SnapGene Version 5.0.4

SnapGene 5.0.4 was released on October 19, 2019.

Enhancements

• Enhanced the command line interface for SnapGene Viewer to allow accepting the End User License Agreement and to display installation instructions.

Fixes

• Prevented ")" characters from being appended to filenames when saving on Windows while using SnapGene in Japanese.
  (Reported by Genta Ito)
• Fixed a bug that affected reading of some text formats, including primer lists.
  (Reported by Lauri Lintott)
• Ensured that file handles are closed when documents are closed.
  (Reported by Genta Ito)
• Addressed an issue that prevented the application from starting up on some Windows computers.
  (Reported by Rachel Gannon and Javier Navarro)
• Enabled GenBank .gbff and GenPept .gpff file extensions to be associated with SnapGene.
  (Requested by John Osei)
• Resolved various rendering issues with alignments.
  (Reported by Leonid Valentovich)
• Fixed various issues with computing alignments to a reference sequence.
  (Reported by Patrick Smits and Devin Strickland)
• Corrected printing of special characters on Windows.
  (Reported by Kengo Adachi)
• Improved the default collection name when importing GenBank, GenPept, and other archive formats.
• Addressed an issue that prevented the application from starting up on GCC 4.8-based Linux distributions.