DownThemAll: Changelog

Version 1.0.1 (February 15, 2008)

This list of changes is not complete. Please refer to our more detailed ChangeLog

• Major bugfixes
  • HTTP/HTTPS/Proxy Authentication didn’t work under certain circumstances (#523)
  • Changes from Download Info window were not always saved (#567)
  • Reverting to 0.9.x behavior for network.max.connections manipulation to accommodate users reporting slow-downs (See notes; #613)
  • Incorrectly specifying batches may “hang” dTa and with it the application (#617)
  • Name conflicts didn’t remember selection if “for this session only” in conjunction with the “Rename” option was used (#655)
• Minor Bugfixes/Minor Enhancements
  • Empty Folderlist-Buttons didn’t work (#522)
  • Privacy notice talked about dTa connecting to downthemall.net, which 1.0 doesn’t do at all (#524)
  • Multiple documentation fixes/clarifications (#536, #546, et.al.)
  • Fast filtering doesn’t take description into account (#557)
  • Using Save Link with DownThemAll! didn’t transport the description rendering *text* empty (#508)
  • Fixed pt-PT locale (#566)
  • Firefox 3 Beta5 doesn’t support the help viewer anymore, add a workaround (#660)
  • flatsubdirs/flatcurl renaming tags (See notes; #518)
  • Work around Menu Editor problems (Context Menu at least). (See notes; #555)
  • New locales: es-AR, ja-JP, tr-TR

Version 1.0 (February 29, 2008)

This list of changes is not complete. Please refer to our more detailed ChangeLog

• New features
  • Basic metalink support incl. download selection and whole file verification
  • Deleting downloaded files from context menu
  • Save As window got folder-picker (OneClick)
  • Filter for “Software”
  • Various “helpers” in the context menus
  • Selection window allows to open selected link(s) in new tab(s)
  • Query String (*qstring*) renaming mask
  • Checksum support (md5, sha1, sha256, …)
  • Link Fingerprint support
• Bugfixes/Major Changes
  • Major rewrite/refinement of most functionality and the back end
  • Most windows rewritten
  • Batch descriptors refined (new syntax)
  • Firefox (context-menu) integration refined
  • Improved privacy control (now considers old files, logs and queue as well)
  • Various performance optimizations
  • Faster queue book-keeping; using javascript + mozStorage instead of XML Files
  • Most preferences and custom filters will be “migrated” properly when upgraded
  • Download core rewritten
  • More sophisticated multi-part algorithms
  • Improved error handling/failed chunks
  • Improved error handling mirror fail over (mirrors currently only supported by metalink)
  • Using only one temp file that will reflect the name

Version 0.9.9.8 (April 30, 2007)

• Preference window appearence
• SaveAs
• AddURL
• Sanitizer/CPD integration

Version 0.9.9.7 (October 6, 2006)

• new feature: Batch download;
• new feature: “Remove completed tasks” option in context menu
• bugfix #15315: Resume function restarts task if multipart is disabled;
• bugfix #15285: UnknownContentType changed in FX2.0 so that dTa opens are hidden;
• bugfix #15216: Optimized regular expressions;
• bugfix #15272: “Resume” & “Pause” buttons inactive yet functional;
• bugfix #15223, #15076, #15141, #15200, #14889: Various directory creation issues;
• bugfix #15051: Wrong naming with underscores in file extension;
• bugfix #15105: Wrong naming when downloading PDFs from Google;
• bugfix #15295: Make “Close Source Tab” consistent to FX2.0 and really close for 1.5;

Version 0.9.9.6.5 (September 16, 2006)

• bugfix: “tab.frames has no properties” message error;
• bugfix: missing default value in renaming mask’s persistence broke dTaOneClick under certain conditions;
• minor bugfixes.
• Added cs-CZ locale;
• Added uk-UA locale;
• Added hr-HR locale.

Version 0.9.9.6.1 (July 14, 2006)

• bugfix #14146, #14634, #13175: problems visualizing and saving unicode characters;
• bugfix #14473: dTa! doesn’t remember last used target directory in the ‘Add URL’ window;
• bugfix #14534: remove trailing ‘-’ from subdirs and curl;
• bugfix: problems under privacy preference dialog;
• bugfix: problems with moving files in queue;
• enhacement: added cancel button on the ‘modify renaming mask’ dialog;

Version 0.9.9.6 (July 08, 2006)

• bugfix #14393, #14579: downloading problems with gzipped files;
• bugfix #14338: dTa! doesn’t close source tab if it contains frames;
• bugfix #14473: dTa! doesn’t remember last used target directory in the “Add URL” window;
• bugfix #14399: right-click menu icons aren’t greyed when no download is selected;
• bugfix #14437: ‘Renaming conflict!’ prompt is too wide when you have long download URLs;
• bugfix #14522: current d/l speed indicators are not displayed for files from some servers;
• bugfix #14541: resume support should not depend on Accept-Ranges;
• minor bugfix: #14525;
• ehnancement: added a Beginners Guide to dTa! section;
• ehnancement #14538: allow users to configure temporary download location;
• ehnancement #14428: allow users to prealloc files (less disk fragmentation!);
• ehnancement: MineField compatibility;
• 5 new locales added: ar-SA, gl-ES, sq-AL, da-DK, zh-TW;

Version 0.9.9.5.1 (June 13, 2006)

• bugfix: stabilized speed indicator
• bugfix: #14335 (dTa doesn’t start downloads under certain conditions)
• bugfix: #14223 (Linux
• Most downloads fail from Google Groups)
• bugfix: #14343 (DownThemAll cancels large download after it completes)
• bugfix: improved handling of content-disposition header messages

Version 0.9.9.4 (June 02, 2006)

• enhancement: #13974 (history of ongoing/inqueue downloads is now stored in the Firefox, to avoid its deletion on upgrade)
• enhancement: #14208 (automatic conversion of path separators in renaming mask)
• enhancement: reduced packet’s size
• bugfix: #14203 (characters changed in ‘_’)
• bugfix: #13838 (0.9.9.3 filters pref-pane will enter infinite loop)
• locale: Japanese (ja-JP) added

Version 0.9.9.3 (May 23, 2006)

• locale: Hungarian (hu-HU) added
• locale: Macedonian (mk-MK) added
• bugfix: #14180 (script extension added to content-disposition filenames)

Version 0.9.9.2 (May 19, 2006)

• XPI package error fixed

Version 0.9.9.1 (May 17, 2006)

• feature: Mozilla Thunderbird compatibility
• feature: BonEcho compatibility
• feature: sound alerts when downloads are complete/erroneous
• locale: Bulgarian (bg-BG) added
• locale: Chinese Simplified (zh-CN) added
• locale: Hebrew (he-IL) added
• locale: Slovak (sv-SE) added
• locale: Welsh (cy-GB) added
• bugfix: filters’ creation/deletion
• other fixes

Version 0.9.9.0 (May 08, 2006)

• feature: added *refer
• renaming tag, which adds the capability of renaming files using the referrer page of the download
• feature: links in “Select links” window can now be checked with a middle mouse click anywhere on the row
• change: all the Date and Time renaming tags now reports the moment when downloads are inserted into the list

• locale: German (de-DE) added
• locale: Korean (ko-KR) added
• locale: Russian (ru-RU) added
• locale: Slovak (sk-SK) added
• locale: Portuguese brazilian (pt-BR) added
• locale: Greek (el-GR) added

• bugfix: downloads with a single chunk if paused and resumed get final error
• bugfix: *curl
• renaming tag doesn’t work at all
• bugfix: renaming problems with attachments on some vBulletin boards
• bugfix: renaming problems with Yahoo Mail attachments
• bugfix: preference panel cannot be closed on Macs
• bugfix: dTaOneClick doesn’t rememember to queue files
• bugfix: fixed problems with non-latin characters

Version 0.9.8.9 (May 04, 2006)

• feature: Ability to modify settings of multiple downloads at the same time from “Get info” window
• feature: Spanish (es-ES) locale added
• feature: French (fr-FR) locale added
• feature: Dutch (nl-NL) locale added
• feature: Polish (pl-PL) locale added
• bugfix: Link in About should open Privacy notice
• bugfix: Speed on status bar doesn’t refresh
• bugfix: Delete filters and restore default filters didn’t work
• bugfix: minVersion in install.rdf should be 1.5
• bugfix: preferences panel didn’t close on Mac
• bugfix: *m
• renaming tag should start from 1, not 0

Version 0.9.8.8 (May 02, 2006)

• Greatly improved downloading performances, expecially on big files;
• Optimized memory management;
• Better files’ handling (completely rewritten “Get Info” window);
• New preferences panel;
• Simpler renaming system;
• “Turbo-dTa” renamed in most self-explanatory “dTaOneClick”
• Flock compatibility;
• Italian localization;

Version 0.9.8.7 (January 18, 2006)

• Great improvements in page scanning and in dTa “Select Links” window
• GUI restyling
• Solved problems with “over 100%” downloads and safer use of multipart downloading
• Improved alerting system
• New Privacy panel in preferences
• ‘Add URL’ button added to the dTa Manager
• Drag&drop URLs on dTa Manager and on dTa buttons in the toolbar.
• Fixed regression with FTP links
• Minor fixes and improvements

Version 0.9.8.5 (January 04, 2006)

Changes:

• Merging of large multipart-downloaded files no longer hangs Firefox (bugs #12468, #12659, #12345)
• Fixed “SyntaxError: missing

before statement” when right-click on page (bug #12610)

• Header sniffing procedure completely rewritten (bug #11630)
• HTTPS links are now correctly found on web pages (bug #12533)
• Fixed saving problems of the additional filter (bug #12537)
• Fixed conflicts in FF “Save with…” dialog with Flashgot installed (bug #12465)
• Destination dir gets now saved also if user presses the Cancel button under DTA “Select links” window (bug #12400)
• Fixed unneeded discarding of DTA old preferences with new upgrades (bug #12471)
• *curl
• and *subdirs
• tags
• only if present inside the dir renaming mask
• now recreate directory structure of files (request #12474)
• Added Referer-header to HEAD request (bug #11630)
• Fixed naming problems on vBulletin and similar PHP delivered files (bug #12425)
• Recursive search of link on framed pages
• Internal messages dumped on JS Console are now disabled by default (to enable them, extensions.dta.directory.visibledump=true) (request #12579)
• If DTA “Download manager” window is already opened, pressing the relative toolbar button provocates focus
• Solved some timeout problems (bug #12609)
• Minor improvements in renaming routines (ex. maximum length of file name)
• Better error management in GZIP decompression
• Added deflate decompression
• The last item on the download list can now be seen (bug #12406)
• Added managing of DTA items in Tools menu (bug #11056)
• Fixed minor timeout bug
• Download Info panel has been improved
• Changed quickkeys (bug #12499)
• Improved Content-Disposition recognition (bug #12425, #12551)
• Improved saving preferences routines
• Fixed problems with links under About window (bug #12578)

Version 0.9.8.4 (December 12, 2005)

• Fixed crashes caused to nglayout;
• Fixed sub-directory creation;
• Fixed non-persistent directory preference;
• Minor bug fixes;

Version 0.9.8.3 (December 10, 2005)

• better server error management
• bug fixed in renaming
• solved problem in context menu

Version 0.9.8.2

Fixes:

• Fixed installation problems due to “nglayout.debug.disable_xul_cache” preference set to true.
• Resolved “window.arguments” error on Dta “Select Links” window;
• Fixed recognition of links on framed pages;
• Fixed recognition of links on HTML Transitional pages;

Version 0.9.8.1

Fixes:

• Better recognition of description tags “alt” and “title”;
• Solved problems with some pages;

Version 0.9.8

Downgraded version due to automatic update problems on FF. Fixes:

• Resolved installation problems on FF 1.0.7;
• Restored old shortcuts;
• Resolved bugs with image downloading;
• Changed some default preferences;
• Resolved Content-Length problems with some pages that use Partial-Content method;
• Fixed *curl
• renaming tag;

Features added:

• Now filesizes are expressed in KB, MB or GB depending on dimension;
• You can always close the “Dta! Manager” window using ESC.

Version 0.10.6

Renewed source code. Features added:

• General appearence restyled;
• Support to regular expressions;
• GZIP encoding management;
• Starts downloads just pressing return;
• Standard filters updated;
• Catching of link description;
• Cancel of on-going download implemented;
• Server HTTP errors 4XX/5XX management;
• Settable timeout option;
• Renaming management;
• Restore default preferences;
• Improved keyboard selection
• Duplicated files management;
• Global/Per site/Separated queue option;
• “Open target directory” option added;
• Coloured filters
• Icons in context menu
• Filter and saving directory history;
• Improved alert management (now with slides);

Minor bugs solved:

• Localization fixes;
• Columns’ size bug fixed;
• Mistakes in file naming fixed;
• Multiple selection in the file list;
• CPU overload under Linux removed;

Version 0.9.4

Minor bugs solved:

• Position in context menu issue;
• Coding in localized versions issue.

Version 0.9.2

Minor bugs solved:

• Incorrect Japanese langpack.

Version 0.9.1

Minor bugs solved:

• Troubles at the first run.

Version 0.9

Features added:

• Kazaa-like interface to schedule and keep track of downloads, including file size, percent, speed;
• Turbo-DownThemAll: starts the downloads immediately using the last setted preferences;
• Massive localization in over 16 languages;
• Personalized filters creation;
• Chance to modify the number of simultaneus download;
• Turbo-Dta toolbar button created;
• Started alert management;

Minor bugs solved:

• Added .jar extension in default "Archives" checkbox as well as Unix Archive extensions;
• Filenames containing "%20" and "_" are replaced with spaces;
• Button "Start Downloads!" is now setted as default;
• Resolved a saving problem caused by the char ":" in filenames;

Version 0.2.2

Fixed:

• Compatibility with sites that perform referrer check.

Version 0.2.1

Fixed:

• Fixed a saving preferences issue.

Version 0.2

• First release.