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MyTimetable 2.4 is currently in the state: stabledeprecated. No further development is expected except for critical bug fixes. MyTimetable 2.4 is tracked using the git branch: rb-2.4. |
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- Help page improvements — Several parts of the help texts were rewritten to make them more comprehensible.
- Many other small improvements and bug fixes, involving the API, exception handling, rendering and other components. In total 182 issues were fixed and 254 (non-merge) commits were done since version 2.3.
Non-functional, technical and back-end changes
The following changes have been made to the MyTimetable backend and underlying software, and have no direct impact on MyTimetable functionality:
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The following features from earlier MyTimetable versions have been deprecated, removed, or partially removed and are not supported anymore:
- Internet Explorer 7 support has been deprecated. Although we are aware that some customers are still actively using this browser, we have various reasons for deprecating IE7 support:
- IE7, being released in October 2006, is a very old browser. This makes it an insecure and slow browser, leading to a bad user experience.
- Since Internet Explorer 7 does not support recent web standards, it costs us a lot of effort to maintain compatibility with IE7, leading to higher costs and less innovation.
- Microsoft will end Windows XP security support in April of next year. Most of the desktops still using IE7 are also using Windows XP, and we are expecting (and encouraging) customers to upgrade these before then.
- The market share of IE7 is currently below 1%, and even at our customer sites we rarely see more than 3% of the active users using IE7.
- Other companies are also choosing to deprecate older browsers: Google dropped support for Internet Explorer 8 in November 2012, and has recently dropped support for Internet Explorer 9.