Fixed issues:
- Improved general stability.
- SFTP publishing to Synology devices could fail.

Fixed issues:
- Under macOS 26, the colors of some user interface elements could be wrong.
- Improved general stability.

New Features:
- Added native support for running Merlin Project on Vision Pro (visionOS).

Fixed Issues:
- Improved general stability.

Fixed issues:
- Improved general stability.

Fixed issues:
- Dragging of activity snippets from the library was not possible.
- SFTP publishing with relative target paths did not work.

**Fixed issues**
- Some files could not be opened under macOS 15 Sequoia
- Account passwords containing @ symbols did not work in SFTP publishing

New Features:

Intelligent Assistant:
Create new projects from a simple description using artificial intelligence. The assistant automatically generates the activity structure, dependencies, and milestones, estimates efforts and risks, and assigns necessary resources. This powerful new feature is driven by ChatGPT and is included in the Merlin Project subscription. During the free 30-day trial period, creating new documents with the assistant is limited to ten projects per day.

Dynamic Baseline:
Since version 2.0, Merlin Project has allowed you to compare the current state of a project with an original plan. Previously, these planned values were determined with a clever trick: Merlin Project calculated the project schedule as if the user had not entered any actual values in the current activity structure. This approach provided good results in most cases. However, when the scope changed significantly during a project, this technique could reach its limits.
With the new dynamic baseline, you can now accurately compare the current state of your project with any older state. Simply set a date from the past in the "Reference Date" field in the project settings, and all planned fields will show the values expected at that previous point in time.
Merlin Project dynamically determines these values, so you don't need to remember to create a baseline in the past. This is possible because every Merlin document already contains the complete history of a project.

The start dialog includes a new icon that lets you easily access additional project templates on the ProjectWizards website.

Changes:

The user interface has a fresh look. Familiar symbols and icons appear with the same high quality but in a new design.

The old, insecure FTP protocol for automatically publishing project content has been replaced with SFTP. If you previously used FTP, please create a new SFTP account in the settings of Merlin Project and use it for your publications.

Bug Fixes:

General stability has been improved.

Fixed issues:
- Improved general stability.

Fixed issues:
- Improved general stability.

Fixed issues:
- Improved general stability.
- Some MindManager documents could not be imported.
- On macOS 14 or later, shadows could be drawn incorrectly in the Gantt and netplan views.

Fixed issues:
- Improved general stability.

Fixed issues:
- Improved general stability.

Fixed issues:
- Improved general stability.

New Features:

- The column inspector now supports multiple selection and allows to add, remove or change multiple columns at once.

- The timescale in the Gantt chart can now display year, quarter and week numbers based on fiscal years. In which month your financial year begins can be defined in the project settings. If you then select a row in the Gantt timescale, you can activate the display of fiscal years in the inspector. Financial years are only available in formats that do not contain days or months.

Fixes:

- Improved general reliability.

New fields for the work-breakdown view, the assignments view and the resources view:

- Expected Work Variance: Contains the net difference between Expected Work and Planned Work. A positive value means more work compared to the plan.
- Expected Duration Variance: Contains the net difference between Expected Duration and Planned Duration. A positive value means a longer duration compared to the plan.
- Expected Start Variance: Contains the net duration between Planned Start and Expected Start. A positive value means a delay in the start.
- Expected End Variance: Contains the net duration between Planned End and Expected end. A positive value means a delay at the end.
- Expected Cost Variance: The difference between Expected Costs and Planned Costs. A positive value means increased costs compared to the plan.

More flexibility in the assignments view:

In the assignments view, you can now also display selected fields of the associated activities in rows for assignments. The following new columns are available for this purpose:

- Code (Activity)
- Notes (Activity)
- Tags (Activity)
- WBS Code (Activity)
- # (Activity)

In addition, all user-defined activity fields are available as columns and are also identified by the suffix "(Activity)".
You can also display the corresponding fields of the assigned resources in the work-breakdown view. The columns are marked with the suffix "(Resource)".

More overview in the work breakdown view:

- Customize the display of assigned resources via the context menu of the resource column. With the new "Show content" option, you can now select whether column content is only displayed on the activities or also on activity groups.
- Via the context menu of the comment column, you can now set whether the resource names in the column are displayed in full or only with abbreviations. You can also select the format for date and time values.

Changes:
- The minimum operating system is now macOS 11.
- The view settings inspector now closes automatically when you select a new table row.
- If you enter actual work values without a time unit in the inspector, the unit is automatically taken from other fields already filled in.
- When setting up the first user, Merlin Project now automatically asks you whether guests should have full access, read-only access or no access at all.
- If activities are still assigned when deleting resources, a warning dialog is now displayed.
- Timescale tiers in Gantt charts can now also be selected via the "Display > Timescale > Tiers" menu.
- When adding new columns, you can now select multiple list entries.

Fixed issues:
- Documents from some MindManager versions could not be imported.
- Under macOS Sonoma, Merlin Project may not be able to access calendars and reminders.
- File attachments could receive an incorrect timestamp.
- The earned-value BCWP was not always calculated correctly.
- When editing headers or footers in the print preview, Merlin Project could crash under macOS Sonoma.
- When changing print settings, the print preview did not always adjust correctly.
- The help menu was too wide under macOS Sonoma.
- Help texts for menu items were not displayed under macOS Sonoma.
- Some pop-up menus were displayed in the wrong place under macOS Sonoma.
- Reports with charts for activities with very long titles could not be exported or printed.
- CTRL clicks did not work in the style inspector.
- General stability has been improved.

Fixed issues:
- Improved general stability.
- Grouped views did not export the text in group titles.
- Improved syncing behaviour with documents residing on Microsoft OneDrive.

New features:
- Added link to Merlin Project discussion forum to the help menu.

Fixed issues:
- Improved general stability.
- Syncing Merlin Project files with a Mac running Dropbox 160.4.4703 or later did not always work.
- The option "Resize Columns" on project view report modules did not always work.
- The report view did not scroll when hovering over a report module.
- The layout of the print panel was broken, when more than three lines of text were entered as header or footer.
- In the print panel, the colors of header and footer texts could be wrong in dark mode.
- Opening the style editor via the context menu did not always pre-select a matching style condition.

Fixes:
- Improved general stability.

Fixed issues:
- Improved general stability.
- The Kanban column for empty status values was ordered last not first.
- The application could hang after inserting remaining work.
- Sometimes labels were cut off in the Netplan view.

Fixed issues:
- Improved general stability.
- The style editor for net plan cells did not allow to set the images format option for the resources field.

Changes:
- Histograms for budget/cost balance fields are now using the "Time Phase Normal" and "Time Phase Critical" style conditions. By default, histogram bars now appear in red or green, depending on whether the budget is exceeded in the corresponding time phase.

Fixed issues:
- Improved general stability.
- When importing MS Project files, tasks without work could have a wrong completion.
- The dynamic help did not work in full screen mode.

Fixed issues:
- The application could crash during printing under macOS 10.14.

New features:
- If you use projects containing subprojects or resource pools on different devices, you must allow the first access to the associated files. With the current version, you can also select a parent folder to grant access to its entire contents. In the "Access to Folders" tab of the general settings you can manage the approvals.
- In the report view options you can now also specify page size, orientation and margins.

Fixed issues:
- Improved general stability.
- Sometimes repeated automatic publishing of project content was executed too frequently.
- Under certain circumstances, calendar exceptions were not synchronized with the resource pool.
- Opening exported XML files could result in error messages.

Fixed issues:
- Improved general stability.
- Under certain circumstances, installed script actions could not be started from the main menu.
- The manual format settings for the "Complete" column did not work.

Fixed issues:
- Improved general stability.
- Custom folders could not be added to the templates section.