Road map
MIX 2.02+
Release date: TBA
Planned feature updates:
+ Meta-Tutor expansion to react to setting changes as well as output changes
+ Accommodate import of online teaching datasets in the Datawizard of MIX 2.0 Lite
+ Expand meta-regression features
Planned new features:
+ Teaching dataset module
+ Create custom datasets for teaching and upload them to the MIX 2.0 website
Current version
MIX 2.016
Release date: April 15, 2017
A minor update with bug fixes:
+ Graph preferences interface fix
Older versions
MIX 2.0 has been very stable with minimal bugs. Updates are often coincide with new versions of Windows or Excel. Below is an overview of the latest change logs.
MIX 2.015
Release date: December 28, 2016
A major update with new and extended functionality:
+ Automated color schemes
+ Updated standard graph formatting
+ New meta-regression functionality
+ New subgroup / indirect comparison functionality
+ Reworked and simplified interface
+ Set rounding for all output
+ Brand new website
+ Integrated new license activation and deactivation system
+ Some other minor fixes
Known bugs:
– The activation module throws an error on Japanese language operating systems
MIX 2.014
Release date: July 10, 2011
A minor update with a few bug fixes and some extended functionality:
+ Fixed small issues with start-up and plot annotation
+ New help feature: ‘Tips & Tricks’
+ Small improvement on weighting sensitivity plot
+ Some other minor fixes
MIX 2.013
Release date: June 30, 2011
A major update with bug fixes, output changes, and extended functionality:
+ New start-up check for output sheet
+ New default settings interface
+ New transformations for proportion meta-analysis (Freeman-Tukey arc-sine and logit)
+ New interface for study in and exclusions
+ New automated subgroup analysis with subgroup forest plots
+ New implementation of weighting sensitivity plot
+ New data converter
+ New report wizard
+ More extensive forest plot label formatting
+ Improved the handling of correlation coefficient transformations
+ Improved Bayesian analysis interface
+ Integrated enhanced metafile format for saving plots
+ Some other minor fixes
MIX 2.012
Release date: December 23, 2010
A minor cosmetic update:
+ Fixed bug for loading old MIX datasets
+ New framework for new features (in progress)
+ Some other minor fixes
MIX 2.011
Release date: Oct 25, 2010.
A minor update with bug fixes for activation and datawizard:
+ Local activation bug corrected
+ Bug in data convertor accessibility
+ Some other minor fixes
MIX 2.010
Release date: Oct 2, 2010.
A major update with bug fixes, output changes, and extended functionality:
+ Activation and deactivation further improved
+ Trim and fill correction and trim and fill plot integrated
+ Study bias integration options available (multiplication and quality effects methods)
+ Default graph size can be altered
+ Selectivity box plot updated
+ Meta-tutor extended
+ Some other minor fixes
