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v21.60.0110 - 2021-03-27 16:03
    + Configuration | Colors and Styles | Color Filters: Now you can apply Color 
      Filters of type "prop" to the Tree. Before, they were only applicable to 
      the List.
      To apply a Color Filter of type "prop" to the Tree you have to prefix the 
      control selector "T:" to the pattern (or the new control selector "B:", 
      see Notes and Examples).
      Now, most Properties don't have so much use in the Tree, but there is one 
      that is quite interesting:
        T:prop:#empty:2
      This lets you color code empty folders in the tree which is quite a cool
      usability gain.
      
      Notes:
        - Of course, these options have to be ticked:
          - Configuration | Colors and Styles | Color Filters | Enable color filters
          - Configuration | Colors and Styles | Color Filters | Apply color filters to the Tree
        - It's limited to normal folders at the moment. No drives, or other 
          non-straightforward folders.
        - Also no UNC paths (unavailable network paths could slow this down 
          unbearably).
        - If Auto-Refresh is enabled the folder coloring state should 
          auto-update when the empty-state changes.
        - With other Color Filters the new control selector "B:" is not 
          necessary since the absence of any control selector does the same: 
          Both Tree and List. With Color Filters of type "prop", however, the 
          absence of any control selector defaults to "List only" (for 
          historical reasons, and because it's what you want most of the times).
          
      Examples:
        Pattern             Scope               Remarks
        ------------------------------------------------------------------------
        prop:#empty:2       List only
        T:prop:#empty:2     Tree only           (was ignored in earler versions!)
        L:prop:#empty:2     List only
        B:prop:#empty:2     Both Tree and List  (new control selector!)
      
    % Find Files: Tiny speed increase of about 1%. The more recursed folders the 
      more the increase.
    ! Configuration | Colors and Styles | Styles | Line spacing: Since 
      v21.60.0005 - 2021-03-20 14:01 the factory default line spacing was too 
      tight. Fixed.

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v21.60.0105 - 2021-03-26 20:25
    ! Find Files and Quick Search: Since v21.50.0141 - 2021-03-12 18:27 escaping 
      [ and ] with \ did not work anymore as expected. Fixed. Now all of these 
      patterns match items containing "[abc]", regardless of the setting of 
      "Configuration | Find and Filter | Find Files & Branch View | Find Files | 
      Enable extended pattern matching":
        \[abc\]
        \[abc]
        [abc\]
      Whereas [abc] matches all items containing "a", "b", or "c" if "Enable 
      extended pattern matching" in ON, and all items containing "[abc]" if 
      "Enable extended pattern matching" is OFF.

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v21.60.0104 - 2021-03-26 13:56
    ! Configuration | Tabs and Panes | Tabs | Remember tree scroll position per 
      tab: Did not work correctly when implicitly opening a new tab by changing 
      locations in a locked tab. Fixed.

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v21.60.0103 - 2021-03-26 12:38
    + Configuration | Tabs and Panes | Tabs: Added option "Remember tree scroll 
      position per tab". Does what it says and is as cool as it sounds.
      Notes:
      - Applies to switching between tabs and also between panes.
      - Works across sessions and also within tabsets.
      - It's possible now to have the current node out of view after opening 
        a tab which can be very good thing.
      - This setting overrules "Configuration | General | Tree and List | Tree | 
        Scroll selected folder to the top" when switching between tabs or panes.
      - It just remembers the scroll position, not the whole tree. So when the 
        tree changes between tab openings you might end up in a different place 
        than before.
    % Configuration | Preview | Preview | Audio/Video preview: Increased the 
      resolution of the loop timer on "Play Again" even further for near 
      seamless looping.

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v21.60.0102 - 2021-03-25 22:29
    % Configuration | Preview | Preview | Audio/Video preview: Increased the 
      resolution of the loop timer on "Play Again".
    - Removed the FindMixedSortPerLevel tweak (v10.50.0027 - 2011-11-17 20:47). 
      The tiny speed gain was not worth 300 lines of code.

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v21.60.0101 - 2021-03-25 11:58
  +++ Configuration | Find and Filter | Find Files & Branch View | Branch View | 
      Default branch view type: Added new Branch View type "Files and non-empty 
      folders". Here any folders that contain nothing or only empty folders (or, 
      in case of a search, do not contain any files that match the search) are 
      not listed in the Branch View. Gives you a much cleaner view which is much 
      more useful in most real world scenarios probably.
      The switch for this view is /flatnoempty.
      Examples:
        ? /flatnoempty
        ?*.jpg /flatnoempty
      Reminder: You can quickly switch between the now four different Branch 
      View types via the right-click menu of the "Branch View" toolbar button.

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v21.60.0100 - 2021-03-24 20:00
    = MAINTENANCE RELEASE.
  +++ Minor bug fixes and enhancements.

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v21.60.0011 - 2021-03-24 10:54
    ! Configuration | Tabs and Panes | Tabs | Show 'New Tab' button: Button 
      could be shortly visible in certain situations even if unticked. Fixed.
    ! Preview: A previewed PDF file was not always completely unlocked after 
      closing the preview. Fix #2.

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v21.60.0010 - 2021-03-23 21:26
    ! Preview: A previewed PDF file was not always completely unlocked after 
      closing the preview. Fixed.

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v21.60.0009 - 2021-03-23 13:21
    - List: It turned out that the Windows message WM_TIMECHANGE is sent out 
      quite often without any time zone or DST change happening (Windows bug?)! 
      Each time it happens a refresh is performed of both panes. Not good! Hence 
      this change (v17.40.0212 - 2017-01-18 22:07) has been undone now:
      + Time Zone Changes: Now XY automatically adjusts the displayed filetimes 
        on-the-fly to a newly selected time zone. No restart necessary.

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v21.60.0008 - 2021-03-22 11:07
    + Configuration | Other | Shell Integration | 64-bit Windows | Use 64-bit 
      preview handlers for preview: Now the version of the installed .NET 
      Framework is checked on startup. It has to be at least v4.0.30319 for the 
      64-bit preview to work.
      There is a new tweak that allows you to skip this check:
        Preview64SkipVersionCheck=1
      Might be useful when Microsoft suddenly changes the .NET version 
      specification in unforeseeable ways.
    + Toolbar | Paper Folders | Allow Zombies: Mouse Up Show Down did not work 
      yet for "This PC" and "Network" items. Now it does.
    + Configuration | Preview | Thumbnails | Thumbnail widths and heights: The 
      dropdown boxes now fully drop, no need to scroll.
    * Configuration | Preview | Thumbnails | Show film strip overlay on video 
      thumbnails: Now very small sprockets are drawn for very small thumbs.
    * Configuration | Preview | Thumbnails | Show file icon on thumbnail: Now 
      it's only done for thumbs 32x32 and larger.
    * Configuration | Preview | Thumbnails | Show dimensions of original image 
      on thumbnail: Now it's only done for thumbs 32x32 and larger.
    ! Info Panel | Properties; Status Bar: The exact bytes for small files in 
      the 1000-1023 byte size range were not shown anymore since 20190917. 
      Fixed.

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v21.60.0007 - 2021-03-21 20:07
    + Toolbar | Paper Folders | Allow Zombies: Now with "Allow Zombies" enabled 
      you can add virtually anything to a Paper Folder: Drives, Servers, Shares, 
      Special Folders (Desktop, [User]), Abstract Folders (This PC, Network, Recycle 
      Bin), Environment Variables (%user%), XY native variables (<xydata>), 
      relative paths (..\backup) (relative to app path).
      This is kind of a semi-official power user feature because it has a couple 
      of natural shortcomings:
      - The Paper Folder list is made for files and folders, so many columns 
        just don't make sense for those kind of "special" items.
      - You usually cannot drag these items into a Paper Folder, so you have to 
        manually edit the Paper Folder source file in a text editor, or add the 
        items by scripting.
      - For internal reasons and to make them recognizable as pseudo folders 
        those items get the following fake file attributes:
        - S for System
        - D for Directory
        - A for Archive
      So, what can you do with these items in the Paper Folder?
      - See their contents in the Hover Box.
      - MDBU on their contents (ATM not yet working for This PC and Network!)
      - Open them.
      For example, this freaky stuff is possible now in the Paper Folder source 
      file on "Allow Zombies":
        ------------------------------------------------------------------------
        \\VEGA\
        \\VEGA\code\
        \\VEGA\code\Admin.ini
        I:\
        ?:\
        This PC
        Net
        Recycle Bin
        Desktop
        Donald
        %user%
        <xydata>
        Readme.txt
        ..\backup
        ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ! Floating Preview: Under certain conditions when switching from a 
      browser-based preview (HTML) to a video preview, the browser-based preview 
      remained visible. Fixed.
    ! SC inputselect: Filenames that began with certain AB prefixes (eg ! or @) 
      in an inputselect had their generic filetype icon hijacked by special AB 
      icons. Fixed.
    ! Configuration | Preview | Mouse Down Blow Up | General | Apply zoom: When 
      doing a text MDBU right after an image MDBU the text preview could come 
      out weirdly distorted. Fixed.

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v21.60.0006 - 2021-03-20 19:41
    ! Configuration | Preview | Mouse Down Blow Up | Mouse Down on Thumbnails 
      and Icons | Stay up: Since v20.50.0000 - 2019-10-08 staying-up Blow Ups of 
      animated GIFs were not closeable anymore by MouseDown or ESC. Fixed.

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v21.60.0005 - 2021-03-20 14:01
    * Configuration | Colors and Styles | Styles | Line spacing: This value is 
      now translated to the current screen resolution. For example, when you 
      change it by 1 unit on a 200% screen resolution the effective line spacing 
      will be changed by 2 pixels. That way the layout should better migrate 
      between different systems.
      Note that row height changes by Ctrl+Shift+Wheel are still hard pixels.
    ! List: Since last beta small icons were drawn too small on higher 
      resolutions. Fixed.
    ! List: When using large line spacing lines the sort symbol in the sorted 
      column header was drawn far too large since 20201210. Fixed.
    ! Toolbar: When using caption lines the overflow button icon on the right 
      end was drawn far too large since 20201123. Fixed.
    ! Status Bar | Smart Section Sizing: Drawing glitch on row height changes by 
      Ctrl+Shift+Wheel when space was scarce.Fixed.

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v21.60.0003 - 2021-03-19 19:05
    * Configuration | Preview | Mouse Down Blow Up | Mouse Down on Thumbnails 
      and Icons | Stay up: Staying up Blow Ups of animated GIFs were not 
      closeable by MouseDown or ESC. Found no better way to handle it than to 
      exclude them from the Stay Up.
    ! List: Fixed some drawing glitches with very small thumbnails (16x16) and 
      extra-tight line-spacing in "Details with Thumbnails" view.
    ! Paper Folders: After OK-ing the "Remove Invalid Entries?" prompt those 
      entries were not removed anymore from the file on disk since about 
      20210312. Fixed.

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