0.5.1 Release
Posted on July 24th, 2006 by nikOver the weekend we have rolled a new release of Omnidrive (as we will every second weekend). The 0.5.1 release fixes some issues in both the Web and Windows clients. A lot of the issues were reported by you guys, our beta users, so we thank you again for your persistance in finding issues and reporting them back to us. Here is the changelog:
Windows Client:
- Bug fix: create folder in root of Omnidrive
- Connection and proxy issues fixed (affected a small number of installations)
Web Client:
- All accounts now able to login (bad username error)
- Folder properties window
- Sharing a folder bug, removing a user from a share
- Hitting browser ‘forward’ button errors in some areas fixed
- Fixed ‘getting stuck in search view’ bug
- Better signup username checking
- On create folder detects if existing folder with same name and handles it better
- Better ‘add file’ and upload status
There have been a number of smaller fixes. We made some small changes to the interface, such as a new user profile page, but we will be releasing a whole new web interface within a couple of releases (it is looking really, really good). Some bad news is that we didn’t get the Mac client ready in time for this release, but it will catchup to the Windows client in time for the next release (we promise!). Also, if you have installed the windows client and it hasn’t updated to 0.5.1, then run ‘autoupdate.exe’ which is inside your Omnidrive install folder. From what we see almost everybody has received the update.
We plan on launching our support center within the next week, to make it easier to log issues and to receive a follow up. Once the support center is up, when you report an issue you will be informed automatically when it has been fixed.
Overall stability of the system has improved and we will be bringing a new datacenter online and adding it to the cluster for the next release. Being spread out across more locations should bring us much closer to 100% availability.
As always, if you have any feedback or comments either email us on feedback@omnidrive.com or submit the feedback form from within the web interface. We really appreciate all the feedback we have been getting and we are doing our best to address issues and concerns from our users. On another note, if you have found that Omnidrive didn’t meet your requirements and you are not using it after receiving an invite, we would love to hear from you about what we can do to make it a better application for you.
July 24th, 2006 at 3:44 pm
“Some bad news is that we didn’t get the Mac client ready in time for this release, but it will catchup to the Windows client in time for the next release (we promise!).”
Grrr. Is that another 2 weeks before we can get any mac client then?
July 25th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
Hey Sam, no we will push it out as soon as it is ready which will be a matter of days.
July 25th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
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July 25th, 2006 at 11:08 pm
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