File Roller 2.24.3
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Released on January 13, 2009
Changes since previous version:
- #561535: Unable to create archive with OpenOffice document using nautilus integration. Patch by Gerard Lommerse.
- #559481: Can't open/view file directly from File Roller if there is a bracket in the directory/file name. Patch by Gerard Lommerse.
- #560468: Remove single GTK+ includes. Patch by Maxim Ermilov.
- Catalan (Joan Duran)
File Roller 2.24.2
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Released on November 24, 2008
Changes since previous version:
- Estonian (Ivar Smolin)
File Roller 2.24.1
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Released on October 21, 2008
Changes since previous version:
- #556623: correct spacings in glade dialogues. Patch by Christian Persch.
- #556619: format not a string literal and no format arguments. Patch by Christian Persch.
- #556571: non secret password typing.
- #555282: opening archive on remote directory fails with "Operation not supported".
- Arabic (Anas Afif Emad)
- Brazilian Portuguese (Fábio Nogueira)
- Czech (Adrian Guniš)
- Finnish (Valto Wirkola)
File Roller 2.24.0
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Released on September 22, 2008
Changes since previous version:
- #546799: file-roller crashed with SIGSEGV in g_str_hash()
- #552031: Add archiving and compression to desktop categories. Patch by Patryk Zawadzki.
- Afrikaans (F Wolff)
- Arabic (Anas Afif Emad)
- Catalan (Jordi Mallach)
- Croatian
- Danish (Ask Hjorth Larsen)
- Dzongkha (Dawa pemo)
- French (Claude Paroz)
- Greek (Kostas Papadimas)
- Gujarati (Sweta Kothari)
- Hungarian (Gabor Kelemen)
- Italian (Milo Casagrande)
- Kannada (Shankar Prasad)
- Lithuanian (Gintautas Miliauskas)
- Malayalam (Santhosh Thottingal)
- marathi (Sandeep Shedmake)
- Romanian (Mișu Moldovan)
- Russian (Yuriy Penkin)
- Serbian (sr) (Горан Ракић)
- Serbian (sr) (Goran Rakić)
- Telugu (Krishna Babu K)
- Turkish (Baris Cicek)
- Español (Jorge González)
- Finnish (Valto Wirkola)
- French (Claude Paroz)
- German (Mario Blättermann)
- Italian (Milo Casagrande)
File Roller 2.23.92
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Released on September 8, 2008
Changes since previous version:
- #551153: [PATCH] rpm: display empty directories and support device files. Patch by Eric Piel.
- #551146: [PATCH] cpio: escaped filenames and block devices support. Patch by Eric Piel.
- #546541: File associations paragraph corrected. Patch by Claude Paroz.
- British English (David Lodge)
- albanian (Laurent Dhima)
- Bulgarian (Alexander Shopov)
- Croatian (Robert Sedak)
- Korean (Changwoo Ryu)
- Vietnamese (Nguyễn Đình Trung)
- zh_CN (甘露(Lu Gan))
- Vietnamese (Nguyễn Đình Trung)
File Roller 2.23.91
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Released on September 1, 2008
Changes since previous version:
- #544766: file-roller doesn't remember open-with application.
- Sort the archive type list to make it easier to find the desired type.
- Basque (Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio)
- Chinese (Hong Kong) (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
- Chinese/Traditional (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
- Español (Jorge González)
- French (Claude Paroz)
- German (Hendrik Richter)
- Oriya (Manoj Kumar Giri)
- Polish (Tomasz Dominikowski)
- Serbian (Goran Rakić)
- German (Mario Blättermann)
File Roller 2.23.6
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Released on August 19, 2008
Changes since previous version:
- #350640: sending an empty folder doesn't work.
- #548020: create archive directory selection not working correctly. Patch by Marcel Stimberg.
- #546698: file-roller-2.23.1/2.23.5 removes r/x bit for anyone but root from /
- #547733: 7-zip tells about invalid command line
- #547297: Crash reading zip/7za files with 7z version 4.55.
- #546978: wrong icon for folders. Patch by Matthias Clasen.
- #547017: segfault in Open with. Patch by Matthias Clasen.
- #546505: Debian packages not supported anymore.
- #542424: Tar.bz2 archives create uncompressed archive files.
- #546541: Typo and little errors in documentation. Suggested by Frederic Peters. Patch by Claude Paroz.
- LP#26662: file-roller fails to open .Z files.
- Arabic (Djihed Afifi)
- Belarusian Latin (Ihar Hrachyshka)
- Bengali INDIA (Runa Bhattacharjee)
- Brazilian Portuguese (Fábio Nogueira)
- Español (Jorge González)
- Estonian (Ivar Smolin)
- Finnish (Ilkka Tuohela)
- Hebrew (Gil Osher)
- Japanese (Takeshi AIHANA)
- Portuguese (Duarte Loreto)
- Swedish (Daniel Nylander)
- Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
- Español (Jorge González)
- German (Mario Blättermann)
File Roller 2.23.5
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Released on August 4, 2008
Changes since previous version:
- Added a help button to the window used to create archives from the file manager menu.
- Unified the new and save as dialogs. Allow to specify other options in these dialogs, such as whether to encrypt the header and whether to split the archive in volumes.
- User's manual: now describes the current file-roller version.
- #545188: Has incorrect start text for 7zip version 4.43
- #545168: no longer possible to open a multi-volume rar from any part
- #545161: file-roller crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen() when extracting tarball.
- #544613: file-roller crashed with SIGSEGV in remove_directory()
- #544296: desktop entry does not validate. Patch by Götz Waschk.
- #544184: extra space in the mimetype lists. Patch by Sebastien Bacher.
- #544182: configure.ac should use AC_PROG_CC. Patch by Sebastien Bacher.
- Allow to create multi-volume archives from the main window.
- Arabic (Djihed Afifi)
- Dutch (Wouter Bolsterlee)
- Norwegian Bokmål (Kjartan Maraas)
- Macedonian (Arangel Angov)
- Occitan (Yannig Marchegay (Kokoyaya))
- Galego (Ignacio Casal Quinteiro)
- Brazilian Portuguese (Fabrício Godoy)
- Español (Jorge González)
- Czech (Adrian Guniš)
- Estonian (Ivar Smolin)
- Swedish (Daniel Nylander)
File Roller 2.23.4
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Released on July 21, 2008
Changes since previous version:
- Added support for reading and extracting alz archives (#521324).
- Added support for rzip compressed files (#503000).
- Added support for creating self-extracting zip archives.
- Added ability to create multi-volume archives.
- Added support for header encryption. Implemented header encryption for 7zip and rar archives.
- Use the 7z command to read/write zip, cbr, cbz archives, and to read cabinet, arj, rar and iso archives.
- Try to get the mime type from magic numbers if all other methods fail.
- Now the progress dialog is exact when adding, extracting or deleting files for tar, zip, rar and 7zip archives (#153281).
- Do not add the backup files, that is files ending with ~, to the archive.
- Operations are now more efficient for archives with a long file list.
- Fixed bug #343201 – Use p7zip for RAR archives?
- Fixed bug #529395 – file-roller will not open 256 AES zip files
- Fixed bug #515194 – PK 4.5 Zip files
- Fixed bug #519046 – add x-cbr and x-cbz support
- Fixed bug #336790 – file-roller can't open winzip-10 encrypted files (AES)
- Fixed bug #539629 – Create archive for Trash/Computer
- Fixed bug #506698 – 7z Filename (header) Encryption request
- Fixed bug #542541 – icon lookup code is broken
- Fixed bug #504584 – Incorrect comportment when extracting multi part rar files.
- Simplified the way to register commands.
- Allow to compile with Gtk+ 2.12 as well.
File Roller 2.23.3
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Released on June 16, 2008
Changes since previous version:
- Added partial support for tar archives compressed with 7zip.
- Display the progress dialog if the operation lasts more than 5 seconds. Display the progress dialog without delay if extracting or converting an archive. After the extraction add to the progress dialog the button to open the destination folder and after the conversion add the button to open the newly created archive. Removed the 'view folder after extraction' option from the extraction dialog.
- Removed the preview-file stock item, use gtk_stock_open instead.
- Do not use the sh command to exec the process, use the utility command directly to allow to stop the process properly
- Use g_io_channel to read the command output.
File Roller 2.23.2
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Released on June 2, 2008
Changes since previous version:
- Fixed bug #480190 – files added to archive are wrongly placed in root
- Fixed bug #535967 – Meaningless message: Open Go to the next visited location selected folder
- Fixed bug #536055 – Support for special characters in rpm archives
- Fixed bug #527271 – Ctrl-Q should quit file-roller.
- Fixed bug #532789 – file-roller crashes when modifying archive, data destroyed
- Fixed bug #532255 – file-roller silently allows the user to exit in the middle of an operation.
File Roller 2.23.1
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Released on April 21, 2008
Changes since previous version:
- Show an alert dialog when the 'save as' operation is completed, and allow the user the open the newly created archive.
- Load and save the 'add folder' dialog options. Allow to clear the options as well.
- Allow to specify a password when converting an archive to another format.
- Added keyboard shortcut to deselect all. Moved add files and add folders down in the edit menu. Moved stop and reaload at the bottom of the view menu. Removed the 'sort by' submenu.
- Added an exclude folder filter to specify sub-folders to ignore when adding a folder recursively.
- Added ability to extract folders from the folder pane using drag & drop.
- Fixed bug #523158 – exclamation mark in RAR password
- Fixed bug #516043 – status bar / progress bar artifact
- Fixed bug #512474 – Visual glitches at startup Internal code has been modified in order to remove the usage of
- now the GIO library is used to access the filesystem instead of the deprecated gnome-vfs library.
- gtk+ is used to get the applications and mime types icons.
- replaced gnome_url_show with g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri.
- use g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri to show the help dialog.
- use the new tooltips API.
- use g_key_file instead of gnome_config for loading/saving sessions.
- use GRegex instead of the custom utf8_fnmatch function.
File Roller 2.21.92
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Released on February 25, 2008
Changes since previous version:
- Updated translations.
File Roller 2.21.91
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Released on February 11, 2008
Changes since previous version:
- Updated translations.
File Roller 2.21.2
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Released on January 28, 2008
Changes since previous version:
- Added the ability to find the files of the archive with the specified filename.
File Roller 2.21.1
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Released on January 7, 2008
Changes since previous version:
- Implemented the ability to update the files in an archive when the files are modified with an external application (#109767).
- Added support for lzma files, both normal files and tar-files compressed by lzma (#502999).
- Fixed bug #487012: Check for the existence of 'filename.tar.{bz2,gz}' and only if it doesn't exist it makes file-roller call tar with the '-cf' switch.
- Fixed bug #487079: Key F10 can not activate the main menu.
- Fixed bug #499958: file size displayed incorrectly on .Z file
- Fixed bug #499558: File-roller is unable to expand some zip files
- Fixed bug #458399: fix duplicated hotkeys, assign new hotkeys, add some user-friendly features
- Fixed bug #475166: Failed assertion when --extract-here is used without --extract-to
- Fixed bug #505987: Nautilus extension directory changed to -2.0
- Fixed bug #487012: file-roller causes gnu tar >= 1.19 to give warnings when creating tar-archives
- Fixed bug #490891: skips files when opening an old ARJ archive
- Fixed bug #504597: Direct compare on string
File Roller 2.20.2
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Released on November 26, 2007
Changes since previous version:
- Updated translations: Occitan (oc), Galician (gl), Arabic (ar), Slovenian (sl), Hebrew (he), Hungarian (hu).
File Roller 2.20.1
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Released on October 15, 2007
Changes since previous version:
- Fixed crash after cancelling an archive creation from the Nautilus context menu. (bug #482203)
File Roller 2.19.92
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Released on September 3, 2007
Changes since previous version:
- Display empty folders in 7zip archives.
File Roller 2.19.91
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Released on August 27, 2007
Changes since previous version:
- Fixed bug #467482 - [gutsy regression] extract here no longer puts extracted file here.
- Fixed bug #468677 - file-roller doesn't open folders if you go up one level.
- Fixed bug #469528 - file-roller crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()
- Fixed bug #469221 - extract a package on an NTFS partition doesn't work.
File Roller 2.19.90
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Released on August 13, 2007
Changes since previous version:
- Fixed copy & paste of folders with tar archives.
- Fixed execution of the sidebar context menu commands.
- Fixed renaming of files. Do not change the current location when reloading the archive after a rename.
- Fixed bug #144216 - can't open compressed .EXE files
- Fixed bug #463251 - remove #include <gnome.h> lines
- Fixed bug #463235 - Can't add an empty directory with --add option.
- Fixed bug #463753 - replace gnome_help_display.
- Fixed bug #463887 - Progress bar height should be smaller.
File Roller 2.19.4
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Released on July 30, 2007
Changes since previous version:
- Get the mime type from the file content to find out the default application to use when viewing a file.
- Added a sidebar context menu.
- Unescape the archive filename in the tree view.
- Fixed bug #450150 - Translate program description correctly.
- Fixesd bug #461356 - Please add comment to this time string.
File Roller 2.19.3
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Released on June 19, 2007
Changes since previous version:
- Added support for Drag&Drop among file-roller windows.
- Added a folders pane.
- Fixed daylight saving time calculation.
- Save and restore the filename column width.
- Fixed bug #402756 - Can not open a file whose name is in non-ascii encoding.
File Roller 2.19.2
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Released on June 4, 2007
Changes since previous version:
- Added support for cut/copy and paste among different windows.
- Fixed bug #171619 - uses GnomeIconTheme which is deprecated
- Fixed bug #398824 - crash in Archive Manager: Opened a lha-archiv
- Fixed bug #438340 - file-roller has problems with files starting with a dash (-)
- Fixed bug #402760 - modified time column is displayed blank in zh_CN.GB18030 locale when creating a new archive
- Fixes bug #440662 - extraction of files with special characters only when in directory.
- Fixes bug #439154 - file-roller: fails to create archives from files starting with '#'
File Roller 2.19.1
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Released on May 14, 2007
Changes since previous version:
- Added ability to load and save remote archives, to add remote files to an archive and to extract to remote locations.
- Make sure the extract_here destination is unique.
- View the destination folder after performing an extract_here operation if the corrisponding gconf key is active.
- The encrypted emblem is now shown on the right of the name column, this way the mime-type icon is alway visible.
- The error dialog is now HIG compliant.
File Roller 2.18.0
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Released on March 12, 2007
Changes since previous version:
- Use standard password blank character instead of stars (#407461)
- Removed Application from the .desktop categories.
- Updated translations: zh_CN, lt, gu, mg, sl, ku, sr, bn_IN, ca, nl, hu, ru, ro.
File Roller 2.17.92
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Released on February 26, 2007
Changes since previous version:
- Fixed bug #409433 – Feisty Herd4: File-Roller shows directory name twice.
File Roller 2.17.90
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Released on January 22, 2007
Changes since previous version:
- Updated translations: th, de, sv.
File Roller 2.17.5
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Released on January 8, 2007
Changes since previous version:
- Fixed bug #387602 – Cannot open self-extracting files (*.exe)
- Fixed bug #384499 – File-roller does not handle filenames starting with a dash (-) correctly.
- Fixed bug #384504 – File-roller does not handle filenames containing a backquote (`) correctly.
- Fixed bug #374478 – crash in Archive Manager: using archive manager to...
File Roller 2.17.2
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Released on November 7, 2006
Changes since previous version:
- Make stock icons themable. (#362922)
- Do not add temp archives to the recent files list
- View as Java Archive (jar) (#43975)
- Do not display a 100% progress bar when the last file is processed.
- Rename the extraction folder if a folder with the same name already exists.
- Fixed bug #349824 – does not work with 7zr.
- Fixed bug #350192 – [PATCH] Make the Ok button to be default in delete dialog.
- Fixed bug #160991 – Crash while trying to extract from a .sit
- Fixed bug #355307 – If uncompressed name not specified in compressed file, cannot view, bad extracted filename.
- Fixed bug #348211 – Please distinguish View menus/buttons for translation.
- Fixed bug #347019 – incorrect error message shown when trying to open incomplete archive
- Fixed bug #338210 – Context menu option open files not available for folders.
- Fixed bug #348524 – rar archives give ERROR: Unknown option: idp
- Fixed bug #370754 – Manual menu item should be 'Contents' not 'Help'
File Roller 2.17.1
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Released on October 16, 2006
Changes since previous version:
- Added ace and cpio support.
- Allow to store, view and extract empty folders (#162792).
- Use the file-chooser dialog to extract files.
- Fixed bug #303213 - default to extract in home instead of tmp
- Fixed bug #304362 - crash extratcting .sit stuffit files
- Fixed bug #359629 - rpm support on solaris failing
File Roller 2.16.1
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Released on October 3, 2006
Changes since previous version:
- Updated translations: ar, en_GB, et, ka, nn.
File Roller 2.16.0
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Released on September 4, 2006
Changes since previous version:
- Updated translations: ja, sv, or, zh_CN, ml, ca, mr, lv, de, mk, pt_BR, lt, pt, hu, mk, el, ta, bg, bn_IN, ro.
File Roller 2.15.93
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Released on August 21, 2006
Changes since previous version:
- Prompt for the password when an archive is encrypted instead of simply displaying a warning on how to spicify a password
- Do not use the encrypted emblem for folders.
- Added X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version field to the .desktop file.
- Fixed bug #349095: Filetypes seriously screwed up in .zip files
- Fixes bug #153642: Temporary files are created on the current directory
File Roller 2.15.92
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Released on August 8, 2006
Changes since previous version:
- Fixed tar archives creation.
File Roller 2.15.91
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Released on August 7, 2006
Changes since previous version:
- Fixed bug #343739 – Seems to not escape file names correctly.
- Fixes bug #340050 – tar permissions are not preserved.
- Fixed bug #339913 – create archive option does not work on some filenames.
- Fixed bug #347624 – fix build with gcc 2.95
- Fixed bug #347416 – RecentFilesMenu - OpenRecentMenu converting
- Update translations: eu, zh_HK, zh_TW, nb, et, fr.
File Roller 2.15.90
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Released on July 24, 2006
Changes since previous version:
- Update translations: cs, dz, fi, gu, ko, sk, sv.
- Update manual translations: sv.
File Roller 2.15.1
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Released on July 11, 2006
Changes since previous version:
- Migrated from EggRecent to GtkRecent.
- Fixed bug #345052 – file roller should remember the size of the window when it closes.
- Fixed bug #345278 – File operations on the Edit menu should be moved to the Archive menu.
- Fixed bug #342251 – backspace does not go up a directory (ala Nautilus)
- Fixed bug #336078 - [PATCH] Convert from popt to GOption
- Fixed bug #317782 - file-roller Cygwin build fixes
- Fixed bug #152039 - Password Protected Files must be displayed differently.
File Roller 2.14.3
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Released on May 29, 2006
Changes since previous version:
- Fixed bug #338944 - Open Files..., can't delete programs
- Updated translations: et.
- Updated manual Spanish translation.
File Roller 2.14.2
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Released on April 18, 2006
Changes since previous version:
- Fixed filename escaping in tar archives.
File Roller 2.14.1
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Released on April 10, 2006
Changes since previous version:
- Ask for the password when trying to open a password protected rar or arj archive.
- Updated the user's guide.
- Added help button to all the dialogs.
- Install theme-friendly icon.
- Fixed bug #335035 - mistake in file-roller's License.
- Fixed bug #336908 - backshalshes not supported in paths.
- Fixed bug #336632 - Help for Extract Dialog pointing to incorrect location.
- Fixed bug #336854 - crash on twice unpacking to the same location.
- Fixed bug #335659 - File Roller should move not copy files.
- Fixed bug #335368 - Crash when opening large 7z-archive.
- Fixed buf #326193 - file-roller creates empty 7zip archives.
- Fixed bug #337754 - Drag and Drop extraction only works when source already has focus.
- Fixed bug #337331 - Cut/Paste same file results in loss of file.
File Roller 2.14.0
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Released on March 13, 2006
Changes since previous version:
- Added license button to the about dialog.
- New translations: Georgian (ka) and Breton (br).
- Updated translations: Ukrainian (uk), Welsh (cy), Hindi (hi), Swedish (sv), et, Czech (cs), Italian (it), Romanian (ro).
File Roller 2.13.92
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Released on February 27, 2006
Changes since previous version:
- Fixed bug #331601 – Nautilus doesn't display the Extract here menu option for files which have a .ps.gz
File Roller 2.13.3
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Released on January 2, 2006
Changes since previous version:
- Updated translations: ca, zh_HK, zh_TW, vi, fi, ja, be, hy.
File Roller 2.13.2
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Released on December 12, 2005
Changes since previous version:
- Fixed bug #323713: Save as should default to current archive filename
- Fixed bug #315069: file-roller: drag 'n drop doesn't work for more than 1 file.
- Fixed bug #323534: Passwords improperly escaped for zip files
- Do not open a progress dialog when dragging files, use a progressbar in the statusbar instead.
- Fixed bug #316364: Nautilus dependency should be optional
- Fixed bug #311821: ascending and descending indicators are opposite from expected.
- Fixed bug #317423: Conflicting mnemonic in Extract dialog.
- Fixed bug #323068: file-roller fails in chosing extract-to directory
- Fixed bug #322197: Improve Naming Filename when create new Archive file
- Fixed bug #316564: needs unzip AND zip.
- Simplified the add dialog populating the file type combobox with the extensions instead of the descriptions.
- Set progress dialog display delay to 1 second.
- More HIG compliant progress dialog.
- Use a single command execution to add many files and folders to an archive to speed up the operation.
- Allow to stop creation of a new archive.
- Correctly associate fr to 7zip files.
File Roller 2.12.1
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Released on October 3, 2005
Changes since previous version:
- Updated translations: it, bn, sv, ku, vi, eu.
File Roller 2.12.0
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Released on September 5, 2005
Changes since previous version:
- New and updated translations.
File Roller 2.11.92
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Released on August 22, 2005
Changes since previous version:
- Do not allow Drag and Drop on the same window.
File Roller 2.11.91
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Released on August 8, 2005
Changes since previous version:
- Fixed bug #311437: [breezy] can't extract a filename from a directory with a space in it from ISO.
- Ported the help documents to gnome-doc-utils.
- Fixed bug #312243: wrong zoo and 7-zip extensions.
- Fixed bug #312240: escape sequences in rar output.
- Fixed bug #312246: FR does not read all pending output.
File Roller 2.11.2
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Released on July 1, 2005
Changes since previous version:
- Removed copy/move/rename/delete archive commands.
- The recent files items are in the Archive menu instead of a submenu.
- Changes in the properties dialog: align labels to left, allow window resizing, ellipsize filename and path labels.
- Fixed bug #142860: File-roller displays files larger than 2GB as 2GB.
File Roller 2.11.1
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Released on May 17, 2005
Changes since previous version:
- Do not create a _FILES folder anymore (#167261).
- Allow to extract more archives at once. Added an --extract-here command line option.
- Use g_filename_display_name and g_filename_display_basename when appropriate.
- Prevent renaming of files to silently overwrite other existing files (#168287).
- Header cleanup (#171618).
- Allow stock labels to show through, be nice to translators (#172867).
File Roller 2.10.2
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Released on April 11, 2005
Changes since previous version:
- Fixed bug #300238: Unable to gunzip gzip'd ubuntu mail archives.
- Plugged a little memory leak related tooltips.
File Roller 2.10.1
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Released on March 31, 2005
Changes since previous version:
- Fixed bug #171195: File-Roller will not tar up any subdirectories directly under /
- Fixed bug #170842: Toolbar buttons too wide.
- Fixed bug #170329: Aborting File Add can sometimes crash the application.
- Fixed bug #170258: file-roller can't open for preview files with a white space in filename.
- Fixed bug #169818: Archive menu item to be disabled if no files are selected.
- Fixed bug #172219: Select All and Deselect all doesnt work properly.
- Added ellipsize property to the list view.
- Do not activate the first row after reordering the list in single click mode.
- Fixed bug in recent files view.
File Roller 2.10.0
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Released on March 7, 2005
Changes since previous version:
- Updated translations: it, sr, sr@Latn, lt, hu.
File Roller 2.9.92
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Released on February 28, 2005
Changes since previous version:
- Fixed bug #157698: Default new archive name as the first-added object.
- Fixed bug #168477: Create Archive should leave status window in the background while creating multiple folder archives.
- Fixed bug #159952: file-roller compilation error.
- Fixed bug #166658: Archives should only be processed if command-line utility is present.
- Fixed bug #144953: ISO reading assumes Joliet and Rock Ridge extensions.
File Roller 2.9.91
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Released on February 7, 2005
Changes since previous version:
- Updated recent-files from libegg.
File Roller 2.9.4
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Released on January 24, 2005
Changes since previous version:
- Fixed bug #100927: should use GNOME mouse click settings.
File Roller 2.9.2
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Released on December 20, 2004
Changes since previous version:
- Fixed bug #152129: Unnecessary call to _window_update_sensitivity()
- Fixed bug #154821: file-roller can't open archives with extension .lha
- Fixed bug #154398: Remove some useless code.
- Fixed bug #154233: load_icon_file optimization.
- Fixed bug #161141: Time of modifcation incorrect
- Fixed bug #161147: View->Toolbars inconsistent across multiple instance.
- Fixed bug #160617: Create archive context menu item does not support single-file bz2 or gz
- Fixed bug #160401: create archive doesn't work on read-only CD-ROM
- Fixed bug #159906: the configure.in should update its gnome-vfs requirement.
- Fixed bug #160221: No more extract here entry in Nautilus context menu.
- Use 'extract to...' if the archive location is write only.
- Fixed loading of rar archives with directories.
File Roller 2.9.1
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Released on November 29, 2004
Changes since previous version:
- Added a 'Open Recent' menu item on the toolbar.
- Added password support and testing to RAR archives.
- Fixed bug #145162] .omf.out and omf_timestamp files should not be in cvs.
- Fixed bug #159172: tooltips leaked.
- Fixed bug #159464: Should not use deprecate mime API
- Make logo icon to use the theme icon.
File Roller 2.9.0
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Released on November 1, 2004
Changes since previous version:
- Added AR, Debian and 7-zip archives support.
- Open the open with dialog if the file type does not have a registered application; get rid of the internal viewer.
- Make the text invisible for the password entries.
- Removed Select All/Deselect All from the context menu.
File Roller 2.8.0
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Released on September 13, 2004
Changes since previous version:
- Updated translations.
File Roller 2.7.5
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Released on August 30, 2004
Changes since previous version:
- Fixed bug #151427: Compilation error.
- Fixed bug #150672: Back button is broken
- Fixed bug #150329: File roller creates predictable /tmp directories
- Fixed bug #150327: Adding a directory to archive hangs file roller
- Fixed BUG #150328: avoid crashing while DND of 'Home' icon into file-roller.
- Updated the recent-files sources from libegg.
File Roller 2.7.4
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Released on August 16, 2004
Changes since previous version:
- Updated the recent-files sources from libegg.
- Added more mime types to the desktop file.
File Roller 2.7.3
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Released on August 2, 2004
Changes since previous version:
- Added the supported mime types to file-roller.desktop
File Roller 2.7.0
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Released on May 31, 2004
Changes since previous version:
- Added read/extract support for ISO files. (bug #142316)
- Split the add dialog into two dialogs, one used to add files and the other one used to add folders.
- Ask the distination folder after pasting a selection, this allows the user to create new folders in the archive.
- Added content size and compression ratio in the properties dialog.
- Extract selection without creating the whole path. (bug #140971)
File Roller 2.6.1
Changes since previous version:
- Fixes reading of filenames with spaces in tar archives.
- Fixes bug #138154 (File-Roller Crash when dropping a file dragged from archive).
- Remove a file from the recent file list if the file could not be loaded.
- Add RPM and Stuffit to the recent file list mime types.
File Roller 2.6.0
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Released on March 22, 2004
Changes since previous version:
- Updated translations.
File Roller 2.5.7
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Released on March 15, 2004
Changes since previous version:
- Fixed bug #137183 (Crash when opening tar-file when using 24 hour time format).
- Updated manual.
- Added localized manuals for de, es, fr, it, ja, ko, sv, zh_TW, zh_HK, zh_CN.
File Roller 2.5.6
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Released on March 8, 2004
Changes since previous version:
- Use a better logic to parse the tar output.
- Updated to work with the new filechooser api.
File Roller 2.5.5
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Released on February 24, 2004
Changes since previous version:
- Use gtar if present, otherwise use tar.
- Fix the Zip Objects command.
- Remove C++ style comments.
- Fix bug #133998 (schemas file must not be removed during distclean).
- Updated manual.
- Fix the password protected detection code.
- Handle the delete_event event for the progress dialog.
- Add a filter for the save archive and new archive dialogs, simplify the filter for the open archive dialog.
File Roller 2.5.4
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Released on February 16, 2004
Changes since previous version:
- Fix bug #105739 (Can't open tar.gz files on Solaris).
- Fix bug #133358 (Small HIG fix for column header).
- Allow to extract more archives at once with the Extract Here command.
- Use GType instead of guint. Fixes segfaults on 64-bit architectures.
- Do not show the new window until we are sure that the archive has been opened with success.
File Roller 2.5.3
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Released on January 31, 2004
Changes since previous version:
- Simplify the Load Options and Save Options commands in the Add dialog.
- Make the path column visible only if the list mode is set to flat.
- Fix the Save as dialog.
- Updated the recent-files stuff from libegg.
- Changed Nautilus context menu item to Zip Objects and simplied the dialog.
- Always use a close button in the error dialogs.
File Roller 2.5.2
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Released on January 14, 2004
Changes since previous version:
- Replace GtkFileSelection with GtkFileChooser everywhere.
- Use gnome_url_show instead of calling nautilus explicitly.
- Do not use mkdtemp which does not exist on Solaris9.
- Do not destroy the file selector if the archive was not created successfully.
- Do not add the password argument if the password is an empty string.
- Use the stock system for the commands Add, Extract and View.
- Updated the egg_recent stuff.
- Changed name to Zip Creator and category to System Utility.
- The preferences dialog has been removed.
- The add dialog has been simplyfied.
- The extract dialog is a GtkFileChooser in folder mode now.
File Roller 2.5.1
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Released on December 28, 2003
Changes since previous version:
- Fix crash upon LZH file opening (#129794).
File Roller 2.5.0
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Released on November 24, 2003
Changes since previous version:
- Added unstuff and RPM support.
- Added ability to rename files and folders.
- Added Cut/Copy/Paste operations.
- Add files and folders to the current directory.
- Added ability to go back and forward in location history.
- Open the archive in a new window if the current window already has an archive opened.
- Exit closes only the current window instead of closing all the windows.
- Zip archives: ask to enter a password if the archive is password protected.
- Remember extraction dialog options.
- Substitute Extract To.. with Extract Here in the Nautilus context menu.
File Roller 2.4.2
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Released on November 10, 2003
Changes since previous version:
- Do not compile with the DISABLE_DEPRECATED macros defined.
- Handle filenames with ambiguous chars (like []*) in zip archives.
- Handle passwords with spaces in zip archives.
File Roller 2.4.1
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Released on October 13, 2003
Changes since previous version:
- Fixed bug that prevented the user to view the content of a compressed file.
File Roller 2.4.0
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Released on September 10, 2003
Changes since previous version:
- Updated recent files stuff from libegg.
File Roller 2.3.6
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Released on September 1, 2003
Changes since previous version:
- Use unrar if rar is not available.
File Roller 2.3.5
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Released on August 25, 2003
Changes since previous version:
- Minor bugfixes.
File Roller 2.3.4
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Released on August 11, 2003
Changes since previous version:
- Updated manual.
- Minor bugfixes.
File Roller 2.3.3
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Released on June 29, 2003
Changes since previous version:
- Updated manual.
- Make dialogs more HIG compliant.
- Removed Extract Here and Extract in a Folder from the Nautilus context menu.
- Minor bugfixes.
File Roller 2.3.2
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Released on May 19, 2003
Changes since previous version:
- Added ARJ archives support.
- The delete operation move the archive to the trash instead of deleting it from the disk.
File Roller 2.3.1
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Released on April 7, 2003
Changes since previous version:
- Added ability to convert archives.
- Popup a progress dialog when a long operation is underway, instead of using a progress bar in the status bar.
- Give more detailed information about the current operation (only for tar archives at the moment).
- When creating new archives, if the user does not specify the extension, use 'tgz' as default instead of giving an 'archive type not supported' error.
- Associate File Roller to the zoo archive format.
- Use a text entry instead of the option menu for the location.
- Do not allow dangerous operations, that is operations that if stopped can cause the lost of the archive, such as adding and removing files, to be stopped.
- Allow to stop folders reading.
- Added ability to test zoo archives.
- New toolbar icons.
- Bugfixes.
File Roller 2.3.0
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Released on March 25, 2003
Changes since previous version:
- Added ZOO archives support.
- Read folders asynchronously.
- Display a better error message when the user forgets to specify the archive name in the add to archive dialog.
- Handle tar archives with a ':' in the path.
File Roller 2.2.0
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Released on January 20, 2003
Changes since previous version:
- Updated the manual.
File Roller 2.1.5
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Released on January 4, 2003
Changes since previous version:
- Handle LHA archives created on Windows.
- Bugfixes.
File Roller 2.1.4
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Released on December 10, 2002
Changes since previous version:
- Bugfixes.
File Roller 2.1.3
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Released on December 9, 2002
Changes since previous version:
- Multi Drag & Drop support.
- Session management support.
- HIG compliant dialogs.
- Added archive operations in the nautilus context menu.
- Scripts removed.
- Bugfixes.
File Roller 2.1.2
Changes since previous version:
- Archive loading is 3 times faster.
- Recognize zip archives regardless of the file extension.
File Roller 2.1.1
Changes since previous version:
- Use egg-recent for handling recent files.
- Use gnome-icon-lookup to get icons.
File Roller 2.1.0
Changes since previous version:
- Do not read the archive in non-interative mode, this speeds up extraction with Nautilus scripts.
- Fixed russian manual.
File Roller 2.0.2
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Released on September 1, 2002
Changes since previous version:
- Bugfixes.
File Roller 2.0.1
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Released on August 29, 2002
Changes since previous version:
- Added a compression level option.
- Added ability to extract multiple archives from command line.
- Removed the install Nautilus scripts option, now simply install scripts the first time you start File Roller.
- Added ability to hide toolbar and statusbar.
- Re-arranged menus.
- Recent archives are shown in a submenu.
- Uses gconf instead of gnome-config.
- Builds on systems that do not have the FNM_CASEFOLD constant defined (e.g. Solaris).
File Roller 2.0.0
Changes since previous version:
- New option to install and remove the nautilus scripts automatically.
File Roller 1.109
Changes since previous version:
- Added option to view the destination folder after extraction.
- Updated documentation.
- bugfixes.
File Roller 1.108
Changes since previous version:
- re-arranged menus.
- bugfixes.
File Roller 1.107
Changes since previous version:
- added support for encrypted zip archives.
- added test operation for zip archives.
- added mnemonics to all dialogs.
- use Nautilus as document viewer.
- user manual.
- handle archives with a ';' in the name.
- use g_spawn to create processes.
File Roller 1.106
Changes since previous version:
- the user can specify files to exclude when adding files with the wildcard.
- the user can save and load add dialog options.
- ask whether to overwrite the file when copying, moving or renaming an archive.
- added ability to rename compressed files.
File Roller 1.105
Changes since previous version:
- The document viewer shows the components list in a submenu.
- bugfixes.
File Roller 1.104
Changes since previous version:
- bugfixes.
File Roller 1.103
Changes since previous version:
- bugfixes.
File Roller 1.102
Changes since previous version:
- bugfixes.
File Roller 1.101
Changes since previous version:
- ported to GNOME 2.
File Roller 0.8
Changes since previous version:
- added support for single files compressed with gzip, bzip, bzip2, compress, lzop.
- non-interactive mode to automatically add files to archives.
- added two Nautilus scripts to extract archives and add files to archives.
- use the MIME database to decide whether to use the viewer or the associated application when double-clicking on a file, or ask the user what to do if no entry is available in the database.
- bugfixes.
File Roller 0.7
Changes since previous version:
- the user can choose the columns to show in the file list.
- when extracting to a non existing directory ask the user whether to create it.
- bugfixes.
File Roller 0.6
Changes since previous version:
- non-interactive mode to automatically extract archives.
- can open multiple files at command line.
- works faster when adding and removing a lot of files from compressed tar archives.
- works better when files in archives have strange characters.
- fixed a bug when adding files with wildcard.
- fixed a bug when 'view all files' mode is used.
- fixed a bug when using tbz and tbz2 extensions.
- minor bugfixes.
File Roller 0.5
Changes since previous version:
- added support for ear, war, tbz and tbz2 archives (me, Claudio Bley).
- better rar archives support (Claudio Bley).
- new icon (Jakub Steiner).
- the document viewer uses the locale language.
File Roller 0.4
Changes since previous version:
- added support for multiple windows.
- fixed some bugs concerning old versions of tar.
File Roller 0.3
Changes since previous version:
- added rar and lha support.
- the user can add, remove, extract files with wildcard.
- fixed drag and drop of directories.
File Roller 0.2
Changes since previous version:
- added jar archives support.
- works even with big archives.
- full drag & drop support.
- double clicking on an file views its content.
- added a file context menu.
- the user can specify the file type when creating a new archive.
- the user can specify the max length of the history list.
- the user can interrupt a long operation.
- toolbar buttons show the insensitive state correctly.
File Roller 0.1
Changes since previous version:
- first public version.