Posts Tagged ‘update’

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.

Update: SecureCRT 6.2.2

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

A new SecureCRT maintenance update has been released: 6.2.2.

SECURECRT 6.2.2 FINAL DOWNLOADS
SECURECRT 6.2.2 CHANGELOG
- Added support for administratively prohibiting checking for updates from within SecureCRT.
- SecureCRT could crash if a session showing elapsed time was connected and the Windows system date or time was set to a value in the past.
- If a session that required a password was cloned, the password had to be entered again.
- When the session option “Use Windows copy and paste hotkeys” was set, the hotkeys for Find and Select All did not work.
- If the path in the “Select File to Send as ASCII” dialog was changed, it was not remembered the next time that dialog was displayed. It is now remembered until SecureCRT exits.
- The installer did not honor LICENSE_FILE or CONFIG_FOLDER_PATH entries that were specified in an ANSWERFILE.
- Silent installs did not add the program to the Start menu or the list of installed programs in the Windows Control Panel.
- Telnet: If a logon script that did not send an initial carriage return was specified for a session, a carriage return (OxOD) was sent in a separate packet during authentication, which caused authentication to fail if the server used line mode.
- SSH2: Previously, the default GEX preferred key size was changed from 2046 to 2048. However, the GSSAPI GEX maximum key size was still 2046, which caused the server to report an error and disconnect the session when GSSAPI GEX was used.

Update: Recuva 1.28.424 – native 64-bit support and exFAT

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Recuva running on Windows 7 Beta Build 7000

Recuva running on Windows 7 Beta Build 7000

Recuva 1.28.424 is now out and includes exFAT support and Windows 7/98 improvements.

PLUS it now runs natively on 64-bit systems!

RECUVA 1.28.424 DOWNLOADS
Get it now: Download Recuva 1.28.424
EXE installer, slim build, 1.44MB, MD5 sum: 02AD3857A0EC43C7888BC3B39049635A

Portable version: Download Recuva 1.28.424 Portable
EXE installer, 1.71MB, MD5 sum: FA94D03F951447B545A7D084A519940E

RECUVA 1.28.424 CHANGELOG
- Added native 64-bit support.
- Added support for exFAT drives.
- Improved Windows 7 support.
- Fixed browse issue with the Wizard in Win98.
- Fixed a few other Win98 issues.
- Minor UI tweaks.

Update: VirtualBox 3.0.0 – SMP, OpenGL and Direct3D support

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

xVM VirtualBox reaches a new milestone: version 3.0.0!

Highlights include: guest SMP support (very useful if you have a multi-core host), experimental Direct 3D support for Windows guests and OpenGL for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests.

DOWNLOAD SUN VXM VIRTUALBOX 3.0.0
Get it now: Download VirtualBox 3.0.0 (for both 32-bit and 64-bit hosts)
exe installer, 67.4MB, MD5 sum: 04F279808BE47CA98D40FF0B5C2E6D7E

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

WHAT’S NEW IN SUN XVM VIRTUALBOX 3.0.0
Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see chapter 3.7.2.2 of the user manual)
Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games
Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests

Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)
Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under certain conditions
Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE
Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)
VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)
VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don’t support this feature (most do); bug #638)
VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)
VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels)
VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)
VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)
VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due to XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)
VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)
GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)
GUI: redesigned settings dialogs
GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters (non Windows hosts)
GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)
GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)
3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states
3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats
3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements
3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs
3D support: fixed glew library detection
3D support: fixed random textures corruption
VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client
Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18
NAT: fixed “open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 – 513, 514” (forum)
NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters
NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface
PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)
VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)
VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image
VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes
VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)
VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file
OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes
OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once
Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)
Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions (2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)
Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the correct file mode when creating files
Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain conditions (bug #1187)
Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest on a Linux host (bug #3404)
X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)
X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes
Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and guest property lookup
Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users, basic network information)
Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically (requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)
USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242).
USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles
Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented web service.
Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface inheritance correctly, fixed
Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously unavailable
Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now

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