Release Announcements

v2.7.0 was released 11th Dec 2016. Get it now at http://34.225.163.28/downloads for your platform. Note that 2.7 means "quite a lot of new things", like status bars, new disk hashing interface, big changes to "Compare Directories" tab and so on. You can and should therefore expect to see lots of 2.7.X releases in the coming weeks and months to address any irritating issues that may have sneaked in. Windows 10 users note : you will be warned about running the program because I am an "unknown developer" by the standards of Microsoft, or moreover, I have not paid them [...]

The disk hashing module has been massively overhauled for v2.7.0 and is now available for both Linux and Windows users, whereas it was only available for Windows users before. This means that Linux users will be able to hash disks using either the "File" tab or using the new GUI interface of the disk hashing module. It's a significant improvement over the earlier version of the disk hashing module, which was added in 2014. The features that it had (like a scheduled start time and so on) will be re-added to this new interface with subsequent branches of 2.7.0. [...]

Work on v2.7.0 has been ongoing for a few weeks, but it has proved difficult to find the time. But the beta release will be available soon. The most significant improvements are with the Compare Directories tab. Speed improvements have been gained by allowing the user to only tabulate in the display grids details relating to errors, meaning that if there are no errors hashing the two sets of files, then the program does not waste time displaying all the details. In tests it makes the process about 50% faster! Also progress bars have been added where necessary, by popular [...]