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SparkleShare Changelog

What's new in SparkleShare 1.5.0

May 24, 2016
  • Hylke:
  • Per folder sync status in icon menu
  • Add ability to pause sync and add a commit message on resume
  • Remove dock icon on Mac and force windows on top
  • Update certificate for Gravatar
  • Resizable "Recent Changes" window on Windows
  • Several stability fixes
  • Improvements to filesystem watcher and exclude list
  • Use more secure 4096 bit SSH keys
  • Use hashed and salted password to encrypt files
  • Fix change attribution in Recent Changes window on merges
  • Fix disabled Continue button when entering encryption password

New in SparkleShare 1.4.0 (Feb 27, 2015)

  • Check user's local bin folders for git binary
  • Show a notification after trying to start the app multiple times
  • Set default focus on password fields when setting up encryption
  • Show disclosure triangly on Recent Changes window timestamps
  • Fix some conflict resolution issues by merging instead of rebasing on the remote
  • Fix crash when copying to clipboard on Windows
  • Sync more quickly after the system wakes up from sleep
  • Fix conflict resolution when renaming folders

New in SparkleShare 1.2.0 (Oct 7, 2013)

  • Hylke:
  • Fixes to the invite feature, now works when SparkleShare isn't running yet (by Jo Shields)
  • Don't crash, but complain when FIPS is enabled on Windows
  • Fix some interface logic in Add dialog
  • Fix some inaccurate sync state messages in the status icon
  • Fix conflict when running when TortoiseGit is installed
  • Fix blank Add dialog on OS X Snow Leopard
  • Fix crash when user cancels initial project download
  • Fix Continue button not enabling when entering encryption password
  • Fix Planio plugin name showing up as Gitorious on Linux
  • Show download speed on initial project add

New in SparkleShare 0.9.10 (Dec 7, 2012)

  • Fix folders not opening from statusicon menu on Windows
  • Fix a freeze on Mac when updating the status icon when the menu is open

New in SparkleShare 0.9.9 (Dec 3, 2012)

  • Put uncommonly used menu items in a submenu in the statusicon
  • Fix an issue connecting to encrypted projects
  • New tutorial slides
  • Detect more types of sync errors
  • Various small fixes and cleanups

New in SparkleShare 0.9.8 (Dec 3, 2012)

  • Show both the cumulative upload and download speeds when multiple projects are syncing at the same time
  • Defer receiving changes when affected files are locked and show a warning in the statusicon (mostly affects Windows)
  • Fix an issue where changing the case of a file name that will be synced to Windows or Mac would result in a no longer syncable project
  • Add a "Try Again" action underneath every error reported in the statusicon to force a retry
  • Always sync to the default git branch even when it's not named "master" (e.g. "gh-pages")
  • Fix unicode characters displaying weirdly in the event log

New in SparkleShare 0.9.7 (Nov 10, 2012)

  • Remove Growl and use native OS X notifications
  • Treat underscores in project names as spaces for the folder names
  • Allow periods "." in project names
  • Depend on git >= 1.7.12

New in SparkleShare 0.9.6 (Oct 29, 2012)

  • Show link code and Copy button on last tutorial page
  • Fix crash when the SparkleShare folder is on an unmounted drive
  • Fix crash of the event log on Windows
  • Keep Continue button in the same place on each tutorial page

New in SparkleShare 0.9.5 (Oct 22, 2012)

  • Fix "Show all" link not working in event log
  • Fix wrong version number in the Windows about dialog
  • Fix some problems with encrypted projects
  • Fix .sparkleshare file not always being hidden on Windows
  • Fix "Open files" button when an encrypted project has been added
  • Fix a crash of the event log on Windows

New in SparkleShare 0.9.4 (Oct 20, 2012)

  • Remove Nautilus extension
  • Restore previous revisions of files from the event log
  • Fix Mac file system watcher not always triggering
  • Add symbolic icon for GNOME 3 (by Lapo)
  • New Bitbucket and default user icon
  • For encrypted projects, use a different salt for each project

New in SparkleShare 0.9.3 (Oct 4, 2012)

  • Fix endless loop when adding empty folders
  • Fix freeze when adding lots of files
  • Fix using hosts with a non-standard SSH port
  • Fix receiving of notification service message after the first one
  • New non-animating status icons
  • More descriptive error reporting in the status icon
  • Add link to debug log in the about dialog
  • Use port 443 on the notification service to work better in restricted networks

New in SparkleShare 0.9.2 (Sep 27, 2012)

  • This release fixes a crash that can happen after adding a new project as well ssh-agent sometimes not starting on Windows

New in SparkleShare 0.9.1 (Sep 27, 2012)

  • Use HTTPS to fetch gravatars
  • Website links in the about dialog
  • Scalable custom folder icon in Nautilus 3.x
  • Default host user is now "storage" instead of "git"
  • Create crash reports in ~/SparkleShare when things go wrong
  • New Windows folder icons
  • Project folders can now be renamed in the file manager
  • Resizable event log on Mac
  • Fix some bugs in conflict resolution mechanism

New in SparkleShare 0.9.0 (Sep 27, 2012)

  • Experimental client side encryption using OpenSSL's AES
  • Allow setting custom paths in config.xml
  • Ship host keys of default plugins and verify on project add
  • Don't touch the user's ~/.ssh/config to configure SSH
  • Make fetching remote project's history optional
  • Cached logs for faster event log loading/switching
  • Sort event log file entries by time
  • Change default notification service to use port 80
  • Show backend error message(s) when on failed project add
  • Update Growl framework to version 1.3.1: A separate Growl is no longer needed and ready for Mountain Lion's notifications
  • Rewrote the notification service, now more robust and reliable

New in SparkleShare 0.8.4 (Mar 19, 2012)

  • Show initial sync progress in taskbar item on Windows 7
  • Fix "Add" item being disabled on first run
  • Fix some crashes in notfication mechanism
  • Use ~/SparkleShare instead of ~/My Documents/SparkleShare on Windows
  • Add option to add SparkleShare to startup items on Windows
  • Add SparkleShare to Explorer sidebar
  • Report whether we're sending or receiving (or both) in the status icon
  • Fix some cases where SparkleShare would incorrectly say "not synced"
  • Some UI changes on Windows to comply with the Windows HIG