v2.8.4 Alpha

🔆 Enhancements:

• Ability to specify custom maps between Google colours and Outlook categories
• Detect movement of Outlook appointments into/out of sync window bounds
• Improved detection of Outlook versions after 2016

🪲 Bugfix:

• Broken upgrade mechanism (fixed from this release onwards)
• Save timezone mappings on exit of config screen
• Issue reading ErrorReporting.json file when starting multiple instances of OGCS
• Silently reconnect to Outlook if disconnected and using Push Sync
• Syncing Google reminder but none exists
• Properly report Google API exception errors

v2.8.3 Alpha

🔆 Enhancements:

• Provision for custom timezone mapping when required for organiser in different timezone
• Handle when corporate policy/AV blocks access to current user's name in Outlook

🪲 Bugfix:

• Handle mailboxes that have no Deleted Items folder
• Check configured Outlook mailbox and calendar are stil available on startup
• Properly detect sync direction when forcing attributes in target calendar
• Only update category/colour if configured to
• Don't attempt to sync colours for recurring series exceptions
• Take into account DST for UTC offsets
• Handle recurrence end dates with no time element
• Ensure start/end Event values are populated
• Encode CSVs to UTF8
• Fix error reporting DLL reference

v2.8.2 Alpha

🔆 Enhancements:

• Use any configured proxy for all web calls
• New /t command line option to append custom text to application title
• Don't attempt update of recurring Google series owned by another
• Pop-up message boxes now associated with main application form
• Improved feedback on API quota exhausted
• Ability to disable telemetry

🪲 Bugfix:

• Convert recurrence end date to local time
• Error reporting DLLs updated

v2.8.1 Alpha

🔆 Enhancements:

• Set Outlook organisers as having "accepted" in Google
• Order the Google calendar dropdown: primary, writeable, read-only
• Warn if read-only calendar selected for sync; deny for two-way sync
• Display custom Google calendar name, if set
• Third-party DLLs updated

🪲 Bugfix:

• Better error handling if Outlook closed mid-sync
• Fix missing last occurrence in Google for recurring series from Outlook
• Report correct COM error code and redirect to wiki for published solution
• Don't crash after upgrade if user doesn't have access to system registry
• Fixed subscribers not picking up correct API key
• Only allow single Error Reporting window
• Don't allow sync if Error Reporting window displaying

v2.8.0 Beta

🔆 Enhancements rolled in from Alpha releases:

• Sync colours / categories
• Option to force particular colour for synced items
• Option to not sync Outlook invites you have yet to responded to
• Syncing a common calendar to/from more than one other now supported!
• Added option for users to automatically feedback errors
• Command line parameters to support multi-instance OGCS
• Better ability to cancel a running sync
• OGCS stays responsive whilst Oauth process takes place; can be cancelled
• Detect Windows system timezone changes
• Improved Push sync mechanism
• Collapsible sections added to Sync Options configuration screen
• Properly retrieve meeting organiser's timezone
• G->O: Allow synced items to be assigned specific category (not just colour)
• Show authorised Google account on Settings tab
• Better timing of auto-retry for when quota renewed after API exhausted
• Option to configure the browser's User Agent in the GUI
• Options to use (or not) Outlook/Google calendar defaults for reminders
• Don't update last sync date if sync unsuccessful
• New window for social links; option to suppress for donors
• Redirect users with COM errors (bad Office installs) to wiki help page
• Use the OGCS logo for system tray notifications

v2.7.9 Alpha

🔆 Enhancements:

• Redirect users with COM errors (bad Office installs) to wiki help page
• If GAL is blocked don't report this as an error.
• Don't access Outlook appointment organiser if GAL blocked by policy
• Silently fail if check for OGCS update errors.
• Use the OGCS logo for system tray notifications

🪲 Bugfix:

• Copy and paste / click and drag Outlook appointment causing null references
• Check for custom Google reminders before setting default
• Improved handling of Exchange errors when obtaining attendee mail addresses
• Incorrect timezone offset for appointments in Outlook 2003

v2.7.8 Alpha

🔆 Enhancements:

• Remove Google+ related links and API calls
• Don't update last sync date if sync unsuccessful
• New window for social links; option to suppress for donors
• Faster matching of calendar items
• New advanced setting to extirpate all OGCS custom properties

🪲 Bugfix:

• Don't try and update master Event custom attributes
• Only compare colour/category if set to be synced
• Email address cloaking
• Don't reselect Google calendar when re-downloading list

v2.7.7 Alpha

🔆 Enhancements:

• Better timing of auto-retry for when quota renewed after API exhausted
• Option to configure the browser's User Agent in the GUI
• Options to use (or not) Outlook/Google calendar defaults for reminders

🪲 Bugfix:

• Persist a push sync through a restart of Outlook
• Persist selection of correct calendar when alternate mailbox is temporarily unavailable
• Select correct alternate mailbox on startup
• Handle a Google event having an end date before the start date
• Reminder DND window not always applying correctly

v2.7.6 Alpha

🔆 Enhancements:

• Syncing a common calendar to/from more than one other now supported!
• Improved logic to determine meeting organiser's timezone
• Don't delete Google event immediately after reclaiming it
• New FAIL logging level added, below Error
• Nicer output when authenticating with Google and reclaiming items
• Show authorised Google account on Settings tab

🪲 Bugfix:

• Fixed XML namespace for obfuscation sync direction
• Stopped error reporting obstructing Squirrel events
• Fixed crash on OGCS automated startup
• Don't try and retrieve Google event if synced from different calendar (avoid 404 errors)

v2.7.5 Alpha

🔆 Enhancements:

• Properly retrieve meeting organiser's timezone
• G->O: Allow synced items to be assigned specific category (not just colour)
• Added option for users to automatically feedback errors
• Suggest manual start of Outlook if OGCS not permitted

🪲 Bugfix:

• Google token expiry not calculated in UTC
• Regression: Properly release Outlook if no Outlook GUI