Metamorphose Changelog

What's new in Metamorphose 2.0.8.1 Beta

Jan 3, 2011
  • Fixes/Changes:
  • Fix bug with duplicate rename (ticket 3095633).
  • Fix bug with config file load/save (ticket 3148071).
  • Fix bug with removing items from error panel.
  • Preferences dialog now uses toolbar.
  • Start using better centralized variable storage.
  • Minor bugfixes.
  • Translation updates.

New in Metamorphose 2.0.8.0 Beta (Jan 3, 2011)

  • Fixes/Changes:
  • Miscellaneous minor bug fixes.
  • Track numbers are now auto-padded with 0 when needed.
  • Speed and memory usage improvements to error panel.
  • Configs folder now defaults to user home (ticket 2803288).
  • Home folder in Windows no longer has leading period.
  • MAJOR rewrite of method names and code documentation, this makes contributing to Métamorphose2 much easier and more pleasant than before.
  • Begin setting some methods to 'private' for clearer view of modularity.
  • Additions:
  • Allow changing highlight colors (ticket 2783757)
  • Copy file name in directory (ticket 3019859).
  • Save list of errors to file.
  • 'Reset' menu item to clear all settings.

New in Metamorphose 2.0.7.1 Beta (Jan 3, 2011)

  • Fixes/Changes:
  • Fix preferences not opening (ticket 2995714).
  • Fix issue with wrong encoder when loading items from directory.
  • Improvements to French translation.
  • Many miscellaneous fixes & code cleanup.
  • Additions:
  • Organize operations by drag & drop.
  • Start converting to python 3.
  • Use system fonts under GTK

New in Metamorphose 2.0.7.0 Beta (Jun 25, 2010)

  • Fixes/Changes:
  • Fix multiple preference problems by changing how settings are accessed.
  • Fix inconsistent highlighting (ticket 2974367).
  • Fix Ubunut/Debian install issue with .desktop file (ticket 2967145).
  • Additions:
  • Preliminary Spanish Translation.

New in Metamorphose 0.6.5 Beta (Oct 14, 2009)

  • Fixes/Changes:
  • Installer problems in multi-user winXP systems (bug 2868067).
  • Some crashes on renaming (import wx error).
  • Refresh during rename works again.
  • Loading a config with no path set does not overide the path.
  • Additions:
  • Renamer menu.
  • Some internal changes for better modularity

New in Metamorphose 0.6.4 Beta (Sep 21, 2009)

  • Fixes/Changes:
  • Fixed XML encoding error in config files (bug 2859515).
  • Fixed 'apply to' checkboxes not saving in config files (bug 2803294).
  • Additions:
  • Some internal changes for better modularity.

New in Metamorphose 0.6.3 Beta (Sep 21, 2009)

  • Fixes/Changes:
  • Some fixes related to the mutagen library integration.
  • Some minor clarifications to program wording.
  • Continuing source code reorganization.
  • Additions:
  • Improvements to manual edit dialog as requested in bug# 2803281.

New in Metamorphose 0.6.2 Beta (Sep 21, 2009)

  • Fixes/Changes:
  • Now using Mutagen for all audio metadata retrieval.
  • Fix bug 2837523 : "FilterSel" Field remains empty in config file.
  • Additions:
  • Mutagen allows getting metadata from almost all types of audio files, not just mp3 as before.

New in Metamorphose 0.6.1 Beta (Sep 21, 2009)

  • Fixes/Changes:
  • Fix manual edit not error checking bug (id# 2794757)
  • Fix operation numbering bug (id# 2794751), thanks to Kenneth Murphy
  • More modularizing of internal components
  • Fix config extension not shown by default in linux bug (id# 2803293)
  • Additions:
  • Allow copying from a read-only location.
  • More options for removing files in preview list
  • Only show changed items option (id# 2831192)

New in Metamorphose 0.6.0 Beta (Mar 2, 2009)

  • Fixes/Changes:
  • Major re-arrange of source file structure for more logical layout.
  • Major work on modularizing internal components. This will allow many future improvements and features.
  • Code style updates.
  • Removal/merging of redundant code.
  • Some minor speed improvements.
  • Additions:
  • Recursive renaming of folders. (Highly experimental, only active in debug mode)
  • Command line option : set auto mode level
  • More debug and time outputs.

New in Metamorphose 0.5.0 Beta (Nov 1, 2008)

  • Fixed:
  • Config file issues.
  • Exif tag processing bugs.
  • Id3 tag retrieval.
  • Allow setting directory placement when sorting by stat.
  • Missing dll files in WIndows Installer.
  • Preference issues under Windows.
  • Added:
  • Command line options processing.
  • Command line options : show options, debug mode, timer mode, load config file, set language

New in Metamorphose 1.0.4 (Apr 3, 2007)

  • Help section translated into Italian.
  • Help section translated into French (in progress)
  • Added Russian translation.
  • Fixed crash on using non-ascii character as padding when changing length.
  • Fixed possible file deletion bug under unix.
  • Improved renaming when there are conflicting names.
  • Fixed no refresh of path contents when in directory tree mode under GTK.
  • Removed 'enable undo' checkbox in preferences (sometimes less is better).
  • Undo now only writes entries that could be renamed.
  • Fixes to makefile when in freeBSD and/or not using Gnome or KDE.

New in Metamorphose 1.0.2 (Feb 6, 2007)

  • Loading of items now over 100 times faster in *nix!!
  • Finally got rid of pesky blank file name warning for hidden files in *nix.
  • Releasing as .deb file also
  • Modification to EXIF tag parsing for much faster processing.
  • Fixed crash on invalid EXIF date.
  • Added warning messages for EXIF failures.
  • Extensive FreeBSD testing, passes all tests :-)
  • Fixed crash on invalid character in recursive mode.
  • Fixed not showing hidden folders in tree view.
  • Fixed crash on trying to access 'System Volume Information' in Windows.
  • Some updates to translations (all languages).

New in Metamorphose 0.3.3 (Jul 23, 2006)

  • Important bugfix regarding case modification operation.
  • Added Hungarian translation.
  • Added filter by regular expression in picker panel.
  • Added splitter window in picker panel for directory tree and picker.
  • Default setting is now to show directory tree.
  • Updates to French and Spanish translations.
  • On first run now asks for language and initialises preferences.
  • Defaults to not using Windows compatible names on other operating systems.
  • A couple minor bugfixes.

New in Metamorphose 0.3.2 beta (Jul 17, 2006)

  • Added get date & time from item (created, modified, accessed).
  • Adjustments to wording (English, French, Spanish).
  • Auto-resize last column in lists.
  • Help section is now almost done.
  • Moved item sorting to numbering panel.
  • Added buttons to manually adjust item sorting.
  • Fixed error when padding numbers with non-ascii characters.
  • Added man page.
  • Fixed spinctrl bug in GNOME where it would increment by more than 1.
  • Releasing sources as tar.gz for proper display on POSIX systems.
  • More thourough testing on OS X.
  • Some minor fixes and optimizations throughout.