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Productivity 3.0 Will Release on June 9

We're finally putting the finishing touches on version 3.0 of Productivity. We've discussed most of the new features in the previous blog post.



Apart from these changes, we've also fixed some bugs in CompLock and the automatic update checking, which used to return an error.

We hope you like the new interface and features.

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