Today we released Merlin 2.8. Beside the compatibility to Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion”, we’ve added a few, but interesting features. Now you can use the full screen mode from Lion and the files from the former working session in Merlin will be reopened automatically. Also a new risk report is now included.

All changes in detail:

New Features in Merlin

• Compatibility to Mac OS 10.7 “Lion”.
• Merlin does support the full screen mode when executing under Mac OS 10.7 “Lion”.
• The import of MS Project files is further improved. Supported are now all versions starting with MS Project 2002 until MS Project 2010.
• Add a new Risk Report.

Resolved Issues in Merlin

• Switching to the resource view could be very slow.
• Under Mac OS X 10.4.11 issues could occur when saving.
• The expected costs were not calculated correctly under some system locales.
• When selecting the description part in the project template dialog, Merlin crashed.
• The advanced search under Mac OS X 10.4.11 did not work.
• The expected costs did not match costs for completed activities.
• Under some circumstances, Merlin could not save a project when it was created from a template.
• Sometimes the QuickLook preview was not updated when the document was changed.
• Merlin could not connect to some secure LDAP servers.

Resolved Issues in Merlin Web

• The box in the bottom time ruler row which contains the project status date is now highlighted in Merlin Web and the HTML export.

Resolved Issues in Merlin Server

• When installed for a local user, Merlin Server used the wrong file permissions and could not run properly.
• Under some circumstances, a character (‘) was added to the project files path.