TheSage versions

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7.5
Oct 23, 2021
7.4
Jun 9, 2022
7.1
Sep 25, 2016
Editorial review
rating
6.4
Jan 29, 2015
Review
6.2
Feb 16, 2014
Review
6.0
Jan 20, 2014
5.3
May 28, 2013
Review
5.1
Feb 6, 2013
4.5
Jan 28, 2012
Review
4.0
Nov 18, 2010
Review
3.1
Jan 5, 2009
Editorial review
rating
1.4
Mar 2, 2008

What's new

v7.1 [Sep 25, 2016]
- New: User selection of text-to-speech speaker voice.
- New: Ctrl+A selects all results in tools that report using lists.
- New: Version updater (crane) algorithm.
- New: Automatically set focus on tab selection (etymology + thesaurus) in retro view.
- New: Hot-key custom activation delay (Advanced options).
- New: Multi-column display of results in tools that report using lists (Advanced options).
- Fixed: Correctly sized the column width of thesaurus lists in retro view.
- Changed: Download throttle speed of updates (twice as fast).
- Changed: Interval of check for updates from 14 days to 7 days.
- Changed: Automatically append TheSage's version to built-in form queries.
- Fixed: Abnormal behavior when inserting blank entries in history.
- Fixed: Filtering of newline control characters in queries.
- Added: Etymologies.
- Added: Transcriptions.
- Added: Definitions.
- Added: Thesaurus entries.
- Added: Examples.

v6.4 [Jan 29, 2015]
- Fixed: Formatting issues on the 'System Information' tab in 'About' dialog.
- Updated: Improved the performance of index searching.
- Updated: Improvements to the anagram search algorithm.
- Fixed: Concordancer returns mangled definitions in some rare cases.
- Updated: Improved the precision of inflected definitions.
Database:
- Added: Transcriptions.
- Added: Definitions.
- Added: Thesaurus entries.
- Added: Examples.

v6.2 [Feb 16, 2014]
- Default Google translation addresses for the Online search tool.
- Packer/unpacker block misalignment.
- Indexing of lemmas containing non-alphanumeric characters.
- A glitch in the new build system skips a subset of example sentences.
- Multi-word lemmas in definitions of inflected forms.

v4.5 [Jan 28, 2012]
New: Option to limit the number of open tabs.
- Fixed: Documentation failed to display in 64bit systems.
- Updated: Documentation.
- Changed: Donation button.
- Changed: Small improvements to the Exceptions algorithm.
- Updated: Miscellaneous optimizations of the index search.
- Updated: Improved speed performance of all word list operations.
- Changed: Miscellaneous small misalignment errors in the option pages.
- Updated: Detection of newer Windows OS versions ('System Information' tab in 'About' dialog).
- Updated: License agreement.
- Changed: Display of the operating system information ('System Information' tab in 'About' dialog).
- Fixed: Rare write error in settings file.
Database:
- Added: Transcriptions.
- Added: Definitions.
- Added: Thesaurus entries.
- Added: Examples.

v4.0 [Nov 18, 2010]
Version 4.0 database 1774 (public DONORS' release - November 18th, 2010)
- One-click word capture; Mouse-driven library (implementation options).
- Implementation of the word list tool (GUI algorithms
options).
- Word list operations (union, intersection,...), import/export, etc.
- Multiple selection in wildcard/anagram result tabs context menu to save to word list/clipboard/etc.
- Multiple selection in similarity tool result tabs context menu to save to word list/clipboard/etc.
- Multiple selection in phonetic search tool result tabs context menu to save to word list/clipboard/etc.
- Greedy antonym search option for Lookup tool (algorithm GUI). Triples the amount of antonyms returned.
- Greedy antonym search option for Semantic similarity tool (algorithm GUI).
- Option to start/stop the (random) animation of TheSage's system tray icon.
- Detection of all Windows OS versions on the market plus some additional data (About dialog, System Information tab).
- Chronological and alphabetical list for history tool (implementation options).
- Copy entire lookup to the clipboard.
- Copy entire thesaurus entry to the clipboard.
- Copy all definitions of a part of speech to the clipboard.
- Option to ignore anagrams smaller than user-defined number of characters.
- Option to ignore acronyms in Anagram search.
- Option to purge history of duplicates.
- Wildcard search option to automatically detect search patterns in lookup entry field if [ENTER] pressed.
- "Private release" tab in About dialog as well as small modifications in Splash page (added clickety).
- Changed: Small reorganization of pages related to the Lookup tool in the Options dialog.
- Changed: Anagram algorithm now searches for largest anagrams rather than alphabetically nearest in index.
- Changed: Wildcard and anagram tools have their own pages in the Options dialog.

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