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Appendix A: Version History
- v3.51 (7th February 2010)
- Added Russian language translation
- Added translator credit to "About..." dialog
- Minor tweaks to portableapps .com launcher
- v3.50 (3rd January 2010)
- Added support for using keyfiles with LUKS volumes (Hint: For ease of use, keyfiles may also be dragged and dropped onto the LUKS password entry dialog)
- Doubleclicking on a file now prompts for extraction
- When mounting a file based volume which is readonly, the readonly checkbox will automatically be selected
- Change made such that if FreeOTFE Explorer's MRU list is disabled (this is the default), then volumes, keyfiles, etc will not appear on the MS Windows system MRU list either.
- Added Greek language translation
- Added Croatian language translation
- Cosmetic display tweaks to better handle translations
- Fixed bug under 64 bit versions of Windows Vista/Windows 7 causing standard Windows progress dialog to crash
- v3.40 (13th October 2009)
- Improved performance by switching reads/writes from sector to cluster sized bocks
- Add progress dialog with cancel option for copy/move/store/extract/delete operations
- Added support for cut/copy from MS Windows Explorer to FreeOTFE Explorer
- Refactored the copy/move/store/extract/delete code to simplify implementation
- Added overwrite functionality when storing files to a mounted volume, and on demand
- Added volume padding option when creating new volumes
- Added option to preserve file timestamps when storing/extracting files
- Added options to allow/prevent newlines and tabs in passwords
- Multiple files can now be selected when selecting individual files to store
- Added Czech language translation
- Added Japanese language translation
- Updated German and Spanish language translations
- Made renaming more consistent with MS Windows Explorer when file extensions of known file types are hidden.
- Changed ordering when sorting by a column to match how MS Windows Explorer operates, and make column sorting clearer
- Fixed bug causing file date/timestamps to be converted to UTC when storing/extracting.
- Fixed bug causing files to be deleted when cutting/copying files to themselves.
- Various cosmetic improvements
- v3.00 (22nd July 2009)
- Optimised mount performance
- Added copy and move functionality
- Added rename functionality
- Added support for dropping keyfiles onto the password entry dialog to simplify keyfile filename entry
- Added XTS mode to Gladman cyphers (AES, MARS, RC-6, Serpent and Twofish)
- Added RIPEMD-256 and RIPEMD-320 hash algorithms
- Made numerous cosmetic and usability changes to main window, including:
- Added "Date Created" and "Date Accessed" columns. (Note: As with MS Windows Explorer, these are not shown by default - rightclick on the column header and select to show them)
- Added ability to move list view columns around
- Added option to hide file extensions of known file types
- Added option to hide the folders treeview (see menuitem "View | Explorer bar | Folders")
- Added option to store/restore window layout on startup/exit (if settings are being saved)
- Added support for forward/back/refresh multimedia keys
- Added option to associate ".vol" files with FreeOTFE Explorer (Note that you are still free to use any filename with any filename extension)
- Added "/create" command line option for creating new volumes
- Added "/mount" command line option for mounting volumes
- Added "/settings" command line parameter to read options from user specified location
- Added automatic check for updates (turned off by default)
- Created U3 and portableapps.com specific installers, simplifying installation for users of these particular systems
- Changed to display more helpful message when attempting to mount NTFS volumes (as opposed to the more cryptic "FAT count 1 <= X <= 0"!)
- Toolbar flickering eliminated when navigating the directory structure, etc
- Removed restriction requiring hidden volumes to begin at an offset which is a multiple of 512 bytes
- Improved support for FAT12/FAT16 filesystems
- Fixed intermittant bug which could cause an exception on some systems when run from a non-root directory on slow storage devices (e.g. USB flash drives)
- Fixed bug which left spurious LFNs on deletion
- Fixed bug which prevented access to data after the first 4GB in a volume
- Fixed minor bug which prevented hidden volumes from being automatically mounted and formatted after being created
- v2.10 (19th April 2009)
- Added functionality to create simple plaintext disk images, as well as encrypted ones
- Added LUKS support
- Improved detection of different FAT types
- Improved filesystem compatibility when formatting new volumes as FAT12/FAT16/FAT32, including:
- Default filesystem now defaults to FAT16/FAT32, depending on volume size
- Changed filesystem OEM name for more common one
- Volume serial number randomized
- Added FSInfo sector
- Added filesystem backup sectors
- Fixed bug in LFN handling, causing it to pad filenames when not needed, potentially resulting in "duplicate" directory entries
- Fixed trivial bug introduced in v2.00, causing CDB dumps to report the hash driver used twice, instead of the hash driver and cypher driver used.
- Fixed bug introduced in v2.00, which prevented per-volume IVs from being passed to the backend driver. Only affects CBC based volumes using per-volume IVs.
- v2.0 (4th April 2009)
- Radical overhaul of user interface to provide much of the functionality provided by FreeOTFE
- Combined FreeOTFE Explorer GUI code with existing FreeOTFE GUI code
- Improved store and extract functionality
- Added support for PKCS#11
- Added support for language translations
- Added ability to mount Linux volumes
- Added ability to create new volumes
- Added toolbar with most often used functions
- Added ability to copy FreeOTFE Explorer to USB drive (or other removable media) via user interface
- Added ability to create keyfiles
- Added ability to change volume/keyfile passwords
- Added ability to backup/restore/dump to human readable file volume CDBs
- Added options dialog, and ability to save settings
- Added forward/back navigation
- Added properties dialog for items selected
- Added context menu onto tree view, providing all functionality
- Added drag/drop interface, allowing files and directories to be dropped onto FreeOTFE Explorer to store them
- Added "mount readonly" option when mounting plaintext images
- Added installer version
- Added optional MRU list of FreeOTFE volumes mounted
- Corrected FAT implementation to mark clusters in FAT as unused when deleting items.
- Prevent user from deleting the root directory of mounted volume(!)
- v1.0 (1st March 2009)
