Hawkscope Changelog

Changes in version 0.6.3 (2010-08-16)

• Fixed Mac OS X Leopard / Snow Leopard / 32bit / 64bit support:  Issue #122 

Changes in version 0.6.2 (2009-06-21)

• Quick access list is now being saved properly on Windows:  Issue #109 

Changes in version 0.6.1 (2009-06-07)

• System wide shortcut key for Windows and Linux:  Issue #35 
• Possibility to rename Quick Access items:  Issue #15 
• Disabled plugins are no longer loaded in background:  Issue #99 
• Hawkscope icon is no longer invisible on dark backgrounds:  Issue #98 
• Added a Donate button in About window:  Issue #100 

Changes in version 0.6.0 (2009-04-04)

• Plugins can no longer break the rest of Hawkscope menu:  Issue #84 
• Native icon themes for supported operating systems:  Issue #83 
• Unified HTTP authentication mechanism for version checks and plugins that use network connection:  Issue #81 
• Ability to show/hide known file extensions. Mac .app extension is always hidden.  Issue #78 
• Implemented checking for plugin updates:  Issue #53 

Changes in version 0.5.4 (2009-03-21)

• Gmail Checker plugin:  Issue #76 
• Open With plugin now saves/loads custom application paths well in Windows:  Issue #73 
• Open With plugin was failing to open files with spaces on Linux:  Issue #72 
• Various enhancements of Execute plugin:  Issue #71 
• Twitter plugin auto-recovery after network failures:  Issue #70 
• Improved keyboard navigation:  Issue #69 
• No more problems with opening huge folders:  Issue #40 

Changes in version 0.5.3 (2009-03-13)

• Optimized memory consumption and overal performance
• Improved icon in Windows version
• Added the missing msvcr71.dll in Windows version:  Issue #67 
• Fixed Network Settings proxy authentication checkbox behavior:  Issue #66 
• Long menus are no longer splitted with "More...":  Issue #64 
• Periodic menu reload in background (with at least 3 minutes between reloads):  Issue #62 
• Execute plugin (available separately):  Issue #60 

Changes in version 0.5.2 (2009-02-28)

• Twitter plugin (available separately):  Issue #59 
• Improved plugin support:  Issue #57 
• Better password protection:  Issue #58 

Changes in version 0.5.1 (2009-02-24)

• Linux GIJ 4.3 support:  Issue #54   Issue #55   Issue #56 

Changes in version 0.5.0 (2009-02-20)

• Plugin System:  Issue #27 
• Open With plugin:  Issue #42 
• A temporary workaround for Mac menubar icon blues:  Issue #33 
• Friendlier GUI windows:  Issue #44 
• Interactive error report:  Issue #46 
• Help Window:  Issue #43 

Changes in version 0.4.1 (2009-02-06)

• Separate versions for each operating system:  Issue #37 
• Mac application contents are no longer shown:  Issue #38 
• Fixed Mac OS X Dock Quit problem:  Issue #32 

Changes in version 0.4.0 (2009-01-29)

• Made Hawkscope Java 5 compatible, now it runs on Mac OS X 10.4+:  Issue #9 
• HTTP proxy authentication for update checks:  Issue #26 
• Better handling of resources and smaller memory consumption:  Issue #28 
• Added possibility to use operating system icons if they are available:  Issue #24 
• Swing GUI implementation is now discontinued and removed:  Issue #22 
• Added possibility to override configuration parameters with args line:  Issue #23 
• Added possibility to blacklist folders and drives:  Issue #16 
• Settings Window:  Issue #6 
• Automatic check for updates:  Issue #14 
• Added menu reload delay to improve performance:  Issue #21 
• SWT About window is now a singleton:  Issue #20 
• Created a workaround for SWT tray menu popup. It's not on top of tray now:  Issue #19 

Changes in version 0.3.0 (2009-01-23)

• Added -delay (miliseconds) parameter to avoid Java Bug #6438179 that kills Hawkscope auto-startup on Linux
• SWT GUI Implementation:  Issue #18 
• Fixed some file opening problems:  Issue #10 
• Solved tray icon ugliness:  Issue #7 
• Improved menu usability:  Issue #8 
• Hawkscope menu is now always on top

Changes in version 0.2.0 (2008-10-06)

• Added quick access list to main menu, configurable via .hawkscope.properties. "user.home" folder read from system properties is added by default:  Issue #11 
• Improved About dialog: :  Issue #12 
1. Added "Environment" field to About dialog
2. Added icon to About dialog
3. Added "Copy to Clipboard" button to About dialog for copying environmental report
• Fixed configuration file writing
• Changed "unknown" icon
• Removed lots of unneeded dependencies to get a much lighter executable
• Switched to maven assembly plugin version 2.1 due to file duplication bug: MASSEMBLY-355
• Fixed path resolving problems in Windows
• Added ignore to Floppy drive by default:  Issue #2 
• Improved error dialogs
• Nice partition names where possible

Changes in version 0.1.2 (2008-09-28)

• Added icons for "Hide" and "Exit" actions
• Various performance and memory consumption optimizations
• Long menus now are split into parts:  Issue #3 
• Items that are neither files nor folders (i.e. unix devices in /dev/) now have a separate icon and are properly displayed
• Added "About" menu item

Changes in version 0.1.1 (2008-09-25)

• Improved load time
• Fixed memory leak:  Issue #1 
• File system changes are now detected:  Issue #4 
• Added exception when system tray is not supported