Pacifist 3.0.10 - Changelog

What's new in Pacifist 3.0.10:

October 18th, 2012

· Fixed a few crashing bugs
· Fixed a few minor bugs that could cause some packages not to load properly
· Fixed a bug that could cause RTFD files not to be viewable
· Other minor bug fixes

What's new in Pacifist 3.0.9:

August 20th, 2012

· Fixed a crashing bug
· Fixed a bug that could cause some items to be installed in the wrong place
· Fixed a bug that caused the disclosure triangles not to work in the QuickLook plug-in on Mountain Lion
· Other minor bug fixes

What's new in Pacifist 3.0.8:

July 27th, 2012

· Added support for OS X 10.8 “Mountain Lion” installer to “Open Apple Installers” button
· Fixed a bug that could cause the “Show Software Update Packages” feature not to work on Mountain Lion

What's new in Pacifist 3.0.7:

July 17th, 2012

· Fixed a bug that could cause Pacifist not to launch on Intel Macs running OS X 10.4.x

What's new in Pacifist 3.0.6:

July 11th, 2012

· Fixed a bug that could cause loading distribution packages from non-file URLs not to work

What's new in Pacifist 3.0.5:

June 28th, 2012

· Fixed a minor permissions issue in the 3.0.4 distribution

What's new in Pacifist 3.0.4:

June 27th, 2012

· Fixed a bug that could cause packages from versions of OS X older than 10.2 not to load
· Fixed a bug that could cause spurious error messages on extracting the entirety of a mpkg
· Fixed another Mountain Lion-specific bug
· Got rid of some deprecated API usage

What's new in Pacifist 3.0.3:

June 19th, 2012

· Now uses code-signing information to prune extraneous files out of applications extracted using the “Search Receipts” feature
· General improvements and bug fixes to the “Search Receipts” feature
· Several Mountain Lion-related fixes
· Fixed a bug that affected loading some Apple install discs such as Final Cut Studio and Logic Pro
· Fixed a few crashing bugs
· All files in the .zip distribution of Pacifist are now free of resource forks and extended attributes, to keep third-party .zip unarchivers from failing to unarchive the extended attributes properly and invalidating Pacifist’s code signing
· Text is now selectable in HTML files in the viewer
· Miscellaneous bug fixes

What's new in Pacifist 3.0.2:

March 1st, 2012

· Updated code signature for compatibility with OS X 10.8 “Mountain Lion” and Gatekeeper
· Fixed a crash that could occur if Pacifist was unable to install the QuickLook plug-in
· Added the ability to ask for admin privileges to install the QuickLook plug-in if necessary
· Now automatically checks the default application for .pkg, .mpkg, and .dmg files on startup and sets them back to Installer and DiskImageMounter respectively if they have inadvertently become assigned to Pacifist
· Fixed a bug that caused a few outline-view keyboard shortcuts not to work properly
· Fixed a rare bug that could cause a package to load incorrectly

What's new in Pacifist 3.0.1:

February 9th, 2012

· Suppressed a number of “Duplicate XML Element” errors when loading some packages
· Fixed a few crashing bugs
· Fixed a bug that could cause the QuickLook plugin not to work on some systems
· Using the “View” function on text files should now cause them to open in a standard text view like in 2.6.x instead of in the QuickLook viewer as in 3.0, allowing them to be selectable and searchable
· Fixed a bug that could cause dates not to appear correctly in the verification reports
· Fixed a bug that could cause resources not to load properly for packages inside disk images

What's new in Pacifist 3.0:

January 21st, 2012

· Compiled as a Universal Binary for full speed on Intel-based Macs
· Lets you install individual items or folders from .pkg packages, either to their default install locations or to a custom location you specify
· Allows you to install to a disk other than the boot disk if you prefer
· Works with the new Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” package format as well as packages from older Mac OS X versions ranging from Mac OS 10.4 “Tiger” to the Mac OS X Public Beta
· Supports .pkg packages, .mpkg metapackages, .zip archives, .bom file listings, .dmg disk images, and .pax, .pax.gz, .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .cpio, .cpio.gz, .cpio.bz2, and .xar archives
· Support for .zip archives with extensive format support - should correctly extract Mac and UNIX metadata from Apple’s Zip format as well as MacZip, SmartZip, ZipIt, and InfoZip archives. In order to achieve support for all these formats as well as the “Open URL” feature, Pacifist has a new Zip parser written completely from scratch rather than using existing functionality such as the ‘zip’ command-line tool.
· A new “Open URL” feature makes it possible to remotely load archives over the network. For .zip, .xar, .dmg, and Leopard .pkg packages, this feature only downloads the portion of the file which is necessary to read it, causing files to open much more quickly than it would take to download the whole archive (.zip files, in particular, are very fast - try it!).
· All files in a package can be viewed right in Pacifist using of a new “View Files” feature. The “View Files” feature includes support for various text and image file types, as well as support for RTF, RTFD, HTML, MS Word, and property list files. Pacifist also includes a new hexadecimal file viewer for viewing binary files and unknown file types.
· Includes the ability to verify existing intallations, comparing the files on your hard disk with the files listed in the package, and notifying you of missing files as well as files that have different permissions or checksums than those listed in the package*
· Follows all symlinks and aliases properly, without overwriting them
· Doesn’t alter the properties of existing folders, including their permissions
· Correctly gives the sizes of a package, both compressed and uncompressed
· Displays the following information about files in packages: path, size, kind, owner, group, permissions, modification date, checksum
· Allows the user to selectively choose whether or not to display certain types of metadata
· Inspector window gives a more detailed look at files in a package
· Displays total size of currently selected files, letting you know exactly how much space your installation will take on your hard disk. Dynamically updates this size as the selection changes.
· Includes the ability to view a package’s resources, such as the Read Me file, the install scripts, etc.
· Correctly sets all file owner and permission settings
· Allows the user to override a package’s authentication requirement
· Automatically converts AppleDouble files into resource forks and metadata when installing on HFS+ disks (leaves the files alone if installing on UFS)
· Automatically updates prebinding information after installation to optimize system performance (disabled by default on Mac OS X 10.4 and higher)
· Allows the user to create receipts for .pkg packages
· It is possible to cancel the extraction at any stage of the installation
· Multiple-document interface
· Multi-threaded
· Has a working search feature
· Supports drag and drop
· Supports contextual menus
· Commonly used functions available via toolbar
· Auto filename completion
· Works with compressed or uncompressed packages
· By default, prompts before replacing any files
· Uses the Security Framework if the files will need to be installed as root
· If you install a folder and the folder already exists, Pacifist installs the folder’s contents and doesn’t overwrite the parent folder. The exception is application bundles, which by default will ask you what to do.
· Works around a bug in pax so that hard links extract from packages correctly instead of generating “File not found” errors
· Spiffy icons by Adam Betts
· Czech localization by Lukáš Vajda
· Dutch localization by Koen van Hees
· French localization by Ronald Leroux
· German localization by Sebastian Krauß, Martin Bestmann, Goetz Goerisch, and Norbert Rittel
· Italian localization by Gabriele Callari
· Japanese localization by Takehiko Hatatani

What's new in Pacifist 2.6.3:

September 1st, 2009

· Worked around an oversight in Snow Leopard’s Finder that caused drag-and-drop to the Finder not to work properly.

What's new in Pacifist 2.6.2:

September 1st, 2009

· Fixed a bug inadvertently added in 2.6.1 that caused hangs at the "Verifying Files" stage.

What's new in Pacifist 2.6.1:

August 27th, 2009

· Fixed a bug which could cause the Kernel Extension Report feature not to work properly under Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

What's new in Pacifist 2.6:

August 14th, 2009

· Compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard”,
· Added a QuickLook plug-in,
· Added Simplified Chinese localization by Yunxuan He,
· Added support for PKZIP, WinZip, and Info-Zip self-extracting .zip archives,
· Added support for Zip64 archives,
· Added support for bzip2-compressed .zip archives,
· While extracting, the Verification phase is much faster,
· The Verification phase is now optional and can be disabled in the preferences,
· fixed a bug that caused .xar, .pkg, and .zip files on some HTTP servers not to load properly,
· Fixed a crashing bug that could occur while viewing packages with no resources,
· Fixed a bug that caused some Leopard flat packages not to be read properly,
· Fixed a bug that could cause the Logic Studio 9 discs to fail to load,
· Fixed a few bugs that could cause spurious errors when extracting files from pre-Leopard packages,
· Fixed a bug that could cause the resource forks not to be written properly for some files in pre-Leopard packages,
· Fixed a bug that could cause symlinks to be extracted with an incorrect path content or omitted entirely,
· Fixed a crashing bug that could occur while opening .zip files,
· Fixed a bug that could cause the window for the image view to appear at an incorrect size,
· Made some corrections to the localizations,
· Miscellaneous bug fixes.