rifiuti2 Changelog

What's new in rifiuti2 0.8.1

Jan 4, 2024
  • Feature:
  • (#35) rifiuti2 under Windows Subsystem for Linux v2 can do live probation of Windows host recycle bins
  • (#39) JSON output format
  • Bug Fix and minor change:
  • All trash records can display its own error, instead of having a collective, generic error on termination of program
  • (#42) Display partial path if index file truncation happens but doesn't affect integrity of other data fields
  • Perform basic validation on trash file deletion time

New in rifiuti2 0.8.0 (Nov 30, 2023)

  • Breaking Change:
  • (#21) Adopts CMake as build system, and drop Autoconf/Automake completely. Document files have been restructured as well.
  • (#18) Gettext support is removed, its m4 macro versioning is placing a burden on maintainers and packagers.
  • Same for the translation. No contribution so far, probably this is unneeded.
  • Feature:
  • (#3) Implement live system inspection on Windows
  • (#32) $Recycle.bin also shows extra field like old INFO2 files do, displaying whether some trashed entries have been restored, leaving only the index file present inside $Recycle.bin
  • Bug Fix and minor change:
  • (#28) Fix crash on big endian platform due to incorrect string length check
  • (#19, #34) Avoid printing garbage under Windows command prompt
  • (#22) Manpage is retired, referring users to GitHub repository and online docs
  • (Variation of #17) Program name shown as (null) in Windows GUI help dialog
  • (#37) XML output for 95/NT INFO now contains total entries ever existed field

New in rifiuti2 0.6.90 Pre-release (Apr 11, 2019)

  • Pre-release for 0.7. Read NEWS file for list of changes that is going to happen in 0.7. All files signed with GPG

New in rifiuti2 0.6.1 (Jul 17, 2018)

  • Revert to old date / time display in tab-delimited output. This is designed to ease handling for spreadsheet programs, which can't handle ISO-8601 formatted date by default. XML output still uses new date format.
  • Fix file size and path data on big-endian systems like PowerPC
  • Corrected timezone for places using daylight saving time