@(#) $Id: RelNotes.txt,v 2.9 2005/03/16 20:11:10 svante Exp $ 1.6.1 2005-03-16 Several annoyances removed, basically a bug-fix release. A potentially major bug in the uninstaller was fixed, under very unusual circumstances the uninstaller could remove more files than intended. This only applies if non-standard install locations were choosen during install, if so you should upgrade to this version before attempting uninstall. 1.6 2004-11-27 A major update, although few changes are visible to users. AxCrypt now supports trial use and strong digitally signed product activation codes. Irrelevant for the GPL version which remains free. A number of more or less minor bugs fixed, the most serious causing upgrade installations to fail. Nothing with security impact. Hungarian language is now supported! 1.5.4.2 2004-09-11 A very minor release. Fix a bug when upgrading previous versions in the installer. 1.5.4 2004-08-28 A maintenance release fixing various minor bugs and annoyances, the most serious causing failed upgrades. Self-decrypting archives now start with a simplified dialog. 1.5.3.1 2004-06-29 A patch for an re-/uninstall problem when using a custom Start Menu location, other Start Menu folders may get unintentionally deleted. 1.5.3 2004-06-28 A maintenance release with various bug-fixes and minor new features. Some prettier dialogs, true upgrade instead of uninstall followed by re-install, a bug reporting option on the context menu etc. The most critical bug-fix is broken NT4 compatibility. Minor documentation updates. 1.5.2 2004-05-05 Completed the Spanish translation. Kudos to Jacobo Fortuny Ayuso! A bug-fix, fixing loss of edited changes on network disconnect or forced removal of device. New feature to allow encrypt-to-copy from Windows Explorer. Migrated to more recent compiler and compression library. New documentation content and web site design. 1.5.1 2004-03-21 Many bug-fixes and minor improvements. None with security impact. Major new functionality in support of self-decrypting files, stand-alone install-free decrypt-only program. Generation and usage of key-files. Dynamic determination of key wrap iteration count depending on computer speed. 1.4.3 2003-08-11 Bug-fixes and improvements. 1.4.2 introduced a few problems in the application launch-logic, that's now further improved and fixed. A memory leak and a handle leak was fixed. Wild cards should work now. 1.4.2 2003-07-04 Mostly a bug-fix release. Many changes and additions too. One major annoyance, causing it to be unable to run as a non-Administrator on NT/2K/XP fixed. A serious problem (but affects very few) with file corruption in unusual network situations fixed. Due to that also made it possible to decrypt a file even if the HMAC is broken, but it requires enabling in the registry. Improved handling of read only files and removable media. Most wanted feature wild-cards on the command line is now implemented. 1.4.1 2003-01-06 Some minor annoyances with operations on the Desktop and Network Neighborhood on Win9x fixed. No longer reports file in use sometimes when attempting to open on XP/2K. Huge files could cause excessive disk space usage during operations. Fixed a situation where a previously used decryption key would become the default encryption key. 1.4 2002-11-27 Major fixes includes handling of .zip files in Windows XP, and a file wiping bug, causing data to be left unwiped in certain cases, depending on timing and os version. Also, Italian language texts are now included. Several minor changes, additions and bug-fixes. Recommend upgrade from previous version. 1.3.0.2 2002-08-28 Three minor bugs, one which was a memory leak, causing it to spontaneously combust (i.e. crash with Access Violation) after some time on a system with heavy usage. 1.3 2002-08-25 More command-line options to test for key in cache, anonymous rename from shell extension and command line, flag to ignore already encrypted from command-line. Most of all, only compress on need. Incompatible file-format change unfortunately,i.e. older versions can't read files produced by 1.3. Hopefully this is the last such change in a while. 1.2.1 2002-08-20 Fixes, changes and additions to improve command-line and non-interactive usage, server mode. Code clean-up and some minor bug-fixes. Not released to the web. 1.2 2002-08-14 One major bugfix affecting security, will read older files but previous releases will not read the new files. Major reworking of the user interface allowing multi file and folder selection, as well as displaying progress bar visual feedback on longer operations. Caching can be turned on or off optionally for both encryption default key and decryption keys. A complete and documented command-line interface is now available for programmatic access to the functionality. Spanish language texts added. Internally some rewriting of the resident server code. Lots of minor bugfixes. 1.1 2002-04-26 Release 1.1. Minor bugfixes. German and French language texts. The source package now includes project and workspace files for direct re-build using VC++. 1.0c1.1 2002-03-23 Upgraded to Zlib 1.1.4 after CERT advisory. No other changes. 1.0c1 2002-03-06 Release Candidate 1. Only minor bug-fixes, changes and additions from Beta 6. 0.0b6 2002-01-27 This is the final Beta Release before release candidate 1. Improvements in key wrapping, entropy gathering and pseudo random number generation. Full support for 64-bit file-sizes. Final file format changes done as previously planned. No further changes planned for version 1, and if any are found absolutely necessary, backward compatibility will apply. Code structure and robustness further increased. Many bug-fixes. 0.0b5 2002-01-02 This beta includes now works on XP as well, which beta 4 did not. It is known to work on 98/2K/XP. Acknowledgements of successful testing on 95/NT/ME appreciated. The major visible change is that the context menu now uses the program name as a starting point for a sub-menu that may include several possible options. New is 'Wipe and Delete' functionality. Internally there are some bug-fixes and preparations for full 64-bit file size support. Improved temp-file location and allocation. Improved handling of system shutdown and logoff. THE NEXT BETA WILL BE FINAL AND WILL INCLUDE INCOMPATIBLE FILE FORMAT CHANGES! 0.0b4 - Improved handling of application launch. - Several bug-fixes (none with risk of data loss). - Improved entropy input to Pseudo Random Number Generator. - Increased robustness reading damaged files. - Memory leaks fixed and heap checking implemented. - Some minor rearranging of the source code. 0.0b3 - Various small fixes of adminstrative nature - Will now work twice ;-) 0.0b2 2001-11-22 - Fully functional, tested on Win 98 and 2000. Please let me know if it works (it should ;-) on NT/95/XP. - Don't be put off by the low revision number... It really is quite stable.