New Version Of Frost Released (2-dec-2004)

[Kevloral]

Hello all.

A new version of Frost has just been released (2-Dec-2004). You can get it from the official website: http://jtcfrost.sourceforge.net/

Release notes:
This release contains two versions: one for Java 1.5 (the file whose name ends in -java15) and the other one for Java 1.4 (the file whose name ends in -java14). The features of both are the same, but the 1.5 version should have slight performance improvements, as well as a slightly reduced memory usage (especially if used with a version of Freenet specifically compiled for Java 1.5).

To install:

- If you have Java 1.5: unzip the file called frost-02-Dec-2004-java15.zip in the directory where you want Frost to reside.
- If you have Java 1.4: unzip the file called frost-02-Dec-2004-java14.zip in the directory where you want Frost to reside.

In both cases, to start it just execute frost.bat (if you are on Windows) or frost.sh (if you are on *nix). Alternatively, if your system is properly configured, you can also start it by double clicking on the file called frost.jar

To update from a previous version:

- If you have Java 1.5: unzip the file called frost-02-Dec-2004-java15.zip in the directory where you have Frost installed.
- If you have Java 1.4: unzip the file called frost-02-Dec-2004-java14.zip in the directory where you have Frost installed.

In both cases all your settings, messages, etc... will be preserved but making a backup of your Frost directory prior to updating it is recommended just in case something goes wrong.

To check the authenticity of the files:

frost-02-Dec-2004-java15.zip (SHA1: da68135e3a9d2d8c569d264ef2e8043ff0109039)
frost-02-Dec-2004-java14.zip (SHA1: bfcda80ce419c5907180635defa1d5a17721f2a7)
frost-source-02-Dec-2004.zip (SHA1: 392869afce7fc016551a0264754fda5e14c59302)


What has changed? (changes since 22-Nov-2004)
Added: messages can be deleted now.
Added: now the dialogs that may pop up when Frost is started create a dummy frame so that the user can see on the task bar that there is activity going on.
Added: in case Frost finds an error while auto saving a resource, a popup is shown to warn the user about the situation and the application closes itself.
Added: popup menu to the message body of the new message frame (cut, copy and paste).
Added: popup menus to all the JTextFields in the preferences (to perform the usual clipboard operations).

Changed: when an unsigned message is received with the @ character in the from field, it is automatically blocked.
Changed: skinlf updated to 1.2.10

Bugfix: some information was being saved duplicated on the identities.xml file.
Bugfix: with Java 1.5 Frost was failing to start from time to time (deadlock when showing the main frame).
Bugfix: Images that were created with Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage and were not being checked with a MediaTracker could cause problems. Now replaced by ImageIcon.

Kind regards.