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v1.7.1 release

03 Feb 18:40
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  • Fix advanced settings not working if wifi settings were saved to "always use" in previous Imager version.

v1.7 release

03 Feb 15:21
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  • Show advanced settings button if the operating system indicates it
    supports "advanced settings" by "init_format": "cloudinit" | "systemd" in the
    repository json file. Saved settings are also only applied if the OS indicates support. Some heuristics are used with custom images from disk.
  • Advanced settings: add support for cloudinit format (used by Ubuntu server)
  • Advanced settings: add support for specifying username
  • Advanced settings: allow setting username and password separately from SSH
  • Advanced settings: allow hidden wifi SSID
  • Advanced settings: allow multi-line authorized_keys
  • Linux: Retry on GnuTLS Recv errors
  • Linux: Some fixes to deal better with Linux distributions auto-mounting drives
  • Add Slovenija translation
  • Adds support for zstd
  • Allow nested subitems entries
  • Add word-wrapping to OS list (contributed by mzanetti)
  • Update icons
  • Fix "Error writing file to disk" appearing sporadically on cancelling write.
  • Linux: fix "terminate called without an active exception" on closing Imager while still writing.
  • Windows/Mac: update bundled libarchive version to 3.5.2
  • Mac: dual GPU systems: use integrated GPU to limit battery consumption.
  • Telemetry: phone back home when image from repository is written:
    • name and URL of image written, parent category.
    • about the computer running Imager: OS, version, architecture,
      locale, Imager version, Pi revision

v1.6.2 release

26 May 15:50
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  • Add website link support
  • Add CLI support
  • Advanced settings: fix handling of wifi passwords with special characters (store wifi passwords as PBKDF2 hash)
  • Mac OS X: fix double free (fixes crash on Chinese OS X)
  • Windows: fix window position restore on laptops if Imager was previously on a screen to the top or left of main screen, and that screen is no longer available.

v1.6.1 release

29 Mar 18:13
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  • Advanced options: delay modifying files on FAT partition until config.txt is visible.
  • Advanced options: search all mount points for FAT partition.
  • Mac OS X: use alternative method to detect preferred language.
  • Update translations.
  • Linux: revert "disable high dpi scaling on incorrect EDID" due to it causing the custom file selection dialog not to function properly on Fedora.
  • Linux: when writing .zip files with multiple files, delay extracting .zip after mounting FAT32 if necessary. Workaround for when Imager is run in a sandboxed environment in which udisks2 running on the host system reports the mount completed, but it is not there yet in the sandbox.
  • Advanced options: if user configured they want to use SSH, but forget to enter password, highlight "password" label red to draw attention to that, instead of just refusing to save settings.

v1.6 release

15 Mar 16:00
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  • Add advanced users option screen available under SHIFT-CTRL-X
  • Windows: no longer shutdown storage services during imaging
  • Windows: fix crash on drives without name (drivelist: fix zero length wstring handling)
  • Windows: fix progress indication in taskbar on images >2 GB
  • Linux: [wayland] fix "Client tried to set invalid geometry" error
  • Linux: allow NVMe drives as destination drive
  • Linux: filter out zram virtual devices in drive selection
  • Fix handling of .iso files
  • Update translations
  • GUI: change "SD card" -> "Storage"

v1.5 release

14 Dec 23:51
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  • Windows: prevents window being placed outside screen on laptops that were connected to external monitor before, but now are not.
  • Mac: if user accidentally disallowed Imager access to removable storage, point user to security & privacy settings, instead of giving cryptic "error running authopen" error message.
  • More verbose progress/error reporting
  • Reconnect if download stalls for more than one minute
  • Remember last selected custom image path
  • Add German/French/Italian/Slovak/Turkish translations
  • Windows installer: enable Installer localization
  • Fix multi-level subitems_url
  • Add update notification support
  • Allow translators to specify external .qm file for testing
  • Remove dependency on qml-module-qt-labs-settings
  • Enables telemetry collecting information about which images from
    repository are most popular

v1.4 release

17 Jul 14:21
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  • Windows/Linux: add basic accessibility (screenreader) support
  • Add keyboard navigation support
  • Add confirmation dialog
  • Show new SD card size if SD card is replaced
  • Show write protected drives greyed out
  • Do not block UI if enumerating drives takes a long time (enumerate drives in separate thread)
  • Mac: populate version information
  • Mac: when multiple preferred languages are configured use English if that is main language instead of translation
  • Windows: stop storage service during write
  • Windows: mention 'Controlled Folder Access' on ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED errors
  • Linux: do not use direct IO on verifying but purge cache with posix_fadvise()
  • Linux: do not let progress exceed 100% if device reports incorrect write counters
  • Linux: provide rpi-imager.metainfo

v1.3 release

07 Jun 21:24
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  • Do not use libcurl for reading local files (fixes opening local files with special characters in file name or folder name)
  • Remove zero sized drives from list
  • Fix height of drive list
  • Show scrollbars permanently
  • Add localisation support
  • Windows/Linux: use accelerated sha256 code provided by OpenSSL
  • Custom user agent
  • Ask for confirmation on quit
  • Linux: use direct IO on verifying
  • Linux: Improve progress indication

v1.2 release

11 Mar 09:37
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  • Mention version number in title bar.
  • Windows: do not report error if flushing writes to storage returns an error code. (As it was reported always failing by Windows 7 users)
  • Misc performance improvements.