Eraser 5.8.8-beta 1 released!
A relative rapid release for Eraser 5.8.8-beta1 has been made in light of reports that the Shell extension does not work (hanging the computer). This update is meant to addres the issue. Please try the beta if you are experiencing the problem. Otherwise, all the other code is the same as 5.8.7.
A new version has been built and re-released at 6.40pm +800GMT on July 6th 2009, owing to a compile issue with the previously-uploaded binaries.
Changelog
Eraser 5.8.8-beta1
- Do not erase sparse, compressed or encrypted files when FL2KB erasure is selected to prevent disk corruption.
- Fix Win32 Eraser builds to be truly Unicode builds.
- A few 64-bit fixes.
- Ensure that Eraser uses the latest runtimes packaged with the installer. This should fix hangs when using the Context menu.
Disclaimer: The code is still of beta quality and may not be as stable as the released versions of Eraser. It is however good to note that there are no feature additions and are mainly feature fixes and therefore upgrading should constitute an increase in stability.
If you have read the disclaimer, follow the instructions about installing betas then download the installer.
File Hashes
The old file hashes have been found to be wrong; these are the new file hashes (accurate as of 13/9/2009.) Sorry for the confusion -Joel
- MD5:
ee0673b2a568410ad7c554f17d53c992
- SHA-1:
a26d3d6d20b3f27518b508bb86fe25d2ce8722fe
- SHA-256:
0e2d7ca7089bb95eb1a99b279d355b339e4f05188716b9dd33b74df6f
11a536c - SHA-384:
3920d25dc8c3896be94737f353c11e6bf8a95c5ffeb64b4ef7702a6be
583305d2ec508378bf846d0f94f35ba2c56e44b - SHA-512:
4da2e8c2e5422689f24cc6f20926ae1004eaaeacb274174d1fadb03d3
24b630cf2513561d8e6487f2c54ffc0ab8373b175dbc4bb7f9da959b4
519c9812295525 - Whirlpool:
c2faebe01b6d20693ee396a2f0338a2b9318e3e50b5fb3eaec6906134
23863e56a908974b33273de76cf2c943abe11ccd08905d156e0fb347b
1cc9df98329270
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