SwissSys Bug Reports and Patches 

The following bugs and minor improvements have been dealt with since the release of version 8.0. The version shown in parenthesis gives the version with which the listed bug was patched. If you have an older version 8 copy (check the Help|About box), you may download and install the most up-to-date version from the downloads page and register it without having to re-register.

Important: Pair chart deletions and replacements not updated properly. (8.1)
Plus 2 pairings could miss ways to avoid pairing players on the same team. (8.12)
Important: Editing player fees from the fees dialog could lead to a section being overwritten (8.2)
Oddman could be switched too generously, (8.21)
Added feature: Exhaustive pairing search for small, hard-to-pair sections. (8.3)
Conversion from blitz to double-Swiss format did not handle 2-point byes correctly. (8.31)
Added feature: Flag/unflag expired players. (8.4)
Important: Several related bugs for fixed-roster events patched. (8.4)
CFC round robin report support added. (8.5)
Was not generous enough when switching unrated players to improve color. (8.5)
Tournament packing and unpacking lost some section setup information. (8.5)
Reserved board values not saved and reloaded properly. (8.51)
Prizes not handling mixed cash/non-cash right with tiebreaks. (8.51)
FIDE float restrictions too loose. (8.51)
New feature: Clone tournament for easy repetition of tournament settings.
Pair chart problem when using Club/Federation pairing restrictions unver version 8.51 only. (8.52)
Problem with keeping track of re-entered players after merging. (8.53)
FIDE norm requirements updated. (8.54)
Colors in last round of a quad could be displayed incorrectly. (8.54)
Fees rounding error in totals. (8.6)
For FIDE rules, bye was not being treated as a float down. (8.6)
Exhaustive pairings in small sections could hang up. (8.6)
Club code restriction was always in effect for rd 1. (8.6)
Advance byes lost under demo version. (8.6)
Improved feature: Team pairings dialog merged into master team pairings dialog. (8.6)
Added feature: Support for team prizes by game wins. (8.6)
Added feature:  Support for centering of HTML dumps added. (8.6)
Changes to prizes were not being kept. (8.61)
Krause report was not handling half point byes correctly. (8.61)
Standing order between rounds could be affected by byes given. (8.62)
Totals in fees reports were incomplete for versions 8.6 and 8.61 only (8.62)
Merge of fixed-roster events could fail. (8.64)
Esitmated ratings getting converted to actual ratings (8.64)
Could switch the odd man farther down the score group with no benefit. (8.64)
Added feature: Doubly-accelerated pairings (8.64)
Fixed-roster problems with merging. (8.67)
Update problem with fixed-roster team scores. (8.67).
Menu option to write team scores to xls format was broken. (8.67)
Problem saving round robin files with an odd number of players. (8.7)
USCF rating report  could fail for some forfeit listings. (8.7)
FIDE rules: Bye was not treated as float down. (8.71)
Insertion of byes in middle of pair chart did not work properly. (8.71)
Check on quad colors when players 1 or 4 withdraw. (8.72)
Pack/Unpack feature was broken for versions 8.7 and 8.71. (8.72)
With FIDE pairings of bad score groups, the pair chart could end up with duplicate entries. (8.72)
Pack/unpack was slow for events with many sections. (8.73)
Players at the bottom of a score group were not getting transposed sometimes. (8.73)
Improved choice for oddman. (8.74)
FIDE sort on equally-rated players was not using alphabetical order as tie breaker (8.74)
USCF membership list format not correct when dumped to delimited text file. (8.74)
USCF database loading failed under version 8.74. (8.75)