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Cloud Explorer Changelog

What's new in Cloud Explorer 14.0

Jul 10, 2020
  • Important Announcement:
  • Regions are no longer supported or needed in the configuration file.
  • Please re-create the config files for each account.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed upgrade system to another server
  • Fixed Dockerfile for trying Cloud Explorer
  • Improvements:
  • Latest AWS Libraries
  • Features:
  • Tier buckets to and from Amazon Glacier.
  • Sync files to and from S3 storage.
  • Stream music.
  • Text editor.
  • Modify Bucket and Object ACL's.
  • Take screen shots and upload them to your bucket.
  • Bucket versioning and life cycles.
  • Graphical and console based background syncing.
  • Store multiple Amazon S3 accounts.
  • Image viewer.
  • Migrate buckets between S3 accounts.
  • Bucket search.
  • Performance testing with graphs.
  • Command-line interface.
  • IRC client that allows you to save chat sessions to S3.
  • Access shared buckets on the same S3 provider.
  • Share buckets with the Canonical ID of a user on the same S3 provider.
  • Graph CSV files and save them to a bucket.
  • Record audio messages and save them to a bucket.
  • Bucket snapshots.

New in Cloud Explorer 13.0 (Aug 30, 2019)

  • Improvements:
  • Latest AWS Libraries
  • Features:
  • Tier buckets to and from Amazon Glacier.
  • Sync files to and from S3 storage.
  • Stream music.
  • Text editor.
  • Modify Bucket and Object ACL's.
  • Take screen shots and upload them to your bucket.
  • Bucket versioning and life cycles.
  • Graphical and console based background syncing.
  • Store multiple Amazon S3 accounts.
  • Image viewer.
  • Migrate buckets between S3 accounts.
  • Bucket search.
  • Performance testing with graphs.
  • Command-line interface.
  • IRC client that allows you to save chat sessions to S3.
  • Access shared buckets on the same S3 provider.
  • Share buckets with the Canonical ID of a user on the same S3 provider.
  • Graph CSV files and save them to a bucket.
  • Record audio messages and save them to a bucket.
  • Bucket snapshots.
  • Command-line Options:
  • java -jar CloudExplorer.jar put filename bucket
  • java -jar CloudExplorer.jar get filename bucket destination
  • java -jar CloudExplorer.jar delete filename bucket
  • #List bucket contents:
  • java -jar CloudExplorer.jar ls bucket
  • #List buckets:
  • java -jar CloudExplorer.jar listbuckets
  • #Delete a bucket:
  • java -jar CloudExplorer.jar rmbucket bucket
  • #Create a bucket:
  • java -jar CloudExplorer.jar makebucket bucket
  • #Sync to S3:
  • java -jar CloudExplorer.jar synctos3 location bucket [folder]
  • #Sync from S3:
  • java -jar CloudExplorer.jar syncfroms3 destination bucket [folder]
  • #Performance Test - PUT:
  • java -jar CloudExplorer.jar uploadtest bucket size threads operations
  • #Performance Test - GET:
  • java -jar CloudExplorer.jar downloadtest bucket size threads operations
  • #Search for files:
  • java -jar CloudExplorer.jar search bucket what
  • #Create a folder:
  • java -jar CloudExplorer.jar createfolder bucket name
  • #Delete everything:
  • java -jar CloudExplorer.jar deleteall bucket
  • #Check for Cloud Explorer updates:
  • java -jar CloudExplorer.jar upgrade
  • #Add S3 Account to config:
  • java -jar CloudExplorer.jar add-account access_key secret_key endpoint port name
  • #Remove S3 Account from config:
  • java -jar CloudExplorer.jar remove-account name
  • #Migrate a Bucket to another account/bucket:
  • The following variables need to be set for the destination account first:
  • MIGRATE_ACCESS_KEY
  • MIGRATE_SECRET_KEY
  • MIGRATE_ENDPOINT
  • java -jar CloudExplorer.jar migrate bucket destination_bucket
  • #Background Sync from CLI:
  • The following variables need to be set first if a config file does not exist:
  • ACCESS_KEY
  • SECRET_KEY
  • ENDPOINT
  • BUCKET
  • DIRECTORY
  • java -jar CloudExplorer.jar backgroundsync
  • #Snapshot a Bucket:
  • The following variables need to be set for the destination account first:
  • MIGRATE_ACCESS_KEY
  • MIGRATE_SECRET_KEY
  • MIGRATE_ENDPOINT
  • java -jar CloudExplorer.jar snapshot bucket snapshot_bucket [existing_snapshot_folder]
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New in Cloud Explorer 12.0 (Aug 9, 2018)

  • Improvements:
  • Latest AWS Libraries
  • Important Announcement:
  • Regions are no longer supported or needed in the configuration file.
  • Please re-create the config files for each account.
  • Java 10 Required

New in Cloud Explorer 10.02 (Apr 10, 2017)

  • Important Announcement:
  • Regions are no longer supported or needed in the configuration file.
  • Please re-create the config files for each account.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Autodetect AWS Regions to list objects properly
  • Improvements:
  • You can now create buckets in different regions

New in Cloud Explorer 10.0 (Apr 3, 2017)

  • Important Announcement:
  • Regions are no longer supported or needed in the configuration file.
  • Please re-create the config files for each account.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Sync Fix to support top-level folder
  • setPathStyleAccess fix
  • Background Syncing now does bidirectional sync properly.
  • Improvements:
  • Faster Syncing, Bucket Migrations, and Snapshots - 5 files at a time with metadata
  • checks.
  • Cleaner and shared code between CLI and GUI
  • Uses the new ListObjectsV2Request from the S3 JDK
  • Region is no longer required in configuration.
  • CLI does not check for updates for each command anymore.
  • Background Sync rewritten
  • Background Sync mode: now saves the account info and bucket in the config file.
  • New Features:
  • Abort multi-part uploads
  • Migrate Buckets with CLI
  • Snapshot Buckets with CLI
  • Snapshot deltas with CLI

New in Cloud Explorer 9.0 (Mar 16, 2017)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fix allows creating and deleting buckets in different regions
  • Now uses default system font to fix an issue with Ubuntu
  • Windows and Linux GUI alignment
  • Improvements:
  • If no region is entered, it will default to us-west-1.
  • New Features:
  • Create and delete buckets in different regions
  • Supports connecting to an S3 Server by IP address

New in Cloud Explorer 8.22 (Jan 24, 2017)

  • Bug Fixes: Now uses default system font to fix an issue with Ubuntu

New in Cloud Explorer 8.21 (Dec 2, 2016)

  • Bug Fixes: GUI was not aligned properly on Linux and Windows

New in Cloud Explorer 8.2 (Dec 1, 2016)

  • Bug Fixes: GUI was not aligned properly on Linux and Windows

New in Cloud Explorer 8.1 (Nov 28, 2016)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • IRC:
  • Fixed issue where the message window will not appear if no IRC config is found.
  • Restore from Glacier:
  • Actually works now.
  • Upload:
  • Folder list no longer disabled after doing performance testing.
  • Sync:
  • Folder list is now correct color as other folder lists.
  • Improvements:
  • Misc dialog window calibration
  • Larger font sizes for easier reading
  • Larger Window Frame
  • More screen space under each tab
  • Clearer Menus:
  • Combined the "Objects" menu with the File menu
  • Renamed "Restore Object from Glacier" to "Restore from Glacier"
  • Renamed "Modify Object ACL" to "Modify ACL"
  • Graph and Folders:
  • The console window will be visible with an error message if no bucket is selected.

New in Cloud Explorer 8.0 (Oct 15, 2016)

  • Bug Fixes and Improvements:
  • Update system uses AWS S3 instead of linux-toys.com
  • Improved Native keyboard support for OS X
  • Removed duplicate update check upon launch
  • Removed Public URL to Clipboard to fix a CLI issue.
  • Also removed Clipboard library requirements.
  • CLI:
  • Some operations were not working with S3 ENVAR credentials
  • Running perf tests would exit prematurely
  • New Features:
  • More Intelligent Upgrades:
  • Downloads entire Zip archive and upgrades old software.
  • Now able to upgrade to future releases without breaking.

New in Cloud Explorer 7.4 (Jul 14, 2016)

  • New Features:
  • CLI can check for updates and install them with the 'upgrade' flag.

New in Cloud Explorer 7.3 (Mar 27, 2016)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Sync - Was broken for Windows, now it works.
  • Improvements:
  • CLI - lists each bucket on a new line for easier reading.
  • New Features:
  • New storage tier support for upload and sync: Infrequent access
  • You can store S3 credentials as environment variables for CLI. ACCESS_KEY, SECRET_KEY, ENDPOINT="https://s3.amazonaws.com:443", REGION="default"

New in Cloud Explorer 7.2 (Feb 29, 2016)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Background Syncing - Sync folders and subfolders properly. -Syncing Windows files
  • from S3 to Unix OS fixed.
  • Improvements:
  • Background Syncing - Compares MD5's and date when syncing.
  • Reuses CLI sync code. This helps eliminate technical debt
  • Updater - Displays upgrade alerts upon launch in the console.
  • New Features:
  • Background Syncing - Bidirectional sync.

New in Cloud Explorer 7.1 (Feb 29, 2016)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Sync GUI and CLI - subdirectories uploaded incorrectly. This causes directories to be
  • in wrong location when syncing locally.
  • Improvements:
  • Compiled with the latest Java 8
  • Using latest AWS SDK 1.10.56
  • Cleaner sync code.
  • More stable syncing to and from S3.

New in Cloud Explorer 7.0 (Oct 15, 2015)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Due to a Java and AWS JDK compatability issue, I had to update all the libraries and JDK to v1.10.26.
  • New Features:
  • v4 signing support only.

New in Cloud Explorer 6.1 (Aug 6, 2015)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed bug syncing folders from the CLI.
  • Deleting a file with CLI is functional.
  • Catch exception when aborting a sync and reloading buckets.
  • Obsolete buttons disabled after clicking Versioning.
  • Improvements:
  • Changed the green colors back to blue for easier reading.
  • "Set Current Folder to Restore Snapshot from" has been renamed to "Set Current Folder as Snapshot Origin".
  • Added text labels back to object explorer.
  • Windows .bat file and Linux shell launcher no longer included.
  • New Features:
  • Snapshots can sync changes to a bucket from prior snapshots.

New in Cloud Explorer 6.0 (Jul 13, 2015)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed a bug when switching accounts.
  • If no region is specified, it will default to "defaultAWS" to avoid a null pointer exception. To resolve the issue, delete and add your account back.
  • If no image is selected when the image button is pressed, nothing happens.
  • If no music is selected when the play button is pressed, nothing happens.
  • Support for line spaces in s3.config
  • Versioning display fix.
  • Improvements:
  • Snapshots and Migration are now located under the new menu "Snapshots and Migration".
  • New Icons for GUI.
  • Maximize Window.
  • For improved GUI responsiveness, many actions now avoid reloading buckets.
  • New Features:
  • Create Bucket snapshots.
  • Restore Bucket snapshots.

New in Cloud Explorer 5.6 (May 23, 2015)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Emergency Sync fix for Windows users.
  • New Features:
  • Performance Testing - Folders support.
  • Syncing compares MD5 sum to determine if object is different.

New in Cloud Explorer 5.5 (May 21, 2015)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Syncing GUI and CLI:
  • Prevent duplicated transfers of synced files in folders.
  • When syncing to local machine, items go in correct folder.
  • Syncing from CLI:
  • Syncing from S3 saves to appropriate directory level.
  • Improvements:
  • Music Player:
  • Plays WAV files.
  • Stop button renamed to "Stop /Close" for clarity.
  • No longer case sensitive for MP3 file extension.
  • Syncing GUI and CLI:
  • Overwrite button removed.
  • New Features:
  • Audio recorder.
  • Sync GUI and CLI:
  • Timestamps are compared and the outdated files are overwritten.
  • Editor:
  • Save to top-level folders
  • Features:
  • Tier buckets to and from Amazon Glacier.
  • Sync files to and from S3 storage.
  • Stream music.
  • Text editor.
  • Modify Bucket and Object ACL's.
  • Take screen shots and upload them to your bucket.
  • Bucket versioning and life cycles.
  • Graphical and console based background syncing.
  • Store multiple Amazon S3 accounts.
  • Image viewer.
  • Migrate buckets between S3 accounts.
  • Bucket search.
  • Performance testing with graphs.
  • Command-line interface.
  • IRC client that allows you to save chat sessions to S3.
  • Access shared buckets on the same S3 provider.
  • Share buckets with the Canonical ID of a user on the same S3 provider.
  • Graph CSV files and save them to a bucket.
  • Record audio messages and save them to a bucket.

New in Cloud Explorer 5.4 (Mar 30, 2015)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • SyncToS3 and SyncFrom S3:
  • When last folder is deleted, it no longer appears in folder listing window.
  • Improvements:
  • SyncToS3:
  • Full file paths are no longer used since it makes more sense to sync to a folder.
  • New Features:
  • CLI:
  • SyncToS3 supports destination folder.
  • SyncFromS3 supports syncing from a folder.
  • New Argument: createfolder and deleteall.

New in Cloud Explorer 5.0 (Jan 14, 2015)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Performance testing - threads are actually threads now.
  • Performance testing - temp files are now deleted when running a download test.
  • Main program title renamed from S3 to CloudExplorer.
  • After choosing "Delete every object and version", buckets are reloaded.
  • "Delete every object and version" continues to run until every object and version is deleted.
  • Improvements:
  • Added "Refresh Bucket" button. Functions just like the search button. Added it for ease of use.
  • Search button and text field are now located under the bucket list.
  • Minor GUI alignment fixes.
  • More compact GUI; ideal for smaller screens.
  • Versioning - Improved delete.
  • When deleting a version of a file, the bucket is refreshed to show the changes.
  • Console window is disabled by default and can be turned on or off.
  • Console window will automatically appear upon important events.
  • Text "Buckets" in Object Explorer has been replaced with a icon.
  • Sync buttons are no longer Toggle Buttons.
  • Better debug messages for PUT, DELETE, and GET.
  • Buckets are reloaded after bucket migration.
  • New Features:
  • Improved GUI.
  • Support for accessing a shared bucket.
  • Support for sharing bucket access with a canonical ID.
  • "File -> New Window" - Run another instance of Cloud Explorer!
  • S3 Accounts can now have a unique name rather than using the endpoint.
  • "Tools -> Delete temp files" - This will cleanup any temp files in your home directory.
  • "Help -> Check for updates". This is a self-updating feature for minor updates.

New in Cloud Explorer 4.2 (Jan 3, 2015)

  • Improvements:
  • CLI - When listing objects, the number of objects will be printed.
  • CLI - GET now has a destination argument instead of downloading to the users home directory only.
  • GUI Text box size fixes when creating a bucket, running performance tests, migrating accounts, and modifying bucket lifecycle rules.
  • GUI - When files are deleted, the file listing in object explorer is refreshed.
  • GUI - Select and Deselect are one toggle button. Issue #18.
  • GUI - Bucket properties are always visible. Issue #16 and #17.
  • GUI - Bucket properties takes action upon selecting the button. Issue #15.
  • GUI - Info button supports file information for multiple files in Object Explorer. Issue #19.
  • GUI - Stop button has been replaced with the Upload button. This will bring you to the upload tab.
  • New Features:
  • IRC client to chat and save sessions to S3.
  • New Features:
  • Command-line interface: put, get, delete, makebucket, rmbucket, listbuckets, syncfroms3, and synctos3.
  • Performance testing available from the command-line

New in Cloud Explorer 4.1 (Nov 26, 2014)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed a bug with the info button to support displaying object information for S3-compatible cloud providers.
  • Daemon mode now only syncs to S3 to avoid having duplicate files.
  • Improvements:
  • Performance Testing: Graph and non-graph display are labeled as PUT or GET.
  • Versioning: Latest file will be in blue. Deleted files will be in red.
  • Versioning: Version enabled buckets will be displayed in green.
  • Upgraded S3 API to 1.9.3
  • GUI creates and deletes buckets in a background thread to be more responsive.
  • New Features:
  • Command-line interface: put, get, delete, makebucket, rmbucket, listbuckets, syncfroms3, and synctos3.
  • Performance testing available from the command-line

New in Cloud Explorer 4.0 (Oct 11, 2014)

  • Java 8 is required for this release.
  • Search text box automatically clears after search.
  • Performance improvements when deleting thousands of objects.
  • "Delete every object and version" is more stable.
  • Display improvements for performance testing.
  • GUI redesign.
  • Improved tab icon images.
  • Text Editor - Caret position is set to the beginning of the file.
  • Added Help menu.
  • Updated Amazon S3 API to 1.8.11
  • Cloud Explorer version number is displayed in the title bar.
  • "Current Bucket" is now in the title bar of the program.
  • Added exception message for errors when using the build system.
  • Fixed "Info" button. File size said KB, but it is actually in bytes.
  • The presigned URL is copied to the clipboard automatically.
  • The left tabs now have tooltips.
  • When downloading multiple files in Object Explorer, each one will be downloaded
  • individually rather than spawning a thread for each.
  • Cleaner GUI interface for performance testing.
  • Removed "View Object ACL".

New in Cloud Explorer 3.4 (Oct 1, 2014)

  • mprovement for delete: Support for deleting 3000 objects at a time. The old value
  • was 500.
  • GUI icon alignment.
  • Memory improvements.
  • Performance improvements.
  • Fixed exception for "Delete every object and version".
  • Cleaned up exception messages.
  • Enabled exception messages.
  • Improved code for displaying version objects.
  • GUI fix for OS X. GUI will look the same on every platform now.

New in Cloud Explorer 3.3 (Sep 4, 2014)

  • Fixed horizontal scrollbar distorting the GUI.
  • Icon alignment under the Sync tab.
  • Resized search bar icon.
  • Added GPL v3 license.
  • Music player does not set the mp3 as public anymore.
  • Fixed a bug with versioning to support downloading multiple versions of files.
  • Bug fix for "Delete every object and version". Faster and more stable.
  • Encryption for Uploads.
  • Support for Folders and files with the name "null".
  • Removed "Selected Bucket" from Sync and Upload tabs.
  • Added "Current Bucket" above search bar.
  • GUI resized to fit on smaller screen.
  • GUI no longer moves to the top left of the screen after selecting an account.

New in Cloud Explorer 3.2.1 (Aug 12, 2014)

  • New Icons throughout the program.
  • Emergency Code fix for Music player.

New in Cloud Explorer 3.2 (Aug 12, 2014)

  • New buttons for the GUI.
  • Spacing tweak on GUI for Sync and Upload tabs.
  • Upload has new feature to compress a file. The zip file will be uploaded to S3.
  • "Object Name" has been renamed to "File Name" in Text Editor.
  • Support for Amazon RRS (Reduced Redundancy Storage). Storage pricing will be cheaper because less copies of the data will exist on Amazon S3.
  • Added checkbox for Upload and Sync tabs called "RRS".
  • Added error message when trying to connect to a server with a non-trusted SSL certificate because this program does not support it.
  • "Delete every object and version" is now throtteled for stability.
  • A message will be displayed when a sync operation is complete.

New in Cloud Explorer 3.1 (Jul 30, 2014)

  • New GUI layout: smaller window, more compact.
  • Many of the items in the "Bucket Properties" menu moved to Bucket -> "Bucket Properties".
  • Checkbox to disable automatically loading buckets after selecting an account.
  • Default Host URL and Port defaults to Amazon.
  • S3 Bucket migration will scan destination bucket and not upload the object if it already exists.
  • S3 Bucket migration has an option to abort the current migration.
  • Fixed bug when switching from Amazon S3 to S3 compatible accounts.

New in Cloud Explorer 3.0 (Jul 23, 2014)

  • Migrate buckets to another S3 account.
  • Console message clean up for better understanding.
  • Tier buckets to Amazon Glacier with desired lifecycle via the "Bucket" menu.
  • Restore objects back from Amazon Glacier via the "Objects" menu.
  • Upgraded AWS S3 API to v1.8.5
  • Small tweaks to make GUI better.
  • Fixed a bug with displaying an objects Public URL
  • Fixed a bug with the MP3 player to play the URL correctly.

New in Cloud Explorer 2.9 (Jul 18, 2014)

  • Console message clean up for better understanding.
  • Tier buckets to Amazon Glacier with desired lifecycle via the "Bucket" menu.
  • Restore objects back from Amazon Glacier via the "Objects" menu.
  • Upgraded AWS S3 API to v1.8.5
  • Small tweaks to make GUI better.

New in Cloud Explorer 2.8.2 (Jul 3, 2014)

  • Listing versions of all objects in a bucket is throttled to 1000 for stability.
  • Small GUI alignment fixes.