March 18

Coming soon to a version of L3DT near you will be an update manager window, such as that shown below:

The purpose of this feature, as it explains itself (see text in window above), is to allow users to check for updates to L3DT or critical alerts (e.g. bug warnings.) The window, which works much like an RSS reader, will provide a brief summary of the update/alert, and a link to a page on the website with more information (e.g. release announcement), or to a direct download link.

There's still a little debugging and testing to do, so this feature won't be available in the next release (L3DT v2.5c), which is due for release in the next few days. It will however be included in the first of the developmental builds after release 2.5c, which will follow in the next few weeks or month(s). Correction: An early version of the update manager has made it into L3DT release 2.5c (23rd of March 2008).

Cheerio, Aaron.