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TidyTabs Portable Changelog

What's new in TidyTabs Portable 1.22.1

Oct 18, 2023
  • Fixed a compatibility issue with Visual Studio 2022.
  • Improved overall compatibility.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.22.0 (Oct 21, 2022)

  • IdyTabs is now compiled with the latest Microsoft compiler and will gradually be rewritten to benefit from the new features of C++20.
  • Added logging functionality to help troubleshoot issues.
  • Fixed several minors issues.t

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.21.0 (Sep 28, 2022)

  • Added a new feature to automatically hide tabs at the edge of the screen.
  • Fixed: Tabs display mode not updated when the right-click menu is closed.
  • Fixed: Changes in the blacklist and whitelist are no longer applied in real time since 1.20.0.
  • Reduced the number of Windows API call to significantly improve performance.
  • Updated: Translations.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.20.1 (Sep 21, 2022)

  • Updated: Translations.
  • Fixed: Some UWP applications are not detected anymore since 1.20.0.
  • Significant performance improvement.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.20.0 (Aug 31, 2022)

  • Added a new feature to prevent tabs from being hidden by adjacent windows (very useful if you use TidyTabs in combination with AquaSnap).

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.19.1 (Aug 2, 2022)

  • It is now possible to test TidyTabs Professional Edition free of charge for 15 days. At the end of this long trial period, it is still possible to restart short trial periods of one hour.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.18.5 (Jun 8, 2022)

  • Fixed: Unneeded shortcut created in the Start Menu.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.18.4 (May 26, 2022)

  • This new release (TidyTabs 1.18.4) is a minor update which introduces the following change:
  • Better support of Windows toast notification.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.18.3 (May 16, 2022)

  • Fixed: Typos in translations.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.18.2 (Apr 23, 2022)

  • Fixed: Incorrect window size when minimizing a group and restoring another window of this group.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.18.1 (Sep 20, 2021)

  • Fixed: Compatibility issue with Beyond Compare.
  • Fixed: A '&' character in the tab title is interpreted as a directive to underscore the character that follows.
  • Fixed: Problem in the German translation.
  • Fixed: Process handles not always released, resulting in the accumulation of zombie processes.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.18.0 (Jun 19, 2020)

  • Possibility to select a tab by dragging a file over it with the right mouse button.
  • Fixed typos in the UI.
  • Minor bug fixes.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.17.5 (Jun 8, 2020)

  • Added Simplified Chinese translation. Please report any inconsistencies in the translation to our support team.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.17.2 (May 25, 2020)

  • Added German translation.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.17.1 (May 15, 2020)

  • Added French translation.
  • The tabs in the settings dialog are now displayed on the left side to better accommodate longer localized strings.
  • Fixed: Saved group position is incorrect when the taskbar is on the left.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.16.2 (Apr 5, 2020)

  • Small improvements in the installer

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.16.1 (Feb 14, 2020)

  • Fixed: When Explorer.exe is whitelisted and has auto-grouping enabled, the file copy dialog is automatically tabbified

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.16.0 (Nov 25, 2019)

  • Added the ability to set a custom color for inactive tabs.
  • Better matching colors when using the Windows theme.
  • Softer colors for tabs contours.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.15.0 (Nov 12, 2019)

  • More powerful rules for Smart Groups and Exceptions.
  • Fixed: When a tabbed window is restored by clicking on its taskbar icon, it is sometimes immediately pushed back behind another window.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.14.0 (Oct 22, 2019)

  • Automatic tab sorting: in the right-click menu, you can now choose in which order the tabs should be displayed.
  • For Smart Groups, TidyTabs remembers the sorting option that you have chosen (by default the tabs are ordered by inclusion rule).
  • In the group editor, you can now reorder the inclusion rules. The order of the rules can be used to sort the tabs.
  • In the GROUPS tab of the TidyTabs settings, you can now reorder the groups. The order is important because the windows are placed in the first matching group.
  • In the EXCEPTIONS tab of the TidyTabs settings, you can now reorder the filtering rules of the whitelist and blacklist.
  • New keyboard shortcuts.
  • The keyboard shortcuts are not displayed anymore in the right-click menu when they are disabled.
  • Fixed: Application crashing at startup in some rare circumstances.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.13.1 (Oct 8, 2019)

  • This new release (TidyTabs 1.13.1) is a minor update which introduces the following change:
  • Fixed: The tabs are too big when the system-level DPI is set to more than 100%.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.13.0 (Oct 7, 2019)

  • This new release (TidyTabs 1.13.0) is a major update which introduces the following change:
  • Full support of per-monitor DPI scaling.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.12.1 (Sep 4, 2019)

  • Fixed: application crashing when a malformed regex in entered in the rule editor.
  • Improved stability.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.12.0 (Sep 4, 2019)

  • Possibility to easily move groups back to their default positions.
  • New keyboard shortcuts.
  • Fixed: blacklist not working in some circumstances.
  • Improved stability.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.11.2 (Aug 21, 2019)

  • Fixed a bug introduced in the version 1.11.1 causing compatibility issues with UWP apps.
  • Fixed a compatibility issue with Windows Virtual Desktops.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.11.1 (Aug 20, 2019)

  • Exceptions: a new much more powerful rule-based whitelist/blacklist function.
  • Possility to use regex for process name matching in the rules.
  • Fixed: initial position of an auto-grouped window can be incorrect if the window was previously minimized.
  • Improved stability.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.10.1 (Aug 12, 2019)

  • Removed a dependency to VCRuntime140.dll inadvertently added in the latest version.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.10.0 (Aug 5, 2019)

  • New much more powerful rule-based auto-grouping feature.
  • Revamped user interface.
  • Better per-monitor DPI scaling support.
  • TidyTabs now requires the .Net Framework 4.6.2 (previously 4.5) for its user interface. The background process is still 100% composed of highly optimized native code.
  • Fixed an issue causing configuration file corruption in rare circumstances.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.9.0 (Jun 25, 2019)

  • New group management functions and their corresponding keyboard shortcuts:
  • Possibility to close all the tabs from the same application.
  • Fixed: When a grouped window is moved with AquaSnap, the other windows of the group sometimes appears at the wrong location.
  • Fixed: Stability issue.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.8.0 (Jun 12, 2019)

  • New group management functions and their corresponding keyboard shortcuts:
  • Possibility to split a group in different ways.
  • Possibility to add the other windows from the same application to the group.
  • Fixed: The group sometimes loses the focus when a tab is closed.
  • Fixed: Incorrect position of the tabs after a fast windows movement.
  • Fixed: The tab previews should not be displayed when the right-click menu is open.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.7.0 (Jun 3, 2019)

  • Preview content by hovering over a tab.
  • For maximized windows, we added a small delay before the appearing of the tabs to prevent accidental clicking on a tab when you want to click on the titlebar.
  • Fixed: When auto-grouping is enabled, the 'New tab' function sometimes adds the new tab to the wrong group.
  • Fixed: Drag & Drop preview briefly appearing at the top-right of the screen when you detach a tab.
  • Fixed: Incorrect ratio of the Drag & Drop preview.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.6.1 (May 28, 2019)

  • Fixed a problem with the Exclusion list.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.6.0 (May 27, 2019)

  • Close tab button at the right of the tabs.
  • New tab button at the right of the tabs.
  • New entry in the tab's right-click menu to create a new tab.
  • New keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Win+T by default) to create a new tab.
  • Fixed: Application crashing when you double-click on a tab and try to drag it.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.5.1 (May 22, 2019)

  • Possibility to select a tab by dragging a file over it.
  • For tab titles containing a file path, the ellipsis ("...") is placed at the middle of the text rather that at the end, to make the path easily identifiable.
  • The commands of the tab's right-click menu are now displayed with their corresponding keyboard shortcuts.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.4.0 (May 16, 2019)

  • Customizable keyboard shortcuts.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.3.8 (May 6, 2019)

  • Fixed a compatibility issue introduced in 1.3.6.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.3.6 (Apr 29, 2019)

  • Fixed a compatibility issue with cross-reference dialog box in MS Word.
  • Better overall compatibility.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.3.5 (Oct 18, 2018)

  • Minor bug fixes.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.3.4 (Oct 11, 2018)

  • Performance improvements.
  • Better handling of applications that change their window icon at runtime.
  • Fixed a problem causing a tabbed group to sometimes lose focus when a tab is closed with a middle-click.
  • Fixed a stability issue affecting some users.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.3.3 (Oct 10, 2018)

  • Better compatibility.
  • Better handling of Visual Basic applications.
  • Fixed a compatibility issue with XYplorer.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.3.2 (Oct 3, 2018)

  • Better handling of Universal Windows Platform (UWP) applications.
  • Minor bug fixes.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.3.1 (Jun 29, 2018)

  • Minor bug fixes and improvements.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.3.0 (May 22, 2018)

  • We have added a very short User Satisfaction Survey that shows up a few weeks after the installation. This survey is optional and totally anonymous and will help us to know on which aspects of TidyTabs we should concentrate our efforts.
  • Added a shortcut to the settings dialog in the Windows Start menu.
  • Added a link to the online documentation in the tray menu.
  • Fixed several compatibility issues.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.2.2 (Apr 5, 2017)

  • Fixed: A program that is temporarily "Not responding" is automatically separated from tab group.
  • Fixed: When auto-grouping is enabled and when the group is minimized, new windows open for a split second and then minimize.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.2.1 (Mar 27, 2017)

  • Fixed: Sometimes, when a window is created close to the screen edge, the tab is incorrectly placed.
  • Fixed: When cancelling the edition of a tab name, the tab name is not updated anymore when the window title is changed by the application.
  • Fixed: When auto-grouping is enabled for explorer.exe, the copy progression window of explorer.exe should be ignored (Windows 8 and Windows 10).
  • Fixed: Problem with the Excel's Visual Basic Editor window.
  • Fixed: When several Excel windows are grouped, closing a tab closes all the excel windows.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.1.1 (Oct 26, 2016)

  • Added tab auto-colorization to better identify applications.
  • Fixed a problem in the handling of virtual desktops on Windows 10 Anniversary Update.
  • Fixed a problem on Windows 7 preventing to grab a maximized window by its title bar.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.1.1 (Oct 18, 2016)

  • Fixed a crash issue on Windows 7 when Aero effects are not enabled.
  • Fixed a bug causing the tray icon to disappear when Explorer.exe restarts.
  • Fixed a crash issue when a window is created and closed very quickly.
  • Fixed a crash issue on Windows 10 when a window is not tied to any virtual desktop.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.1.0 (Oct 14, 2016)

  • Added the possibility to automatically gather all the windows from the same application into a tabbed group.
  • When renaming a tab, the text is now automatically selected.
  • Better handling of virtual desktops on Windows 10.
  • Fixed two crashing issues.
  • Fixed a few minor bugs with virtual desktops on Windows 10.
  • Fixed a minor bug causing the minimized tabbed groups to be restored when TidyTabs is closed/disabled.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.0.2 (Oct 4, 2016)

  • The installer now ensures that the system requirements are met before starting to install.
  • The "Report a bug" function now redirects to an online form, instead of trying to open the default mail client which may not be configured in the system.

New in TidyTabs Portable 1.0.1 (Oct 4, 2016)

  • Fixed a problem when the Windows taskbar is attached to the top or left edge of the screen.
  • Fixed a problem in the handling of some non-standard windows (e.g. Microsoft Office 2016 windows).
  • Fixed a problem with per-monitor DPI on Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.