What's new in Weezo 4.3.0
May 28, 2013
- News:
- New resource: SSH terminal
- Simplified file explorer
- PHP ugraded to 5.4.14
- Improved file upload
- Automatic server access testing
- Misc. minor improvements
- Bugfixes:
- Misc. issues on login page with IE
- Apache error message when closing Windows
- Issues with Curl library
- Misc. upload problems
- Problems adding a file or a dir to shared elements
- Misc. bugs
New in Weezo 4.2.2 (Mar 22, 2013)
- News:
- PHP ugraded to 5.4.11
- ffmpeg upgraded 1.1
- Brand new Webcam resource, with audio support and WebM/Ogg/Flash video streaming
- Photos can now be displayed in real-fullscreen (on compatible browsers)
- Remote computer control can now be displayed in real-fullscreen (on compatible browsers)
- Video files preview now display audio/video streams codecs
- Resource configuration: directory can now be dragged over interface
- Default photo thumbnails can now be configured
- Photo configuration can now be locked
- Shared file list modification is now active for logged-in users
- Many improvements in user interface and resources layouts
- Bugfixes:
- Issue with integrated resource creation
- Facebook account login problem
- Display issue with accented shared directories
- Chat: cannot open chat log
- Error message displayed when downloading a file through a short link
- Cannot use a png file as background image
- Issue with non-ascii passwords for direct resource access
- Disconnection issue with password-less direct resource access
- Directory browse windows doesn't display when Weezo is launched as a Windows service
- Misc. issues with photos full-size display
- Disconnection issues with direct resource access if third-party website cookies are disabled in browser
- Misc. plugin tool improvement
- Access rights issue when moving / copying a file
- Bandwidth limitation is not valid for audio streaming
- Misc. bugs
New in Weezo 4.1.0 (Dec 14, 2012)
- Novelties:
- Overal graphical improvement
- PHP 5.3.19 upgrade
- Improved drag & drop file upload
- Express setup mode
- Browser video capabilities detection
- Files explorer: search tool can now search in files content
- Misc. bugfixes
New in Weezo 4.0.1 (Oct 17, 2012)
- New features:
- Updated resources icons
- Improved mobile photo thumbnails quality
- IP addresses geolocation
- Bugfixes:
- User interface bugs
- Reencoded audio streaming issue
- Misc. bugs
New in Weezo 4.0.0 (Sep 26, 2012)
- Improved Interface
- Access your shared files as if they were on your hard drive
- Advanced user groups and resources management
- Links to resources and direct downloads can now be shortened.
- Flash is no longer required to play films or music: audio and video can now be played with HTML5 players both on computers and mobiles
New in Weezo 3.0.0 (Oct 28, 2011)
- New features:
- Interface:
- New "Simple" mode
- Resizable interface
- New "Configuration" tab
- New "Start" tab
- New "Community" tab
- New "Activity" tab
- Connections monitoring: user browser is displayed
- Server: on Apache startup error, error detail is displayed
- Server: startup and initialisation state is displayed
- weezo.net account: account name can be retrieved with account email
- weezo.net account: account name can be modified
- Direct access links can now be directly shared by mail, twitter
- Configuration backup: extensions settings are now saved
- Direct access links can be sent to a mobile using QR Code
- New integrated error reporting tool
- Windows 7 context menu integration
- Project support button
- Server and tools:
- Dual mode for Apache & PHP : VC6 and VC9 (Windows XP SP3 and better)
- ffmpeg video encoder upgraded to V0.8.5 "Love"
- PHP upgraded to V5.2.17 and V5.3.8
- Apache upgraded to 2.2.21
- Sqlite 2 database engine replaced by PDO Sqlite 3
- Improved server startup error handling
- SSL can now be applied to alternate port even if different from 443
- Server access test: all ports are tested (including alternate and bittorrent ports)
- Mobile interface:
- HP Touchpad support
- Video streaming support on Android devices (with Flash player)
- WebTV support on Android and webOS devices (with Flash player)
- Files explorer: new files + folders display
- Blog: misc. Interface improvements
- Login: password is now hidden
- New mobile theme
- Audio library: whole artist or album can now be directly played
- Audio library: Flash player is used on Android devices if installed
- Video:
- HTML5 Video support, with WebM and Ogg Theora formats
- H264 codec support for Flash videos (GPL version of ffmpeg needed)
- New reencoding sizes (including 720p)
- Video ratio can be modified
- Audio:
- Audio library: new "CD Wall" view
- Audio library: audio reencoding may now be changed by user
- Audio explorer: updated page layout with maximised space for files
- Flac format support
- Remote Desktop
- New HTML5 remote control desktop
- New "Read only" remote desktop
- Improved quality for IE6, iPhone and Android
- Login:
- Facebook friends may now login using "Facebook Connect"
- Coverflow login page may now be controlled with keyboard
- Miscellaneous:
- Chrome browser: files can be downloaded by a simple drag and drop from the browser to the desktop
- Logged users may now leave comments on your personal space using Facebook comments
- WebTV resource entirely rewritten (new playlists, channels icons, VLC not needed)
- Audio explorer, video and multimedia resources: new file search tool
- Photo sharing: photos can now be viewed in full screen mode
- Resources icons can be customized
- Files explorers: single files can now be downloaded with bittorent
- RSS feeds: website address may be typed instead of feed's address
- New option to prevent computer from going to sleep
- Bugfixes:
- Files explorer: zip download issues
- Audio library: database generation issues on ill-tagged mp3s
- Remote administration: CPU usage indication error
- Remote interface: misc. windows issues
- Direct links: misc. access issues
- BitTorrent transfers: misc. issues
- IE: misc. HTTPS alert messages issues
- Mobile interface: misc. issues
- Linux access: misc. fonts issues
- General: 'Run-time error 5' when starting Weezo
- General: user disconnection issues
- Audio librarie: issues with some characters in file names
- Files Explorer: search issues
- IE9, Chrome & Firefox: misc. display bugs
- General: issue when starting Apache server for the 1st time
- Files transfers: large files download issues
- HTML/PHP websites: better compatibility with third-party scripts
- IP access restriction: issue with some rules
- Server: misc. issues with httpd compatibility mode
- Files explorer: server crashing when trying to delete a read-only file
- Misc. bugs...
New in Weezo 2.1.0 (Jul 1, 2010)
- New features:
- New direct resource access / sharing mode
- iPad compatibility
- HTML5 Drag & Drop upload
- WebM support for video files
- Audio playlist support on Android
- Configuration backup tool
- Users can be banned
- Improvements:
- Multiple mobile interface improvements
- Zip download improvements
- Bugfixes:
- Issue with weezoFfmpeg not terminating
- Audio issue on flash video streaming
- Misc. issues on files list sharing
- Misc. bugs...
New in Weezo 2.0.0 (May 18, 2010)
- New features:
- Common: mobile version
- Common: new "send" feature, BitTorrent and streaming formats supported
- Common: new "Publish" feature, enabline users to embed medias into external web pages
- Common: Aero interface (Vista / W7)
- Common: Installation / configuration wizard
- Common: plugins management tool
- Common: clients may now customize their desktop. "Single user" account will restore settings on reconnection
- Common: site and users activity may be tracked on a Twitter account, on a personal website, or forwarded to Growl
- Common: new PHP session management system, hardened compatibility with third parties PHP scripts / extensions
- Common: client's browsers are displayed into activity tab
- Common: firewall and UPnP mapping may be reset on exit
- File explorers: user may share a list of files and directories instead of a single dir's content
- File explorers: user may toggle thumbnails, and select thumbnails size
- Security: unauthenticated direct connections may be rejected
- File explorers: display embedded icon of .exe and .ico files
- File explorers: tree view may be sorted
- Photo, video and multimedia albums: updated layouts
- HTML Web Site: PHP / MySQL sites supported
- Video album: users may upload videos, users may use multiple download feature
- Proxy: possiblity to forbid access to LAN and localhost
- Remote administration: process icons are displayed
- Bookmarks: extensions completely rewritten and merged
- iPhone: playlists supported, new image drag feature
- Resources configuration: save/cancel buttons removed
- Improvements:
- Pages layout: lighter page sturcture, faster display, transparency effects, animations
- Files explorers: server-side cache, faster display
- RSS feeds: faster display
- PHP: new version (5.2.12)
- Apache: new version (2.2.15)
- Ffmpeg: new version (>0.51)
- Bugfixes:
- Audio libraries: incorrectly displayed UTF8 encoded tags
- File explorer: "protected file" displayed when moving a file
- Common: some images are not correctly displayed
- Common: Chrome and Safari display issues
- File explorer: misc bugs with tree view
- Chat: random freezes
- RSS feeds: feeds could sometimes not be refreshed
- RSS feeds: icons incorrectly displayed
- Videos: videos sometimes freeze
- Videos: some problems with very long videos
- Videos on Wii: videos freeze after 5 minutes
- Connection: unciphered password with non-ansii characters may be rejected
- User activity: messages are now displayed in UI language and not client language
- OS/Vista/Simple themes: some icons sometimes disapear
- Resources configuration: changes not saved depending on local IE security settings
New in Weezo 1.3.0 (Mar 13, 2009)
- New features:
- Common: centralized authentication
- Common: direct resource link can be included into URL
- Common: resources can be opened in a separate browser window
- Common: server connection indicator
- Common: password complexity indicator
- Chat: webcam support
- Photos: display number of images and position of current image
- File explorer: possibility to search for files
- File explorer: better layout, faster display
- Remote desktop: multi-screen support
- Remote administration: new MSDOS interface
- Music: better ID3 tags handling
- Bugfixes:
- Common: server access test may return false answer when several weezo running on same LAN
- Common: "Index out of bounds" error when selecting a client in activity panel
- Common: apache access.log file size limit
- File explorer: problem uploading large files
- Video: DivX web player problems
- Bookmarks: problems displaying FF3 bookmarks
- Audio libraries: script hanging while generating database
- Audio: incorrect lenght displayed for some mp3s
- Audio: artist and album names might be wrong for some OGG and FLAC files
- Proxy: misc. bugs fixed
- Statistics: some buttons didn't work
- Misc. minor bugfixes
- Improvements:
- Common: upgraded to PHP 5.2.9 et Apache 2.2.11
- Common: Windows 7 compatibility
- Photos: optimized image resizing algorithm (x5 faster)
New in Weezo 1.2.2 (Dec 6, 2008)
- Resource configuration : simple / advanced config mode
- File explorer : better page layout
- Video player : better buffer handling
- Photo : default sort order can be configured
- Proxy: some cache files put at disk root
- Multiple upload: compatibility issue with Firefox et Opera
- Video: couldn't download ffmpeg GPL version
- Browsing: Chrome compatibility issues
- Browsing: potential compatibility issues with some add blockers
New in Weezo 1.2.1 (Nov 30, 2008)
- Application: problem with service installation
- File explorer: blocked browsing if no upload allowed
- Audio library: problem reading mal-formed ID3 tags
- Remote desktop: stability issues
New in Weezo 1.2.0 (Nov 26, 2008)
- Application: included bandwidth meter (weezoPicoNetMeter.exe)
- Application: direct links can be created directly from Windows explorer (right click integration)
- Application: Weezo can be run as Windows Service (2000, 2003, XP, Vista)
- Application: real-time application of configuration, creation and removal of resources to connected users
- Application: possibility to view an history of connections and to track content viewed by users
- Application: tray icon’s tooltip show detailed server info (state, external IP, connected users…)
- Application: SSL certificate is now generated using actual server name (IP address)
- Remote desktop: quality and speed can be dynamically adjusted
- Remote desktop: graphical display of special keys
- Photos: slideshow speed can be dynamically adjusted
- Photos: photos can be sorted by name, size or date
- Photos (mosaic): new thumbnails display
- Photos (checkerboard): a preview is displayed when hovering over thumbnails
- Flash audio player: next track pre-buffering, non-linear volume control
- Audio libraries: ID3 tag embedded images supported, better cover detection algorithm, better handling of ID3 tags
- Audio libraries: ASF, WMA, M4P, QT, AAC, AIF, FLAC and OGG tags supported
- Audio libraries: playlists can be played in external players (m3u format)
- Audio libraries: album artist used for grouping
- iTunes library: iTunes 8 compatibility (cover art)
- Files explorer: tooltips display folders content
- WebTV: now compatible with VLC>0.9.0, new flash player, Wii compatible
- Application: application hangs at first startup on UPnP failure
- Application: ever restarting server when Apache access logs enabled
- Application: cleaner uninstall
- Remote administration: data problem in resources configuration
- Remote desktop: image flickering in Opera 9.5x
- Remote desktop: problems sending some characters in clipboard
- Photos: slideshow misc. Problems (double caching images, keyboard shortcuts not working, flickerings…)
- Photos: thumbnails generation issues on Win 2000/2003.
- Photos: session hanging on thumbnails generation
- Videos: session hanging when launching a video streaming
- Files explorer: direct access button couldn’t be clicked
- Music: server crash when reading malformated ID3 tags
- Music: non-mp3 songs could not be played by flash player if no maximum quality set
- Flash audio player: incorrect song name displayed
- Bookmarks configuration: edition options no more disabled when FF3 is installed
- Local HTML site: any HTML home page can be set
- Chat: "XML Error" when opened in Weezo user interface
- Miscellaneous bugfixes
- Application / server: global performance improvement
- Application: better UPnP port forwarding
- Application: upgraded to Apache 2.2.10
- Application: translations updated
- Application: new opcode (Xcache)
- Remote desktop: global performance improvement
New in Weezo 1.1.1 (Jul 3, 2008)
- New remote administration, Flash webcam, rich tooltips, performance improvements, bugfixes, lot of small new features...
New in Weezo 1.0.9 (Jan 9, 2008)
- New features
- File explorers: TreeView
- General: Windows 98 / ME compatibility
- General: Vista Clear theme
- General: New theme selection form
- General: german version
- General: PHP upgraded to V5.2.5
- Photo album (checkerboard): thumbnails bar can be dragged with mouse
- General: overall interfaces improvement and optimisation
- Miscellaneous improvements...
- Bugfixes
- Installer: data lost on application upgrade
- General: login problems on IE6 / IE7
- General: better Vista UAC compatibility
- General: service mode (Windows 2000/XP)
- General: on-user-connection sound playing (Vista)
- General: ever-loading pages on IE/FF
- Bittorrent: seeder connection problems for unregistered users
- Videos: SSL flash video streaming on IE6 / IE7
- External websites: windows size settings
- Music access: subfolders inclusion problem
- Music access: playlist playing with IE6 / IE7
- General: automatic application update
- Miscellaneous bugfixes...