Released January 10th, 2006

• OmniDictionary is now a Universal binary that runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs.
• Framework and OmniCrashCatcher updates.
• Localizations have been omitted from this release but will return in a forthcoming update.

Released August 16th, 2002

• Fixed crash that occurred when the user selected the Server Info menu item twice in a row
• Now compatible with Mac OS X 10.2
• French localization added, from Xavier Destombes. Definitions will still be returned in English if you're connected to the default DICT server, but application and help are both localized now.

Released January 2nd, 2002

• Added Check for Updates item to the application menu. If you select this menu item, OmniDictionary will check to see if there is a more recent release available. If there is, you will be given the option of going directly to the download page for the new release.
• The dictionary popup now lists the dictionaries in alphabetical order.
• Added history-style navigation of prior lookups. You can now use the keyboard to navigate back to a word you defined earlier.
• Added speech support, so you can have the definitions read to you.
• Added support for saving the definition to a plain text file.
• Added support for showing the DICT server information.
• Changed the default font used for definitions to a non-proportional font. The definitions returned by DICT servers are (at least typically) preformatted plain-text definitions, so using a proportional font ends up making them look less nice.
• Started anti-aliasing even small fonts, as otherwise the Mac OS X standard non-proportional font is not anti-aliased.
• Added font preference, so you can specify what font / font size you want for the definitions.
• Help and Release Notes are now available via the Help menu.
• Tweaked the UI, largely to conform to Aqua HI guidelines.
• Added a separator between definitions and label each definition with the dictionary from whence it came.
• We now change the mouse cursor when it goes over a link in the definition.
• The term combo box doesn't display any empty entries (unless nothing has yet been looked up, in which case it shows a single empty entry). It shows a maximum of ten entries before it gets a scrollbar.
• Adjusted the margins on the definition so it looks a bit better.
• When not connected to the dictionary server, or when in the process of connecting, we now display that status in the dictionary popup. (We no longer display the server name in the title bar.)
• Printouts are now top-aligned rather than vertically centered.
• OmniDictionary can now reside in a folder (or descendant of a folder) with a forward slash in the name. (The problem was related to the old Launcher app we used to allow us to package the frameworks in the app; that trick is no longer needed.)
• When we're invoked as a Service, we now set the term before trying to connect to the server, so it's clearer what's going on. (Bug reported in a MacNN forum.)
• The zoom button actually zooms intelligently now.
• Fixed a bug where a link to another term wouldn't work correctly if the term was split across multiple lines in the definition.
• We now scan our lexical tokens from server responses based on RFC 2229, obeying all its quoting rules, etc.
• Adjusted the names of our defaults settings (this may require you to update your OmniDictionary preferences again).

Released December 20th, 2000

• We now underline link references, and allow you to simply click on them to lookup the underlined word. (These are the words that previously showed up in curly braces.) We also do the same for guesses when the searched-for term is not found.
• Added a preferences panel, allowing you to set the server hostname, port, and timeout.
• Added the ability to manually disconnect from the server. (Hey - it's convenient for testing if nothing else.)
• Improved the automatic reconnection support, and stopped disabling controls when we're disconnected, so you can try a new definition and we'll simply try to reconnect.
• Stopped clearing out the term field and definition text area on connection/disconnection as it really wasn't necessary.
• We now display in the title bar the name of the server to which we're connected.
• Rearranged the menu some, fixing a problem with manual connection at the same time.
• Changed default dictionary host from www.dict.org to simply dict.org as that's what seems to be preferred and www.dict.org once stopped responding for a few days while dict.org remained available.
• Built native for the public beta of Mac OS X.

Released June 3rd, 2000

• Updated for Mac OS X DP4. This is now a Mac OS X application - download version 1.2 if you need to run this on Mac OS X Server.
• Scroll the definition text view to the top on a lookup, rather than potentially leaving you looking, say, halfway down the new definition.
• Printing now always prints the definition. Previously it would print the content of the term field if that field was selected.
• Five second timeout on connection to dict server, with the ability to reattempt if we fail to connect. (You can change this timeout by manually setting the serverConnectionTimeout default to something other than 5.0.)
• Some UI tweaks, such as control enabling/disabling and how we show connection status.

Released September 29th, 1999

• Updated for Mac OS X Server 1.0 frameworks.
• Fixed lookups of multiple word phrases - common in dictionaries like the Jargon File.

Released February 24th, 1999

• The final Rhapsody DR1 public release.