ReleaseNotes/0.8.5

What's new in muCommander 0.8.5 ?

muCommander 0.8.5 was released on Feb 23, 2010. See ReleaseNotes for a list of all release notes.

Download links:  Windows -  Mac OS X -  Unix

New features

  • Added support for Amazon S3.
  • Added support for the Hadoop HDFS filesystem.

Improvements

  • A proper error message is displayed when muCommander is started in a headless environment.
  • Upgraded the commons-net FTP library to version 2.0 for increased server compatibility.
  • Actions relying on a file operation that is not supported by the current folder's filesystem are now disabled contextually.
  • Optimized the opening speed of Zip files.
  • Mac OS X: updated JavaApplicationStub and Info.plist to enable 64-bit operation on x86_64 architecture.
  • Improved the HTTP filesystem: better HTML/XHTML detection, follows links correctly.
  • Free space indicator now changes color gradually (ticket #311) ; adjusted free space warning threshold.
  • Adjusted the layout of the main window to some save screen estate around the toolbar. Contributed by Radomír Černoch.
  • Lowered memory usage by caching file attributes only when they are in use.
  • Migrated the codebase to Java 1.5 ; Java 1.4 is no longer supported.

Localization

  • Dutch translation updated with a few corrections.

Bug fixes

  • "Round displayed file sizes" checkbox does not refresh the panel correctly (ticket #328).
  • Single click on folder panel treated as double click (ticket #321).
  • Fixed 'startup_error' message that wasn't properly localized.
  • Fixed 7zip files left open after being browsed (ticket #334).
  • Mac OS X: raised the maximum memory that can be allocated to 128MB, to cope with directories that contain more than 80K files (ticket #332).
  • Unsafe behavior when deleting a bookmark from the file panel (ticket #329).

Known issues

  • Some translations may not be up-to-date. Refer to  http://trac.mucommander.com/wiki/Translations for more information.
  • Recycle Bin not working on Windows 64-bit (ticket #234).
  • Executable permissions on local files are not properly preserved when running a unix-based OS with Java 1.5.
  • SMB support may not work properly on non multi-language JRE.
  • 'Copy files to clipboard' not working with some applications (files are not pasted).
  • Mac OS X: some keyboard shortcuts may conflict with global system shortcuts.
  • Authentication issues when using several sets of credentials (login/password) for the same server (see ticket #76).
  • Untrusted HTTPS connections are allowed without a warning.