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4.1.0

17 May 11:20
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The final release for the Fedora 26 cycle.

New features:

  • ARM image support (for Raspberry Pi 2 and 3)
  • Custom User-Agent string for Fedora statistics
  • Improved delayed writing (requires authentication immediately, not later)
  • Desktop notifications on finished writing or error
  • Improved message logging
  • User can now delete the downloaded image after writing
  • Windows/macOS Checks for a newer FMW version on startup
  • Windows Custom backtrace generator

Bugfixes:

  • Improved ComboBox behavior
  • Now utilizes the desktop font size settings
  • A lot more error/warning/info messages facing the user
  • Lots of UI tweaks
  • Improvements in drive detection and filtering
  • Linux Writing large images does not trigger the authentication dialog twice
  • Windows Fixed crashes with problematic OpenGL drivers and different SSL implementations
  • Windows Better and more reliable installer

4.1.0 prerelease

20 Mar 15:45
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4.1.0 prerelease Pre-release
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The .deb probably doesn't work right, please report any problems. Should support Debian Jessie and above and Ubuntu 16.04 and above.

Mac and Windows users: Please test if the package is signed and it contains my name in some form (Martin Bříza).

4.0.8

10 Jan 12:53
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General

  • Fedora image links updated to Fedora 25
  • Empty memory card readers are now ignored
  • Fixed situations when it was not possible to close a dialog
  • Handles gracefully the situations when access to the iso file is declined
  • Improved documentation, better screenshots
  • It's now possible to override the path to releases.json with the --releasesUrl argument

Windows

  • Improved writing code, less error-prone

macOS

  • Forces usage of the primary language for the UI language

4.0.7

22 Nov 18:34
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Sync the translation

4.0.4

10 Nov 15:07
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Changes in this release:

  • Disabled "threaded" QSG loop model on Linux, included the dialogs inside the main window (fixes performance problems and even crashes on some hardware)
    • This should be reverted when Qt will have fixed the underlying issues
  • Disabled automatic hiDPI scaling on Linux
  • Enabled system-wide proxy usage
  • Fixed unstable behavior when a continued download is cancelled during the initial media check of the downloaded part
    • Reduces the chance of getting a corrupted download
    • Fixes a crash
  • Reduced the download buffer to 64MB
    • Fixes huge memory load when used on a very fast network
  • Fixed two crash sources on Windows

4.0.3

02 Nov 16:33
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Fixed a crash in download code
High DPI scaling disabled on Linux (broken in Qt)

4.0.1

02 Nov 12:56
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4.0.1 Pre-release
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Fixed memory usage when on a very fast network.

4.0.0

31 Oct 11:39
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A feature-complete release.

Finished features

  • Linux, Windows and macOS support
  • Fetching the up-to-date list of Fedora releases
  • Downloading the image
    • Checks both the SHA256 and the included MD5 checksums
  • Writing the images
    • Checks the included MD5 checksum
  • Restoring the drive with a FAT partition

Known issues / platform diferences

  • macOS
    • Writing does not report its progress
    • An osascript wrapper is used instead of proper privilege escalation methods
  • Windows
    • Has to run with administrator privileges immediately from the start (including the UI)

3.97.2

11 Oct 09:12
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3.97.2 Pre-release
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Updated translations (now with the metadata text)
Fixed a crash with empty DISPLAY variable
Fixed storage when running as root
UI tweaks
Version and contact information included in the UI

3.97.1

23 Sep 13:05
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New features:

  • Fixed a crash when writing is cancelled
  • Fixed checksum verification
  • UI tweaks