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Ant Commander Changelog

What's new in Ant Commander 3.2

Jun 3, 2015
  • Use universal Java stub for Mac
  • Improved detection of current folder to load application external files
  • Upgraded to Ant 1.9.4
  • Improved the way to open files on Mac OS X
  • Improved drawing the sort arrows
  • More errors are logged in the Ant Console.
  • Added compare by size in directory
  • Added compare 2 directories by file size
  • Toolbar for Directory panels improved with parents, bookmarks, history, selection menu, home button
  • Added Edit as text to HTML viewer (in panel menu)
  • Added explore directory to image viewer
  • Includes now Java 8 for Windows installer

New in Ant Commander 3.1 (Jan 29, 2013)

  • File management:
  • Fixed dragging multiple files to external software.
  • Fixed error Could not find file with URI "m:" because it is a relative path, and no base URI was provided.
  • Added compare directories.
  • Fixed connecting to WebDAV server.
  • Added volumes (Mac OS X) to roots
  • Added medias (Linux) to roots
  • Added desktop root to roots
  • Added user home to roots
  • Improved password management.
  • Added online sftp, ftps, webdav, samba and windows share.
  • Upgraded library to httpclient 3.1.
  • Added commons-collection library for improved caching.
  • Fixed create directory on remote server
  • Added connect action
  • Added close connection action
  • Ease of use:
  • Improved Go to window to use remote protocols (ftp, ...)
  • Search from time is only using hours and minutes.
  • Added tooltips in search dialog.
  • Added tooltip example for rename with regular expression.
  • Selected items are remembered.
  • Added icons to roots
  • Improved layout of some windows when resizing.
  • Settings automatically saved every 5 minutes.
  • Added possibility to set tooltips on input fields.
  • Fixed Applet not working for http://antcommander.com URLs.
  • Run online goes now to http://www.antcommander.com/online/file-manager.html
  • Removed unneeded borders in general options panel.
  • Other:
  • Fixed problem with label input field.
  • Updated Ant and VFS libraries.
  • Removed commons compress library (not needed)
  • Added commons-codec 1.3.
  • Upgraded to Java 7u11 kernel.

New in Ant Commander 3.0 (Dec 14, 2012)

  • File management:
  • Added ftps protocol for FTP Over SSL.
  • Added option to save passwords (default not saved).
  • Passwords in URL are now encrypted when saved to disk.
  • Added help button in the Go To... action.
  • Spaces before of after the directory are stripped in the Go To dialog.
  • Fixed directories containing ' " or , are saved correctly.
  • Fixed Next and Previous buttons in the image viewer were only showing the images with the same extension.
  • Fixed Location displayed for the root of the tree directory and the arguments for new panel is the displayable URL.
  • Better handling when opening incorrect location for panel accepting only folders.
  • Improved OS integration:
  • Better support for Windows 8.
  • Improved opening files (unicode support such as Chinese or Russian, better Unix support, Downloaded executable supported).
  • Fixed start shell for Mac OS X.
  • Start shell will open gnome-terminal or konsole if available on Linux.
  • Jar file is now executable for Linux.
  • Fixed starting Ant Commander from Nautilus & other Linux file managers.
  • Fixed missing AntRun shell script on Unix platforms.
  • Fixed delete to Recycle bin for Windows
  • Fixed delete to Trash for Mac OS X.
  • Fixed incorrect executable permissions for Mac OS X.
  • Fixed did not go to the correct directory.
  • Added details to the drives when selecting a drive.
  • Improved images panel:
  • Improved quality of resized images (for image panel and thumbnail panel).
  • Thumbnail panel won't resize the image if it's smaller than the thumbnail size.
  • Added preview and execute to thumbnail panel toolbar.
  • Added execute to the image panel toolbar.
  • Images larger than the screen size are now by default default to fit the screen size.
  • Improved selection rendering in thumbnail panel.
  • Ease of use:
  • Redesign of the website.
  • ColumnsWidth for tables in per mil instead of percentage to be more precise.
  • Added option to specify separator when copying file names to clipboard.
  • Default separator when copying file names to clipboard is now a new line (\n).
  • Delete won't ask for confirmation if the file is moved to the Recycle bin or Trash.
  • The escape key in the table filter field will just empty the field and no longer close the window.
  • Added option to save preferences (default to saved).
  • Added preferences save in the "preferences" directory are automatically showed in the status bar (after restart).
  • Improved welcome page with more tips. And now accessible from the main help page.
  • Added "Always on top (new window only)" option when cloning a panel.
  • Settings are kept when reusing clone a panel.
  • Improved formated file names in popup messages.
  • Renamed "Delete completly" to "Delete Definitively".
  • Last entered value is the first choice in the popup menu.
  • No more tooltip showing for the status bar.
  • Start-up:
  • Fixed start up error when saving configuration in another file.
  • Fixed loading plugin settings before initializing it.
  • Loaded Jar file are no longer opened at start-up for meta-info (Ant Commander should start faster).
  • The Applet now downloads all needed local files at once from a zip file (instead of 28 downloads).
  • More error details are showed if the creation of a panel fails.
  • Upgraded Libraries:
  • Upgraded to Ant 1.8.4 (or 1.9.0 snapshot)
  • Upgraded to Apache commons VFS 2.1 snapshot.
  • Upgraded to commons compress 1.4.1.
  • Upgraded to commons httpclient 3.0.
  • Upgraded to jCIFS 1.3.17.
  • Upgraded to JCTerm 0.0.11.
  • Upgraded jsch.jar to version 0.1.49.
  • Added Jackrabbit WebDAV library 2.4.3 (Apache license).
  • Added SLF4J-API 1.7.2 needed for Jackrabbit WebDAV library (BSD Like license).
  • Added java image scaling 0.8.5 library (LGPL license).
  • Removed webdav-2.0 library.
  • Removed jakarta-oro library.
  • Upgraded to Java 7u10 kernel.
  • Other improvements:
  • Fixed table filter still applied after changing of directory.
  • Fixed focus problem when more than 1 file was previewed.
  • Fixed incorrect closing a panel from the main application when closing a window.
  • Added donate to the help menu.
  • Use anti-aliasing to display the sort arrows.
  • Known issue: delete to recycle bin won't work in Windows in Applet mode until
  • the applet run in 64bits mode (recycle.exe is 64bit), use Delete definitively instead.