What's new in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 29.5
Apr 25, 2024- ADDED: Per-machine multi-monitor position saving
- ADDED: Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian platform installer welcome/license
- UPDATED: Arabic, French locales
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 29.4 (Apr 11, 2024)
- ADDED: Seamless automatic app taskbar pinning for Windows 7 through 11
- UPDATED: App Store/Updater confirm changed from Next to Install
- FIXED: Platform installer self-deletes when manually run from the platform on 64-bit Windows
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 29.3 (Mar 27, 2024)
- ADDED: Multi-monitor support - Platform remembers screen and position
- ADDED: Tooltip to PortableApps.com logo holiday decorations
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 29.2.1 (Mar 19, 2024)
- ADDED: Preserve custom PortableApps folder icon during upgrades
- ADDED: Prevent accidental Platform installs to paths inside existing installs
- FIXED: Languages in Options show incorrectly under XP/Vista/7 when using RTL locale
- FIXED: Errors show incorrectly in App Store/Updater when using RTL locale
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 29.2 (Mar 15, 2024)
- ADDED: Descriptions for multiple icon apps' additional icons
- ADDED: Preserve custom user folder icons on Documents et al during upgrades
- FIXED: Some compatible legacy apps not in App Store on Windows XP
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 29.1.2 (Mar 8, 2024)
- FIXED: Incompatibility between "Expand categories by default" and "Collapse categories..." options
- UPDATED: Croatian locale
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 29.1.1 (Feb 9, 2024)
- ADDED: Edge case handling for Windows XP 64-bit in App Store
- FIXED: LTR locales with parenthesis show incorrectly in Options locale dropdown when using an RTL locale
- UPDATED: German, Latvian locales
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 29.1 (Feb 2, 2024)
- ADDED: Secondary locale availability in App Store (Portuguese to PortugueseBR, etc)
- UPDATED: Improved App Store loading and processing speed
- UPDATED: Improved Updater speed
- UPDATED: Armenian, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Corsican, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, Galician, Georgian, Icelandic, Igbo, Irish, Khmer, Kurdish, Latvian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Marathi, Mongolian, Pashto, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, ScotsGaelic, SerbianLatin, Sesotho, Slovenian, Sundanese, Swahili, Tamil, Tatar, Twi, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Welsh, Yoruba, Zulu locales
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 29.0 (Jan 19, 2024)
- ADDED: Freeware license filter (personal, education, business, open source only)
- ADDED: Edge case compatibility checks (Ex: apps that work with Windows 7 to 11 but not 8.0)
- UPDATED: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Basque, Bulgarian, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, EnglishGB, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, PortugueseBrazilian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, SpanishInternational, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese locales
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 29.0 Beta 1 (Jan 18, 2024)
- ADDED: Freeware license filter (personal, education, business, open source only)
- ADDED: Edge case compatibility checks (Ex: apps that work with Windows 7 to 11 but not 8.0)
- UPDATED: Croatian locale
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 28.0.1 (Jan 6, 2024)
- ADDED: Finnish, Latvian platform install introductions
- FIXED: Errant version info in some platform files
- UPDATED: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Chinese Traditional, Finnish, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Spanish, Spanish International, Ukrainian locales
- UPDATED: Arabic platform install introduction
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 28.0 (Dec 22, 2023)
- ADDED: App store compatibility filter to show apps that work on your OS version
- ADDED: Legacy apps for Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 10 (32-bit)
- UPDATED: Arabic, Armenian, Bulgarian, English, EnglishGB, French, Greek, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, PortugueseBR locales
- UPDATED: Portuguese, Russian Platform installer welcome messages
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 27.0 (Nov 30, 2023)
- ADDED: Option to include or exclude 32-bit in dual architecture apps
- ADDED: Multilingual license agreement during install
- ADDED: EndeavourOS and Nitrux detection and font matching
- FIXED: Language switching in glibc apps (Audacity, GIMP, etc) with Hungarian
- UPDATED: Compiler to Delphi 12 for improved speed and stability
- UPDATED: Arabic, Armenian, Bulgarian, Chinese Simplified, English, EnglishGB, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, PortugueseBR, Russian, Slovak locales
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 26.3 (Nov 4, 2023)
- UPDATED: Improved security: All downloads and online installer downloads rebuilt/rehashed with SHA256. Removed MD5 support.
- UPDATED: Chinese Simplified, Croatian, Japanese, Slovak locales
- FIXED: Status line blank in updater/app store when verifying online installer downloads
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 26.2.3 (Oct 12, 2023)
- ADDED: Verification notification in updater/app store
- UPDATED: Arabic, Bulgarian, English, EnglishGB, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazilian, Russian locales
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 26.2.2.1 (Oct 3, 2023)
- FIXED: Flickering and showing command line in updater/app store
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 26.2.2 (Oct 3, 2023)
- ADDED: Improved keyboard navigation, menus/context menus appear near controls when triggered with keyboard
- UPDATED: Holiday decoration dates
- UPDATED: Arabic, Armenian, Chinese Simplified, Greek, Latvian, Polish locales
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 26.2 (Sep 15, 2023)
- ADDED: Exit Anyway option when closing apps on exit
- FIXED: Misplaced letter and parenthesis in app right-click menu on legacy Windows with RTL locales
- FIXED: [paf.exe] tag in Manage Apps submenu on modern Windows with RTL locales
- FIXED: Updater tab is default in Options instead of General
- UPDATED: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese Simplified, Dutch, English, EnglishGB, French, German, Hungarian, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese BR locales
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 26.1 (Sep 7, 2023)
- ADDED: Non-PAF custom command line via appname.exe.pap.ini
- ADDED: NixOS detection and font matching
- UPDATED: Close apps dialog to Retry when apps running
- UPDATED: 7-Zip to latest version
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 26.0 (Jun 16, 2023)
- ADDED: Preservation of symlinks in base path of apps being uninstalled
- UPDATED: Greatly improved app uninstall speed
- UPDATED: Delphi IDE/compiler to latest patch
- FIXED: App store/updater final page has small fonts on some systems
- FIXED: Platform sends font change message when no fonts loaded
- FIXED: Some apps report no free space when installing to unmapped UNC paths
- FIXED: Some apps show unnecessary installer UI while being installed
- FIXED: Some apps don't refresh the PA.c Platform after installing via the App Store
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 25.0 (Apr 7, 2023)
- ADDED: Initial macOS support with installer and macOS helper app
- ADDED: ShareX auto closing support
- UPDATED: Delphi compiler to 11.3, improved performance and stability
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 24.1 (Feb 13, 2023)
- ADDED: Marathi locale
- ADDED: Partial automated OS font matching in Backup/Restore
- UPDATED: Japanese locale
- FIXED: Stray characters in Backup finish screen
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 23.1 (Jan 11, 2023)
- ADDED: Automatic OS font switching for apps where supported/appropriate
- ADDED: Amharic and Twi locales
- ADDED: Elementary OS, OpenSUSE Gnome, Zorin font integration under Wine
- ADDED: Oracle Java JRE detection and display in About
- UPDATED: Hindi, Igbo, Swahili locales
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 23.0 (Dec 10, 2022)
- ADDED: Wine, ReactOS, and Linux/BSD detection
- ADDED: Font matching for Windows 11, ReactOS, Ubuntu, Pop!_OS, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, Mint, Arch, openSUSE, Kali, Manjaro, and Gentoo
- ADDED: Font adjustments for the menu, options, about, dialog, and rename windows
- UPDATED: Delphi compiler to 11.2
- UPDATED: Sponsor list layout for easier readability with new fonts
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 22.0.1 (Jul 22, 2022)
- ADDED: Platform SHA256 update check
- FIXED: Indicate Windows 8 must be updated to 8.1 for .NET 4.7/4.8
- UPDATED: 7-Zip to 22.01
- UPDATED: Delphi compiler to 11.1.5
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 22.0 (Jul 8, 2022)
- ADDED: SHA256 hash support
- ADDED: Ability to update up to 100 copies of an app
- FIXED: System environment variables insert extra backslash
- FIXED: Security/Utilities not translated in App Store/Updater
- UPDATED: 7-Zip to 22.00
- UPDATED: Delphi compiler to 11.1 Patch 1, improved stability/performance, ends Windows 2000 support
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 21.2.2 (Apr 1, 2022)
- ADDED: http fallback for machines with https issues
- FIXED: .NET error on Windows 8.0 and Windows 7 missing Microsoft's Platform Update
- UPDATED: Korean installer locale
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 21.2.1 (Mar 27, 2022)
- FIXED: Platform not correctly detecting .Net 4 installs
- FIXED: Touch issues under Windows 11
- UPDATED: Arabic, French, and Korean locales
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 21.2 (Mar 25, 2022)
- ADDED: Myanmar (Burmese), Punjabi and Urdu locales
- ADDED: .Net Core and .Net 5+ detection and download
- FIXED: Updater/App Store missing some Bengali and Esperanto strings
- FIXED: Checkboxes in Options window Advanced tab partially cut off with right to left languages
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 21.1 (Mar 11, 2022)
- ADDED: Support for Windows 11 high contrast themes to About, Options, Dialog, etc
- ADDED: All 83 supported languages to platform installer
- ADDED: All 77 platform languages to updater/app store
- ADDED: Advanced INI option to make platform environment variables user instance wide
- FIXED: Platform environment variables PortableApps.comApps, PortableApps.comRoot incorrectly set
- UPDATED: Locale code page settings to match NSIS
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 21.0 (Mar 5, 2022)
- ADDED: Support for all .NET Framework versions with app checks and download links
- ADDED: Ability to retry closing apps on exit
- ADDED: Display of available .NET versions in About window
- ADDED: Bengali, Mongolian, Sesotho, Swahili, Scottish Gaelic, Tatar, Uyghur, Welsh, Zulu locales
- ADDED: Windows 11 style in app store/updater, better folder icon
- ADDED: PortableApps.comRoot and PortableApps.comApps environment variables
- UPDATED: Switched updater/app store to https for all bits on Windows 7 and later
- FIXED: Missing new app icon in app store when missing from server
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 20.1 (Jan 28, 2022)
- ADDED: Download of .NET bundle requirements
- ADDED: Alt-Space hotkey support
- ADDED: Corsican, Esperanto, Georgian, Icelandic locales
- UPDATED: Albanian, Afrikaans, Basque, Belarusian, Danish, Farsi, Hindi, Indonesian, Irish, Korean, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Serbian, SerbianLatin, Tamil, Ukrainian locales
- UPDATED: Dialog box icons
- FIXED: Ctrl-Space hotkey setting
- FIXED: Localeglibc and EOL across all locale files
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 20.0 (Jan 14, 2022)
- ADDED: Support for dotNet 5/6 bundled apps
- ADDED: Taskbar/system tray icon color selection
- ADDED: Updated date to available updates
- ADDED: Filipino, Igbo, Khmer, Malagasy, Pashto, Uzbek, Yoruba locales
- UPDATED: Latest version of 7-Zip for backup/restore
- UPDATED: Armenian, Bosnian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Galician, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Kurdish, Norwegian, Portuguese, PortugueseBrazil, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish, Spanish International, Sundanese, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish locales
- FIXED: Some locales show English updater
- FIXED: Some locales show English on initial install
- FIXED: Updater skips similar apps when in screenreader friendly mode
- FIXED: Unable to pin multi-app apps like LibreOffice to taskbar
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 19.2 (Dec 24, 2021)
- UPDATED: Latest version of 7-Zip for backup/restore
- UPDATED: Arabic, Bulgarian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Polish, Russian, Turkish locales
- FIXED: Removed incorrect 503 error message in updater
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 19.1 (Oct 26, 2021)
- ADDED: Add app to Windows Start
- UPDATED: Platform folder icons in Windows Explorer
- UPDATED: Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese locales
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 19.0 (Oct 7, 2021)
- ADDED: Taskbar pinning in Windows 11
- ADDED: Screen reader compatibility for What's New section
- ADDED: PortableApps.com logo clickable in menu
- ADDED: Click Next without selection to update all apps in screen reader mode
- ADDED: Segoe UI Variable font use on Windows 11
- UPDATED: Improved Windows 11 compatibility
- UPDATED: Modern app list folder icons
- UPDATED: Arabic, Bulgarian, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, PortugueseBrazil locales
- FIXED: Updater categories not localized
- FIXED: RTL locales don't properly show paf.exe in manual install menu
- FIXED: Updater/app store misses apps when appids contain substrings of each other
- FIXED: Advanced apps shown when option to show is turned off
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 18.0.1 (Jun 16, 2021)
- ADDED: Bosnian locale to platform
- ADDED: Asturian, Cibemba, Efik, Esperanto, Georgian, Igbo, Khmer, Malagasy, Pashto, Swahili, Tamil, Vietnamese, Yoruba locales to platform installer
- ADDED: Set platform language based on installer selection for languages without language codes, notice for languages needing a translation
- UPDATED: Arabic, Finnish, French, Greek, Hindi, Japanese, Malagasy, Pashto, Uzbek
- UPDATED: Improved Platform TEMP rights checks
- FIXED: Platform installer RTL language display
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 18.0 (Jun 9, 2021)
- ADDED: Support for .NET 3/4 and 3.5/4 apps
- ADDED: 64-bit only app support in the app store
- ADDED: Kurdish locale (machine translation)
- ADDED: External env var to set platform installer language: PortableApps.comLocaleID_PlatformInstaller
- UPDATED: 5-10x improvement in App Store opening speed
- UPDATED: Improve app update check performance
- UPDATED: Delphi compiler to 10.4.2 Patch 1.0, improved stability and performance
- UPDATED: Improve Platform installer graphics
- UPDATED: Default view switched to all apps with categories
- UPDATED: Arabic, Armenian, Bulgarian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, EnglishGB, Estonian, French, Galacian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, PortugueseBrazil, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish International, Sundanese, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese locales
- FIXED: Out of range issue causing crashes
- FIXED: Explore button hotkey and screen reader not working
- FIXED: Rename window graphic missing
- FIXED: Display Options in Options window not translated for many locales
- FIXED: Italian locale changed Localeglibc=it
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 17.1.1 (Sep 9, 2020)
- UPDATED: Hungarian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian locales
- FIXED: Incorrect version reported in About window
- FIXED: Opera Legacy 36 not showing icon in Updater/App Store
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 17.1 (Sep 5, 2020)
- ADDED: Monitor autorun.inf option
- ADDED: Fade menu in/out option
- ADDED: Hide holiday logo decorations option
- UPDATED: Delphi compiler to 10.4.1, improved stability
- UPDATED: Armenian, Croatian, Dutch, English, EnglishGB, Finnish, German, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese locales
- FIXED: Sub-category locale strings missing in Updater/App Store
- FIXED: Supporters and Silver Sponsors not translated in About
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 17.0.1 (Jul 20, 2020)
- UPDATED: Hungarian locale
- FIXED: HideIcons error in Options window for some users
- FIXED: Incorrect message when updating platform for some users
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 17.0 (Jul 19, 2020)
- ADDED: Partial Windows 2000 support
- ADDED: Ctrl-Backspace to clear search box
- UPDATED: Delphi compiler to 10.4 Update 2, improved stability
- UPDATED: Improved mouse scroll wheel support
- UPDATED: Improved local system details in About box
- UPDATED: Shrank platform install size by 30%, 8.5MB installed
- UPDATED: English, EnglishGB, Hungarian locales
- FIXED: Platform notification area settings being lost
- FIXED: Desktop icons showing when hidden at the system level
- FIXED: Updater not detecting the platform on some systems
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 16.1.1 (Mar 5, 2020)
- DDED: Manual INI option to disable logo decorations
- UPDATED: Hebrew, Russian, Turkish locales
- FIXED: Widened Options window to add additional space for some locales
- FIXED: Process bug warning on install/update when no affected apps being installed
- FIXED: Start Minimized advanced option not being saved
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 16.1 (Feb 12, 2020)
- ADDED: RTL language alignment support (Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew)
- ADDED: Old app installer process bug detection and warning
- UPDATED: Arabic, Armenian, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, EnglishGB, Farsi, Finnish, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, PortugueseBR, Spanish locales
- UPDATED: Compiler to Delphi 13.3.3
- FIXED: Upgrades failing when hundreds of processes running
- REMOVED: autorun.inf installation/updates
- REMOVED: autorun.inf live change monitoring
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 16.0.3 (Aug 9, 2019)
- UPDATED: Croatian locale
- FIXED: Disabled Next in App Store/Updater until selection made
- FIXED: Default focus to app list in store/updater when in screen reader mode
- FIXED: Platform automatic upgrade not closing platform on some systems
- FIXED: Untranslated 'Drive' shown in lower left
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 16.0.2 (Jul 11, 2019)
- UPDATED: French, Polich, Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese locales
- FIXED: Keep Menu Visible option not saving
- FIXED: Improved unsafe eject platform handling
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 16.0.1 (Apr 12, 2019)
- ADDED: LinkedIn to Help
- UPDATED: 7-Zip to 19.00
- UPDATED: Favorites taskbar menu icon
- UPDATED: Bulgarian, Hungarian, Korean, Polish locales
- UPDATED: Removed Google+ from Help
- FIXED: Platform installer may upgrade incorrect location when run manually and platform installed to PortableApps subfolder
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 16.0 (Dec 7, 2018)
- ADDED: Pin to taskbar for compatible PA.c Format apps
- ADDED: Network mapping on UNC paths (enable manually)
- ADDED: Platform logging (enable manually)
- ADDED: Hindi locale (machine translation)
- ADDED: New tabs in Options window
- ADDED: Options window items for Show app paths in tooltips, Show app publisher in tooltips, Keep menu visible after starting apps, Start the menu minimized, Hide taskbar icon, Hide search bar when not in use
- UPDATED: Tasbar and submenu iconography
- UPDATED: Bulgarian, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish locales
- FIXED: Failure to free some objects
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 16.0 Beta 2 (Sep 25, 2018)
- ADDED: Localization for platform logging, pin to taskbar
- ADDED: Support for taskbar pinning for 32+64-bit apps
- ADDED: Options window items for Show app paths in tooltips, Show app publisher in tooltips, Keep menu visible after starting apps, Start the menu minimized, Hide taskbar icon, Hide search bar when not in use
- FIXED: Platform stuck minimized when losing focus with Pin to Taskbar message shown
- UPDATED: Bulgarian, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish locales
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 16.0 Beta 1 (Sep 5, 2018)
- ADDED: Drive letter mapping on UNC paths (enable manually)
- ADDED: Platform logging (enable manually)
- ADDED: Hindi locale (machine translation)
- ADDED: New tabs in Options window
- ADDED: Pin to taskbar for compatible PA.c Format apps
- FIXED: Failure to free some objects
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 15.0.1 (May 15, 2018)
- UPDATED: Russian locale
- FIXED: EGestureException on Windows 7, touch now 8+ only
- FIXED: App store icons may not line up with apps for some users
- FIXED: Extra .bak files for image resources in platform
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 15.0 (May 9, 2018)
- ADDED: Alternate download for Win XP/Vista for TLS 1.1/1.2 hosts
- ADDED: Support for .NET 2-4 apps
- ADDED: High DPI support in platform's menu, options, about, dialogs
- ADDED: High contrast theme detection and passing of that data to apps
- ADDED: Touch scrolling of menu app list
- ADDED: Save What's New seen on window close, prevent re-show after unsafe exit
- ADDED: Platform setting of Documents, Pictures, etc environment vars for apps
- UPDATED: Delphi compiler to 10.2.3, drops Windows 2000 support
- UPDATED: SHA256 handling switched to built-in
- UPDATED: 7-Zip to 18.05
- UPDATED: Compressed platform graphics to save space
- UPDATED: Eject utility with bug fixes and features
- UPDATED: Updater/app store checkboxes to Windows 10 visuals
- UPDATED: Brazilian Portuguese, Croatian, Finnish, French, German, Korean, Portuguese, Turkish locales
- FIXED: Windows 7+ can't download when TLS 1.1/1.2 disabled
- FIXED: Black boxes around app icons under Wine
- FIXED: Some app store/updater/backup text not visible with high contrast Windows theme
- REMOVED: Hold CTRL to launch apps as admin
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 15.0 Beta 5 (May 7, 2018)
- ADDED: Support for .NET 2-4 apps
- UPDATED: 7-Zip to 18.05
- UPDATED: Finnish locale
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 15.0 Beta 4 (Apr 30, 2018)
- ADDED: Alternate download for Win XP/Vista for TLS 1.1/1.2 hosts
- UPDATED: Croatian, Korean, Turkish locales
- FIXED: Windows 7+ can't download when TLS 1.1/1.2 disabled
- FIXED: Large text in submenus in high DPI mode
- FIXED: Opera Mail missing dll error
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 15.0 Beta 3 (Apr 30, 2018)
- UPDATED: Croatian, Finnish, German locales
- UPDATED: Compressed platform graphics to save space
- FIXED: Apps sometimes launch as admin on international keyboards
- FIXED: Submenus still large at 125% and 150% zoom (partial fix)
- REMOVED: Hold CTRL to launch apps as admin
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 15.0 Beta 2 (Feb 20, 2018)
- ADDED: Swipe up/down a page in the menu app list with touch gestures
- ADDED: Save What's New seen on window close, prevent re-show after unsafe exit
- ADDED: Platform setting of Documents, Pictures, etc environment vars for apps
- UPDATED: 7-Zip to 18.01 to address a potential security issue
- UPDATED: Eject utility with bug fixes and features
- UPDATED: Updater/app store checkboxes to Windows 10 visuals
- UPDATED: French and Portuguese locales
- FIXED: Some app store/updater/backup text not visible with high contrast Windows theme
- FIXED: Large text in platform submenus on high DPI screens (tray menu still affected)
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 14.4.3 (Feb 2, 2018)
- FIXED: Build issue making 64-bit 7-Zip the default breaking updater/app store and backup/restore features on 32-bit OSes
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 14.4.2 (Feb 2, 2018)
- ADDED: High contrast theme detection and passing of that data to apps
- UPDATED: 7-Zip to 18.01 to address a potential security issue
- UPDATED: Bulgarian, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian locales
- FIXED: Broken icon display for jdkPortable
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 15.0 Beta 1 (Jan 22, 2018)
- ADDED: High DPI support in platform's menu, options, about, dialogs
- UPDATED: Delphi compiler to 10.2.2, drops Windows 2000 support
- UPDATED: SHA256 handling switched to built-in
- FIXED: Black boxes around app icons under Wine
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 14.4.1 (Apr 3, 2017)
- ADDED: Apps may have different names for launchers vs the base app
- UPDATED: Bulgarian, German, Hungarian, and Slovenian locales
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 14.4 (Mar 14, 2017)
- ADDED: Custom platform security to scan for and mitigate DLL hijacks in: 2048, BabelPad, ClamWin, Foxit, Google Chrome, Kaspersky TDSSKiller, LibreOffice, McAfee Stinger, Opera, Opera Mail, Skype, Thunderbird, and various launchers
- UPDATED: Swedish and Traditional Chinese locales
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 14.3 (Mar 7, 2017)
- ADDED: Support for 225%, 250%, and 300% scaling in the updater/app store
- ADDED: High DPI support to the platform's installer
- ADDED: Ability to use desktop context menu when hiding desktop icons
- UPDATED: Simplified Chinese, Swedish locales
- UPDATED: Bundled 7-Zip to 16.04
- FIXED: Redirect error in updater/app store when obscure setting changed in Windows
- FIXED: Cancelling an app update during download shows empty message box
- FIXED: Updater/app store missing some app icons
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 14.2 (Sep 30, 2016)
- ADDED: Support for live installers with 2 downloads (32+64-bit, etc)
- ADDED: Support for update-only listings in the updater/app store
- ADDED: Hiding of 'portable' in app names on by default
- UPDATED: Improved hiding of 'portable' in app names
- UPDATED: Bundled 7-Zip to 16.03
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 14.1 (May 13, 2016)
- UPDATED: 7-Zip component of backup/restore to latest version
- UPDATED: Simplified Chinese, Slovenian languages
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 14.0 (Apr 15, 2016)
- ADDED: Ability to automatically close system tray apps Ditto and PNotes with more on the way
- ADDED: Full page scrolling by clicking empty area of the scroll bar
- ADDED: Backup and Restore 64-bit mode for improved performance
- UPDATED: French, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Vietnamese languages
- FIXED: Eject fails on some Windows XP machines
- FIXED: Access violation occurs if both What's New and autorun.inf change warnings show at the same time
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 13.0 (Apr 15, 2016)
- ADDED: Ability to update multiple copies of apps in secondary directories (AppNamePortable_Copy_2, etc)
- ADDED: Windows 10 high DPI compatibility to the platform App Store and Updater. Full compatibility to come
- ADDED: Show Hidden icons option to Apps menu to allow showing when all apps hidden
- ADDED: Donate and Website options to app right-click menu
- ADDED: Material icons for improved clarity in default themes
- UPDATED: Croatian, Estonian, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Spanish International, Turkish locales
- FIXED: File error when user manually deletes the whatsnew txt file
- FIXED: Seeing What's New remembered if the platform crashes, is unsafe ejected, or forced closed by a Windows shutdown
- FIXED: Access violation if platform loses focus from initial What's New or autorun.inf change warning windows
- FIXED: "Apps" shown as label for both the app list and app management entry in system tray menu
- FIXED: Platform installer upgraded to NSIS3 to increase security when run from Downloads folder
- FIXED: Removed broken clickable sorting of columns in updater/app store
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 12.2 (Dec 7, 2015)
- ADDED: Context menu button support on menu app list using keyboard mode
- ADDED: Errors moved to end of updater/app store to avoid interruptions of long sets of apps
- UPDATED: Bulgarian, Chinese-Simplified, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Korean, Polish, Romanian locales
- FIXED: Wallpaper switcher produces blank color background on Windows 8/10 with external drives
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 12.1 (Dec 7, 2015)
- ADDED: What's New tab to About window
- UPDATED: Chinese-Simplified, Croatian, French, Galician, Italian, Korean, Spanish locales
- FIXED: Automatic language switching with Italian locale and some apps
- FIXED: Losing focus while browsing for an installer file can make it difficult to switch back
- FIXED: Run As Admin plus Collapse Categories on Minimize can cause an Access violation error
- FIXED: Windows 10 version information shows properly in About window
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 12.0.5 (Dec 7, 2015)
- ADDED: Ability to create a local Start menu/tile shortcut icon
- CHANGED: Improved default theme color set
- UPDATED: Bulgarian, French, German, Hungarian, Latvian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazilian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish International, Turkish locales
- FIXED: Blank line when certain tooltip combinations shown in non-English languages
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 12.0.4 (Dec 7, 2015)
- ADDED: Selectable Automatic, Eject, Power for left bottom button by right-clicking
- ADDED: 'Portable' now hidden in app names in app store / updater when set to be in platform
- CHANGED: Made showing publisher and app path in tooltips advanced options disabled by default
- UPDATED: Bulgarian, Chinese Simplified, English, EnglishGB, Latvian, Polish, Turkish locales
- FIXED: Brackets in path names interfere with rename, category, etc
- FIXED: Menu moves when positioned at bottom and switch between modern and classic themes
- FIXED: More than 6 apps get cut off in the 'still running' dialog
- FIXED: Error when set to StartMinimized and Collapse Categories on Minimize
- FIXED: 'Required Platform Update' in updater not translated
- FIXED: Large fonts makes fonts too large when Windows DPI is high
- FIXED: Platform listed in apps still running dialog
- FIXED: Platform installer showed blank New vs Upgrade page in untranslated languages
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 12.0.2 (Dec 7, 2015)
- ADDED: Shutdown / Restart option when run from local drive
- ADDED: Portable TEMP directory support
- ADDED: Real app names to close apps dialog
- ADDED: Automatic secondary download server fallback
- UPDATED: Bulgarian, Dutch, English, EnglishGB, French, German, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazilian, Slovenian, Spanish International locales
- FIXED: The about screen shows Windows 8 instead of 8.1 due to Microsoft's API changes
- FIXED: OneDrive not detected by installer on Windows 8/8.1 (thread)
- FIXED: "Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window" when no apps present and search box is hidden on running Start.exe
- FIXED: "Cannot make a visible window modal" if you let the 'automatically close apps?' dialog lose focus and then return to it
- FIXED: GDI leak when displaying multiple icons for PAF apps like LibreOffice
- FIXED: Personal picture has no hover tip indicating what it is
- FIXED: App closing attempting to close some apps twice resulting in 'Save this' dialog closing but no data loss
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 12.0.1 (Dec 7, 2015)
- ADDED: Platform 11.x theme as 'PortableApps.com Smooth'
- ADDED: Select custom folder from first page of platform installer
- ADDED: Manual INI edit option to hide search when not in use
- UPDATED: Armenian, Bulgarian, English, EnglishGB, Spanish International locales in platform and Spanish International in installer
- FIXED: Modal window error when reshowing menu after running a search result
- FIXED: 'Update to beta platform releases' stuck on
- FIXED: Refreshing with search results shown causes cascading task menu to not contain all apps
- FIXED: Area below Help (hidden OEM button) is focusable when OEM.ini present but OEM icon not activated
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 12.0 (Dec 7, 2015)
- ADDED: Fully themed search box with custom colors for dark themes
- UPDATED: Bulgarian, Polish installer locale updates
- FIXED: Platform can't focus the search box, shows 'Cannot focus disabled or invisible window' error
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 12.0 Beta 2 (Jul 4, 2013)
- ADDED: TEMP checked for existence and write permission
- ADDED: Start update before auto-starting apps
- UPDATED: Dutch, French, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian
- FIXED: Beta scrollbar in wrong place
- FIXED: Beta personal picture cropped
- FIXED: Scrollbar should not get keyboard focus
- FIXED: Beta PA.c logo fuzzy
- FIXED: Beta app store/updater has old branding
- FIXED: Beta theme top border lost
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 12.0 Beta 1 (Jul 4, 2013)
- ADDED: Subtler and more modern branding and logos
- ADDED: Modern icon set
- ADDED: Modern default theme light and dark
- ADDED: Manual, direct and automatic proxy support
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 11.2 (Jul 4, 2013)
- ADDED: Descriptions are shown in app tooltips (when platform is set to English, other languages coming)
- ADDED: Show EXE name for non-PA.c Format apps in tooltips
- ADDED: Ability to show errors for updater running in startup mode
- UPDATED: French, Simplified Chinese and Slovenian locales
- FIXED: Autorun protection disable only disables realtime detection, not detection on platform start
- FIXED: I/O error 32 on certain drives with autorun protection on, realtime disabled by default and warning included
- FIXED: Platform can get stuck not auto-hiding if updater on startup fails to complete
- FIXED: Closing Options resets the app list view even if no changes requiring that to happen were made
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 11.1 (Jul 4, 2013)
- ADDED: Realtime and between-run monitoring of autorun.inf malware and viruses
- ADDED: Check Drive For Errors ability in Help menu
- ADDED: Customizable platform hotkey (via INI file)
- ADDED: Support for downloading 3rd-party apps while PortableApps.com website maintenance in progress
- UPDATED: Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latvian, PortugueseBr, Russian, Slovak locales
- FIXED: 11.0.x won't update to beta channel properly, won't cause an issue as will be another stable release which fixes it before beta the next beta
- FIXED: Selecting Options from the system tray produces an error if Options already visible
- FIXED: Updater doesn't return focus if already running from previous platform close
- FIXED: Updated doesn't pre-select platform when screen-reader friendly navigation is on
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 11.0 (Jul 4, 2013)
- For stable users, all the features of 11.0 Beta 1 to 3 plus:
- ADDED: New Releases and Recent Updates views in Portable App Directory
- UPDATED: Slovenian, French and PortgueseBR locales
- FIXED: Help - About and About title not translated
- FIXED: Incremental platform updates not working in 11 Beta updater
New in PortableApps Platform (PortableApps Suite) 1.0 (Feb 22, 2007)
- First non-test release of the suite
- Introduction of PortableApps Menu
- Update of all apps
- Custom icons