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This release contains the following: Fixed transparency of tray icon on Linux, new alternate activity moniting for Windows, improved 64 bit & Vista support, exercises are now randomized, the language can now be selected in the preferences (Windows), the option ‘Start Workrave when Windows starts’ has been added to the preferences, extended DBUS support on Unix, initial OSX port, networking support can now be enabled without accepting incoming connections from other Workraves, a sound has been added that indicates a next step in the exercise, the volume can now be configured, all sounds can now be configured, a new sound theme has been added.

Task manager is never blocked by Workrave, workaround for focus loss on Vista, Vanja Cvelbar translated Workrave into Slovenian, fixed breaks that have ‘suspend timer when inactive’ disabled, improved Windows responsiveness under high load, mode menu fixed, Gnome applet no longer ‘hangs’, Gnome applet no longer crashes Workrave, fixed crashes during startup on Windows, fixed ’end-of-microbreak’ sound, fixed bug in multi-head support where Workrave showed multiple windows on a single screen, fixed locking on Gnome with xscreensaver installed. Many thanks to Ray Satiro for his contributions in this release.

This version contains many new translations: Italian (Eraldo Girardi), Chinese (Tao Wei), Slovak (Peter Tuharsky), Greek (Prokopis Prokopidis), Turkish (Enver Altin), Japanese (Masanobu Yokota), Bulgarian (Ivan Dimov), Hungarian (Ory Mate). Furthermore, more polish on the applets was done (e.g. vertical applet support), and the usual bug fixing.

A Greek translation of both Workrave and its leaflet are in the pipeline.

A branded version of Workrave is now available, on request of Chiropraktik Hirschengraben.