Version 5.2 (January 20, 2022)
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* Improved: The form for editing the timer has been changed.
* Improved: When the program starts, the main window remains hidden if it was hidden the last time the program was exited.
* Improved: The audio slider is hidden if the "Turn on the volume" setting is unchecked because the program changes the volume level for the system.
* Improved: The format of the overdue time label in the alert window has been changed.
* A new timer mode "OnZero: Run as stopwatch" has been added.
* Improved: Some interface languages have been corrected.
* Fixed: The program created an empty folder in C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Roaming
* Some other bug fixes and improvements.

Version 5.1 (March 30, 2021)
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* Improved: Missed alerts are displayed in the reminder window.
* Now, when the "Show message" setting is turned off, the notification window does not disappear 30 seconds after it appears and the sound does not stop playing.
* Corrected the Greek interface language.
* Fixed: The online timer website did not open correctly when using emoji.

Version 5.0 (March 23, 2021)
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* Improved: The design of the application has been updated. A new dark theme has been added. The application icons have been changed.
* New: The ability to pause the timer has been added.
* A new setting has been added to arrange the timer list by Time, Label, or Next alarm time.
* Improved: New font for numbers in floating windows is now used.
* Improved: When the timer is stopped, numbers in floating windows are displayed in muted gray.
* New sounds have been added, some sounds have been renamed.
* New: Translations of the user interface into 5 languages: Hindi, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Kurdish and Estonian.
* New request and warning forms with the ability to cancel the reappearance of the form has been added.
* A new "Open Online Timer" button has been added.
* Improved: When editing a timer, you can set any values for minutes and seconds. They will automatically be converted to hours and minutes.
* Improved: When you add a new timer, the sound name and volume are set to the same as the last time you edited the sound settings.
* Improved: The countdown limit has been increased to 50 years, and the date limit has been removed.
* Improved: The notification message doesn't appear when the floating window is visible. The floating window starts flashing when the timer expires.
* Improved: The OK/Close button in the reminders window is focused by default, but the reminders window itself does not become active when it appears to avoid accidentally closing it.
* Improved: If for some reason the sound could not play, the system beep starts playing.
* Improved: When the "Always on top" option is enabled, the caption of the main window is reduced and the program icon is removed from the taskbar.
* Improved: Translation of sounds into other languages has been added.
* Improved user interface translation in some languages (especially Asian languages).
* Improved: The work of the program on High DPI screens has been improved and fixed.
* Improved: An additional check has been added that prohibits the launch of multiple instances of the program.
* Improved: In Windows 7 and above, when playing the sound of the alert, all sounds are muted and music playback is paused, if the "Turn on the volume" option is checked.
* Changed: The sound of the metronome has been changed. You can change the sound of the metronome by changing the Metronome.wav file.
* Fixed: In Windows 10, the notification message disappeared after a few seconds and the music stopped.
* Fixed: When switching to winter time and moving the clock back one hour, alerts were triggered again.
* Fixed a bug with resetting the position of floating windows when working with multiple screens.
* Lots of other fixes and improvements.

Version 4.0.1 (January 22, 2016)
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* Improved some translations of the user interface.
* Fixed: Issue with turning on volume after wakeup in Windows 10.

Version 4.0 (December 16, 2015)
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* Free Countdown Timer now has full Unicode support.
* New command line parameter /ADDTIMER has been added. This parameter opens the new timer window.
* New: 6 alarm sounds have been added.
* New: Translations of the UI into Greek and Indonesian languages.
* Improved Windows 10 Compatibility.
* Improved: The reminder window shows the snooze time on the snooze button.
* Improved: The floating timer has a tooltip window that display the alarm time.
* Fixed: Sometimes the floating window displayed the incorrect amount of months and days.
* Fixed: Sometimes the alarm event did not bring the reminder window to the foreground in Windows 8 and above.
* Fixed: Now you can't close the floating clock using the Alt+F4 hotkey.
* Fixed: If you used the ampersand character (&) in the label for an alarm event, "_" was displayed instead of "&" when the reminder window popped up for that event.
* Fixed: If the user presses the Enter key with the cursor in the date-time field, any changes made in that field are not saved.
* Some other fixes and improvements.

Version 3.1 (February 25, 2014)
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* Improved DPI Scaling support.
* Improved volume control behavior.
* Fixed issue with failure message "Floating point division by zero".

Version 3.0 (October 28, 2013)
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* New: The "Stay on Top" option has been added for the main window.
* New: "Cancel Snooze" command.
* New: "Play Sound Duration" option. You can define for how long to play the sound.
* New: The Full Screen button has been added for floating windows.
* New sound SchoolBell.mp3 has been added.
* New: Support for the flac audio files has been added. Support for the wav files has been improved.
* Fixed: Sometimes alarms not fires when the computer wakes up from a sleep mode.
* Fixed: Issue with sorting of timers.
* Fixed: When a timer reaches zero, the floating window starts flashing. It can't stop flashing when you set the "(None)" sound.
* Fixed: Alarm kept going off even when you hit Snooze and deleted the timer.
* Some other bug fixes and improvements.

Version 2.7 (April 20, 2012)
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* New: Translations of the UI into Bulgarian, Serbian and Japanese languages.
* New: View mode "Single Line".
* New: Shortcuts for lists: Ctrl+N, Ctrl+Enter, Ctrl+Del, Ctrl+E.
* New: Ability to stop snooze.
* Improved: In order to open main window from tray you need to click on icon. The second click on the tray icon hides the main window.
* Fixed: Issue with waking up PC from a sleep mode when the first timer doesn't have WakeUp option.
* Fixed: Issue with daylight saving adjustment.
* Fixed: Issue with playing sound when output device changes.
* Fixed: Alarm balloon is visible while playing sound.
* Fixed: Issue with storing setting.
* Some other bug fixes and improvements.

Version 2.5 (November 17, 2011)
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* New: Ability to play a random song from a directory.
* New: Ability to execute a command or open URL instead of playing a song.
* New: Ability to play WAV and WMA files.
* New: A tooltip on the taskbar as an alarm notification.
* New: Added translations of the UI into Simplified Chinese, Romanian, Czech and Arabic languages.
* Improved: Whenever the system time changes, the program refreshes all alarms.
* Fixed: Issue with activating an already running program instance.
* Fixed: Issue with an incorrect time in the floating window.
* Fixed: Issue with playing sound.
* Fixed: Issue with daylight saving time.
* Fixed: Several floating windows begin to stick together and moving one distorts the positions of the others, even when not directly alongside them.

Version 2.3 (May 24, 2011)
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* A new setting "Show countdown timer in floating window" has been added.
* Sound volume goes back to the default state after alarm activation.
* Volume control behavior has been improved for systems with several sound cards (playback devices).
* Snooze alarm with a single spacebar press.
* Added new interface languages: Swedish, Slovenian, Korean, Finnish, Hungarian, Chinese Traditional.

Version 2.2 (February 24, 2011)
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* "Label" field has been enlarged. When the alarm rings all the text in the "Label" field is shown (if necessary the font size is decreased).
* "Show message" option has been added. If this checkbox is unchecked, then the signal can be stopped by clicking the icon in the system tray.
* In the timer settings window a button has been added for stopping the sound.
* In the timer settings window it is possible to change the sound level using the slider.
* The ability to set the amount of time before the alarm rings again (snooze) has been added.
* Interface language selection has been added.
* The ability to backup the timer list to file and to restore from file has been added.
* A new setting "Turn on metronome (ticking every second)" has been added.
* New alarm sounds have been added.
* Added new interface languages: Polish, Catalan, Turkish.
* Fixed a bug with rendering of the main window when a large font size is used in the system. 
* Some other enhancements.
