 6.0M? (?th January 2006):

 - Animation editor: Less important controls can be hidden
   (http://wiki.jave.de/index.php/Feature_request:More_Animation_Editor_Space)

 - Animation editor: Added navigation buttons to toolbar

 - Renamed "Mix Characters" checkbox to "Merge Characters" to better reflect its meaning.
   
 - Tweaked user interface a bit (splash screen, about dialog, toolbar buttons, colors, etc)

 - Bugfix: SWF animation export respects actual frame size

 - Bugfix: Exception caused by double clicking outside the document when the text tool is active. 

 - Bugfix: Hitting the save button on an animation editor will save the animation, not only
   a single frame. Also: Removed the "Save" and "Save As..." buttons from the animation
   menu (since they only duplicated the ones from the file menu).

 6.0M7 (4th December 2005):
 
 - Moved the mouse characters panel from the status bar to the tool options dialog.
   So mouse characters assigned to left/right mouse buttons can now be adjusted only
   where it makes sense to do so.
 
 - Dynamic font greyscale tables for Image2Ascii converter
     When converting using a greyscale algorithm, the greyscale table for the
     current display font can now be computed automatically.
     This makes it easy to use special fonts (e.g. symbol fonts) for image2ascii
     conversion, where there are no predefined greyscale tables available for.
     Note that the predefined tables usually leed to a better conversion result,
     since they are manually optimized.

 - Macromedia Flash File (SWF) export from Ascii-animations
     Requires the free MTASC compiler (http://www.mtasc.org) to be installed
     (tested with 1.11 on Windows 2000, should work on other systems, too).
     The path to the compiler binary must be specified on the export options page
     for SWF export
 
 - Added tool tips in order to somewhat explain the difference between generic and algorithmic tools.
 
 - Added a new example 'key' to the 3D rendering tool - many thanks to Adam Robbins. 
 
 - Bugfix: Exception with using TextTool
 
 - Bugfix: Problems saving/loading cliparts

 - Lots of other minor improvements and bugfixes, brushed up some dialogs


 6.0M6 (19th June 2005):
 - New font chooser for display font. It is in the menu "View", "Display font..." and you can
   use it to select any true type font installed on your system.
   The font will be used for the editors, for the preview in 
   the image2ascii converter and the FIGlet editor. It will
   also be used as default font for GIF export.
 - Reduced startup time, reduced system resources for crash recovery
 - Java ImageIO API is used for loading image files. So JavE now supports all image file formats
   that are supported by the Java runtime you have installed.
 - Replaced the old FIGlet font export assistant by a new wizard implementation.
 - Cliparts are now sorted by name
 - Brushed up some icons, added icons to more menu items
 - Brushed up dialog for adding current selection as new clipart
 - Improved the Steganogram feature and added some help text (Image2Ascii Converter
   with the 'Gradient' converting algorithm / menu "'Special', 'Decode Steganogram')
 - Changed the about dialog to be an ordinary dialog with close button
 - Added CeeJay's Gradient: .:%oO$8@#M
 - Added icons to the fill style chooser in the fill tool options dialog
 - Bugfix: High CPU load when closing asciimation player in looped mode
 - Bugfix: Error when opening fractals editor 
 - Bugfix: JavE did not find its configuration files when not being run from installation folder
 - Bugfix: JavE player applet was not JDK1.4 compatible
 - Bugfix: FIGlet font export assistant did not start
 - Bugfix: Games (AscTris/Labyrinth) did not get keyboard focus when started
 - Distribution: Moved icons from root folder to separate icons folder
 - Distribution: Added Alberto Schianos cool folder icon (icons folder)

 6.0M5:
 - In the new batch conversion wizard in the image2ascii converter you can now choose the source
   image files
 - Improved animation editor: More buttons, more icons, more context menues
 - Cropping (Menu Edit->Crop) in animation editor crops all frames
 - Resize Document (Menu Edit->Resize Document) in animation editor resizes all frames
 - New export wizard for animations. 'Loop' option can be configured for animated GIFs and JavaScript
 - Improved JavaScript player for animation export. Player controls are now optional.
 - Added Java applet export (JavEPlayer) to animation export wizard.
 - New dialog for animation properties http://www.jave.de/developer/animationproperties60m5.png
 - Removed the capability of animation frames having a specific frame duration and color
   for each frame. Those are now settings for an animation.
 - Bugfix: Frame title updated correctly to the current active editor
 - Bugfix: Animation properties frame duration/color was not saved/loaded
 - Bugfix: Animation GIF export produced black images

 6.0M4:
 - Editor windows are now arranged as tabs.
 - Integrated animation editor into the main editor window
 - ActionScript export for the animation editor
 - Added Icons to some of the Image2Ascii algorithms
 - Added Icons to trasform, rotate menu items
 - Online version check (menu 'Help' -> 'Check for Updates')
 - Contains all fonts from the FIGlet fonts library
 - Bugfix: Controls in Image2Ascii Dialog from appearing on other tabs with JRE1.4
 
 6.0M3:
 - Rulers for the editor window (optional)
 - Brushed up the animation player a bit - will be continued in M4
 - First version of Asciimation import: Scrollbar animations as well as
   raw text animations can be imported as movie (Menu "File" ->
   "Import")
 - Tool Options Dialog: Visibility can be toggled by menu item and
   toolbar button
 - JavE remembers grid visible/not visible and other settings
 - Lots of critical bugfixes and internal code cleanup 
 
 6.0M2:
 
 - Replaced the old FIGlet dialog by the new one from my JFIGlet project 
 - User preferences are no longer saved into the jave.ini file. The Java Preferences API
   is used now, which will for example write the preferences to the registry on Windows systems.
 - Improved look and feel on most systems (by switching from AWT to Swing)
 - All tools support automatic scrolling when the mouse cursor is dragged outside the visible
   part of the document.
 - Improved layout and controls in most dialogs
 - Menubar contains icons
 - Increased performance for large documents
 - Auxiliary lines tool simplificated a lot.
 - Lots of changes to the software internals.

 6.0M1:
 
 - Improved layout and controls in most dialogs
 - Improved the "Thumbnail Browser" - it's now more like a file open dialog with preview
   should work well on Windows, has not been testen on Linux or other systems. 