Filetopia Changelog
What's new in Filetopia 877
Nov 9, 2020- Exe launchers fixed to allow work with many rooms, large lists faster without memory errors or lockups
- Small detail corrected in Zig Zag Negative chat theme
- Fix in auto-update, will need full update this time.
- Update Java to 8u202
- Chat: (Gum) Activate PKI protocol for Secure chats
- Chat events (Gum): Anchors (Bookmarks) added for chat events like sound alerts, nick mentions etc
- Chat: (Jennah) ability to avoid images in chat
- Chat: (Gum) Ask for password if clicking a link and room is passworded
- Chat (G-Z): Automatic resize posted images so they dont take up whole screen
- Chat (Gum) : notifications mentioned in current or all channels as plain text to catch your attension (were your attension is currently focused)
- Chat: Add new emoticon on a floating window appears on the main window
- Chat (Gum): /away away text - sets away but only sets the away text for the contacts side bar it seems not in the rooms
- Chat (Gum): Slider in actions menu sometimes appears repeated
- Chat (Gum): chat color in editor appears white, but it shows as black in room
- Chat: some custom emoticons are not sent alone, but work with something else
- Chat: Post delete button gets too close to the border in this version
- Chat: Add new emoticon on a floating window appears on the main window
- Chat (Gum): New Zig Zag and Zig Zag negative chat theme and presets
- Chat: Improve whisper lines
- Lists: new lists if selected calculate checksum and place along files but not static, the list will not work
- Lists: created a dynamic list, im unable to open it
- Lists: File type filter improve category asignment
- Files (SD): Ping-pong connections causing CPU issues
- Files (Gumboot): Tiny files do not reflect in transfers status button.
- Files (SD): User requesting a connection every few secs causes a memory overflow
- Files: CM is not able to reuse a passive connection that is working
- Files (Gum): Right clicked a file and asked for the list, in a search result window while a file was still downloading from same user
- Files (SD): User requesting a connection every few secs causes a memory overflow
- Transfers (SD): ghosts files cannot be deleted until FX re-starts
- Contacts: (Gum) Rename group menu option
- Messages: New conversations sometimes do not detect the right window
- Messages: limit image size as in chats
- Messages (Gum): Make context menu with "Copy" command and others.
- Messages: (Gum) Unread filter allowing more messages (but count seems good)
- Main: uPNP protocol stopped working on modern fibre routers
- Main: On non router connections it takes several minutes to connect
- Main (Doran): Change Search all to CTRL-F (from CTRL-S) and status changes add also a SHIFT key (CTRL-SHIFT) so CTRL-A behaves as "Select All". include that info in help->Hot Keys.
- Main (Beta): When minimized to tray, sometimes it moves away from view and not easy to get it back. Create a "Restore" tray menu option that rescues the screen
- Main: (coldwar) Minimize on double clicking tray icon (toggle function)
- Main: Autoupdate fixed, webrequest not completing
- Wall (Betaguru): Seems when making a Password for a channel if it is 16 chatacters or longer it triggers an error
- Wall: (Windy) Auth issue
- Wall (Gum): Welcome Links break (display HTML), while they work fine in welcome messages in chats
- Wall: Optimize web request routine so it is more memory friendly.
- Home (Gum): Alias option not working if window within a group
- Home: (Gum) in messages section add year for messages older than this current year
- Themes (Gumboot): New Midnight Midory theme
- Themes: Make hybrid themes load locally (midnightdream, deepsea, spaceport)
- Themes: some themes have the tags entry field overflow
- Themes (Gumboot): Update themes and presets
- MyRooms: Creating a public room and using an empty name, creates an error for 1 sec but closes dialog.
- Security (Betaguru): A hacked .Jar file can be made to close a room unlawfully
- Linux: copy java.tar file to filetopia.org and have script point there so changes in url don't affect it
- Tags field: autocomplete has some duplicate tags
- Tags field: autocomplete tag text not translated
New in Filetopia 853 (Aug 20, 2018)
- Update Java to 8u161.
- Chat: disable "Edit properties" menu if user not an admin of the room.
- Chat: remove chat noise if "Show Joins" is not checked
- Files: Connection being broken soon after file starts transmitting for passive mode connections. (B805 regression)
- (Betaguru) Disable drag-n-drop in all HTML views (small security issue)
- Chat: Context menu, sometimes it gets repeated items multiple times (clear items)
- Chat: (SD) new chat theme: New Mexico
- Chat: (Gum) no visual notification of nick mentioned when set to away
- Chat: (Gum) Error pasting a private chat key to a room (works in messages)
- Chat: (Gum) Store custom emoticons in its own .dat file (instead of status.dat) so it can be easily copied over to new installations.
- Linux: update linux installer so it works with latest Java (using Doran's installer)
- Lists: (Gum) Sort by recent menu option not working in all cases
- Lists: if opening an already floating list it must select it and put in front
- Search results: sorted column is not honored when a filter is removed (it stays in the UI, but not honored).
- Search results: Filtered search results string is not localized (regular search results string is).
- Messages: (Gum) In conversation window separete more Delele button (delete easy to press by accident). Ask for confirmation before deleting.
- Messages: if opening a floating message it must select it and put in front
- Messages: (Gum) Time is off by one hour (+1) on messages received