November 19th, 2009· Fixes a bug in version 1.6 which could corrupt a ZIP archive after modifying it and quitting application.
November 18th, 2009· Open, read and extract support for 7Z archives (support for creating/modifying of 7Z archives will come soon).
· Open, read and extract support for Microsoft CAB archives.
· Springy is a Services Provider application, with Services Menu actions in Snow Leopard replacing Finder contextual menu plug-in (CM plug-in is still available in Leopard and earlier).
· Direct extraction mode, when the whole archive or disk image is extracted with double click on its file in Finder (application only).
· Flat file list view, which shows all files and folders in an archive without their mutual hierarchy (application only).
· Much more robust automatic archive type recognition.
· Speed gains when opening and processing ZIP archives (especially it they contain 20000+ files inside).
· Springy can now open and extract files from malformed large ZIP archives created by Apple tools Archive Utility and ditto, which don’t follow Zip64 specification properly.
· Springy can now open empty uncompressed TAR, PAX and CPIO archives it created.
· Showing icon file preview immediately after icon generation, which gives more smooth and natural user experience (application only).
· New toolbar icons for the user preferences panel (thanks to Kenichi Yoshida).
· File sizes in Snow Leopard are shown the same way as system wide, using “power of 10” instead of “power of 2” calculation.
· Removed DMG disk image file type from the list of file types for which Springy can be set as a default handler. This feature caused quite some problems for some users (application only).
· Fixed bug when drawing last or a preview column after making an empty selection in a column view in Snow Leopard (application only).
· Fixed bug when rendering file preview in a preview column for some files in Snow Leopard (application only).
· Fixed bug which disabled permanently password text field in a save panel when creating DMG disk images (application only).
· Fixed bug which hanged CM plug-in after right clicking two or more times an empty file selection in Path Finder (contextual menu plug-in only).
August 16th, 2009· Fixed bug causing collisions of SpringyCM plug-in with some applications, making them crash (contextual menu plug-in only).
· Fixed bug causing collision of SpringyCM plug-in with Springy application, preventing application to show its own contextual menu.
· Option “Move originals to trash after extracting/decompressing” now properly moves to trash all volumes of multi-volume archives, not just the first one (contextual menu plug-in only).
August 5th, 2009· Full interoperability with popular Path Finder application. Springy contextual menu commands are again available in Path Finder (contextual menu plug-in only).
· Option to show Springy contextual menu in the root of the Finder contextual menu, or in a standard “More” submenu, like Apple intended (contextual menu plug-in only).
· Faster response when pausing and cancelling creation and modification of archives (especially noticeable with compressed TAR, PAX and CPIO archives).
· Fixed bug which caused false recognition of some rare ZIP archives as RAR archives and subsequent erroneous processing.
June 29th, 2009· Fixed bug which caused Springy to crash when trying to create icon preview for some media files, most notable WMV and AVI (application only).
· Fixed bug in extraction of some files from split RAR archives with particular and rare header structure.
· Fixed progress bar update when testing files in RAR archive.
June 23rd, 2009· Testing files for consistency in ZIP and RAR archives.
· Icon and file previews for movie and text-based files are now generated without disturbing main archive processing (application only).
· Consistent behaviour in preserving file permission and attributes of modified archives (application only).
· Faster response when pausing and cancelling archive processing (especially noticeable with compressed TAR, PAX and CPIO archives).
· Fixed bug which caused Springy application to hang and eventually crash when showing icon and file previews for movie and text-based files (application only).
· Fixed bug in conversion of NTFS file attributes into UNIX file attributes in some ZIP archives.
· Fixed bug which prevented Springy from opening ZIP archives with read-only permission for the current user, and ZIP archives located on the read-only file system (CD/DVD media, NTFS,...).
April 29th, 2009· Support for creation and extraction of binary split ZIP archives (compatible with split ZIP archives made by 7-zip).
· Easy setting of Springy as a default application for some of or all supported archive types in user preferences (application only).
· Software License Agreement is not displayed when mounting source image if it is a part of standard automatic update process (this was just annoying people).
· Fixed bug which caused Springy to repeatedly ask for a password to extract encrypted files from RAR archive, even though the correct password was entered already.
· Fixed bug which caused wrong interpretation and parsing of name of the file in archive, it the name started with single letter followed by a dash ‘/’ character.
· Contextual menu plug in does not hang and lock further operation any more whenever a user right-clicks large file which is not an archive (contextual menu plug-in only).
· Contextual menu plug in does not hang and lock further operation and eventually crash Finder any more whenever a user right-clicks on many (1000 and more) files (contextual menu plug-in only).
· Fixed bug which caused Springy contextual menu plug-in to crash Finder during automatic update (contextual menu plug-in only).
· Fixed bug which prevented purchasing using built-in functionality in the application running under Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4.x). As a matter of fact, this was a bug in Kagi KRM module.
· Fixed bug which caused Springy to show “Compress” menu option in Tiger for folders, instead for files (contextual menu plug-in only).
April 13th, 2009· Fixed shameful bug which prevented creation of ISO disk images.
· Fixed bug which caused archive attributes settings to be ignored when creating DMG or ISO disk images, default attributes were used exclusively.
· Fixed bug which caused ignoring of alt modifier key while archiving files and default archiving setting was Click & and Archive.
· Fixed bug which could cause crashing in very rare situations when opening archives with file paths malformed in a particular way.
April 1st, 2009· No Panther support. Starting with version 1.5, first release of Tiger (10.4) or above is required.
· Springy contextual menu is shown in the root of Finder contextual menu even in Leopard, diving into More submenu is not needed any more (contextual menu plug-in only).
· Complete support for archiving and extraction of files containing extended attributes, ACL lists and quarantine data, in accordance with AppleDouble standard.
· Redesigned and enhanced handling and processing of RAR archives, bringing faster operation, less memory and disk I/O usage and better error handling.
· Improved processing of DMG and ISO disk images.
· Much better treatment of non-ASCII characters in file names inside TAR, PAX and CPIO archives.
· UTI are now used to distinguish recognisable file types application can handle (application only).
· Springy now tries to open every file handed to it, even if UTI suggests non-recognisable file type. If a file is any of archive type Springy can handle, it is successfully open regardless of UTIs. Otherwise, Springy will report that the file is not recognisable archive.
· Added option to either quickly archive/add files into an archive using default archiving parameters, or to choose particular parameters just prior start of archiving.
· Added option to either quickly extract files to the archive’s enclosing folder, or to choose particular extraction location (application only).
· Archive and compressed file operations can be paused and continued at any time.
· Modified archive processing so that files partially processed due to an error are preserved and the operation is continued, with option to abort it completely.
· Complete redesign of view preferences panes (application only).
· Added option to show real file contents as file icons in addition to standard file type icons (application only).
· Redesigned and enhanced preview column in column view (application only).
· Added option to show real file contents in a preview column in addition to standard file type icon (application only).
· Sorting of listed files in all three view types (icons, list, columns) using all available file attributes (name, dates, comment, etc…) for sorting criteria (application only).
· Added option to show list of files in list view and search view using alternate row colours (application only).
· Added path text field, which enables easy positioning to particular folder in an archive just by typing folder full path into it (application only).
· Added option to show real characters in password secure text fields in addition to masking them with bullets.
· New application icon (includes 512×512px version for Leopard).
· New document icons for all supported file types (include 512×512px version for Leopard).
· Redesigned alarm panels and sheets, removing all possible incorrect rendering and quirks.
· New licensing system.
· Sparkle framework code directly included into contextual menu plug-in, not as a framework as before, thus eliminating occasional crashes which some users experienced (contextual menu plug-in only).
· Redesigned preference panel.
· Redesigned About Panel, which now includes licensing information.
· Maximal number of recent extraction locations increased to 20.
· Maximal number of favourite extraction locations increased to 40.
· Many changes in UI in order to unify experience in both Tiger and Leopard and to make it even more Finder-alike (application only).
· Menu items for archive creation moved one level up in the hierarchy (contextual menu plug-in only).
· Fixed bug which sometimes caused setting of wrong permissions of files extracted from ZIP archives.
· Fixed bug which enabled renaming a file to a same name as some other file in the same archive (application only).
June 12th, 2008· Fixed wrong permissions set on files extracted from TAR, PAX and CPIO archives.
· Fixed crash when opening some not properly formed ZIP archives (find out more here).
· Renaming of files in TAR archives, just like it was possible in ZIP archives and DMG disk images.
· Fixed "Move originals to trash after compressing" preference setting (find out more here).
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