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There's a new build out today: 9.0.182.1 Technically, it is a cutting edge build but it's also replaced the prior 9.0.182.0 base build on the downloads pages for both Release 9 and Viewer. It delivers two new features that have been instantly adopted by everybody who's seen them: 1. Persist Recent swatches in the Select Color dialog across sessions. This has proven extremely handy for people who are making edits in multiple sessions and want to be able to re-use what they've just edited in one session in another session without having to save to a favorite. 2. Add drop shadow lines to the gradient square crosshair in the Select Color dialog, to improve visibility against light colors. That latter addition is driving the look and feel of the new dialog so it's a "must have" for the many screenshots that are being shot or re-shot for the user manual. There are two fixes as well: 3. (Fix) In the Select Color dialog replace 0-100 limits with 0-255 limits when editing alpha/opacity numeric edit box with arrow keys and the box is set to alpha. 4. (Fix) Remove occasional floating point packed color numbers appearing in mfd_meta JSON values for colors. Automatically updates any legacy uses on first write to that property record. The first of those was a simple oversight. There wasn't any limit on the slider itself or on numeric edits, but using arrow keys maxed out at a top of 100 when the radio button was set to alpha. That should have been 255. The second of those had no effect on interactive use because the pipelines to and from the JSON values are symmetric. But having signed numbers appearing in the JSON for those values is an error and over time would have impacted people who alter JSON properties strings programmatically. I doubt many people have had time to make such changes but if they have the fix automatically converts values to unsigned on the first write to the record.
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