Changelog

User feedback improvements:

• Added possibility to define automatic responses to user-feedback dialogs (file already exists, not enough space, error) for fully unattended operations
• Added possibility to rename file when file already exists

Better filtering support:

• Added regex-based file and path filtering options
• Added glob-based path filtering options

GUI:

• Simplified task edit and user-feedback dialogs
• Adjusted the look of mini-view dialog
• Added context menus to both status dialog and mini-view
• Simplified status dialog and adjusted the way copy stats are calculated

Other:

• Task definition xml files now uses human-readable attribute values instead of numeric ones
• Fixed problem with tray icon being sometimes hidden by system due to tooltip changes

Breaking changes:

• Multiple filters are now separated with semicolon instead of vertical line
• Removed support for Windows XP and Windows Vista
• Removed support for outdated html help

Development changes:

• Updated toolsets used to build binaries - InnoSetup to 6.0, Visual Studio to 2019

Bug

• [CH-369] - Shell extension fails to register on plain Win10
• [CH-370] - Shell extension 'Move to' performs copy instead of move

Bug

• [CH-355] - Incorrect sizing of replace file dialog
• [CH-359] - Wrong initial version of task db
• [CH-366] - String replace functionality corrupts memory

Release Notes - Copy Handler - Version 1.45rc1

Epic

• [CH-338] - Upgrade compiler to VS2017

Bug

• [CH-330] - CH context menu does not work in Directory Opus
• [CH-332] - Pressing pause has no effect when handling delete failure after copying
• [CH-333] - Duplicate entries in shell extension context menu
• [CH-334] - Move up/down does not work in the Shortcuts' editing dialog
• [CH-336] - Crash when changing read ahead and concurrency options
• [CH-341] - Shell extension does not display single menu entries
• [CH-343] - Missing exports while installing 1.45 over 1.44
• [CH-344] - Crash when displaying sizes in shell extension menu
• [CH-345] - Icons not being shown in shell extension context menu

Story

• [CH-331] - Update sqlite to newest version
• [CH-339] - Remove chext dependency on ATL
• [CH-340] - Switch CH to VS2017 with WinXP support
• [CH-342] - Update Spanish language
• [CH-346] - Compiler settings improvements

Bug

• [CH-315] - Closing overwrite dialog with X causes file to be overwritten
• [CH-322] - High CPU usage of logger
• [CH-324] - Changing log levels does not work until CH restarts

Story

• [CH-114] - Engine-wide logging support
• [CH-200] - Use SetFileInformationByHandle to finalize file
• [CH-303] - Update code signing certificate
• [CH-304] - File already exists dialog shows paths with \\?\ prefix
• [CH-307] - Increase isolation between file reader and file writer
• [CH-310] - Improvements in silent resume
• [CH-311] - Optimize removing entries from database tables
• [CH-312] - Normalize line endings handling for source code
• [CH-314] - Disable reporting of false-positive memort leaks
• [CH-317] - Limit maximum concurrent reads/writes per file
• [CH-318] - Reduce code smells reported by ReSharper
• [CH-319] - Split libchcore to more specialized libraries
• [CH-320] - Update helper projects to build properly
• [CH-321] - Update sqlite package to 3.16
• [CH-323] - View log asks to create the log file
• [CH-325] - Update Polish translation
• [CH-326] - Unit tests coverage improvements
• [CH-327] - Refactoring of exported collections
• [CH-328] - Update default buffer sizes
• [CH-329] - Adjust logging of serialization to include real column numbers

Feature request

• [CH-266] - Integration with other software

Translation

• [CH-294] - Update Turkish translation of CH

Bug

• [CH-292] - Wrong error message presented on error 34
• [CH-293] - Invalid current speed reported for subtask/task and global stats
• [CH-296] - Crash when using shell extension on explorer showing network path
• [CH-297] - Retrying write failures does not try to write to disk
• [CH-299] - List of Copy-To paths are not updated after adding favorite path in "Choose directory" dialog
• [CH-300] - CH moves file instead of copying when using ctrl+c and ctrl+v
• [CH-301] - Fix issues reported by coverity scan
• [CH-302] - Skipping file when file is being opened does not update task stats

Story

• [CH-197] - Retrying on certain failures should re-open the source and destination files

Feature request

• [CH-277] - Pre-select task in status window

Bug

• [CH-270] - Multiple retries required when reading multiple data chunks at once fails
• [CH-275] - Problem initializing COM with error 0x80010106
• [CH-279] - Options - buffer size dialog fails to display/update buffer count properly
• [CH-281] - Shell extension fails to retrieve menu configuration when user too fast
• [CH-290] - Status window title shows different percentage than the single running task
• [CH-291] - Pause/resume fails to silently resume tasks

Story

• [CH-206] - Replace logging system with async logger
• [CH-272] - Fix issues reported by cppcheck and coverity scan
• [CH-273] - Code cleanups
• [CH-274] - Removing task should remove also rotated files
• [CH-280] - Update sqlite package to 3.15.1
• [CH-283] - Enable /MP compilation
• [CH-284] - Make explorer not block when debugging Copy Handler
• [CH-285] - Allow non-elevated shell extension to communicate with elevated CH
• [CH-286] - Register 32bit shell extension also for 64bit Windows
• [CH-287] - Update version info in CH binaries
• [CH-288] - CH shows dialog boxes in strange places
• [CH-289] - Show taskbar progress when status window is open

Feature request

• [CH-260] - Include CH icon in Options and Status dialogs

Bug

• [CH-263] - Copy Handler is being signed with SHA1 instead of SHA256
• [CH-264] - Copy-of name does not handle extensions properly
• [CH-267] - Task "hangs" when retrying failed operation
• [CH-269] - File error dialog displays empty error message

Feature request

• [CH-182] - Add copy-of names configuration to ch.xml

Bug

• [CH-247] - Error while trying to copy entire drive
• [CH-248] - File error dialog does not display error message
• [CH-249] - Reduce high-priority issues reported by Coverity Scan
• [CH-250] - Wrong task count when copying with filtering
• [CH-251] - Crash in miniview refresh method
• [CH-252] - CH crashes when task data cannot be stored in sqlite database
• [CH-254] - Crash when saving CH options with non-ascii paths

Story

• [CH-255] - Update SQLite package do 3.14.1
• [CH-256] - Update googletest framework to 1.8
• [CH-257] - Update unit tests runner to support running with ReSharper
• [CH-258] - Fix malformed html files in the chm manuals
• [CH-259] - Apply various fixes for code issues reported by R#

The major changes since the last stable release (1.32)

• Move from serialized to overlapped IO resulting in significant performance improvements,
• Basic, experimental command-line support,
• Better check for updates functionality,
• Shell extension improvements,
• Both installer and executables and now signed, so now it will be obvious if the downloaded version is original,
• More stats available in Copy Handler status window,
• Lots of under-the-hood changes:
  • Changed storage backed to sqlite database for improved stability,
  • Upgraded development environment to Visual Studio 2013,
  • Migrated source code from subversion hosted at sourceforge.net to a git repository hosted at the same place website is hosted,
  • Really huge refactoring of code that significantly reduced the technical debt and will allow easier program extending in the future.

Changes since the 1.40 rc3

Bug

• [CH-243] - Installer does not remove all files after restart
• [CH-244] - Shell extension shows empty bars when icons are enabled
• [CH-246] - Program hangs when importing command line task while another tasks are running

Story

• [CH-245] - Buffer size rough tuning