I posted a new hg bundle file in the files section, that should have
changesets for 7.04, 7.05, and 7.06.

If you don't know what hg is, it is a revision control, or version
control, system, similiar to CVS, SVN, GIT, etc.

Basically it is software that easily lets you keep track of what
changes you made to a collection of files at various points in time.
This is extremely useful if you want to modify code.  For instance, if
you notice there is a huge bug in your code, you can look back at your
recent snapshots of your code, and find one that doesn't have the
bug.  You can then look at all the changes you made, and try and
deduce where the bug started.  Or you can just throw out all your work
since your last snapshot (called a "commit").     If, later, there is
a new version of JBookTrader, you can use the software to merge the
changes you made, with the changes in the latest JBookTrader, to
effectively upgrade your project to the latest version.

I personally use it to keep track of all my little side projects that
I am working on with JBookTrader.  I also use it to keep track of
other projects I am working on as well - anything that is longer than
20 lines of code can really benefit from keeping a change history -
because you will inevitably break your code at some point, and trying
to keep track of changes by keeping a bunch of ZIP files is so much
harder to work with.

All professional software projects use some form of version control.
JBookTrader is also maintained in a version controlled system, called
SVN (subversion), which you can track through the google code
project.  If you want to keep your own local change history, you
should probably use something like  hg (mercurial) to do all of that
on your own computer.

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