Download Macromedia Dreamweaver 8.01

Macromedia has released an update for version 8 of Dreamweaver. With this program professional websites and web applications can be developed. The update has been given a version number of 8.01 and fixes several bugs and is said to have performance improvements in store for the Mac OS X version. The release notes for this update are available at this link this is a complete list of the changes:

Crash addressed

• After a few sessions, Dreamweaver won’t launch (Windows)
• Dreamweaver crashes when a template is opened, the site is changed in the Files panel, and the template is then modified and saved (Windows/Macintosh)
• JavaScript Error on Windows (crash on Macintosh) when previewing file from the Files panel when site is not selected in Files panel (Windows/Macintosh)

Performance issues addressed

• Dreamweaver is unresponsive when expanding the Files panel or viewing the Assets panel (Macintosh)
• Dreamweaver 8 is slow editing certain large files (Macintosh)

Application issues addressed

• “Locked by template” warning incorrectly appears when deleting server behaviors if “override case of tags” preference is enabled (Windows)
• When doing Find & Replace, Dreamweaver prompts you to re-checkout a file already checked out in Visual SourceSafe, and all changes are lost (Windows)
• When using PHP/MySQL, there are no MySQL tables listed when the database or a table name contains special characters or reserved words (Windows/Macintosh)
• When updating templates that contain dynamic links with multiple parameters or a URL encoded attribute value, pages created from the template are corrupted (Windows/Macintosh)
• Restored the download time and size indicator functionality to the Status Bar (Windows/Macintosh)
• “The parameter is incorrect” error when trying to save changes to a file on an offline mapped network drive (Windows)
• “The parameter is incorrect” error when performing this action: File > New > click on Templates tab (Windows)
• Access Denied error connecting to a FTP server with a UNC path as the Host Directory (Windows/Macintosh)
• Behaviors targeting an absolutely positioned empty tag (eg image) behaves incorrectly (Windows/Macintosh)
• Sync file unchanged – Dreamweaver always thinks the local and testing server versions both changed if the file has never been put to the remote server (Windows)

[break]The following downloads are available:
Dreamweaver 8.0.1 for Windows (6.26MB)
Dreamweaver 8.0.1 for Mac OS X (17.81MB)[break]