etcher/CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. This project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

v1.0.0-beta.8 - 2016-06-15

Added

• Display ETA during flash and check.
• Write a document explaining Etcher's architecture.
• Show an informative label if the drive is not large enough for the selected image.
• Show an informative label if the drive is locked (write protected).

Changed

• Prevent certain system drives to be detected as removable in GNU/Linux.
• Fix external resources not opening on GNU/Linux when the application is elevated.
• Don't show an unnecessary scroll bar in the update notifier modal.
• Prevent selection of invalid images by drag and drop.
• Fix EPERM errors on Windows on drives formatted with a GUID Partition Table.
• Prevent a very long image name from breaking the UI.

v1.0.0-beta.7 - 2016-05-26

Added

• Add gzip compression support.
• Add bzip2 compression support.
• Provide a GUI elevation dialog for GNU/Linux.

Changed

• Upgrade Electron to v1.1.1.
• Fix broken image drag and drop functionality.
• Prevent global shortcuts from interferring with another applications.
• Prevent re-activating the "Flash" button with the keybaord shortcuts when a flash is already in process.
• Various improvements to the build system.
• Fix certain non-removable Windows devices not being filtered out.
• Display non-mountable Windows drives in the drive selector.

v1.0.0-beta.6 - 2016-05-12

Added

• Implement update notifier modal.

Changed

• Implement writing by forking the Etcher CLI as a child process.
• Prevent selection of drives that are not large enough for the selected image.

Removed

• Remove implicit "Enable" from settings screen items.

v1.0.0-beta.5 - 2016-05-04

Added

• Add xz compression support.

Changed

• Improve "Select Image" supported file types label.
• Fix error that prevented the application to be elevated correctly on Windows.

Removed

• Deprecate GNU/Linux .tar.gz installers in favor of AppImages.

v1.0.0-beta.4 - 2016-04-22

Added

• Integrate Etcher CLI in this git repository.
• Generate AppImage packages for GNU/Linux.
• Add application version to footer, which links to the CHANGELOG.
• Allow to bypass elevation with an environment variable (ETCHER_BYPASS_ELEVATION).

Changed

• Upgrade Electron to v0.37.6.
• Improve drive selector modal.
• Add dashed underline stlying to footer links.

v1.0.0-beta.3 - 2016-04-17

Added

• Show drive name in drive selector modal.
• Add subtle hover styling to footer links.
• Implement OS notifications on completion.
• Allow to drag and drop an image to the first step.
• Add Etcher logo to application footer.
• Add "Change" button links below each step.

Changed

• Invert progress bar stripes during validation.
• Fix window contents being pushed below when opening the drive selector modal.
• Detect removal of selected drive.
• Detect MacBook SDCard readers in OS X.
• Improve removable drive detection on Windows.
• Keep one decimal in Windows drive sizes.
• Prevent error dialog not showing on malformed Error objects.
• Fix window being resizable on GNU/Linux.
• Compress Linux executables and libraries.
• Compress Windows DLLs.
• Make GNU/Linux binary lowercase.
• Hide drive selector modal if no available drives.
• Replace all occurrences of "burn" with "flash".
• Make drive selector modal react to drive auto-selection.
• Improve UX when attempting to re-selecta single available drive.
• Reset writer state on flash error.
• Fix stream.push() after EOF error when flashing unaligned images.

v1.0.0-beta.2 - 2016-04-07

Added

• Implement a new drive selector modal widget.
• Log Etcher version in Mixpanel and TrackJS events to aid debugging.
• Implement write validation support.
• Add a setting to enable/disable write validation.

Changed

• Heavy general refactoring.
• Make sure window size is uniform between platforms.
• Fix "Use same image" button not preserving the image selection.
• Fix step vertical bars slight mis-alignment.
• Fix vertical spacing between success message and disk unmount notice label.
• Fix focus CSS style being persisted in the buttons after a click in some cases.
• Fix uncaught exception if no file was selected from a dialog.
• Fix external URL opening freezing applications in GNU/Linux.
• Fix code-signing issues in OS X in some systems.

Removed

• Remove drive selector dropdown.

v1.0.0-beta.1 - 2016-03-28

Added

• Allow window to be dragged from anywhere.
• Add more application metadata to installation package.
• Setup code-signing for Windows.

Changed

• Fix uncaught error after rejecting elevation in OS X.
• Upgrade drivelist to v2.0.9, which includes various drive scanning improvements.
• Make sure error is logged if its trapped with an error dialog.
• Fix broken state when going to settings from the success screen.
• Fix Cannot read property 'length' of undefined frequent issue.