The reports from early users of activeRenderer (68 have registered so far) gave me enough information to move to version 1.0 Release Candidate 2.

The 68 registered users will automatically upgrade to 1.0rc2, unless they have disabled the auto update feature in activeRenderer's preferences. Others can download the new version from here.

• Matt noted a while ago that activeRenderer was modifying the #homeTemplate.txt and #prefs.txt files in www at installation time even if the 'Outline publication dates' option wasn't checked in the preferences: messy indeed, since that preference is unchecked by default. Well, the installation is cleaner now, these files are not touched until the 'Outline publication dates' preference is checked.
• Rick reported a bug when activeRenderer was modifying a #prefs.txt which didn't previously end with an end of line marker. This is fixed as well, a new line marker is inserted in #prefs.txt prior to further modifications if it is needed.
• Rick also protested (very politely) against activeRenderer's policy of always trying to upstream the 'instant outline' or any outline saved under gems in www. So I've added a new option in activeRenderer's Preferences, checked by default, to disengage this feature on demand.

I don't rightly know why I did this, since I couldn't find any indication on the Microsoft site of what the bonus was, compared to version 5.2 (which brought cool Quartz text rendering).

I suppose it's a case of blind trust in Microsoft's ability to fix bugs between versions :-) Scary uh ?

Anyway, this update didn't ask me to reboot my system after updating, a progress compared to update 5.2.