Servant Salamander 2.5 beta 7 Changelog
Release date: November 26, 2004
New features
- Options for Copy and Move operations:
- Queuing option: Wait until all other Copy/Move operations are finished.
- Overwrite older and skip other existing files without asking.
- Only files: prevent creating of empty directories.
- Filter by file names using wildcard.
- Filter by file date, time, size, or attributes.
- Configurable hot keys for plugins commands. Look at Plugins Manager window.
- Option to display Size column in Kilo Bytes, or in short format (KB, MB, GB, etc.)
- Configuration page Keyboard with comprehensive list of keyboard shortcuts.
- Large icons are finally supported in Icons, Tiles, and Thumbnails panel mode.
- Find: new Ignore Directory List to skip directories such as "System Volume Information". Look at Options menu at Find window.
- Internal text viewer, Servant Salamander panels and toolbars: optimization of drawing speed.
- Disconnect window: displayed drives are alphabetically sorted.
- Compare Directories: directories are not selected if the Compare subdirectories option is cleared.
FTP Client plugin
- This version of FTP plugin is only preview version. It means that it is incomplete, we are still working on it.
- View command was implemented. Downloaded files are cached for subsequent viewing.
- Support for VxWorks ftp server (VxWorks is a real-time operating system used for example in the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity).
- Support for OS/2 ftp server.
- Better support for MVS ftp server.
- Better support for UNIX ftp server.
- Smarter error handling in progress window.
- Better and more accurate progress and time estimation.
- The most important missing features are Copy to FTP server (also called upload), Create Directory, and Quick Rename (F2 key).
- Plugin supports active and passive transfer modes. Proxies and SSL sockets will be supported in future.
- Please test browsing of your favorite FTP servers in panel and Delete, Change Attributes, View files, and Copy from FTP server (also called download) operations.
- Unfinished options and buttons are disabled, all other should work well.
- Enjoy this preview version and let us know if you encounter anything strange or not working (except missing features described here). Thanks!
PictView plugin
- Status bar.
- Crop command.
- Support of Nikon and Canon digital camera raw formats *.NEF and *.CRW.
- Command Select/Unselect opened file in Servant Salamander panel or find.
- Better selection with Space and Shift modifiers (like Adobe Photoshop has).
Eroiica Viewer plugin
- Support of images in Excel 97/2000/XP/2003 documents.
- Support of Far East Excel documents.
- Support of SolidWorks files *.SLDASM, *.SLDDRW, *.SLDPRT.
- Support of Microsoft Visio Drawings *.VSD.
- Support of encrypted PDF documents.
- Major fixes and optimization of reading PDF documents.
WinSCP plugin
- Upgraded to WinSCP 3.7.1.
- Duplicate files command.
- SSH core upgraded to PuTTY 0.56.
- Added support for UTF-8 encoded filenames for SFTP protocol version 4 and newer.
Multimedia Viewer plugin
- Support for WMA, WAV, and OGG.
- Copying to Clipboard is supported.
- Export file information to the HTML.
- Keyboard navigation.
7-Zip plugin
- New packing options: compression level and method, dictionary size, solid archive.
- Many bug fixes.
- Look at www.7-zip.org for more information about 7-Zip.
Undelete plugin
- Undelete command is available at Plugins menu.
- Many bug fixes.
- This version cannot recover encrypted (NTFS based) files.
Renamer plugin
- Unchanged names are grayed in the real-time preview.