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BPA Server
  - now logs triggering conditions to execution log
  - XML data files generated and maintained by BPA Server now include a namespace parameter

Server Management Console
  - updated icons for Users based on their user role
  - added role grouping support in the User panel
  - can now import AMA (AutoMate 6 Backup) files
  - Licensing panel now includes separate lines for server and Developer Tool registration states
  - added new Task property to set tasks to run in user-level mode on Vista agents with UAC enabled
  - changed “Production State” to “Stage” throughout the product

File Condition
  - polling time is now customizable (applies only to File Conditions watching for a file in a network folder)

Delete XML Node Action
  - added ability to remove a node attribute instead of the entire node

Loop List Action
  - improved speed by up to 75%

 XML Actions
  - added support for namespaces

Window Actions
  - now allows wildcard usage for pixel coordinates

Send E-Mail Action
  - now generates a valid Message-ID header value

BPA Server
  - switched from XML to database backend immediately after install would delete the administrator user
  - invalid writes to the XML backend are handled more gracefully (this should prevent the .NET Runtime exception some users were experiencing)
  - corrected consistency issues between Failure and Result Fail links between evaluation, condition and task objects

Server Management Console
  - Importing .atl file now keeps the folder structure for workflows/triggers
  - Importing .aml or .atl with a file trigger now works properly
  - In the output window, the entire contents of the message column could not be seen if the messages was wider than the column
  - Folders can now be exported the same way repository items are
  - corrected System.NullReferenceException after entering license code and immediately right clicking on an existing workflow
  - corrected System.NullReferenceException that would appear for no apparent reason after running BPA Server for several days
  - added property panel for server-wide and agent-specific SQL Connection strings

Task Builder
  - Attempting to stop a running task in the Task Builder would sometimes cause the task to hang until it was forcibly stopped
  - Forcibly stopping a task in the Task Builder would sometimes cause an Access Violation
  - Using Select All on large tasks (1000+ steps) performs much faster
  - debugging large tasks with many Create Variable steps would cause general stability issues on some machines
  - using Tools | Apply Auto Indentation would incorrectly handle disabled If and Loop steps
  - auto-indentation has been improved

Workflow Designer
  - property panels for objects would not correctly display inheritable properties the first time they were displayed

Task Service
  - was writing a Vista.log debug file onto the root drive

Logon Condition
  - renamed from Startup Condition
  - triggers or evaluates if a user logs onto a workstation

Stored Procedure Action
  - floating-point values returned by a stored procedure were improperly changed to integers

Connect Terminal Action
  - setting emulation type to TN5250 or TN3270 would cause an EAccessViolation

Check Action
  - now works correctly regardless of the native language of the operating system (before, the action would only work on English and French Windows)
 
Ping Action
  - would hang when pinging an invalid hostname on some machines

FTP Upload Action
FTP Download Action
  - Preserve Folder option is now properly respected
  - would not respect a previous FTP Change Directory step

Wait For Window Action
  - Wait for Window action now fails properly after waiting for specified amount of certain time

File Condition
  - was not working properly when set to use a default user
  - when watching for a specific file created by Excel, the condition would not fire reliably

Schedule Event
  - now correctly handles Daylight Savings Time changes regardless of server locale