What's new in Veles 2018.05.0
May 24, 2018
- Major features and changes:
- Added editing support to hex view (it's still an experimental feature
- because of problems with the Veles backend).
- Minor features and changes:
- A lot of compatibility fixes for macOS:
- Fixed TLS cert validation problems.
- Enable high-DPI support.
- Fixed-width fonts work correctly now.
- Fixed CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET, which prevented Veles from being run on
- some macOS versions.
- Hex view:
- Added 'Save chunk to file' and 'Select chunk' commands.
- Performance of hex view rendering has been greatly improved.
- The number of hex columns is now changeable from the hex view tab and
- adjustable per-tab.
- Two new buttons in the search dialog: "Find Previous" and "Replace
- Previous".
- Partially visible rows are now rendered.
- Added 'Save as...' option.
- Visualizations:
- Trigram view can now use orthogonal projection.
- Points in the trigram view are now scaled properly.
- Current visualization settings are now highlighted in the UI.
- Axes can now be hidden.
- Trigram colors are now changeable in the options dialog.
- Axes are now smoothly animated when changing coordinate system.
- Added more keyboard shortcuts:
- Ctrl + PgUp/PgDn for tab navigation.
- Ctrl + Up/Down for hex view scrolling.
- + / - for changing hex columns number.
- Added "Apply" and "Reset to defaults" button to the options dialog.
- Default theme was changed to dark.
- UI fonts are now selectable.
- Corrected invalid verification of TLS cert when connecting to the backend
- (valid certificates with non-matching fingerprint are not accepted anymore).
- Fixed connecting when a local server is already running.
- Bugfixes:
- Fixed autoscrolling when moving cursor.
- Fixed multiple rendering glitches in the hex view.
- Fixed a glitch in the trigram view (manipulator quaternions were not
- normalized).
- Fixed minimap crash on small files.
- Hovered item in the database view wasn't highlighted in dark theme.
- Fixed cursor movement in server URL field in the connection dialog.
- We now wait for a local server to exit when Veles is closed.
- Empty files are now correctly handled.