August 17th, 2010· Fixed Mac OS X Leopard / Snow Leopard / 32bit / 64bit support
June 22nd, 2009· Quick access list is now being saved properly.
June 7th, 2009· System wide shortcut key for Windows and Linux.
· Possibility to rename Quick Access items.
· Disabled plugins are no longer loaded in background.
· Hawkscope icon is no longer invisible on dark backgrounds.
· Added a Donate button in About window.
April 6th, 2009· Plugins can no longer break the rest of Hawkscope menu.
· Native icon themes for supported operating systems.
· Unified HTTP authentication mechanism for version checks and plugins that use network connection.
· Ability to show/hide known file extensions. Mac .app extension is always hidden.
· Implemented checking for plugin updates.
March 23rd, 2009· Gmail Checker plugin.
· Open With plugin now saves/loads custom application paths well in Windows.
· Open With plugin was failing to open files with spaces on Linux.
· Various enhancements of Execute plugin.
· Twitter plugin auto-recovery after network failures.
· Improved keyboard navigation.
· No more problems with opening huge folders.
March 13th, 2009· Optimized memory consumption and overal performance
· Improved icon in Windows version.
· Added the missing msvcr71.dll in Windows version.
· Fixed Network Settings proxy authentication checkbox behavior
· Long menus are no longer splitted with "More...".
· Periodic menu reload in background (with at least 3 minutes between reloads).
· Execute plugin (available separately).
March 13th, 2009· Twitter plugin (available separately).
· Improved plugin support.
· Better password protection.
March 13th, 2009· Linux GIJ 4.3 support.
February 19th, 2009· Plugin System.
· Open With plugin.
· A temporary workaround for Mac menubar icon blues.
· Friendlier GUI windows.
· Interactive error report.
· Help Window.
January 29th, 2009· Made Hawkscope Java 5 compatible, now it runs on Mac OS X 10.4+.
· HTTP proxy authentication for update checks.
· Better handling of resources and smaller memory consumption.
· Added possibility to use operating system icons if they are available.
· Swing GUI implementation is now discontinued and removed.
· Added possibility to override configuration parameters with args line.
· Added possibility to blacklist folders and drives.
· Settings Window.
· Automatic check for updates.
· Added menu reload delay to improve performance.
· SWT About window is now a singleton.
· Created a workaround for SWT tray menu popup. It's not on top of tray now.
January 29th, 2009· Added -delay (miliseconds) parameter to avoid Java Bug #6438179 that kills Hawkscope auto-startup on Linux.
· SWT GUI Implementation.
· Fixed some file opening problems.
· Solved tray icon ugliness.
· Improved menu usability.
· Hawkscope menu is now always on top.
January 29th, 2009· Added quick access list to main menu, configurable via .hawkscope.properties. "user.home" folder read from system properties is added by default.
· Improved About dialog.
· Added "Environment" field to About dialog.
· Added icon to About dialog.
· 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.
· Fixed path resolving problems in Windows.
· Added ignore to Floppy drive by defaul.
· Improved error dialogs.
· Nice partition names where possible.
January 29th, 2009· Added icons for "Hide" and "Exit" actions.
· Various performance and memory consumption optimizations.
· Long menus now are split into parts.
· 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.
January 29th, 2009· Improved load time.
· Fixed memory leak.
· File system changes are now detected.
· Added exception when system tray is not supported.