FET-7.8.1 released on 20 March 2026

[Liviu Lalescu]

On Friday, 20 March 2026, we released FET-7.8.1. From the ChangeLog:

  - Added two new constraint types, for exams in Algeria, Morocco, and maybe other countries: room(s) max teachers repetitions and building(s) min one activity in each non-break time slot. These constraints were suggested and tested by Benahmed Abdelkrim (previously in the FET-NSRT custom version) and have some preconditions (listed in their dialogs) to be used successfully.
  - Added the options to select whether to print the names and/or long names of the days/hours and names and/or long names and/or codes of the teachers in the teachers' free periods timetables and names and/or long names and/or codes of the teachers/students in the teachers'/students' statistics timetables (suggested by Cyrus Ireri).
  - Added the option to have long names on multiple lines for the days, real days, hours, real hours, subjects, activity tags, teachers, students sets, buildings, and rooms (suggested by Cyrus Ireri). In this way, you can split the long names on multiple lines in the resulted timetables.
  - It is now possible to have the institution name on multiple lines.
  - The option to print detailed teachers' free periods timetables was changed: if selected, the behavior is the same as in the older versions, but, if not selected, the program will print all the free teachers in each corresponding time slot, but without printing any additional information, and in the global order of the teachers (suggested by Cyrus Ireri, and maybe other users in the past).
  - Minor interface bug fixes and improvements (an aesthetic improvement was suggested by Rodica Lalescu, in the 'Space' shortcuts tab).

So grateful to our team: Volker Dirr (my closest collaborator), Darren McDonald (each time patiently compiling FET for macOS for the users), Benahmed Abdelkrim (Arabic translator), Vangelis Karafillidis (Greek translator), Pascal Cohen (French translator), Andrea Primiani (Italian translator), Alexandre R. Soares (Brazilian Portuguese translator), and Cyrus Ireri, who had some great suggestions for this version.

This version is dedicated to our long-term collaborator, Benahmed Abdelkrim. Merci beaucoup!!!

[Darren McDonald]

FET-7.8.1 for macOS is now available.