The idea is to record here changes that deserve mentioning in the release notes, as we make them, to make the release process easier. Next version: 3.2 (????-??-??) 3.1.1 (2015-11-02) * (re)add support for old processors that don't have SSE2 * support newer versions of unrar.dll * allow keeping browser plugin if it's already installed * crash fixes 3.1 (2015-10-24) * 64bit builds * all documents are restored at startup if a window with multiple tabs is closed (or if closing happened through File -> Exit); this can be disabled through the RestoreSession advanced setting * printing happens (again) always as image which leads to more reliable results at the cost of requiring more printer memory; the "Print as Image" advanced printing option has been removed * scrolling with touchpad (e.g. on Surface Pro) now works * many crash and other bug fixes 3.0 (2014-10-18) * Tabs! * deprecated the browser plugin (remains installed if used) * support table of contents and links in ebook UI * add support for PalmDoc ebooks * add support for displaying CB7 and CBT comic books (in addition to CBZ and CBR) * add support for LZMA and PPMd compression in CBZ comic books * allow saving Comic Book files as PDF * swapped keybindings: * F11 : Fullscreen mode (still also Ctrl+Shift+L) * F5 : Presentation mode (also Shift+F11, still also Ctrl+L) * added a document measurement helper (invoke by pressing M) * new advanced settings: FullPathInTitle, UseSysColors (no longer exposed through the Options dialog) * replaced non-free UnRAR with a free RAR extraction library (if some CBR files fail to open for you, please download unrar.dll from http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm and place it alongside SumatraPDF.exe) * removed support for reading sumatrapdfprefs.dat (when updating from a version prior to version 2.3, please upgrade to 2.5.2 first and have that convert your settings to the format introduced in version 2.3 before updating to a later version) 2.5.2 (2014-05-13) * use less memory for comic book files * PDF rendering improvements 2.5.1 (2014-05-07): * hopefully fix frequent ebook crashes 2.5 (2014-05-05): * 2 page view for ebooks * new keybindings: * Ctrl+PgDn, Ctrl+Right : go to next page * Ctrl+PgUp, Ctrl+Left : go to previous page * 10x faster ebook layout * support JP2 images * new advanced settings: ShowMenuBar, ReloadModifiedDocuments, CustomScreenDPI * left/right clicking no longer changes pages in fullscreen mode (use Presentation mode if you rely on this feature) * fixed multiple crashes 2.4 (2013-10-01): * full-screen mode for ebooks (Ctrl-L) * new key bindings: * F9 - show/hide menu (not remembered after quitting) * F8 - show/hide toolbar * support WebP images * support for RAR5 compressed comic books * fixed multiple crashes 2.3.2 (2013-05-25): * fix a bug changing a language using Settings/Change Language menu 2.3.1 (2013-05-23): * not compiled with SSE2 2.3 (2013-05-22): * more configurability. Settings are now saved in human-editable SumatraPDF-settings.txt (instead of binary sumatrapdfprefs.dat) and there are more settings for customizing Sumatra. For more documentation see http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/settings.html * "Go To Page" for ebook format * add support for OpenXPS documents * add View/Manga Mode menu item for Comic Book (CBZ/CBR) files * support Deflate64 in Comic Book (CBZ) files * new key bindings: * Ctrl-Up : page up * Ctrl-Down : page down * fixed paragraph indentation missing for EPUB documents * printing with "Use original page sizes" no longer centers pages on paper * reduced size. Installer is ~1MB smaller 2.2.1 (2013-01-12): * fixed ebooks sometimes not remembering the viewing position * fixed Sumatra not exiting when opening files from a network drive * fixes for most frequent crashes, PDF parsing robustness fixes and regressions from 2.1.1 introduced in 2.2 2.2 (2012-12-24): * add support for FictionBook ebook format * add support for PDF documents encrypted with Acrobat X * “Print as image” compatibility option for documents that fail to print properly * -manga-mode [1|true|0|false] for proper display of manga comic books * fixed a reuse-after-free crash reported by John Leitch from Microsoft Vulnerability Research (MSVR) * fixed multiple crashes caused by overflows 2.1.1 (2012-05-07): * fix a couple of crashes, most importantly crash when resizing some ePub files 2.1 (2012-05-03): * support for EPUB ebook format * added menu item to rename a file (contributed by Vasily Fomin) * support multi-page TIFF files * support TGA images * support for some comic book (CBZ) metadata * support JPEG XR images (available on Windows Vista or later, for Windows XP the Windows Imaging Component has to be installed) * fixed multiple heap overflows reported by John Leitch from Microsoft Vulnerability Research (MSVR) and by Carlo Di Dato (aka shinnai) * the installer is now signed 2.0.1 (2012-04-08): * fix loading .mobi files from command line * fix a crash loading multiple .mobi files at once * fix a crash showing tooltips for table of contents tree entries 2.0 (2012-04-02): * support for mobi ebook format * we can now open CHM documents from network drives * images from documents can be copied from the context menu * document colors can be replaced with Windows system colors (option hidden if Windows displays text black-on-white) * smaller size thanks to ucrt 1.9 (2011-11-23): * CHM documents support * support touch gestures (available on Windows 7 or later) (contributed by Robert Prouse) * open linked audio and video files in an external media player * improved support for PDF transparency groups 1.8 (2011-09-18): * improved support for PDF form text fields * various minor improvements and crash fixes * speedup handling some djvu files 1.7 (2011-07-18): * favorites * logical page numbers are displayed and used, if a document provides them (such as i, ii, iii, etc.) * allow to restrict SumatraPDF's features with more granularity; see http://code.google.com/p/sumatrapdf/source/browse/trunk/docs/sumatrapdfrestrict.ini * -named-dest also matches strings in table of contents * improved support for EPS files (requires Ghostscript) * improved support for right-to-left languages e.g. Arabic * more robust installer (requires to close programs, like a browser, that are using Sumatra components, preventing them from being over-written during installation) 1.6 (2011-05-30): * display Frequently Read list when no document is open * add support for displaying DjVu documents * add support for displaying Postscript documents (requires a recent Ghostscript installation) * add support for displaying a folder containing images (to display it, drag the folder over SumatraPDF) * support clickable links and a Table of Content for XPS documents * optional previewing of PDF documents in Windows Vista and 7 (creates thumbnails and displays documents in Explorer's Preview pane) * display printing progress and allow to cancel it * add Print toolbar button 1.5.1 (2011-04-27): * fixes for crashes 1.5 (2011-04-23): * add support for displaying XPS documents * add support for displaying CBZ and CBR comic books * add "Save Shortcut" to create shortcuts to specific places in a document * add a basic context menu for copying text, link addresses and comments (and saving and printing for the browser plugin) * add folder browsing (Ctrl+Shift+Right opens the next PDF document in the current folder, Ctrl+Shift+Left the previous one) 1.4 (2011-03-12): * browser plugin for Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera for displaying PDF documents with SumatraPDF inside the browser (does NOT work under MSIE) * IFilter for PDF to support searching document contents with Windows Desktop Search (full text search from Windows Vista/7's Start Menu) * add support for AES-256 encrypted documents * Right Mouse now drags the document (same as Shift+Left), Right+Scroll zooms it (same as Ctrl+Scroll) * add menu item to open with Foxit Reader and PDF-XChange Viewer (if installed) * add suport for custom installation directories in the installer * removed -title cmd-line option * we no longer compress binaries that come with installer with mpress to avoid anti-virus programs flagging us as a virus. The portable, .zip version is still compressed with mpress * fixed an integer overflow reported by Jeroen van der Gun 1.3 (2011-02-04): * improved text selection and copying. We now mimic the way a browser or Adobe Reader works: just select text with mouse and use Ctrl+C to copy it to a clipboard * Shift+Left Mouse now scrolls the document, Ctrl+Left mouse still creates a rectangular selection (for copying images) * 'c' shortcut toggles continuous mode * '+' / '*' on the numeric keyboard now do zoom and rotation * added toolbar icons for Fit Page and Fit Width and updated the look of toolbar icons * add support for back/forward mouse buttons for back/forward navigation * 1.2 introduces a new full screen mode and made it the default full screen mode. Old mode was still available but not easily discoverable. We've added View/Presentation menu item for new full screen mode and View/Fullscreen menu item for the old full screen mode, to make it more discoverable * new, improved installer * improved zoom performance (zooming to 6400% no longer crashes) * text find uses less memory * further printing improvements * translation updates * updated to latest mupdf for misc bugfixes and improvements * use libjpeg-turbo library instead of libjpeg, for faster decoding of some PDFs * updated openjpeg library to version 1.4 and freetype to version 2.4.4 * fixed 2 integer overflows reported by Stefan Cornelius from Secunia Research 1.2 (2010-11-26): * improved printing: faster and uses less resources * add Ctrl+Y as a shortcut for Custom Zoom * add Ctrl+A as a shortcut for Select All Text * improved full screen mode * open embedded PDF documents * allow saving PDF document attachements to disk * latest fixes and improvements to PDF rendering from mupdf project 1.1 (2010-05-20): * added book view (“View/Book View” menu item) option. It’s known as “Show Cover Page During Two-Up” in Adobe Reader * added “File/Properties” menu item, showing basic information about PDF file * added “File/Send by email” menu * added export as text. When doing “File/Save As”, change “Save As types” from “PDF documents” to “Text documents”. Don’t expect miracles, though. Conversion to text is not very good in most cases. * auto-detect commonly used TeX editors for inverse-search command * bug fixes to PDF handling (more PDFs are shown correctly) * misc bug fixes and small improvements in UI * add Ctrl + and Ctrl – as shortcuts for zooming (matches Adobe Reader) 1.0.1 (2009-11-27): * many memory leaks fixed (Simon Bünzli) * potential crash due to stack corruption (pointed out by Christophe Devine) * making Sumatra default PDF reader no longer asks for admin priviledges on Vista/Windows 7 * translation updates 1.0 (2009-11-17): * lots of small bug fixes and improvements 0.9.4 (2009-07-19): * improved PDF compatibility (more types of documents can be rendered) * added settings dialog (contributed by Simon Bünzli) * improvements in handling unicode * changed default view from single page to continuous * SyncTex improvements (contributed by William Blum) * add option to not remember opened files * a new icon for documents association (contributed by George Georgiou) * lots of bugfixes and UI polish 0.9.3 (2008-10-07): * fix an issue with opening non-ascii files updated Japanese and Brazillian translation 0.9.2 (2008-10-06): * ability to disable auto-update check * improved text rendering - should fix problems with overlapping text * improved font substition for fonts not present in PDF file * can now open PDF files with non-ascii names * improvements to DDE (contributed by Danilo Roascio) * SyncTex improvements * improve persistance of state (contributed by Robert Liu) * fix crash when pressing 'Cancel' when entering a password * updated translations 0.9.1 (2008-08-22): * improved rendering of some PDFs * support for links inside PDF file * added -restrict and -title cmd-line options (contributed by Matthew Wilcoxson) * enabled SyncTex support which mistakenly disabled in 0.9 misc fixes and translation updates 0.9 (2008-08-10): * add Ctrl+P as print shortcut * add F11 as full-screen shortcut * password dialog no longer shows the password * support for AES-encrypted PDF files * updates to SyncTeX/PdfSync integration (contributed by William Blum) * add -nameddest command-line option and DDE commands for jumping to named destination(contributed by Alexander Klenin) * add -reuse-instance command-line option (contributed by William Blum) * add DDE command to open PDF file (contributed by William Blum) * removed poppler rendering engine resulting in smaller program and updated to latest mupdf sources * misc bugfixes and translation updates 0.8.1 (2008-05-27): * automatic reloading of changed PDFs (contributed by William Blum) * tex integration (contributed by William Blum) * updated icon for case-sensitivity selection in find (contributed by Sonke Tesch) * language change is now a separate dialog instead of a menu * remember more settings (like default view) * automatic checks for new versions * add command-line option -lang $lang * add command-line option -print-dialog (contributed by Peter Astrand) * ESC or single mouse click hides selection * fix showing boxes in table of contents tree * translation updates (contributed by many people) 0.8 (2008-01-01): * added search (contributed by MrChuoi) * added table of contents (contributed by MrChuoi) * added many translation (contributed by many people) * new program icon * fixed printing * fixed some crashes * rendering speedups * fixed loading of some PDFs * add command-line option -esc-to-exit * add command-line option -bgcolor $color 0.7 (2007-07-28): * added ability to select the text and copy to clipboard - contributed by Tomek Weksej * made it multi-lingual (13 translations contributed by many people) * added Save As option * list of recently opened files is updated immediately * fixed .pdf extension registration on Vista * added ability to compile as DLL and C# sample application - contributed by Valery Possoz * mingw compilation fixes and project files for CodeBlocks - contributed by MrChuoi * fixed a few crashes * moved the sources to Google Code project hosting 0.6 (2007-04-29): * enable opening password-protected PDFs * don't allow printing in PDFs that have printing forbidden * don't automatically reopen files at startup * fix opening PDFs from network shares * new, better icon * reload the document when changing rendering engine * improve cursor shown when dragging * fix toolbar appearance on XP and Vista with classic theme * when MuPDF engine cannot load a file or render a page, we fallback to * poppler engine to make rendering more robust * fixed a few crashes 0.5 (2007-03-04): * fixed rendering problems with some PDF files * speedups - the application should feel be snappy and there should be less waiting for rendering * added 'r' keybinding for reloading currently open PDF file * added --+ and --- keybindings to rotate clockwise and counter-clockwise (just like Acrobat Reader) * fixed a crash or two 0.4 (2007-02-18): * printing * ask before registering as a default handler for PDF files * faster rendering thanks to alternative PDF rendering engine. Previous engine is available as well. * scrolling with mouse wheel * fix toolbar issues on win2k * improve the way fonts directory is found * improvements to portable mode * uninstaller completely removes the program * changed name of preferences files from prefs.txt to sumatrapdfprefs.txt 0.3 (2006-11-25): * added toolbar for most frequently used operations * should be more snappy because rendering is done in background and it caches one page ahead * some things are faster 0.2 (2006-08-06): * added facing, continuous and continuous facing viewing modes * remember history of opened files * session saving i.e. on exit remember which files are opened and restore the session when the program is started without any command-line parameters * ability to open encrypted files * "Go to page dialog" * less invasive (less yellow) icon that doesn't jump at you on desktop * fixed problem where sometimes text wouldn't show (better mapping for fonts; use a default font if can't find the font specified in PDF file) * handle URI links inside PDF documents * show "About" screen * provide a download in a .zip file for those who can't run installation program * switched to poppler code instead of xpdf 0.1 (2006-06-01): * first version released