New release of AntConc (4.4.2)

[Laurence Anthony]

Dear All,

I'm happy to announce the release of AntConc (Version 4.4.2). This version is available for Windows, Windows Portable, MacOS (Silicon), and Linux (tested on Linux Mint).

This release introduces an automatic updater for older corpus databases that were not compatible with the 4.4.x version, so they can be now used seemlessly.  You should also find that the startup time is now much faster. I've also fixed various bugs and optimization issues, so you should find that the new version works much more smoothly than 4.4.1.

You can get the new version here:

https://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/

I really hope you like the new version!

Best regards,

Laurence.

[Rudy Loock]

Dear Laurence,

I hope you are doing well. Thank you for this new release of AntConc. I am encountering 2 problems, though, one of which is quite imoprtant. First, it was impossible to install it on my desktop PC (Windows 11) without unintsalling the previous version (this has never happened before). Even then, I got several messages telling me that the app couldn't find the right directory. Now that I have launched it several times it seems to work.

But what worries me the most is that there seems to be a problem with the definition of token. For instance, when I search for a term (e.g. hantavirus) AntConc dismisses all occurrences where the word is followed by a sign of punctuation: "hantavirus." or "hantavirus," are not retrieved for instance. I compared with version 4.0.0 and this issue does not happen (note that I didn't change the token definition settings when compiling the corpus). The only way I can make sure to retrieve all occurrences is by searching for "hantavirus*". Again, this did not happen with previous versions of AntConc and is quite counter-intuitive for students. Do you have a solution for this?

Best wishes,

Rudy