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Release notes of version 4.5.2

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• New features
  * Reprocessing time greatly reduced
  * Real-time archive status updates
  * Skip archives that are probably still in download. (Setting added: "Suggest that an archive is completely downloaded after being idle for X minutes")
  * Show free disk space of source-, and destination drive (real-time)
  * Beta version support
  * Auto Upgrade check can be disabled
  * One can only run one instance of AutoUnpack now
  
• Improvements
  * Sort-mode: one can sort the archives on name, completion, or age.
• Bugs resolved
  * Sometimes directories were created with a space at the end, these could not be deleted with the Explorer
  * Some Par2 files made AU crash, in very rare cases
  * Sometimes the UnRAR thread could freeze
  * New VC2005 Distributables added to the setup
  

Release notes of version 4.4.4

• New features
  * Context-menu added to the Archive-info dialog screen. One can now copy file-names to the clipboard
• Improvements
  * One can now copy multiple archive-names at once to the clipboard
• Bugs resolved
  * Age of archives was not displayed if there wasn't a par-set associated
  * .s01, .t01 files weren't recognized as being rar files
  * .r01.1, .s01.1, .t01.1 files weren't deleted
  

Release notes of version 4.4.3.0

• Improvements
  * RAR files that are named as splitted files (e.g. .001, .002 etc), are now recognized as being RAR files, and will not be joined, but unpacked
• Bugs resolved
  * E-Mail password encryption method improved (you'll need to supply your e-mail password again)
  

Release notes of version 4.4.2.0

• Bugs resolved
  * Mapped network drives were not being displayed in the browse-dialog
  * Destination folder was not properly set/stored
  

Release notes of version 4.4.1.0

• Bugs resolved
  * Oeps, added the wrong files to the setup, fixed now!
  

Release notes of version 4.4.0.0

• Improvements
  * Added option to shutdown AutoUnpack after completion
  * Source-, and destination folder can be entered by hand
  * Source-, and destination folder can be passed via command line options (e.g. /source="C:\Source" /dest="C:\Destination")
  * Changed some default settings
  * Improved PayPal button, so it is in English or Dutch
  
• New features
  * Added column for age of archives
  * SSL support for NZB e-mail (e.g. for gmail)
  
• Bugs resolved
  * Modified the routines for "determining free HD space"
  * Modified the routines to "Recursively Delete Empty Sub-folders"
  * Remove extra spaces at the end of archive-names
  * PC Shutdown TIME didn't work properly sometimes
  * The auto-removal of empty sub-folders improved
  

Release notes of version 4.3.0.0

• Improvements
  * AutoUnpack can now handle more types of E-Mail messages (MIME: inline text/xml, base64 etc)
  * One can now specify an output folder for the e-mailed NZB files
  * One can now specify whether an e-mailed NZB file should be launched or not
  

Release notes of version 4.2.1.0

• Improvements
  * Added a 'Test connection' button to the E-Mail settings property page
  

Release notes of version 4.2.0.0

• New features
  * Added the ability to start downloading the contents of NZB files with your favorite usenet reader by sending an E-Mail message.
  
  AutoUnpack will automatically detach the NZB files from the message, and launch it. If one uses a proper usenet reader, the NZB file will launch the usenet reader, and it will begin downloading the content of the NZB file.
  
  Just send an E-Mail message with the subject "AutoUnpack:NZB" and attach the NZB files to the message
  
  (I will probably add feedback mail-options later-on)
  

Release notes of version 4.1.0.0

• Bugs resolved
  * Changed the upgrade check
  * The 'Skip 1st archive test', and 'Skip 2nd archive test' options
• Improvements
  * Status update of various controls
  * Visual style of restart-counter

Release notes of version 4.0.2.0

• Bugs resolved
  * Oeps.. forgot some unzip, and 7z stuff in the setup

Release notes of version 4.0.1.0

• New features
  * Made the AutoUnpack main screen scalable
  * Added "/savemode" command-line option
  

Release notes of version 4.0.0.1

• Bugs resolved
  * Tray-icon context menu did not disappear when one clicked outside of the menu
  
• New features
  * Combines par-sets with archives
  * Can handle totally differently named par-set, archive combinations
  * Can handle multiple archives in one par-set
  * Added a menu to the application
  * Added manual upgrade-check option
  * Full 7z support
  * Full zip support
  * Added the options Start/Stop, Pause/Resume, to the tray-icon-menu
  * Added 'Get info' option to the context menu (shows a screen with all files included in a par-set)
  * Added option to sort the list on completion-level (AU will then, start processing more complete archives first)
• Improvements
  * Totally rewritten the entire engine, and restructured, and revised the entire application
  * Show the Binaries4all help in the appropriate language (English or Dutch, depending on Windows settings)
  * Add minimize button, that can be used to hide the application (cross now closes the app)
  * Process history (when an archive has already been tested/repaired, it will not be tested/repaired again, even when AutoUnpack gets restarted)
  * Upgrade question will only be asked once per new version
  * Changed the layout of the application
  
• Not yet implemented
  * Unpacking of archives that got moved to the destination folder

Release notes of version 3.8.0.0

• Bugs resolved
  * Moving files from a par1 set, caused a crash
• Improvements
  * Added the Visual C++ 2005 redistributables package to the FULL setup
  * Made a separate Upgrade setup, which has the bare minimal files (so is much smaller in size than the Full Setup)
  * The auto-upgrade messagebox, now directs to a special upgrade page on the site
  * NFO files that are included in a par2 set, are now also moved to the destination folder
  

Release notes of version 3.7.0.1 - 3.7.0.5:

• Improvements
  * Made some changes to the setup regarding Visual C++ 2005 distributables
  

• Improvements
  * Delete part01.rar.1 repair-files, after successful unpack
  * Status messages improved
  * Improved Par support (will try to find differently named par-files belonging to the set)
  * Built with Visual Studio 2005
• New features
  * Move files within a par-set to the destination folder (mp3's, jpg's etc)
  * Partial Zip support (will add more later on). Unzip zip files, with par-sets..
  * Transport Stream ( TS ) support (join .XX.ts files)

• Bugs resolved
  * File handles were left unclosed. This caused extra memory consumption, and AutoUnpack being unable to properly delete empty folders..
• Improvements
  * Format of the statistics-time improved
  * Displaying of files in the status field improved
• New features
  * "Copy archive name " option added to context-menu
  * Public TCP/IP interface added. Other software can connect to AutoUnpack to control it, or to receive events.. Primarily intended for usenet readers.. Click here for more information..
  * Settings for the new TCP/IP interface added to the Advanced settings tab-page

Release notes of version 3.5.0.0:

• Bugs resolved
  * Deletion of old files did not work properly for archive related files (NZB, NFO, SFV)
  * Joined splitted files did not follow the destination rules (they always ended up in the destination root)
• Improvements
  * Progress (percentages, duration prediction) calculation and visualization
• New features
  * Added command line option /run (to start AU immediately after startup)
  * "Open with QuickPar" option added to context-menu
  * "Open with WinRAR" option added to context-menu
  * Statistics option and tab-page added (archives that have been successfully unpacked.. will be more in the future)
  * Fuzzy joining option added (intelligent method of detecting if splitted files might be ready for joining)
  * New status visualization added main screen

Release notes of version 3.4.0.0:

• Improvements
  * Binaries4all has written a manual for AutoUnpack, the help button will now open that manual (Dutch version, English version soon)
• New features
  * Added a context-menu to the tray-icon (options: Open AutoUnpack, Reset tray-icon color, Exit)
  * Added new options to the archive-list context menu: Open containing folder, Open with registered application (QuickPar, WinRAR etc).

Release notes of version 3.3.0.1:

• Bugs resolved
  * Files were deleted if the option "Remove all files older than.... " option was used and there was only one archive-like file

Release notes of version 3.3:

• Bugs resolved
  * HD space check always checked the destination-folder drive (even if set to Unpack to source folder)
• Improvements
  * Changed the determination of the age of files (internally) to hours
  * Added a tooltip to the tray-icon
• New features
  * Notification option: Play sound, and/or change tray-icon color

• Bugs resolved
  * AU crashed when logging was enabled and one deleted an archive
• Improvements
  * Made the Drive space check optional
  * Made the Hide button the default button of the dialog (button that gets pushed when one presses enter)

• Improvements
  * The archive-list is made case insensitive
  * Totally revised the settings screen
  * "Unpack to source folder" function more intuitive
  * Status for "skip second archive-test" option has been improved
• New features
  * Automatically pause AutoUnpack when there is not enough free space
  * "Move deleted files to Recycle Bin" option
  * "Skip first archive test" option
  * "Power off PC after all archives have been successfully repaired or unpacked" option
  * "Power off PC after X number of archives have been successfully repaired or unpacked" option
  * "Power off PC after a certain time" option
  * "Reconstruct sub-folders at destination" option

• Bugs resolved
  * If the internet server was unreachable, the Upgrade check blocked the startup of AutoUnpack
• Improvements
  * Engine totally revised
  * Less memory consumption
  * Will now also repair and unpack archives if they have a totally differently named par-set
  * Orphan Par-sets (that do not seem to belong to an archive) will be processed as well
  * Will repair all kinds of file-sets: *.mp3, *.jpg, etc etc.
  * Number of missing files in a Par-set is being displayed
  * Better matching of filenames (this involves the whole engine, and the deletion of archives etc.)
  * Changed all URL's to the new site
  * Added grid-lines to the list
  * Visual style changed to XP style
• New features
  * Splash screen added
  * Context-menu item added (right-click on item in list): Process Normally
  * Context-menu item added (right-click on item in list): Force Unpack or Join
  * Context-menu item added (right-click on item in list): Delete

Release notes of version 2.11:

• Logical
  * Improved the retrieval of the archive-info
• GUI and other
  * Removed the popup- status screen
  * Added a donate button
  * Removed all references to the 'old' web-site, and replaced them with the new web-site (this was needed because of a bandwidth problem)

Release notes of version 2.10:

• Bugs resolved
  * Improved: Power off PC after run (the PC now only gets shutdown when at least one archive is successfuly repaired and/or unpacked)
  * Restored the previous PAR files searching routine; this caused similarly named archives to be deleted

Release notes of version 2.9:

• Logical
  * Added option: Don't delete file types: NFO, and SFV after successful unpack
  * Added option: Skip (2nd) archive-test after successful repair
  * Added option: Power off PC after run
  * Improved the "Remove files (after processing all archives) older than x days" functionallity
  * Improved the PAR files searching routine; also finds par files that do not have exactly the same name, but startout the same
• GUI and other
  * Added icons to the archive-list, to represent the file-type, and repair status

Release notes of version 2.8:

• Bugs resolved
  * Sometimes 'old' archives were wrongly deleted
• Logical
  * CPU Hogging brake

Release notes of version 2.7:

• Bugs resolved
  * Memory usage
• Logical
  * "Engine" has been revised quite a lot

• Bugs resolved
  * If there were multiple archive's with pretty much the same name, it was possible that only one of them was unpacked, and the other was deleted.
• Logical
  * "Delete unlinked par files" option removed
  * "Remove files (after processing all archives) older than: X days" option added
  * "Only remove archive related files (rar, par2, par, nfo, sfv etc)" option added
  * Optionally remove .nfo, .sfv, .nzb files along with the rest of the archive if it was successful unpacked
• GUI and other
  * Added a crash-handler. When AutoUnpack crashes a lot of important data is gathered automatically. Just by pressing a button, one can send me this data..
  * Replaced par2 version 0.2 with version 0.4

• Bugs resolved
  * Totally revised memory foot-print..
  * Program could crash because the status window was closed via a thread
• Logical
  * Supporting processes wil be closed before every new archive
  * Added logging option
  * Low-priority function (all supporting processes and threads will have idle priority when enabled)
• GUI and other
  * Options added to the settings screen

• Bugs resolved
  * multiple
• Logical
  * Test if archives are valid before unpacking them
  * Repair-only function (does not unpack archives)
  * Unpack-to-source-folder function (e.g. unpack to C:\Download\alt.binaries.dvd\..)
  * Clear-history-on-exit function
  * Clear unneeded registry data every run
  * Put retrieving of archives in a separate thread
• GUI and other
  * Options added to the settings screen
  * New progress bar
  * Wait-for-retrieving archives-status-window added
  * Remembers the number of blocks needed to repair an archive (even when they get skipped in a rerun)

• Bugs resolved
  * Changing source and destination directories can cause rar to fail
  * Changing of loop time can be difficult when it is counting down
• Logical
  * No auto archive check when starting tool. Use refresh button instead, or press Start button.
• GUI and other
  * Settings in a separate dialog
  * Set the initial folder of the folder-dialog to the current one
  * Auto-startup (minimized)
  * Auto upgrade check

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