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4.7.6
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- Always use applications menu for default menu.
- Fix Exec key in desktop file handler (bug #6912).
- Fix if statement in xfce_tasklist_button_visible().
- Depend on garcon 0.1.4.

4.7.5
=====
- Don't destroy the about dialog.
- Allow using enter in the launcher treeviews.
- Fix crash in always group mode (bug #6792).
- Drop the automatic grouping option from tasklist; not implemented yet.
- Fix Gdk key macro names.
- Fix confustion with panel opacity (bug #6827).
- Make miniature view the default in the pager (bug #6825).
- Fix wrong capitalization of Xfce.
- Fix issue in systray size allocation with 1 row (bug #6809).
- Fix 'add launcher' desktop file.
- Improve debugging output for display changes.
- Restore shadow of spin button in systray dialog.
- Add function to return the Xfconf panel name.
- Warning why # pager rows does not apply (bug #6555).
- Gracefully handle abort signal (bug #6563).
- Restart the panel if we receive SIGUSR1.
- Fix format of 12-hour clock.
- Add option to not rotate buttons in vertical panel (bug #6687).
- Propertly handle insensitive clock colors.
- Set correct session priority.
- Improve support for a menu editor (alacarte) in the applications menu.
- Don't destroy the application menu under the users' cursor on reload.
- Add window DND to the pager in tasklist.
- Make viewports work in the tasklist (bug #6898 and #6665).
- Support viewports in button pager.
- Translation updates (be, ca, da, de, eu, fi, gl, hu, id, it, ja,
  kk, nl, pt, sk, ta, uk, zh_CN, zh_TW).

4.7.4
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- Add support for menu monitoring.
- Allow translations of the "Xfce Panel" string.
- Add submodule to xfce4-docs/xfce4-panel-master.
- Fix accelerator key conflict (bug #6765).
- Add test for docs module and depend on xdt 4.7.3.
- Fix distributing the manual in the dist tarball.
- Translation updates (ug, gl, zh_TW, de, sk, nl, da, kk, uk, pt,
  de, it, ja, el, fi, sv, ca, eu, hu).

4.7.3
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- Add support to run plugins in valgrind.
- Add lXext to tasklist libraries (bug #6471).
- Add a pager mode with normal buttons.
- Fix menu positioning with autohide panels.
- Always wait for a grab if we popup menus from events.
- Don't handle grabs on the window from menu's.
- Register the plugin menu to block autohide.
- Make the session warning a non-aborting error for startxfce4.
- Allow to quit the panel if no session manager is running.
- Improve checking if we own the dbus name.
- Delay allocation of event table until we use it.
- Add workspace settings option to pager submenu.
- Libxfce4panel-1.0.pc is missing variable localedir (bug #6629).
- Remove deprecated encoding key from desktop files.
- Move helpers applications to $libdir.
- Move module panel plugins in $libdir/xfce4/panel/plugins.
- Add cast to fix a compile error in external 4.6 plugins.
- Fix activating the panel when a plugin asks for focus.
- Translation updates (pt_BR, da, hu, de, pt, ca, fr, kk, it,
  zh_TW).

4.7.2
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- Fix typos in translated strings (bug #6350).
- Fix rounding issues in panel borders.
- Empty channel if 4.6 migration failed.
- Load the xfce-applications.menu as default.
- Add support for more background options (bug #1731).
- Improved debugging support using the PANEL_DEBUG environ variable.
- Add LIBXFCE4PANEL_VERSION.
- Link tasklist plugin to x11 (bug #6471).
- Fix some (possible) problems when building documentation.
- Add support for X-XFCE-Unique=SCREEN.
- Make sure there are not 2 active windows on ws-changes (bug #6474).
- Make the systray takeover selection.
- Ask to start panel when opening preferences without instance.
- Add logout to plugin menu and drop quit and restart.
- Add separator between help and logout in window menu.
- Improve and cleanup code for external plugins (bug #6358).
- Change colormap handling (bug #6358).
- Add debug mode to run plugins in gdb (export PANEL_DEBUG=gdb,
  logs in /tmp directory).
- Use activate signal for launcher menu items (bug #6485).
- Fix launching from primary clipboard (bug #6488).
- Translation updates (pa, es, id, ru, tr, kk, ca, it, uk, ug, hr,
  bn, fi, gl, pt_BR, de, da, eu, sk, pt, el, zh_CN, el).


4.7.1
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- Support for dragging menu items to create launchers (bug #2896).
- Fix segfault when directory is NULL (bug #6336).
- Restore button label binding in applications menu (bug #6277).
- Give the wrapper a widget name for theming (bug #6268).
- Add existing windows in the tasklist (bug #6273).
- Store the drop highlight position (bug #6270).
- Add option to application menu to show tooltips.
- Use exo desktop file names in default config.
- Set desktop type when migrating 4.6 launchers.
- Fix icon button allocation in tasklist (bug #6269).
- Properly handle exit status.
- Restart external plugins on compositing changes.
- Give panel windows good theming names (bug #6268).
- Only return default title in applications menu is NULL.
- Add Mallard page for theming (only reminder for now).
- Fix handling of custom menu items.
- Fail when compiling with --enable-gen-doc, but checks failed.
- Make the always group functionality work.
- Properly rebuild tasklist if a windows' workspace changed.
- Support remote event replies from the wrapper.
- Improve manual Makefile.
- Restore old workspace scroll behaviour (bug #6271).
- Handle pager orientation.
- Improve debugging in external plugins.
- Add some more checks in the 4.6 macro.
- Fix expand overflow (bug #6312).
- Add drag activate for window buttons in the tasklist.
- Add scroll support to switch between windows in tasklist.
- Handle window autohide blocking in application.
- Change order of plugin signals on startup.
- Add option to fix the length of the panel.
- Set icon geometries for the tasklist buttons.
- Use gtk_widget_get_ancestor() instead of custom function.
- Translation updates (ru, kk, it, uk, el, bn, fi, si, da, eu, sk, pt).


4.7.0
=====

General
-------
- Almost a complete rewite of the code. Everything is now written
  in GObjects. This makes each individual part easier to understand.
- All plugins are ported to GObject-based plugins and use Xfconf for
  storing their information (apart from desktop-files of launcher).
- Interfaces are all created by GtkBuilder.
- Ported to new Libxfce4ui (4.7.1) and Garcon (0.1.1) libraries.
  Other dependencies include Gtk+ 2.14, Glib 2.18, Xfconf 4.7.2,
  Exo 0.5.1, DBus-Glib 0.73 and Libwnck 2.22.
- Documentation (will be) written in Mallard.
- On first startup a dialog will appear to migrate old panel config,
  start with the default setup or one empty panel.

Panel
-----
- Panels can be dragged around the screen and snapped to every panel
  edge. Each panel also has a setting to control the window length (%).
- Possibility to lock panels. This will fix the position and hides the
  handles of the window.
- Alpha backgrounds.
- Item (plugin) editor in the preferences dialog, so you can easily
  add, move, delete and edit plugins that are sometimes hard to reach.
- Using Xfconf for storing the panel settings. Panels also watches the
  Xfconf channel for changes, except for adding and removing panels.
- New code for monitor/screen positioning. This should work a lot
  better with randr.
- DND of desktop-files on the panel to create new launchers.
- Possibility to add new plugins from the command line, including
  startup arguments.
- External plugins are automatically restarted if they have not
  crashed in the last 60 seconds. If they crash more then once in
  this time window, the user is asked what to do (restart or remove).
- Gtk style properties for popup/popdown delay (bug #5707).
- Hidden option to disable struts for windows on a screen edge, so
  the space is used by the window manager for other windows.

Plugin Framework
----------------
- Plugin API should still be the same, however the ABI changed so
  you need to recompile plugins against this version of the panel.
- New way to run plugins compiled as modules externally. Whether a
  plugin runs internal or external is controlled by a boolean in the
  desktop-file of the plugin. This does not affect the 'old' external
  plugins that are compiled as binaries, it is however recommended to
  port plugins to this new framework (only Makefile and macro change)
  since it is more flexible.
- Communication between the panel and wrapper (that embeds plugins to
  run external) is handled through D-Bus.
- XfcePanelPlugin is now a single object (not an interface for 2 other
  objects). This drops a lot of code.
- Some new API and a couple of deprecations. Some of the new
  functionality is only available in the new plugin framework.
- New way to build plugins as GObjects with XfcePanelPlugin as parent
  type. This gives all advantages of GObject like type checking.

Actions Plugin
--------------
- New settings dialog that allows one or two actions in the plugin
  in each order you want.

Applications Menu Plugin (new)
------------------------------
- Plugin similar what Xfdesktop provided, but using Garcon.
- Gtk icons size property to control the menu icon size.
- Script to popup the menu, optionally under the cursor.

Clock Plugin
------------
- New fuzzy clock mode.
- Improved vertical orientation.

Directory Menu Plugin (new)
---------------------------
- Menu that provides a directory tree in a menu. It allows to quickly
  open a Terminal or File Manager for some directory.
- Possible to set a file filter for files that should also be
  visible in the menu. Files are opened by the default application
  that provides the mime-type reported by GIO.
- Gtk icons size property to control the menu icon size.
- Script to popup the menu, optionally under the cursor.

Launcher Plugin
---------------
- Support to create a launcher from the command line with a number of
  desktop files as argument.
- New dialogs, with an application finder like interface to add new
  applications and using the Exo item editor for modifying launchers.
- The desktop files are stored in the .config/xfce4/panel/launcher-$id
  folder and monitored for changes.
- Possibility to use desktop-id in the default configuration which are
  read from a GarconItemsPool on first startup. This is a very useful
  feature for distributions providing a custom default config.
- Gtk icons size property to control the menu icon size.
- Option to show labels instead of icons.

Pager Plugin
------------
- Button to quickly access the Xfwm4 workspace settings.

Separator Plugin
----------------
- Same drawing modes as previous panel, but a check button for expand
  instead of a mode.

Notification Area Plugin
------------------------
- Support for transparent tray icons (required at least Gtk 2.16).

Window Buttons (tasklist) Plugin
--------------------------------
- Option to only show icons. This drops the icon box plugin.
- Complete rewrite, not entirely finished yet (group buttons are not
  working yet + some other less noticeable features).
- If the list becomes too crowded windows will show up in an overflow
  menu, similar to what a menu bar does.
- Option to set the sort mode of the tasklist.
- Draw wireframe of the window on mouse hover, similar to the Alt+Tab
  wireframe in Xfwm4.
- A lot of style properties to tune the behavior of the plugin.
- Vertically orientated buttons for vertical panels.

Window Menu Plugin
------------------
- Gtk icons size property to control the menu icons size and minimized
  icon translucency.