MAJOR UPGRADE:

Mapping

• Added more detailed mapping of surnames & forenames in Scotland, down to district level (previously to county level only).
• Coastlines re-worked in greater detail.
• Several corrections to alignment of county/district boundaries; improvements to syntax & placement of some area labels.
• Further 'default' views added (Scotland, Wales).

Functionality

• Reference table of Scottish districts included.
• Added tables of the most frequent surnames in each county.
• Surnames & forename datasets rebuilt so as to exclude ships in port (which slightly distorted mapping of names in coastal districts).

Bugfixes

• Wildcard searches: previously not supporting wildcards at start and end of string, e.g. *brother*. Fixed. Prevented wildcard searches with less than 3 characters in search string; made warning about slowness of wildcard searches pop up earlier.
• Advanced searches: deleting successive items from the list box down to zero items with 'Clear Selected' leaves the Update button ungreyed, clicking it caused crash message. Fixed.

MAJOR UPGRADE:

Interface

• Overall program screen dimensions increased to 1000x700 such that needs 1024x768 minimum screen dimensions. Main map image now 500x500 (56% larger).
• More modern look & feel (XP style).
• Title tab renamed 'Home'. New design with larger graphic.
• Print tab renamed 'Output'.
• General change of program interface colour-scheme, green -> blue. Opening map now buff.
• New round "Display Map" buttons.
• Improved (coloured) range selector on Configuration tab.
• Selection panel for sea colour (Configuration tab) moved to Sea & coastline' section.

Bugfixes

• Bugfix where a surname only present in Scotland. (previously it didn't empty a PLU listing, if present)

Functionality

• Automated selection of surname variants (Advanced Surname Search) now based on Nominex system.
• Clipboard export allows key to be exported (with map or separately).
• New 'Reference' tab with tables of County/PLU figures.
• Results tables now include County/PLU populations and Banwell Numbers.
• Results tab allows display of numbers as coloured-coded histogram bars.
• 'County Surnames' selection tab added.
• Surname/Forename ranking columns added to main scrolling name tables.

Mapping

• Correction to Cumberland county boundary.
• Corrected alignment of various County/PLU boundaries - London, S.Wales, Devon/Somerset etc.
• Improvements to syntax & placement of some area labels.
• Alderney not filled when PLU selected - fixed.
• Suppression of some labels until zoomed in - especially the London area.
• Maximum zoom percentage now 5,000% (mainly affects London).

Other

• Web address on Home tab made clickable.
• Added a check for a previously running instance of the program.
• Help file content reviewed and updated; more illustrations added.

Database

• Replaced back-end database, mainly to avoid start-up error Network initialisation failed (can happen with Windows Vista & Windows 7).

Help File

• New HTML-style help.