Public Beta 11 (rev 3803) continues the blended roll-out of major spreadsheet functionalities and unique interoperability features together. The notable new features are:

• [#3947] Freeze pane
• [#4614] Recalculate all formulae
• [#5080] Web fetch — fetch content from a given URL (accessible at the Remote Data toolbox), automatically updated every 30 minutes
• [#5054] My data format — allow user-defined file extensions through XSLT (accessible at Sheet Properties > My Data Format)

Also deployed since this release is the French version. Congratulations to all contributors to the French translation spreadsheet, as part of the EditGrid Localisation Project (currently offline - 2008-03-13).

Other new features include:

• [#3852] List recently modified spreadsheets on home page
• [#5146] Menu item for cell/range lock
• [#4893] Range level deep permalink (in the form of http://www.editgrid.com/user/a_user/a_spreadsheet/Sheet1!A1:C5) with parameters column-delimiter (default=,), row-delimiter (default=\r\n), quote (default=”) and escape (default=”)
• [#5154] Parameter to export style in XML export (?with-style=1)
• [#5073] JavaScript permalink for returning cell value (http://www.editgrid.com/user/a_user/a_spreadsheet/Sheet1!B3?type=js)
• [#5107] Allow passing XSL parameters (eg http://…/foo.xml?xsl=http://…/bar.xsl&_a=1&_b=2 would pass $a=1 and $b=2 into the XSL)
• Option to show menu bar in post-to-blog
• [#4977] Option to allow organisation users to turn off SSL (accessible at the extra menu at top-right-hand corner)
• [#5051] Allow specifying content type in XML export and XSLT output (?content-type=text/plain)
• [#5090] Integration with Netvibes
• [#5067] Display result of NOW() and TODAY() in grid owner’s timezone
• [#4917] Insert re-direction page upon successful login from a login page

Also fixed in this release are:

• [#5103] Re-upload on an unnamed spreadsheet
• [#5110] White background applied upon exporting
• [#4997] Import row/column size
• [#4975] Show locked region inconsistent behaviour
• [#4874] Guard against exceeding cell number limit for importing
• [#5139] Timezone sorting
• [#5092] Tweaking of home page to fit multiple languages
• [#4922] Hid warning for no action to undo
• [#4432] Warning against deletion of all rows/columns
• [#5104] XSS vulnerability in revision description
• [#5024] Apply number formatting immediately
• [#4722][#4850] Reduced default cell size while retaining dimensions on old spreadsheets
• [#5078] Fixed text formatting persistence
• [#5041] Fixed New York timezone off-by-one error

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