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  It's been nearly 10 months after the previous Tasks release, for which I
  profusely apologise.  I wanted to fix one final bug before releasing, which
  sadly took five months to get around too...  I eventually fixed it last night,
  so here is <a href="http://pimlico-project.org/tasks.html">Tasks 0.14</a>.
</p>
<ul>
  <li>Magic date parser when adding tasks</li>
  <li>Support libunique in the GTK+ port (Jonny Lamb)</li>
  <li>Support OWL window menus in the GTK+ port</li>
  <li>Save and restore the edit window size</li>
  <li>Add a clickable note icon (#548)</li>
  <li>Ellipsize the undo/redo menu items (#741)</li>
  <li>Make sure the date popup doesn't go off the screen (#752)</li>
</ul>
<p>
  The most interesting change in this release is the magic date parser, which
  first landed back in March.  This lets you use <cite>Google Calendar</cite>
  style descriptive tasks such as "release tasks today", "do shopping next
  tuesday" or "pay bills on 2nd". There are many patterns that are matched but
  I need two things from any users of Tasks.
</p>
<ol>
  <li>
    Translations.  At the moment there are only English and French translations
    for the strings, which are critical for the parser to work.  Translators,
    please update the translations!
  </li>
  <li>
    Feedback. The parser handles all of the natural language expressions that I
    thought would be useful.  There are probably plenty more which are not
    handled, so if you find one which isn't handled (or is handled incorrectly)
    then please <a href="http://bugzilla.openedhand.com">file a bug</a>.
  </li>
</ol>
<p>
  Oh, and one last thing.  The OpenMoko and Maemo ports have likely bitrotted.
  New functionality has been added to the platform abstraction and I don't think
  those ports were updated.  If someone actively uses Tasks on either Maemo or
  OpenMoko and is willing to test builds before release,
  please <a href="mailto:ross@burtonini.com">contact me</a>.
</p>
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