Note: Actual releases may differ from what is described below.
V3.1 (Release scheduled for June 1999)
- Added Platform: From this release on the DoPatch DLLs are
available for Windows CE too.
- Added Platform: From this release on, there is a BinPatch for
SCO Unix. The file format of the patch files is 100% compatible and you may apply patch
files created with GenPatch for SCO on OS/2 or apply patch files created with GenPatch for
DOS with DoPatch for SCO.
- Enhanced Feature (partially already in 3.0h): GenPatch is even
cleverer in autodetecting the best matching source files in directory mode. Autodetection
can be optionally more intense to try concurrently evaluated sources.
- Added Feature: Time measuring features are now included for
the commandline version.
- Added Feature: Usage of regular expressions shall be
optionally allowed for all parameters that use patterns now.
- Added Feature: An icon installation plain patch files on OS/2.
Opening patch files will apply or test them.
- Added Feature: New option "-K" allows you specify a
registry modification to be done when successfully applying a patch file. You are allowed
to speficy a key to be present on the local machine that serves you to identify a given
path on that machine and do a substitution of it in the manipulation data. This new
feature will allow you to e.g. set the version number correctly, or to add new keys for
your software. Patch files using this will not be applicable on not Win32 platforms.
- Added Feature (already in 3.0k): Use the new option"-perm=value" on Unix platforms to
control the permissions of the created patch file. The default for plain patch files is
644 and for executable patch files 755. If you wanted to make the patch file writable to
your group, you would instead use "-perm=775" to accomplish this.
- Added Feature: Support to create rpm packages of patch files
for Linux. Most likely accomplished with -z=rpm and BinPatch for Linux itself will come along rpm packaged alternatively.
- Added Feature (already in 3.0k): GenPatch may now call PGP to
sign your patch files. The external compression options were revised so that they include
the signature by default. There are many options to specialize the default behaviour of
this option.
- Added Feature (already in 3.0k): GenPatch may now create a md5
checksum using an md5sum executable. The external compression included this signature
either. Both "-pgp" and
"-md5" may be used at
the same time.
- Added Documentation Format (already in 3.0k): The former
"One Page HTML Documentation" is now accompanied by a "JavaScript Treeview
Documentation" format that uses a treelike display of the documentation allowing you
much easier overview and navigation through the Manual.
- Added Documentation Format: The BinPatch Documentation is now
also available in Adobe's PDF File Format. This format is specifically well suited for
printing. It is included in all releases because it's portable.
- Added Documentation Format (already in 3.0k): The BinPatch
Documentation is now available in Windows HLP file format also. It is included in the
Win32 release only and available for download as a separate package also.
- Added Documentation Format: On our site we have a
"conservative HTML Documentation format" available for online viewing and
download. It is text only and was created for people that dislike our new JavaScript
TreeView Documentation format.
- Added Documentation Format: There are now GNU Info pages about
BinPatch available. You need to use the "info" program in order to view them.
They are included in the BinPatch for Linux release by default and available for download
as a separate package also.
- Added Documentation Format: The BinPatch Documentation is now
also available in PostScript format. This format is specifically wel suited for printing.
It is not included into the releases due to the similarity of PDF and PostScript, but you
can download it from our site.
- Added Documentation Format: The BinPatch Documentation is now
also available in TeX's DVI format. TeX is widely used on Unix platforms which is why we
include it in the Unix releases.
- Added Documentation Format: There is now also a BinPatch
Documentation in pure ASCII file format. It is included in all releases.
Are you still missing a feature needed for your BinPatch usage or do
you have a suggestion to make? Or can you provide us helpful information? Just email us!
We are well known for our flexible reaction on user email and
normally it's only a question of days or even only a few hours to see your suggestion
implemented in a prerelease version you receive.