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The latest release of Simon is version 5.1.1.

• Added a significant new feature: HTML reporting. Simon can now generate HTML pages at a specified frequency (e.g. every 5 minutes) to let you watch it remotely. By default, reports include a Summary page that is similar to the main Tests table in the Simon Monitor window, listing the included tests and the status and time since the last change, failure, etc. Each test name is a link, that when clicked takes you to a Detail page for that test, with more information, including tables of recent changes, failures, etc. The reports can use custom templates to match your website design. One template is provided with this release; others will be included in future betas. Reports can be saved locally (e.g. for use with Personal Web Sharing), and the next beta release will support automatically uploading to your remote web server.
• Added a section to the test editor window for Reports, allowing specifying whether the test is included or excluded on all reports, or on specific reports. The latter allows separate reports for just some tests, e.g. for each of your clients, or groups of sites.
• Added a View Options sheet to the Monitor window. It allows adding or removing columns in the Tests table of the Monitor window, and allows specifying whether to use relative times or absolute dates for each date column.
• Removed the Dates preference page, now that those options are in the View Options sheet.
• Added new columns for the Tests table, available via View Options: Last Downtime, Last Error, Last Event, Last Check, Last Recovery, Last Check Duration, and Last Change Difference. These new columns aren't included by default.
• The Tests table now automatically hides its vertical scrollbar if all of the tests fit, and has a horizontal scrollbar, if needed.
• Changed "--" to "n/a" and "disabled" to "--" in the Last Changed column, just for ACE. :)
• Removed the tooltip on the Tests table, as it isn't really useful and just gets in the way.
• Added Last Recovery to the tooltip information in the status menu.
• The File ▸ Preview Page and Show Source menu items are now available in the test editor window, as alternatives to the in-window buttons.
• Renamed the File ▸ Add and Alter commands (and their corresponding toolbar buttons) as New and Edit, respectively, for increased consistency.
• Updated the test, service and notifier editor windows to use the New / Edit terminology, and to use just OK for the buttons.
• Added a File ▸ Duplicate command (and toolbar button) to make a copy of a selected test, service, or notifier.
• The Preview and Source windows now automatically show and hide their scrollbars as necessary.
• Sped up the splash dissolves; now twice as fast (half a second each).
• Fixed a bug with sorting the Time column of the Failures table.
• Fixed an issue with the French localization that prevented the Find License (Chercher la licence) feature from working.
• Drafted new pages for the User Guide to describe the report templates and other new features. See in particular the Report Templates page. Feedback welcome on the information and features.