AVATeR v0.9.8 release

AVATeR v0.9.8 introduces highlight colors, a sticky selection mode, and various fixes.

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Requirements

• Windows: Windows 8/10/11+ (Win7 may work)

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Details

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Changelog

0.9.8 May 28th
- New: show highlight colors
- New: sticky annotation selection option

- Improved: row resizing when scrolling
- Improved: Windows USB device detection
- Improved: Replaced USB/mount related delays with retry loops
- Improved: Local mirror handles removal via sync

- Fixed: Removed deadlock situation with disabled device monitor
- Fixed: URLs for website/updating
- Various minor changes/fixes

Full changelog (.txt) including previous versions.

Changes

• New: show highlight colors
  Can be set to color full rows, single columns or be disabled alltogether¹. A text abbreviation can be shown for bad lighting conditions or visually impaired users. [see viewer menu]

• New: sticky annotation selection option
  Avoids pressing the control- and/or shift-key for selecting multiple annotations. [see viewer menu]

Improvements

• Improved: row resizing when scrolling
  When scrolling, 'row bouncing' has been strongly reduced compared to 0.9.7. For scroll-to-bottom 'misalignments' are now prevented after filtering or sorting on date.

• Improved: Windows USB handling

  • Device detection checks single device
    Now only the changed device is checked (as does the Linux version), instead of relying on a full device scan.

  • Replaced USB/mount time delays with retry loops

• Improved: Local mirror removal when syncing
  If active local mirrors are disabled in devices.conf, they are removed during a device scan (F5). Previously this required a restart.

Fixes

• Fixed: Removed deadlock situation with disabled device monitor
  When the device monitor was disabled, a device scan (F5) that detected a missing USB device (and issued it's removal) would trigger a deadlock, causing an infinite wait².

• Fixed: URLs for website/updating
  Redirects will be kept in place for older versions.

• Various minor changes/fixes

Future changes

• 0.9.9 is planned for June/July.
• Linux release is coming, as a Flatpack and/or a Debian installer.