• New "Jump to file" action when a leaf folder is selected
• Overhaul in detection/loading of JavaFX fixes a bug in native file/folder dialog display, as well as the broken launching of encrypted videos
• New warning on install if user has more than one JRE version installed (can cause graphics flakiness and broken file/folder chooser dialogs)
• A few minor UI improvements/enhancements

• New "Jump to folder" action expands to and selects the leaf folder of the current file
• "Assign video thumbnail" updated to use native Windows file chooser dialog (JavaFX only)
• Escaping from full screen mode can now be done by clicking in the upper corner of the screen
• Fixed an issue with random slideshow mode causing flicker during image fade transition
• Fixed an issue with caption creation/editing causing the "album has changed" alert to appear upon re-opening

• Improved file hiding now allows for hidden folders by way of hiding all of their files
• Ctrl+Delete on a leaf node now invokes hide/unhide

• Fixed an issue with file hide/unhide

• Added support for several more video file extensions
• ENTER key now opens albums selected in the main menu
• Right clicking the viewport navigation arrows no longer advances the selection
• Added keyboard support for deleting multiple files
• Restored the ability to delete folders (lost when multiple selections were introduced)

• Restored the albums menu icon for locked albums
• Fixed/restored the automatic detection of changes within the folders of an album
• New Tip of the Day explaining the new VLC snapshot auto-detection feature

• Rewrote the album list main menu (simpler, more intuitive)
• Better auto-detection of potential album root folders within /Pictures and /Videos
• Added demo sample album ("Universe")
• Added the ability to select multiple album thumbnails for easier batch deleting of files
• New option for customizing the thumbnail font
• Added automatic detection of VLC snapshot files (when saved to "My Pictures" folder) for use as the video thumbnail
• New theme-based look and feel selection
• Added support for JavaFX when available, updating the folder/file choosers to the standard Windows UI
• New choice for double-click behavior ("Picture fit to window")
• Fixed album flicker during window resize

• Added pre-loading of images for faster display of large photos
• Several other rendering optimizations
• Refactored the layout of navigation buttons so that they show properly in all screen resolutions
• Added navigation icons to the viewport (optional)
• Mouse wheel click now toggles the slideshow
• Default double-click behavior is now full screen toggle
• Thumbnail icon frame color properly synchronized with pic "actual size" state
• Minor improvements/tweaks to the main menu UI and folder selection dialog
• Minor improvements/tweaks to the Globalisk Look and Feel
• Improved responsiveness of the window translucency slider and added disabling of it when minimalist border is turned off
• New option allows suppressing hiding of the navigation bar altogether
• Captions are now stored in the same folder as their pic, so they won't be lost when the folder is moved or renamed
• Fixed a bug that caused photos over 4Mb in size to be only partially password encrypted
• Fixed a bug in thumbnail creation that sometimes caused them to appear blank and/or lead to an out of memory error
• Fixed an issue with the RIGHT key when used immediately following the expansion of a folder
• Fixed an issue with window sizing to full screen mode when screen was flipped from landscape to/from portrait
• Fixed the rendering of the navigation bar background when screen was flipped from landscape to/from portrait
• Fixed a glitch in slideshow mode when toggling from NumLk
• Fixed zoom/resizing rendering glitch when initiated from full size image state, and added pic size % feedback

• Added customizable window translucency

• Added an opt-in dialog asking the user if they want the app to check the internet for a newer version, and noting the potential need to give permission to firewall software that might try to block any attempts
• Added support for Japanese and Hindi

• Fixed the use of the - key to collapse from a leaf node so the tree properly scrolls to the new selection
• Fixed an issue with the file change detector deleting unecessary thumbnails (which then had to be refreshed)
• Added "Refresh thumbnail" option for leaf node selections (Shift-T)

• Loosened restrictions on use when trial period has expired ("Cascading Slides Free")
• Folder views are now called "Albums"
• Overhauled the main menu, adding standard menu bar on the main menu window
• Multiple albums can now be opened at the same time with one action
• Main menu window state is now saved and restored when the app is re-started
• Main menu window now minimizes upon close into the system tray (optional)
• Clicking the mouse wheel now advances the selection
• Added the ability to create new folders (with password encrypted names when folders are encrypted)
• Added "Recently played videos" menu list
• Added window snapping to halves/quarters of the screen via mouse for all eight edges/corners of the screen
• Added an option for Mac style window buttons, and the ability to specify the side of the window on which they are displayed
• Added new option for controlling double-click action (window maximizing, full screen toggle, or do nothing)
• Added seperate window size/location state based on current orientation of the screen (landscape vs. portrait)
• "Soft deleted" is now "Hidden" and the file's hidden attribute on the file system is updated accordingly
• Double left-click or typing RETURN on a leaf node video thumbnail now plays the video
• Navigation bar auto-hide now works when mouse is moved within the thumbnail tree pane
• "Assign video thumbnail" dialog now returns to the same folder when invoked again
• Tapping ALT now does the same as tapping CTRL (toggles display of the navigation bar)
• Exporting a file/folder now only opens the EXPORT folder once when used repeatedly
• Opening the caption editor now sets "View caption" to true if it was false
• Fixed an issue with displaying filenames with non-standard characters
• Fixed the resizing of thumbnails to ensure that the popup menus disappear
• Fixed a flaw in the initial thumbnail loading of animated GIFs that caused most to appear blank
• Fixed a bug that caused the default empty video thumbnail to be created even when the user supplied one via the filesystem
• Fixed a bug that made the cursor stay invisible when a popup menu was opened
• Fixed the alphabetizing of files/folders w/regard to upper vs. lowercase
• Fixed a glitch in the focusing of album windows when first opened
• Enhanced rendering of the File menu and Thumbnail toggle button
• Added appropriate disabling of Options "defaults" buttons, and main menu "Select/Clear all"
• Added a few more missing label translations
• Added a few more Tips of the Day
• Several other minor UI tweaks
• Added language support for Russian and Chinese (Traditional and Simplified)

• Added a link to the new online Help
• Fixed a flaw in the initial detection of pics/vids that required a pic/vid to exist in the root folder
• Added missing language translations for several labels
• A couple other minor UI tweaks

• Added the ability to open videos for editing (with default awareness of Windows Movie Maker)
• Updated to the finalized (v1.0) version of the Globalisk Look and Feel for Swing
• Enhanced the parent folder icon to make use of the current window border color
• Fixed a glitch in the caption rendering that made it impossible to completely remove a password-encrypted caption

Removed a remnant of V1 authentication that caused the app to erroneously report that it was corrupted

• Added feedback to the toggling of the display of soft deleted files
• Fixed a couple issues with the tagging of folder favorites
• More UI refinement

• Fixed a glitch in the rendering of folder thumbs when expanded and then cycled through
• Changed default detection of "Paint Shop Pro" (way outdated) to "Paint.NET" (awesome and free)

• Improved password creation so it doesn't allow characters outside the English alphabet (which don't work) and added password strength feedback
• Fixed the file change listener so it doesn't pop up a dialog too often or at the wrong time
• Fixed a couple kinks in how the display of files was handled upon deletion
• Some minor UI polishing

• Added multi-lingual support with five new languages: German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish
• Added pic/vid captions (with customizable font and transparency)
• Restored (and improved) SHIFT+F12 window centering
• Improved random selection within a folder so it never picks the same (or current) pic twice in a row
• Improved highlighting of nav buttons when user selects white as the foreground color (added drop shadows)
• Improved conditions under which clicking and dragging moves the window (vs. moving the pic)
• Fixed encryption exporting of folders with videos (no longer also exports the default video thumbnail(s))
• Fixed a bug that caused certain encrypted videos not to launch after being decrypted
• Fixed a hack in the Globalisk Look & Feel that caused tabs (like those in Options) to constantly re-render and eat up way too much CPU
• Further refinement of pic transition fading, including new options for controlling speed
• Lots of other UI refinement/enhancement/polishing

• Improved the Options grouping (added new "Viewport" tab)

• Fixed the sluggish/inconsistent fade transition timing
• Made some edits and additions to the "Tips of the Day"

• Added a secondary registration key for users who don't need the password encryption
• Added suppressible dialog alert to let the user know the app couldn't connect to the Web to check for a newer version
• Added suppressible dialog alert to warn the user about the consequences of encrypting their files
• New option for suppressing the folder(s) feedback icon in the viewport (when thumbnail tree isn't showing)
• Fixed the rendering of the navigation bar (it was still glitchy sometimes)
• Improved the main menu blurb to suggest grouping files into folders/sub-folders

• Added full support for launching (and encrypting) videos:
• Video icon and launching feedback
• Recognition of video extensions other than .avi
• Video exporting queue to allow for rapid multiple export requests
• Default awareness of VLC Media Player
• "Assign video thumbnail" action
• Ability to delete videos
• Improved:
• Filename obfuscation for encrypted files (user password creates unique character mapping)
• Navigation bar: added UP/DOWN () with LEFT/RIGHT re-assigned to cycling within folders (as keyboard LEFT and RIGHT already did)
• Deleting of password export directory (now happens only when last window is closed)
• Exporting of folder contents (now exports into a sub-folder of the export directory with the same name as the source folder)
• Detection, handling and feedback for new files (entirely re-written)
• Tree keyboard navigation
• Random cycling while slideshow is running (folders update with random selections)
• File/video export time (removed file copying step)
• Grouping of popup menu items
• Performance/response time (significant code refactoring)
• Window maximizing/restoring (double-click now applies to the navigation bar as well as the viewport)
• Added proper "Exit" (had to close windows individually in v.1)
• Added "Delete folder" option
• Added optional picture fade transitioning
• Added option for disabling the random seletion of pics for folder thumbnails
• Bug fixes:
• Left double-click didn't work when "mouse click actions" option was unchecked
• Rendering of folders that contain folders (the double plus icon was flaky)
• The app occasionally froze upon startup
• The app froze when the right/left key was held down
• Sometimes popup menus had duplicated items
• XML parsing would choke when filenames contained unusual characters (added entity mapping)
• Photoshop didn't open the selected photo when invoked
• Viewing of data on an external drive would fail
• A glitch occasionally occured in the rendering of the Tip of the Day text
• Sometimes the rendering of the navigation bar was incomplete/glitchy