Altap Salamander Changelog

What's new in Altap Salamander 4.0

Jul 4, 2019
  • Altap was acquired by Fine company, the civil engineering software developer
  • Altap Salamander 40 is released free of charge for both commercial and non-commercial use
  • Compiler switched to Visual C++ 2019
  • Altap Salamander 40 requirements: Windows 10, 81, or 7 (x86 or x64) CPU with SSE2 support
  • High DPI support: proper size of panel icons and icon overlays
  • High DPI support: old toolbar icons are upscaled according to system DPI
  • High DPI support: support for SVG icons in toolbars Conversion from bitmaps to SVG is not complete, contacts us on https://forumaltapcz if you would like to help with this redesign
  • High DPI support: several bitmaps used in dialog box controls are converted to SVG
  • High DPI support: Consolas font used for Internal Viewer, File Comparator, and FTP Client
  • Configuration window could be resized in vertical direction
  • OpenSSL upgraded to 102s for security bug fixes
  • Removed obsolete plugins: UnACE, DiskCopy
  • 7-Zip:
  • Fixed error handling when user entered wrong password while unpacking encrypted archive
  • IE Viewer:
  • Support for viewing markdown files with GitHub extensions
  • PE Viewer:
  • Support for new debug information format REPRO (PE determinism or reproducibility)
  • More information displayed for managed modules
  • Thanks to Manison!
  • UnMime:
  • Better filenames sanitizing
  • ZIP:
  • Fixed creation of SFX in x64 Salamander version
  • Encrypt:
  • Option to suppress warning about using SSD disk for temporary files

New in Altap Salamander 3.08 (Dec 28, 2016)

  • OpenSSL upgraded to 1.0.2j for security bug fixes.
  • Go to Shortcut Target: added support for links (junction points, symbolic links). This command was renamed to Go to Shortcut or Link Target.
  • There is a new Focus button in error box displayed when disk operation cannot be finished because of too long name. It shows existing file or directory with too long name in source panel. Or it shows the file or directory that would cause too long name error (e.g. when copying it to longer target path).
  • When changing path in panel (Paste or Change Directory or drag&drop to Directory Line), file URL is translated to Windows path (e.g. file:///c|/WINDOWS to C:WINDOWS).
  • Paste path to panel, Load Selection from clipboard to panel, and drag&drop path to Command Line and Directory Line from some applications (e.g. Google Chrome) has not worked properly because of stripped diacritics in transferred texts. Newly we are using unicode instead of multibyte strings to get these texts properly.
  • Drag&drop from Status Line and Directory Line to some applications (e.g. Google Chrome) has not worked properly because they expected strings in UTF-8 encoding instead of in active Windows code page. Newly we are using unicode to transfer these texts properly.
  • Internal Viewer: you can extend the selected block by mouse or keyboard. Use Shift key and left mouse click or arrows, Home, and End keys. Details are in help: Altap Salamander: Using Internal Viewer: Selecting Text.
  • Internal Viewer: Go To Offset command newly remembers last value of HEX check box.
  • Internal Viewer: tooltip in Hex mode shows offset in file in hex and newly also in decimal number.
  • Internal Viewer: when copying block bigger than 100MB to clipboard or starting drag&drop for such big block, warning that it will be slow is displayed and user can skip it.
  • Internal Viewer: several bug fixes.
  • File Overwrite confirmation window: besides file's size, date, and time are newly displayed also file's attributes.
  • Context menu commands: fixed losing of focus for some commands creating temporary file just for a while. This file was focused and then disappeared.
  • 7-Zip plugin:
  • 7-Zip engine upgraded to latest version 16.04.

New in Altap Salamander 3.07 (Jun 29, 2016)

  • Internal viewer: added Go To Offset command to menu View (Ctrl+G).
  • Support for OneDrive Business accounts.
  • OneDrive: fixed icon in Change Drive menu.
  • Updated paths to OneDrive and Dropbox directories.
  • OpenSSL upgraded to 1.0.2h for security bug fixes.
  • Improved Windows 10 support.
  • Several major improvements in Windows shutdown handling. Solves problems involving corrupted Salamander configuration.
  • Finished French and Dutch translations.
  • Pack and Delete (move to archive): disabled for links to directories.
  • Junction points with read-only attribute could be deleted.
  • Find Files and Directories: directories in which you start the search cannot be ignored.
  • Archivers Autoconfiguration and Create Directory: fixed problems on too long paths.
  • Drive Information: added Volume mount point, Volume GUID path, and Bytes per cluster fields. Tab key can be used to focus desired fields.
  • Calculate Occupied Space: added 64KB, 128KB, and 256KB clusters.
  • Support for treating symbolic links to files like common files.
  • Improved handling of symbolic links in Convert, Find Files and Directories, and Email commands.
  • Find Files and Directories and Command Line: better long path shortener.
  • Improved plugins multithreading model during closing plugin, closing handles, or waiting for forced plugin shutdown.
  • Sanitized file name input in Copy and Move, Edit New File, Change Directory, Create Directory, and Quick Rename commands (beginning and trailing spaces and dots).
  • Internal Viewer: fixed several bugs in situation when viewed file changed and was reloaded.
  • Internal Viewer: fixed painting errors after changing font.
  • Better delete file handling when file has read-only attribute or is target of multiple hardlinks.
  • Cleaning old TEMP directory on Altap Salamander start: Focus button is available to review deleted files.
  • 7-Zip plugin:
  • 7-Zip engine upgraded to latest version 16.02. Solves several security issues.
  • Checksum plugin:
  • Reading of directory tree in modeless window.
  • Several speed optimizations, plugin is now prepared for large directories.
  • Improved SVF, MD5, SH1 format detection.
  • Database viewer:
  • Fixed random crash when viewed file changed.
  • Encrypt plugin:
  • Clean Free Disk Space: New method "Zeros overwrite" fills free disk space. Use for example before backuping disk image to get smaller compressed output.
  • Support for volume mount points. It is possible to clean volume mounted to directory on another volume.
  • Symbolic links supported.
  • Warning message when attempt to shred files on SSD drive is detected.
  • Support for SUBST paths resolving.
  • Fixed handling of too long paths.
  • FTP Client plugin:
  • Improved download speed.
  • Better OpenSSL DLL loading, should solve "not found" problems on some systems.
  • Several GUI fixes.
  • Internet Explorer Viewer:
  • Rendering with current IE engine instead of Quirks mode.
  • Support for IE 11.
  • High DPI support, GPU acceleration.
  • Portable Executable Viewer:
  • New PE Viewer configuration (in Options > Plugin Configuration). It is possible to choose which sections will be displayed.
  • Support for new subsystems.
  • Support for new flags in DLL Characteristics.
  • Added Load Configuration Directory dumper (for now only SecurityCookie /GS).
  • Added several parsers and dumpers: resource section parser, manifest, StringFileInfo, VS_FIXEDFILEINFO, .NET assembly, CLR header, target .NET Framework.
  • PictView:
  • Support for scanning with WIA 1.0 from x64 Altap Salamander build.
  • Support for scanning multiple pages.
  • Several bug fixes in file name handling.
  • Fixed several bugs causing crashes (long file paths names, NULL handles, ...).
  • Renamer plugin:
  • Improved stability: fixed long path handling.
  • Command Options > Last used now sets Include Subdirectories option.
  • Split and Combine plugin:
  • Support for symbolic links.
  • Fixed handling of too long paths.
  • TAR plugin:
  • Improved GZip archive handling.
  • Undelete plugin:
  • exFAT support.
  • Improved error handling.
  • Support for undeleting partially recoverable files.
  • New options in Undelete dialog box: Show files with zero size, Show empty directories, and Show partition metadata.
  • Metafiles on FAT and exFAT.
  • Fixed problem with All Deleted Files virtual folder on FAT: different files with the same name were displayed just once.
  • Deleted overlay icons.
  • Fixed support for NTFS sparse files with sparse data runs within valid data runs.
  • Implemented context menu.
  • Data Runs encoding and decoding refactored.
  • NTFS: Support for 512B MFT resident clusters.
  • NTFS: support for compressed files encoded into multiple sparse runs inside one compression unit.
  • NTFS: reading of Bitmap is now included into progress.
  • NTFS and exFAT: improved (20x) bitmap reading speed.
  • ZIP plugin:
  • Improved long path handling.
  • Improved support for zip64.
  • When packing symbolic links to files, packing progress was not shown properly.

New in Altap Salamander 3.06 (Feb 28, 2015)

  • OpenSSL upgraded to 1.0.1l for security bug fixes.

New in Altap Salamander 3.05 (Dec 30, 2014)

  • Eroiica Viewer plugin is removed and will no longer be part of Altap Salamander. We are sorry for inconvenience, unfortunately the underlying rendering engine cannot be licensed anymore.

New in Altap Salamander 3.04 (Nov 1, 2014)

  • OpenSSL upgraded to 1.0.1j for security bug fixes.
  • Fixed Ctrl+Number hotkey in Copy/Move dialog box.
  • It is possible to move User Menu submenu into/over another submenu.
  • WinSCP:
  • Failure when SSH authentication prompt with no actual prompts is received.

New in Altap Salamander 3.03 (Sep 13, 2014)

  • When network path in panel has become inaccessible when Salamander's main window was inactive, it was not possible to cancel checking of inaccessible network path. You can use ESC key (after activation of Salamander's main window) or click on close button in checking path window now.
  • FTP Client:
  • OpenSSL updated to version 1.0.1h (fixed SSL/TLS MITM vulnerability - CVE-2014-0224). Both libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll compiled with /DYNAMICBASE (ASLR - Address Space Layout Randomization) and /NXCOMPAT (DEP - Data Execution Prevention) options for better security.
  • UnISO:
  • Fixed extraction of files over 4GB from HFS+ (ISO/DMG) archives. The extracted file content was clipped to modulo 4GB, leaving the rest filled with zeros.
  • Xbox: Fixed extraction of CreationTime for the "Information on image" summary. Fixed scanning directories spanning over multiple sectors.

New in Altap Salamander 3.02 (May 31, 2014)

  • Shift+F3 (Open Active Folder command) uses short 8.3 name when available. It is possible to display and focus any name (even names requiring support of unicode) from panel in Window Explorer window.
  • Altap Salamander and plugins are compiled with /DYNAMICBASE (ASLR - Address Space Layout Randomization) and /NXCOMPAT (DEP - Data Execution Prevention) options for better security.
  • Fixed old UI glitch. Empty panel hint "There are no items in this panel." was sometimes painted several times without erasing background.
  • Getting OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) folder location on Windows 8.1 works fine even with changed location of OneDrive folder.
  • If Google Drive folder does not exist on disk (sometimes when you are not logged in), Google Drive icon is not shown in Change Drive menu and Drive toolbars.
  • Eroiica Viewer:
  • Fixed rare problem with loading pfltwmf.dll on plugin startup. We are preloading rtfsupport.dll now.
  • Portable Executable Viewer:
  • Text descr

New in Altap Salamander 3.01 (Apr 29, 2014)

  • Hot Paths count extended from 10 to 30. Use Ctrl+Shift+= to add the current directory to Hot Paths. It works only if some Hot Path on position 11..30 is free.
  • Find window: new command Open All Selected (Shift+Enter). Opens all selected files and directories.
  • New option: Keep environment variables updated to system values. When checked, Salamander reads system environment variables on start and when system environment variables are changed. Values of environment variables inherited from parent process are overwritten by values from system. Variables which do not exist in system remain untouched. Uncheck this option to use inherited environment variables in running Salamander and all processes started from it.
  • Fixed Windows 8 problem with missing SALRTL9.DLL.
  • Checksum plugin:
  • Fixed SHA-256 and SHA-512 for files with size from 0x20000000. Faster SHA-256 and SHA-512 algorithm.
  • FTP Client plugin:
  • OpenSSL 1.0.1g with fix pro TLS heartbeat read overrun (CVE-2014-0160).
  • UnRAR plugin:
  • UnRAR.DLL is W2K compatible again (added missing TzSpecificLocalTimeToSystemTime).

New in Altap Salamander 3.0 (Apr 1, 2014)

  • Compatible with Windows 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, XP, and 2000 (both 32-bit and 64-bit). Fixed compatibility warning when starting Altap Salamander on Windows 8.1
  • New native x64 version of Altap Salamander to bypass limitations of x86 applications (File System Redirector, Registry Redirector). With x64 version you will see real directories on your disks instead of redirected ones, x64 keys in Registry (x86 keys are under Wow6432Node), and context menu items coming from x64 shell extensions. All plugins were ported to x64 except of UnACE (there is no x64 version of UnACE library) and third-party plugins: WinSCP and Eroiica Viewer. Start x86 version for tasks you cannot finish with the x64 build. Both x64 and x86 versions of Altap Salamander 3.0 can be installed at the same time and sharing the same configuration in the Registry. Note: we plan to port Eroiica Viewer to x64 version
  • Copy files on Windows 7 and later: we have added faster asynchronous algorithm for copying files to/from network. Its speed on our local GLAN network is 111 MB/s, conventional algorithm speed is 86 MB/s. It affects also moving of files in case you are not moving in scope of one volume (then it is just rename, not copy and delete)
  • Waiting up to half second for finishing of reading of icons for user menu, it often prevents collision with reading of icons for panels and Salamander is starting more smoothly. Moreover icons for user menu which are read on background have higher priority than icons for invisible parts of panels
  • Console version of WinRAR 5.0 supported
  • Support for progress bars in Windows 7 and 8 taskbar buttons
  • Altap Salamander 3.0 has most reliable copy routine on the market
  • When copying is interrupted (e.g. network is temporarily disconnected), Salamander can retry copying, it continues where copy operation was interrupted. It verifies end of unfinished target file against source file to detect potential write errors. It's especially useful for long transfers via VPN or other slow networks. Explorer and Total Commander (TC) always start from the beginning, retrying is not supported
  • Copying/moving links (junction points, symlinks, or volume mount points) to different disk: choose if you want to copy link target or skip it and just create empty directory. Explorer always skips links when moving and copies link target when copying, TC always copies link target
  • Copy can optionally remove ADS from copied files/directories
  • Copy is also optimized for slower VPN. It uses smaller blocks, so progress is smooth and you can cancel operation instantly. Explorer and TC uses always large blocks, so progress is changing slowly and cancel is unresponsible
  • Copy files or directories with ADS to disk not supporting ADS (e.g. FAT32 flash disk). Salamander ask if you want to continue and shows list of streams which will be lost. Explorer asks if you want to copy without properties. TC copies quietly without streams (it loses data quietly)
  • Note: default Windows Explorer and Total Commander options were used for tests
  • Cloud Storage Services support:
  • Change Drive Menu and Drive Bar newly contain items for most popular Cloud Storage Services. Currently we have supported Google Drive, Dropbox, and Microsoft SkyDrive
  • Google Drive icon overlay handler crashed when called from two threads simultaneously (for left and right panel), so we have added synchronization. We use this handler only for files/folders located in Google Drive folder (it is relatively slow)
  • Fixed getting of location of Microsoft SkyDrive local folder on Windows 8.1. Better displaying of files which are available online-only (they were hidden together with hidden and system files)
  • Language translations:
  • New language versions: Dutch, French, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Slovak. Note: Dutch and French versions are not completely translated
  • Existing language versions: English, Czech, German, Hungarian, Romanian, and Spanish
  • All language versions were changed to work well with any DPI user chooses (see Control Panel: Adjust font size). Many dialogs and their controls were enlarged to prevent clipping of contained texts
  • Other changes:
  • Command line parameters -L, -R, and -A can contain paths to archives which can be expanded up to 520 chars (long path in archive on long path). Whole command line limit is 4096 chars now
  • Network copy speed up
  • New asynchronous algorithm for copying files to/from network has failed because of unexpected way of reporting end-of-file on Novell Netware 6.5 drives. This problem was bypassed
  • User Menu: reading icons for menu items in separate thread, so it does not delay start of Altap Salamander even if icons are placed on network drives or encrypted drives. Until reading of icons is finished, User Menu contains just simple icons but you can use it as usual.
  • Hot paths are available in Altap Salamander jump list (Windows 7+ feature)
  • Copy dialog: if you have "Preserve owners and permissions" as default and start copying from FAT32 drive (e.g. USB flash disk), it is no longer trying to preserve owners and permissions (it is not supported of FAT32)
  • Copy/Move with checked "Overwrite older and skip other existing files without asking": speed up when used to copy/move from slow network disk (e.g. from virtual private network - VPN) to local disk
  • Copy/Move dialog new option: Ignore alternate data streams (ADS). Use this option to remove unwanted ADS from copied files/directories. Use this option also when you know copied/moved files and directories do not contain ADS and you are copying/moving from slow network disk (e.g. from virtual private network - VPN), it can speed up operation drastically, detection of ADS for all copied/moved files/directories is very slow
  • When Salamander is started "As Administrator", it displays "(Administrator)" in main window title just after version
  • Shift+F3: focused file name is selected in Windows Explorer window
  • If filename contains ':' (impossible on Windows, but possible on unix), Salamander reports error instead of working with ADS (Alternate Data Stream)
  • Fixed missing 'SystemDrive' environment variable that caused problems during starting various software (for example Visual Studio *.SLN) from Altap Salamander: http://forum.altap.cz/viewtopic.php?t=6929&p=26525
  • Windows 8: fixed broken command Open With invoked from the context menu.
  • Paths for left/right/active panel passed in command line parameters are expanded (environment variables), it is possible to use %APPDATA%, etc. http://forum.altap.cz/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6943
  • Completely revamped bug reporting system with minidump support and option to upload report to Altap server
  • Fixed disabled look of "owner draw" buttons
  • Flat progress bars look
  • Compare Directories: compare by content is faster (up to 100%) for large files (more than 5MB) on Vista+
  • Drive Information: it has displayed incorrect used space and free space for volumes with enabled disk quota
  • Using external packer/unpacker on path containing '$' failed due to erroneous expansion of initial directory for packer/unpacker
  • Find window: double click and Enter key open focused file or directory (not all selected ones as in Explorer). You can still use Open command from right click context menu to open all selected files if you need it
  • Fixed environment variables reload problem
  • Fixed wrong TortoiseSVN icon placement in Windows XP context menu
  • Fixed context menu icons on Windows 7 with DPI > 100%
  • Fixed several problems reported in previous version EAP versions
  • x64 Windows and x86 Salamander: Drag&Drop and Copy&Paste from archives or file systems (e.g. FTP) to Explorer is working again (we have added 64-bit shell extension)
  • Commands Paste (Change Directory) and Change Directory (Shift+F7) trim double quotes and expand environment variables
  • Create Directory: added removing of spaces from beginning and end of specified directory name
  • If viewer window is disabled, it does not accept any commands. It has fixed problem with ClipMate.
  • Automation plugin:
  • Fixed bug that caused Altap Salamander to crash when executing Python scripts.
  • Some blocking operations (Form, Sleep, MsgBox etc.) can now be aborted
  • Improved plugin stability when using Ruby scripting engine
  • Check Version plugin:
  • Plugin is not auto-unloaded when Save configuration on exit option is turned off and plugin configuration is changed. It is now possible to keep changed plugin settings
  • Added link with option to ignore specified module version
  • Checksum plugin:
  • Support for SHA-512 (from SHA-2 family, based on FIPS 180-2 standard)
  • File Comparator plugin:
  • If two compared files have the same bytes, File Comparator reports that they are identical. If it just cannot find any difference (all differences are ignored: encoding, white spaces, etc.), it reports only that files appear equal
  • Fixed displaying of long text lines with differences (over 4681 chars)
  • Fixed opening File Comparator with fcremote.exe while Salamander window was minimized
  • Small utility for starting File Comparator plugin from the command line
  • FTP Client plugin:
  • OpenSSL updated to version 1.0.1e
  • Fixed problem with WEDOS / vsftpd server. We are using more compatible SSLv23_client_method() now
  • Security: SSL 2.0 was disabled using OPENSSL_NO_SSL2
  • SSL session reuse is now supported. All data connections are using SSL session from control connection. Faster and more secure solution
  • Upload of empty file (zero bytes) over encrypted connection (SSL) has failed on some FTP servers because our client did not encrypt data-connection for empty files. We have fixed it to encrypt all data-connections.
  • Registry Editor plugin:
  • Registry Editor is using reg.exe instead of regedit.exe for Registry exports. The UAC escalation is not needed anymore
  • TAR plugin:
  • Don't touch OldGnuHeader if archive is not OldGnu format
  • UnRAR plugin:
  • Support for new RAR 5 format
  • WinSCP plugin:
  • Cherry pick from 5.2.2: Increase BUFFER_GRANULE, this leads to a nice performance improvement (e.g. 850KiB/s instead of 350KiB/s) at the expense of a little memory.
  • WinSCP: Upgrade to 4.4.0
  • Back-propagated some fixes from WinSCP 5.1.5 beta - 5.1.7 beta releases
  • Wrong set of transfer settings was available for uploads and downloads

New in Altap Salamander 3.0 Beta 4 (Nov 30, 2013)

  • New option in Unpack dialog: Delete archive after unpacking
  • Waiting up to half second for finishing of reading of icons for user menu, it often prevents collision with reading of icons for panels and Salamander is starting more smoothly. Moreover icons for user menu which are read on background have higher priority than icons for invisible parts of panels
  • Console version of WinRAR 5.0 supported
  • Command line parameters -L, -R, and -A can contain paths to archives which can be expanded up to 520 chars (long path in archive on long path). Whole command line limit is 4096 chars now
  • Fixed getting of location of Microsoft SkyDrive local folder on Windows 8.1. Better displaying of files which are available online-only (they were hidden together with hidden and system files)
  • Archivers Autoconfiguration dialog seems good also if some button is wider than others (e.g. in Hungarian or German language version)
  • Changing directory in panel to Sharepoint 2010 server share (UNC path) just reports error ERROR_BAD_NET_NAME (67). This UNC path was accessible only after opening in Explorer. Fixed, opening in Explorer is not needed
  • Jump list didn't work with hot paths containing variables such as $[USERPROFILE]\Desktop, $(SalDir), etc
  • Fixed rare error in reading of icons for panels (icons on network paths could not be always updated)
  • Fixed working on long paths (up to 260 chars) in archives placed on long paths (up to 260 chars) on disk. It works in hotpaths, jumplist, target of copy/move, Compare Directories, title of main window, and copying of path to clipboard
  • Fixed scrolling with some Synaptics touchpads
  • Checksum plugin:
  • Support for SHA-512 (from SHA-2 family, based on FIPS 180-2 standard)
  • Hot keys Ctrl+C, Ctrl+M, Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, and Ctrl+5 to copy CRC, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, and SHA-512 hash to the Clipboard
  • Fixed SHA hash names: SHA1 -> SHA-1, SHA256 -> SHA-256, etc
  • File Comparator plugin:
  • If two compared files have the same bytes, File Comparator reports that they are identical. If it just cannot find any difference (all differences are ignored: encoding, white spaces, etc.), it reports only that files appear equal

New in Altap Salamander 3.0 Beta 3 (Nov 30, 2013)

  • Copy files on Windows 7 and later: we have added faster asynchronous algorithm for copying files to/from network. Its speed on our local GLAN network is 111 MB/s, conventional algorithm speed is 86 MB/s. It affects also moving of files in case you are not moving in scope of one volume (then it is just rename, not copy and delete). Asynchronous copy algorithm is also optimized for network drives accessible via VPN (Virtual Private Network). It uses smaller blocks (size depends on current copy speed), so progress is smoother and you can cancel operation instantly. If you experience any troubles with this algorithm, let us know and then you can disable it, see Configuration / General: Copy files: use faster asynchronous algorithm on network.
  • Copy files: when copy operation is interrupted (e.g. network is disconnected or you eject flash disk during copying), Salamander offers to retry copying (it continues where copy operation was interrupted, it's especially useful for long transfers via VPN or other network). Newly Salamander checks end of unfinished target file against source file to detect potential write errors, so retrying copy operation is much safer now. It checks for approx. 3 seconds (e.g. it's up to 90MB on my flash disk or up to 300MB on my network disk or up to 2MB on my VPN).
  • User Menu: reading icons for menu items in separate thread, so it does not delay start of Altap Salamander even if icons are placed on network drives or encrypted drives. Until reading of icons is finished, User Menu contains just simple icons but you can use it as usual. See http://forum.altap.cz/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=6753
  • Support for progress bars in Windows 7 and 8 taskbar buttons.
  • Change Drive Menu and Drive Bar newly contain items for most popular Cloud Storage Services. Currently we have supported Google Drive, Dropbox, and Microsoft SkyDrive.
  • Hot paths are available in Altap Salamander jump list (Windows 7+ feature).
  • Copy dialog: if you have "Preserve owners and permissions" as default and start copying from FAT32 drive (e.g. USB flash disk), it is no longer trying to preserve owners and permissions (it is not supported of FAT32).
  • If filename contains ':' (impossible on Windows, but possible on unix), Salamander reports error instead of working with ADS (Alternate Data Stream).
  • Fixed missing 'SystemDrive' environment variable that caused problems during starting various software (for example Visual Studio *.SLN) from Altap Salamander: http://forum.altap.cz/viewtopic.php?t=6929&p=26525
  • Windows 8: fixed broken command Open With invoked from the context menu. http://forum.altap.cz/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=6730 and http://forum.altap.cz/viewtopic.php?t=6782
  • Paths for left/right/active panel passed in command line parameters are expanded (environment variables), it is possible to use %APPDATA%, etc. http://forum.altap.cz/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6943
  • Fixed disabled look of "owner draw" buttons.
  • Flat progress bars look.
  • Compare Directories: compare by content is faster (up to 100%) for large files (more than 5MB) on Vista+.
  • Drive Information: it has displayed incorrect used space and free space for volumes with enabled disk quota.
  • Copy/Move: when it finds link (junction point, symlink, or volume mount point) you can choose if you want to follow the link and copy files and directories from link target or if you want to skip link target and just create empty directory.
  • Support for Windows 8.1.
  • Chinese Simplified translation is finished, including Altap Self-Extractor.
  • Upgrade to Altap Salamander 3.0 will be free of charge for all licenses purchased from 1/1/2012.
  • Final version of Altap Salamander 3.0 will be offered with discount to existing users.
  • Automation plugin:
  • Fixed bug that caused Altap Salamander to crash when executing Python scripts. See http://forum.altap.cz/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6934
  • Some blocking operations (Form, Sleep, MsgBox etc.) can now be aborted
  • Improved plugin stability when using Ruby scripting engine
  • File Comparator plugin:
  • Fixed displaying of long text lines with differences (over 4681 chars).
  • FTP Client plugin:
  • Upload of empty file (zero bytes) over encrypted connection (SSL) has failed on some FTP servers because our client did not encrypt data-connection for empty files. We have fixed it to encrypt all data-connections. See http://forum.altap.cz/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6931
  • UnRAR plugin:
  • Support for new RAR 5 format.
  • WinSCP plugin:
  • Wrong set of transfer settings was available for uploads and downloads http://forum.altap.cz/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6723 and http://forum.altap.cz/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6928
  • Back-propagated some fixes from WinSCP 5.1.5 beta - 5.1.7 beta releases: http://winscp.net/eng/docs/salamander_history#1.6.9

New in Altap Salamander 3.0 Beta 2 (Aug 6, 2013)

  • Google Drive icon overlay handler crashed when called from two threads simultaneously (for left and right panel), so we have added synchronization. We use this handler only for files/folders located in Google Drive folder (it is relatively slow).
  • All language versions were changed to work well with any DPI user chooses (see Control Panel: Adjust font size). Many dialogs and their controls were enlarged to prevent clipping of contained texts.
  • Copy/Move with checked "Overwrite older and skip other existing files without asking": speed up when used to copy/move from slow network disk (e.g. from virtual private network - VPN) to local disk.
  • Copy/Move dialog new option: Ignore alternate data streams (ADS). Use this option to remove unwanted ADS from copied files/directories. Use this option also when you know copied/moved files and directories do not contain ADS and you are copying/moving from slow network disk (e.g. from virtual private network - VPN), it can speed up operation drastically, detection of ADS for all copied/moved files/directories is very slow.
  • Using external packer/unpacker on path containing '$' failed due to erroneous expansion of initial directory for packer/unpacker.
  • Find window: double click and Enter key open focused file or directory (not all selected ones as in Explorer). You can still use Open command from right click context menu to open all selected files if you need it.
  • Fixed environment variables reload problem: http://forum.altap.cz/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6188
  • Fixed wrong TortoiseSVN icon placement in Windows XP context menu: http://forum.altap.cz/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5627
  • Fixed context menu icons on Windows 7 with DPI > 100%.
  • Dutch language version (incomplete - work in progress).
  • Upgrade to Altap Salamander 3.0 will be free of charge for all licenses purchased from 1/1/2012.
  • Final version of Altap Salamander 3.0 will be offered with discount to existing users.
  • File Comparator plugin:
  • Fixed opening File Comparator with fcremote.exe while Salamander window was minimized.
  • Check Version plugin:
  • Plugin is not auto-unloaded when Save configuration on exit option is turned off and plugin configuration is changed. It is now possible to keep changed plugin settings.
  • Added link with option to ignore specified module version.
  • FTP Client plugin:
  • OpenSSL updated to version 1.0.1e.
  • Fixed problem with WEDOS / vsftpd server, see http://forum.altap.cz/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6667. We are using more compatible SSLv23_client_method() now.
  • Security: SSL 2.0 was disabled using OPENSSL_NO_SSL2.
  • SSL session reuse is now supported. All data connections are using SSL session from control connection. Faster and more secure solution, see http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.cz/2008/02/your-ftp-ssl-solution-is-really-secure.html
  • WinSCP plugin:
  • Upgrade to 4.4.0 http://winscp.net/eng/docs/salamander_history?rev=1359333969&rev2=1336860797&do=diff

New in Altap Salamander 2.54 (Sep 3, 2010)

  • Altap Salamander comes with 'Compatible with Windows 7' certification.
  • Included translations: English, Czech, German, Spanish, Hungarian, and Romanian.
  • Internal Viewer, HEX mode: tooltip with offset in file was not displayed for bottom lines.
  • User Menu command with $(FullPath) init dir, executed on long path with long file name (when FullPath exceeds MAX_PATH) caused stack overflow.
  • WinSCP: upgraded to WinSCP 4.2.8.
  • 7-Zip: Added missing ES_AUTOHSCROLL to Password edit field in "Enter 7-Zip password" dialog.
  • Eroiica: Added missing ES_AUTOHSCROLL to Password edit field in "Document password" dialog.
  • FTP Client: Added parser for listings from Xbox 360 FTP
  • CheckVer: New installation of Salamander (not upgrade): CheckVer window is opened during first check for new version, if user receives personal firewall prompt if to allow access to internet, he or she can see that it's due to version checking.
  • PictView: Canon EOS 5D Mark II writes invalid Aperture values 0x80000000/1 which makes pow() throw floating-point exceptions.
  • UnLHA: Fixed timestamp extraction from headers level 2+: they use seconds since 1.1.1970 UTC and not MS DOS timestamps
  • UnLHA: Added support for MS DOS/Win extended header 0x41 containing 3 Windows timestamps in FILETIME format

New in Altap Salamander 2.53 (Aug 17, 2010)

  • Support for language translations. Standard package comes with English, Czech, and German translations.
  • Support for x64 pseudo-directories as C:\Windows\Sysnative or C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc.
  • Several improvements in Compare Directories command (ignore DST shift, ignore masks).
  • Copy/Move dialog box: option to save default options.
  • Find: new option Full Row Select.
  • Support for accelerated mouse wheel scrolling (Altap Salamander panels, menu, viewers).
  • Plugins Manager: alphabetically sorted plugins.
  • Edit New File (Shift+F4): option to change default name.
  • Support for longer commands in command line (up to 8KB).
  • Option Use fast directory move on Novell Netware.
  • Improved Altap Salamander SDK version (trace server autostart, new samples).
  • Early Access Program has started on our support forum.
  • NEW PLUGIN: Automation - automate common tasks using JScript or VBScript.
  • 7Zip: updated to 9.10 beta. New LZMA2 method. Several improvements.
  • Check Version: better presentation of results.
  • File Comparator: up to 7x faster when comparing binary files on the same disk.
  • Network plugin: better Remote Desktop (Terminal Services) support.
  • PictView: new option "Remember path when saving screenshots, scans, clipboard pastes".
  • Registry Editor: Shift+F3 opens regedit.exe with current registry key displayed.
  • UnISO: support for compressed ISZ images, support for BZIP2-compressed DMG packages.
  • UnRAR: support for multi-part archives named .001, .002, 003, etc.

New in Altap Salamander 2.53 Beta 2 (May 22, 2010)

  • Completed support for language localizations. For now intaller package contains English, Czech, and German language packs. Translation into other languages is possible using Altap Translator, free utility availabe on Altap Salamander Support Forum.
  • We would like to thank all of you who worked hard on German and Czech translations, particularly to Thomas Kelso (Thomas), Dirk Bornhütter (Nighthawk), Thomas Pagels (Silbereis), Thomas Wölk (Beta), and Gtein.
  • FAT32 file size limit was wrong: 4GB minus 2 bytes instead of 4GB minus 1 byte.
  • Preserving dates and times of directories when moving directories in scope of one drive was not working on some network drives (e.g. Samba on Linux).
  • Drag&drop in panel with WinSCP connection (copy or move files/directories in scope of one server) had wrong default drop effect: Copy instead of Move.
  • Thumbnails in panel were sometimes not displayed until manual Refresh (Ctrl+R) when Salamander was started in Thumbnails view mode, when changing thumbnail size with Ctrl+mouse wheel, or after switching view mode in panel from Tiles (Alt+6) to Thumbnails (Alt+5).
  • Copy&Paste, Drag&Drop, Copy (F5), Delete (F8), and Calculate Occupied Space (Alt+F10) in archive opened in panel: when some files from archive were changed, archive update is offered before using these commands (in previous versions commands worked directly with archive, changed files were ignored).
  • When one archive was opened in both panels, some file was changed, and then archive was closed without updating, View command in second panel still showed changed version of the file (file was not unpacked from archive again after aborted archive update).
  • Changing directory in panel using command line paratemers -L, -R, and -A failed when user provides path to a file. Newly this file is focused in panel as expected.
  • Altap Translator:
  • Freely availabe utility for translation Altap Salamander into other languages.
  • Dialog box layout editor.
  • Translation syntax validator.
  • Translation layout validator.
  • Export texts for spell checker.
  • Export and import translations to UTF-8 texts files for easy synchronization during cooperation on translation.
  • Quick start of Altap Salamander as translation preview.
  • Support for command line batch operations.
  • And much more, see Altap Salamander Support Forum.
  • Installer:
  • Added support for multilanguage resources (now: English, Czech, and German).
  • Automation Plugin:
  • Completed help on Forms.
  • Fixed double-free BSTR bug (manifests only in release builds).
  • Fixed memory leaks.
  • Displaying "Run Focused Script" in Script Popup Menu.
  • Empty ActiveRuby script crashing Salamander bug fixed.
  • Zip2Sfx:
  • Zip2Sfx was placed into ZIP plugin directory and is no longer distributed as a standalone application. Zip2Sfx is command line tool for converting ZIP archives to self-extracting archives (using Altap Self-Extractor).
  • 7-Zip plugin:
  • When moving archive file to itself or packing archive file to itself with selected "deleting files from disk after packing", the archive file was deleted after packing.
  • Updating solid archives is now supported - don't give confusing error
  • Out of memory mbox was shown in the wrong thread
  • Prevent crash when packing fails for an unknown reason
  • Don't say "archive was not created" when actually updating existing one
  • Updated to 7za version 9.12 Beta from 2010.03.24:
  • 1) PPMD coder rewritten to C, supposed to be faster
  • 2) Fixed LZMA2 compression with more than 10 threads (we are not using it yet)
  • Updated to 7za version 9.13 Beta from 2010.04.15
  • WinSCP plugin 1.6.4
  • PictView plugin:
  • Fixed reading some interlaced PNG's, bug introduced in 1.57.4 from 1.12.2009
  • Added reading invalid TIF's without IFD pointer
  • Thumbnails can be extracted from more variants of Olympus raw files ORF
  • FTP:
  • Messagebox with plain FTP password (Ctrl+right click in Password editbox) allows to copy the password to clipboard for easier work with the password.
  • Change in IBM AS/400 listing parsers: first row with empty file name is ignored.
  • ZIP plugin:
  • WinZIP-like AES v2 (seems to be created by TC) doesn't store/use CRC. It is properly detected and CRC is not checked.
  • We have changed the condition when names stored in ZIP are converted from OEM to ANSI
  • DiskMap plugin:
  • Fix for white screen on Windows 7 with Aero enabled when DiskMap window is restored.
  • Removed flickering on initial file enumeration.
  • Removed flickering of Directory Line during DiskMap window resize.
  • File Comparator:
  • Very long text lines (e.g. 200800 characters) were not displayed properly.
  • Eroiica:
  • Added support for CDR14+ thumbnails (which is in fact a ZIP).

New in Altap Salamander 2.53 Beta 1 (Mar 5, 2010)

  • Early Access Program has started on our official support forum. The Early Access Program (EAP) gives you the opportunity to download and install the latest development release to test new features and bug fixes even before beta version release.
  • Support for displaying x64 pseudo-directories C:\Windows\Sysnative, C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc, C:\Windows\System32\catroot, C:\Windows\System32\catroot2, C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore (only Windows 7), C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles, and C:\Windows\System32\spool. They are displayed with link icon overlay to express they are not real directories.
  • Added "Compare Directories: ignore time differences of exactly one or two hours" and changed "Time resolution of file compare (used in Compare Directories)" to "Compare Directories: ignore time differences up to". When Compare Directories detects pair of files with time difference of exactly one or two hours, it informs you that you can change settings to ignore it (to bypass DST related file time shifts). And when it should be ignored, it is, but it shows a note about how many pairs of files has this time difference.
  • Compare Directories: the initial dialog box has simplified and advanced section. Use the More button to reveal or hide the advanced section.
  • Compare Directories: new option "Select subdirectories contained only in one panel".
  • Compare Directories: new options "Ignore files" and "Ignore directories". Handy for example for ignoring SVN or CVS directories while comparing source code repositories.
  • Copy/Move dialog box: it is possible to save current options as defaults for further use. See the drop-down menu on Options button.
  • Find Files and Directories: new option Full Row Select in Options menu.
  • Support for accelerated mouse wheel scolling (scroll farther as you roll the wheel faster) introduced by MS IntelliPoint drivers. Supported in panels vertical scroll, horizontal scroll using Shift+Wheel, menu scroll, thumbnails resize using Ctrl+Wheel, viewer, etc. High resolution mouses are supported now.
  • Plugins Manager, plugins in menu: plugins are sorted alphabetically (default ON). It is possible to order plugins list manually in Plugins > Plugins Manager window.
  • When Ext column is separated, names with only one dot which is at the beginning (e.g. ".htaccess" or ".cvsignore") are displayed in Name column (they should be in Ext column but more users want them in Name column).
  • Option "Select whole name (including extension) when entering new filename" changed to "Select also filename extension in Quick Rename and Pack commands".
  • New option "Select also filename extension in Edit New File command", default on.
  • Shift+F4 (Edit New File) has new button with commands to save/revert default filename.
  • Support for longer commands in command line: approx. 4KB in W2K and 8KB in XP/Vista/Win7. See help for limits overview.
  • Support for longer User Menu commands: approx. 4KB in W2K and 8KB in XP/Vista/Win7 when executing through shell (cmd.exe) and approx. 2KB in W2K/XP/Vista and 32KB in Win7 when executing directly. See help for limits overview.
  • Import configuration from file to registry and export configuration from registry to file are handled by our own routines (thanks to Jan Patera's RegLib library). It solves problem with escalation required by formerly used regedit.exe on Vista and Windows 7. Moreover also user without admin rights can import/export configuration now.
  • Exported configuration file can newly contain also clearing of the registry key with configuration. It avoids unwanted merge of current configuration in registry and configuration from file.
  • Vista or later: configuration is exported to application data directory (typically C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Altap\Altap Salamander) instead of installation directory (because it is probably in C:\Program Files which is read-only). Default configuration file (config.reg) is also searched in application data directory (if it is not found in installation directory). Relative file name in -C command line parameter is searched in the same way.
  • Added warning when importing configuration from file which does not contain configuration for current version of Salamander.
  • Help/Task List: it is possible to terminate the current process too.
  • Added option "Use fast directory move on Novell Netware": turn ON when renaming directories in scope of one Novel Netware drive is working, it is much faster than moving all contained files and creating all necessary directories.
  • Smaller Registry footprint: colors are stored as DWORD instead of string (saving 20 bytes per item)
  • Smaller Registry footprint: Viewers configurations: Arguments/Command/Initial Directory values are not stored when values are default empty string.
  • Options > Configuration > Appearance > Highlight focused row option: default changed to ON.
  • Files > Security > Owner command was removed (doesn't work from Windows Vista). Files > Security submenu was removed. Files > Security > Permissions command is now Files > Security.
  • Find Files and Directoris: it is possible to use Focus command when multiple items are selected.
  • Plugins Manager remembers last selected plugin during one Salamander session.
  • Drive Information (Ctrl+F1) dialog box layout prepared for Exabytes.
  • Plugins Manager window: better columns width calculation. Plugins with too long names will not scatter table anymore.
  • SDK version of Salamander (Preview Builds and SDK builds) contains trace messages. Added Autostart Altap Trace Server and Log Trace Messages to File items to window menu (click on icon in upper left corner of main window). On the first start of SDK version of Salamander, it displays question if you want to start Altap Trace Server automatically.
  • Find: width of the Size column updated for current (2010) file sizes. Size up to 1TB will displayed without clipping.
  • Copy/Move operations to archives and plugin file systems: warning "Options will be ignored" could be suppressed. Option could be also set in Options > Configuration > Confirmations > Show message.
  • Altap Salamander requirements: Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Windows 7. Both x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) Windows versions are supported. Windows 9x, ME, and Windows NT 4.0 are no longer supported and tested with Altap Salamander.
  • Installer/uninstaller:
  • Unified Altap Salamander installer containing all plugins. There is no more Full and Standard version.
  • Vista or later: added support for starting installed Salamander and opening readme file from installer.
  • Vista or later: added support for installation from not administrator accounts (placing shortcuts to current user's folders instead of administrator's).
  • Installing program shortcut to folder Programs under Start Menu instead of directly to Start Menu (recommended by MS).
  • Shortcut for uninstalling Salamander is not installed into Start Menu any longer (recommended by MS). To uninstall Salamander go to Control Panel (XP: Add or Remove Programs, Vista/Win7: Uninstall a program).
  • Vista or later: if user wants to install program shortcut to desktop, he must select this option manually (recommended by MS). It is still not necessary under older Windows (it is selected by default).
  • Quick Launch is no longer supported in Windows 7. So we are not offering placing program shortcut to Quick Launch in Windows 7.
  • Removed option to install shortcuts to Start Menu Group (it is not recommended by MS - single program shortcut is enough).
  • Warning is displayed when installing Beta or Preview Build version (it is not for use in production environments; it is only for testing and time limited).
  • Silent (unattended) installation mode supports upgrading from older versions and reinstallation of the same version (repairing). If newer version is found, installation is skipped.
  • NEW PLUGIN: Automation
  • With the Automation plugin you can automate common tasks using scripts written in any language supported by the Windows Script Host. Windows comes with JScript and VBScript engines preinstalled, however 3rd party scripting engines are available for languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and others.
  • Automation plugin comes with comprehensive documentation (see Help > Contents > Plugins > Automation) and sample scripts (see plugins\automation\scripts).
  • Do you like contests? Look at Automation Script Contest for 3 free lifetime licenses of Altap Salamander.
  • 7-Zip plugin:
  • Updated to 9.10 Beta. New method LZMA2, deleting files from solid archives
  • All read and write errors no longer cause hard failure but have a dialog with Retry & Abort buttons.
  • Custom column "Packed Size" renamed to "Packed".
  • Custom columns are now empty for folders, they used to be "DIR".
  • Don't ask for the same password of a single archive multiple times.
  • Extracting archive: when all needed files are extracted, extraction is aborted (preventing useless extraction only to memory).
  • Check Version:
  • Better presentation of results: versions details are not shown until you click on "show details", text is not scrolled, refreshing when configuration changes.
  • You can filter out also Release versions and also only one version of module (not all versions of module).
  • Preview Build (PB) version of CheckVer plugin defaultly checks for new PB versions. It can be turned off manually in CheckVer configuration.
  • Database Viewer:
  • Support for accelerated mouse wheel scolling (scroll farther as you roll the wheel faster) introduced by MS IntelliPoint drivers. High resolution mouses are supported now.
  • It is possible to find longer texts (limit is 200 chars instead of 100 chars).
  • Better (Unicode-friendly) way of handling FindDialog.Text.
  • Tab as a potential field separator now has the same priority as ".:;," and higher than all the other characters.
  • File Comparator:
  • Support for accelerated mouse wheel scolling (scroll farther as you roll the wheel faster) introduced by MS IntelliPoint drivers. High resolution mouses are supported now.
  • Binary compare: found differences are added one by one to Differences combo box and File Comparator window is not blocked. So you can focus differences before comparison is finished. Moreover plugin shows comparison progress in title bar.
  • Binary compare uses buffered files when scanning for differences, instead of memory mapped files. It is up to 7x faster when comparing two files from the same disk.
  • Added Recompare to toolbar.
  • Multimedia Viewer:
  • UTF8 support in WMA.
  • Network plugin:
  • Remote Desktop Connection (Microsoft Terminal Service Client): added support for showing drives of local computer in Local Computer folder when you are connected to remote computer.
  • Windows XP Mode on Windows 7: added support for showing drives of host computer (Windows 7) in Host Computer folder when you are connected to virtualized Windows XP.
  • PictView plugin:
  • Added option "Remember path when saving screenshots, scans, clipboard pastes".
  • Portable Executable Viewer:
  • Added showing real file offsets to resource data.
  • Registry Editor:
  • Shift+F3 opens regedit.exe with current registry key displayed.
  • UnISO plugin:
  • Added support for compressed ISO images of type ISZ. Only non-segmented non-encrypted images are supported.
  • Added support for BZIP2-compressed DMG packages.
  • UnRAR plugin:
  • Added custom column "Packed".
  • Added support for multi-part archives with naming .001, .002, 003, etc.
  • WinSCP plugin:
  • For changes see http://winscp.net/eng/docs/salamander_history#1.6.3
  • ZIP plugin:
  • Added custom column "Packed".
  • Supports unpacking to alternative filename when opening file for viewer.
  • Illegal chars in file and folder names inside archive replaced with underscore.
  • File and folder names in UTF8 inside archive are detected and converted to local encoding.
  • Fixed rare problem with corrupted archives created by AS 2.52. For fix please see http://forum.altap.cz/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3811

New in Altap Salamander 2.52 Final (Sep 2, 2009)

  • New Password Manager with option to protect your passwords with Master Password.
  • Up to 7x faster Compare Directories (by content) command for files on the same disk.
  • Backward compatibility for 2.5 and 2.51 plugins.
  • Panel contents are refreshed even if Salamander's window is not active.
  • Better handling of encrypted files (EFS) and files with alternate data stream (ADS).
  • Fixes and improvements related to Fast User Switching and Terminal Services (Remote Desktop).
  • Better support for mouse wheel (wheel tilting, new shortcuts).
  • New command line parameters.
  • New plugin for browsing network (network neighborhood) directly in panel.
  • New DiskMap plugin: used disk space analyzer and visualizer.
  • New UnCHM plugin: extractor of Microsoft Compiled HTML Help archives.
  • FTP plugin: option to encrypt passwords with AES-256 (uses new Password Manager).
  • FTP plugin: Support for TLS FTP (also known as FTPS or FTPES with AUTH TLS).
  • FTP plugin: Support for ZLIB compression (MODE Z).
  • UnISO plugin: Added support for Apple Hierachical File System Plus (HFS+).
  • TAR plugin: Added support for Debian packages .DEB.
  • File Comparator can compare Unicode files now.
  • 7-Zip plugin: updated to 7z 4.65.
  • ZIP plugin can create files with size over 4GB.
  • WinSCP plugin updated to latest WinSCP version.
  • Checksum plugin: SHA1 and SHA256 hashes are supported.
  • PictView supports autorotation when viewing JPEGs or digital camera RAW files with EXIF.

New in Altap Salamander 2.52 Beta 2 / 2.51 (Aug 22, 2009)

  • Altap Salamander core changes:
  • New Password Manager with option to protect your passwords with Master Password. If you are concerned about unauthorized use of your computer (by malware or person), use the Master Password to store your passwords encrypted using AES-256 algorithm. In such case you will have to enter the Master Password once each Altap Salamander session need to access your saved passwords. Right now only FTP Client is using Password Manager, but we will also update the WinSCP plugin.
  • Windows XP and Vista: changed Numerical sorting option to be compatible with Windows Explorer when file name extensions are displayed.
  • Compare Directories: comparing of files by Content is up to 7x faster for files on the same disk (even on different partitions).
  • Altap Salamander 2.52 is now backward compatible with plugins for versions 2.5 and 2.51.
  • Horizontal mouse wheel events detected on Windows XP and 2000. Microsoft Intellipoint drivers must be installed.
  • Old hack removed: the dot in the beginning of the file name means the extension separator now. For example file ".txt" has the text file icon. Directories has no extension, the part behind the dot is just another part of the directory name.
  • Better error handling while reading icons from network drives prevents Salamander from infinite panel refreshing caused by unreadable icon.
  • Fixed calculation of extension column (optional) width when Show names option was switched to In upper case.
  • Better low memory handling, Abort/Retry/Ignore message box is displayed. It is possible to click the Ignore button to pass NULL into application.
  • Fixed problem with accessing admin shares on computers with underscore in the name as "\comp_ac$".
  • Improved external archivers calling. Packing or Unpacking using external archiver no longer block another instances of Salamander.
  • Fixed drag and drop with no key modifier (Shift or Ctrl). When dragging from plugin file system to Windows Explorer window (to disk where the TEMP directory is placed), the Move operation was performed instead of Copy.
  • Fixed drag and drop from Find window to Windows Explorer under Windows Vista. Moved items stayed in the Find window.
  • Improved files association reading in Windows Vista. Now reading also Registry keys UserChoice and OpenWithProgids.
  • Reverted recent change in order of items used in context menu operations. See forum.
  • Better horizontal scrolling in panels: the panel under cursor is scrolled instead of active panel.
  • Fixed progress bar painting. The font was not initialized properly.
  • Windows Vista: cancelling of the UAC elevation prompt caused lost of active panel focus.
  • Main thread priority is lowered while calling context menu methods so shell extensions doesn't run on higher priority.
  • Fixed support for ClearType in the Directory and Information bar.
  • Improved algorithm for choosing colors in Directory Line.
  • Fixed detecting of total memory for the Bug Report.
  • Altap Salamander SDK: new CSalamanderCryptAbstract interface (AES and SHA1 algorithm), new CSalamanderPNGAbstract for PNG reading from memory or PE resources. New CSalamanderZLIBAbstract (ZLIB library).
  • New DiskMap plugin:
  • Disk space analyzer that graphically shows disk space usage as set of nested rectangles.
  • You can easily identify which files and folders take up the most space.
  • Scan whole disk or user-specified directory branch.
  • Display context menu for selected file with option to focus file in Salamander panel.
  • Created by Ondrej Zarevucky, for screenshot see Altap Salamander forum.
  • New UnCHM plugin:
  • Extractor of Microsoft Compiled HTML Help archives (files with .CHM extension).
  • Use the Unpack command (Alt+F6) to extract .CHM archives until we will support Ctrl+PgDn to open non-associated archive in panel.
  • Several plugins patched:
  • All plugins now accepting the Always on Top option from Altap Salamander main window.
  • Horizontal scrolling supported using Shift+Mouse Wheel or mouse wheel tilt.
  • File Comparator plugin:
  • New option "Auto-Copy Selection to Clipboard".
  • It is possible to drag and drop file names into edit boxes in the Compare Files dialog box.
  • Added support (by default ON) for converting Unicode text to Normalized Form C (i.e. composite characters converted to precomposed ones if such exist). Normaliz.dll, if present, is used for this. Normaliz.dll is part of Windows Vista, MSIE7, Windows Media Player 11 or just free download idndlpackage.exe.
  • Better UTF16 detection.
  • Fixed GPF when files become equal after re-compare with changed options.
  • Wrong bigEndian endianness was sometimes still used when comparing as UTF8 after UTF16BE or UTF32BE was used.
  • Fixed GPF (or random behavior) in the "Show Only Differences" mode when the only difference is in EOL at EOF of one of the files.
  • Attempt to correctly select & display selected combining diacritics on XP+. (W2K - don't seem to support combining diacritics.) A better approach for full support even when not selecting is needed, probably removal of dependence on fixed-width font should made at the same time.
  • User defined encoding has higher priority than BOM, UTF16, and UTF8 detection.
  • The File Comparator window has the same size and position od Salamander's main window, including the maximized state.
  • FTP plugin:
  • New Password Manager used to store passwords in Windows Registry. Option to use Master Password and strong AES-256 encryption.
  • Support for TLS FTP (also known as FTPS or FTPES with AUTH TLS). Needs libraries libssl32.dll and libeay32.dll from OpenSSL.org. There are two new options in Connect to FTP Server > Advanced: "Encrypt control connection with TLS/SSL" and "Encrypt data connections (file transfers and directory listings) with TLS/SSL".
  • Support for ZLIB compression (MODE Z). New option in Configuration > Defaults and Connect to FTP Server > Advanced: "Compress data transfers if server supports compression (MODE Z)"
  • Ctrl+Right Click on edit line with password (Connect or Proxy dialog box) would reveal the password.
  • Listing cache and cache of viewed file are deleted when you close all FTP connections to the server.
  • 7-ZIP plugin:
  • Updated to 7z 4.65 of 02/03/2009
  • Better encrypted archives handling.
  • Improved error handling while extracting or testing corrupted archives.
  • TAR plugin:
  • Added support for Debian packages .DEB
  • GZIP: files longer than 4GB before compression complained about premature EOF.
  • GZIP: if original file name contains ':', it is replaced with '_'.
  • Encrypt & Decrypt plugin:
  • Fixed random deadlock while closing window Create a Key.
  • Eroiica plugin:
  • Added support for Microsoft Print System Documents *.XPS (actually a ZIP file w/ a bunch of XML, JPG thumbnails and PNG rasters).
  • Added new items in the File menu: Focus, Select/Unselect, Delete.
  • Added new toolbar item: Select/Unselect.
  • Fixed memory leak on every ZIP-based document (OpenOffice, MS Office 2k7, XPS).
  • Thumbnail extraction from ZIP-based document was too much memory-hungry.
  • Renamer plugin:
  • Configuration: command can contain variables as $(SalDir) or environment variables for better Salamander portability.
  • Added stripping of diacritics
  • Registry Editor plugin:
  • Configuration: command can contain variables as $(SalDir) or environment variables for better Salamander portability.
  • UnISO plugin:
  • Added support for Apple Hierachical File System Plus (HFS+): Hybrid UDF/HFS+, ISO/HFS+, ISO/UDF/HFS+ CD/DVD images, Apple disk image with HFS+ partition, Apple disk image with HFS partition with HFS+ partition wrapped inside, and Single HFS+ partition image.
  • Better "normalization" of names (removed trailing spaces, etc.)
  • Symbolic links marked as links to have overlay icons.
  • Supported ADC compression.
  • DMG: Extract only HFS/HFS+ partition to avoid dealing with EFI File System.
  • DMG: Better detection of uncompressed DMG, was misinterpreted as non-DMG disk image
  • DMG: HFS+: Pure HFS partition with wrapped HFS+ properly detected.
  • DMG: AES128-encrypted and BZIP2-compressed DMG files properly detected and rejected.
  • Embedded BootDisk images no longer have .img suffix but .ima, because our UnFAT plugin uses .ima and not .img (which is associated to UnISO).
  • Fixed detection of Joliet extension
  • PictView plugin:
  • Digital camera raw images now also get auto-rotated in the viewer (the change affects at least some DNG, CR2, NEF and ORF files).
  • Network plugin:
  • New options in plugin configuration: "Show administrative shares", "Show items from My Network Places at top level directory", "Show network computers at top level directory", "Scan network on start of Salamander".
  • Fixed network computers enumeration, all computers are visible.
  • DB Viewer plugin:
  • New menu File > Other Files.
  • Added UTF8 and UTF16 parsers.
  • Improved heuristics for detecting separator in CSV.
  • Multimedia Viewer plugin:
  • Fixed crash on W9X on UTF16 mp3 tags.
  • Fixed some mem leaks on UTF8 and UTF16 mp3 tags.
  • MP3, OGG: better support for UTF8 (MP3, OGG) and UTF16 (MP3).
  • UnMIME plugin:
  • Fixed extraction of filenames from .MHT created by MSIE7 or Win7 problem report creation tool.

New in Altap Salamander 2.52 Beta 1 (Jan 30, 2009)

  • Altap Salamander core changes:
  • Panel contents are refreshed even if Salamander's window is not active.
  • You can store user name and password when connecting to network share (only on Windows XP and Vista).
  • Smarter method for choosing color of hot text in the Directory line. Hot text should be better visible on Windows Vista.
  • When more items are selected in the panel and context menu is opened, the focused item is passed on the first position.
  • Windows Vista: correct icons are displayed (Drive bar, simple icons, archive icon, folder icons, Find window, etc.)
  • Updated and corrected terms: My Documents -> Documents, My Computer -> Computer, Network Neighborhood -> Network, Plugins bar -> Plugin bar, Drives bar -> Drive bar, Hot Paths bar -> Hot Path bar.
  • Better handling of "out of memory" states. The message box is displayed, asking user to free memory and press the Retry button or terminate Altap Salamander.
  • Better handling of error states while copying encrypted (EFS) files and directories. Copying without encryption is now offered instead of simple error and operation termination.
  • When files and directories with encrypted attribute (EFS) or with alternate data stream (ADS) are copied to disk that doesn't support EFS or ADS, user is informed about stripping of encrypted attribute or ADS.
  • Faster and more robust method for files overwriting (ADS are cleaned using opening files with CREATE_ALWAYS flag eventually using ADS enumeration instead of deleting destination file). Now we can overwrite files in directories where files deleting is denied.
  • The error message "Directory is not empty" could be displayed while deleting directory with subdirectory opened in another panel, another instance of Altap Salamander, or in Windows Explorer. Now we are trying to delete such directory multiple times before the error message is displayed so opened handles to subdirectories could be closed and directory is deleted without error.
  • The queue of Copy/Move operations contained also other operations (such as change of attributes) so "Wait until all other Copy/Move operations are finished" option was not working when e.g. Change Attributes operation was paused.
  • Tortoise SVN: notifications about icon-overlay changes are monitored (shell notification SHCNE_UPDATEITEM) and panels are updated accordingly. Works also in inactive Salamander.
  • On Windows XP (unlike other Windows) the name ie5_5.txt is sorted before ie5_.txt by Windows Explorer. Salamander is doing the same now.
  • Opening/running files from panel was changed to be compatible with Windows Explorer. Context menu is obtained with CMF_DEFAULTONLY flag and default item is used.
  • Change Drive menu: for substed network drive the substed path is displayed.
  • Context menu: IContextMenu3::HandleMenuMsg2() is now supported, so hot keys are working in owner draw menu (used for example by Tortoise SVN 1.5.x shell extension).
  • Directory line: Throbber (known from web browsers) displayed next to the current directory means background reading of panel content. For now used by new Network plugin, see below in the plugins section.
  • When panels split bar is dragged, panels are resized "on the fly". Old behavior is activated when Windows option "Show window contents while dragging" is disabled (for example in Remote Desktop client).
  • Drive bar: file system plugins are included (FTP, WinSCP, Network, etc).
  • Drive bar: icons of shared drives are displayed with shared overlays now.
  • You can resize Salamander's main window without flickering on Windows Vista now.
  • Windows colors profile change is better propagated to running Salamander's windows. Rebar control and toolbar colors are changed now.
  • System font changes are now handled properly by Salamander.
  • Fixed bug in Remote Desktop connecting to Windows XP. When larger files were copied to the clipboard on the remote machine, local Salamander could freeze for long time (until file was transfered from remote to local machine).
  • New command line parameters: -A (set path in active panel), -O (same behavior as with "Allow only one instance of Salamander at one time" with option turned on), -P (set active panel).
  • Command line parameters -O, -I, and -T will not change corresponding options in Altap Salamander configuration.
  • Shift+F4: "Select whole name" option is ignored now, whole text is always selected.
  • Improved support for Fast User Switching, Terminal Services (Remote Desktop), and running Salamander under different user using RunAs command.
  • Improved support for mouse wheel: horizontal scrolling by mouse wheel tilting is supported in panels and viewers. Officially supported from Windows Vista (WM_MOUSEHWHEEL message).
  • New mouse wheel shortcuts: Shift+MouseWheel for horizontal scroll of panel, Ctrl+MouseWheel: change thumbnail size (Thumbnails mode must be selected in the panel), Alt+MouseWheel: change current view mode of panel (Brief, Detailed, etc).
  • First patches for Windows 7 (beta build 7000).
  • Improved Help > Task List command, the process list is refreshed automatically. Selected item is not lost during refresh.
  • Fixed problem on Windows Vista where sometimes wrong window was activated when progress window of operation (Copy, Move, Delete, etc.) is active and operation finishes (its window is closed).
  • Another 50 minor bug fixes and improvements.
  • Network plugin:
  • New plugin for browsing network (network neighborhood) directly in panel.
  • Reading network is not blocking panel, so user is not forced to wait for the result. You will appreciate it especially when some error occurs (e.g. server was shutdown) and system timeout is annoyingly long.
  • Plugin remembers all visited paths, so if you visit them again, they are displayed in panel instantly (while reading current state of network on background).
  • While reading network, throbber (animation) is displayed in the Directory line.
  • Altap Salamander can open UNC paths in \server form now, try using Change Directory (Shift+F7) command. It is also possible to change path from root of UNC path (e.g. \serverc) to list of server's shares (e.g. \server).
  • 7-Zip plugin:
  • Plugin updated to 7-Zip version 4.62.
  • Improved speed.
  • Added support for 7z archives compressed with the BZIP2 method.
  • Added ARM/PPC/SPARC/X86/IA64 codecs into 7za.dll.
  • Added support for 7-Zip archives with encrypted file names.
  • Fixed Test Archive command.
  • File Comparator plugin:
  • Support for comparing Unicode files.
  • Option to divide panels horizontally.
  • Autodetection of SBCS is used only when "Encoding of text files" is "Automatic" or "ASCII-8, automatic input conversion".
  • In HEX/binary mode is possible to selected text and copy it into the Clipboard.
  • ZIP plugin:
  • Support for compression of file with size over 4GB.
  • Support for compression into ZIP files with size over 4GB.
  • Support for creating of multivolume archives with volume size over 4GB.
  • Support for comments (displaying and editing) on ZIP archives with size over 4GB or ZIP archives containing files over 4GB.
  • WinZIP 12.0 was not able to open our encrypted archives compressed with level 1, 2, 8, and 9.
  • Added encryption methods AES128 a AES256 for compression.
  • PictView plugin:
  • Added autorotation when viewing EXIF JPEGs (it makes viewing of portrait photos easier).
  • Support for capturing of non-rectangular windows.
  • The Shift-Select tool can select any rectangle with predefined aspect-ratio, not only square.
  • Added support of progressive RGB JPEGs with 1:1:1 subsampling.
  • Added reading of TIFFs with proprietary RLE compression of HMR.
  • Added detection of nonsense pseudo-thumbnails in EXIF JPEGs.
  • Transparency preserved when saving GIF as 32-bit PNG,RAS,TGA.
  • Updated Olympus EXIF makernote support.
  • "CMYK" or "LAB" shown in window title instead of 16777216 colors for CMYK/LAB images.
  • Added support for BLP textures used by Blizzard Entertainment in World of Warcraft.
  • Shift-mouse wheel scrolls horizontally.
  • Extended support for GPS tags and added support for Epson makernotes in EXIF JPEG's.
  • Support for horizontal scrolling when mouse wheel is tilted (new WM_MOUSEHWHEEL known from Windows Vista).
  • Added Tools Configuration dialog page.
  • "Pipette picks colors in hexadecimal" moved from Advanced to Tools Configuration.
  • Fixed crashes on scanning.
  • Eroiica Viewer plugin:
  • Various minor fixes when reading CGM drawings and XLS sheets created in OpenOffice.
  • Added support for JBIG2 compression in PDF documents.
  • Shift-mouse wheel scrolls horizontally.
  • Support for horizontal scrolling when mouse wheel is tilted (new WM_MOUSEHWHEEL known from Windows Vista).
  • UnISO plugin:
  • Fixed operations on files with size over 2GB.
  • Fixed reading of NRG images, including AudioCD.
  • Support for reading od track and album names from AudioCD images.
  • Fixed reading of MDF files with sub-channel data.
  • Improved reading of UDF images.
  • Support for UDF 2.50 and 2.60 (Extended File Entries and Metadata Partition).
  • Support for UDF Virtual Partitions.
  • Support for multi-session UDF 2.50 and 2.60.
  • WinSCP plugin:
  • See long change list for versions 1.6 and 1.6.1.
  • Checksum plugin:
  • The Calculate command was moved to background so Altap Salamander windows is not blocked anymore.
  • Support for SHA1 and SHA256 hashes.
  • Added plugin configuration where you can choose calculated hashes.
  • Database Viewer plugin:
  • It is possible to change size of the Fields window.
  • Shift-mouse wheel scrolls horizontally.
  • Support for horizontal scrolling when mouse wheel is tilted (new WM_MOUSEHWHEEL known from Windows Vista).
  • UnMIME plugin:
  • Added support for Content-Location: needed by web-archives.
  • Name from file Content-Disposition & Content-Location is not lost if Content-Type is presented.
  • TAR plugin:
  • Fixed extracting of gzipped archives: if original file name contains Unix path (e.g. /var/mailman/archives/private/grass5/2005-July.txt), only the real file name part is taken. The file would be unextractable otherwise.
  • UnFAT plugin:
  • Fixed reading of volume labels.
  • Renamer plugin:
  • Ctrl+A (select all) shortcut is supported, even on older Windows.
  • Multimedia Viewer plugin:
  • Fixed reading of Bitrate and Frequency for mpeg 2 and 2.5.

New in Altap Salamander 2.5 (Apr 28, 2007)

  • New option Options > Configuration > General > Select whole name in Quick Rename.
  • Ctrl A works in Command Line and edit fields.
  • Fixed (RC3) problem with wrong GUI font.
  • Fixed (RC3) problem with blinking icons.
  • Fixed (RC3) instability caused by overlay icons support (Tortoise SVN/CVS).
  • First version of Altap Salamander 2.5 SDK.

New in Altap Salamander 2.5 RC3 (Apr 16, 2007)

  • Help system is finished and available online.
  • We have changed name from Servant Salamander to Altap Salamander to make it easier to remember and pronounce. Upgrade from Servant Salamander 2.0 to Altap Salamander 2.5 will be free of charge.
  • Initial support for Windows Vista. You can install, uninstall, and run Altap Salamander, import registration keys. Please report us all Vista related problems on discussion forum.
  • Support for Icons Overlays (Tortoise SVN and Tortoise CVS).
  • Transfer speed and time estimation is displayed in Copy/Move progress windows.
  • ransfer speed can be limited for Copy and Move operations.
  • Running operations can be queued using new option "Wait Until All Other Copy/Move Operations are Finished".
  • Salamander icon color (and main window title) can be changed using new configuration page Main Window or from command line.
  • Quick Rename: only name part (without extension) is selected.
  • We fixed almost 25 bugs and made another 10 improvements in the Altap Salamander core.

New in Altap Salamander 2.5 RC2 (Beta) (Mar 5, 2007)

  • Salamander behaviour during system shutdown/log off/restart was completely reworked. The problematic confirmation message box inroduced in RC1 was removed and system waits for us.
  • Shell extension salshext.dll is not placed to TEMP directory anymore. Home directory of Salamander is used instead.
  • Internal Viewer: Space/Backspace for Next/Previous file (same as in PictView plugin).
  • Better reparse points support: when you delete reparse point (junction point or mount point) only link is deleted, the target directory remains untouched.
  • Panel context menu (right-click unused space in panel): Paste Shortcut and shell extension commands (Tortoise CVS/SVN) are now displayed.
  • New User Menu variables: FileOrDirToCompareLeft & FileOrDirToCompareRight, FileOrDirToCompareActive & FileOrDirToCompareInactive, ListOfSelectedFullNames.
  • Splash Screen can be turned off: Options > Appearance > Show splash screen at startup.
  • Drive Bar content is synchronized during Refresh and Open Change Drive commands.
  • Easier Quick Search on German keyboards: you can use < key (and / and ) to match any string of characters.
  • PictView: Added support for Sony, Canon, Adobe Digital Negative, Pentax Digital, Camera images ARW, CR2, DNG, and PEF
  • Eroiica Viewer plugin: Added support for Apple Mac charsets in RTF & MS Word documents