v2.11.6 Alpha

🔆 Enhancements

• Application
  • Added "Revoke" button for Google permissions

🐞 Bugfix

• Application
  • Mask Google auth token file path location
  • Updated default UserAgent string to modern browsers
  • Cope with "Internal Server Error" when retrieving OGCS news
  • Handle COM error 0x8001010A with automatic retry [#2165]
  • Reduce eagerness to show Outlook security settings warning [#2163]
• Sync Engine
  • Exceptions to recurring events in Google wouldn't sync to Outlook [#2135]
  • Show "mass deletion" warning regardless of deletion prompt setting [#2137]
  • Handle blocked Outlook address book when accessing appointment organiser [#2136]
  • Sync summary counts no longer include failed items [#2150]
  • Log anonymised calendar subjects for item deletions [#2149]

v2.11.5 Alpha

🔆 Enhancements

• Application
  • Better detection of system wake from sleep [#2132]
  • Migrated news alert service to Google CloudRun for scalability
  • Prepared ability to receive v2 update alerts when skipping v3 releases
• Sync Engine
  • Miscellenous logging improvements

🐞 Bugfix

• Application
  • Fixed regression for "startup in tray" setting [#2117]
• Sync Engine
  • Workaround for Google bug that surfaced on 23-May with symptoms:
    • New Outlook appointment from "ghost" Google event fails to save [#2123]
    • Repeated failure to delete "ghost" Google event(s) [#2124]

v2.11.4 Alpha

🔆 Enhancements

• Application
  • Clearer instructions upon Google access token expiry [#2080]
  • Bring application to the front once loaded
  • Switched over from Twitter to Bluesky
• Sync Engine
  • Abort sync if Outlook COM errors are encountered whilst identifying differences [#2053]
  • Include calendar name in deletion dialogue box [#2098]
  • Include updated series exceptions in sync summary count

🐞 Bugfix

• Application
  • Manage API errors whilst getting Google settings [#2100]
  • Fixed install/uninstall telemetry
• Sync Engine
  • Retrieve Google occurrences that were originally outside the sync window [#2081]
    • Handle zero occurrences of Google series
  • Fixed never-ending sync due to calendar descriptions containing emojis [#2090]
  • Handle meeting attendees with accented characters in the name [#2097]
  • Specify UTC time zone for Google event retrieval (regression) [#2026]

v2.11.3 Alpha

🔆 Enhancements

• Application
  • Added a "news" service that surfaces messages, eg critical bugs and hotfixes
  • Miscellenous logging improvements
• Sync Engine
  • Further optimisation retrieving Google recurring series and its instances

🐞 Bugfix

• Application
  • Improvements dropdown refresh for Google default calendar colour.
• Sync Engine
  • Falsely detecting start/end time changed (by number of hours offset from UTC) [#2047]
    • Fixed logging of Google Event summary local time
  • Fixed UTC offset must be between year 0 and 10000 [#2055]
  • Fix O->G "last weekday of month" recurrence [#2068]
  • Handle inability to resolve Outlook GAL recipient [#1998]

v2.11.2 Alpha

🔆 Enhancements

• Sync Engine
  • Improved monthly recurrence on day >28th
  • Optimised retrieval of Google recurring series and its instances [#2034]
  • New emoji for recurring series exception

🐞 Bugfix

• Application
  • Update of third-party DLL files
    • Now requires .NET Framework 4.6.2
  • Include all-day series master ending on sync window start date
  • Clearer notification message for Outlook security [#2040]
• Sync Engine
  • Retrieve Google Event in UTC time zone [#2026]

v2.11.1 Alpha

🔆 Enhancements

• Sync Engine
  • Improved warning messages when colours/categories excluded [#1989]
    • Improved two-way sync behaviour when deletion prompt declined [#1989]

🐞 Bugfix

• Application
  • Handle insufficient Google calendar permissions better [#1937]
  • Properly disconnect from Google account [#1937]
  • Ensure Console content is always visible [#1958]
  • Remember choice to skip release upgrade [#1951]
  • Default obfuscation to subject property; handle null in settings [#1997]
  • Dedupe Google colour list
  • Open default system browser for OGCS links
• Sync Engine
  • Optimise exclusion of Outlook categories [#1929]
  • Handle empty appointment bodies when obfuscating [#1959]
  • Fixed premature deletion warnings in two-way sync [#1999]

v2.11.0 Beta

🔆 Enhancements rolled in from Alpha releases

• New option to:
  • Exclude Google items based on colour [#1553]
  • Exclude items based on title/subject [#1688]
  • Obfuscate any of subject, location, description [#500]
  • Only show notifications when changes have been synced [#1769]
  • Sync Google Meet conference details [#1076]
  • Anonymise calendar subjects in log file [#1755]
  • Choose deletion of previously synced Google items, which are now excluded by category [#1682]
    • NB: The default behaviour is to delete
• New options to exclude:
  • All-day items [#104]
  • Items by availability: free, tentative [#825]
  • Items by privacy: private [#415]
• Sync Engine
  • For one-way sync attribute overrides, also allow for newly created item only [#1859]
  • Delay immediate scheduled sync when resuming from hibernate [#1850]
  • Added menu option to Sync button for 'Full Sync'
  • Improved efficiency when locating Google recurring series [#1738]
  • When deletion prompt is declined, sync item instead [#1691]
  • For Google "Busy" status, persist Outlook statuses of: Out of office, Tentative, Working elsewhere [#1259]
  • Only sync Google Event types: default, focus time, out of office [#1843]
  • Log occurrence deletions to console
• Application
  • Ability to export/import settings [#1561]
  • Backup corrupted settings file before reset [#1867]
  • Notify and redirect on 0x80040154 (class not registred / no client) to #1888.
  • Increased maximum startup delay to 600s
  • Change log roller to daily, not file size
  • Removed legacy UA telemetry
  • Improved upgrade mechanism (when upgrading from this version) [#1837]
  • Handle poorly configured proxy servers [#1745]
  • UI guidance that configured exclusions don't apply to series occurrences [#1758]
  • Added description of what Profiles are [#1872]
  • Clearer user interface for sync interval Fair Usage Policy [#1699]
  • OGCS logo updated with modernised "G"
    • Animated logo in notification tray during sync [#1602]

v2.10.6 Alpha

⭐ Beta Release Candidate 1

🔆 Enhancements

• Added description of what Profiles are [#1872]
• Backup corrupted settings file before reset [#1867]
• For one-way sync attribute overrides, also allow for newly created item only [#1859]
• Notify and redirect on 0x80040154 (class not registred / no client) to #1888.
• Change log roller to daily, not file size
• Removed legacy UA telemetry

🐞 Bugfix

• Upgrade freezes; properly close old version [#1861]
• Deselect read-only calendar when selected as a target/two-way [#1877]
• Miscellaneous bugfixes

v2.10.5 Alpha

🔆 Enhancements

• Improved upgrade mechanism (when upgrading from this version) [#1837]
• Delay immediate scheduled sync when resuming from hibernate [#1850]
• Increased maximum startup delay to 600s
• Code refactor in preparation for O365

🐞 Bugfix

• Retain notification tray setting on upgrade through v2.10.4 [#1841]
• Don't attempt GMeet sync when description type unknown [#1844]
• Fixed regression of error when syncing too soon after system resume [#1836]
• Properly restore application when minimised from system tray [#1847]
• Exclude "Working Location" Google event type during 2-way sync [#1843]

v2.10.4 Alpha

🔆 Enhancements

• New option: only show notifications when changes have been synced [#1769]
• Re-release of sync for Google Meet conference details [#1076]
• UI guidance that configured exclusions don't apply to series occurrences [#1758]
• Added menu option to Sync button for 'Full Sync'
• Logging improvements

🐞 Bugfix

• Empty appointment descriptions broke GMeet details sync [#1776,#1810]
• Finding calendar folders in alternate mailboxes [#673]
• Handle oddly specified annual recurrences in Google [#1799]
• Exclude Google's new 'Working Location' attribute [#1817]
• Handle connection issues to alternate mailboxes when refreshing Outlook categories [#1823]