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Release Name: 0.6.0

Notes:
The big feature for 0.6.0 is support for drilling
Mandarin Chinese.  Both traditional and simplified characters are
supported in the dictionary tool, but unfortunately the kanji
popup mostly only supports traditional characters (if you search
for a simplified character, it will give the the radical information
for the traditional equivalent).  The stroke order font also
only supports traditional characters (if you know of a similar
font for simplified characters, please contact me).

The other big feature for this release is Ruby 1.9 support.
As far as I know, it will work on any 1.9 version supported by
ruby-gtk.

I have also transitioned away from the Tanaka corpus as the source
of example sentences.  The project is now maintained by the
Tatoeba project and since I needed to use Tatoeba for Chinese
example sentences, it was a good time to switch.  There is no
loss of functionality, but because the database contains a lot
more information, loading is slower.  In the next release I will
try to rectify that problem.

The statistics window has been given a new tab for forgotten items.
If you are used to getting behind (like me), you might appreciate it.
Basically, the statistics in the forgotten tab work just like
the statistics for items in the review set, but for forgotten items.

One last major issue is the introduction of a folder for containing
your own personal dictionaries and such.  If you create a folder
called ".jldrill" in your home directory and put a file structure
the same as the distributed data directory (.jldrill/quiz for your
drill files, .jldrill/dict for dictionary files, etc), you can
overload the installed versions.  This is useful for having your
drill files show up right away when opening a file, for example.
It is also especially useful for overriding the very old edict
dictionary that is distributed with Debian based distributions
(just put a newer version of edict in .jldrill/dict).



Changes: * Display statistics for forgotten items in a separate pane. These are basically the same statistics as the review set, except for the forgotten set. * Show the appropriate examples when a question/answer is shown. Basically, if the question is English, show only English. If the question is Japanese, show only Japanese. When the answer is shown, show both. * Support Ruby 1.9 * Chinese mode for drill. If your drill is chinese, you can select the chinese option in the Options window. * CC-CEdict support. Add the CC-CEdict library (called cedict in the data files). If it is selected as the dictionary and chinese mode is turned on in the options, You will be able to search the chinese dictionary. * If Chinese mode is turned on, show Chinese readings in the Kanji popup. * Allow user to override datafiles by placing new versions in ~/jldrill * Replace the Tanaka corpus with the Tatoeba database * Allow loading of Chinese example sentences in the Tatoeba database (this is currently quite slow). * If the chinese character is simplified, when displaying it in the kanji popup, search for it's equivalent traditional character in the dictionary. If found, display that information. * If the dictionary is loaded, do a dictionary search for the kanji character in the kanji popup. This gives a little bit more idea of the meaning, especially for Chinese mode.