Good Afternoon Everyone,
The final version of Icaros 3.3.0 is finally here.
I got through most of the showstoppers. You can find the few changes between this and the previous RC1 build in a post below.
A new build will be coming soon with some property handler improvements, so stay tuned!
Thank you so much to everyone you has provided feedback and helped me troubleshoot various issues!
I really appreciate the engagement and support! <3
Also thanks to Witchilich, you can now also find and install Icaros with Winget!
EDIT: For full transparency as always, here is the donation amount from 2022:
2022 - $358
Huge thanks to all who donated to keep the Icaros development alive and well! ❤️
I hope you all enjoy the new releases!
Icaros v.3.3.0 Final
[Major Changes]
- Added support for MP4 properties (incl. mov, 3gp, 3g2, mj2, psp, m4b, ism, ismv, f4v, m4a isma)
- Added support for AVIF thumbnailing
- Added support for TGA thumbnailing
- Added thumbnailing of AI files with an embedded image
- Added thumbnailing of PDF files with an embedded image
- Added AIF/AIFF/AIFC property support
- Added OGA, WEBMV and WEBMA properties
- Upgraded all Icaros Cache logic to 64bit
- Heavily improved all Icaros Cache logic
- The Icaros Cache no longer has a size limit where it stops working
- Added several new thumbnail cache sizes
- Improved automatic thumbnail size detection in the Icaros Cache for certain filetypes
- Improved cover selection logic of CBZ/CBR/CB7/EPUB files
- Implemented a way for Icaros to recover slightly corrupted cache files
[Fixes]
- Automatically undo registry block placed by other software, that prevented Icaros from working
- Disable the 'Icons Only' File Explorer folder setting when enabling thumbnailing
- Fixed thumbnailing of Dolby Vision HEVC streams (dvhe)
- Fixed and improved the WAV property and tag parser
- Fixed rare Explorer hang on specific files
- Fixed thumbnailing of certain PAL8 files
- Fixed a couple of rare issues that affected thumbnailing of some files
- Fixed cache crash when caching very small image thumbnails
- Fixed multiple potential cache crashes
- Fixed caching of folder thumbnails on Windows 10+
- Fixed cache indexer not using the thumbnail timestamp when enabled
- Fixed issue where cache didn't always return a valid thumbnail even though one was available
- Fixed a lot of small cache issues
- Fixed crash if the current Icaros Cache Location had suddenly gotten
restrictive permissions applied to the folder - Fixed Cache Indexer returning an 0x14 error when parsing long filenames (> 259 characters)
- Fixed IcarosConfig not properly handling long filenames (> 259 characters)
- Fixed Boolean file properties showing incorrect values in IcarosConfig (Debug Page)
- Fixed crash when adding files without an extension to IcarosConfig
[Improvements]
- Improved Debug Mode: Icaros should now catch far fewer crashes caused
by other software loaded in the same process as Icaros - File Explorer settings that have been modified by Icaros is now reverted during uninstall
- Made the [Und] track language tag optional, and hidden by default
- IcarosConfig now performs a permission check on the current Icaros
Cache Location, when going to the Cache Page. If the check fails,
an option has been added to attempt to fix the permission issues. - Improved how IcarosConfig handles permission issues for the Icaros Cache
- When opening IcarosConfig for the first time, the default theme will now
match the current Windows App theme - Added a workaround for an issue that prevented the Icaros Thumbnail Provider from working on Vista
- IcarosConfig now uses %SystemRoot% instead of the hardcoded C:\Windows path when referencing the WOW64 regsvr32.exe
- Added additional error reporting during cache indexing and for certain IcarosConfig actions
- All MP4 properties are disabled by default (As the native Windows handler allows editing of properties)
- MP3 properties are now disabled by default
- Register OGA as an audio filetype
- Sidepanel position is now remembered in IcarosConfig
- Additional minor fixes and improvements
[Localizations & Other]
- Installer is now localized (Thank you bovirus for the implementation!)
- Installer has been updated with a slightly more modern look
- Added Romanian localization (Thank you Cătălin Popescu! ^__^)
- Added Polish installer localization (Thank you Xyzzy! ^__^)
- Updated Polish localization (Thank you Xyzzy! ^__^)
- Updated Italian localization (Thank you bovirus! ^__^)
- Updated localizations (Simplified Chinese) (Thank you ZerOri! ^__^)
- Updated VS, donations amount and copyright
- Updated LibDav1d to 1.0.0
- Updated Unarr to 1.1.0 Beta
- Updated GCC
- Updated FFmpeg
NOTE: All your existing Icaros Cache files will be automatically upgraded with this build and
will therefore no longer work with previous versions of Icaros. Make sure you take a backup of
these files if you're testing a Beta release of Icaros.
NOTE: If you decide to downgrade from this release, please note that your property settings in Icaros
will be reset back to the default values, and will need to be set again.