This is not something most users will want to change.

Changed Manage dialog: Removed the 'Archive plugins to option in the Settings dialog.

Changed FileView plugin: Relative paths are now supported with the ContextMenu command.

Details and an important note about backwards compatibility are at Change Announcements Existing installations will be converted if needed when Rainmeter is started or Layouts are loaded.

Changed Rainmeter: Changed the file encoding of Rainmeter.ini from ANSI to UTF-16 LE (Unicode).

Added Languages: Added Arabic to supported localization languages.

Fixed Rainmeter: Corrected an issue where if Rainmeter was terminated, either due to a crash, or by using Task Manager, the Notification Area icon for Rainmeter would not be removed, and multiple 'ghost' icons could result until you moved the cursor over them.

Changed Languages: Updated the Chinese Traditional language localizations.

This is in support of plugins that may be written to use SendMessage() to detect if a particular config is running, and if so, to use the window title to retrieve the 'variant' name of the running skin. ini file to the hidden window 'title' of the config window.

Changed Rainmeter: Added the full path to the currently running skin.

This should also address any other languages that may have a similar problem in the future. Fixed UsageMonitor plugin: Fixed an issue where the plugin would fail when Windows is using the French language, due to a conflict bug in the counters stored in perfmon for this language.Fixed UsageMonitor plugin: Corrected a bug caused in r3101.Changed Rainmeter: Added some error trapping and logging to address rare cases where the initial check for Rainmeter version updates when the computer is first started could crash Rainmeter if the computer's network configuration was not yet complete.Changed Usage Monitor plugin: Added some error trapping and logging to address rare cases where the perfomon data is not correctly returned for one update cycle, which could crash Rainmeter.Changed Usage Monitor plugin: Additional error trapping and logging.Additional details on important changes during the beta cycle can always be found at Change Announcements.

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