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Dear customers,

We are proud to present you another maintenance release. It features digital signing of binaries.

Dmitri Arkhangelski
UltraDefrag Chief Architect

Dear customers,

We are proud to present you another maintenance release. It features simplified installation.

Dmitri Arkhangelski
UltraDefrag Chief Architect

Dear customers,

You are welcome to check a couple of new UltraDefrag releases. They feature better support of HiDPI displays and updated Turkish translation.

Dmitri Arkhangelski
UltraDefrag Chief Architect

Dear customers!

Finally the previously announced 7.1.0 version of the program is ready for download. It fixes a lot of bugs and features improved disk processing algorithms. Also we're pleased to announce that we have relicensed UltraDefrag sources to Green Gate Systems, LLC. You are welcome to check out their enhanced 8.0 version of the program. It features automatic defragmentation and much faster disk processing algorithms.... read more

Dear friends,

We have just moved UltraDefrag website to https://ultradefrag.net/. The main reason is performance improvement - now the site works approximately 10 times faster.

Have fun!

Dmitri Arkhangelski
UltraDefrag Chief Architect

Dear friends!

Thanks to your generous support we've finally managed to get out of troubles on the path to the next release. Also we've bought new testing equipment which helps us a lot to perform extensive testing and develop new features. The next 7.1.0 release will contain a lot of bug fixes and highly improved disk processing algorithms as well.

Thank you again for your kind support!

Stay tuned, more good news are yet to come!... read more

Hello everyone,

So, nine months passed since the last release and we're still not making any significant progress towards the next milestone. Well, it's never easy to keep things going when people you love die and you have to deal with depression every single day, for years. We're trying our best to overcome that, but some things seem to be too hard to survive.

Nevertheless, hope dies last and we expect time and a bit of money still could help us to get out of hell. Overall we need about $35K to move away to a place where nothing will remind us about horrible things we've passed through. As we have no chance to gather funds locally, we decided to set donations up here. In the last 9 months we've managed to collect over $4000 which we've spent for food and medicines. God bless all the people who took part in! ... read more

This release features improved crash handling as well as upgrade to wxWidgets 3.1.0 library, which fixes a lot of bugs. Additionally, thanks to Sherzod Mamatkulov, Uzbek (Latin) translation is now available for UltraDefrag.

We have a lot of good ideas for the next release, but no time for their implementation. You can help the project to move on by a small donation. There's no need to donate $100 or more, even a small donation of $1/$2 might help.

Dear friends,

We are proud to present you the final UltraDefrag v7 release. Our tests show it works reliably, so we have no reason to defer it any longer. We'd like to thank all the fans for being with us on the way to the final release. Together we made it and now it's time to think about new features. Some of them should definitely appear in the upcoming 7.1.0 release.

Besides, SourceForge Project of the Month poll is still open. If you believe we're making good progress don't hesitate to vote for us there. We still do believe we're making our world a little bit better together, as we're spreading freedom via free software.... read more

Dear friends,

We are proud to present you the first candidate for the final UltraDefrag v7 release. In the latest beta we have fixed 99% of application crashes. We'll do our best to improve reliability even further, but taking into account the fact that the remaining crashes are probably caused by hardware failures and virus infections (rather than UltraDefrag bugs), we consider RC1 to be safe for daily use. If you'll find, however, that it still fails for you, don't hesitate to drop us a note. And finally, if you believe we're making good progress, vote for us at SourceForge Project of the Month poll.... read more

This release fixes a few major bugs affecting thread safety. wxWidgets 2.8.12 we used before turned to have unreliable ways to transfer information from one working thread to another. The latest stable 3.0.2 release, however, provides better mechanisms for inter-thread communication. In beta 6 we have adjusted our code to use them properly.

Dear friends,

We have finally upgraded wxWidgets to the latest stable 3.0.2 release. It fixes a lot of bugs and provides better debugging facilities which helped us to improve our own code as well. Only drawback is that it uses different language identifiers, so you have to select your language once again.

Enjoy!

Dmitri Arkhangelski
UltraDefrag Chief Architect

For this release we used much safer compilation options: 32 bit binaries are compiled by GCC 4.7.1 which is known to be pretty stable, 64 bit binaries - by Windows 7 SDK with all optimizations disabled, as recommended by Microsoft.

Dear friends,

We are proud to present you a couple of new releases. The first one is a minor maintenance release. It fixes a bug preventing the program to check for available updates reliably. The latter beta release features brand new testing facilities. Whenever you'll encounter a bug the program will send us a bit of debugging information automatically. As we'll gather enough information we'll do our best to investigate all cases and make another beta release afterwards.... read more

This release features completely rewritten documentation. A bit later it will be included in UltraDefrag v7 along with a bunch of bug fixes. If you believe some information is missing there, don't hesitate to drop us a note.

Hello friends,

Since the latest updates we have no more bug reports. Due to this reason we'll mark the latest beta release as stable, at least for the next 48 hours. Give it a try and if the program will crash (on a virus-free operating system) send us a bug report.

If we'll receive enough feedback upon the subject we'll consider to mark as the latest stable release UltraDefrag 6.0.4 back again.

Hello friends,

This minor update fixes a bug preventing configuration files creation on Windows 7.

Hello friends,

Thanks for your support: translations, bug reports and donations.

This release features a bunch of updated translations. Check 'em out and if you'll find something incorrect there you're welcome to fix it. Visit UltraDefrag project at Transifex for details.

If you will encounter an application crash please scan your computer by antivirus software to ensure that nothing is infected by malicious code. If it isn't please send us a bug report and give us some hint on how to reproduce the crash.... read more

Hello friends,

This minor update includes the most recent v6 translations.

It's intended to be the last one for Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000 operating systems.

Hello friends,

Due to migration of UltraDefrag translations to Transifex we have decided to discontinue the use of Wikispaces.

All the tutorials hosted there have been moved to SourceForge.

ultradefrag.wikispaces.com will be closed in a few days.

Hello friends,

We'd like to let you know that we're going to make a couple of UltraDefrag updates for you. A lot of translations have been changed since the last release, so we plan to make 6.0.3 and 7.0.0 beta2 releases as soon as possible to include all the updated stuff.

Also we have some new bug reports. Unfortunately they are about a memory corruption which makes 'em extremely hard to fix. We'll need a lot of time and effort to investigate those cases and find what's wrong there.... read more

Hello friends,

• This release gets rid of our home-brew GUI framework, which is replaced by wxWidgets.
  This allows us to focus on the defragmentation engine and implement some long requested features.
  The only drawback is that we have to retire support for Windows 2000^® and below.
• The translation is now moved from our home-brew one to GNU gettext, which is shipping with wxWidgets.
  The translations are hosted online at Transifex and shipping with UltraDefrag for offline translation using PoEdit.
  All translators are encouraged to read the Translation section of the handbook for further information.
• This release doesn't offer any new features, it is meant for testing the migration of the entire GUI code.
• Please give it a whirl and report back any problems you encounter.
• The executables are not yet optimized for size, which will be taken care of before the final release.... read more

Hello friends,

This release is minor update.

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Here is a brief list of the changes:

• the FAQ section of the handbook now contains information about how to set up v6 to optimize similarly to v5
• the Explorer context menu is now reduced to a single entry with sub-menu on Windows 7 and above

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• the following translations were updated:
  • Albanian, Danish, Filipino (Tagalog), Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia), Javanese, Polish, Portuguese (BR)... read more

The next major release of UltraDefrag, v7.0.0, will migrate from our home-brew GUI framework to wxWidgets.

This allows us to migrate the translation to use GNU gettext, which is implemented in wxWidgets.

We need to verify the information for the two languages, Kapampangan and Wáray-Wáray, to get them added to transifex, which offers the free online translation service.... read more

Hello friends,

This release is now officially supporting Windows 8.

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Here is a brief list of the changes:

• Installer no longer warns about Windows 8 being untested
• shortened the delay after hitting the finish button of the installer
• increased Windows 8 compatibility

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• the following translations were added:
  • Armenian

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• the following translations were updated:
  • Chinese (Traditional), Filipino (Tagalog), Italian, Portuguese, Spanish (AR), Ukrainian, Vietnamese... read more