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v24.90.0125 - 2023-09-14 19:00
    % Glider: Now it's not ghost-triggered anymore by passive mouse movements, e.g. on 
      startup or after closing a modal dialog while the mouse is over the tree. To trigger 
      the Glider you must actively move the mouse over the tree and stop for a while 
      (initial delay) in the hover zone.
    ! Tree Section Colors: Colors got confused when there was only one drive. Fixed.
    ! Info Panel | Raw View | Orange Button Menu | Resolve Links: Fixed another glitch 
      when changing between LNK files.

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v24.90.0126 - 2023-09-15 13:33
    + SC echo: Now the dialog features a Copy button, and Ctrl+C will copy the message.
    + Text-related modal dialogs: If there is a Copy button, Ctrl+C can trigger it if the 
      focus is not on the text box itself.
    * Event Sounds | Clipboard Update: Now this sound is also played when a clipboard 
      update is triggered from a text-related modal dialog, e.g. a message box or a text 
      box.
    * Outlook Drop: Now the list is updated natively (and immediately) independent of the 
      Windows change notification system. And the dropped items are automatically selected 
      in the target path (like select on paste).
    ! When a search was performed of another location, while the active tab was a Virtual 
      Folder (or Paper Folder), the info bar still reported that you were located in a 
      VFO. Subsequently, other functions that were performed while in this state were 
      affected. For example, if you tried to rename XY, it thought that all the files 
      didn't exist, and it showed relative paths in the preview window, but they were 
      relative to the previous VFO root. Fixed.

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v24.90.0128 - 2023-09-16 18:10
    * Info Panel | Preview Tab and Raw View Tab: The orange button menu now pops up on 
      mouse up instead of mouse down. This prevents accidental clicks on menu items when 
      the menu happens to appear directly under the mouse pointer.
      If the menu is open, a second click on the orange button will close it.
      Btw, the menu now also pops up on right-click (no difference to left-click).
    * Info Panel | Find Files | Date: Same change as above for the orange button.
    % Glider: Now, if possible, the glider is placed in such a way that it does not have 
      any overlap with the node label.
      Also the hover zone will never overlap the rect drawn around the node when the 
      glider is visible.

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v24.90.0131 - 2023-09-17 17:37
    - Load Time Log: Removed "Tree Check Subfolders Exist Late: " logging. Was only for 
      debugging.
    % Info Panel | Preview Tab and Raw View Tab: Improved the placement of the orange 
      button menus.

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v24.90.0132 - 2023-09-21 12:54
    ! Configuration | Other | Shell Integration | 64-bit Windows | Show real System32 
      directory: When checked, the specific shell icons of EXE files in the 
      C:\Windows\System32 branch were not displayed correctly in the file list and some 
      other contexts (only the generic EXE icon was displayed). Fixed.
    ! List: A rare "Subscript out of range" error was possible in Details view. Fixed.

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v24.90.0133 - 2023-09-21 23:59
    + SC exist: Now it shows the Shortcut Target for LNK files.
    ! Links Folder: The icons in the Links folder were more or less gone since 
      v24.90.0132. Fixed.

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v24.90.0134 - 2023-09-22 14:26
    + SC exist: Now it shows the friendly name and path of the associated application (aka 
      "Opens with").
    % File | File Special | Set Modified / Created Date to Exif: Improved error handling 
      and status bar feedback.
    ! SC aid: Was not available anymore. Fixed.
    ! Special Folders: There could be a problem mapping real paths to their special path 
      counterparts if the special path root pointed to a drive root. This was ultimately 
      caused by Windows' bizarre habit of returning drive roots with a trailing backslash 
      and all other paths without. Fixed by working around this Windows quirk.

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v24.90.0135 - 2023-09-22 17:12
    ! Special Folders: There could be another problem mapping real paths to their special 
      path counterparts if the special path root pointed to a drive root that had a volume 
      label assigned. Fixed.
    ! Image Properties | Date Taken: The Special Property column and <prop 
      #image.datetaken> did not show the date for some images, even if it was available in 
      other ways. Fixed.

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v24.90.0136 - 2023-09-23 12:10
    + Document Preview: The PreviewDocsFocusStealFixExt tweak now also works for the 
      Floating Preview. Example (and factory default):
        PreviewDocsFocusStealFixExt=msg
    ! List: Since v24.80.0022 - 2023-08-22 19:56, Shift+Right-click on a selected item 
      incorrectly removed any other selections. Fixed.
    ! Image Properties | Date Taken: The recent fix broke the app in some contexts. Fixed 
      again. Also made it faster.

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v24.90.0137 - 2023-09-24 09:24
    ! Configuration | General | Controls & More | Drop-down Lists | Select all on focus by 
      key: Did not always work anymore when it should since v24.90.0122 - 2023-09-12 
      20:39. Fixed.

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v24.90.0138 - 2023-09-25 10:03
    * Updated the help file.
    ! Image Properties | Date Taken: One problem case was missing. Fixed.

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v24.90.0140 - 2023-09-25 14:31
    + Image Properties: Wrote a native Exif parser to extract even more data without 
      relying on the shell, shell extensions, GDI+, or any installed Codecs. Works for 
      TIF, DNG, NEF, CR2, RW2, and ARW, i.e. formats that internally use a TIFF header to 
      store Exif data.
    + Image Properties: Added support for Motorola byte order in Exif data. Previously 
      only Intel byte order was supported.
    ! Custom Event Actions: The CEA_SwitchTabs key appeared twice. It should have been 
      CEA_SwitchTabs and CEA_SwitchTabs_Script instead. Fixed.
      No worries, nothing breaks or is lost for upgraders.

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v24.90.0141 - 2023-09-26 14:35
    * Glider: Now the glider disappears when you enter rename mode, and no glider appears 
      while you rename a node.

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Summary of the latest XYplorer Official Release.

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v25.00.0000 - 2023-09-26 18:00
    = NEW OFFICIAL RELEASE. Main developments since last release:
  +++ The Glider. The Glider is a floating, context-sensitive mini toolbar in the folder 
      tree that magically appears at your mouse pointer, offering buttons for the most 
      common file management operations: Copy, Move and Paste. It's like drag and drop 
      without the dragging. Fully customizable. A game changer when it comes to manually 
      organizing files into folders.
  +++ Many Other Improvements. See change log.

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v25.00.0001 - 2023-09-27 14:29
    + Image Properties: The native Exif parser has learned a bit about the intricacies of 
      the task and now returns more and better data.
    * Message Boxes: The Copy button is now only displayed when there is text to copy.
    ! File | File Special | Set Modified / Created Date to Exif: Still did not work for 
      some files. Fixed.

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