November 15th, 2011· Added : Support for Slovakian, Bulgarian and Hungarian languages - thanks to all translators!
· Added : New internal property - -DpopWindowWithoutMainFrame in quiet mode, default value is false,
· see startup.properties file for more details
· Added : New internal property - -DcharEncodingForPropertiesFiles defines character encoding for properties files,
· see startup.properties file for more details
· Added : New internal property - -DopenIncompleteFiles - makes possible to open .part files while downloading from GUI
· Added : New file start.bat in FRD directory to allow launch FRD without frd.exe
· Changed : User preferences dialog opens faster
Thanks to all bug reporters:
· Fixed : Updated JTattoo look and feel, which fixes a bug where the main window shows over the taskbar
· Fixed : Updated Quaqua look and feel, which fixes certain regressions in 0.86 on Mac OS X
· Fixed : Unable to deselect "Use proxy list" - regression in 0.86
· Fixed : Unable to view dialog for settings of selected files - regression in 0.86
· Fixed : NullpointerException fix for PasswordAuthentication
· Fixed : Ugly Pause button on Mac version
· Fixed : Rare case - couldn't detect plugins on start - regression in 0.86
· Fixed : Backup file links.txt is not generated - regression in 0.86
October 31st, 2011· Added : Support for Portuguese and Simplified Chinese languages - thanks to all translators!
· Added : Quiet Mode - don't let captcha dialogs bother you anymore while watching videos!
· Added : If the same file is downloaded from multiple sources, duplicates are automatically skipped
· Added : Support for preventing standby while downloading
· Added : Support for using system recycle bin for deleting files
· Changed : Speed up startup time
· Changed : Internal - NirCmd is not used anymore for native Windows actions
· Changed : Internal - Updated BetterSwingApplicationFramework to v1.9.3 snapshot
· Changed : Internal - Updated jna, mina, and commons-codec libraries to their latest versions
· Changed : Internal - Updated look and feel libraries
· Fixed : Java 7 compatibility issues
January 3rd, 2011· Added : Support for Polish, Bulgarian, Korean, Portugal (Brasil), Finnish, Hebrew language
· Added : Support for grouping FRD application in taskbar for Windows 7
· Added : Experimental - you have to enable it manually in startup.properties file for now
· Support for deleting files to recycle bin
· Support for searching subtitles on opensubtitles.org (popmenu on selected files)
· Added : Plugin API
· ScriptUtils class for easy JavaScript manipulation
· Changed: Internal - enhanced ESET antivirus detection, which is blocking FRD to start
· Changed: Internal - enhanced detection of not writable plugins directory
· Changed: Internal - list of languages is represented in file languages.xml, languages.properties was removed
· Fixed: Internal - plugin API - small problem in MethodBuilder when parsing name attribute
November 20th, 2010· Changed: UA translation is now available
November 20th, 2010· Changed: Turn off debug logging
November 20th, 2010· Fixed : JDK 6 bug where the built-in WBMP reader tries to read ICO files and fails
· Fixed : OpenSearchDescription files require namespace http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/
November 1st, 2010· Added : Support for direct downloads (enable this feature in Preferences)
· Added : Support for container files (DLC, CCF, RSDF, etc...)
· Added : GUI - search text field in toolbar (supports OpenSearchDescription file format)
Added : A few new user options:
· Start downloads from decrypters and folders automatically
· Bring application to the top when clipboard monitoring detects links
· Added : Plugin API
· Base URL is automatically parsed from fileURL during init
· Support for unlimited cryptography
· Added : New LookAndFeel skins - Substance Office Black 2007 and Substance Mariner
· Added : Downgrade of plugin is made automatically if necessary
· Added : New internal property removeNotSupportedPlugins to remove not supported plugins automatically (default value is false)
· Added : New internal property tableColumnsResize - behavior of resizing table columns, can be set in startup.properties file
· Changed : Upgraded Substance L&F to version 6.1 Final
· Changed : Upgraded Quaqua L&F to version 7.2.1
· Changed : Upgraded SwingX library to version 1.6.2
· Changed : Speed limiter settings pane split in two to make clear a difference between global and file-specific settings
· Changed : Updated commons-codec library to v1.4
· Static methods in Base64 and Hex classes now take Strings as arguments too
· DigestUtils class for easier handling of MessageDigest
· Changed : RTMP plugin - major update
· Upgraded MINA library to v2
· Support for proxies (SOCKS)
· Changed : Options for plugin update methods were shuffled around a bit to make them more logical
· Changed : New icon for global speed limit
· Changed : Plugin priority changed around: higher number = higher priority
· Changed : "Sort by Name" action is back
· Fixed : Exception when starting an RTMP download with file pre-allocation enabled
· Fixed : Problems with links containing '#' character
· Fixed : NullPointerException while sorting Connection column
September 28th, 2010· Added : Romanian language
· Added : Experimental: new -DtableSortable boolean internal property to enable sorting in the main table
· default value is false, only for testers, see documentation how to use internal properties)
· Changed : file links.txt in the configuration folder adds a description to every link
· Fixed : invalid label in menu for russian and hungarian language
· Fixed : visible status of toolbar and statusbar is not saved
· Fixed : removed blinking of splash screen on WindowsXP
· Fixed : Rapidshare.com FileInputStream is empty (problem when connection was interrupted)
· Fixed : regression: enabled option hide downloaded files don't hide the most recently download file
September 16th, 2010Added Plugin API:
· FileStreamRecognizer interface and accompanying methods for setting it
· Added support for in setActionFromForm methods in MethodBuilder
· Changed : It's not necessary to restart FRD after plugin updates anymore!
· Changed : SwingApplication framework (SAF) was updated to BetterSwingApplication framework (BSAF), which fixes some bugs
· Changed : "Confirm deleting files" dialog is truncated to 20 files to avoid overly tall dialog which overflows screen
· Fixed : Lots of exceptions in log in case a plugin dependency is missing
· Fixed : Proxy list not refreshing when changing the path to it in preferences dialog
· Fixed : Fails to startup if global speed limiter value is above 255
· Fixed : Empty temporary files are deleted if there isn't enough disk space for download
November 2nd, 2009· Added : Romanian language [thanks to de-a dura lex]
· Added : Experimental: new -DtableSortable boolean internal property to enable sorting in the main table (default value is false, only for testers, see documentation how to use internal properties)
· Changed : file links.txt in the configuration folder adds a description to every link
· Fixed : invalid label in menu for russian and hungarian language
· Fixed : visible status of toolbar and statusbar is not saved
· Fixed : removed blinking of splash screen on WindowsXP
· Fixed : Rapidshare.com FileInputStream is empty (problem when connection was interrupted)
· Fixed : regression: enabled option hide downloaded files don't hide the most recently download file [reported by Mauser]
October 23rd, 2009· Changed : updated chinese translation
· Changed : minor internal changes in plugins API
· Changed : updated plugins to their latest versions
October 23rd, 2009· Changed : minor internal changes in plugins API
· Changed : optimizations: minimized size of SwingX library
· Changed : updated plugins to their latest versions
· Changed : new cancelOnEscape internal property to disable ESC keystroke for action Cancel
October 23rd, 2009· Added : startup.properties file in FRD's directory - see comments in this file for more details
· Added : registered new Substance 5.3 themes - Gemini, Magellan, Graphite Aqua
· Changed : minor GUI speed optimizations
· Changed : upgraded Substance LaF to version 5.3
· Changed : updated plugins to their latest versions
· Fixed : Close To Tray bug
· Fixed : restore window size to maximized state does not work
October 23rd, 2009· Added : improvements and fixes to enable FRD using blind people - it's now compatible to Java Accessibility Bridge
Added : SOCKS proxy support - all urls in proxy list file has to be prefixed with $SOCKS$ or SOCKS:
· SOCKS5 authentication is experimental
· Added : added shell script setupproxy.sh in tools/socks to help with automatic creating list of SOCKS proxies for FRD
· Added : added backup links.txt file (located in configuration folder), which stores all links you ever added into FreeRapid
· Fixed: problems with backup files
October 23rd, 2009· Added : error message when launching FRD using GCJ
· Changed : connection timeout set from 100 to 120
· Changed : updated default plugins to their latest versions
· Changed : internal - Windows - removed dependency on Windows registry
· Changed : internal - upgraded SwingX components to the latest build
· Fixed : selection disappears - when making selection from top to bottom while downloading
· Fixed : cannot launch CANCELLED (but existing) files
· Fixed : "checking... dialog" when updating plugins lies over dialog "checking finished" - finally fixed?!
· Fixed : If you change preferences check for updates every 597 hours or more FRD cannot start [reported by Prthvi, thanks!]
October 23rd, 2009· Changed : updated PT_BR translation thanks to Tiago
· Changed : support for speed limit from menu (additional support will come back with 0.84)
· Changed : upgraded GOCR to version 0.48
· Changed : internal - upgraded SwingX components to version 1.0
· Changed : updated default plugins to their latest versions
· Changed : removed error message dialog for ERROR when there is not enough space on disk
· Fixed : regression - avg. speed disappeared from information dialog [thanks to user from forum]
· Fixed : "checking... dialog" when updating plugins lies over dialog "checking finished"
October 23rd, 2009· Added : support for resuming files for hostings which support it (eg. HotFile, but not Rapidshare free!)
· Added : quick search (incremental search) for searching in the main queue table and plugins table (ctrl+F)
· Added : MS Windows - windows key for popmenu emulates a click with right mouse button on content panel with links
· Added : Apple MacOS - support for native Aqua Look&Feel
· Added : support for GTK look and feel
· Added : new frd.sh launching script [thanks to Petris!]
· Changed : upgraded JTattoo library to the latest version
· Changed : fatal exceptions are shown only once for reporting
· Changed : Apple MacOS - screen menu bar used by default
· Changed : Apple MacOS - menu.about.name - correct title - FreeRapid Downloader + version
· Changed : upgraded Substance lookAndFeel to version 5.2 + new themes
· Fixed : ClassCast exception in directory chooser
· Fixed : handling invalid response header from server with empty file name
· Fixed : main window couldn't be activated at some random special cases
· Fixed : NullPointerException when server didn't respond anything at some random special cases
· Fixed : downloading updates does not work on Windows 7
· Fixed : New links dialog - paste from clipboard did not work properly at some cases
May 6th, 2009· Added : many new plugins coming with 0.82 like Badongo.com, HotFile.com, WikiUpload.com, Paid4share.com, UGotFile.com
· improved YouTube plugin, [thanks to all plugin developers] => 70 plugins for you
· Added : Turkish translation [thanks to Ugur Karaman]
· Added : Bosnian translation [thanks to Nikola Katanic]
· Added : Farsi translation [thanks to behnam jan ahmad]
· Added : Greek translation [thanks to Spyros K.]
· Added : Arabic translation [thanks to Salah adel]
· Added : Dutch translation [thanks to mastermystery4ever]
· Added : Croatian translation [thanks to Željko Mitroviæ]
· Added : Slovenian translation [thanks to Tomaž Curk]
· Added : internal - plugin API - support for using SSL in plugins
· Added : French version of readme.txt [thanks to Jean-François]
· Added : Information (fileinfo) dialog - allow to create non existing folder like in NewLinks dialog
· Added : czech user guide for Menu-Help (F1)
· Added : based on locale country flag for english translation
· Changed : support for viewing info about >GB long files
· Changed : internal - upgraded Substance L&F to version 5.1, upgraded SwingX components to version 0.96
· Changed : this file and readme.txt files were moved to 'doc' folder
· Changed : improved clipboard monitoring for URLs violating with RFC
· Changed : Estimated time of arrival (ETA) counted based on the average speed of last 20 seconds
· Changed : readme.txt files moved to 'doc' folder
· Changed : improved clipboard monitoring algorithm for URLs algorithm (to catch links with '...')
· Fixed : support for only X bytes long files (eg. 515B)
· Fixed : UI - UserPreferences dialog - OK not enabled when changed How to update plugins combobox [reported by Alex]
· Fixed : shutdown commands don't not work properly on FRD path with spaces
· Fixed : many other minor things
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