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Update: SecureCRT 6.5.4

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

A new SecureCRT maintenance update has been released, 6.5.4, only fixing a fair number of bugs.

I for one, am really happy to see the first one (see changelog below). The crash didn’t happen very often, but when it did, it was really really annoying…

SECURECRT 6.5.4 DOWNLOADS
SECURECRT 6.5.4 CHANGELOG
- When multiple instances of SecureCRT were running, attempting to display a connection closed message could cause SecureCRT to crash.
- SecureCRT could lock up when a Send ASCII command was used to send a large file (e.g., 100,000 lines).
- SecureCRT hung when attempting to open the Customize dialog if multiple instances of SecureCRT were running.
- In some cases, when characters with diacritics were pasted into a session using VT220 emulation, they were not displayed correctly.
- The way characters were clipped when they were displayed in the session affected the behavior of the JAWS screen reading software.

Update: Pidgin 2.7.3

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Pidgin, the popular multiprotocol messaging client, has just been updated to version 2.7.3.

This release contains fixes for most of the supported protocols as well as Pidgin libraries and subsystems, but other than that not much (see below).

PIDGIN 2.7.3 DOWNLOADS
Get it now: Download Pidgin 2.5.7 for Windows
EXE installer, 8.83MB, MD5 sum: F1DBE5DF9B1AE3C2D2F3F10CC794F015

Other versions and platforms: Pidgin file repository on Sourceforge

WHAT’S NEW IN PIDGIN 2.7.3
General
- Use silent build rules for automake >1.11. You can enable verbose builds with the –disable-silent-rules configure option, or using make V=1.

libpurple
- Fix the TURN server settings (broken in 2.7.0).

Pidgin
- Re-focus the input area after clicking the attention toolbar button.
- Re-arrange media window to make it more netbook-friendly.

Finch
- Rebindable ‘suggest-next-page’ and ‘suggest-prev-page’ actions for textboxes (GntEntry) to scroll through list of suggestions.
- Rebindable ‘dropdown’ action for comboboxes (GntComboBox?) to show the dropdown list of options.

IRC
- Fix non-ASCII arguments to /mode et al. (thanks to Max Ulidtko)

MSN
- Support for web-based buddy icons, used when a buddy logs in to the messenger on the Live website.
- Fix file transfers with some clients that don’t support direct connections (e.g., papyon, telepathy-butterfly, etc.) (#12150)

MXit
- Fix filename for the Shocked emoticon. (#12364)
- Implement the new naming conventions where possible. (MXitId, etc)
- Display a message in the Groupchat window when you invite somebody.
- Birthday field in profile cannot be edited when server says it is locked.
- If a buddy is offline, show in their profile when last they were online.
- Handle pushed profile update packets (ie, when changing your avatar via the Gallery bot).
- If a buddy is offline and we see from their profile that they have updated their avatar, request the new avatar image from the server.
- Fix a possible crash if a link is clicked while disconnected.
- Unescape any escaped characters in a chatroom nickname.
- Add the new MXit moods and emoticons.
- MXit emoticons added to the small emoticon theme.

XMPP
- Allow connecting to servers that only advertise GSSAPI and expect a fallback to legacy IQ authentication (broken in 2.7.0).
- Fix a crash when receiving custom emoticons that don’t adhere to the specification.
- When initiating a file transfer, don’t show resources that are certain to not support file transfers in the resource selection dialog.
- Fix connecting to servers using BOSH and authenticating with DIGEST-MD5 when libpurple was built with Cyrus SASL support.

Yahoo/Yahoo JAPAN
- Renamed “Use account proxy for SSL connections” to “Use account proxy for HTTP and HTTPS requests” and tied the option to HTTP requests too.
- Properly detect HTTP proxy server use when the HTTP proxy is the global proxy server, an account-level non-HTTP proxy server is configured, and the “Use account – proxy for HTTP and HTTPS requests” account option is turned off. This fixes connecting for some HTTP proxy servers.
- Fall back to connecting to scsa.msg.yahoo.com (not configurable) if the HTTP-based connect server lookup fails. This does not work for Yahoo JAPAN accounts.
- Fix file transfers that get stuck with “Waiting for transfer to begin”.

Update: FileZilla 3.3.4 RC2

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

Tango theme for FileZilla

Tango theme for FileZilla


The powerful (and all-time favorite here at WorthInstalling) FileZilla FTP Client continues to move towards the final release of v3.3.4. There’s not much to talk about, since RC2 only fixes some leftover bugs (see below).

PS: If, like me, you feel that the included icon themes are low-quality and not very, check out the Tango theme by Bartek Sumowsky on DeviantArt. Too bad it doesn’t have a 32×32 version (yet?).

FILEZILLA 3.3.4 DOWNLOADS
Get it now: Download FileZilla 3.3.4 RC2 (Windows Binary)
exe installer, 3.99MB, MD5 sum: B3DF96C0083959A8C7077D601A0AB84D

Portable: Download FileZilla 3.3.3 Portable

Other platforms and source packages: Download FileZilla 3.2.5

WHAT’S NEW IN FILEZILLA 3.3.4
3.3.4-rc2
Bugfixes and minor changes:
- Fix issues with path names not properly terminated by separator
- Fix loading of settings with empty values
- Update status bar icons if changing theme

3.3.4-rc1
New features:
- Filter/search by modification date
- Add “does not equal” option to size filter
- Reduced memory consumption when working with very large queues and directory hierarchies

Bugfixes and minor changes:
- Fix bug in TinyXML that could lead to corrupt XML documents
- Abort directory listing parsing if encountering a line with more than 10k characters
- Fix stalling recursive operations if FileZilla gets disconnected
- Set correct initial control state in site manager if there are no sites

Beta update: uTorrent 2.2 Griffin

Saturday, August 7th, 2010
uTorrent 2.2 Apps panel

uTorrent 2.2 Apps panel

uTorrent’s beta branch (codenamed “Griffin”) introduces a very interesting and powerful feature called “Apps for uTorrent“. According to the developers, it is a web-based extensions framework designed in such a way that it will not affect uTorrent’s performance and lightweightness (is this a word?).

uTorrent “apps” ar basically HTML and Javascript code pieces, packaged in a “.btapp” container, similar to Apple Dashboard widgets. The apps can access uTorrent’s features via an API, but this is not mandatory; they can do completely unrelated tasks or access external programs.

Applications to try out are listed in the integrated “Apps” panel. Right now there aren’t too many available but, while some of them are a cleverly disguised way of generating revenue for uTorrent’s parent company (free MMO games? gimme gimme gimme!!!!1 not), others look pretty interesting:

- uMap (shows you a map pinpointing the peers you’re currently connected to)

- VirusGuard (integrated AV scanner powered by BitDefender)

- Torrent Twitter (a twiter-based commenting system for individual torrents, using hashtag for aggregation)

LE: There is a nice contest for app developers.

DOWNLOAD UTORRENT 2.2 BETA GRIFFIN
Get it now: Download uTorrent 2.2 Beta Griffin (Windows)
exe installer, 372KB, MD5 sum: B5E2F8F65D4A945E826A896F5023C3BB

Other stuff: Language pack

WHAT’S NEW IN UTORRENT 2.2 BETA GRIFFIN
- Fix: reduce sidebar flicker during RSS updates
- Change: Move partner app uninstall to the installer thread
- Change: add support for label counts
- Fix: find pane is only default for fresh installs, not for upgrades
- Change: Promoted show-apps, show-find-pane, narrow-toolbar, category-spaces settings to options menu
- Fix: Fixed peer exchange exploit
- Change: Advanced option to disable display of Antivirus icon
- Fix: Install Node left behind when installing Virus Guard
- Fix: Shift-selecting user-defined labels would sometimes choose the wrong items
- Change: labels now sort when added
- Fix: separators could be selected on rclick, causing problems
- Fix: Fixed peer exchange exploit
- Fix: remembering last side bar selection across application restarts. if the selection is a dynamic node, select the parent.
- Change: remember which side bar items are expanded across application restarts
- Change: Advanced option to disable display of Antivirus icon

Update: VirtualBox 3.2.8

Friday, August 6th, 2010

Oracle VM VirtualBox 3.2.8 is now available for download and testing. It is a maintenance release, providing fixes for bugs in several systems such as USB, GUI, PageFusion, 3D, Webservice and so on (see below).

DOWNLOAD SUN VXM VIRTUALBOX 3.2.8
Get it now: Download VirtualBox 3.2.8 (for both 32-bit and 64-bit hosts)
EXE installer, 75.5MB, MD5 sum: B8456AF722BDCEF986D9E2283662DA2D

Other stuff: VirtualBox for Linux, Mac, Solaris + SDKs and older versions

WHAT’S NEW IN SUN XVM VIRTUALBOX 3.2.8
- GUI: switch to native file dialogs (Windows hosts only; bug #5459)
- GUI: don’t use native file dialogs on KDE hosts (Linux hosts only; bug #6809)

- USB: properly signal an interrupt if the port suspend status changes
- USB: respect the remote-only filter
- USB: avoid VM hang when changing the configuration of certain devices (Windows hosts only)
- USB: fix a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983)

- PageFusion: fixed conflict with the guest execution feature
- PageFusion: fixed stability issues with a large number of VMs
- PageFusion: fixed host crashes with guest SMP and Win64 guests

- Web service: enabled HTTP keepalive for much better performance
- Web service: added timestamps to logging output
- Web service: treat 8-bit strings as UTF-8 not ASCII

- VMM: properly terminate the VM with an error if the guest is trying to switch to the PAE mode but PAE is disabled in the VM settings
- 3D support: fixed GL_EXT_texture_sRGB support
- PXE: fixed ZENworks PXE boot regression
- OVF: fixed slower export and larger images under certain circumstances (3.2.6 regression; bug #7073)
- Memory ballooning: fixed problems restoring VMs with pre-allocation enabled
- Bridged networking: fixed performance issue with GRO enabled on bridged device (bug #7059)
- Hostonly networking: fixed performance issue (3.2.6 regression; bug #7081)
- Hard disks: fix auto-reset of immutable disk at VM startup (bug #6832)
- BusLogic: several fixes for Windows NT/2000 and SCO OpenServer guests
- LsiLogic: fixed I/O errors under rare circumstances
- Sharing disks: support for attaching one disk to several VMs without external tools and tricks
- Shared folders: several fixes and performance enhancements for Solaris guests (bugs #4154 and #6512)
- Solaris Installer: added support for remote installations
- Guest Properties API: correctly support enumerating the properties of a running VM with an empty “patterns” field (bug #7171)
- Guest properties: properly delete transient properties on shutdown
- RDP video redirection performance improvements and stability fixes
- Settings: silently fix host audio driver when reading machine XML settings files or OVF written by VirtualBox on a different host OS, for example convert DirectSound to PulseAudio (bug #7209)
- Settings: properly store the NAT network setting in XML settings file version 1.10 and later (bug #6176)
- VBoxManage: handle differencing images with parent UUID correctly in subcommand openmedium disk (bug #6751)
- X11 Additions: fix for Xorg 6.8 guests (e.g. RHEL4)

Update: 7-Zip 9.15 Beta

Sunday, July 25th, 2010
7-Zip exploring its own .exe file resources

7-Zip exploring its own .exe file resources

The latest release in the 7-Zip 9 beta branch is 9.15.

Beside various bug fixes (some for the seemingly left-out 4.x branch – not updated since early 2009), the beta branch adds a lot of new UI localizations and features:
- better compression in Maximum and Ultra modes, when using the PPMd algo for ZIP archives (also recently added by the beta branch)
- faster PPMd operation
- LZMA2 codec
- support (open) for APM (Apple Partition Map), MSLZ, VHD, XZ
- diff support via an external tool (configurable)
- resource parsing (and extraction) for EXE, SWF and FLV
- support for modifying solid 7Z archives

DOWNLOAD 7-ZIP 9.15 Beta
Windows: Download 7-Zip 9.15 Beta (32-bit)
EXE installer, 1.03MB, MD5 sum: BE1F07A3F059B8244E4C005754ED8112

Windows 64-bit: Download 7-Zip 9.15 Beta (64-bit)
MSI installer, 1.28MB, MD5 sum: 89E598D18E3358F05C96E52D6F65285B

Extras: Other versions, source code, SDKs

WHAT’S NEW IN 7-ZIP 9 BETA

9.15 beta


- Some bugs were fixed.
- New localization: Tatar

9.14 beta


- WIM support was improved.

9.13 beta


- 7-Zip now stores NTFS file timestamps to ZIP archives.
- New additional “Open archive >” item in context menu allows to select archive type for some files.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- New localization: Uyghur.

9.12 beta


- ZIP / PPMd compression ratio was improved in Maximum and Ultra modes.
- The BUG in 7-Zip 9.* beta was fixed: LZMA2 codec didn’t work, if more than 10 threads were used (or more than 20 threads in some modes).

9.11 beta


- 7-Zip now supports PPMd compression in ZIP archives.
- Speed optimizations in PPMd codec.
- The support for archives in installers was improved.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- New localization: Kazakh.

9.10 beta


- The BUG in 7-Zip 9.09 beta was fixed: 7-Zip created incorrect ZIP archives, if ZipCrypto encryption was used.

9.09 beta


- 7-Zip now can unpack Apple Partition Map (APM) disk images.
- Speed optimizations in AES code for Intel’s 32nm CPUs.
- Speed optimizations in CRC calculation code for Intel’s Atom CPUs.
- Some bugs were fixed.

9.07 beta


- It’s possible to specify Diff program in options (7-Zip File Manager).
- Some bugs were fixed.

9.06 beta


- 7-Zip now can unpack MSLZ archives.
- Partial parsing for EXE resources, SWF and FLV.
- Some bugs were fixed.

9.04 beta


- 7-Zip now can update solid .7z archives.
- 7-Zip now supports LZMA2 compression method.
- 7-Zip now supports XZ archives.
- 7-Zip now can unpack NTFS, FAT, VHD and MBR archives.
- 7-Zip now can unpack GZip, BZip2, LZMA, XZ and TAR archives from stdin.
- 7-Zip now can open/copy/compress disk images (like \\.\c:) from \\.\ folder.
- 7-Zip File Manager now doesn’t use temp files to open nested archives stored without compression.
- New -scrc switch to calculate total CRC-32 during extracting / testing.
- New -scc{WIN|DOS|UTF-8} switch to specify charset for console input/output (default = DOS).
- Some bugs were fixed.

Update: TreeSize Free 2.3.3 – File-level reporting

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

TreeSize Free 2.3.3 is now out.

Although it is not mentioned in the changelog, this version adds file-level reporting: the [Files] entry in the tree display can now be expanded to get a little more insight about which of those previously mysterious files take up the most disk space (check screenshot).

TREESIZE 2.3.3 DOWNLOADS
Get it now: Download TreeSize Free 2.3.3
exe installer, 1.57MB, MD5 sum: 03AAC4072B127E42DEA956E71E676A85

Portable (U3): Download TreeSize Free 2.3.3 for U3
U3 exe installer, 1.73MB, MD5 sum: A282B1D896C3D7D956A658C445625178

WHAT’S NEW IN TREESIZE FREE 2.3.3
- File-level reporting
- Bugfix: In case a selected file was deleted and then its folder was collapsed, an error could occur if no other file or folder was selected.
- A few minor improvements have been incorporated.

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