Version history for Ultra Defrag (64bit)

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Changes for v5.0.0 RC1 - v5.0.1

A problem where the MFT optimization aborted early was fixed.
A problem where the boot time interface would hang under certain conditions was fixed.
Additional information was added to the tips, GUI and FAQ sections of the documentation

Changes for v5.0.0 Beta 3 - v5.0.0 RC1

This release candidate includes all the new features of the initial v5.0.0 release.
GUI:
The drive list hight can now be adjusted by dragging the bottom border of it.
Progress is now displayed in the status column of the drive list.
The drive label is now displayed in the drive list. Please check if all localized labels are displayed correctly.
There are now more actions available to be executed when UltraDefrag terminates.
The cluster map now displays unused map blocks in gray, so they can not be confused with free space.
Command line interface:
It is now possible to specify paths as arguments, which has fixed a problem with the Explorer context menu handler on Vista and above.
Driver:
Defragmentation of regular files and volume metafiles was improved.
Full optimization has been improved, which processes all files despite of fragmentation.
Quick optimization has been added, which mainly processes fragmented files.
MFT optimization has been added, which only processes the MFT.
Creation of a log file by setting an environment variable is now possible, which highly simplifies reporting problems.
Reports:
The file size, file status and report creation date and time were added to the fragmentation reports.
Installer:
All selections can now be done through command line parameters too.
For further information about the switches see the handbook.

Changes for v5.0.0 Beta 2 - v5.0.0 Beta 3

volume optimization reimplemented
quick volume optimization implemented
the cluster map now indicates unused map blocks with gray color
one bug preventing a proper redraw of defragmented files was fixed
few bugs causing infinite loops in defragmentation algorithm were fixed
one bug preventing MFT defragmentation was fixed
one bug preventing reports containing Asian characters in file names from being built was fixed
one bug preventing defragmentation in some cases on Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 was fixed
the documentation was updated to include better information about taking screen-shots and creating support packages on the bug reports page
tree-view to select chapters was added to documentation and the default doxygen color theme is now used
the following translations were added: English (GB), Iloko
the following translations were updated: Korean, Turkish, Slovak, English (US), Hindi, Romanian, Filipino (Tagalog), Catalan, Spanish (ES), Greek, Chinese (Simplified), Polish, Swedish, Italian, Finnish, Chinese (Traditional), German, Hungarian, Danish
hexview command added to the boot time shell
Developers: udefrag_start_job prototype changed by adding algorithm preview flags

Changes for v4.4.0 - v5.0.0 Beta 2

This preview release includes the new GUI design and the new log file creation feature. Analysis and defragmentation are implemented, but optimization is still being worked on.
GUI:
The volume list hight can now be adjusted by dragging the bottom border of it.
Progress is now displayed in the status column of the volume list.
The volume label is now displayed in the volume list. Please check if all localized labels are displayed correctly.
There are now more actions available to be executed when UltraDefrag terminates.
Command line interface:
It is now possible to specify paths as arguments, which has fixed a problem with the Explorer context menu handler on Vista and above.
Driver:
Defragmentation of regular files and volume metafiles was improved.
Creation of a log file by setting an environment variable is now possible, which highly simplifies reporting problems.
Reports:
The file size, file status and report creation date and time were added to the fragmentation reports.
Comments and suggestions about the new design are much appreciated!

Changes for v4.4.0 RC 1 - v4.4.0

history of typed commands added to the boot time interactive mode; navigation is possible by arrow keys, 'history' command can be used to list all typed commands
call, man and type commands added to the boot time shell
echo, exit, pause and set commands of the boot time shell improved
clearing of the failed boot flag added for reboot and shutdown at boot time
pending boot-off boot time script command support added, this removes the limitation of boot-on/off not working before reboot/shutdown
interactive mode at boot time now displays help split into pages
escape key handling added to break the boot time script execution
boot time commands parsing was rewritten to increase reliability and flexibility of the boot time shell
corrected cluttered progress display if console output was redirected
optimized timeout for waiting for a keyboard event in boot time interface
the following translations were updated: Portuguese, Chinese (Traditional)
FAT formatted volumes are displayed in GUI now as FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 instead of less informative FAT/FAT32
winx_heap_alloc replaced by winx_heap_alloc_ex to allow specifying flags
winx_heap_alloc_zero added to allow allocating memory initialized with zero
winx_ftw, winx_scan_disk, winx_fsize, winx_kb_read, winx_xtime, winx_prompt_ex, winx_get_file_contents, winx_release_file_contents, winx_wcsistr, winx_print_array_of_strings, winx_get_volume_information, calls were added to zenwinx library
winx_fbopen call added to zenwinx library for buffered file i/o support
obsolete winx_get_volume_size and winx_get_filesystem_name calls were removed from zenwinx library; use more common winx_get_volume_information instead
one little bug in winx_kbhit, winx_breakhit functions was fixed
udefrag_get_vollist and udefrag_release_vollist calls were added to udefrag library; an obsolete udefrag_get_avail_volumes was removed

Changes for v4.3.0 - v4.4.0 RC 1

GUI:
Progress is now added to the GUI window caption, so it is displayed in the tooltip of the taskbar icon.
Cryptic single character progress label was replaced by the localized operation names.
Driver:
Partial defragmentation was added to decrease the number of fragments even when there is no free space on disk to concatenate all fragments of the file.
Volume optimization algorithm was improved to prevent useless additional optimization passes.
One little bug preventing optimization from being stopped was fixed.
Volume optimization algorithm was improved to prevent skipping heavily fragmented parts of the volume.
Boot time interface:
10 seconds delay is skiped on boot time scan, if only one keyboard is present.
Translations:
Added language selector to the GUI package.
Hindi translation was added.
The following translations were updated:
Croatian, Danish, Dutch, French, Greek, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish

Changes for v4.2.0 - v4.3.0

GUI:
The ability to resize the main window has been added.
Text and controls are now scaled to the current DPI settings of the screen.
Cluster map customization is possible now through guiopts.lua configuration file editing.
Update check was added.
Driver:
One little bug preventing the root directory from being defragmented fixed.
Few bugs preventing the correct MFT displaying were fixed.
Driver was improved to better distinguish between free space and MFT zone.
One little bug preventing displaying system files in green color on NTFS volumes was fixed.
Boot time interface:
Progress indication was improved.
Backspace and escape keys handling added to the interactive mode.
Few bugs were fixed.
Command line tool:
--wait option was added to make scheduled defragmentation more flexible.
--use-entire-window option was added.
Scheduler:
UltraDefrag Scheduler has been retired as a component less functional than standard Windows Task Scheduler; visit http://ultradefrag.wikispaces.com/ for tutorials on scheduling disk defragmentation tasks through Windows Task Scheduler.
Translations:
The following translations were updated: Czech, Finnish, Japanese, Spanish (AR), Portuguese (BR), Korean, Hungarian.

Changes for v4.3.0 RC 2 - v4.3.0 RC 3

Driver was improved to better distinguish between free space and MFT zone.

Changes for v4.3.0 RC 1 - v4.3.0 RC 2

Few bugs were fixed.
--use-entire-window option was added to the command line interface.

Changes for v4.2.0 - v4.3.0 RC 1

UltraDefrag Scheduler has been retired as a component less functional than standard Windows Task Scheduler; visit UltraDefrag.WikiSpaces.com for tutorials on scheduling disk defragmentation tasks through Windows Task Scheduler
more reliable monolithic boot time defragmenter was made.
few bugs preventing the correct MFT displaying were fixed in driver.
--wait option was added to the command line interface to make scheduled defragmentation more flexible.
GUI cluster map was reworked to be customizable to give better feedback of the current drive usage.

Changes for v4.1.0 - v4.2.0

multiple drives selection feature was added to GUI and Scheduler
progress indication was improved to be more detailed and smooth
defragmentation and optimization speedup was performed
--all, --all-fixed command line switches added to the console interface and to the boot time defragmenter - boot time interface initialization speedup was performed
boot time interface interactive mode commands set changed to be the same as in scripting mode
HTML reports encoding was changed to UTF-8, which renders nicely in all popular web browsers including Internet Explorer
plain text reports were improved to be more readable
the following translations were updated: Dutch, Swedish, Japanese, Polish
a bug preventing true Unicode paths from being displayed in file fragmentation reports was fixed
shutdown confirmation dialogs were added to GUI
one additional check preventing the boot time defragmenter from running in Windows Safe Mode was added
one little bug causing a wrong progress bar appearance on Windows XP default theme was fixed

Changes for v4.2.0 RC 4 - v4.2.0 RC 5

Multiple drives selection feature was added to GUI and Scheduler.
Progress indication was improved to be more detailed and smooth.
Defragmentation and optimization speedup was performed.
--all, --all-fixed command line switches added to the console interface and to the boot time defragmenter.
Boot time interface initialization speedup was performed.
Boot time interface interactive mode commands set changed to be the same as in scripting mode.
HTML reports encoding was changed to UTF-8, which renders nicely in all popular web browsers including Internet Explorer.
Plain text reports were improved to be more readable.
The following translations were updated: Dutch, Swedish, Japanese, Polish.
A bug preventing true Unicode paths from being displayed in file fragmentation reports was fixed.
Shutdown confirmation dialogs were added to GUI. Please visit UltraDefrag.WikiSpaces.com and update the translations.
One additional check preventing the boot time defragmenter from running in Windows Safe Mode was added.
One little bug causing a wrong progress bar appearance on Windows XP default theme was fixed.

Changes for v4.1.0 - v4.2.0 RC 4

multiple drives selection feature was added to GUI
progress indication was improved to be more detailed and smooth
defragmentation and optimization speedup was performed
--all, --all-fixed command line keys added to the console interface and to the boot time defragmenter
boot time interface initialization speedup was performed
boot time interface interactive mode commands set changed to be the same as in scripting mode
HTML reports encoding was changed to UTF-8 which renders nicely in all popular web browsers including Internet Explorer
plain text reports were improved to be more readable
the following translations were updated: Dutch, Swedish
a bug preventing true Unicode paths from being displayed in file fragmentation reports was fixed
one little bug causing a wrong progress bar appearance on Windows XP default theme was fixed

Changes for v4.1.0 - v4.2.0 RC 3

multiple drives selection feature was added to GUI
progress indication was improved to be more detailed and smooth
defragmentation and optimization speedup performed
--all, --all-fixed command line keys added to the console interface and to the boot time defragmenter
boot time interface interactive mode commands set changed to be the same as in scripting mode
the following translations were updated: Dutch, Swedish
one little bug causing a wrong progress bar appearance on Windows XP default theme was fixed

Changes for v4.0.0 - v4.1.0

few bugs in driver were fixed
a huge analysis speedup performed
one bug in GUI (#2964309) was fixed
one little bug preventing the Scheduler running on Windows 2000 was fixed
volume status messages were improved in UltraDefrag GUI
the report saving speedup was performed
the following translations were added:
Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Filipino (Tagalog), Finnish, Icelandic, Macedonian, Norwegian, Romanian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Yiddish
the following translations were updated:
Catalan, Chinese(Simplified), Chinese(Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Farsi, French(FR), German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese(BR), Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish(AR), Swedish, Thai, Turkish
/LANG command line option was added to the installe

Changes for v3.2.1 - v4.0.0

a lot of extremely important bugs were fixed
the strongest error handling was added to all program modules
program is available again for all 64-bit targets
documentation was rewritten to be much clearer
kernel mode driver was removed as a component less reliable by definition
translations submitting is available again through http://ultradefrag.wikispaces.com/
USB keyboards support at Windows boot time was added
all important program sources were well documented

Changes for v3.1.0 - v3.2.1

shutdown after a job feature was added to GUI
hibernate after a job feature was added to GUI
`boot-on` and `boot-off` commands were added to boot time defragger
Scheduler has been translated into Spanish (AR) language
Hibernate command line tool was added
few bugs were fixed
Ultra Fast NTFS scanning feature was added, NTFS analysis becomes approximately 25 times faster now
defragmentaion of additional streams attached to NTFS files was added
information about trash (temporary files) excluded from reports, statistics and cluster map; these files are completely ignored now
a lot of new options were added to the console program
the \??\ sequence removed from file names in reports
Thai translation was made
some important parts of handbook were completely rewritten
Scheduler was rewritten in C language; NET framework is not required now!
ability to translate Scheduler into foreign languages was added
GUI options were moved from udefrag-gui.cmd script to easy to understand guiopts.lua file
debugging information will not be saved on disk since this version of the program; read carefully an appropriate chapter of program's handbook for detailed instructions about kernel mode driver debugging instead
few fatal driver bugs were fixed
driver's reliability was increased
now UltraDefrag requires less software for its development
FOR PROGRAMMERS: build configurator was rewritten in Lua
NOTE FOR PROGRAMMERS: to successfully recompile the driver run configure.pl script and click 'Apply patch to MinGW' button once again