What's New in This Release:
· Added support for individual user preferences for better Vista support; by default, this is enabled for standalone, disabled for installed when enabled, UniExtract uses single .ini file as with previous version when disabled, individual prefs/history are saved to registry in HKCU this can be changed by modifying globalprefs setting in .ini file
· Added menu bar to main GUI; includes options to quit, edit preferences, and visit UniExtract website
· Added separate preferences GUI to provide easy access to all options; can be invoked through Edit menu or through '/prefs' argument
· Added support for FEAD Optimizer packages (eg, Adobe Reader installers)
· Added support for LZMA compressed files
· Added support for Nero NRG CD-ROM images (data only) via nrg2iso
· Added support for Reflexive Arcade installer wrapper via RAIU
· Added support for WIM (Windows Imaging Format) images via 7-Zip
· Added "Not an InstallShield installer" option to InstallShield method select dialog to force UniExtract to handle TrID false positives
· Added components section to installer; makes installation of docs, languages, and certain (large) binaries optional
· Added SendTo icon option to installer
· Added internationalization support for decompressed ASPack and UPX files
· Added Hungarian, Portuguese, Romanian, Turkish, and Valencian (Catalan) translations
· Added return codes to indicated status of extraction (actually added in 1.5): 0 = successful exit or user-initiated cancel / 1 = supposedly supported file, but extraction failed / 2 = debug file is not writable, aborted / 3 = unknown executable - cannot be extracted / 4 = unknown filetype - cannot be extracted / 5 = invalid output directory specified
· Fixed bug that displayed debugging message box during Inno Setup extraction
· Fixed support for Microsoft hotfixes (again)
· Fixed support for relative paths
· Fixed support for UNC paths
· Fixed missing Spanish language option during installation
· Removed support for Windows 9x due to new Unicode version of AutoIt; 9x was never officially supported, but it will not even execute now
· Removed Adobe-specific report (now handled by generic FEAD support)
· Updated UniExtract to prompt user before executing files for extraction; can be disabled via warnexecute option
· Updated UniExtract to make ACE, KGB, Pea, and StuffIt support optional
· Updated UniExtract to read English.ini from root install directory
· Updated UniExtract to output debug files to %temp% by default
· Updated UniExtract to verify that debug file location can be written to; user's temp directory will be used if selected dir fails test
· Updated UniExtract to disable appendext option by default
· Updated UniExtract changelog to add notice of Vietnamese translation in 1.5
· Updated TrID detection of MS Self-Extracting CAB (Type 1) archives
· Updated TrID detection of Windows Installer (MSI) packages
· Updated TrID detection of Zip Self-Extracting archives
· Updated CD-ROM image support to bypass TrID detection and rely on extensions
· Updated Windows Install patch (.msp) to include pure 7-zip option
· Updated installer to use Start Menu icons page and include uninstall icon
· Updated installer language initialization code for simplicity
· Updated installer to require administrative privileges; non-admin users should use binary archive (portable) version, or use a copy installed by the system administrator
· Updated installer to prevent association with CHM files under Vista
· Updated installer to support new /nowarnexecute paramater
· Updated installer to support reversed appendext default preference; now use /appendext to enable instead of /noappendext to disable
· Updated installer to add {app} in addition to {app}in to %PATH% if enabled; restores ability easily to call UniExtract.exe from command line
· Updated 7-Zip to 4.52 beta
· Updated innounp to 0.19
· Updated Inno Setup to 5.1.13
· Updated Pea to 1.6 (cannot use newer version due to broken GUI controls)
· Updated UnRAR to 3.70
· Updated UPX to 3.01... [
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