Release date: January 23rd, 2011.
Changes, updates and bug fixes included in v2010 that are now considered stable are documented here as they evolved during the v2008 releases.
Most of the changes listed have proven to be stable and are now carried into the first release of v2010. As we continue to update v2010, all licensed users will have free access to the new releases. Announcement of new releases, feature additions, bug fixes and other updates will be regularly posted here.
The most notable fix in v2010 is Vista and Windows 7 compatibility. Experiments that ran perfectly well under Windows XP would, under certain circumstances, suddenly end on Vista and/or Windows 7--especially if they were unusually long. Final releases of v2008 appeared to get around this issue in Vista (the so called "150 item barrier") but not in Windows 7 which was much less forgiving. Tracking the source of the issue down to memory leaks in Windows 7 led to the solution and now MediaLab v2010 offers a stable release to use on this most recent version of Windows as well as Vista and XP.
MediaLab has always used the Windows Media Player as its video "engine" for playing movies. However, it was limited to using WMP v6 which caused MediaLab to fall behind the capabilities of Microsoft's later releases of the WMP. In MediaLab, v2010, the most recent version of the WMP installed on a machine is utilized (requires WMP version 7 or later). With freeware codec packages availalble such as those from k-lite, virtually all video formats are now available for playing within MediaLab.
