
• Fix minor memory leaks, and dont slow game file compaction (we now reset filter)
• Bestgames has a game load menu instead of 3 buttons
• Refine docked window drag and drop
• Many minor OS X tweaks
• Trim whitespace from name fields in game save dialog
• Add whitespace corrections to spelling.ssp, and also tweak Event spelling corrections
• Tooltips for the obscure buttons in main buttonbar
• Analysis add move as 'New Mainline' was broke
• Always get confirmation for sorting via gamelist
• Enforce illegalilty of saving Event Date without Game Date
• Phalanx updates and minor tacgame, sergame fixes
• Make a few windows have small font buttons
• Shift+Wheel(/ left-right wheel) scrolls a few widgets horizontally
• Break up the long Book Tuning button menus
• Many minor bugfixes and further tree-only filter fixes

4.12 (March 25, 2014)

• Gamelist/Filter fixes. Filter works better with Tree
• New Crosstable tie-break options and reorder Crosstable menus
• Game-result is now shown alongside Player names, at top of GameInfo window
• Middle button in main board toggles game info
• Databases open faster (Linux/OS X only - "avoid the time consuming file locking". Windows is in testing)
• Allow dragging Docked Window tabs to alter their order

• Flag button is now context menu, Gamelist Save is moved to tools-> export
• Find button removed (use enter in Find entrybox)

• Update spelling file to a custom version of Franz's Jan-5-2014 spellling.ssp
• Spell-checking can now remove GM, IM, FM, CM, WGM prefixes from player names
• Doing player-name replacements, show how many fail due to age/date considerations

• Add user-configurable init commands
• Board size slider is now a menu
• Game Offers pack over buttons (making it less crowded, use escape/button-2 to cancel)
• New find entrybox to search the console
• Remove Clear button (as getting crowded)
• Remove the never used big clocks
• Add start, end sounds (and minor sound fixes - though still buggy)
• Dont save FICS aborted games
• Disable engines when playing a FICS game

• Make 'scoreToMate' work better and faster, which stops occasional incorrect Mate-in-N lines showing up, and works better at near-mate positions
• Make the Annotation config window fit on small displays
• Stop engine at end of annotating a single game
• Try a new approach to Depth-based annotation, which works better, but still needs fine-tuning

• Spanish translation update from Igor Sosa Mayor
• Polish translation update from Adam Umiastowski
• Add a find entrybox to the splash window
• Strip PGN Tags improvements
• Right-clicking toolbar Game-Save icon quick saves game
• Sound devices can now be selected; mainly useful for Linux systems
• Dont insert newlines into PGN copied to text buffer... Some web PGN browsers don't work with newlines following movenum. eg "10. Nxc3"
• Save game history when Scid quits
• Remove tree status bar. Same info avail in switcher and tree text widget
• Booktuning nextmove is now highlighted (same as Book), and padding has been tweaked a bit
• Move Maintenance menu from File to Tools menu
• Remove the annoying " from myPlayerNames

• When saving PGN to file, disable translating pieces. (Export to PGN was already this way)
• FICS Digital clocks didnt appear under some circumstances
• Undo/redo refinement/fix for when buffer has been full
• Fix import issue - Sometimes first tag is lost (If UTF byte order mark is present)
• MSWindows - Board keyboard bindings are were getting lost after Variation window popup is dismissed
• Some tooltip refinements, including removing tooltips with board update (mask tooltips were erroneously persistent)
• Tablebase window: Results Board was not getting packed (is now below Results Frame). Change the damn awful red, update help, give tbWin the widest paned window
• With wish8.6, we cant close undocked windows with a Close button. Fix
• Some fixes for javascript and html game exports
• Correctly handle plain text crosstables

4.11 (December 1, 2013)

• Maximum board size is now twice as big
• Gamelist context menu (right-click). Less button crowding
• Annotation improvements: Depth based annotation, and cut-off features
• Dock a few extra windows (graphs, tablebase)
• Computer tournament stability/speed fix
• Locked Analysis Engines now show the locked position (not the working line)
, and bug-fix the engine lock, which didnt work properly
• Add a low CPU priority check box to Engine Configuration window
(especially important for MS Windows - where engines can kill GUI)
• Engine configuration window now repsonds to keystrokes to quickly find any engine
• Display "(altered)" in statusbar is game has been changed
• Fullscreen menu item (Options-> Windows-> Fullscreen)
• FICS tweaks, including over-riding takeback/abort request dialogs when game ends
• Remove some wasted space around FICS, main button bar, and other widgets
• New Greek translation
• Read custom chess pieces from ~/.scidvspc/pieces
• Docked tabs/menu refinements
• OS X - Clicking on URLs will open the link in a browser
• Add a command console to the start-up window
• Bug-fix: Fix main board rendering anomoly in docked mode with MS Windows
• Bug-fix: When tree is open, gamelist filter operations didn't work properly
• Bug-fix: Search in variations never matched positions at end-of-line
• Bug-fix: Opening Table favourites werent working properly
• In Export PGN dialog, add an option for "Space after Move Numbers"
• Keyboard short-cuts changes. Control-p (etc) no longer open/close, but open/raise
• Tweak Comment Editor and Player Info buttons

4.10 (August 25, 2013)

• When sorting databases, don't reset filter and remember current game/gamestate
• Game history menu
• Implement (and bugfix) SCID's more comprehensive NAG framework
• Change a couple of field orders in the gamelist, remember field widths, and remove the icon context menus from the switcher (middle click now toggles show/hide the database icons)
• FICS: Allow use of alternative URLs (used during FICS outage) and other minor tweaks
• Window focus improvements (mainly for MS Windows and OS X)
• Computer Tournament: add 'Engine Scores as comments' option, and make some minor global/:: var changes
• Add Book Tuning to dockable windows
• Automatically flip board (if applicable) in game browser and analysis miniboards
• When diffing twin games, ignore newlines in the comments, which make diffing impossible
• Add undo points for user generated addNag events
• Bookmarks: add a few key bindings (delete/up/down), and shuffle the gamelist bookmark button up one row
• Drag and drop hardening
• Windows 7 bugfix: PGN export and Progress bars weren't working in undocked mode
• Translation framework updates. Overhaul Dutch translation, and remove (broken) Russian one
• Convert braces '{', '}' to '(',')' when exporting PGN comments (against PGN standard). Also tweak various PGN help topics

4.9.2 (June 19, 2013)

• OS X changes, including docked mode fixes

4.9.1 (May 4, 2013)

• Fix promotion bug in non-docked mode
• Small pictures allign top/bottom in game info
• Clickable crosstable columns
• Make an undo point with Setup Board, and disable undo for Trial mode
• Add Tournament lookup to Player Info window
• PGN import window was not getting mapped