Version 4.20, released 7 Jan 2023

Bug fixes: Current conditions for some locations in Germany and India weren't available. Reported 2023.01.02 by Tobias Fehn-Werner, Bindesh Kelaiya

Version 4.19, released 19 Dec 2022

Bug fixes: Weather forecasts for several US locations were sometimes not available. Reported 2022.12.19 by Jim T, Dennis, Dennis' aunt   When selecting a language other than English, weather forecasts sometimes contain unrecognizable text. Reported 2022.08.06 by Jean Pilier   The application would sometimes crash with an "Incompatible security protocol" error when running on Windows 7. Reported 2022.08.06 by Ricardo Thompson

Version 4.18, released 31 Jul 2022

Bug fixes: The application would sometimes freeze while updating its weather retrieval progress. Reported by several users   Current conditions, weather forecasts and severe weather alerts were incorrect for some locations. Reported by several users   The application would sometimes crash with an "Incompatible security protocol" error. Reported 2022.07.25 by Ricardo Thompson

Version 4.17, released 21 Jul 2022

Bug fixes: Incorrect sunset and sunrise times were displayed for some locations. Reported 2022.07.18 by Ron B, Jill Mateo   Incorrect current conditions and severe weather alerts were displayed for some locations. Reported 2022.07.17 by several users

Version 4.16, released 17 Jul 2022

Bug fixes: Current conditions and severe weather alerts for Sheffield, Tasmania were being displayed for Sheffield, UK. Reported 2022.07.15 by Phil Birch   The application would sometimes crash when a severe weather alert had just been cleared. Reported 2022.07.16 by Deron Johnson, Samlab   The application would sometimes crash when the computer was awakened. Reported 2022.07.17 by several users

Version 4.15, released 14 Jul 2022

Enhancements: Implemented ability to display times in 24 hour clock. Severe weather alerts are now available in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Bug fixes: The current conditions were sometimes not displayed. Severe weather alerts were not displayed. Restored display of radar images (wide-region only) for US location maps. Restored animated radar images for non-US locations.

Version 4.14, released 3 Oct 2020

Bug fixes: The current conditions could not be displayed on some PCs running Windows 7.

Version 4.13, released 1 Aug 2020

Bug fixes: The current conditions could not be displayed. On some PCs, the application would sometimes crash with the error "A generic error occurred in GDI+".

Version 4.12, released 11 Jul 2020

Bug fixes: The current conditions could not be displayed. A new installation of WeatherMate no longer hides the application's main window by default.

Version 4.11, released 12 Oct 2019

Bug fixes: WeatherMate no longer displays the "(403) Forbidden" error message. WeatherMate no longer displays the message "A shortcut couldn't be created on this version of Windows."

Version 4.10, released 31 Mar 2018

Enhancements: Reinstated display of radar images and US maps. Increased the number of locations from 50K to 1M.

Version 4.9, released 28 Jan 2017

Enhancements: Improved the performance of weather information retrieval.

Version 4.8, released 29 Aug 2016

Bug fixes: On some PCs, clicking the severe weather alert link fails with the error "WeatherMate was unable to open the default web browser.  Please check your browser settings.".  Really fixed this time!

Version 4.7, released 28 Aug 2016

Bug fixes: On some PCs, clicking the severe weather alert link fails with the error "WeatherMate was unable to open the default web browser.  Please check your browser settings.".

Version 4.6, released 29 May 2016

Enhancements: Improved the performance of radar image and US map retrieval. Bug fixes: On some PCs, exiting WeatherMate caused the WeatherMate settings file to be unreadable when the application was restarted.

Version 4.5, released 21 May 2016

Enhancements: On older Windows systems, if WeatherMate was prevented from creating a desktop shortcut, the message displayed when this happened required it to be manually dismissed.  Now, the message automatically disappears after 10 seconds. Bug fixes: Radar images and US weather condition maps were sometimes not available. Metric long descriptions of forecasts for Tonight and Tomorrow Night specified wind speeds in mph instead of kph. Changes to the metric units and auto-hide modes were sometimes not saved.

Version 4.4, released 20 Mar 2016

Bug fixes: WeatherMate would sometimes crash with a "Parameter is not valid" exception. If a radar animation sequence isn't available for a location, the location's base radar image is used.  Previously, no radar image was being shown for that location. The application would sometimes crash when adding more than 6 locations. Selecting some locations in Mexico (e.g. Tijuana) would cause the application to crash.

Version 4.3, released 12 Apr 2015

Enhancements: Added an option to allow the splash screen to be moved to the lower right corner if it takes a long time for WeatherMate to perform the initial retrieval of weather information. Bug fixes: WeatherMate now displays an error message (instead of crashing) if the computer's speech settings prevent the application from speaking the weather. The application crashes on some systems when updating the weather when there's no severe weather alert indicated for the current location. WeatherMate's position switches to "Custom" when the system wakes up from sleep mode.  (This bug continues to exist when WeatherMate is not displayed on the primary monitor.)

Version 4.2, released 22 Mar 2015

Bug fixes: On Windows XP systems, the application crashes when attempting to create a shortcut on the desktop or in the Start menu's Startup folder. The application's up time (in the "About" window) is invalid on WinXP systems. Fixed intermittent network connectivity issues.

Version 4.1, released 15 Mar 2015

Enhancements: Added button to hide WeatherMate so that it only runs in the system tray. Double-clicking the system tray icon hides/reveals the WeatherMate window. Added option to start WeatherMate with Windows. Added option to speak the weather for the selected, first or all locations. Reduced time taken to retrieve weather information. Added indicator to inform user that unseen severe weather alerts exist.  Clicking the indicator displays the location with the alert. Severe weather alert text tooltip now displays the detailed description of the alert. Location tab displays the full location name in a tooltip. Added timestamp to error log filename. Installer improvements: Installer now creates a desktop shortcut. Installer now verifies that the installation folder can be written to. Bug fixes: Fixed crashes that occur when: Application is installed in a folder to which it doesn't have write access. A null reference exception is thrown at WeatherInfoControl.cs:221 and DlgWeatherMate.cs:1558. The system tray icon's tooltip is too long. The application is unable to retrieve the list of voices in the Settings | Speech options. No application is associated with the .html extension. The user attempts to add a seventh location. Corrected/added radar maps for US states: DE, FL, ID, IL. Fixed inability to use default proxy when connecting to the internet. "Today" and "Day by day" forecast text now displays tooltips without requiring WeatherMate to be the active application. The "Always show temperature of first location in system tray icon" option did not work. Reduced memory consumption (worked around nasty .NET PictureBox memory leak). Installer wouldn't allow installation to be cancelled at the folder selection step.

Version 4.0, released 5 Mar 2015

Enhancements: Rewrote the application from scratch. Application is now 100% portable (can run off a USB stick). Improved speed of weather retrieval. Weekly summary forecast includes detailed forecast in tooltips. Selectable radar map detail for many US locations. Application now displays severe weather alerts. Application now displays additional US weather maps. Application's window can be widend to show large radar images and maps. Weather can be displayed in English, French, German, Spanish or Italian. Fast switching between US and metric units. Application can check for new versions and update itself in place.

Version 3.4.6, released 17 Nov 2012

Bug fixes: WeatherMate was unable to display radar images for locations in Brazil due to changes at The Weather Channel. WeatherMate would erroneously indicate a new version of the application was available, when in fact it wasn't.

Version 3.4.5, released 2 Nov 2012

Bug fixes: WeatherMate was unable to display radar images for some US locations due to changes at The Weather Channel. Radar images are now displayed.

Version 3.4.4, released 26 Mar 2011

Bug fixes: WeatherMate was unable to display radar images for some European locations due to changes at The Weather Channel. Radar images are now displayed.

Version 3.4.3, released 15 Mar 2011

Bug fixes: WeatherMate was unable to display radar images for US locations due to changes at The Weather Channel. Radar images are now displayed.

Version 3.4.2, released 26 Mar 2010

Bug fixes: WeatherMate was unable to display radar images for several European locations due to changes at The Weather Channel. Radar images are now displayed.

Version 3.4.1, released 23 Jan 2010

Bug fixes: The icon in the Current Conditions section was not displayed for some locations. The icon is now displayed for all locations. Enhancement: Improved data retrieval performance.

Version 3.4, released 19 Nov 2009

Bug fixes: WeatherMate was unable to display current conditions due to changes at The Weather Channel. Current conditions are now displayed.

Version 3.3.4, released 4 Jul 2008

Bug fixes: WeatherMate was unable to display radar images due to changes at The Weather Channel. Radar images are now displayed.

Enhancement: Improved performance of radar image retrieval.

Version 3.3.3, released 15 Jun 2008

Bug fixes: WeatherMate was unable to display radar images due to changes at The Weather Channel. Radar images are now displayed.

Version 3.3.2, released 13 Apr 2008

Bug fixes: The current conditions were not properly displayed if some measurements weren't available from The Weather Channel.  WeatherMate now displays "N/A" for these items. The automatic upgrade check mechanism would only work once after starting WeatherMate.  Automatic upgrade checks (if enabled) are now done at the time interval specified in the Settings window.

Version 3.3.1, released 5 Apr 2008

Enhancement: Improved performance of data retrieval.

Version 3.3, released 21 Mar 2008

Bug fix: Changes at The Weather Channel prevented WeatherMate from sometimes displaying current conditions. Enhancement: Added option to always display temperature of first (instead of selected) location in system tray icon.

Version 3.2, released 9 Feb 2008

Bug fix: WeatherMate would sometimes hang if a location's radar image was not available.  WeatherMate now displays an appropriate informational graphic in place of the missing image.

Version 3.1.1, released 5 Nov 2007

Bug fix: WeatherMate's static radar image showed the first (i.e. oldest) frame of the animation sequence, instead of the last (i.e. latest) one.

Version 3.1, released 4 Nov 2007

Bug fix: Changes at The Weather Channel temporarily prevented WeatherMate from displaying radar images.

Version 3.0, released 7 Sep 2007

Bug fix: WeatherMate would sometimes display spurious text after the icon in the current conditions area.  This no longer happens.

Version 2.9, released 7 Jul 2007

Enhancements: Added the ability to speak the weather. Implemented "Check for new version" feature. Speeded up the retrieval of weather information. Updated the list of available locations. Added support for up to 32 locations. Usability improvements: Added a "Locations" button to the WeatherMate window. Added display selection menu items to the "Options" menu. Made the WeatherMate Settings window easier to use.

Version 2.8, released 1 Apr 2007

Bug fix: A change in the format of The Weather Channel's data feed would cause WeatherMate to sometimes lock up and crash on startup.  This no longer happens.

Version 2.7, released 21 Aug 2005

Usability improvement: WeatherMate no longer pops up an error message if it's unable to obtain weather information.  The message is instead displayed in the appropriate section (current conditions, forecast, radar image) of WeatherMate's window.

Version 2.6, released 13 Aug 2005

New features: Detailed weekly forecast now includes min/max temperatures. Icon color can now be customized.

Version 2.5, released 8 Aug 2005

New features: Added radar animation. Added ability to select what temperature (actual vs. feels like) is displayed in the system tray icon. Usability improvement: Made progress indication more granular.

Version 2.4, released 4 Jul 2005

Bug fixes: WeatherMate would sometime crash with this stack trace (in WeatherMateErrors.txt):     afxcoll.inl line 157     RBCollection.cpp line 61     WCWeatherInfo.cpp line 175 Selecting brief current conditions would cause WeatherMate to display blank current conditions. If no display items were selected in the Settings dialog, the user would be returned to the Position tab instead of the Display tab. Usability improvements: Detailed weekly forecast now displays weather icons. Added display options to WeatherMate's context menu.

Version 2.3, released 27 Jun 2005

Bug fixes: WeatherMate would occasionally think it was continuously in the process of updating its weather information, thereby preventing you from making any changes to its settings or exiting the program. New feature: Run-time errors are now logged to the file WeatherMateError.txt.

Version 2.2, released 18 Jun 2005

Bug fixes: WeatherMate required you to mouse over it to initiate its first auto-hide. Revealing an auto-hidden WeatherMate and then clicking "Hide" caused WeatherMate to be permanently autoHidden, requiring an exit and restart to restore normal behavior. Usability improvement: Replaced the "Jump to edge" checkbox with explicit Jump buttons in the "Position" tab in WeatherMate's "Options" dialog.

Version 2.1, released 12 Jun 2005

Bug fix: 3-digit temperatures were getting clipped in the system tray icon.  This no longer happens. Usability improvement: Tweaked AutoHide/Restore delay.

Version 2.0, released 12 Jun 2005

Bug fixes: If current conditions are not available, the display shows "()". WeatherMate appears in the Alt-Tab list. Attempting to drag WeatherMate when dragging is not permitted caused it to stop auto-hiding. The default auto-hide setings were invalid. WeatherMate crashed if the MoveUp/MoveDown or Delete buttons were pressed in the "Locations" window when no entry in the "Selected locations" list was selected. The "Start with Windows" setting was ignored. New feature: Added weekly forecast. Usability improvements: Run selection (on desktop, in system tray) simplified. "Always on top" setting moved to "Visibility" tab. Reduced clutter in Settings dialog. Added "Hide" button to send WeatherMate to the system tray. Clicking WeatherMate's system tray icon now restores it. Added "Locations" command to WeatherMate menu. Added auto-hide sensitivity setting.

Version 1.0, released 4 Apr 2005

Initial release