This section below is for Users who want to know every single issue and fix that have been applied in all prior interim releases. It is always a good idea to read the latest release notes on the version you are now installing and any prior versions you may have skipped over when upgrading.

New Features in V-4.1.x of Pimlical/Android (new features since V-3.7.x require a subscription)

• Switches to the use of Scoped Storage for better security and compliance with Android-11 and later (...android/data/com.pimlicosoftware.PimlicalA/files/Pimlical). This version will automatically move all your files from the old {root}/Pimlical folder to this new folder.
• Icons can now be added (individually, or all icons in a folder) to, or deleted from, the Icon Library directly from the Icon Dialog (no need to perform this step in P/D and then create a compatible icon collection for P/A and move it to P/A). Also includes multiple backup/restore function for IconArchive.dat file. Both P/A and P/D now use the identical IconArchive.dat file.
• Restores the full-page Alarm Dialog on Android-10 and later (see alarm documentation for details - remember you have to grant explicit Android OS permission to display full screen over other App dialogs).
• The Widget has been completely rewritten and is now part of the main Pimlical App (there is no separate Widget App). Note that you likely need to remove and reinstall the Widget when upgrading to a new version of Pimlical/Android. Widget has option to avoid re-read of database by both P/A and the Widget, to greatly speed up refresh (and most users can take advantage of this - set ForceCalendarReadAfterWidgetRefresh to False which is the new default setting).
• An internal File Manager now allows access to Pimlical's Scoped Storage as well as all other files and folders outside of the Scoped Storage folders of other Apps, and offers Copy/Rename/Delete/Open/Share options for the files
• The Debug menu commands to view Error files and Log Files now include a DELETE button to conveniently delete all of them.
• New Backup Everything and Restore Everything commands make it easy to backup and restore ALL local databases, preferences, etc. (Remember you'll likely have to edit the preference: MenuCommandsAndOrder to see those new menu items). Also, there's a special preference to create multiple, date/time-stamped backups if you wish. You can also set Pimlical to automatically perform a BackupEverything on a schedule, and also delete the oldest backup to avoid using too much storage.
• The Upgrade button in menu | About can now automatically download and install the latest upgrade to Pimlical.
  
• A new preference can be set to automatically reset AutoSync Authentication prior to invoking AutoSync. And the AutoSync command can now be put on the Command bar.
• A new preference ForceFloatsToBeUntimed (like existing ForceTasksToBeUntimed) allows all floats (including timed floats) to appear at the top of the list of events for a day.
• A new preference item for the Command Bar (Tu) toggles between displaying and hiding all untimed items (if you have a lot of floats or tasks, this makes it easy to view just the timed events).
• Adds new Action Tags to always hide an event, and to suppress alarms on an event (useful when handling shared calendars).
  
• Several other new preference settings have been added (see entire Revision History since V-3.7.110 or peruse the online Manual section on preferences.
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• Fixes issue of erroneously displaying brief toast about No Events Selected to be Snoozed every time an alarm is snoozed (the alarms were all properly managed though).
• Has new Worldtimezones.txt file (and Worldtimezones_all.txt) with two new DST rules to properly handle Central and Eastern Europe, i.e. separately from Western Europe, as London changes DST at 1am, Central Europe (Paris, Germany) changes at 2am and Eastern Europe (Greece, Finland) changes at 3am, These two DST rules were added:
     .L L103 L110 Central Europe, Paris, Germany
      .M L103 L110 t3h Eastern Europe Greece, Finland
  and the timezones were changed to:
      +01:00L Europe/Paris [CEur]
      +02:00M Europe/Athens [EEur]
  and the rule for Tehran was changed to N in both files to accomodate this change. Note that this file is cached into SystemPreferences, so you have to go into menu | Preferences | Restore | Reset and check the box for Worldtimezones.txt to see this change take effect.
  
• Fixes issue of encountering an Exception Error with a feature (I think only used on Lord Howe Island and Troll) in Pimlical to handle Daylight Savings adjustments other than one hour (30m and 2h respectively!). Such DST rules would look like this: .P 1110 1104 t3h d30m Lord Howe Island.

• Another fix to V-4.1.09 for the problem of avoiding an obscure UncaughtExceptionError in the new File Manager Function that could occur under some conditions when the remembered path was completely empty.
• The Advance Time dialog used to set alarms was unexpectedly displaying Seconds for users running in Debug Mode - leading to the expectation that it was possible to set alarms to the exact second - that is not supported and in fact such alarms would get missed, so this release no longer displays the seconds field in debug mode.
• Fixes a flaw in the BackupEverything/RestoreEverything commands: the destination folder contents were not always being pre-deleted, so any existing files in the destination that were not in the source were retained (normally not any issue, but the expectation is that the copy should be a perfect match).
  

• The About Dialog now includes information on the Widget Refresh (date/time of last refresh, and why the Widget may not have Refreshed the last time it was scheduled to refresh).
  

• If an alarm triggers while AutoSync is active, or during a Backup/Restore everything, or during a Widget Refresh or any other activity which could potentially conflict with the alarm, the alarm will be auto-snoozed to avoid interaction issues. The reason for snoozing is written to the debug log file and also displayed as a toast.
• When exiting Pimlical using menu | Exit, or refreshing the Widget from Menu | Debug, Pimlical now ensures that all dialogs that could ever be displayed are all closed (due to issues of Android OS doing odd things that leave Pimlical with the indication that a dialog was open when it was not.
• Removed some old animation code (that never seemed to work properly) for the Event Selection List (in case it had something to do with the bizarre issue of it sometimes displaying the dialog template instead of event data. On same issue, now attempts to rebuild selection list if it is found to be null, and if unable will just relaunch acttivity. That should prevent all those odd displays.
• Changes the test for the maximum number of permitted email attachments (such as error files) from the Email Tech Support button from a limit of 20 files to a limit of 20Mb (approximately) as that is the limit in Outlook (Yahoo mail and Gmail have a 25mb limit).
• Avoids an obscure UncaughtExceptionError in the new File Manager Function that could occur under some conditions when the remembered path was completely empty.
• Caters to an unusal situation where Android OS was terminating Pimlical/Android activity at the precise time it was reading the calendar - problem was that some flags were not cleared, result in the need to force-stop Pimlical to recover.
• Fixes problem with rotating the screen whilst the Icon Dialog is displaying (calculations for number of rows and columns was completely off, when preferences were set to 0 for autocalculate).
• Fixes issue in using the TodayLocator feature (highlights Today cell temporarily in all views displaying more than one day - other than ListView) whereby on relaunching PIimlical from the Day VIew, under some circumstances the screen would be blank.
  

• On reading an event from Android Calendar that was originally created in P/A and marked for the home timezone with the (normally hidden in P/A) [H] tag in the note field, Pimlical now caters to the possibility that the event was MOVED to another timezone by Google Calendar (or Native Android Calendar App) and will re-adjust the times appropriately so it displays properly in the Home Time Zone (previously if the event was say changed to UTC, the UTC time was preserved, but the timezone reset to Home Time Zone). For example, some other calendars interfacing with Google Calendar might not include the timezone information at which point Google might present the time in UTC, which would be a problem with an event originally created in P/A and which had the [H] (Hometimezone) tag in the note field.
• Restores the brief toast message that the widget is refreshing when the Widget Refresh button is tapped even if the Widget is not forcing a re-read of the calendar.
• Incorporates a slight change in the formatting of the Preferences Restore Dialog to make it a bit clearer as to what gets restored by listing the actual filename rather than abbreviations - note that ALL custom preference files (attached to filters) are also backed up and restored, as well as the Default.txt file. Previously, the file size was reported for the CURRENT preference file in effect, whereas in this release it now uses the DEFAULT preference file size for consistency. Also, it was always displaying "Yesterday" for any date in the past, rather than displaying the date in medium date format for any date preceding yesterday.
  

• Fixes a new issue in timezone handling in Google/Android Calendars whereby the Android and Google calendars were not properly recording the time and original timezone of the event from Pimlical/Android.
• Fixes a long-standing issue of an event in Google/Android Calendars that has different start and end timezones round-tripping through the Android Calendar (that can only handle one timezone) through Google Calendar and then back through Android Calendar to Pimlical with Pimlical restoring the original end timezone.
• Fixes issue in moving an event with different start/end timezones to a new time or day (the end timezone locale was getting lost, and if it was moving across a DST crossover day, the duration might not be correct).
• Fixes issue of not always reporting the correct duration of an event if the start/end times were in different timezones, or the start/end dates straddled a DST crossover (example, event in USA this year on March 10th starting at 1am and ending at 3am now finally shows the correct duration of 1h, since 2-3am did not exist!).
• Fixes several obscure cases where on moving or modifying events, an event with different start/end timezones might unexpectedly get both start/end timezones set to the start timezone (displayed times were still correct, but the original, native timezone information might have been lost).
  

• Fixes new issue in V-4.1.05 that it was not correctly reading the embedded Icon Key # in the filename of older style icons that had somewhat screwy filenames (all newer icons did not have this issue). Result was that older icons all had a key of 0 and returned the same icon. Note: it is possible you may need to restore the IconArchive.dat file from a backup to properly display the old icons.
• NOTE: it turns out that tiny change in V-4.1.05 only may have also unexpectedly modified some of your preferences that had a negative integer value (in particular, check these four preferences to be sure they have the expected value: ListViewHeaderPosition -1, LightenGoogleColor -1, DaysBackToRead -1, FingerSlipThreshold -1).
  
• Fixes an obscure issue of possibly not setting the correct locale for event timezones in an Android Calendar with a UTC offset that was not whole hours (such as Pacific/Marquesas,-09:30).   

• When using the Backup Everything command with the preference NumberOfBackupsForBackupEverything set to a value, Pimlical will now iterate through the process of deleting backups until the number of backups agrees with that value (otherwise if you set it to a smaller value, the number of backups would not be reduced to that value as it only deletes one backup prior to performing the backup).
• The File Manager Share and Open commands now use the possibly changed filename in the dialog (this can be useful, for example, changing the extension of an error file from .ERROR to .TXT so a regular text editor can be invoked with Open).
• The color selection dialog now includes two new buttons: Set Default which set Pure Black {0,0,0} and Pure White {255,255,255} respectively for the Foreground and Background colors. The default values for the preferences: ForeColor1 and BackColor1 have been changed to an "almost black" {0,0,1} and an "almost white"{255,255,254}. This avoids confusion over choosing Pure Black as a foreground color and not realizing that Pure Black is also the default foreground color and can therefore be overridden for example, by the default category foreground color. Also, if the preferences: ForeColor1 and BackColor1 have the old values of {0,0,0} and {255,255,255}, they will always be changed to the new default values of {0,0,1} and {255,255,254}. When a default foreground or background color is set, the color swatch also displays the legend "Default".
• Ensures that on upgrading, if permission to install unknown Apps is not provided, then after providing that permission, Pimlical proceeds with installing the upgrade (a recent change broke that feature).
  

• Fixes issue that a change in a recent beta preview had caused the manual refresh of the widget after booting up to be lost.
• Fixes issue that "File Manager" was listed as "FileManager" in the preference: MenuCommandsAndOrder which means that under certain circumstances an erroneous error message (Menu Item Not Defined: FileManager) was being created.
• When invoking DirectSync, P/A will now proceed without a WiFi connection if a cellular Data Internet connection is available (this would not normally be useful, but perhaps some advanced users fiddling around with VPN's could take advantage of this?).
• When an image attached to an event is missing, the error file now identifies the date and description of the event.
• Fixes an issue with a momentary notice that a subscribed user had no subscription, either on startup or upgrading to a new version (a moment later, the issue went away).
• Fixes issue of the interval timer that times things like the moving of the Red Bar in a main view, etc. getting unexpectedly disabled.
• In the color selection dialog, if a default foreground (Pure Black) or background color (Pure White) is set, the legend "Default" appears in the color swatch to make these defaults distinguishable from a "near-black" or "near-white" which are used to set an explicit Black or White that will not be overridden as a default.
• Fixes issue that the Cancel button in the Calendar Edit Dialog (which displays category colors and icon) did not result in leaving the original values alone - they were always updated to whatever changes were made in that dialog).
• Fixes issue that if the Image Path in the Edit Dialog is invalid, there was no clear indication in the dialog that there was a problem (other than an error files being created). Now displays a RedX, and the legend: File Not Found: {full path to image}, and an error file is no longer generated for this issue.
• When using the old "DateBk-Style" Time Picker, tapping on the TimeZone button to change timezones now reflects immediately in the button legend (previously, there was a cosmetic flaw in that it  only refreshed when another button was tapped).
• Ensures that when the Event Selection List is exited (returning to a main View) there are no spurious indications that any dialog is still open (which could cause the Widget to skip a refresh).

• Fixes issue of possibly, prematurely releasing the Wake Lock in the Alarm dialog when buttons are tapped - in particular, tapping the Alarm Icon  to silence the alarm and then user does nothing else (AOS might terminate the thread on timeout of the wakelock and in particular kills the AutoSnooze timer so that never kicks in and future alarms don't get rescheduled).
• Fixes a new timezone issue (would have first appeared in V-3.7.118, but never reported till now) when displaying an event from Google Calendar that was entered in a different timezone on a date that also spanned a Daylight Savings Time crossover (such as an event entered in PST for a date in which PDT was in effect).
  
• Menu | Debug | Internal Reset now also resets the remembered date of the last Automated Backup to Today's date.
  

• Adds a new preference for the File Manager: FileManagerSort which currently supports two values: Alpha - which sorts the folder contents alphabetically (as previously) and Date - which sorts the folder contents in reverse chronological order (newest item at top). 

• Fixes new issue in V-4.1.02 where a bizarre glitch caused a line of code to drop which resulted in the (duration) type preference values in minutes being ignored (so a preference that specified say 10m would result in 0s!).
• Adds a new Search Manual button in the Help & Usage Tips Dialog that links directly to a web page with the Google Search field at the top of the page so the manual can be more easily searched (requires WiFi connection of course).
• Fixes issue: on exit from the Edit dialog, when an Alarm or Snooze dialog was being displayed, Pimlical was scanning for the next alarm which could, under certain circumstances, unexpectedly caused the next alarm to be scheduled as part of the AutoSnooze action (so instead of showing the original alarm that was unacknowledged, it could show the next alarm). This might happen if user was IN the Edit Dialog when the alarm triggered, and then exits but never acknowledges the alarm and it subsequently autosnoozes. In theory, this is impossible because the Alarm/Snooze Dialogs should display on top of the Edit dialog and it should not be possible to exit the Edit Dialog under these circumstances (so this looks like an obscure Android OS bug that caused this behavior).
• The function to display a web page (such as Help items, Revision History, Subscription Page, etc.) now checks that either WiFi or a Cellular Data connection is available so the internet can be accessed and if not, displays an appropriate alert dialog (previously, there was no proper feedback as to what the issue might be).
  

• Fixes scheduling issues with the new feature to invoke automated BackupEverything commands (previously, it only got launched if the database was re-read, and there was also an error in recording the date of the last Automated backup - which is now also recorded in menu | About and required information). Note: for users who used this feature in V-4.1.01, go into Menu | Debug | Internal Reset and that will reset the date of the last Automated backup so it backs up on the next opportunity.

• On installing a new version, when launched, Pimlical, if it's not performing an automatic Backup Everything, will request that AOS activate the Widget right away.
• Includes a new button in Menu | Help & Usage Tips with legend: Copy Reqd. Info to Clipboard which copies all the required information for getting Technical Support to the Android Clipboard so it can be pasted into any email program (The Email Tech Support button also did this, but it seems most users were not aware of that).
• Fixes erroneous PimlicalDebugInfo.Log message on resetting snooze interval (was displaying date of last date in calendar instead of precise date/time to the next snooze).
• Fixes new issue in V-4.1.01 of inadvertently generating EXDATE rules when writing repeat events with exceptions into the Android Calendar Database which was causing Write Errors on Android Calendars (for some bizarre reason, Android Calendar import goes beserk if it sees such iCalendar rules).
• No longer runs the Widget if the Event Selection List is open in P/A (turns out that was causing unexpected error files as Android was complaining about an expired activity).
• When a locale is undefined (usually because Worldtimezones.txt was edited but subsequently replaced with default version), P/A now just logs this to the PimlicalDebugInfo.log file (if debug mode is set) and sets it to Home Time Zone rather than creating potentially thousands of error files. It also avoids the issue of floating events with an invalid locale getting all advanced to today's date.
• Adds more robust verification of date fields in the database (to catch errors such as the above).
• Many internal changes dealing with some subtle timezone issues - fixes the issue of events that spanned more than one day in a different timezone that also crossed a DST change-over not displaying a time that was off by one hour in the main views (the date and time were correct in the Event Selection List).
• Fixes an Uncaught Exception Error that could occur when snoozing an alarm on an item with a very short description.
  

• When deleting multiple items in an Event Selection List, if there are one or more repeat events present, Pimlical now displays an Alert Dialog asking if you want to delete just the instances of those repeats (INSTANCE), or if you want to delete the entire repeat series (SERIES). And there's a cancel button  if you want to cancel out and manage them individually.

• Fixes potential issue of getting a read error on System Preference File when upgrading to a new version (this correction will not take effect of course until this version is performing the upgrade).
• Fixes new issue of not properly importing an iCalendar file when using the File Navigator in Menu | Select Calendars | IMPORT.
• Fixes issue of not handling Exception Dates in repeat records from the iCalendar File that Pimlical generated from the local calendar since it was not properly reading the list of exception dates in the iCalendar Record.
• Cleaned up Icon button display in Icon Dialog and second row buttons in Event Selection Dialog.
• Fixed a potential conflict problem between Pimlical/Android and the Widget on starting up after rebooting the device.

• File Manager now displays a full dialog (rather than an alert) and includes the full path, filename, file size and the last Modification Date for the file. The navigation routine now replaces the path /Android/data/com.pimlicosoftware.PimlicalA/files/Pimlical with Pimlical [SS] (for Pimlical in Scoped Storage)as otherwise, the path is so long it doesn't get displayed on the title line. The new dialog also allows a long-press on the Copy/Rename/Delete buttons to bypass the normal confirmation dialogs (i.e. overwriting a file on Copy or Rename or confirming you want to delete) and includes a Done button to exit the File Manager. You can use the Back button in that dialog to conveniently return to the initial File Selection Display in File Manager. Adds an Open command which will open the file using any associated Apps for that filetype (so you can open PDF files in Acrobat, or graphics files with your graphics program, text files with any Text editor etc. This makes it possible to view error or log files on the phone using a text editor (more functional than using menu | Debug to look at them). Also adds a Share command which will send the file to any other application on your device that accepts files (email, printer, photo App, SMS App, etc.). When using the Copy command in the File Manager, you can also change the name of the file to be used in the destination folder, by editing the filename (as you would when renaming a file).
• Adds ability to schedule Backup Everything so it is automatically invoked at an interval of days specified by the new preference: DaysBetweenAutoBackupEverything. This preference has a default value of 0 which turns off this feature. To backup every other day, set this to 2. This backup will either do the backup to the root Pimlical/ folder, or will make date/time stamped backups to the PimlicalBackups folder (depending on the setting of the preference: BackupEverythingUsesDateTimeStamp (default is false). Regardless of whether the Backup is invoked by menu Command (or Command Bar/Gesture), you can now have Pimlical automatically delete the oldest backup copy prior to performing the backup with the new preference: NumberOfBackupsForBackupEverything (default value is 5). So if you already have 5 backup copies and perform a BackupEverything, and if  BackupEverythingUsesDateTimeStamp is set to True, the oldest backup is automatically deleted to make room for the newest backup. Note that due to new restrictions in Android it is not really practical to invoke this as a background task, so it is done in the foreground when Pimlical is launched (so it would typically run on the first launch of Pimlical on a day that called for the backup to be performed (so it relieves the user of having to remember to manually invoke the full backup). And the new File Manager feature makes it easy to just pull a single file from the backup for restoration.
• On installing a program update (from Menu|About|Upgrade), P/A now checks to see if the permission has been granted to install unknown Apps and if not, it immediately invokes the Android Permissions Manager to allow the user to grant the permission, and then proceeds with the installation if permission is granted.
• Adds the Menu | Backup Everything command as a command that can now be placed on the command bar (using the preferences: CommandBarViewButton#...) or as a swipe gesture using the preferences: UserDefinedGestureXXXX).
• Menu | Backup Everything now saves the file size (Gb or Mb) using definitions as a power of two (previously, power of ten was used - so one gigabyte is now considered to be 1,073,741,824 bytes as opposed to 1,000,000,000 bytes).  Values are also now displayed with one decimal point.
• Extends the use of the Preference:  ForceCalendarReadAfterWidgetRefresh to also apply to the Widget itself. If this preference is set to False (default is true), this means that the calendar as read by either P/A or the Widget is valid and does not need to be re-read. Do not set this preference to False if the Widget is reading a different set of calendars from P/A. If the same calendars are read, and if the Widget finds that the database is intact, it avoids the unnecessary re-read on the calendar, resulting in a much faster refresh of the Widget, often taking less than a second (so the normal "Toast" message is skipped and in general this results in much less interference with P/A too).

• Protects against an odd type of corruption in repeat events that would cause Pimlical to crash.
• Import button in Menu | Select Calendars now allows full navigation through all folders outside of Scoped Storage as well as all folders inside the Pimlical folder in Scoped Storage (previously, it was hard-wired to the Pimlical/ExportedCalendars folder, and the filenames were not sorted). 
• Fixes issue of not setting the CreationDate field in a newly created contact.
• Includes potential fix for odd (and relatively rare) issue whereby the Event Selection List shows ancient events, even though underlying view shows correctly (typically only after Android OS has absconded with all or part of Pimlical's data).
  

• Adds a simple File Manager menu option so that a Pimlical user can navigate throughout all of the filing system, except for the Scoped Storage area of Apps other than Pimlical. A file can then be selected at which point a dialog appears offering options to Copy, Rename or Delete the selected file. In the case of Copy, the file navigator appears again (this time only listings folders) so the destination folder can be selected for the Copy. In the case of Rename, the user can change the filename and then tap the Rename button. To delete the file, just tap the Delete button. A confirmation dialog will appear if the destination file for copy or rename already exists. Tap the Done button to exit the File Manager, or press the Back button at any time.There are buttons in the File Navigation dialog to quickly move to the root of the filing system and to the Pimlical folder in Scoped Storage (otherwise, you can't even navigate to that folder!).

• Adds a Root Folder button to the File Navigation dialog (used in commands like Set Link to File) to quickly reach the root of the filing system (normally something like /storage/emulated/0/). Also adds a Done button to exit the File Navigation dialog, and the legend of the Pimlical button has been changed to Pimlical [SS] to more clearly indicate this is the Pimlical folder in Scoped Storage.
• When installing a new version, Pimlical now consults a table of menu items and the associated versions they were introduced on and if there is match AND if that menu item is not currently being displayed, the menu item will be automatically added at the end of the currently displayed menu items (Preference: MenuCommandsAndOrder) so that it's forced to display. This is only done one time on the first run of a newly installed release.
• Tightens up the menu row height so more items can be displayed on the screen - on most contemporary phones, all the current menu items can display on a single page. Note that you loosen up the display by increasing the preference: MenuTextSize.
  

• Fixes issue of crashing when scrolling through entire System Section of Preferences (a test preference in a Beta Preview was inadvertently left in the program).

• Avoids creating the PimlicalDebugInfo.log file when the preference EnableDebugLog is set to False (previously, it would create that file for certain specialized logs even though that preference was set to False). Note though that if the file already exists, the logs may still be added, so delete that file if present and it won't get re-created with this release.

• Adds a Delete button to the Menu | Restore Everything dialog, so that backup copies can be deleted from Pimlical. Also includes the size of the backup (in MB or GB) so that the approximate space used by backup copies can be assessed, and removes unnecessary re-read of calendar after doing a backup (that's only needed after a restore). Also includes count of files copied or deleted at conclusion of file operation. Also now requests confirmation for Restore (and Delete) after backup copy has been selected (previously requested confirmation before even checking to see if there were any backups available for restoration or deletion).

• Fixes new issue in V-4.0.32 of not setting the correct exception date when an instance of the series is moved to a different day (it was picking up the instance date from the new date set on the instance, not from the original date of the instance.)
• Fixes erroneous error file (Count of Missing Items: 0) which was not testing for no missing items and skipping the creation of the error file.
  

• Fixes a new issue in syncing memos - under some conditions, an error file would get generated and some memos might not get synced properly from the Dropbox Server.
• On dialing a number (or sending SMS) if there is no vertical rule (|) character present (added in V-4.0.30 to truncate phone number at that point), Pimlical now processes the phone number as it did previously (allowing: 0-9 + - {space} . # * ( )
• Another fix for the issue of editing an instance of a repeat series in a different timezone that also got shifted to a different day - the instance was not properly picking up the original date/time/locale of the repeat series itself.
• Works around new restriction in AOS-14 that could cause a hidden ANR (Application Not Responding) error when Pimlical was attempting to get alarms rescheduled in the background and the device was unusually busy or the calendar was unusually large AND the device was running Android-14. Pimlical is now launched as an App to reschedule alarms after the device is rebooted (you can disable that behavior by setting the new Preference: launchPimlicalOnBootUp to false (default is true) but if you do that, alarms might not get rescheduled until you manually launch Pimlical).
• Restores the functionality of the menu items Find All Items Linking to This in the Contacts and Memos section (a recent update to the Android OS broke this functionality completely, so it had to be rewritten to work with the latest version(s) of the Android OS).
• Fixes an obscure issue of tapping the UPGRADE button in menu | about very quickly (before Pimlical has refreshed the licensing information) which could result in an erroneous complaint that the subscription was not valid.
  

• A new preference: DownloadFolderFilePath can be optionally set to provide an alternate path to the Downloads folder. If this preference is empty (the default value), Pimlical uses the "External Storage Directory" + "Downloads" to locate the Downloads folder (this is typically something like /storage/emulated/0/Downloads). This same preference is also now in Pimlical/Desktop. Note that to access a folder off the root of the filing system, you would need to include that External Storage Directory string (see the File Path displayed in Menu | About).

• Fixes issue with the alarm Preference: AlarmSoundRepeatCount. It is documented to be the number of additional alarms that will sound for an event if the Alarm Dialog is not acknowledged. However it was functioning as the total number of alarms that would sound. If you set this preference to 0, the alarm should (and will now) sound once and that's it. After the SecondsToAutoSnooze preference elapses, the alarm dialog is removed from the screen. So a value of 0 for AlarmSoundRepeatCount effectively disables the autosnooze feature. A value of 1 would mean that the alarm is autosnoozed just once (for a total of two alarms - the original alarm and one snoozed instance).
• Fixes a relatively new issue: if an exception is made to a repeat series in a different timezone that results in the displayed instance being on a different day from the day it would be displayed on in its native timezone, the exception date was wrong (it was set to the date of the displayed instance, not the date of the exception in its native timezone). This used to work, but got broken by some code introduced to work around a bug in the Palm OS Desktop(!) - the code having been subsequently copied from Pimlical/Desktop.
• Includes line of code to possibly address odd issue of Event Selection List sometimes showing raw template data rather than event data.
• Adds leading 0 to one-digit month in the Menu Backup Everything folder names, so backups sort better.
• Fixes a potential UncaughtExceptionError that could occur at the conclusion of a Restore Everythiing command.
• Fixes a cosmetic issue that if command Find Items In Group is issued after a Find command that was searching for text, the search string would not always get cleared out and could appear in the Event Selection List title.
• Fixes a significant, new problem in menu | Restore Everything command when restoring from a date/time-stamped file (i.e. from a folder within the /PimlicalBackups folder) - not all files were getting properly restored, and the folder sometimes contained a copy of itself.
  

• When dialing a phone number or using SMS, all characters in the phone number field are now used, but a vertical rule (|) can be used to strip out all remaining characters in the field (so 830-456-3145 | x-245 would result in the vertical bar and the x-245 being stripped out (previously, only selected characters would be permitted, but that was a bit too restrictive).
• Avoids generating logs to PimlicalDebugInfo.txt file from floating advances. and some notifications.
• About Dialog now includes brand and model of phone (useful when user just sends screenshot of About dialog rather than provide info via EMAIL TECH SUPPORT button).
• Fixes issue that if an iCalendar event is imported with an ORGANIZER field, but no email field for the organizer, P/A was crashing with a Null Pointer Exception Error.
• Forces re-read of preferences and main calendar after Menu | Restore Everything completes which should remove the need to force-stop P/A after this menu item is invoked.
• Fixes issue that if menu is not taking up the entire screen, and user taps outside of the menu to dismiss it, under some conditions, the Fling gesture might get temporarily disabled.
• Changes legend in Menu | Help | About from Purchase Subscription to Purchase Another Subscription if the user currently has an active subscription.
• Preference AnimateTodaysDate has been deprecated (no longer works due to interference from some odd Android OS update). It's been replaced by two preferences:  TodayLccatorBackground - if 0 (default value) the feature is disabled, otherwise, this is an Alpha transparency value from 255 (opaque, white background) to 1 (fully transparent background), with 210 being a reasonable value to see this feature work. The faded background is displayed for a period of milliseconds set by the preference: TodayLocatorDuration - default value is 750 - or 3/4 of a second which may be about right for most users.

• Yet another approach to fixing an obscure issue whereby Pimlical gets launched twice when an alarm goes off, which can then result in the alarm not sounding and displaying properly.

• Another approach to fixing an obscure issue whereby Pimlical gets launched twice when an alarm goes off, which can then result in the alarm not sounding and displaying properly.
  

• Fixes an obscure issue (which may be new with AOS-14) whereby Pimlical gets launched twice when an alarm goes off, which can then result in the alarm not sounding and displaying properly.
  

• Fixed issue of icons in the Find dialog not being redrawn properly when the Find Dialog was subsequently refreshed.
• (Changed path Definition for RAW_DATA_FILENAME - this is just an internal diagnostic tool).
• Speeds up processing of license information with improved algorithm, extends duration of temporary license.
  

• After RestoreEverything command, Pimlical now forces a re-read on the restored user and system preferences, as well as a re-read on the calendar, timezone settings and Icon Archive (previously, those might not have been fully reset). The conclusion dialog also mentions that a Force-Stop might be needed to get a completely "clean" launch (hard to know whether that's actually required, but definitely do that if something does not seem to have been restored properly).
• Fixes an obscure issue where User and System Preferences might not be refreshed after life-cycle relaunch of Pimlical.
• Changes the preference NumberOfMenuRows default value to 20 from 2. It seems a lot of users were unaware they could fill the entire screen up with menu items. If you don't like that, just set that preference back to 2 (Only changes this on a clean install).
  

• Avoids checking for an internet connection PRIOR to seeing if it is a day on which a check should be made for the availability of a new software release.
• Avoids a spurious File Not Found message when downloading an APK file for installation.
• Fixes instability issue when Widget was installed and Pimlical was invoked after a Widget Refresh.
  

• Fixes UncaughtException issue in installing upgrade. Also changes criteria for displaying Beta Preview button in Menu | About after tapping Upgrade button (Beta Testers have been updated on this change).
• Now displays version number in Menu | About without the -D for Beta Preview releases.
  

• Adds new Backup Everything menu command (remember that you may need to edit the preference: MenuCommandsAndOrder to make sure it is visible in the menu list). This does the exact reverse of the file migration performed when upgrading from V-3.x to V-4.0 - namely it copies ALL files and folders from the Pimlical folder in scoped storage to the Pimlical folder off the root of the filing system (creating it if it does not exist). Any files with the same name as those being copied are pre-deleted first from the destination Pimlical folder, but any other files there will be preserved. Destination folder may be modified by Preference below:
• Adds new preference: BackupEverythingUsesDateTimeStamp. Default is False (which sets the above behavior for Backup Everything command. If set to True, the backup folder is named BackupEverything_YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS and that folder is placed inside a root folder with the name PimlicalBackups. This allows multiple backups to be preserved.
• Adds new Restore Everything menu command (again, remember that you may need to edit the preference: MenuCommandsAndOrder to make sure it is visible in the menu list). If there is a PimlicalBackups folder, it displays all the available backups in a sorted selection list. If there is only one available backup (normally the root folder: Pimlical/, that is used for the command.
• Upgrade button in menu | About now automatically downloads the current official release and installs it on the device. If Debug Mode is set, a third button is displayed which will download the latest Beta Preview release.
  

• Fixes new issue in V-4.0.x on import of iCalendar file that if  END:VEVENT is followed on the next line with BEGIN:VEVENT, the event gets skipped (possibly only importing every other event). If there is a blank line between events, the problem is not seen.
• Fixes obscure Exception Error on iCalendar import if import is done before anything else in Pimlical.
  
• When maintaining the Audit Trail, the new feature of documenting every single change made in the Edit Dialog was overlooking the change in deleted status (when deleting or undeleting an item).
• Includes addition to Manifest which should allow Pimlical Calendar to be listed as a target calendar app in any other third party app that wants to invoke Pimlical Calendar.
• On the initial SETUP when upgrading from V-3.7 to V-4.0, a progress dialog with a spinner is used to make the user more comfortable that something is indeed happening.
• The Menu | Archive function now runs in a separate thread (to avoid OS complaint when archiving a really large number of records, or operating on a slow device) and includes a progress dialog with a spinner.
  

• When a widget refresh is being aborted, the [W] icon in the Android status bar is now removed (previously, it would be left displaying).
• Fixes new issue of UncaughtException error in setting an icon on a filter, caused by switching from Text button to Image button in Icon Selection Dialog.
  
• Fixes issue that when the Widget filter was missing, and the Widget was installed or refreshed, the Widget was just using the default filter instead of automatically recreating the default Widget filter.
  
• Fixes issue of the Tu command (toggle display of untimed events on/off) being non-functional if the current filter was set to display ALL events (as long the filter was filtering something, it worked fine in prior release). 
• P/A can now read the imagePath for an event set in Pimlical/Desktop and 'fix' it in such a way that images can be displayed on both platforms. Old image paths up to and containing the /Pimlical folder are stripped and the remaining path appended to the main user path. Note that to have this work properly, the images should either be in the Pimlical folder, or (better) in a separate sub-folder of the Pimlical folder (say Pimlical/PimlicalImages). And of course you would have to manually ensure that those two folders in P/A and P/D were kept in sync (future releases might add the capability to keep those folders in sync with each other on DirectSync or AutoSync).
• Fixes new issue in V-4.0.x on import of iCalendar file that if  END:VEVENT is followed on the next line with BEGIN:VEVENT, the event gets skipped (possibly only importing every other event). If there is a blank line between events, the problem is not seen.

• Removes the permission restriction for using Exact Alarms (previously limited to SDK level 12, meaning that it was not being requested in AOS-13/14) - most likely the cause of a few missed/delayed alarms that some users were seeing. This was a potential PlayStore conflict that no longer needs to be addressed in V-4.0 (but will be an issue in the V-3.9, Playstore-compliant version).
  

• Fixes problem of the ERROR and LOG file buttons in Menu | Debug not being re-enabled after new error files appear (previously required force-stopping Pimlical to refresh the buttons.
• In the Month and MultiMonth views, the preference ShowDownArrowInMonthViews now also applies in the case where there is no text at all that can be displayed in a cell (previously, this preference only applied to the down-arrow used to show there were more entries on that day that were not displayed).
• When an icon or graphic associated with an event is missing, rather than create an error file, there is now just a log to the PimlicalDebugInfo.txt file (created when EnableDebugLog preference is set to true). Previously, error files were created every time the event was displayed (and with graphics moving around, and the ability to create new icons, such error files were proliferating in those cases).
• Fixed several issues relating to a totally clean install with no prior Pimlical folder - Trial Period test was failing, Subscription items were not available during trial period, error files were being generated, etc.
• Corrects issue of invoking license lookups too frequently.
  

• Rearranges items in the About dialog to display better on lower resolution screens.
• Fixes problem in File Navigator when selecting a Directory (such as importing directory of icons, or exporting memos to a directory) - the new Pimlical button overwrote the Select Directory button so there was no way to select a directory.
  

• Fixes a new issue from V-4.0.16 whereby the new preference values were triggering a false error on valid subscriptions because the licensing information had not yet been read.  Also, now resets any preferences requiring a subscription back to their default value if there is no subscription.

• All of the new features since last official release have now been designated as Subscription Only features. 
• Fixes UncaughtException Error caused by changing button in icon dialog from a regular button to an image button (from "Cancel" to a RecX graphic).
• Fixes a typo in the default user preferences where "Recent Updates}Past Alarms" appeared instead of "Recent Updates|Past Alarms" - probably only those users who were resetting their user preferences would have seen this problem (created an error file complaining about an undefined menu item).
  
  

• Icon Delete feature is now operational (long-press icon in the All Icons display and tap the DELETE button). This does not delete references that you may have in events, templates and filters (if an icon is not found, a ?? icon is displayed instead) (Subscription only)
• Add icon feature now automatically assigns the next highest Icon Key# to an icon if there is no embedded IconKey# in the filename, and renames the file (so a filename like: GarbageCan.png becomes something like 465_GarbageCan.png).
  
• Icon Dialog now has a Backup/Restore button to backup and restore the IconArchive.dat file. Add/Delete/Backup/Restore Icon features all Subscription only.
• Adds new preference: UseCustomFieldForSetLink which has a value from 0 (default) to 4. The default value of 0 preserves the current behavior of putting the link in the note field. If the value is 1-4, then the link is placed into the corresponding custom field (Custom1-Custom4) (Subscription only).

• Menu | About now refreshes itself after the possibly changed licensing information has been updated (so you will see it blink a moment after it appears as it reads the new information). This avoids the issue of having to go back and forth more than once to menu | About to see the updated licensing information.
• The Expiration Date information is now written on a second line since on some devices with low resolution or very large text, the information was overwriting the label field.
• Fixes issue with using boolean && or || with an expired subscription (dialog was not displayed and program was hanging).
• In the file navigation dialog (used by Set Link to File, Image button in Edit Dialog and [+] button in Icon Dialog, Cancel and Pimlical buttons have been added - the latter goes directly to the Pimlical folder in scoped storage (necessary to sidestep a bug/flaw in Android OS most likely involving a failure to recognize ALL_FILES_ACCESS - the file navigation dialog can't get to {root}/Android/Data from {root}/Android to get to the Pimlical folder (!)).
  

• When handling a new purchase, Pimlical will now use the latest expiration date of all the cumulative purchases (so if there was a prior order with an earlier expiration date, it will always use the order with the latest expiration date).
• Fixes a new issue in V-4.0.13 where there was a benign error condition that would, under certain special conditions, which included debug mode being set, slow down the read of the local calendar, and log multiple errors into the audittrail file.
• Fixes issue in Menu | About on an expired subscription where the license was still valid and Pimlical was displaying the note to contact Tech Support in regards to the ReferenceID - the message is now properly hidden in those circumstances.
  

• Caters to a minor change in the Licensing/Subscription feature by distinguishing between old orders and new orders using a subscription purchase.
  

• When deleting a category, now scans all preferences that might reference that category and identifies them (subscription only).
• Adds popup commands COPY DESCRIPTION and COPY NOTE which copy the description and note fields respectively of the selected item in the Event selection List (subscription only). Remember that to see new popup commands you need to edit the preference: PopupListCommandsForEvent).
• Adds new Action tag: ALWAYS HIDE which always hides the event. It will set the Show/Hide latch in the Event Selection List so it can be detected (this would be primarily used on shared calendars where one person does not want to see the other person's specific event) (subscription only).
• Implements Action tag: NO ALARMS which always causes any alarm set on the item to be ignored (this would be primarily used on shared calendars where one person does not want to hear the other person's alarm on a specific event) (subscription only).
• Adds menu command (Past Alarms) to list all of the alarms that have triggered since the start of ttoday. Note that this would not include a "missed" alarm (for example, an alarm that would have triggered but didn't because your phone was completely shut down, or because Pimlical was Force-stopped and not relaunched), (subscription only).
• Allows modification of the Icon list: an ADD+ button can (on a short tap) add a single icon from a graphic file (and updates the RecentIcons list, or (on a long-press) add all graphic files in a directory (or a single file, without updating the RecentIcons list). A DELETE button will be implemented shortly in following release when viewing all icons and long-pressing an icon (subscription only).
  

• Subscription feature now identifies the feature that is not available and when appropriate suppresses the display of the purchase dialog (but will write an error file, so the condition is known).
• The feature to toggle untimed events on and off now properly sets the Show/Hide latch if the Event Selection List is brought up while untimed events are being hidden.
• The Menu | Recent Updates command now displays the proper title when the events are being displayed (previously displayed Find and possibility a filter string).
• Fixed obscure issue in menu | Recent Updates when issued immediately after clean launch (or force-stop) of Pimlical which would end up unexpectedly and erroneously displaying items at the top of the list because they never had a ModificationDate set (typically items from Google or other third party calendars).
• The Action Tag FloatDays now allows an alternate (and easier to remember!) syntax where days of week are specified with the first 3-letters of the day of the week (such as FloatDays: Mon-Tue-Wed). The hyphen is not required, but makes it more readable (only a hyphen can be used as a separator).For backwards compatibility, the original syntax of using a numeric string (where 0 = Sunday, 1 = Monday...) is still supported.
• When using Preferences | Restore | Reset, resetting the IconArchive file now first invokes the backup procedure on the file (creating .bk1, .bk2, etc.) (for diagnostic or recovery) and also renames the RecentIconsList.txt file (which has the list of recently accessed icons) to RecentIconsList.bak.
  

• Fixes a licensing issue (which has always been present on the Direct Download) namely that if there is no WiFi (or cellular data) connection it was resetting the license status to NOT LICENSED, whereas it was supposed to preserve the existing license status. If running a trial period though, a check is made that the trial period has not expired (and if it has, the license condition is reset to NOT LICENSED). It's also possible that the prior code in Pimlical was  concluding that a connection was not available if a user only had a cellular data connection to the internet (in theory (meaning Google supplied the code), this version now checks for an internet connection via WiFi OR a cellular data connection).

• Adds ability to import a VCF file shared from another application (subscription only).
• Handles the import and export of Tasks (ToDo's) - by implementing BEGIN:VTODO and END:VTODO tags (which parallel BEGIN:VEVENT and END:VEVENT) as well as the optional DUE tag (subscription only).
  

• Sidesteps another case where an initialization issue could cause Android to fail to properly launch Pimlical (and this could potentially cause an alarm to get lost).
• Implements Subscription Management (but licensing database has not yet been updated for any subscriptions).

• Removes the option to set the date to None, when using the popup command Change Date (since you cannot remove the start date from an event or task).
• The Contact Tech Support button now appears as Email Tech Support (to match P/D), and now, like P/D copies all the Tech Support info to the clipboard (so if there is no primary email address, you can just manually open up an email and tap Paste to provide the requisite information).
• When tapping on the icons to copy phone/email/address of a contact (in Contacts View), phones with Android-13 will briefly display buttons to handle Share and Nearby Share.
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• Fixes issue on Samsung phones which share contacts without specifying a VCF extension in the share file. The fix should take care of any anomalies on other phones as the test now is the actual contents of the file.
• Fixes new problem on adding meeting attendees which apparently got broken some time ago (but apparently no beta tester was using that function), which was causing an UncaughtException error.
  
• Adds missing colon to the UID tag when Pimlical is exporting a contact in vCard format (tag was causing an import error).
• Avoids logging an error file from Alarm routines, when user hits a button at the PRECISE instant that Android has finished speaking an alarm but before Pimlical tries to sound the alarm sound.
  

• Fixes issue with creation of spurious error file: onUtteranceCompleted.... Exception error from Android OS with Media Player.
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• Fixes issue (that appeared some versions ago) where the contacts app was not properly picking up a newly-assigned photo in the Contacts Edit Dialog. Also, photos are limited to one half megabyte due to internal Android OS limitations.
• The Menu | Debug | View Error Files function now only attempts to display up to 25 error files (but still allows you to delete all of them). This caters to a relatively rare situation where hundreds (or even thousands of error files) can get generated when Debug Mode is set (since Debug Mode appends the date/time stamp to create a unique filename). Also, only the first 5k of the file is displayed (to avoid issues with multi-megabyte log files).
• Changed messages in Menu | Debug | View Error Files and View Log Files to reflect that the Delete button now manages both cases.
• Changed the extension for the files: Pimlical_Android_AuditTrail, PimlicalDebugInfo and WidgetDebugInfo from TXT to LOG, so that you can now easily delete those files from the Debug menu's View Log Files function.
  
• On initial entry to Menu | Debug, now disables (grays out) the buttons for View Error Files and View Log Files if there are no files present of that type.
  
• Includes preliminary logic to manage subscription purchases (status now displayed in menu | About) - for now will just show N/A.
• The Menu | Debug | Refresh Widget function now dismisses the Debug Dialog and delays for a few seconds the refresh of the Widget (otherwise, the widget won't refresh because the Debug Dialog is open).
  

• Fixes yet another new issue (appeared in V-4.00.04) as side effect of fixing sort issue in contacts: the Recent List was still not properly preserving its order properly.
• Sidesteps a problem with the Android OS and Pimlical failing to launch after it had been inactive for a period of many hours (for example: first tap on the launch icon in the morning would not launch Pimlical). This potentially could cause an alarm to be missed too.
  

• The Menu | Debug | View Error Files item now includes a button to delete all the error files in the Pimlical folder (Subscription only).
  

• Fixes new issue (appeared in V-3.8.20) as side effect of fixing sort issue in contacts: the Recent List was not preserving its order properly.
• Fixes issue of Widget freezing if it is invoked before Pimlical was ever launched, or after Pimlical was force-stopped (and not relaunched).
• On vCard import (or share), multiple category selections for contacts are now permited if the preference MultipleCategorySelection is set to true (otherwise, only the first category is used). Previously only the first category was preserved, regardless of that preference setting.
• On iCalendar Import, Pimlical now allows multiple calendars (i.e. sections containing BEGIN_VCALENDAR and END_VCALENDAR) to be imported (previously, Pimlical stopped reading the file when it found the first END_VCALENDAR).
  
• Fixes issue with preference: AlwaysResetBeforeAutoSync that was not being properly handled when set to False (default is True). When set to False, Pimlical was not re-submitting the saved login credentials. For some period of time (somewhere around an hour or two?), Dropbox does in fact allow the saved login credentials to be reused (thus avoiding need to sign back into Dropbox). Most of the time though, users will likely leave the preference set to its default value of True.
• Importing of contacts through share now occurs in two steps - first, a pending file is written (or appended to) locally Pimlical/PimlicalContacts/vCardFileToImport.vcf, then, when the contacts database is next read, the pending file is imported and renamed with a .BAK extension (for diagnostic purposes). There are separate messages covering these two steps. If multiple contacts are shared before the contacts database is read, then all of the shared entries will be imported when the database is next read.
• Fixes a new issue (from V-4.0.01) whereby the Temporary Sort of Contacts was lost (the permanent sort was overriding any temporary settings). The Temporary sort only stays in effect while things are not changed (i.e. if you switch to Recents list or Favorites, for example, the permanent sort is re-applied). For example, you normally sort by last name, but want to find someone whose first name you recall, but not their last name - sorting temporarily on first name and using the GoTo button makes it easy to find that person.

• Fixes new issue of missing Read Calendar permission for Android Calendars (Inadvertently removed in V-4.0.02 owing to suggestion that since Pimlical had Write Calendar permission, the Read Calendar permission was not needed, but that was not true).
  

• For Direct Download and Amazon versions, includes automatic migration of contents of old Pimlical folder into new location in Scoped Storage (when Pimlical recognizes that there's a non-empty {root}/Pimlical folder, and an empty {root}/Android/data/com.pimlicosoftware.PimlicalA/files/PimlicalA folder.
• Fixed an issue of generating an exception error on a clean install (due to a change in V-4.0.01).
  

• Updated Version number in preparation for official release.
• Changes the Initial Install dialog that appears if the Pimlical folder in scoped storage is empty (meaning it's either a new install or the user is upgrading). Adds a HELP button with a direct link to the migration document on Pimlico's website.
  
• Now implements UID field of vCard standard (not clear why this was removed at some point in the past?!). This should permit a Share from a contacts App (that is properly providing the UID field) to overwrite an existing contact rather than duplicate it.
• Improved messages surrounding AutoSync to indicate WHY it was being deferred (such as some other lock file found in dropbox, or dialogs were open in Pimlical, etc.)
• Includes fix for very obscure (and quite possibly irrelevant) error of interpreting phone labels using the type field from email when reading Android Contacts.
• Included some cosmetic fixes for debug logging, as well as included some additional diagnostic logs.
• Included some internal changes that might prevent Pimlical from thinking that a launch of Pimlical very shortly after an alarm had triggered and been snoozed/dismissed, was in fact a launch to display the Alarm Dialog.
• Fixes flaw that when asking for permissions, after all the permissions have been granted, Pimlical was not being automatically relaunched as it should have been.
• PimlicalDebugInfo.txt file (created if EnableDebugLog is set to True) now includes ALL the information in menu | About, since too many users requesting tech support fail to provide this information(!). Also includes brand and model of Android device.
• Fixes a new issue in properly recording the preference ContactSort when it is changed by long-pressing the Sort button in the Contacts section of Pimlical/Android (the preference type had been changed from an integer to a StringList for better readability many versions ago, and that code had never been updated, causing a GetArrayIndexFromString error file).
  

• For the Initial Install Message (when Pimlical folder is empty), the OK/CANCEL buttons have been renamed to CLEAN INSTALL and UPGRADING, as too many people don't read the message and just click on OK, thinking Cancel must mean you don't want to do the normal thing(!).
• Preference: NumberOfBackups has been changed to 9 (prior value was 5). These take up so little room, and there have been several cases, where users would have been better off having the maximum number of backups.
• Fixes two other cases where bugs in the Android OS (trying to invoke the widget when it was not installed) ended up creating the WidgetDebugInfo.txt file (if EnableDebugLog was set to true). Pimlical is endeavoring to not create that file unless the WidgetIsInstalled preference is set to True.
• If EnableDebugLog is set to True, the setting of the Floating Advance Alarm is now logged into the PimlicalDebugInfo.txt file.
• When the Widget is removed from the Home Screen, Pimlical now attempts to force the OS to cancel the periodic work request to refresh the Widget, because the OS does not even bother to check subsequently to see if the widget is installed before invoking the work request (!).
• The error message about "Mismatched Versions" when syncing versions that differ by Major or Minor versions has been substantially toned down now to just Information, as in fact this issue has yet to arise, and with the latest database design, it's most unlikely to ever be an issue.
  

• The ContactSort preference is now written into ALL custom preference files (not just the current preference file as was previously the case). Also the preference is set in BOTH the Default.txt and Default.dat files (previously, only the cached DAT file was updated, which could possibly cause the sort order change to get lost).
• The rule for handling a past-due floating event with a display date in the future has now been modified. Previously, a past-due Float would always appear in Today's schedule, regardless of the Start date. This has been refined to handle all six possible cases:
     Case 1: Has due date in the past, start date in past - DISPLAYS TODAY (repeat status ignored)
     Case 2: Has due date in future, start date in the past - DISPLAYS TODAY OR if a repeat, on Next Repeat Instance after today
     Case 3: Has due date in the past, start date in future - DISPLAYS on START Date (repeat status ignored)
     Case 4: Has due date in future, start date in future - DISPLAYS on START Date (even if due date is earlier)
     Case 5: Has no due date and start date in past - DISPLAYS TODAY OR if a repeat, on Next Repeat Instance after today
     Case 6: Has no due date and start date in future - DISPLAYS on Start Date
  Some of the behaviors are the same, but the program separates out these six cases in case they need to be modified in the future.
• If a Floating event (or Task when the Preference LockDueStartDateOnTasks is false) has a due date that precedes the Start Date, a brief "Toast" message will appear alerting the user to this condition (it's unusual to want this, hence the warning when updating or creating the float).
• Incorporates an internal change that may reduce battery usage (prevents any activity when running in background)
• Avoids creating the WidgetDebugInfo.txt file (when preference EnableDebugLog is set to true) to log the Android OS error of erroneously trying to invoke the Widget when the widget is not installed (apparently the Android OS is using its own erroneous test to determine whether the widget is installed or not!).
• Fixes a problem in the new V-3.8.19 feature to track ALL changes made in the Edit dialog, which was causing an error file to be generated under some unusual conditions.
• When removing a snooze on an alarm from the Menu | View Upcoming Alarms list, the snoozed item is now removed from the list (previously, the item remained in the list, even though the snooze alarm had been removed).
• Fixes issue that under some conditions when first entering the Contacts Activity, and immediately switching say from Favorites to All, the contacts list would not be properly re-sorted.

• When the preference MaintainAuditTrail is set to True, Pimlical/Android now documents every single editing change made in the Edit Dialog (previously, only the addition of new records and a few other changes from popup commands were logged - subscription only).

• When you exit out of Preferences, Pimlical will now ALWAYS check that (a) Battery optimization has been turned off, and (b) that Pimlical has permission to schedule Exact Alarms. In AOS-13, Pimlical can no longer demand these items because google will yank the App from the playstore. So it can only REQUEST  these permissions and hope the user grants them because without them, alarms may cause exception errors, may not go off at the right time, the widget may fail to refresh etc. - so don't blame Pimlical for this, go complain to Google about this silliness ;). These two permissions ARE also requested on the launch of Pimlical too, but ONLY if the  primary permissions (calendar, contacts, phone state) have not yet been granted. Finally, these two permissions are checked for whenever the ShowHelpOnStartup Preference is set to True (typically when the App is first installed).
• Fixes issue of not properly indicating that the Widget was not installed in menu | About when the WidgetIsInstalled Preference (which is usually set internally by P/A) was set to False (it was not fixed in V-3.8.18 as previously indicated)
• Fixes issue that if the only change made in the Edit Dialog was to change the Attendee Role of a meeting, that change might have been lost.
• Fixes problem with memo and contact linking that resulted from a further side-effect of the changes made in V-3.8.17.
  

• Fixed a side effect of a change in V-3.8.17 regarding Contacts and Memos which, when invoked from Menu | View/Edit Contacts or Menu | View/Edit Memos was not properly returning to P/A as expected.
  
• Changed the default setting of preference: AlwaysResetBeforeAutoSync from False to True (because that's the most likely setting users will want with this new preference).
• Removes automatic request for ignoring battery optimization as the Google Police have now stated that Apps targeting SDK 33 or later (which is required for listing in the Playstore) that request this optimization will be yankedfrom the Playstore. P/A does ask the user on initial install to review the Battery optimization settings (that apparently is still "legal").

• Tiny change to try and get Widget Icon to display when Widget Refresh was initiated by Android OS's Periodic Work Request.
• Fixes cosmetic (confusing) issue in the appearance of messages, logs, modification/creation dates in memos and contacts of appending the designation (UTC) to the date and time. In those cases, the date/time had already been adjusted to the current timezone, so the information that the original date/time had been stored in UTC was causing confusion that the displayed date/time were in fact still in UTC. At no time was there any internal confusion in P/A with regards to the handling of these date & times.
• If the Memos or Contacts button in the widget is tapped and Pimlical has to re-read preferences and the main calendar database (either because AOS has absconded with PA's memory, or because the widget had just refreshed), it will now properly proceed to display the memos or contacts (previously, it would re-read preferences and the calendar, but then just display the calendar and you had to then tap menu | View Memos, or View Contacts to proceed).
• Now avoids logging the error/status message: PimlicalCalendarWorker.doWork() ignored because OS says Widget is not installed which was creating the WidgetDebugInfo.txt file (only when EnableDebugMode was set of course). This message has now been moved to PimlicalDebugInfo.txt to avoid creating that other file.
• On launch, Pimlical now checks for an initial install before asking for permissions. When OK is tapped (or Pimlical is relaunched after migrating data to the new sand-boxed location), it will then ask for the appropriate permissions (depending on whether the prior version of P/A has been uninstalled or not).
• Restored the prior minimum refresh interval for the Widget of 15m (during the arduous attempts to figure out how to bypass all the bugs in the Android OS and get the widget to refresh reliably, it had been temporarily set to 16m).
  

• V-3.8.15 switched from using a "Full" Wakelock to a "Partial" Wakelock because the Full wakelock has been deprecated for quite some time and there were rumors that Android-14 was going to finally remove that alltogether. I had also heard that Apps requesting a full Wakelock might be removed from the Playstore (fuss over battery life). However, that change did result in the display screen not turning on when an alarm triggered. Fortunately, there is an alternative approach - namely to have the Alarm and Snooze dialogs themselves turn the display on. The delay is pretty inconsequential (if the database has to be re-read, that will occur while the screen has not yet been turned on, but that's actually preferable behavior anyway!).
  

• Adds Menu | Debug function to force the refresh of the widget (resetting everything and telling the Android OS to re-establish the periodic refresh of the Widget). If that fails to refresh the widget, remove and reinstall the widget.
  

• Changed the mechanism yet again for refreshing the widget in an attempt to find SOMETHING that works reliably with the Android Work Manager function.
• Corrects an UncaughtExceptionError that could occur when viewing the Upcoming Alarms List and using the Toggle Alarm command on a repeat task (note that this action has no meaning unless you set the preference RepeatTasksHaveNoExceptionsList to False -- the default is True).
  

• The minimum Android OS version supported has now been raised to 6.0 (previously it was intended to be backwards-compatible to V-4.1). The filename has now been changed to PimlicalA_os60_3_08_14.
• Another fix for the testing of whether the phone is active when an alarm triggers (and the preference: AutoSnoozeDuringPhoneCall is set to True). Previous code (supplied by Google) did not work properly.
• The widget will now refresh if an Event Selection List is displaying (previously, you had to be in a main view with no dialogs open for the widget to be able to refresh). Also, this change was actually made in V-3.8.12.'
• Made some changes to how the Wake Lock is handled on alarms as there has been evidence that recent AOS versions might have changed the way they handle Wake Locks (without documenting it). This might explain cases that we have seen where the alarm DID trigger P/A, but AOS then puzzlingly terminated P/A thus preventing it from continuing to display the Alarm Dialog.
• Made some changes in the way the Widget refresh was handled to try and avoid cases where AOS was not rescheduling the Widget Refresh (this was happening for no apparent reason).
• Made a slew of small changes to the Widget to try and address the issue of AOS "forgetting" to refresh the Widget (seemed to help, but not fully resolve this issue).
  

• Changes default Alarm setting for AlwaysShowNotificationForAlarm to False (previously was true) now that full-page alarm dialog is supported again (does not affect updates - this is just the default install setting that's changing).

• Adds new preference: ForceFloatsToBeUntimed which parallels existing ForceTasksToBeUntimed preference. When set true (the default is false), timed floating events are displayed as untimed (so you can have ALL floating events always appear at the top of the day's display, even though they are untimed. Note that this does not affect alarms set on timed events (which will still trigger at the expected time) (subscription only).
  

• Fixes a possible issue of snoozing alarms because a telephone call was in progress when in fact the telephone call status was incorrect.
• The preference: ForceCalendarReadAfterWidgetRefresh now defaults to TRUE (previously default was False). This is the recommended (but not required setting). If P/A is not displaying all events properly after a widget refresh, make sure this preference is set to True (if upgrading from prior V-3.8.x release, set this to True).
• Should address an issue of removing the alarm from an item (by deleting it, toggling the alarm, etc.) but still having the device wake up at the prior alarm time (nothing happens, no alarm is sounded, but there were cases where the device would power on mysteriously).
• When displaying the available backups for preferences, Pimlical now always tries to display ALL nine possible backup copies (previously, Pimlical only displayed the number of backups set in preferences - which could be the default value of 5 if preferences were corrupted and reset back to the default, resulting in the non-display of some potential backup copies if the NumberOfBackups preference had previously been set to a larger value).
• Creation and Modification Date/Time on advance reminders are now set to 00:00:00 on today's date (that way, they show the correct date on which they were created, but by using 00:00:00 as the time, there won't be any conflict when the reminders are created independently on other platforms - and which may be independently changed on those other platforms).
• Fixes problem in Tasks View of using a Template to create a new task, but displaying a blank screen when exiting the Edit Dialog (rather than properly displaying the updated Tasks View).
• Fixes an issue where the Widget might not be reading all the records in a Google calendar if the main P/A application has been terminated by AOS (AOS can legitimately terminate P/A, but that should not affect the Widget).
• Fixes an obscure alarm issue caused by AOS re-activating Pimlical from the "recents" list under conditions where AOS apparently fails to check if the activity is already running, which in turn can cause Pimlical to reschedule alarms WHILE the alarm dialog is open. If the Alarm dialog then auto-snoozes due to not being dismissed, the rescheduled alarm ends up being unexpectely auto-snoozed (so an alarm scheduled for say 4 hours in the future, unexpectedly gets rescheduled to fire in 10 minutes (or whatever the snooze interval is).
• Fixes an issue with permissions and AOS 13. This was causing installation problems on some devices, and could cause the strange, immediate closure of Pimlical after launch when Pimlical was newly installed (on a device that did not have Pimlical previously installed, etc.).
• If Pimlical finds that the widget has not refreshed in an interval that is twice the normal refresh time, and there is no apparent reason why that's the case, the widget refresh is automatically triggered (protects against the Android OS going to "sleep" on this for no good reason.
• Now allows the widget to refresh if the Event Selection Dialog is open but includes a check to avoid proceeding with any function if the Widget or AutoSync is active (since the widget would have invoked a different filter, etc.).
• Fixed issue of generating a couple of benign error files on a totally clean installation.
• Now requests (but does not require) permission to post notifications (AOS 13 no longer automatically allows Apps to post notifications - Pimlical uses this to indicate snoozed alarms, AutoSync Active and Widget Active).
• Now Requests (but does not require) permission to disable battery optimization. This is highly recommended (but not required because Google won't list Pimlical in the PlayStore if it says it requires this setting(!) ) - if permission is not granted, there may be problems in handling alarms, and refreshing the widget.

• Fixes some obscure issues involving the installation and removal of the widget (that could still end up blocking P/A from running).
• Fixed some interaction issues between the widget and P/A.
• Fixed issue of widget not running because some dialogs in P/A (esp. with filter edit) were not marked as having been dismissed.
• Fixed menu | Exit command to ensure that all dialogs were cleared (there's a flaw in the Android OS where a program can be terminated with the indication that a dialog is still open when in fact it is not, so if you get a complaint that the Widget cannot run because P/A has a dialog open, try menu | Exit to clear it - that's safer than doing a Force-Stop on Pimlical).
  
• The selection dialog for restoring preferences now shows the file sizes and dates of both the SystemPreferences.dat file and the user preferences (default.xxx).
• Fixes issue of not displaying a past-due, repeat floating event, that has a display date in the future.
  

• The command to toggle the display of Untimed Items on and off can now be put on the command bar (legend: Tu), which makes it conveniently accessible for quick toggling (previously, it was only available as a menu item).
  

• Fixes an UncaughtExceptionError in the Widget if it was trying to put in a Date line as the very last line in the widget display (side effect from a change made in V-3.8.05).
• Adds a NEW entry to the default Worldtimezones.txt file of: -06:00 America/Mexico[MST] as Mexico no longer uses Daylight Savings (as of October, 2022).
• Includes a check for the Android OS unexpectedly calling Pimlical in such a way that it might register too many phone listeners (could cause an UncaughtException error if this indeed was happening).
• Fixed an issue in getting the Widget to automatically refresh after rebooting phone.
• Fixes an issue with alarms not getting set after a reboot (possibly an OS library update fixed this? Not sure anything was changed in Pimlical to address this specific issue).
  

• Includes new Preference: WidgetIsInstalled which defaults to false on install of P/A. If the Widget is installed, Pimlical changes this preference to True. If the preference is set to false, and even if the Android OS reports (sometimes spuriously) that the widget is installed, Pimlical will not activate the Widget after a reboot (previously, due to a bug in the Android OS, Pimlical was informed that the widget was installed when in fact it was not).
• Fixes issue of the Widget Refresh notification symbol not being displayed for the full time the widget was refreshing after initial installation of the widget.
  

• Fixes issue of event with old image path (to Pimlical as root folder) which was supposed to automatically try and switch to using the PimlicalImages folder in the sand-boxed path.
• Fixes some issues of attempting to launch Pimlical while Widget is refreshing and getting a blank Screen with the Pimlical Icon (rather than just returning to the home screen).
• Removed the 3-second delay on initiating refresh of widget as it does not seem to be necessary.
• Fixes an interaction issue whereby the Widget might get invoked again when user or an alarm was interacting while the widget was or was just about to perform a refresh..
  

• Fixes issue of having the widget continue to run, even though it has been removed. Problem was that on reboot of phone, it was automatically triggering the Widget (had assumed that the Android OS wasn't dumb enough to run the widget even though it was not installed!).
• Fixes issue of  losing an alarm that triggers immediately after the Widget has refreshed.
• Fixes issue of alarm triggering WHILE the Widget is refreshing (now forces abort of Widget refresh so alarm can be handled properly).
• Fixes issue in Pimlical Alarm Notification where the time shown for the Next alarm was wrong (missing correct UTC adjustment).
• Fixed a problem in the Widget that if memory had been taken by the Android OS, it was not properly re-initializing the timezone table resulting in a spurious exception error when trying to read a time zone specification in an event.
  

• Fixes issue of Pimlical Alarm notification showing the next alarm at the wrong time (UTC rather than in current time zone).

• Pimlical Widget will now display on the last line of the display, a date header for the next event. Previously, if there was not room for the date header AND the first event on that day, you would just see a blank line.
• The Toggle Alarm command rather than setting the alarm at the event time (if no alarm is set on the item), uses the appropriate preset (FloatAlarmPreset or ApptAlarmPreset) from Preferences.
• Now compiled with SDK level 33 (Android-13) libraries - supposedly will prevent Google from removing Pimlical from Playstore in August of 2023. Also removes a permission (not really needed now) that Google has now decided is "illegal" for an App unless it's a very specific type of App.
• Adds new permission for displaying notifications (required now in Android-13) - you may need to explicitly enable the display of notifications for Pimlical/Android as it appears Android-13 turns them off by default on install.
  

• The Pimlical Widget is now no longer a separate App, but rather completely rewritten so it could be included in the functionality of P/A, as Android-11 forces sand-boxing of Android Apps (which in turn made it impossible for the Widget to access P/A's data). So when P/A is installed, you can long-press an empty spot on the home screen, and see that PimlicalA is included in the list of available Widgets (subscription only)
• Adds new preference Option: AlwaysResetBeforeAutoSync - which, if set to True (default is False), will automatically reset the AutoSync connection before invoking AutoSync (since Dropbox now demands that the user login). If you set this preference and put the AutoSync command on the command bar - you can invoke AutoSync with a single tap (of course, you still have to log into dropbox, but this is certainly more conveneitn)  (Subscription Only).
• Adds new preference Option: AutoSyncDelayAfterReset - which specifies the number of seconds Pimlical should wait after performing the Automatic Reset (i.e. AlwaysresetBeforeAutoSync is true). The default value is 5, but some slower devices may need more time to avoid an error message appearing (some internal timing problem in the CloudRail libraries?).
  
• Adds new preference Option: ForceCalendarReadAfterWidgetRefresh - which, if set to True (default is False), will force a refresh of Pimlical's calendar if the widget has refreshed itself since there was last activity in Pimlical Calendar. Normally this would not be needed, but if you setup your widget filter with custom preference settings, it's possible that you might need to set this true to avoid having P/A's display affected by the Widget's filter and preferences.
• Adds new Preference Option: PostponeWidgetIfPimlicalActive - which specifies the number of seconds (default is 30) to delay the launch of the widget if the user has been actively interacting with Pimlical's calendar. Since the refresh of the widget has to lock the user out of the Pimlical calendar while it's refreshing (to avoid contention problems), it would be annoying to have this happen right in the middle of some manual updating, so this preference helps ensure that the widget only runs to refresh itself when it appears the user is not actively doing anything. This preference is ignored if the user manually invokes a refresh of the widget.
• Increases the number of lines possible in the widget display from 20 to 25 since higher resolution screens are making that reasonable.
• Adds ability to perform boolean searches in the Calendar Find function, as well as Contacts and Memos Find functions (AND and OR, using && and |||). Note that this can not be combined with a word search (i.e. Boolean searches are only performed on simple text strings) (Subscription Only).

• Adds new option for the Command Bar and Gesture Preferences: RA - Reset AutoSync - allows the reset autosync command (located in menu | Debug) to be accessed directly from a command button or gesture.
• A tap on the map icon in the Edit Dialog will now launch mapping program with the contents of the location field even if it's grayed out. This is useful if the Android OS (for completely unknown reasons) fails to display a link for a valid map address and shows the address as a grayed out value - as it WILL now find the address anyway (provided it was a valid address).
• Fixes issue of reporting problem in Android calendars where the date fields were apparently corrupt/not properly set.
• Fixes obscure issue that could occur when taking an instance of a repeat series and changing it into a new repeat series (not allowed in Android Calendars due to Google calendar restriction, but it is allowed in the Pimlical local calendar), whereby the repeat status would be lost on exit from the Edit Dialog.
• Fixed new problem of ignoring a tap on Location Icon in Event Selection List (or in Contacts View) in Android-11 (bug in Android OS? Undocumented change? No idea what the Google programmers were doing).
• When EnableDebugLog is set, posts from the Widget are now posted in the file WidgetDebugInfo.txt (this preference should only be set when studying issues with alarms and the Widget).
• Fixes an obscure issue with reporting a missing timezone when in fact the timezone did exist in the timezone table.
  

• Fixes an obscure issue in displaying dates that include the last year of the calendar (December 31, 2099) when the preference DisplayWeekNumbers is set to True (can cause program to hang).

• Now uses "Scoped Storage" as required by Android-11 and later (means that the contents of your prior Pimlical folder have to be moved to this new folder in Internal Storage:
  Android\data\com.pimlicosoftware.PimlicalA\files\Pimlical). If not done already, Pimlical will automatically move all your existing data in the Pimlical folder to this new folder in scoped storage. P/A is still compiled for Android-10 so that it can perform this move (but this release cannot be posted on the PlayStore because the PlayStore now refuses to list any Apps that aren't compiled for at least Android-11). Google users will have to wait for V-3.9.x and manually move their data (or switich one time to this release to get their data moved).
• When uninstalling Pimlical, the Android OS will now include a checkbox that if checked will PRESERVE all the data in the "scoped storage" folder for Pimlical (if not checked, that folder is removed and all local data and preference settings will be lost). Note that unless permanently removing Pimlical, you will always want to be certain you check that checkbox!
  
• Ensures that if the Alarm dialog is removed from the screen by the OS (for whatever reason), sounds and vibration are explicitly killed by Pimlical (in theory the Android OS is supposed to take care of this issue, but at least one user ran into a case where this did not occur, so it might be an Android OS bug that requires special handling).
• When using voice input to enter an event, an Uncaught Exception Error could occur if user included "Next" or "This" but forgot to put in the day of the week and nothing but spaces were found - this has been corrected.
  
• Adds a new preference: WidgetDateWidth (default is 0). If set to a value other than 0, this forces the Pimlical Widget to use that value for the Date Width. Some users have noted that the Widget was displaying the medium Date format (mm/dd/yyyy) when there was plenty of room to use the longer form of the date - this results from a failure of the Android OS to properly provide the width value for the widget. You will need to set it by trial and error to find the right value (and when set to a non-zero value, the configuration screen will put up a brief message to inform you of this override.
• Updates the widget to use Scoped Storage - for compatibility with Pimlical/Android. The Widget is also now part of P/A and no longer a separate App.
• Fixes an obscure, cosmetic/consistency issue: if you use popup command to Change Color and then long-press foreground or background color to use either  the Color Swatch Selector OR the RGB Sliders to select a color, the Edit Dialog appears rather than returning to the Color Selection Dialog with the correct F/B color selection displayed.
• Fixes problem of attempting to add a eighth phone number field (caused an UncaughtException error because only seven labels had been defined) - this adds an eighth label of "ALT." and avoids the error. Prior User Preferences also only included seven labels for the preference: ContactPhoneLabelOrder.
• When first presenting the Contacts Edit Dialog, if all fields in a section (phone, email, address, custom) are already in use, the Add button is now hidden. The Add button will re-appear if any item is removed, and will be hidden again automatically when all fields are in use (this avoids any confusion from attempting to add a field when all are in use anyway).
• On reading the calendar database, the field validation routines now check for an end date that precedes the start date (after adjusting for timezones, etc.)  and if so, sets the end date to the start date (Pimlical will never create a corrupt event like this, but some other calendar apps might do it).
• Updated Worldtimezones.txt file so that Timezones with DST rules always precede those without (in some rare cases, when handling google calendars, or calendars imported from other calendar Apps it can cause an issue if this is not consistent).
  
  

• Fixes an obscure issue in the Widget whereby the time of an event in another timezone could be off by an hour due to Daylight Savings Issues.

• Restores ability to use full-page alarm dialog in Android-10 and later versions. To use the full-page alarm dialog, set the preference AlwaysShowNotificationForAlarm to false and go into Special App Preferences in the Android System Settings and grant permission to Pimlical to overlay other apps (you will get a warning if you fail to grant permission with this preference setting when you exit preferences). This does not interfere with the prior notification alarm handling when that preference is set to True (which was the prior default).
  
  

• Adds a new preference: AndroidDeletesToUndelete (default is false). If set to True,  deleting an item in an Android calendar moves it into the local calendar with a special flag set, AND it now appears in the UNDELETE list. You can then UNDELETE the item (either by calling it into the edit dialog, or selecting it in multi-select mode and tapping the item) and Pimlical will retrieve the internal flag so it can move the event back into the original Android calendar (the item is not moved back if the original Android calendar no longer exists). Note that without this new feature, there was no possible way to use the UNDELETE function with items in an Android calendar, as Google/Android calendars have no undelete function.
  
  

• Fixes another potential issue of the AutoSync deferred message appearing constantly even when pimlical does not appear to have any dialogs open (using menu | Exit should now ensure that everything is cleaned up).
• Fixes an obscure issue where on attempting to retrieve a possibly missed alarm (while Pimlical was not running), a notification could appear with a strange time.
• Fixes a new issue with the Set Link to File popup command resulting in a complaint about not being able to find meta-data for provider with authority, rather than proceeding with opening the file (new issue in Android-12).
• Fixes a very obscure issue that was previously resulting on rare occasions with a WRITE ERROR when updating an Android calendar.
• Fixes a very obscure error where an alarm might not get rescheduled (resulting in a missed alarm) - occurring when user force-exited Pimlical WHILE the calendar was being read.
  

• When updating or creating a new contact and the contacts app was launched from the widget, Pimlical now saves the contents of the Contacts Edit Dialog if you switch to another app. Previously, under these conditions, the dialog was closed and all changes/updates were lost. This same change was also applied to Memos which have the same issue if launched from the widget.
• No longer allows blank contact or memo records to be created or an update which results in a blank contact or memo (for memos, either title or memo text must be non-blank, for contacts, one of first/middle/last/company name fields must be non-blank).
• Fixes issue of sometimes losing the newly-selected foreground color in the color selection dialog, after long-pressing the background color to choose a color swatch or set the color with the RGB Sliders.
• Restores a recently-lost ability of Pimlical to serve as the target of a SHARE operation from another application (such as contacts). For those users wanting to keep BOTH a local and Android contacts database in sync, and unable to use the merge/update feature (because many/most contact apps are not properly updating the modified-date field), the best way is often to make the additions/changes in the Android contacts app and then just share the result to Pimlical contacts.
• Fixes a potential issue of the AutoSync deferred message appearing constantly even when pimlical does not appear to have any dialogs open (using menu | Exit will now ensure that everything is cleaned up).
• Fixes issue that if you have a template set up for the Daily Journal, and you were using a custom font-size for the template, when the Daily Journal was created, the font size was wrong, because the index into the font table was incorrectly interpreted as an absolute font size (usually resulting in tiny type).
  

• Fixes an obscure issue of running into a low memory condition in the Android OS with the Edit Dialog already open (at which point, OK/DELETE buttons are grayed out) and then pressing the BACK button. At that point, Pimlical thought the Edit dialog was still open and this could result in AutoSync thinking it had to defer running, and it would also cause some screen gestures to be ignored. This could happen if you left the Edit Dialog open, switched to several other apps, etc. causing the Android OS to abscond with Pimlical's memory to provide it to the other running apps.

• Fixes a very obscure exception error that could occur during the advancing of floating events.
• Contains some diagnostic information for tracking down an obscure issue with AutoSync complaining that it cannot run due to current activity when in theory it should not be even attempting to run.
• Fixes issue of some events with the AutoDelete flag set remaining in database after the number of days to delete expired records preference indicates they should have been removed.
• Deleted records now preserve their original category information (previously, the category was intentionally set to Unfiled, but the reasons for doing that no longer really exist, so now items can be undeleted and they will be in the same category as they were originally in prior to deletion).
• If the Direct Download version appears as NOT LICENSED, a note appears in menu | About telling the user to note down their ReferenceID on the line below and send it to Tech Support.
  

• Adds a Copy icon at the end of each phone/email/address row in the Contacts View dialog. Tapping this icon copies the associated information to the Android Clipboard, so it can be easily pasted elsewhere (Subscription Only).
• Adds a special Action Tag: AdvancedRepeatOnlyInSameMonth.  If set, when handling an advanced repeat, if the first occurrence of the day of the week is in the following month, the instance will be discarded (normally it would just display on the first instance of that day of the week in the following month. For example, to have an event repeat ONLY on the fifth Monday of the month and skip months that have no fifth Monday, set a repeat on the 29th of the month, select Monday as the day to repeat on/after, and check this tag and the event will only appear on those months that have a fifth Monday. Remember, that advanced repeats may not display properly in other calendar apps that do not support these advanced type of repeats (Subscription Only).
  
  

• Fixes issue of ShortDescription field not properly exploding designated Action Tag.
• Ensures that after templates are deleted, that the SystemPreferences.dat file is written immediately (in case Pimlical prematurely exits before it gets updated).
• Fixes obscure issue on advanced repeat that if the first matching day of the week on or after the day of the month or year is in the FOLLOWING month, it was not displaying the instance on the expected day.
• Fixes new issue that in the Filter display, the most recently used filter was no longer being displayed with a  Blue background.
• Now recognizes Pimlical's Custom vCard tags for birthday/anniversary alarmSet and AlarmAdvance fields (it was generating them for vCard output, but was not recognizing them when reading a vCard field). This change means that those fields are now properly preserved over an export and re-import of a vCard file.
• Fixes problem with day of month for birthday and anniversary of a contact being the day before on vCard export (P/D did not have this issue).
• Fixes a potential (unreported) but very obscure case where there might be an issue with the parent of a repeat series not being properly marked as the irregular repeat parent if one of the repeat instances preceded the date of the parent event.

• Fixes an UncaughtExceptionError that can occur under some conditions when DebugMode is set to True and Floating advance takes place.
• Potentially fixes an obscure issue with an unexpected concatenation of category names when MultipleCategorySelection is set to True and a template or filter is using multiple category names.
  

• Fixes a very obscure UncaughtException error  in the display of contacts photos when the Android OS inexplicably is unable to find the default photo in the resources.
• Now hides the Find+ and Find Text fields if only the one-page recent icons list is displayed as entering a find string at that time could under some circumstances cause an exception error (that function is only available when the entire icon set is displayed).
• Fixes a relatively new problem in handling timezones from Google Calendars stored in the Android Calendar database (Home timezone was getting unexpectedly set in some cases, overriding the actual event timezone).
  

• In the Event Selection list, the category color swatch (at left) now uses the background color if the foreground color is set to {1,0,0} - which is the "pseudo-black" used to display a black color (as an alternative to {0,0,0} which is also considered to be the default foreground color which can be overridden).
• The special Action Tags <<date>> and <<time>> as well as any Call-Action Tags are now exploded in the ShortDescription field (as well as the description and note fields).
• When checking off a repeat task (and under some conditions, a repeat float- when it was the first instance being checked off) the rescheduled repeat item was being reset to the Home Time zone in some cases. It now properly preserves the timezone of the original repeat series.

• Fix in V-3.7.115 for multi-line descriptions appearing as separate alarms was incomplete - it has now been fully corrected in this release.
  

• The Event Selection lists now set a background color of the preference: DefaultBackGroundColor.  For those users wanting to set up a dark theme, this makes it possible to control the display in those Event Selection Lists. If the DefaultBackGroundColor is dark (RGB Components all less than 185), and the text color is black by default, then the text color is changed to white for contrast.
  
• The Toggle/Busy popup command will now change from Type Free or Tentative or Out Of Office to Busy (previously it would only change Type  to Free to type Busy and do nothing if Type Tentative or Out Of Office.
• Fixes a really obscure Uncaught Exception Error that could occur under low memory conditions when a contacts dialog was left open.
• Fixes a redraw issue in the event selection dialog when deleting this & future occurrences of a repeat event and preference EditDialogQuickReturn was set to False (although no longer displayed in the main view, it WAS still displaying on return to the selection list).
• Fixes a new cosmetic issue (that appeared at some point in some recent version), whereby a floating event deleted in an event selection list might not be instantly removed from the list (but would show as deleted when returning to a main view).
• Ensures that explicit end-of-line characters in the description field of an event are stripped prior to presentation in Alarm Notifications (previously, multiple lines appeared as multiple alarms).
• Fixed an Uncaught Exception Error that was occurring when attempting to change the value of the Preference: ContactCategoriesToSync and also MemoCategoriesToSync. This fix also corrects an issue in properly displaying all the Contacts and Memos categories.
• Fixes issue of the Day of the Week name displays in the multi-Day, Month and Multi-Month Views being hardwired to display a fixed background, rather than honoring the preference to control those backgrounds (as controls the DayView, date background).
• Fixes issue in Event Selection List whereby the vertical color swatch at the extreme left was being set to black when the category colors were black on a background color - now, if the foreground category color is white OR Black, Pimlical will use the background color for the category color swatch.
• The Event Selection list now paints the entire cell in the color used for the description field (previously, only part of the cell was colored that way - this change provides a cleaner appearance for the Event Selection List), and the date/time fields use the same text color as was used for the description field (again for uniformity, and on the assumption that the foreground/background colors the user picked contrast well).
• The Event Selection List now honors the preference IconsOnWhiteBackground when displaying icons. By default, that will result in icons now being drawn transparently rather than a forced white background. If you dislike this change, just change IconsOnWhiteBackground from its default value of False to True.
  
• The preference IconsOnWhiteBackground now uses a pure white background - previously it used the color in DefaultBackGroundColor, but when setting up a dark theme that didn't work well as the icon would be drawn with a dark background.
  
  

• Another Fix for the issue in 3.7.112 that V-3.7.113 did not fully address.

• Fixes an obscure issue in the advance of Floating Events at Float Advance Time when Pimlical has been removed from memory due to low memory conditions (this was a new issue that arose due to change in V-3.7.112).

• Adds new preference setting: PastDaysColor. This provides a potentially different background color setting for days in the past (so you can quickly realize you are looking at past dates). This is overridden by the ShadedDates preference (i.e. if you are coloring weekend days, they will also be colored on past days. The default value is white (same as the default value for DefaultBackgroundColor). (Subscription Only).
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• Fixes problem of not clearing out some fields when an exception to a repeat series is edited back into a repeat series (Google Calendar disallows this completely, and Pimlical complies when handling an Android calendar, but it DOES allow the user to do this with the local calendar). That could potentially cause some odd things to happen.
• Fixes issue of having the urgency setting from the preference DefaultFloatUrgency overwriting an urgency level of "none" in an existing float (the setting should have been only applied on creation as is the case with priorities).
• Fixes issue of the preference: DefaultTaskCategory not allowing an Android calendar to be set (so that Pimlical tasks can be displayed in an Android/Google calendar).
• Fixes an obscure issue that only occurs if DefaultApptCategory is left at the default setting of Unfiled whereby the initial startup warning can unexpectedly re-appear. Similar fixes have been applied to the ShowHelpOnStartup preference as well as the LastFloatingUpdate preference which could result in the floating update being unnecessarily invoked on occasion.
• Fixes an obscure issue when deleting the final instance of a Float or Task and having it unexpectedly re-appear because under some conditions, the deleted record is not written into the database, so an immediate refresh on the database restores the record without its deleted status.
  

• The preference DefaultContactsCategory now presets the category when importing contacts from the Android contacts database (previously, imported contacts were always placed in the UNFILED category).
  
  

• Removes the rarely-used feature of setting GoogleRefreshInterval to -1 in Android-10 and later, as Google apparently  made some incompatible change in Android-10 that now renders it problematic as Android terminates Pimlical with no error, no exception and for no apparent reason. It looks like it's related to the new restriction in Android-10 that an application cannot be launched from an intent triggered by a background receiver (a badly-conceived restriction that renders a lot of useful code completely useless).
• In iCalendar Export, Pimlical was inadvertently including the Pimlical Calendar version instead of the iCalendar Version - a user reported that one calendar app refused to import because of the version issue. Pimlical now includes the static VERSION:2.0 tag in the header.
• Fixes a very obscure issue with alarms on Android-10 and later, that if a user taps on the SNOOZE button, but then NEVER selects a snooze interval from the dropdown list (and does not tap outside the dialog or otherwise does nothing to dismiss that dialog), future alarms won't get rescheduled until the user does that (or otherwise interacts with Pimlical to get alarms rescheduled). If the device shows the lock screen, the user might forget that they have to unlock the device and select a snooze time from the drop-down list (or perhaps they hit the SNOOZE button by mistake and thought they had hit the DISMISS button, etc.).
• Fixes an obscure issue on the display of events where the DST rules differ (i.e. the rule in effect at the time the event or instance of a repeat series was being displayed, versus the rule in effect at the current date/time) specifically with respect to the dates on which  Daylight Savings is in effect (or not in effect at all) - under some conditions, the event (or instance of a repeat event) was not being displayed at the correct time based upon the date being displayed in the calendar.