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Release 5.6.8


Release 5.6.7

Release 5.6.6

Release 5.6.5

Release 5.6.4

Release 5.6.3

Release 5.6.2

Release 5.6.1

Release 5.6.0

Release 5.5.4

  • Major city changes: Basel, Den Haag, Hannover, Los Angeles, Madrid, Manila, Marseille, Oldenburg
  • Other changes: Amsterdam, Arnhem, Berlin, Eindhoven, Lisboa, Melbourne, Nitra, Paris (rail), Philadelphia, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Shanghai, Toulouse, Utrecht
  • PALM
    • Minor changes
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Minor changes
  • Symbian (UIQ, S60, S80, S90)
    • Manually closed lines are saved between uses
    • Minor changes

Release 5.5.3

  • New cities: Topolcany (Slovakia), Valenciennes (France)
  • Major city changes: Bogota, Boston, Brussels, Caen, Kuala Lumpur, Landerneau, Luxembourg, Marseille, San Francisco, Săo Paulo, Toulouse
  • Other changes: Amsterdam (+ a version for temporary changes), Brest, Chicago, Colmar, Guangzhou, London, West Los Angeles, Madrid, Manila, New York, Paris, Philadelphia, Shenzhen, Singapore, Toronto
  • PALM
    • Minor changes
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Minor changes
  • Symbian (UIQ, S60, S80, S90)
    • Minor changes

Release 5.5.2

  • New cities: Alicante (Spain), Leuven (Belgium), Paderborn (Germany), San Luis Obispo & Santa Maria, CA (USA)
  • Major city changes: Caen, Manila, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Other changes: Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, London, Madrid, Miami, Nancy, Nantes, New York, Palma de Mallorca, Pau, Prague, San Francisco, Sartrouville, Vienna
  • PALM
    • Minor changes
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Minor bug fix
  • Symbian (UIQ, S60, S80, S90)
    • Minor bug fix

Release 5.5.1

  • New cities: Bardejov (Slovakia), Brussels Night Bus (Belgium), Cremona (Italy), Málaga & Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
  • Major city changes: Bremen, Brussels, Kuala Lumpur, Madrid, Paris
  • Other changes: Amsterdam, Antwerpen, Daejeon, Evry, Grenoble, Lisboa, Manila, Montréal, Pau, Rotterdam, Santiago de Chile, Tokyo, Toulouse, Valčncia
  • PALM
    • ---
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Compatibility with Windows Mobile for Smartphone version 6
    • Minor bug fix
  • Symbian (UIQ, S60, S80, S90)
    • Minor bug fix

Release 5.5.0

  • New cities: Miskolc (Hungary)
  • Major city changes: Berlin, Budapest, Lausanne, Linz, Los Angeles, Paris, Pau, San Francisco, Tours, Valencia, Wien/Vienna
  • Other changes: Beijing, Braunschweig, Chicago, Frankfurt, Genčve, Hambourg, Incheon, Madrid, Melbourne, Milano, Montréal, New York, Padova, Rio de Janeiro, Seoul
  • PALM
    • ---
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Minor bug fix
  • Symbian (UIQ, S60, S80, S90)
    • Minor bug fix

Release 5.4.9

  • New cities: Arcachon (France), Martigny (Switzerland), Nitra (Slovakia), Santander (Spain), Valence (France), Zvolen (Slovakia)
  • Major city changes: Bogotá, Houston, Los Angeles (+ West L.A. version), Montpellier, Nantes, Napoli, San Francisco, Zürich
  • Other changes: Innsbruck, New York, Paris, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Washington-Baltimore
  • PALM
    • ---
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Minor bug fix
  • Symbian (UIQ, S60, S80, S90)
    • Minor bug fix & improvements

Release 5.4.8

  • New cities: Innsbruck (Austria), Straubing (Germany)
  • Major city changes: Bamberg, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, Guangzhou, Helsinki, Munich/München, Quito, Sacramento
  • Other changes: Bayonne-Biarritz, Bilbao, Braunschweig, Chicago, Hannover, Košice, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Montélimar, Montréal, New York, Paris, Pau, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, Valčncia, Warsaw
  • PALM
    • Minor bug fix
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Bug fix
    • Compatibility with Windows CE 5 (for Portable Navigation Devices without a complete "PocketPC" system)
  • Symbian (UIQ, S60, S80, S90)
    • Bug fix

Release 5.4.7

  • New cities: Aarau (Switzerland), Mulhouse (France), Košice, Poprad, Žilina (Slovakia)
  • Major city changes: Den Haag/The Hague, New York, Osaka, Paris, Rotterdam, St Etienne, Warsaw
  • Other changes: Amsterdam, Berlin, Brest, Chicago, Freiburg Im Breisgau, Grenoble, Lausanne, Lyon, Madrid, Montréal, Nuremberg, Santiago, Seoul, St Petersbourg, Utrecht
  • PALM
    • Minor change & bug fix
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Bug fix
  • Symbian (UIQ, S60, S80, S90)
    • Minor bug fix

Release 5.4.6

  • New cities: Bayonne-Biarritz, Bourges (France), Saarbrücken (Germany)
  • Major city changes: Geneva, Kuala Lumpur, Lyon, Monaco, Perth, Völklingen
  • Other changes: Barcelona, Brest, Brussels, Budapest, Delhi, Grenoble, Guangzhou, London (*), Los Angeles, Madrid, Montréal, New York (*), Padova, Paris (*), Portland, Shanghai, Strasbourg, Tokyo
    (*) For these cities, some temporary changes are included (because of works) and new versions may be released at any time. See our blog for updates.
  • PALM
    • Bug fix
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Version for PND (Portable Navigation Devices) with Windows CE .Net 4.2
    • Bug fix
  • Symbian (UIQ, S60, S80, S90)
    • Bug fix

Release 5.4.5

  • New cities: Offenburg (Germany)
  • Major city changes: Bremen/Bremerhaven, Brussels, Clermont Ferrand, Freiburg im Breisgau, Lyon, Madrid (*), Potsdam, Saint Etienne, Wien/Vienna
  • Other changes: Adana, Amsterdam, Ankara, Athens, Augsburg, Bakou, Barcelona, Besançon, Brasilia, Braunschweig, Brest, Bursa, Caen, Calcutta, Caracas, Cardiff, Catania, Charleroi, Chennai, Copenhagen, Croydon, Davos, Dnepropetrovsk, Fortaleza, Frankfurt am Main, Guadalajara, Haifa, Hakodate, Hiroshima, Hradec Kralove, Izmir, Köln/Bonn, Krasnoyarsk, Kryvoy Rog, Kuala Lumpur, Lima, Lippstadt, Mainz, Melbourne, Minsk, Moscow, Mülheim-Oberhausen, Mumbai, München/Munich, New York (*), Nizhnii Novgorod, Padova, Palermo, Paris (full), Plzen/Pilsen, Porto Alegre, Pyongyang, Rhein-Neckar, Rhein-Ruhr, Rostock, Rouen, Salt Lake City, Salvador, Samara, Sheffield, Tashkent, Tbilisi, Teheran, Ulaanbaator, Volgograd, Yekaterinburg, Yerevan
    (*) For these cities, some temporary changes are included (because of works) and new versions may be released at any time. See our blog for updates.
  • PALM
    • Bug fix
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Bug fix
  • Symbian (UIQ, S60, S80, S90)
    • Bug fix

Release 5.4.4

  • New cities: Colmar (France), Eindhoven (Netherlands), Völklingen (Germany)
  • Major city changes: Berlin (*), New York (*), Oslo, Wien
  • Other changes: Brest, Den Haag/The Hague, Freiburg im Breisgau, Guangzhou, Istanbul, Lausanne, London, Madrid (*), Manila, Milano, Montpellier, Morges, Moscow, Paris, Santiago, St Louis
    (*) For these cities, some temporary changes are included (because of works) and new versions may be released at any time. See our blog for updates.
  • PALM
    • Bug fix & small improvements
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Bug fix on online update (for multiple files)
  • Symbian (UIQ, S60, S80, S90)
    • Small improvements

Release 5.4.3

  • New cities: Annecy (France), Ceske Budejovice (Czech Republic), Chongqing (China)
  • Major city changes: Busan, Caracas, Newcastle upon Tyne, Vancouver, Warsaw
  • Other changes: Bogota, Boston, Chicago, Incheon, Madrid, New York, Philadelphia, Seoul, Washington/Baltimore
  • PALM
    • Bug fixes
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Back to 2 different installers for Pocket PC & Smartphone
    • Bug fixes
  • Symbian (UIQ, S60, S80, S90)
    • New version for S60 3rd edition
    • Bug fixes

Release 5.4.2

  • New cities: Morges (Switzerland)
  • Major city changes: Amsterdam, Berlin, Edmonton, Grenoble, Luxembourg, Magdeburg, Seoul, Vienna/Wien (night bus)
  • Other changes: Beijing, Brausnschweig, Brest, Carcassonne, Den Haag/The Hague, Dresden, Frankfurt, Genčve, Hokkaido, Kobe, Lausanne, Liverpool, Madrid, New York, Nuremberg, Osaka, Paris, Perth, Porto, Prague, Rostock, Rotterdam, San Diego, Seattle, Stuttgart, Taipei, Tianjin, Tokyo
  • PALM
    • Nothing
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Bug fixes
  • Symbian (UIQ, S60, S80, S90)
    • Bug fixes

Release 5.4.1

  • New cities: Bamberg (Germany), Klaipeda (Lithuania), La Roche sur Yon (France), Würzburg (Germany)
  • Major city changes: Angers, Bogota, Freiburg Im Breisgau, Newcastle upon Tyne, Toulouse
  • Other changes: Amsterdam, Antwerpen, Bangkok, Bordeaux, Brest, Geneva, Hannover, Landerneau, Los Angeles, Lyon, Madrid, Morlaix, Mumbai, New York, Porto, Quimper, Sao Paulo, Vilnius
  • PALM
    • Nothing
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Minor improvements
    • New packaging (common for PocketPC & Smartphone versions)
  • Symbian (UIQ, S60, S80, S90)
    • Minor improvements
    • Metro file "recognizer"

Release 5.4.0

  • New cities: Ilmenau-Thüringen (Germany), Krakow (Poland), Lippstadt (Germany)
  • Major city changes: Bordeaux, Braunschweig, Bucharest, Budapest, Darmstadt, Grenoble, Paris (bus), Pau, Porto, Shanghai
  • Other changes: Antwerpen, Basel, Bogota, Cleveland, Daejeon, Delhi, Detroit, Dortmund, Gent, Kiev, London, Madrid, Melbourne, Morlaix, Napoli, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Santiago, St Quentin en Yvelines, Toulouse
  • PALM
    • Minor optimization on route calculation
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Bug fixes
  • Symbian (UIQ, S60, S80, S90)
    • Bug fixes

Release 5.3.9

  • New cities: Hampton Roads, VA (USA), Montélimar (France), Nice (France), Szeged (Hungary), Voiron (France)
  • Major city changes: Anvers/Antwerpen, Berlin, Chicago, Grenoble, Los Angeles, Melbourne (with trams), Plovdiv, Prague, Toulouse
  • Other changes: Bochum, Bogota, Brest, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Gand/Gent, Guangzhou, Hannover, Cologne/Köln-Bonn, Madrid, Metz, Mexico, Morlaix, Philadelphia, Quimper, Reims, St.Louis, Stuttgart, Washington-Baltimore
  • PALM
    • No changes
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Bug fixes (particulary on Windows Mobile 5 contact management)
  • Symbian (UIQ, S60, S80, S90)
    • Minor bug fixes

Release 5.3.8

  • New cities: Kusttram (Belgium, not really a city...), Vercelli (Italy), Weiden (Germany)
  • Major city changes: Bratislava, Edmonton, Gent (with bus lines), Guangzhou, Nantes, Rotterdam (with bus lines), Sacramento, Toulouse
  • Other changes: Amsterdam, Arnhem, Bangkok, Berlin, Birmingham, Chicago, Copenhagen, Delhi, Den Haag, Dunkerque, Hamburg, Lisbon, Los Angeles, Madrid, Manchester, Milano, Munich, New York, Nuremberg, Ottawa, Paris, Quimper, San Francisco, Shanghai (english version only), Stuttgart, Singapore, Utrecht, Vancouver
  • PALM
    • Full support for landscape mode
    • Better (and bug-free!) handling of the DIA (Dynamic Input Area)
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Station matching on part of the name
    • Minor bug fixes
  • Symbian (UIQ, S60, S80, S90)
    • Minor bug fixes

Release 5.3.7

  • New cities: Carcassonne (France), Valparaiso (Chile)
  • Major city changes: Dijon, Geneva, Los Angeles, Nantes, Paris (night bus), Quimper, Roma, Santiago
  • Other changes: Arnhem, Berlin, Bordeaux, Boston, Braunschweig, Brest, Fribourg, London, Madrid, Neuchâtel, Newcastle upon Tyne, Paris, Pau, Sacramento, Toulouse, Washington-Baltimore
  • PALM
    • No changes
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Bug fixes & minor improvements
  • Symbian (UIQ, S60, S80, S90)
    • Bug fixes & minor improvements
    • Improvement for Nokia n90

Release 5.3.6

  • Special: Bruxelles Réveillon (new year's night service)
  • New cities: Gouda (Netherlands), Evry, Pau (France)
  • Major city changes: Istanbul, Lisboa, Nantes, Sacramento, San Francisco, Stockholm
  • Other changes: Beijing, Bogota, Bordeaux, Brest, Buenos Aires, Hambourg, Hannover, Kyoto-Osaka, Lyon, Madrid, Morlaix, Moscow, Napoli, Padova, Paris (Bus), Torino, Toulouse, Vannes
  • PALM
    • Fix for "left-handed" landscape mode display bug
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Bug fixes & minor improvements
  • Symbian (UIQ, S60, S80, S90)
    • Bug fixes & minor improvements

Release 5.3.5+

No changes on the programs in this version.
  • New cities: Plovdiv (Bulgarie), Dunkerque, St Brieuc, St Malo, Vannes (France)
  • Major city changes: Landerneau, Oslo, Paris Noctilien (night bus), Porto, San Francisco, Toulouse (Bus)
  • Other changes: Berlin, Boston, Brest, Budapest, Daegu, Jacksonville, Konstanz, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Melbourne, Milano, Montpellier, Montréal, Morlaix, Moscow, Nancy, Osaka, Săo Paulo, St.Louis, Treviso, Valencia, Washington-Baltimore, Zürich

Release 5.3.5

  • New cities: Davis, CA (USA), Wellington (New Zealand)
  • Major city changes: Braunschweig, Brest, Brussels, Morlaix, San Francisco, Sofia (bulgarian version), Stockholm, Strasbourg
  • Other changes: Barcelona, Bydgoszcz, Copenhagen, Kazan, Kiev / Kyiv, Lisboa, London, Los Angeles, Lyon, Mexico, Milano, Montpellier, Montréal, Nancy, Moscow, New York, Paris, Praha / Prague, Rotterdam, Washington-Baltimore
  • PALM
    • "Undo" & "Select all" options in the "Edit" menu (for PalmOS UI guidelines compliance)
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC)
    • Fix for 240x240 screens
  • Windows Mobile (Smartphone)
    • Fix for VGA screens
  • Symbian UIQ
    • Fix on city selection dialog
  • Symbian S60
    • Fix for chinese & japanese characters support
    • Bug fixes
  • Symbian S80
    • Fix on city selection dialog
    • Important bug fixes

Release 5.3.4

  • New cities: Albenga & La Spezia (Italy), Kazan (Russia), Nanjing (China)
  • Major city changes: Glasgow, Napoli, San Diego
  • Other changes: Bogota, Delhi, Dresden, Firenze, Geneva, Hong Kong, Karlsruhe, Kiev, Kuala Lumpur, Kyoto-Osaka, Luxembourg, Montpellier, New York, Osaka, Paris (Night Bus), Roma, San Francisco, Tokyo
  • The file for Madrid in version 5.3.3 contained a severe bug: please delete the old one before installing version 5.3.4.
  • PALM
    • Improvements on the user interface (contact look-up, POI list "synchronization"...)
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Support for 240x240 screens (PocketPC)
    • Bug fixes
  • Symbian UIQ
    • Option to send calculation results and/or city files via mail, bluetooth, MMS...
    • Data files are searched anywhere on the phone (including in messages)
    • Improvements in the user interface
    • Bug fixes
  • Symbian S60
    • Option to send calculation results and/or city files via mail, bluetooth, MMS...
    • Data files are searched anywhere on the phone (including in messages)
    • Improvements in the user interface
    • Bug fixes
  • Symbian S80
    • First "official" version

Release 5.3.3

  • New cities: Savona (Italy), Vilnius (Lithuania)
  • Major city changes: Berlin, Bogota, Boston, Braunschweig, Delhi, Geneva, Genova, Madrid, Napoli, New York, Seoul
  • Other changes: Athens, Brest, Busan, Incheon, London, Lyon, Melbourne, Mexico, Monterrey, Oslo, Paris, Perth, Philadelphia, Rotterdam, Stuttgart, Washington-Baltimore, Wien
  • PALM
    • Improved korean version
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Bug fixes
  • Symbian UIQ
    • Bug fixes
  • Symbian S60
    • Bug fixes

Release 5.3.2

  • New cities: Bydgoszcz (Poland), Morlaix & Sartrouville (France)
  • Major city changes: Birmingham, Napoli, Rostock, San Diego, Utrecht
  • Other changes: Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelone, Berlin, Brest, Brussels, Budapest, Chartres, Dresden, Hong Kong, Landerneau, London, Luxembourg, Lyon, Monterrey, Paris (bus), Perth, Quimper, Rennes, Tallinn
  • PALM
    • Estonian version
    • Completed hebrew & korean versions
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Estonian version
    • Improvement on Macedonian, Serbian & Bulgarian versions
    • Minor bug fixes
  • Symbian UIQ
    • Filipino version
    • User interface improvements
    • Improvement on Macedonian, Serbian & Bulgarian versions
  • Symbian S60
    • First public release

Release 5.3.1

  • New cities: Chartres (France), Cottbus (trams, Germany), Luxembourg (Luxembourg), Zwickau (Germany)
  • Major city changes: Belo Horizonte, Brest, Luzern, Novosibirsk (russian)
  • Other changes: Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Geneva, Kharkov, Cologne/Köln, Madrid, Marseille, Milano, Minsk, Montpellier, New York, Santiago, St Petersbourg, Tokyo, Warsaw
  • PALM
    • Tested on Tungsten E2 simulator
    • Bug on left-handed landscape mode on palmOne devices (not entirely fixed, however)
    • Versions in Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian
    • Various bug fixes, little enhancements and optimizations
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Improved Bulgarian version
    • Minor bug fixes
  • Symbian UIQ
    • Improved Bulgarian version
    • Czech version
    • Minor bug fixes

Release 5.3.0

  • New networks: Auxerre (France), Landerneau (France)
  • New files in japanese: Fukuoka, Kitakyushu, Kyoto, Okinawa, Osaka, Sapporo, Sendai
  • Major city changes: Bucharest, Dijon, Hamburg, Milano (bus lines), München/Munich, Ottawa (bus lines)
  • Other changes: Brest, Chicago, Fukuoka, Genčve, Kitakyushu, Kyoto, Kyoto-Osaka, London, Lyon, Madrid, Minneapolis, Okinawa, Osaka, Oslo, Philadelphia, Prague (Czech version), Recife, Sendai, Shanghai, Stuttgart, Tokyo
  • PALM
    • Feature moves database to memory card - instead of making a copy - and can overwrite an existing file
    • Contact information shows the "prefered" telephone number set in the address book
    • Full interface with palmOne "Contacts" application (possible use of the 9 custom fields)
    • Minor enhancements and bug fixes
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Minor bug fixes
  • Symbian UIQ
    • Minor bug fixes (including one on closed flip mode)

Release 5.2.9

  • New networks: Freiburg Im Breisgau (Germany), Münster (Germany)
  • Major city changes: Berlin, Bochum, Brest, Nantes, New York, Nottingham, Nuremberg, Paris (bus), Rhein-Neckar, San Juan
  • Other changes: Barcelona, Brussels, Chicago, Den Haag / The Hague, Genova, Madrid, Milano, Napoli, Paris (rail), Singapore, Stuttgart, Tokyo
  • Bug fix on the online update service (some files were downloaded even if not updated)
  • PALM
    • Bug fix (on line route listing)
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Preparation for the next Windows Mobile version
    • Bug fix
  • Symbian UIQ
    • Bug fix

Release 5.2.8

  • New networks: Aachen (Germany), Bologna (Italy), Shenzhen subway (China), Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore (Pakistan)
  • Major city changes: Copenhagen, Hong Kong, Cologne/Köln, Manchester, Manila, Rennes, Rhein-Neckar, San Juan
  • Other changes: Brest, Brussels, Cairo, Delhi, Denver, Grenoble, Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe-Nara, London, Melbourne, Milano, Nantes, New York, Oslo, Paris, Santiago, Săo Paulo, Washington, Wien/Vienna

Release 5.2.7

  • New networks: Wuhan (China), Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn (Germany)
  • Major city changes: Amsterdam, Arnhem, Berlin, Bern, Bilbao, Bremen, Den Haag/The Hague, Genčve, Grenoble, Lausanne, Linz, London, Rotterdam
  • Other changes: Hambourg, Köln/Cologne, Manila, Neuchâtel, New York, Nürnberg, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo, Utrecht, Washington/Baltimore, Wien/Vienna
  • PALM
    • Improved thai version
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Minor changes
  • Symbian UIQ
    • Flip cover open/close management
    • New menu items: "Send a comment" & "Subscribe" (to the mailing list)
    • A click on a phone number (prefixed by "Tel") dials the number
    • Open a contact with a click on its name
    • Focus set on last visible line

Release 5.2.6

  • Major city changes: Bogota, Buffalo, The Hague/Den Haag, Kharkov, Kiev, Kyoto, Medellin, Munich/München, Nagoya, Porto, Taipei
  • Other changes: Brussels, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, New York, Portland, Sydney, Valencia
  • PALM
    • Better support for Treo 600 "rocker" (for Treo 650 and Tungsten T5 too)
    • Automatic display of the stops list when starting to type a name (if no list is currently displayed)
    • Bug fix on the cities last modification date
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC)
    • Bug fixes
  • Windows Mobile (Smartphone)
    • Bug fixes
  • Symbian UIQ
    • Filtered stop list (on text entered)
    • Interactive results list (avoid a line or restart from an intermediary stop)
    • Bug fixes

Release 5.2.5

  • New cities: Kiel (Germany), Osnabrück (Germany), St Gallen (Switzerland)
  • Major city changes: Amsterdam, Athens, Brest, Lille (POIs), Madrid, Monaco, Orléans, Oslo, Santa Barbara, Shanghai
  • Other changes: Arnhem, Boston, Brussels/Bruxelles, Chicago, Clermont-Ferrand, Dublin, Gent, The Hague/Den Haag, Hambourg, Kyoto-Osaka, Linz, Lisbon, London, Moscow, Nuremberg, Paris (bus), Prague, Rotterdam, Santiago, Stuttgart, Tokyo, Washington/Baltimore
  • Improvement in greek translation
  • The date given for the city files is that of the last actual update (and not the build date)
  • PALM
    • Program available in arabic (preliminary version)
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC)
    • Versions in Serb, Macedonian, Bulgarian & Georgian
    • Integration with PocketInformant & AgendaFusion (thanks to their respective editors)
  • Windows Mobile (Smartphone)
    • Versions in Serb, Macedonian, Bulgarian & Georgian
  • Symbian UIQ
    • Versions in Serb, Macedonian, Bulgarian & Georgian
    • Online update of the city files (requires an Internet connection)
    • Bug fixes

Release 5.2.4

  • New cities: Braunschweig (Germany), Charlotte, NC (USA) , Kenosha, WI (USA), Memphis, TN (USA), Minneapolis, MN (USA), New Orleans, LA (USA), Seattle, WA (USA), Tacoma, WA (USA), Tampa, FL (USA), Tucson, AZ (USA) and a new version of the Tokyo subway in japanese (in the "international" package)
  • Major city changes: Anvers/Antwerpen, Athens, Chicago, Detroit, Frankfurt, Munich, New York, Paris (all versions), Portland, Sydney, Tokyo
  • Other changes: Amsterdam, Calgary, London, Philadelphia, Sacramento, San Francisco, Stockholm, Tours, Vienna
  • Consistent behavior on routes by walk (independently of the selected time)
  • PALM
    • Solved incompatibilities with some resident programs (BDicty for instance)
    • User interface enhancements
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC)
    • Support for Windows Mobile 2003 SE, Full & Real VGA modes (thanks to Toshiba for providing a test device)
    • Arabic version (not completed: help needed!)
    • Improvements and optimizations
  • Windows Mobile (Smartphone)
    • Arabic version (not completed: help needed!)
    • User interface enhancements
  • Symbian UIQ
    • Successfully tested on the SonyEricsson P910 (thanks to SonyEricsson for providing a test device)
    • Arabic version (not completed: help needed!)
    • User interface enhancements

Release 5.2.3

  • New cities: Austin, TX (USA), Las Vegas (USA), Quimper (France), Ulm / Neu Ulm (Germany)
  • Major city changes: Bangkok, Dublin, Grenoble, Karlsruhe, Linz, Prague (czech version available in "international" package)
  • Other changes: Athens, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Brussels, Cairo, Denver, Genova, Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe, Madrid (works), New York, Paris, St Petersbourg, Washington-Baltimore
  • Some improvements & bug corrections
  • PocketPC: complete rewrite of the online update feature
  • SPV: online update feature (requires an internet connection on the device

Release 5.2.2

  • Major city changes: Bordeaux, Copenhagen, Graz, Philadelphia Porto, San Diego, Zürich
  • Other changes: Dresden, Frankfurt, Genova, London, Lyon, München, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Săo Paulo, Tokyo, Washington
  • Some improvements & bug corrections

Release 5.2.1

  • New cities: Houston (USA), Treviso (Italy), Zdar na Sazavou (Czech Republic)
  • Major city changes: Amsterdam, Arnhem, Bern, Kharkov & Kiev (new russian versions), Nancy (bus lines), Roma, Salzbourg (new service)
  • Other changes: Berlin, Buenos Aires, Gwangju, Köln/Cologne, Lausanne, Manila, Mexico, Montpellier, Montréal, Paris, Săo Paulo, Tokyo, Tunis
  • Improved display of the stop list on a one-way line
  • PALM
    • Support for Treo 600 "5-way rocker" (same use as Tungsten navigator)
    • Improved greek translation
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Bug corrections
  • Symbian UIQ
    • Code stabilization
    • Stop history

Release 5.2.0

  • New cities: Poznan (Poland), Trier (Germany)
  • Major city changes: Anvers/Antwerpen, Basel (POIs & more), Berlin, Bremen, Caen, Dortmund, Metz, Montréal (additional lines), Toulouse (POIs)
  • Other changes: Angers, Barcelona, Bielefeld, Brussel, Budapest, Delhi, Helsinki, Hildesheim, Incheon (renamed from Inchon), Lisboa, Nienburg, Nuremberg, Oldenburg, Oslo, Paris (night bus), Quito, Rennes, Rio, Santiago, Seoul, Tokyo
  • A small change in the database format now allows for one-way stops in a branch. Used for Trier & Metz: you MUST install the new version of the program to use these files.
  • PALM
    • Bug correction (on result copy to clipboard, memory card management & directions in results)
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • User interface enhancements
  • Sony Ericsson P800/P900
    • User interface enhancements

Release 5.1.4

  • New cities: Bordeaux (tram line, France), Gand/Gent (trams, Belgium), Liverpool (UK)
  • Improved networks (major changes in bold): Amsterdam, Anvers/Antwerpen, Basel, Berlin, Brussels, Caen, Charleroi, The Hague/Den Haag, Helsinki, Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Lisboa (trams and suburban trains added), Lugano, Mainz, Monterrey, Montréal, Paris, Philadelphia (new line in mid-march), Rio, Rotterdam, Strasbourg
  • Improvements on russian translation
  • PALM
    • Code clean-up.
  • Windows Mobile (Pocket PC & Smartphone)
    • Bug corrections (line colors & walk time to/from a contact)
    • New faster server for online updates (but it may still be down at times)
    • PocketPC: contact selection with a double-tap
    • PocketPC: basic VGA resolution support
  • Sony Ericsson P800/P900
    • First "official" release

Release 5.1.3

  • New cities: Görlitz (Germany)
  • Improved networks (major changes in bold): Arnhem, Beijing, Chennai, Chicago, Clermont Ferrand, Den Haag/The Hague, Frankfurt, Köln-Bonn/Cologne, London, Lyon, Montréal (bus), München/Munich, New York (important changes on 02/22), Paris, Prague, San Francisco, Santa Barbara (new service and line colors), Seoul, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto, Wien/Vienna
  • PALM
    •  Preparation for PalmOS 6 compatibility (including a complete redesign of the virtual graffiti zone support)
    • Contact data security handling (on private records)
    • Screen layout reorganization: day/time selection buttons, graffiti shift indicator repositionning, ...
    • Bug corrections: error if no database installed, display flickering, Graffiti 2 compatibility improvement, ...
  • PocketPC
    • Bug corrections
  • MS Smartphone
    • Bug corrections

Release 5.1.2

  • New cities: Angers (France), Horsens & Vejle (Denmark), Shen Zen (China, big5 version only)
  • Improved networks (major changes in bold): Amsterdam, Barcelona, Beijing, Bratislava (bus), Bremen, Brest (new service), Budapest (additional lines), Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Dresden, Genčve, Hamburg, Hong Kong (KCR service), Köln-Bonn (new service), Kuala Lumpur, Lausanne (POIs with comments), Leipzig, Luzern, Metz, Milano, Moscow (new line), Nagoya, Nantes, New York (AirTrain...), Newcastle, Nîmes, Paris, Rennes (POIs), Singapore, St Etienne (bus), Sydney, Toulouse, Tours (complete rebuild), Warsaw
  • PALM
    • Improvement on 5-way navigator support (PalmOne)
  • PocketPC
    • Full vietnamese version
    • Option in preferences to add an "Exit" entry in the menus
  • Smartphone
    • Production release (out of beta status) but still requires an "unlocked" phone

Release 5.1.1

  • New cities: Lugano, Luzern, Neuchâtel, Sion (Switzeland), Nîmes (France), Moscow + Butovo Bus (Russia)
  • Improved networks (major changes in bold): Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Bratislava, Bremen, Chemnitz, Clermont Ferrand, Copenhagen, Dresden, Geneva, Gwangju, Hambourg, London, Lyon, New York, Nuremberg (places of interest), Oslo, Paris, Stuttgart, Utrecht, Vancouver
  • New language: filipino (complete)
  • PALM
    • ---
  • PocketPC
    • A few corrections and improvements
    • Official label "Designed for Windows Mobile"
  • Smartphone
    • ---

Release 5.1.0

  • Improved networks (major changes in bold): Bangkok, Bratislava, Daejeon, Den Haag/The Hague, Göteborg, Köln-Bonn / Cologne, London, Los Angeles (additional lines), Lyon (additional lines and tourist information), Metz, Monterrey, München / Munich, New York, Nuremberg, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Singapore, Stockholm (line colors and icons), Tampere, Tokyo
  • New language: filipino (not complete)
  • PALM
    • Support for 320x480 screens (Sony & Palm).
      The Tungsten T3 requires additional files to be downloaded from MetrO home page.
    • Information icon in high resolution
  • PocketPC
    • "Contact addins" interface (in the contact, detail, result views): display the map around the contact address with TomTom Navigator, Alturion Navigation, ... or use any other addin such as Microsoft Power Contacts
    • Line list filtering by groups (example: display the bus lines only)
    • Option to display the back route for a line (through contextual menu)
  • Smartphone
    • Line list filtering by groups (example: display the bus lines only)

Release 5.0.3

  • New cities: Cesky Tesin, Frydek Mistek, Trinec (Czech republic) & Delhi (India)
  • Improved networks (major changes in bold): Amsterdam (additional bus lines), Barcelona, Lleida, Tarragona (catalan spelling), Brussels, Buenos Aires (additional lines), Copenhagen (metro extension), Dresden, Geneva (places of interest & other changes), Köln, Leipzig (places of interest), London, Lyon (bus network), Monterrey, Montpellier (bus network), Nienburg, Paris, Philadelphia (general information), Pyongyang (korean version & other changes), Roma, Seoul, Taipei
  • New languages: Indonesian & Slovak
  • Improvements on italian, portuguese & catalan translations
  • PALM
    • Nothing
  • PocketPC
    • Context menus in lists (in addition to the existing double-click behaviour)
    • Installer for Macintosh
  • Smartphone
    • Interface with address book (as on the other platforms)

Release 5.0.2

  • New cities: Bursa (Turkey), Nottingham (England), Paris - night bus (France), Potsdam (Germany), Tampere (Finland)
  • Improved networks (major changes in bold): Arnhem, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen (new service), The Hague/Den Haag, Grenoble (new service), Linz, London, Metz, Monterrey, Moscow, Ostrava, Rennes (suburban network), San Francisco, Seoul, Strasbourg (complete bus network), Taipei, Venezia
  • Improvement in korean version
  • PALM
    • Bug fix
  • PocketPC
    • Design changes

Release 5.0.1

  • New cities: Arad (Romania), Brasov (Romania), Metz (France), Oulu (Finland), Sibiu (Romania)
  • Improved networks (major changes in bold): Barcelona, Brisbane, Dresden (service changes), Guangzhou (line extension), Hamburg, London, Los Angeles, Napoli, Oslo, Paris, Saint Louis, San Francisco (line extension), Singapore (new services), Sydney (night service), Tokyo, Vancouver (some bus lines added), Wien (some bus lines added)
  • PALM
    • Bug fix (line groups that were seemingly randomly deactivated)
  • PocketPC
    • Nominated for the "Best Software Award" by Pocket PC Magazine
    • Better compatibility with Windows for PocketPC 2003
    • Design changes
    • Versions for HPC (Handheld PC) have been moved to the metroce200.zip file

Release 5.0.0

  • New cities: Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Constanta (Romania), Craiova (Romania), Dijon (France), Narva (Estonia), Ostrava (Czech Republic), Tallinn (Estonia), Timisoara (Romania), Vienna/Wien night buses (Austria)
  • Improved networks (major changes in bold): Amsterdam (service changes), Anvers/Antwerpen (information on places of interest), Berlin (service changes), Bucharest (added bus, trams and places of interest), Budapest, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Cologne/Köln, Lille, London, Los Angeles, Moscow, New York (PATH changes), Nijni Novgorod, Nuremberg (night lines), Paris, Singapore, Washington-Baltimore
  • Main phone number added in (linked) address information
  • Russian translation improvements
  • PALM
    • MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH: Native ARM engine (armlet). All calculations are now (almost) instantaneous on PalmOS 5 devices (Palm Tungsten & Zire 71, Sony NX & NZ series).
    • Bug corrections on russian program and cities (related to cyrillic characters input)
  • PocketPC
    • Metro receives the Microsoft(r) "designed for Windows(r) for Pocket PC 2002 Logo"
    • Bug fixes

Release 4.4.0

  • New city: Oradea (Romania)
  • Improved networks (major changes in bold): Amsterdam (service changes), Brussel (service changes), Copenhagen (service changes), Dresden (works almost over), Fribourg, Guangzhou, Köln/Cologne, Kuala Lumpur, Kyiv, Kyoto-Osaka & Osaka, London, Miami, Moscow, New York (airport links), Nuremberg (bus lines added), Stuttgart, Tours, Valencia
  • PALM
    • Hi-Res icons and buttons for Sony devices (same as for OS 5)
    • Beam menu sends the program only
    • Improved dutch translation (in preferences)
    • Bug fixes (reduced some flickering on lists...)
  • PocketPC
    • Improvement on user interface
    • Bug fixes

Release 4.3.6

  • New city: Sevilla (Spain)
  • Improved networks (major changes in bold): Amsterdam, Athens, Bogota, Boston, Chicago, Dresden, Grenoble, The Hague/Den Haag, Leipzig, Lima, Ljubljana, London, Madrid, Manila, Milano, Moscow, Nagoya, Napoli, New York, Nuremberg, Oslo (extensive service change & buses), Paris, Rennes, San Francisco, Sofia, Tokyo, Valencia
  • Improvement on link with address book: you can now specify a walk time between a contact's address and its linked stops
  • Our data format now supports specific walk time between a "place of interest" and each linked stop (not yet used)
  • Improvement on hungarian translation
  • PALM
    • The detailed information for a stop now shows the connected stops (where a transfer is possible)
    • The beam option in the main menu sends both the current city and the program to another device
    • Added "information" & "beam" options in the command bar
    • Enhancement for Hi-Res and Hi-Density devices (more to come)
    • "Cosmetic" improvement in "about" dialog
    • The general information dialog displays some statistics on the current city
    • The auto-fill feature is compatible with Graffiti 2 (and multi-stroke characters)
    • Calculations are slightly faster (again!)
    • Bug fixes
  • PocketPC
    • On multiple start (or end) stops, you can specify a walk time for each one
    • Improvement on kroatian translation
    • Bug fixes
  • MS Smartphone (SPV)
    • Keyboard navigation in city list (example : press "7" to scroll through cities with name starting with P, Q, R or S)
    • Métro is not (yet) certified but you can use it if you un-lock your phone (contact Orange for details). However, be aware that the authors cannot be held responsible for any consequence whatsoever of installing and/or using the software. If this clause is not legally applicable in your country, do not install the software.

Release 4.3.5

  • New cities: Asturias (Spain, actually a region), Lleida (Spain), Regensburg (Germany), St Quentin en Yvelines (France), Tarragona (Spain).
  • Improved networks (major changes in bold): Amsterdam, Atlanta (times & places of interest), Barcelona, Beijing, Berlin (trams & works), Brussels/Bruxelles, Buenos Aires, Dallas, Den Haag/The Hague, Dresden, Grenoble, Hannover, Lausanne, Leipzig (bus lines), Los Angeles, Milano, Monterrey, Nantes, New York, Orléans (bus lines), Rennes, Santa Barbara, Shanghai (GB version), Tokyo.
  • New languages: malay & romanian.
  • PALM
    • Bug fixes.
  • PocketPC
    • Bug fixes.

Release 4.3.4

  • New cities: Firenze (Italy), Santa Barbara (USA).
  • Improved networks (major changes in bold): Atlanta, Barcelona, Brussels (complete tourist information), Cairo, Copenhagen (added lines), Dresden, Frankfurt, Gdansk (complete rebuild, still contains only major lines), Guangzhou (new line), Istanbul, Linz, Lisboa, London, Munich/München (works), Nagoya (places of interest), Nuremberg, Osaka & Kyoto-Osaka, Paris (bus and rail), Prague, Rotterdam, Stuttgart, Taipei (big5 version), Wien.
  • A few bugs removed from some cities (on tourist information).
  • Improved slovenian translation
  • PALM
    • New menu option to easily beam the current city.
    • Reduced free memory requirement to run.
    • JogDial (or equivalent) support in detailed information display.
  • PocketPC
    • Improvement on most translations.
    • Minor improvements on the program.

Release 4.3.3

  • New cities: Arnhem (Netherlands), Chemnitz (Germany), Clermont-Ferrand (France), Linz (Austria), London Night Bus Service (quite experimental), Pisa (Italy), Pittsburgh (USA), Salt Lake City (USA), Szolnok (Hungary).
  • Improved networks (major changes in bold): Amsterdam, Bangkok, Barcelona (places of interest), Beijing, Berlin, Bogota (new line), Boston, Budapest, Chicago, Copenhagen, Den Haag/The Hague, Dresden, Hong Kong (more ferries), Istanbul (new line), Karlsruhe (new line), Köln, London, Moscow, München, Nürnberg, Paris, Parma, Perth, Philadelphia, Quito, Rennes, Shanghai, Stuttgart, Sydney, Utrecht, Washington-Baltimore, Wien.
  • New language: hungarian.
  • PALM
    • Support for the Palm Tungsten 5-way navigator fixed (there were not just minor bugs left in 4.3.2!).
    • Nicer hi-res icon (consistent with the standard Tungsten applications icons).
  • PocketPC
    • Improvement on polish, portuguese, spanish & turkish translations.
    • Minor improvements on the program.

Release 4.3.2: Faster again!

  • Improved networks (major changes in bold): Amsterdam, Bangkok (new line), Barcelona (a few more lines), Brussel, Copenhagen, Den Haag (tourist information), Dresden, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur (places of interest), Leipzig, Lisboa, London, New York, Paris (all versions), Săo Paulo (new lines), Shanghai (places of interest), Strasbourg (complete with bus), Toronto (new line), Wien, Zürich.
  • Algorithm change: a few error cases have been removed and the calculations are now much faster (up to 20 times).
  • The city files size has been reduced in a number of cases.
  • PALM
    • The program has been successfully tested on the Palm Tungsten (and it runs about twice as fast as on an m505)
    • High resolution icon for PalmOS 5
    • Support for the Palm Tungsten 5-way navigator (with a little bug left)
    • Usability improvement on the one-hand operation on Sony and Handera devices
    • Japanese version is back in the int'l package
  • PocketPC
    • Improvement on catalan translation
    • Bug fixes

Release 4.3.1

  • New cities: Hokkaido (Japan: one full island again), Padova (Italy), Utrecht (Nederlands)
  • Improved networks (major changes in bold): Barcelona, Berlin (end of works), Boston, Bruxelles, Busan, Chicago, Copenhagen, The Hague/Den Haag, Dresden, Frankfurt, Grenoble, Hong Kong, London, Madrid (end of works), New York, Paris, Porto, Roma, Rotterdam, Singapore, Taipei (places of interest), Vancouver, Zürich
  • The line groups activation state is now saved between session.
  • Consequently, the distinction between "regular" and "extended" version of the cities have been removed. For instance, if you want the equivalent of the old Berlin database, load the new one (which contains the information previously found in the Berlin-ext file) and deactivate the "Strassenbahn" and "Bus" groups.
  • PALM
    • Line icons and colors in the detailed information window
    • Tiny bug fix
  • PocketPC
    • Individual line selection state saved between uses
    • Improvement on file selection dialog
    • Improvements on chinese and japanese versions
    • Bug fixes
  • i-Métro
    • Complete re-design of the WAP & iMode versions (WAP tested on actual phone) for better usability and reliability

Release 4.3.0

  • New cities: Bielefeld (Germany), Hakodate (Japan) (english, japanese, big5 & unicode versions), Hradec Kralove (Czech Republic), Nienburg (Germany), Oldenburg (Germany), Shikoku (Japan: one full island)
  • Improved networks (major changes in bold): Amsterdam (tourist version), Antwerpen, Bangkok (new thai version), Beijing (roman transcription normalized), Busan (roman & korean versions), Cairo, Copenhagen (major buses added), Dallas, Den Haag, Dresden, Grenoble, Hong Kong (big5), Konstanz, Kyoto-Osaka, Madrid, New York (many changes + tourist information), Paris (all versions), Perth, Rennes (changes of service), Strasbourg, Stuttgart, Taipei (all versions), Teheran, Tokyo (bug fixes and major update on big5 version), Vancouver
  • For cities with tourist information, the files without the data have been removed (e.g. amsterdam.pdb, chicago.pdb, hamburg.pdb, london-ext.pdb, newyork-ext.pdb, paris-ext.pdb, & washbalt.pdb): use the "tourist" version instead (e.g. amsterdam-tourist.pdb, chicago-tourist.pdb...). This will help keep the zip file size as low as possible.
  • The software now manages line "groups": it is used to display the transport "type" (subway, railway, tram, bus, trolley, funicular or boat) as an icon and lets you de-/activate part of the system with a single tap (this may accelerate the calculations on large networks).
  • PALM
    • Tap a second time on the "line" button to display the line "groups" (for some large cities only)
  • PocketPC
    • Bug fixes on thai & hebrew versions

Release 4.2.3

  • Improved networks (major changes in bold): Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin (works in progress), Bilbao, Bruxelles/Brussel (extended version: service changes), Chicago (bus lines added and new tourist version), Den Haag, Dresden (service change), Frankfurt, Hiroshima-Chugoku (now covers the whole island), Krefeld (lines added and operating time management), Liberec (places of interest), Ljubljana (places of interest & line colors), London, Madrid, New York (improvements on operating times and trip times + works at Stillwell Av), Prague (places of interest), Rennes (service change), Tokyo (fixes and major update on big5 version, in progress), Washington-Baltimore
  • Slovenian version (in the "international" package, for Palm users)
  • PALM
    • Beam now works correctly (at least) on PalmOS 4 devices
  • PocketPC
    • Better handling of multiple stops entry
    • Versions for HPC 2.0 (Philips Velo)
    • Bug fixes

Release 4.2.2

  • New cities: Caen (France), Fortaleza (Brazil), Lima (Perou)
  • Improved networks: Amsterdam (places of interest), Chicago (errors on previous version), Hamburg (line colors), Hannover (S-Bahn added), London (extended & tourist versions: airport bus services), New York (extended), Paris (all versions), Tokyo
  • PALM
    • New hebrew version (in "international" package)
    • Text entry synchronization in the contact list (same as with the complet stop list)
    • Bug fixes
  • PocketPC
    • Text entry assistant improved: works with multiple stops separated by semi-colons
    • Improvements on japanese, hebrew & russian versions
    • Bug fixes

Release 4.2.1

  • Slightly faster calculation engine
  • New languages: corsican, finnish, norwegian, turkish
  • New cities: Cardiff (Wales), Parma (Italy), Porto (Portugal), Quito (Equator), Salvador da Bahia (Brazil), Ulaanbaator (Mongolia)
  • Improved networks: Beijing, Berlin (works), Boston, Budapest, Chicago, Dortmund, Halle, Hamburg (new "tourist" version), Hong Kong (new line), Kuala Lumpur (additional lines), London (river service in extended and tourist versions), Madrid, New York (NJ transit in extended version), Paris, Prague, Roma, Shanghai, Stockholm (line extension), Wien/Vienna
  • PALM
    • Option to force black & white operation on older devices (grayscale support has been reported troublesome on PalmIIIxe)
    • Bug fixes (including a long standing one with german ß character)
  • PocketPC
    • First try at an hebrew version: help still needed!
    • New city selection dialog
    • Contact button: opens up Outlook and automatically creates the Métro stop entry for a contact
    • Calendar button: copy the calculation result in your agenda
    • Many bug fixes and graphical improvements

Release 4.2.0

Important: the city database format has changed and is now incompatible with older versions. You will have to update all your files to enjoy the novelties of this release.

  • Complete re-design of the operating time management for much better accuracy
  • Line colors management in some cities (Paris, London, New York, Tokyo, Berlin, Madrid & Venezia for a start)
  • New cities: Augsburg (Germany), Daejeon (Korea), Graz (Austria), Gwangju (Korea), Halle (Germany)
  • Improved networks: Basel, Berlin, Brussels (bus version complete french- and flemish-oriented), Chicago (one version left corresponding to the previous extended version), Den Haag/The Hague, Dortmund, Hong Kong, Karlsruhe, Köln-Bonn (operating times & places of interest), London (extended & tourist versions), Lyon (places of interest), Madrid, Mainz, Mexico, Milano (trams and trolleyrs), New York, Paris (all versions), Philadelphia (one version left corresponding to the previous extended version), Salzburg, Seoul, Sydney (places of interest), Venezia, Wien
  • PALM
    • Full VFS expansion card support: you can now delete and beam cities from the card and copy cities from memory to the card
    • Minor graphical improvements
    • French version renamed metro-fr.prc
    • Important update on "MétrUp": the utility now updates the program along with the cities
  • PocketPC
    • New online documentation
    • Minor bug fixes and graphical improvements

Release 4.1.1

  • New cities: Brussels extended (with buses, not yet complete and french oriented only), Kitakyushu (Japan), Konstanz (Germany)
  • Improved networks: Brussels (places of interest), Düsseldorf (places of interest), Frankfurt, Köln-Bonn (places of interest), Lausanne, London (extended / tourist), Madrid (many changes in service), Mumbai, Munich/München (night buses), Napoli, New York (major update), New York extended (same + Metro North network), Paris (all versions), Rennes, Seoul, Sydney, Tokyo, Warsaw, Wien (added forgotten S-Bahn lines).
  • Better handling for connections between lines
  • Optional city filtering on contacts list (see user guide for details)
  • PALM
    • Minor update on "MétrUp"
    • Minor bug fixes
  • PocketPC
    • A new PARIS database usable only on PocketPC devices (do not even try to load it on your Palm): subway + bus
    • Minor bug fixes and graphical improvements

Release 4.1.0

  • Improved networks: Athens (places of interest in the greek version), Boston, Busan (new spelling), Copenhagen, Daegu (new spelling), Darmstadt, The Hague/Den Haag (changes in service), Graz, Kuala Lumpur, London (all versions), Nagoya, Napoli (changes in service), Newcastle, New York, Paris (additional places of interest), Rennes, Toulouse, Washington/Baltimore
  • Thaď version of the program
  • Brand new user interface for i-Métro
  • PALM
    • New "MétrUp" utility to update your Métro cities directly on your Palm device (needs an internet connection)
    • Minor bug fixes
  • PocketPC
    • Direct update of the cities from your internet-connected device (on the craddle or on the move)
    • Better city management: drop the city files anywhere (including on an extension card), beam, delete, update the cities from inside the program
    • Improved spanish, catalan, italian and croatian translations
    • Changes in the user interface (more graphical)

Important note: the new update service will not correctly detect the language of your city files older than version 4.1.0. We recommend that you download the complete 4.1.0 package, update all your files and start using the feature afterwards.

Release 4.0.1

  • New networks: Denver (USA), Fribourg (Switzerland), Hudson-Bergen (USA), Naha/Okinawa (Japan), Ottawa (Canada), Perth (Australia), Sacramento (USA)
  • Improved networks: Athens (places of interest), Boston, Gdansk, Kyoto-Osaka (extended area: includes Kobe & Nara), London, Los Angeles (more places of interest), Paris, Rennes (bus network), Sydney (monorail & light rail), Tokyo, Zürich (extended version)
  • Polish version of the program
  • PALM
    • Better handling of the "back" button on Sony devices
    • Distinct names for the various Paris databases (normal, extended and tourist)
    • Much faster contacts lookup (up to 20 times) even on large address databases: faster program startup
    • Minor bug fixes
  • PocketPC
    • All Windows CE 2.11 versions moved to the Windows CE 2 package (see Installation)
    • Improved translations (especially in the menus)
    • Contact information change handling
    • Minor bug fixes (including "blank" directions)

Release 4.0.0

  • New networks: Gdansk (Poland, the essential lines), Nancy (France, tram opening), London (tourist version)
  • Improved networks: Amsterdam, Berlin (better handling of the airports and an extended version with some bus lines), Calgary, Dortmund (new service and places of interest), Göteborg (new service and places of interest), Hong Kong, Lausanne (complete bus network), London, Lyon, Madrid, Paris, Rennes, San Francisco (added some bus lines), Seoul (places of interest), Sofia, Wien/Vienna, Zagreb.
  • PALM
    • Complete rewrite of the interface with the address book: you can have up to 4 stops for one contact (separated by semi-colons ";"), you can enter a contact name as a start or end stop (with an "@" prefix) and the program displays the address (with the "information" button). See the user guide for details.
    • The lists (contacts, places of interest, stops and lines) are not reset anymore when changing time
    • Bugs removed: crash if no city installed, text for a walk-only result, extra "/"in the results in some cases, beam error on some databases
  • PocketPC
    • Improvement in the interface with the contacts: you can have more than one stop for each contact (separated by semi-colons ";"), you can enter distinct stops for the "home", "office" and "other" address, the program keeps the contact name instead of its associated stop and it displays the address (with the "information" button). See the user guide for details.
    • You can enter more than one start or end stop (separated by semi-colons ";")
    • Distinctive icon for a place of interest in the results
    • "Interactive" details for the lines: you can activate/deactivate the lines
    • Linked contacts added to a stop detailed information
    • Better font handling (if you change the system fonts)
    • Small bugs correction

Release 3.7.0

  • Improved networks: Dublin, Grenoble, Kyoto / Osaka / Kobe (joined in 1 database), London (including WAGN lines in extended version), Madrid (end of works), Mexico, New-York (WTC station reopened), Paris (extended & tourist), Singapore, Tokyo, Washington / Baltimore (including a "tourist" version), Wien / Vienna.
  • PALM
    • You probably don't care but Métro is now compatible with the future PalmOS 5 (checked by the PalmOS team)
    • Support for multi-expansion card devices (Handera): the program finds its files on all the available cards
    • Small bugs correction
  • PocketPC
    • Option to highlight "places of interest" whose description contains a given string, set in preferences (default to "no entry fee")
    • New setup program
    • A few changes in the user interface & small bugs correction

Release 3.6.0

  • Improved networks: Besançon, Manila, Paris (new places of interest), Strasbourg, Tokyo, Vancouver (line extensions)
  • New feature: get detailed information on the "places of interest" (address, phone, opening times, ...). Available in Paris only (for a start): use the file "paris-tourist.pdb".
  • PALM
    • JogDial complete support on Handera devices (should be compatible with Sony devices but not tested), up to "one-hand operation"
    • Small bugs correction
  • PocketPC
    • Support for Windows CE 2.0 (Philips Nino): please read the user guide
    • Interface with your contact list on all devices (except Windows CE 2.0)

Release 3.5.0

  • New networks: Besançon (France), Southampton (UK)
  • Improved networks: Basel (complete change in service), Buenos Aires (new suburban line), Kiev/Kyiv (new roman transcription), Lisbon/Lisboa (new suburban line), London (new southend line in extended version & stadiums in POIs), Lyon (stop missing), New York (new line V), Paris (bus), Philadelphia (new bus line), Tokyo
  • PALM
    • New presentation for a line stop list
    • A touch of color (with little impact on the program size)
    • Improved information on stops
    • Small bugs correction
  • PocketPC
    • Improved presentation for a line stop list (showing connections and POIs)
    • The stop list is filtered as you type a stop name (when not using auto-completion)
    • Better contact handling (the contact's name shows along with the stop name)
    • Better calculations with complex networks
    • Small bugs correction

Release 3.4.0

  • Improved networks: Berlin, Buenos Aires (better accuracy & places of interest), Genčve (new service), Hamburg (airport link), Helsinki (directions), Lisboa/Lisbon (places of interest), London (extended version with new lines), Madrid, Milano, Moscow, München/Munich (new service), Napoli, New York (extended version: PATH service update), Osaka, Paris, Rotterdam (tram network), Singapore, Tokyo, Zagreb
  • PALM
    • Detailed information on the start or end station (new "information" button)
    • Simultaneous use of roman & cyrillic version of the russian databases
    • Dynamic scrolling of all the lists
    • Day & time are initialized on startup
  • PocketPC
    • Full unicode support for easy integration of the greek, russian, korean & chinese databases... The other "non roman" character set databases are also supported (with the appropriate system extension). Only in the "metro-int" package
    • Full compatiblility with PocketPC 2002 (checked on Compaq & HP devices)
    • Copy/Paste functions on HPC (handheld PC) devices
    • Simple installation (CAB files)
    • Accelerated contact browsing (almost instantaneous!)
    • Complementary informations on stations, places of interest, lines (click on the start or arrival icons or in the result text)

Release 3.3.0

  • Improved networks: Frankfurt, Guangzhou, New York (changes in service after WTC attack, should be stable now), Helsinki, Kyoto, Montréal, Palermo, Paris (bus), Reims
  • PALM
    • Detailed information on your route: "tap" on the icons in the results box and see the stops you'll pass on a line, the places of interest next to a stop...
    • New cities in chinese (BIG5 encoding): Beijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong & Shanghai
  • PocketPC
    • Exchange (beam and receive) your city files through infrared
    • Send comments and thanks mails to the author directly from the program
    • Subscribe to the Métro mailing list from the program
    • Select your font: useful for asian users with an english PocketPC (copy the font files to the windows/font folder)
    • Contacts list is now sortable and resizable
    • Associate the "pdb" files (city networks) with Métro
    • Bug fix (on hyphens)
    • Japanese translation
    • Other changes: new icons, faster operations and smaller size

Release 3.2.0

  • New city: Reims (France)
  • Improved networks: Amsterdam, Bangkok, Berlin (changes in service), Grenoble, London (bug on DLR), Madrid, Melbourne, Munich / München, Napoli, New York (changes in service after WTC attack, check the Métro web site for updates), Pusan, Saint Louis, San Francisco, Shanghai, Tokyo, Venezia, Vienna / Wien, Washington / Baltimore, Zagreb
  • New greek version, in metro-int.zip package (greek version of Athens moved there too)
  • New option: prefered result display (shortest or least connection route first)
  • Complete web site and documentation reorganization
  • PALM
    • Extension card compatibility (Palm, Sony, Handspring): install the city files in the /PALM/Programs/metro directory on the card
    • City file update date displayed in the information box
    • Double tap city selection
    • Recently used stops history (double tap on "start" or "arrival" buttons to display the list)
    • Little bug correction and other improvements
  • PocketPC
    • New graphical interface (icons, fonts, ...)
    • Changes on korean version

Release 3.1.0

  • New cities: Croydon (England, near London), Palermo (Italy)
  • Improved networks: Birmingham (railway lines), Davos, Frankfurt, Grenoble (some new lines & more changes to come), Hong Kong (places of interest), Istanbul (major bug on tram), Lyon, Montréal, New York, Osaka-Kobe (more lines, better accuracy), Paris (much more accurate extended version), Stockholm (line extension), Strasbourg, Washington-Baltimore (travel information), Wien/Vienna (works on line S7)
  • !!! Database format change: please remove your old databases from your PDA and install the new version !!! The change will allow for new features and improved accuracy in future releases: stay tuned!
  • PALM
    • Conformance to Palm recommendations on database names
    • The czech version is now in the metro-int.zip package
  • PocketPC
    • Faster contact information loading
    • Line display improvements
    • Regional setting bug fixed (for "nordic" users)
    • Statistical database informations added

Release 3.0.5

  • New cities: Buffalo (USA), Charleroi (Belgium), Kryvoy Rog (Ukraine), Monaco, Volgograd (Russia)
  • Improved networks: Beijing (renamed from Pekin), Brasilia, Davos, Genčve (new operation), Liberec, Los Angeles (express buses), New York, Portland (new lines), Shanghai (new line), Singapore, Stuttgart (missing line), Teheran (new line), Tokyo (new line), Venezia (more changes to come)
  • PALM
    • City list navigation improvement (first-letter selection)
    • Small bug fixes (for instance, when deleting 15 cities in a row)
  • PocketPC
    • Bug fixes on czech version, line closing, auto-completion, registry
    • Windows CE 2.11 PS/PC & HP/PC versions
    • Station history (keep track of the last 10 stations used)
    • Country flags in the language selection dialog box
    • More color, in the lines list

Release 3.0.4

  • New city: Davos (Switzerland)
  • Improved networks: Amsterdam, Dublin, Kuala Lumpur, Madrid, Moscow, New York (major changes on July 22nd), Washington-Baltimore, Vienna / Wien
  • Croatian & Czech versions of the program
  • PALM
    • The title is back on the line stations list
    • Bug corrected on chinese, korean & japanese versions
    • On more little bug removed
  • PocketPC
    • Color support
    • HP/PC Pro 2.11, PSPC 2.11 & HPC 2000 versions available upon request (mail to Frank)
    • A few bugs removed
    • Chinese versions (traditionnal & simplified)

Release 3.0.3

  • New cities: Brisbane (Australia) & Lodz (Poland)
  • Improved networks: Amsterdam, Bern, Boston, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Den Haag / The Hague (extended version), Helsinki (commuter trains), Köln / Bonn, Lyon, Madrid (works on line 2), München / Munich, New-York, Nuremberg, Paris (bus), Philadelphia (Atlantic City line), San Francisco, Seoul (korean version), Stockholm, Tokyo, Wien / Vienna
  • PALM
    • More changes on the user interface (with a button for the lines list) and again more space for the results
    • User-friendly line "deactivation" (with check boxes)
    • One tiny bug removed
  • PocketPC
    • Japanese, korean and russian versions
    • Link with your contacts: create a note as <METRO>station name</METRO>, when you select the contact name in MetrO, the station name is automatically used
    • Improvements in the graphical user interface (with a button for the lines list)

Release 3.0.2

  • New cities: Leipzig (Germany) & Den Haag / The Hague (Netherlands)
  • Improved networks: Amsterdam (tram lines added), Bangkok (shuttle bus lines added), Brussel, Madrid, Montréal, München, Nagoya, New York (interesting places + extended version with PATH), Sydney, Washington-Baltimore, Wien (interesting places)
  • PALM
    • Results can be copied to the clipboard again! Tap on the results to copy
    • City selection complete rewrite: graphical buttons, old version databases delete option...
    • More internal improvements...
  • PocketPC
    • Line "Deactivation" (if temporarily closed for example)
    • Case- and accent-insensitive station lookup.
    • Menus.
    • Edit options (copy / cut / paste)

Release 3.0.1

  • New cities: Liberec (Czeh republic) and Melbourne (Australia, commuter railways)
  • Improved networks: Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt (places of interest), Hambourg, London (end of works), Madrid (end of works), Montréal, München, Paris bus, Prague, Roma, San Francisco, Stuttgart, Sydney (ferries & operating times), Warsaw, Washington, Zagreb
  • Two small bugs removed (address icon display & internal error)
  • Upgrade to the new PalmOS development kit (4)

Release 3.0.0

  • Improved networks: Amsterdam, Bangkok, Barcelona, London, Paris, Rotterdam
  • Chinese (GB code) version for 3 cities : Guangzhou, Beijing & Shanghai
  • New user interface: more graphical and prettier (I hope you'll agree) and it leaves more space for the calculation results
  • Fast access to the "Network" option through a "tap" on the main form title text
  • New color icon
  • Improved user guide with a 1-picture summary (please read it!)

Release 2.2.6a

  • Improved networks: Brest, Dresden, Göteborg, London, Lyon, Madrid (end of works), Moscow, Paris (all versions), Philadelphia, Washington/Baltimore

Release 2.2.6

  • New cities: Göteborg (Sweden), Mumbai (India), Saint Etienne (France)
  • Improved networks: Frankfurt, London, München, Paris, Philadelphia (two versions: simple & extended), San Francisco, Sheffield

Release 2.2.5

  • New cities: Dublin (Ireland), Sheffield (England)
  • Improved networks: Karlsruhe, Madrid (works), Paris (sites), Beijing, Tokyo (sites), Wien (trams)
  • Danish version
  • Distribution file reorganization (to limit its size)

Release 2.2.4

  • New cities: Chennai (India), Dallas (US), Teheran (Iran), Tunis (Tunisia)
  • Improved networks: Chicago, Dresden, London, München (tram lines added), Newcastle, Paris, Tokyo
  • City databases structure change for some sync tools (hopefully without impact)
  • Swedish program file renamed ("metro-se.prc")
  • Re-normalization of menu shortcuts in german version
  • Improved operating-time management (internal)

Release 2.2.3

  • Improved networks: Bucharest, Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, Kuala Lumpur, London, Paris (bus), Prag, Tokyo (better travel time estimates)
  • Performance improvement in address book interface: the (time-consuming) contact list scan is done only in case of a change
  • Korean version (partial translation)
  • Database names change to respect Palm recommendation (implies to remove any previous version before installing this one)

Release 2.2.2

  • New bus networks: Brest (France), Hildesheim (Germany), Mainz (Germany), Paris ("official" release)
  • New tram network: Basel (Switzerland)
  • Improved networks: Berlin, Boston (commuter rail), Brussels, Dresden, Glasgow, Hannover, Kyoto, London, Manchester, Mexico, Montréal, Moscow, München (operating times), Osaka, Paris, San Francisco, Singapore, Stuttgart, Tokyo
  • Improved korean networks (both international and korean versions): Inchon, Pusan, Seoul, Taegu
  • Calculation speed improvement on a few cities (Philadelphia for example)
  • Minor bug correction

Release 2.2.1

  • Improved networks: Berlin, Chicago (extended), Darmstadt, Grenoble, Kuala Lumpur, Montréal, Orléans, Plzen, Salzburg, Tokyo.
  • On little bug corrected (wrong cursor positionning)
  • New extra network available (pre-release): Paris bus network

Release 2.2.0

  • Improved networks: Chicago, London, Lyon, New York, Portland, San Francisco, Tokyo.
  • Station name auto-fill (it's back!): enter at least 3 letters, the program completes the field with the closest station name. This feature, deactivated by default, can be modified in the "Options - Preferences" menu. Attention, this feature is incompatible with the Graffiti handling of accented letters.
  • The interesting places are now available from a button (just as the contacts) and no more from the lines list.
  • The contact list is pre-loaded on the first request and no more during the program initialization. Thus the performance penalty (when you have a large address book) has no impact when starting Métro. We're still working on this performance issue.
  • Minor bug correction in the city databases content.
  • New city databases version, incompatible with previous Métro releases: it will allow for much larger networks!
  • Chinese version (GB code)

Release 2.1.0

  • Improved networks: Athens (greek version), Boston, London, Marseille, Montréal, Paris, Philadelphia
  • Nice New Feature: select one of your contacts (from the Palm address book), Métro uses its subway station!

Release 2.0.0

  • New city: Tours (bus network in Patrice's home town)
  • Improved networks: Athens (greek version), Montréal (tourist sites), Napoli (tourist sites), Tokyo, Vienna (Wien)
  • Japanese version
  • Upgrade of the development tools
  • Bug correction: major improvement on New York
  • New feature allowing much better advice on some network (taking into account low frequency lines)

Release 1.4.8

  • New city: Pilsen (Plzen)
  • Improved networks: Brussels, Copenhagen, London, Miami, Paris, Tokyo, Wien
  • Bugs correction: command bar (PalmOS 3.5), partially opened stations...

Release 1.4.7

  • New cities: Portland, San Diego (trolley)
  • Improved networks: Cleveland, Copenhagen, Guadalajara, Hannover, Köln (Cologne), Tokyo
  • Bug correction on "international" databases

Release 1.4.6

  • New cities: Catania (Sicily), Manille
  • Improved networks: Yerevan (file named Erevan)
  • Bug found on full text search (might need a reset): upgrade highly recommended!

Release 1.4.5

  • New cities: Bratislava (tram), Genčve (bus), Salzburg (bus)
  • Improved networks: Copenhagen (operating times), Duisburg, Lisbon, New York, Osaka, Philadelphia, Prague (complete with trams), Toulouse, Wien, Zagreb
  • Minor improvement on station name lookup and on "fast search"

Release 1.4.4

  • New city: Bern (tram)
  • Improved networks: Berlin, Bilbao (suburban trains), Brussels (complete tram network), Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Moscow, Paris, St Petersbourg, Seoul, Tokyo
  • Vietnamese & basque versions of the software (world premieres!)
  • Accelerated route search only using graffiti

Release 1.4.3

  • New city: Strasbourg (tram)
  • Improved networks: Chicago, Karlsruhe, Philadelphia (tramways), Paris, Pusan (1 new line), Shanghai (1 new line), Seoul (complete rewrite, with new "offic