Servant Salamander 2.5 beta 4 Changelog
Release date: February 27, 2004
New features
- You can hide plugins displayed in the Change Drive menu (Alt+F1/2).
Look at menu Plugins > Plugins Manager. - Improved support for USB removable drives, unplugging is not blocked.
- Better handling of disk changes when using removable media. Automatic Retry on CD, DVD, ZIP disk insertion.
- You can suppress confirmation for Email command.
- Better Directory Merge confirmation: ask for subdirectories merge too.
- New confirmation: Do you want to add files into existing archive?
- Essentially optimized speed of short operations. Moving one directory on the same drive takes 100ms instead of 700ms in version 2.5 beta 3.
- We fixed almost 80 reported bugs and made about 30 small improvements in the Servant Salamander core.
New UnFAT plugin
- Open FAT image files, browse directories, view and extract contained files.
- Supports standard FAT 12, 16, and 32 partitions including VFAT (Long File Names).
New Checksum plugin
- Commands Verify Checksum and Calculate Checksum were separated from the Split & Combine plugin.
ALTAP Self-Extractor
- Option for automatic creation of target directory.
- Custom WWW link in bottom-right corner of self-extractor dialog box.
- Custom vendor name in bottom-left corner of self-extractor dialog box.
Database Viewer plugin
- Mouse wheel is supported.
DiskCopy plugin
- Write image smaller then disk capacity is now possible.
- Improved stability.
Encrypt plugin
- Improved stability.
Eroiica Viewer plugin
- Supported images in MS Word documents.
- Fixed reading of PDF, DXF, HP-RTL, WMF, EMF, XLS, and RTF format.
- New command: Full screen.
FileComp plugin
- Focused difference remained focused after recompare (doesn't change to first).
- Improved stability.
PictView plugin
- New format supported: MNG Multiple Network Graphics.
- Improved reading manufacturer-specific tags in EXIF. Library was updated to latest EXIF Tag Parsing Library.
UnISO plugin
- Support for UDF (Universal Disk Format) Revisions 1.02, 1.50, 2.0, and 2.01 including VAT (Virtual Allocation Table) and Sparing partitions. UDF is a file system defined by OSTA.
- Support for multisession IMG (Clone CD) images.
- Improved stability.
Windows Registry plugin
- You can use Alt+F7 to open Find dialog box.
WinSCP plugin
- Upgraded to WinSCP 3.5.
- Full local and remote directory synchronization.
- SSH core upgraded to PuTTY 0.54.
- Operation masks supported.
- Improved stability.
ZIP plugin
- Improved extraction of 'weird' zip files.
- Improved stability.