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July 21st, 2015Jul 21st, 2015
Chris
I am pleased to announce the release of Template v2.45 – a scriptable dynamic templating tool that enables you to write configuration templates once and deploy multiple times – never do the same thing twice. In addition, it now comes with a feature packed IPv4/IPv6 Subnet Calculator built in!
Download links and instructions can be found on the TemplateFx page.

The changes in this release are summarised below:
- Updated “lodash.js” to v3.10.0.
- Enhancements to the ip based JavaScript functions to add IPv6 support.
- Included an IPv4/IPv6 Subnet Calculator into TemplateFx.
- Implemented HTML based Copy & Cut for template text to maintain syntax highlighting.
- JavaScript ip functions now return “null” on error as opposed to “undefined”.
- Fixed an issue where highlighted text wasn’t shown to be selected on MacOS.
- Added support to the JavaScript function “ipsplit()” to determine the aggregate.
- Fixed a potential issue with JavaScript function “ipsplit()”.
Feedback welcome as well as suggestions or enhancement requests or general queries!
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TemplateFx
May 5th, 2015May 5th, 2015
Chris
I am pleased to announce the release of Template v2.44 – a scriptable dynamic templating tool that enables you to write configuration templates once and deploy multiple times – never do the same thing twice.
Download links and instructions can be found on the TemplateFx page.

The changes in this release are summarised below:
- Updated “lodash.js” to v3.8.0.
- Added an output pane feature called “Copy Mode” which automatically highlights blocks on mouse over.
- Added an “Expand Pane” feature on the right click menu to expand/maximise the current pane.
- Improved the “Generate Output” dialog to disable the “OK” button and change cursor.
- Enhanced the “ipsplit()” function to allow you to specify minimum subnets.
- Added status bar to the bottom of the “DataTemplate” tab to indicate full path to DataTemplate.
- Added support for DataTemplate encryption using AES-128 and 100,000 PBKDF2 iterations.
- Bumped the DataTemplate file version to 4 to support encryption (older versions can’t read newer files, etc).
- Added a toggle for “Maximise on Start” to preferences.
- Various wait cursor improvements.
Feedback welcome as well as suggestions or enhancement requests or general queries!
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TemplateFx
March 31st, 2015Mar 31st, 2015
Chris
I am pleased to announce the release of Template v2.43 – a scriptable dynamic templating tool that enables you to write configuration templates once and deploy multiple times – never do the same thing twice.
Download links and instructions can be found on the TemplateFx page.

The changes in this release are summarised below:
January 4th, 2015Jan 4th, 2015
Chris
I am pleased to announce the release of Template v2.42 – a scriptable dynamic templating tool that enables you to write configuration templates once and deploy multiple times – never do the same thing twice.
Download links and instructions can be found on the TemplateFx page.

The changes in this release are summarised below:
- Added support for globally including, enabling and disabling JavaScript libraries.
- Integrated Lo-Dash 2.4.1 into TemplateFx for use in templates as an internal JavaScript library.
- Updated JavaScript function “passwd()” to use Java’s cryptographically strong “SecureRandom” class.
- Renamed “Options” to “Preferences” in the “File” menu.
Feedback welcome as well as suggestions or enhancement requests or general queries!
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TemplateFx
November 24th, 2014Nov 24th, 2014
Chris
I am pleased to announce the release of Template v2.41 – a scriptable dynamic templating tool that enables you to write configuration templates once and deploy multiple times – never do the same thing twice.
Download links and instructions can be found on the TemplateFx page.

The changes in this release are summarised below:
- Greatly improved the usability of “templatefx.fields” in the context of “Merge Rows”.
- Added support for JavaScript variable “globals[]” to store persistent data between rows.
- Fixed a bug where the “Merge Rows” checkbox was staying selected after selecting “New”.
- Added support for snippet parameters which allows you to pass through a literal string to a snippet.
- Fixed an “IndexOutOfBoundsException” when dealing with snippets and includes at the end of the template.
- Fixed a bug where it wasn’t detecting a snippet was in use when trying to delete.
- The “Errors” pane isn’t shown unless there is a specific error as it was misleading.
- Bookmarks which are based on network UNCs have a different icon.
- Added bookmark tooltips which now show the URI of the file.
- Added an error message about nested script blocks.
Feedback welcome as well as suggestions or enhancement requests or general queries!
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TemplateFx