What's new in Springy 1.6.1
Nov 19, 2009
- Fixes a bug in version 1.6 which could corrupt a ZIP archive after modifying it and quitting application.
New in Springy 1.6 (Nov 18, 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).
New in Springy 1.5.6 (Aug 16, 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).
New in Springy 1.5.5 (Aug 5, 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.
New in Springy 1.5.4 (Jun 29, 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.
New in Springy 1.5.3 (Jun 23, 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,...).
New in Springy 1.5.2 (Apr 29, 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).
New in Springy 1.5.1 (Apr 13, 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.
New in Springy 1.5 (Apr 1, 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).
New in Springy 1.4.2 (Jun 12, 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).