18th November 2000: Version 1.0
-First final release
-New interface
-Added queue system and
schedules
-Added setup and download
assistants
-Added error log
-Rewrote Preferences
-fixed many, many bugs
-many other things, too
numerous to remember or list
25th July 2000: Version 0.9b
-added Applescript support
-added a contextual menu
plugin to integrate Speed Download into other applications
-Speed Download now handles
redirection properly (no more 302 errors !)
-when resuming a download,
Speed Download now checks that the file's size has not changed
-fixed a bug that caused
some servers to be incorrectly reported as not supporting restarting downloads
-fixed a bug which could
cause downloads to fail on some http servers (causing a type 400 error)
-fixed a bug that could
cause downloads to fail on some ftp servers (causing a type 125 error)
-fixed a bug which could
cause number of ports and buffer size information to be saved incorrectly
19th July 2000: Version 0.8b
-added ftp and http proxy
support
-added support for passive
ftp
-users can define a default
download folder
-downloads can be set to
retry automatically if they fail because the connection dropped
-smarter handling of duplicate
file names
-files should be reassembled
faster
-Speed Download now remembers
settings such as buffer size and the number of connections to open
-more error codes have accompanying
text
-fixed the "disappearing
file" bug
-fixed a bug that prevented
MacOS 8.1 users from running Speed Download
-fixed a bug that could
cause crashes when cancelling a download or when one connection had finished
downloading data
14th July 2000: Version 0.7.1b
-fixed major memory leak
that occurred if a download was cancelled or aborted
-fixed bug that could cause
bad crashes when cancelling a download
-less dependant on large
blocks of memory. This should help avoid "Out of memory" errors.
-many other tweaks and modifications
13th July 2000: Version 0.7b
-Added support for HTTP
-Progress dialog reports
speed more accurately (but it's still rather approximate)
-Added some Drag and Drop
support
-Added icons
-Nice new About/Credits
window
-Added version checking
-Recompiled with Universal
Interfaces 3.3.1
-Bug fixes too numerous
to mention
3rd July 2000: Version 0.5b
-first public release