BETA version (with detailed history information)

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v20.80.0002 - 2020-02-11 14:55
    ! Browsing: Certain Unicode (2 bytes per character) item names could become 
      hidden in Tree and List:
      - Byte 1: 2E, Byte 2: not 00, Length: 2 bytes
      - Byte 1: 2E, Byte 2: not 00, Byte 3: 2E, Byte 4: not 00, Length: 4 bytes
      - Byte 1: 2E, Byte 2:     00, Byte 3: 00, Byte 4: not 00, Length: >= 4 bytes
      Fixed.

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v20.80.0001 - 2020-02-11 12:10
    ! Thumbnails: Since v20.70.0015 - 2020-02-08 15:32 thumbnail generation 
      could stop prematurely in certain contexts. Fixed.

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Summary of the latest XYplorer Official Release.

Direct Download: https://www.xyplorer.com/download/xyplorer_full.zip
Download Page: https://www.xyplorer.com/download.php
Release Notes: https://www.xyplorer.com/release.php

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v20.80.0000 - 2020-02-10 20:00
    = NEW OFFICIAL RELEASE. Main developments since last release:
  +++ Duplicate Image Finder. Now you can find image dupes, and fast. Quite 
      handy when sweeping your photo collection. You can even sort images by 
      visual similarity, an interesting feature and hard to find elsewhere.
  +++ Compilation Soundtrack. Compiled to the music of Skip James.

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v20.70.0018 - 2020-02-10 14:24
    + Live Filter Box: Added tweak to allow extended pattern matching: ! for 
      Boolean Not, and # for digits.
        VFExtendedPatternMatching=1
      You can escape the ! by putting a \ before it.
      Examples:
        sweet     match anything sweet
        !sweet    match anything not sweet
        \!sweet   match anything !sweet
      Remark:
        Later this setting will apply to Visual Filter and Live Filter (just 
        like Configuration | Find and Filter | Filters & Type Ahead Find | 
        Visual Filters | Ignore diacritics), hence the name 
        VFExtendedPatternMatching. For now, the tweak only applies to the Live 
        Filter, while the Visual Filter remains hard-coded to allow extended 
        pattern matching.
    * View | Refresh (F5): From now on the List only is refreshed when the focus 
      is in the list. Before, this command always refreshed Tree and List 
      regardless of the focus.
      To return to the old behavior you can use this tweak:
        RefreshListOnly=0
    ! Full Row Select: Clicking the green click-trigger buttons in Custom 
      Columns did not work, nor ticking checkboxes in Extra Columns. Fixed.

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v20.70.0017 - 2020-02-09 18:22
    * Updated the help file.
    ! Scripting: A script was not parsed correctly when you used a radical 
      HEREDOC syntax and then had an include statement below it. Fixed.
    ! Tags: Under certain conditions getting folder sizes was unnecessarily 
      triggered when tagging a file. Fixed.

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v20.70.0016 - 2020-02-08 16:06
    ! Custom Copy: The dialog size and position fix in v20.70.0015 had a logical 
      error. Fixed again.

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v20.70.0015 - 2020-02-08 15:32
    * Thumbnails: Now when you try to switch tab or pane while thumbnails are 
      being created the creation will be stopped and you have to repeat the 
      attempt to make it happen.
    ! Custom Copy: Maximizing the dialog lead to a crash. Fixed. Removed the 
      Maximize button.
    ! Custom Copy: Changes in the dialog size and position of the overwrite 
      prompt were not remembered anymore since 20190217. Fixed.
    * XYcopy: Updated to 2.10.0155.

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v20.70.0014 - 2020-02-07 18:40
    ! Dark Mode: Changes in "Level of darkness (0 is darkest)" and "Text 
      contrast" were not immediately updated everywhere after closing the 
      Configuration dialog. Fixed.
    ! Hover Box: Would not list the contents of WinRAR archives if non-English 
      WinRAR was installed. Fixed.

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v20.70.0013 - 2020-02-07 15:35
    ! Network Browsing: Bogus "Location Currently Not Available" message when 
      browsing shares on some systems. Tried a fix. Now when "Configuration | 
      General | Safety Belts, Network | Network | Assume that servers are 
      available" is ticked then all UNC destinations (not just servers) are 
      trusted to exist.

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v20.70.0012 - 2020-02-06 20:42
    + Toolbar | Details View (Toggle Details/Last View): Now the button tooltip 
      tells you which view you will get when you press it.
    ! Network Browsing: Bogus "Location Currently Not Available" message when 
      browsing admin shares on some systems. Tried a fix.

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v20.70.0011 - 2020-02-04 22:37
    > FYI: Note that Content dupes supersede Image dupes. If Content is ticked 
      then any check for Image dupes can be skipped for logical reasons:
        a)  If content differs we don't have to check for image since all Dupes 
            filters are AND-ed.
        b)  If content is same then image is same as well. No need to check.
    ! Column Image Hash: Switching from ascending to descending sort order was 
      not necessarily the expected perfect reversal. Fixed.

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v20.70.0010 - 2020-02-04 11:16
    + Special Properties: Added a new property for images, the "Image Hash". Of 
      course, it's now also available in XY variables as well as a Special 
      Property Column and as a Special Property in Custom Columns.
        
        Name              Example for Usage as Variable
        ----------------------------------------------------
        Image Hash        text "<prop #image.hash>";
      
      - The Special Property Column "Image Hash" can be used to sort images by 
        similarity. An interesting feature and hard to find elsewhere. Note that 
        unlike the common data hashes (MD5, SHA...) the "Image Hash" has an 
        iconic relation to the visible image (the pixels), which means similar 
        images have similar hashes. The sorting is done so that the sum of all 
        distances from one to the next is minimal, which was an interesting 
        thing to code.
      - Remember that scale, colors, brightness, and contrast are ignored by the 
        hash.
      - This is still work in progress, so you should not rely on the hash to 
        remain stable during the next weeks (so there is no point in saving it 
        anywhere, not yet).
      - This "Image Hash" is also what's used to find Image Dupes in Find Files.

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v20.70.0009 - 2020-02-03 16:46
    * Find Files Final Status: Changed the units and the numbers:
        OLD:  search done in 7,4 ms (scanned 36 items in 3 folders)
      The "3 folders" is the search location plus 2 subfolders. That's a bit 
      tricky already. But only a few users will immediately grasp that "36 items 
      in 3 folders" means there were 34 files.
        NEW:  search done in 7,4 ms (scanned 34 files and 2 folders)
      The new way clearly shows the number of files and folders checked against 
      the search criteria, excluding the search location itself (logical since 
      it is never checked against the search criteria and will never be listed 
      among the search results).
      If no folders are scanned then the "n folders" part is completely dropped.
    * Find Files Final Status: 1st Status Bar section after a Dupes search:
        OLD:  found: 30 dupes, 2 groups
        NEW:  found: 30 dupes in 2 groups
    ! Find Files Final Status: After an inverted Dupes search the 1st Status Bar 
      section showed utter nonsense. Fixed:    
        OLD:  found: 30 dupes, 2 groups
        NEW:  found: 30 non-dupes
    ! Folder View Settings: Starting the app when it was last closed with a 
      search could spread any current Folder View Settings to the default folder 
      view (i.e. to folders without any Folder View Settings). Fixed.

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v20.70.0008 - 2020-02-02 22:22
    % Perceptual Image Hash: The zero tolerance dupe search did not work for 
      WEBP and other formats. Fixed.
    % Perceptual Image Hash: The zero tolerance dupe search had a poor 
      performance. Sped it up.
    * Status Bar: Increased the width of the second section, again.

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v20.70.0006 - 2020-02-01 19:36
    + Info Panel | Find | Dupes | Image: Added dropdown "Tolerance". Set it to 0 
      (zero tolerance) if you want perfect dupes only (all pixels identical).
      Set it to a value larger than 0 to define the tolerated distance for two 
      images to be counted as dupes.
      Already tolerance 1 will ignore scale, brightness, contrast, saturation, 
      and hue. Higher tolerance will ignore JPEG artifacts and minor differences 
      in detail. Factory default tolerance is 9 which worked best over here on 
      countless tests with countless photos.
    % Perceptual Image Hash: More dupes found.
    % Perceptual Image Hash: Even faster.
    ! Memory Leak: Each time the thumbnail of certain WEBP files was shown a bit 
      of memory leaked. Fixed.

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