What's new in muCommander 0.9.0
Feb 5, 2014
- New features:
- Tabbed browsing support (ticket #185).
- Added support for Xfce desktop environment (ticket #394).
- Text viewer and editor can now display line numbers.
- New quick list for root folders, mapped onto Alt+5 by default (ticket #400).
- Improvements:
- Natural file ordering, suggested by 'andraaspar' in the forums. All symbols now come before digits (ticket #282).
- Improved the display of filenames when they are not entirely visible, by removing characters in the middle so that both ends of the filename are visible.
- Current folder is now automatically changed to a workable folder when it is no longer available (ticket #333).
- Upgraded the JmDNS library (used for Bonjour support) to version 3.1.
- Upgraded the jCIFS library (used for SMB support) to version 1.3.14.
- Better RAR archive support (ticket #152).
- Text viewer and editor can now wrap long lines (ticket #101).
- The bookmarks quick list is now displayed unsorted (ticket #416).
- Changed the quick search mechanism in quick lists to match the one used in the folder pane (ticket #171).
- Added an option to change the font size in the text file editor/viewer by pressing Ctrl while rotating the mouse wheel (ticket #409).
- Application state is now persisted on shutdown in a dedicated snapshot.xml file, instead of being stored along with preferences in preferences.xml (see http://trac.mucommander.com/wiki/StatePersistence).
- Changed the color of hidden files to be different from regular files (ticket #262).
- Changed the default keyboard shortcuts of the 'open in both panels', 'open in other panel', 'recall next window' and 'recall previous window' actions, to make room for the new tab-related shortcuts.
- File editor/viewer is now getting the focus when initiated (ticket #92).
- Comic Book Archive files (cbr, cbz, cb7, cbt) are now recognized as archives (#454).
- Localization:
- New: Turkish translation, contributed by Emre Aytaç
- New: Catalan translation, contributed by Jordi Plantalech
- New: Belarusian translation, contributed by vboo.
- New: Norwegian translation, contributed by Ingrid Amundsen.
- Russian translation updated. Update contributed by Alexey Sirotov and Evgeny Morozov.
- Ukrainian translation updated. Update contributed by Oleksandr Kovalchuk.
- Spanish translation updated. Update contributed by Xavi Miró.
- Bug fixes:
- Pack dialog now implements the same filename selection algorithm as other dialogs (ticket #167).
- When an invalid destination was entered in a transfer dialog, the spinning dial icon would keep spinning.
- Fixed an issue that would occur when creating directories whose extension match that of one of the supported archive formats (see ticket #360).
- Fixed a bug that could cause the deletion of S3 files to fail.
- Fixed an exception on shutdown (ticket #377).
- Fixed an exception when trying to update text files in archives using the internal editor (ticket #408).
- File renaming is now cancelled when the filename editor loses focus (#428).
- Fixed a deadlock that could prevent the application from shutting down (#431).
- Fixed an issue that caused unpacking of 7z archive file to produce corrupted files (ticket #347).
- Fixed several bugs related to SMB handling (tickets #351 and #436).
New in muCommander 0.8.5 (Mar 1, 2010)
- New features:
- Added support for Amazon S3.
- Added support for the Hadoop HDFS filesystem.
- Improvements:
- A proper error message is displayed when muCommander is started in a headless environment.
- Upgraded the commons-net FTP library to version 2.0 for increased server compatibility.
- Actions relying on a file operation that is not supported by the current folder's filesystem are now disabled contextually.
- Optimized the opening speed of Zip files.
- Mac OS X: updated JavaApplicationStub and Info.plist to enable 64-bit operation on x86_64 architecture.
- Improved the HTTP filesystem: better HTML/XHTML detection, follows links correctly.
- Free space indicator now changes color gradually (ticket #311) ; adjusted free space warning threshold.
- Adjusted the layout of the main window to some save screen estate around the toolbar. Contributed by Radomír Černoch.
- Lowered memory usage by caching file attributes only when they are in use.
- Migrated the codebase to Java 1.5 ; Java 1.4 is no longer supported.
- Localization:
- Dutch translation updated with a few corrections.
- Bug fixes:
- "Round displayed file sizes" checkbox does not refresh the panel correctly (ticket #328).
- Single click on folder panel treated as double click (ticket #321).
- Fixed 'startup_error' message that wasn't properly localized.
- Fixed 7zip files left open after being browsed (ticket #334).
- Mac OS X: raised the maximum memory that can be allocated to 128MB, to cope with directories that contain more than 80K files (ticket #332).
- Unsafe behavior when deleting a bookmark from the file panel (ticket #329).
- Known issues:
- Some translations may not be up-to-date. Refer to http://trac.mucommander.com/wiki/Translations for more information.
- Recycle Bin not working on Windows 64-bit (ticket #234).
- Executable permissions on local files are not properly preserved when running a unix-based OS with Java 1.5.
- SMB support may not work properly on non multi-language JRE.
- 'Copy files to clipboard' not working with some applications (files are not pasted).
- Mac OS X: some keyboard shortcuts may conflict with global system shortcuts.
- Authentication issues when using several sets of credentials (login/password) for the same server (see ticket #76).
- Untrusted HTTPS connections are allowed without a warning.
New in muCommander 0.8.4 (Nov 13, 2009)
- It fixes a couple of issues with the keyboard shortcuts editor and comes with an updated Simplified Chinese translation.
New in muCommander 0.8.3 (Dec 20, 2008)