SpaceMonger Release History

For what it's worth, these version numbers have existed at one point or another:

Version Release Date Copies
Still Exist Public
Release? Comments

1.0 no no First version, written in an afternoon in Nov 1997
on Windows 95 OSR/1 using Visual C++ 4.0 and MFC.
Functional, but very simple, and unreleased to anybody.

1.0.1 no no Minor bug fixes.

1.0.2 yes no Added zoom-in support the next week.

1.0.3 no no Minor bug fixes.

1.1 yes no Released to close friends in 1998

1.2 yes no Released to close friends in late 1999.
First version built with Visual C++ 6.0 (We think).

1.3 Spring 2000 yes yes First public release, to the Werkema.com web site.
Had much faster scanning engine than v1.2.

1.3.1 no no Minor bug fixes and additions.

1.3.2 no no Minor bug fixes and additions.

1.3.3 yes no Minor bug fixes and additions.

1.3.4 Sep 13 2000 no yes Second public release: Uploaded to my web site and to SimTel

1.3.5 Oct 2 2000 yes yes (v1.3.5 was featured in Lockergnome)
Third public relese: Uploaded to my web site and to SimTel

1.3.5fr yes yes Added French Edition of v1.3.5 to my web site,
more-or-less on a lark

1.4 Oct 16 2000 yes yes Last public release before release of v2.1.
Merged French code into original code-base.

1.4.1 yes no 1.4.1 was incomplete and never released;
fixed French spellings and added Dutch translation; fixed deletion bug

2.0 yes no 2.0 had a brand-new scanner and renderer,
and a lot of new UI code. 2.0 no longer used MFC, but used the
Windows APIs directly. Eight months of work on 2.0; then halted
in October 2001 for legal reasons.

2.1 beta 1 Feb 4, 2006 yes limited Brand-new everything.
Released to 88 beta testers, this was the first semi-public release
of the new v2.1 codebase.

2.1 beta 2 Feb 23, 2006 yes limited Many bug fixes and some minor new features.

2.1 beta 3 Mar 10, 2006 yes limited Many bug fixes and some minor new features.
The number of beta testers was increased from 88 to 200.

2.1 beta 3a Mar 16, 2006 yes limited Minor compatibility fixes.

2.1 beta 4 May 2, 2006 yes limited Many bug fixes, some new features, and theming support.

2.1 beta 4a May 3, 2006 yes limited Windows 95/98/ME compatibility fix.

2.1 beta 5 May 21, 2006 yes limited Minor bugfixes and a few new features.

2.1 RC1 Jun 21, 2006 yes limited Minor bugfixes and a few new features.
Release Candidate 1 marks the first fully public release of
the v2.1 codebase.

2.1 RC2 Jun 28, 2006 yes limited Minor bugfixes and a few new features.

2.1 RC3 Jul 14, 2006 yes limited Minor bugfixes.

2.1 Aug 15, 2006 yes yes First major public release. Includes minor bug fixes from v2.1 RC3.

2.1.1 Sep 8, 2006 yes yes Minor bug fixes, and a French-language translation.

Version 2.0 and version 2.1 are very similar in appearance and in function, but under the hood, they're 100% different: there's at most only a couple dozen lines of code common between them. We could have called version 2.1 "version 3.0", but since v2.0 was never released, and v2.1 has a very similar look-and-feel to v2.0, we decided to call it v2.1 instead.

Starting with v2.1 beta 1, we began maintaining a changelog documenting every change between successive versions, so if you want to see more detail about what changed in a given release than just "minor bugfixes," go read the changelog.