
2005-02-09  Version 2.53.00.023

NEW:

- menu item for Blowfish Advanced CS homepage

FIXED:

- Job files couldn't be created at all (embarassing, really), also note that
  versions of bfaCS older than 2.50 cannot process the new ones anymore
- the Windows Explorer status bar showed the selected file/folder names in
  nonprintable characters under WinNT+ (and some misprints also on Win9x/Me)
- Edit field in the New Folders dialog didn't offer a horizontal scrollbar

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2005-02-06  Version 2.52.00.122

NEW:

- Browse (for Folder) dialogs are now in the modern style (wherever available),
  which mainly means that they are resizable and do support some drag and drop

CHANGED:

- the installer I used was an old InstallShield Express from 1998, which seems
  to have caused problems; I purchased the latest version and I hope it now
  should all work out well; it also saves around 250kB per download
- improved wiping: user breaks won't discard data which hasn't been overriden
  so far (led to truncated files) 
- more transparency in the Progress dialog: wipe cycle progress is displayed as
  well as repeated encryption operations in case a file cannot be compressed
  
FIXED:

- some minor flicker in the Progress dialog

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2005-02-04  Version 2.51.00.203

CHANGED:

- destination path is now copied from the Key Input to the Destination dialog

FIXED:

- the maximized main window, if mazimized, was set back to its original size
  after any kind of action (encryption, wiping, ...)

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2005-02-02  Version 2.50.00.042

NEW:

- better compression methods are now available: deflate (ZIP) and the even
  better (well, in most cases) BZIP2 algorithm; note that such files can't be
  decrypted by older versions of bfaCS (2.13 and below) or BFA97!
- changed the layout of the progress bars in the Progress dialog and the Clear
  Empty Disk Space dialog
- updated control layout in Progress dialog, looks better now IMHO
- a regular install/uninstall distribution is now available
- Windows Server 2003 and Longhorn get detected (in the About dialog)
- support for native Windows XP controls
- new option in the Configuration: "Force Compression" avoids startover if
  files are not compressable - with a slight increase of the output file sizes
- Caps Lock warning in the password dialog, implemented as a tip
- the Clear Empty Disk Space dialog can be minimized at runtime
- all the executables are now shipped in a compressed format, which lets the
  whole distibution fit on an ancient 720kB floppy disk!

CHANGED:

- switched password input hiding style to use asterisks
- updated extension list of noncompressable files
- only one external DLL (bfacslib) is now required to run BFACS.EXE; CryptPak
  stays internal and has also been updated (cipher cleanup) for the future
- Help system has been updated to HTML help, requires the presence of IE to run
  (only a matter if you have older versions of Windows 95)
- Yarrow is the only random number generator now, made more sense
- transparent window support have been removed (wasn't stable/good enough)
- the license model back is back to commercial, yet the one and only kind is the
  Personal Edition, so it is and will stay free - and the source stays public,
  however development is now done with a Delphi 5 Professional

FIXED:

- Unicode filenames have never been stored (NT wasn't detected correctly)
- removed a couple of memory and resource leaks, thanks to MemChk
- reencryption sometimes produced new files with readonly/hidden attributes
- status bar kept saying "wiping" even after the end of a "work with" cycle

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2002-08-05  Version 2.13.00.001

NEW:

- bfaCS compiles now completely with freeware, Borland Delphi 6
  (Personal Edition) and the Borland C/C++ Compiler 5.5 (BCC55)

CHANGED:

- bundled with now with the latest CryptPak 4.06

FIXES:

- icon in "Yes No All Cancel" (YNAC) message box was not opaque
- Rename Dialog and (YNAC) message box could not be made transparent
- task bar icon menu was not inactive during Decryption work
- triple-DES bug in the key setup (WARNING: files encrypted
  with triple-DES of older versions will _not_ decrypt with
  this fix anymore, reencryption is recommended)

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2001-04-03  Version 2.12.00.011

NEW:

- transparent windows (Windows 2000 and higher, not every control could be
  made transparent yet, I hope for better support in Windows XP or Delphi 6)
- recognizes Windows 2000/Me/XP
- includes the latest CryptPak DLL 4.02

FIXES:

- crashed during the execution of programs and documents in the browser
- problems and/or (internal) exceptions with multiple folder creation

CHANGES:

- the software reads out its version number directly form the EXE file
  and now uses the standard x.xx.xx.xxx format
- browser in details mode allows now row selection

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2000-11-02  Version 2.11.101

FIXES:

- shortcut CTRL+V for viewing now works (changed CTRL+N to select 
  encrypted files)
- update of help files (addresses, added credits to the menu)

CHANGES:

- new CryptPak API (uses now Yarrow internally)


2000-04-03  Version 2.10.204

FIXES:

- it was possible to shutdown the program via the system tray
  during a disk clear process
- list in the about box was not readonly
- increase of performance of the file browser and the job report

CHANGES:

- Blowfish Advanced CS is now freeware/open source!

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2000-03-02  Version 2.09.077

NEW:

- popup menu contains now entries for the most common operations

FIXES:

- popup menu didn't support help requests
- minor internal changes

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2000-02-09  Version 2.08.048

FIXES:

- program is now able to clear unlimited disk space, even on FAT32
- the mouse cursor still stuck as an hour glass
- maximized main window was still resized by the progress window

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2000-02-08  Version 2.07.027

FIXES:

- the mouse cursor stuck as an hour glass occasionally
- maximized main window was resized by the progress window (weird Delphi!)
- minor bug in the wiping routine caused problems on non-disk volumes
- internal error fixed (access violations sometimes during shutdown)

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2000-01-31  Version 2.06.008

FIXES:

- key disks could not be read at all, heavy bug and thus
  a quick fix is essential (thanks Lasse, for the hint)
- the overwrite warning dialog for moving files just
  showed an OK button instead of Yes/All/No/Cancel

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2000-01-30  Version 2.05.017

FIXES:

- i/o problem after the end of a disk clear process
- auto confirmation didn't work if a new charater was not entered
  at the end of the current password
- new folders are now placed directly after already existing folders
- wipe loop boxes appeared sometimes unnecessarily in the progress dialog
- the caption of the icon in the tray icon was not remaned properly if
  an action was started e.g. out of the Windows shell
- weak keys now lead to an automatic retry, not an error
- file wiping goes now through all caches and buffers

CHANGES:

- the source code of Blowfish Advanced CS is available for review purposes

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1999-12-06  Version 2.04.066

FIXES:
- due to changes in Delphi 5 the favorites and work files
  entries were accidentially equipped with shortcuts,
  unacceptable flaw and thus worth to patch straightaway
- the history stored equal paths unnecessarily multiple times

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1999-12-05  Version 2.03.103

FIXES:
- multiple renaming was implemented but locked by the GUI
- disk clearing hung in special situations at the end of the
  process (but was able to be interrupted)
- the job report items could be edited
- 100% processor load with the auto refresh turned on (on
  a pure network paths and only under Windows NT4)
- some minor flaws in the string resources and the help files

NEW:

- history buttons [<] and [>]

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1999-11-14  Version 2.02.456

NEW:

- colored progress display
- runs in the system tray now

FIXES:

- although a key was cached the enabling switch was deactivated in the key input 
  dialog sometimes
- progress dialog: problems showing the filenames (unnecessary cut offs)
- disk clearing: cleared size wasn't shown correctly (fixed also a minor i/o problem)
- nasty bug: program couldn't exit when a viewed file was removed manually
- if the program was active during a windows shutdown it was terminated
  the hard way (no configuration saved, no viewed files wiped. etc.)

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1999-11-08  Version 2.01.355

FIXES:

- nonexisting paths led to jobfile abortion without any message
- fixed problems when browsing the network
- the password input box was selected when setting the focus to it via 
  the key shortcut
- browser items were editable
- auto confirmation and some other options weren't stored in a jobfile
- slow refresh on paths with many files
- the never expire switch for the key cache didn't work every time
- checking of correct value ranges in the options dialog was buggy
- no compression types: check for the extension was case sensitive
- corrections in the help files

CHANGES:

- the update button for registry settings will be (initially) deactivated

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1999-11-01  Version 2.00.360

(First Release)

