flareGet Changelog

What's new in flareGet 4.2-92

Mar 30, 2015
  • fixed activation failure bug in Windows on startup
  • fixed thread management issue causing crash under heavy usage
  • fixed site manager history bug in Mac
  • added support for executing shell commands at end of downloads
  • updated file renaming logic to add index before file extension
  • other minor bug fixes and improvements

New in flareGet 4.1-80 (Mar 12, 2015)

  • fixed failure of downloads with file size than 5KB
  • fixed the download dialog behaviour to display on top
  • fixed hiding of main window on closing to tray in Mac
  • fixed some minor UI issues
  • added notification for download start, if download dialog is disabled
  • improvements in queue manager
  • added support for showing files selected on opening in file manager
  • other minor bug fixes and improvements

New in flareGet 4.0-75 (Dec 23, 2014)

  • new in-place dynamic file segmentation algorithm
  • no merging required after download now
  • improved browser integration for Opera
  • added Youtube video grabbing support for Opera
  • disk space checks added before download start
  • improvements in queue manager
  • completely dropped npapi dependency in Windows and Linux
  • other minor bug fixes and improvements

New in flareGet 3.2-42 (Jul 14, 2014)

  • fixed crash in ftp downloads
  • slight improvement in merging speed
  • fixed merging failure bug for files greater than 4GB on 32 bit Linux
  • fixed file name encoding issues causing download failure
  • fixed a major display bug
  • other minor bug fixes and improvements

New in flareGet 3.1-36 (May 8, 2014)

  • Much improved multi-threaded core engine
  • Added support for post download requests
  • Added support for Google Drive, Dropbox and other similar sites
  • Much improved browser integration
  • Added filetype ignore list support in browser integration
  • Much improved YouTube Grabber, now built-in
  • Dropped pcap, winpcap dependency
  • Fixed GUI distortion caused by changing language
  • Lot of other minor bug fixes and improvements

New in flareGet 2.4-27 (Jan 6, 2014)

  • Fixed naming bug for double encoded URLs
  • Added support for more file sharing sites
  • Fixed YouTube grabber
  • Fixed some minor bugs in the download engine
  • Other minor bug fixes

New in flareGet 2.3-24 (Oct 14, 2013)

  • major bug fixes in download engine
  • added preview option to watch videos while downloading
  • added direct download support for Youtube URL’s
  • fixed a major bug in scheduler
  • improved graphical user interface
  • fixed other minor bugs

New in flareGet 2.1-18 (Sep 27, 2013)

  • new browser integration extensions
  • much improved browser integration for Windows
  • fixed ssl errors in Windows
  • added direct download support for file sharing sites
  • improved site manager
  • fixed other minor bugs

New in flareGet 1.5-12 (Jul 22, 2013)

  • language added – Indonesian
  • new grabber optimized for Youtube.com
  • improved resume support – even on system crash or power failure
  • browser integration support for all browsers included in free version
  • speed limit support included in free version
  • support for auto-refreshing of URL and cookies included in free version
  • added support for mirror urls
  • added computer shutdown option in Action menu
  • full metalink support
  • fixed some bugs in scheduler
  • improved support for file sharing sites
  • fixed other minor bugs

New in flareGet 1.4-9 (May 20, 2013)

  • languages added – Dutch, Kyrgyz
  • improved scheduler
  • few minor tweaks and improvements
  • fixed metalink support
  • fixed a bug in Grabber which prevented grabbing of HTML5 videos
  • fixed video grabber support for google-chrome
  • fixed a critical bug in case of redirection requests
  • fixed ssl certificate errors
  • fixed a minor speed calculation bug
  • fixed other minor bugs

New in flareGet 1.3-7 (Apr 15, 2013)

  • languages added – Russian, Persian, Turkish, Polish, German
  • much improved resume support, you won’t lose your downloads anymore
  • much improved batch download support
  • added support for download speed limits
  • improved and redesigned scheduler
  • added support for multiple row selections/operations
  • No more stucking of downloads at the end, the bug is fully fixed now
  • Fixed one click restore issue with Unity shell
  • improved grabber, with options for choosing video quality, filename
  • added support for refreshing url and cookies
  • added support for changing order of downloads (move up & down)
  • added download info dialog
  • added support for checksum (hash) – MD5, SHA1
  • added help option in Help menu for documentation
  • added advanced options in start download dialog
  • improved menu bar with more options
  • Decreased maximum segments to 16, 32 segments cause lot of contention
  • more display options – show/hide columns, toolbar etc.
  • added auto-update feature
  • fixed some bugs in grabber
  • fixed failure of download from some filesharing sites
  • fixed crash in batch downloading
  • fixed lots of other minor bugs

New in flareGet 1.3-5 (Jan 30, 2013)

  • Added metalink support
  • Languages added - Czech, French, Br-Portuguese, Spanish, Bengali
  • Added widget icon
  • Customize categories
  • Improved grabber - bar style, no root password required
  • Improved error recovery
  • Current download speed on hovering mouse over tray and widget icon
  • Fixed grabbing of videos from dailymotion.com
  • Fixed bug in authorisation
  • Fixed bug in user agent
  • Many more bugs fixed

New in flareGet 1.3-5 Beta (Jan 28, 2013)

  • It contains many new features and lot of bug fixes.