v2.12.2 Alpha

🔆 Enhancements

• v2 of OGCS has entered corrective maintenance mode.
• New features will only appear in v3, though you may choose to remain on v2.

🛠️ Maintenance

• Application
  • Updated all third-party library files (DLLs)

🐞 Bugfix

• Application
  • Unable to add shared Outlook calendars [#2286]
  • Fixed restriction of sync dates for personal API keys [#2327]
  • Invisible colour/category dropdown for override config [#2303]
  • Improvements on upgrade mechanism
• Sync Engine
  • Logging Google exception without start date prevents sync [#2321]
  • Fixed memory leak on Push Sync for remote shared calendars [#2310]
  • Timezone offset incorrectly excluding and deleting recurring series [#2290]
  • Instances of recurring series incorrectly offset by an hour due to daylight saving [#2278]
  • Two-way colour override for target calendar did not work [#2316]

v3.0.2 Alpha

Caution

This release has a bug related to Outlook Online appointments containing geo-location data, which prevents sync
If affected, apply hotfix 3.0.2.2

🔆 Enhancements

• Application
  • Updated for .NET Framework 4.7.2 (from 4.6.2)
  • Updated all third-party library files (DLLs)

🐞 Bugfix

• Application
  • Unable to add shared Outlook calendars [#2286]
  • Fixed restriction of sync dates for personal API keys [#2327]
  • Invisible colour/category dropdown for override config [#2303]
• Sync Engine
  • Logging Google exception without start date prevents sync [#2321]
  • Fixed memory leak on Push Sync for remote shared calendars [#2310]
  • Timezone offset incorrectly excluding and deleting recurring series [#2290]
  • Timezone offset incorrectly deleting/duplicating items on boundary of sync window [#2312]
  • Instances of recurring series incorrectly offset by an hour due to daylight saving [2278]
  • Outlook Online: Resolve sporadic ConcurrentItemSave errors [2293]
  • Two-way colour override for target calendar did not work [2316]

v2.12.1 Alpha

🔆 Enhancements

• v2 of OGCS has entered corrective maintenance mode.
• New features will only appear in v3, though you may choose to remain on v2.

🛠️ Maintenance

• Application
  • Display any news on start up
  • Option to consider skipped releases when checking for updates
  • Better presentation on 4k high resolution displays [#2245]
  • Re-download corrupt upgrade files [#2272]
• Sync Engine
  • Behaviour improvements for 2-way overrides (privacy, availability, colours) [#2003]

🐞 Bugfix

• Application
  • Fix fatal crash from task tray icon animation [#2270]
  • Incorrect notification of "update" to same v2.12.0 release [#2276]
• Sync Engine
  • Don't delete newly created Outlook items during 2-way sync [#2268]
  • Don't sync attendee changes to Google mastered Event organised by another [#2264]
  • Copy-paste of Outlook appointment may cause deletion of original [#2091]
  • Enumerate Outlook Exchange folders more robustly [#2256]
  • Handle recurring Google series not compatible with Outlook [#2284]
  • Fix faux HTML description "changes" [#2269]

v3.0.1 Alpha

🔆 Enhancements

• Application
  • No Outlook client required!
  • Display any news on start up
  • Better presentation on 4k high resolution displays [#2245]
• Sync Engine
  • Don't delete newly created Outlook items during 2-way sync [#2268]
  • Don't sync attendee changes to Google mastered Event organised by another [#2264]
  • Improvements for 2-way overrides (privacy, availability, colours) [#2003]

🐞 Bugfix

• Application

  • Prevent making installed application portable, when importing settings.
  • Stop upgrade notifications when the same as running version [#2276]
  • Fix failed updates, when current install 'corrupted' [#2272]

• Sync Engine

  • Handle no valid RRULE in recurring Google series. [#2284]
  • Fix incorrect syncing when copying an Outlook appointment [#2091]
  • Fatal crash for scheduled sync when no system tray OGCS icon. [#2270]
  • Stop Outlook breaking encoded HTML in Google descriptions. [#2269]

v2.12.0 Beta

🔆 Enhancements rolled in from Alpha releases

• Application
  • Better detection of system wake from sleep [#2132]
  • Include updated series exceptions in sync summary count
  • Added "Revoke" button for Google permissions
  • Update of third-party DLL files
    • Now requires .NET Framework 4.6.2
  • Include calendar name in deletion dialogue box [#2098]
  • Handle insufficient Google calendar permissions better [#1937]
  • Open default system browser for OGCS links
  • Remember choice to skip release upgrade [#1951]
  • Cleaner startup when no classic Outlook client present
• Sync Engine
  • Workaround for Google bug that surfaced on 23-May with symptoms:
    • New Outlook appointment from "ghost" Google event fails to save [#2123]
    • Repeated failure to delete "ghost" Google event(s) [#2124]
  • Improved monthly recurrence on day >28th
  • Improved warning messages when colours/categories excluded [#1989]
    • Improved two-way sync behaviour when deletion prompt declined [#1989]
  • Show "mass deletion" warning regardless of deletion prompt setting [#2137]
  • Sync summary counts no longer include failed items [#2150]
  • Optimised retrieval of Google recurring series and its instances [#2034]
  • Optimise exclusion of Outlook categories [#1929]

🐞 Bugfix

• See release notes of previous alphas for full list

v2.11.7 Alpha

🔆 Enhancements

• Application
  • Validation on browser user agent; always editable [#2195]
  • Log time zone information when a change is detected [#2233]
  • Workaround Google cloud logging losing data that includes FAIL events
  • Provision for automatic upgrades to OGCS v2 releases, once v3 is available

🐞 Bugfix

• Application
  • Cleaner startup when no classic Outlook client present
  • Fixed error when attempting to skip a release [#2192]
  • Fixed error after resetting Google connection [#2234]
• Sync Engine
  • Properly initialise sync timer after Profile import [#2177]
  • Force reconnect to Outlook when calendar items become unavailable [#2185]
  • Improved storage of last modified timestamp [#2238]

v2.11.6 Alpha

🔆 Enhancements

• Application
  • Added "Revoke" button for Google permissions

🐞 Bugfix

• Application
  • Mask Google auth token file path location
  • Updated default UserAgent string to modern browsers
  • Cope with "Internal Server Error" when retrieving OGCS news
  • Handle COM error 0x8001010A with automatic retry [#2165]
  • Reduce eagerness to show Outlook security settings warning [#2163]
• Sync Engine
  • Exceptions to recurring events in Google wouldn't sync to Outlook [#2135]
  • Show "mass deletion" warning regardless of deletion prompt setting [#2137]
  • Handle blocked Outlook address book when accessing appointment organiser [#2136]
  • Sync summary counts no longer include failed items [#2150]
  • Log anonymised calendar subjects for item deletions [#2149]

v2.11.5 Alpha

🔆 Enhancements

• Application
  • Better detection of system wake from sleep [#2132]
  • Migrated news alert service to Google CloudRun for scalability
  • Prepared ability to receive v2 update alerts when skipping v3 releases
• Sync Engine
  • Miscellenous logging improvements

🐞 Bugfix

• Application
  • Fixed regression for "startup in tray" setting [#2117]
• Sync Engine
  • Workaround for Google bug that surfaced on 23-May with symptoms:
    • New Outlook appointment from "ghost" Google event fails to save [#2123]
    • Repeated failure to delete "ghost" Google event(s) [#2124]

v2.11.4 Alpha

🔆 Enhancements

• Application
  • Clearer instructions upon Google access token expiry [#2080]
  • Bring application to the front once loaded
  • Switched over from Twitter to Bluesky
• Sync Engine
  • Abort sync if Outlook COM errors are encountered whilst identifying differences [#2053]
  • Include calendar name in deletion dialogue box [#2098]
  • Include updated series exceptions in sync summary count

🐞 Bugfix

• Application
  • Manage API errors whilst getting Google settings [#2100]
  • Fixed install/uninstall telemetry
• Sync Engine
  • Retrieve Google occurrences that were originally outside the sync window [#2081]
    • Handle zero occurrences of Google series
  • Fixed never-ending sync due to calendar descriptions containing emojis [#2090]
  • Handle meeting attendees with accented characters in the name [#2097]
  • Specify UTC time zone for Google event retrieval (regression) [#2026]

v2.11.3 Alpha

🔆 Enhancements

• Application
  • Added a "news" service that surfaces messages, eg critical bugs and hotfixes
  • Miscellenous logging improvements
• Sync Engine
  • Further optimisation retrieving Google recurring series and its instances

🐞 Bugfix

• Application
  • Improvements dropdown refresh for Google default calendar colour.
• Sync Engine
  • Falsely detecting start/end time changed (by number of hours offset from UTC) [#2047]
    • Fixed logging of Google Event summary local time
  • Fixed UTC offset must be between year 0 and 10000 [#2055]
  • Fix O->G "last weekday of month" recurrence [#2068]
  • Handle inability to resolve Outlook GAL recipient [#1998]