May 2nd, 2012· Fix Menu not updating on Ubuntu 12.04
· Fix performance problem when syncing a lot of files on Linux
May 2nd, 2012· Fix Dropbox not starting on OS X
March 8th, 2012· Fix naming of files from Galaxy Nexus.
· Fix inability to import photos because of Unicode names.
· Make autoupdate more robust
· Other small fixes
January 17th, 2012· Fix another very rare issue where Dropbox wouldn't start on Windows.
· Give better error message for common Registry issues on Windows.
· Fix rare import issue on Windows with SD Cards.
January 17th, 2012· Fix another very rare issue where Dropbox wouldn't start on Windows.
· Give better error message for common Registry issues on Windows.
January 13th, 2012· Fix up/down arrow regression on Mac tray menu.
· Fix for SD cards that have Unicode names in them.
· Fix cases in which duplicated photos weren't being detected properly after a restart.
· Support Photo Importer on OS X 10.5
· Better notification timing on Photo Imports
· Don't import photos if it will take you over Quota.
December 7th, 2011· Fix very rare issue where Dropbox wouldn't start on Windows.
· Fix Selective Sync not working on Windows 8 Developer Preview.
November 2nd, 2011· Fix an xattr syncing issue when unlinking / relinking
· Better check for xattr support in Linux
· Fix issue on Linux where overlay icons were not being updated
October 6th, 2011· Fix issue with auto-upgrade on OSX creating app with wrong permissions.
· Remove debug logging from Finder integration to improve performance.
· Fix issue where LAN sync would still send messages after being disabled.
August 22nd, 2011· Integration support for Mac OS X Lion 10.7
· Backport a fix from 1.2.x to a rare issue (from 1.2.x) where certain Mac OS X machines wouldn't upload files automatically.
· Backport a fix from 1.2.x that caused the tray menu to become unresponsive on certain Linux machines.
July 19th, 2011· Fix bug in OSX which would cause multiple dropbox items to be in the favorites list.
· Fix very rare bug in OSX which would cause 100% cpu usage.
· Faster startup time on OSX (Thanks DanC!)
· Performance enhancements for Lion
· New icons for Windows. (Favorite Links, Dropbox folder, Photos, Public)
May 23rd, 2011· Other small bug fixes.
April 28th, 2011· Security enhancements, an attacker will not be able to steal your computer's account credentials just by copying configuration files to another machine.
· New encrypted database format to prevent unauthorized access to local Dropbox client database.
· Other small fixes
· Continued 10.7 support
April 18th, 2011· Another very small fix
March 31st, 2011· Really just a few minor fixes including a fix for a rare OS X crash.
February 16th, 2011· Fix exclude CLI command to work on Shared Folders.
· Small tweaks
January 13th, 2011· Minor fix to connection code.
December 15th, 2010· Fix double progress window when changing Dropbox location. Thanks Murtaza
· Fix super-rare tray icon inconsistencies.
December 8th, 2010· Fix some rare cases where Dropbox wouldn't start up
· Fix bug on Windows that would cause files in your Dropbox folder to lose badges on unlink
· Fixed OSX console warnings about NSUndoManager
· Revert to old "Open My Dropbox" behavior on Windows (don't show the strange folder tree)
· Lots of small fixes!
December 7th, 2010· Fix upgrades from 0.7 to 1.0. (This build will also fix the clients that were left in a bad state by the previous build.)
· Stop the Dropbox location changer widget from disappearing during the installation wizard.
· Fix the Dropbox Missing panel not appearing.
· Fix issue on Windows when placing your Dropbox on the Desktop.
· Better error messages when moving your Dropbox.
· Fix for users who put their Dropbox in the root of a drive.
· Uninstall on Windows now deletes more configuration files.
· Other small fixes.
October 28th, 2010· New tour images
· Add progress text to tour
· Fix broken tour on systems that have hostnames containing non-ASCII characters
· Fix race condition at end of tour preventing Explorer/Finder from opening up
· Tighten up spacing on Mac OS proxy page in preferences
· Fixed aliasing of images on Mac OS tour
· Fixed a bug that caused Dropbox to erroneously recreate folders in very rare circumstances
· Fixed advanced tour panel display issue on Windows XP and 2003
October 20th, 2010· Fixed a regression possibly preventing preferences from being opened on Windows and Linux
September 16th, 2010· Fix issue when deleting files under short paths on the web interface.
· Fix for Dropbox crash when Kaspersky is running.
· Fix missing Company Name and Publisher in Windows
· Fix possible infinite loop when Moving Dropbox.
· Support Debian style alternatives for web browser.
· Other smaller fixes
September 14th, 2010· Only restart Explorer if absolutely necessary.
· Fix "May not have installed properly" error on Windows 7
· Better syslog for certain errors on Linux and OSX.
· Small UI fixes.
· Other smaller fixes
September 10th, 2010· Fix regression in 0.8.104 that would cause Dropbox to redownload blocks.
· Other smaller fixes
September 10th, 2010· Fix Firewall message being prompted on OSX.
· Fix rare hangs when Dropbox is syncing.
· Fix rare missing tray icon on Windows 7.
September 7th, 2010· More fixes to the Ubuntu Maverick Application Indicator
· Fix to regression 0.8.102 that would cause Dropbox to hang in very rare situations.
September 1st, 2010· Eliminated a couple of potential deadlocks, going for 99.99% stability here
· Other small fixes.
August 30th, 2010· Fixed regression in 0.8.96 that would cause PPC Mac to reindex everything on startup.
· Improved startup time on OSX even more, should be noticeable on machines with slower CPUs.
· Other small fixes.
July 16th, 2010· Fix asking for password at startup every time on certain systems (OSX G3/G4).
· Fixed "rename of shared folder while paused causes leaving" bug.
· Other small fixes.
May 28th, 2010· Selective Sync
· Yeah, srsly. for real this time.
May 6th, 2010· Tray menu slightly reorganized again.
· Fixed memory leak in Mac OS X
· Better performance all around while syncing, lots of inner loops optimized.
· More CPU enhancements when Dropbox is idle on Mac.
· Upgraded to the latest stable version of SQLite 3.6.23.1
· Fix to status bug when downloading and pausing your dropbox.
· Other small fixes.
April 21st, 2010· Fix to regression in 0.8.37 that caused dropbox to use 100% cpu.
· Fix to regression in 0.8.37 that caused dropbox to never upload files to server in a rare case.
· Lots of other stability improvements.
April 20th, 2010· Major code overhaul and lots of stability fixes in preparation for Selective Sync
April 2nd, 2010· protect against badly encoded unicode paths on windows
· fix to race when rapidly renaming shared folders (thanks nn!)
· fix to rare cpu burn when dropbox is unable to recreate a file because of permission errors in the cache directory.
· (mac/win) initial startup optimization when you have many shared folders
· many tiny improvements
· we strongly recommend making a backup of your dropbox before upgrading to this build as we'll need a few weeks to be certain of its stability. in particular, please be careful with files that contain xattrs and most importantly resource forks! we will rapidly release new builds every couple days to snipe the most common issues as they arise.
March 30th, 2010· fix to rare case where non-ascii unicode characters would cause dropbox to spin
· slight optimization to changes on case-sensitive file systems (linux, case sensitive hfs+)
· protect to possible hang when sharing and unsharing folders via the web interface
· other minor stability improvements
March 26th, 2010· fix to a couple cases where dropbox would continue to spin
· fix to issue where dropbox would erroneously report it 'can't access settings' on OS X
· more stability fixes
· we strongly recommend making a backup of your dropbox before upgrading to this build as we'll need a few weeks to be certain of its stability. in particular, please be careful with files that contain xattrs and most importantly resource forks! we will rapidly release new builds every couple days to snipe the most common issues as they arise.
March 24th, 2010· fix to a case where moving your dropbox would fail
· better corrupted database detection
March 15th, 2010· Fix to bug in cocoa preferences that caused proxy passwords to show
· Fix to bug that could prevent dropbox from starting on some case-sensitive filesystems
· Minor stability improvements
March 2nd, 2010· better handling of cross platform xattrs syncing
· fixed cache pruning
· fix case where files could be deleted on relink
· fix minor issue with move dropbox
· small stability fixes
January 22nd, 2010· Potential fix to issue where the tray icon wouldn't show up/wasn't showing up properly in some versions of Windows (usually 64 bit windows 7 and vista). Please try this build if you've been having this problem and let us know if it's fixed.
· Fixed some cases where Dropbox wouldn't start on Windows
· No changes to platforms other than Windows
December 30th, 2009· Much faster hashing/indexing on Linux, we now use O_NOATIME to not schedule disk writes.
· Flicker free plan selection when you first link a host.
· Fix for tiny race condition when renaming folders on Mac / Linux.
· Fix to "Move Dropbox" that would cause some Linux machines to hang.
· Potential fix to some cases where Mac wouldn't detect local changes made to your Dropbox.
December 15th, 2009· Fix to issue that caused 100% cpu usage in rare scenario when viewing install tour
· Fix to issue that could cause Dropbox to not start up after an auto update
December 3rd, 2009· Potential fix for the NSImageCacheException bug that people were seeing - tell us if this fixes it for you
· Fix to issues with OS X toolbar which could cause it to occasionally not appear (and spit a lot of debug output into the console)
· Fix to issues with OS X toolbar that could cause button to say 'Button' or 'Drop' instead of display the Dropbox logo - tell us if you still have this behavior!!
· Fixed issue where context menu/shell integration would not reappear after Finder crashes
· Fixed layout issue on linux preferences
· Minor stability fixes
November 19th, 2009· Added toolbar customization to XP toolbar
· Potential fix to explorer crashes (let us know if you were having crashes in 0.7.66 and aren't now, also let us know if you are still having crashes!)
· New DMG background (getdropbox.com no more!)
· Minor stability fixes
November 12th, 2009· Another performance tweak to LAN sync (note: there was a protocol change so you must upgrade all Dropboxes for LAN sync to work!)
· Potential fix to recent explorer crashes (let us know if you still have crashes while running dropbox on XP)
· Minor stability fixes
November 6th, 2009· fixed a bug with LAN sync in 0.7.55
November 4th, 2009· Icon Overlays on windows should be more responsive (i.e., when dragging a new file into your dropbox, you should now see the blue syncing icon followed by the green check as expected)
· Fixed a potential crash in Explorer related to Dropbox (let us know if your windows explorer still crashes/hangs on this build!)
· New button art for the toolbar button on Tiger (OS X 10.4)
· As always, other small stability fixes
October 22nd, 2009· transfer status should update more frequently for slow transfers
· fix to issue where linux dropbox CLI (command-line interface) was broken
October 20th, 2009· fixes to the xp toolbar, dropbox toolbar button should now work in win2k as well
· potential fix for snow leopard toolbar button not having the dropbox image on it - make sure to log out and log back in (or restart finder) once, and then start this build
· nicer tray icons for windows in high dpi modes (also known as "bigger fonts" mode)
· fixes to some minor bugs with status system that were introduced in 0.7.43
· more information about the windows shell extension - if you are still not seeing icon overlays on windows in this version, tell us!
· fix to the problem where dropbox was preventing some windows machines from going to sleep properly
· stability improvements, as always
October 20th, 2009· Improvements to the status reporting system.
· Better remaining time estimation when downloading / uploading files.
· Fixed bug on Windows that could cause two instances of Dropbox to run.
· Lots of stability improvements.
October 20th, 2009· This version includes a lot of fixes for Linux.
October 8th, 2009· Significant performance/CPU improvements to LAN sync (let us know if it's faster)
· Much better transfer speed and remaining time calculation, noticeable improvement for LAN Sync
· Yet another attempt to fix lingering Office 2007/sharing violation bug (let us know how it goes)
· Fix for failed OS integration on some Windows machines.
· Minor stability fixes
October 5th, 2009· Performance/CPU improvements to LAN sync (let us know if it's faster)
· Added preference to enable/disable LAN sync
· Fix to Recently Changed Files explorer selection with non-ascii characters on windows
· Another attempt to fix lingering Office 2007/sharing violation bug
· Windows/OS X binaries are now properly signed (this should prevent the OS X popup re. LAN sync)
· Minor stability fixes
September 30th, 2009· Fix for proxy regression in 0.7.27
September 30th, 2009· Potential fix to reports that menu bar icon became unresponsive on Snow Leopard (please try this build if you've been having problems with the menu bar icon and tell us if you still are!)
· Some fixes to LAN sync
· Status menu now shows 'LAN' by download speed if download is coming via peer
· Fix to Tiger/Leopard integration
· Fix to rare issue involving Dropbox not syncing behind certain proxies (please try this build if you use a proxy!)
· Fix to Linux xlib crash (!)
· Fix to issue that could prevent auto-starting on Linux
· Fix to Office 2007/sharing violation bug
· Fix to slow initialization time
· Minor stability fixes
September 4th, 2009· This build mostly features fixes for Snow Leopard integration and also includes many memory/performance fixes, as well as LAN sync
September 4th, 2009· This build features many bug fixes, stability and performance improvements, Windows non-admin install support, and better support for Windows 7/Snow Leopard.
February 16th, 2009· Wakeups have been dramatically reduced on Linux and Mac. This means Dropbox consumes less CPU time when it's idle.
· Fixed the access denied high CPU usage bug on Windows from build 0.6.455
· Visual improvements to the installer tour.
· More robust connection code.
· Some minor stability fixes.
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