CHANGELOG
What's New in version 4.57
- Improved option 'Try registry changes' (Properties->Extensions)
- Option to use new Windows File-Open dialog (Properties->Misc)
- Option to create only Shortcuts (LNK file) in File-Copy dialog
- New Camera RAW PlugIn (based on LibRAW, thanks to Alex Tutubalin)
- Support for WPG format (PlugIn, WPG version 1; thanks to Flurmy)
- Improved GIF reading
- PCX loading bug fixed (thanks to @DmitriyMelikov, CVE-2020-35133)
- MNG PlugIn loading bug fixed (thanks to ThanhTP)
- PCX format moved to FORMATS PlugIn
- Several PlugIns are changed/updated
What's New in version 4.56:
- Updated Video PlugIn (improved Win10 compatibility, new player for MP3/FLAC)
- Option to play all audio formats in main window (Properties->Video/Sound)
- Option to change hotkeys for menus: Right mouse click on menu item
- New option in Paint dialog: Fill rect/ellipse with transparent color
- New 'Edit->Insert Watermark' option: Use color to highlight an area
- Option to disable mouse wheel for file browsing (Properties->Browsing)
- New SVG PlugIn (Thanks to seppesol)
- New XCF PlugIn (Thanks to Jacek SQ6KBQ)
- New JPG option: Use QuantSmooth loading (PlugIn, thanks to Ilya Kurdyukov)
- Option for page/frame filename suffix in Multipage-Extract dialog
- CTRL + 'Save-As' icon on toolbar calls the 'Save' menu
- New option in Advanced batch dialog: Add Border/Frame
- New option in Insert Text dialog: Settings for Outline-1 effect (Rainbow)
- New paste option: Change paste counter (Edit->Paste special)
- New shapes in Hexagon dialog: Ellipse, Cloud; Spiral (thanks to Rod Stephens)
- New option in Hexagon/Shadow dialog: Background transparency
- Support for PSB format (Photoshop files)
- Context menu added to EXIF dialog (Copy only selected lines)
- New placeholder: $c (Compression text from Image->Info dialog)
- Program icon updated
- New Paint dialog icons (Thanks to Michael Grosberg)
- CLP format moved to FORMATS PlugIn
- JP2 PlugIn loading bugs fixed (thanks to Phung Duc Luan and Linhlhq)
- B3D and XCF PlugIn loading bugs fixed (thanks to Zhe Wang)
- Formats PlugIn bugs fixed (XPM,XBM,CR2,HDR,WBMB,FITS,DDS) (thanks to nhiephon)
- MNG PlugIn loading bug fixed (thanks to zhazha crack)
- Several PlugIns are changed/updated, please install the newest versions
What's New in version 4.54:
- Multiple Undo/Redo steps added (max. 20 steps, Properties-Editing)
- Zoom magnifier added to fullscreen mode
- Option to disable Zoom magnifier (Properties-Viewing)
- Profiles option added to Print dialog
- New option in Properties-Fullscreen: Set horizontal and/or vertical centering
- New option in Print dialog: Set horizontal and/or vertical centering
- Option to set selection border thickness (Properties-Editing)
- Option to enable/disable PlugIns (Help-Installed PlugIns)
- Extended sidecar files option: Copy/Move possible (Properties-File Handling)
- New Canvas dialog option/method: Set aspect ratio
- New option in Watch/Hot Folder dialog: Watch subfolders
- New Lossless JPG Dialog option: Add (or Replace) ICC color profile
- New Thumbnails option: Keep focus in folder tree (after folder change/click)
- Option to show Color Corrections dialog in dark mode
- Fix in Metadata PlugIn (crash with bad EXIF tag in CR2 files; KVE-2019-1184)
- BMP loading bug fixed (thanks to Joshua Faust, CVE-2019-16887)
- JP2 PlugIn loading bug fixed (thanks to Linhlhq)
- ANI PlugIn loading bug fixed (thanks to Linhlhq, CVE-2019-17252)
- RAS PlugIn loading bug fixed (thanks to Linhlhq, CVE-2019-17251)
- EXR PlugIn loading bug fixed (thanks to Linhlhq, CVE-2019-17255)
- DPX PlugIn loading bug fixed (thanks to Linhlhq, CVE-2019-17256)
- WSQ PlugIn loading bug fixed (thanks to Linhlhq, CVE-2019-17250)
- JLS PlugIn loading bug fixed (thanks to Linhlhq, CVE-2019-17253)
What's New in version 4.53:
- New effect in Image->Effects menu: Insert Speech Bubbles
- Examples/Screenshot: speech_bubbles.jpg
- New effect in Image menu: Add Shadow, Shape, Rounded corners, Snowflake etc.
- New effect in Image menu: Add Hexagon (or tiles), Star, Spikes, Heart etc.
- Show mouse zoom magnifier: CTRL+SHIFT + Mouse-move in the image
- mouse wheel zooms within magnifier area, click inside closes it)
- New border effect in 'Add Frame' dialog: Broken Edge
- New effect added: Radial Brighten (Effects browser dialog)
- New option in Capture dialog: Draw red circle around cursor
- New option in Advanced batch dialog: Set maximal dimensions for resize
- Profiles option added to Contact Sheet dialog
- Option to read 1 BPP images in RAW dialog
- Command line: /filepattern can be combined with /slideshow
- TIF/PCX/PSD loading bugs fixed (thanks to Apriorit)
What's New in version 4.52:
- Improved Paint PlugIn stability
- Support for DPX and CIN formats (DPX PlugIn, thanks to Patrick A. Palmer)
- Support for FLIF format (Free Lossless Image Format, PlugIn)
- Support for HEIF format (with installed HEVC extensions/codec, see Win10)
- New option in Advanced batch dialog: Set minimal dimensions for resize
- Option to save settings in Canvas dialog
- Insert Text dialog: CTRL + click in image adds the text permanently
- Command line: /filepattern option: accepts multiple extensions ('*.jpg;*.png')
- Improved support for high DPI displays
- Improved JPG2000 format loading
What's New in version 4.51:
- Improved JPG save option: 'Set file size' (no RIOT PlugIn needed)
- New options in IrfanView Shell Extension (PlugIns website)
- Support for animated WebP files
- Some fixes (Zoom box text, EXE/DLL icon loading)
- Several PlugIns are changed/updated, please install the newest versions
What's New in version 4.50:
- IrfanView and many PlugIns ported to Unicode!
- The INI file will be converted to Unicode if you call the 'Properties' dialog
- IrfanView will NOT run on Win9x anymore
- Support for iPhone PNG files (Formats PlugIn, thanks to Jongware)
- Move selection with: CTRL or SHIFT + right mouse button (Y or X axis only)
- New option in Extract Pages/Frames dialog: Set page/frame range
- Some fixes in the Print dialog
- New text pattern: $m = show number of megapixels
- New Thumbnails sort menu: Sort by Megapixels
- Adjust print preview image to color/bw printer settings
- Wallpaper save format changed to PNG (Win8 and later)
- New zooming method: Mouse wheel alone, if 'Browsing->View other files' disabled
- New command line option: /hotfolder='folder' => start Hotfolder option with a specific folder
- ANI format moved to FORMATS PlugIn
- JP2 PlugIn loading bug fixed (Talos Advisory TALOS-2017-0310)
- FPX/RLE/DJVU/ANI/SVG PlugIn loading bugs fixed (thanks to Lin Wang)
- Tools PlugIn EXE-loading problem fixed (thanks to Cody Sixteen and Lin Wang)
What's New in version 4.42:
- New File menu: Save Selection as (Hotkey: CTRL + SHIFT + B)
- New option in Capture dialog: Show timer countdown
- New option in Export Tiles dialog: Extract all pages from multipage files
- New option in Fine Rotation dialog: Select 'best' old image
- New option in Print dialog: No image overflow on page
- New HTML-Export dialog option: Copy extra files to destination folder
- (prepare a 'copy_files.txt' file with filenames)
- Some PCX/BMP/PPM loading bugs fixed (thanks to Moshe Kaplan)
- Improved FITS format loading
- New text pattern: $R = image aspect ratio (width/height)
- New hotkey: CTRL + Click into selection = clear selection
- Some minor fixes (Thumbnails/folder scan)
- Some workarounds for Windows-10 bugs/issues (Installer signature, Associations)
- Several PlugIns are changed/updated, please install the newest versions
What's New in version 4.41:
- 64-bit version: Use 32-bit TWAIN drivers if 64-bit drivers not installed
- New dialog/GUI on Windows tablets ('2 in 1', Thanks to Arun Anbu from Intel)
- New hotkey: SHIFT + Tab: Start/End Tablet mode dialog
- New hotkey: CTRL + Insert: Edit->Copy
- New Slideshow hotkey: Q = Pause/Resume a timer slideshow
- New option for /info command line: write CSV file: /info=infofile.csv
- Added PlugIns-Installer options for: /silent and /folder (Check FAQs page)
- 'Amazon 1Button App' offer removed
- Some fixes (Auto color correction, PNG compression, UNC-Paths in 64-bit)
What's New in version 4.40:
- The 64-bit version of IrfanView is available: http://www.irfanview.com/64bit.htm
- The 64-bit version is faster for very large images (25+ Megapixels)
- Option to support IrfanView by installing 'Amazon 1Button App' (OPTIONAL !)
- Support for animated PNG files (APNG)
- EXIF date (taken) sort menu added to main window sort menu
- New Sort dialog option: Sort by EXIF date (date taken)
- New toolbar item: Zoom box with common values (Properties->Toolbar)
- (You can also write a new zoom value and press Enter)
- New PDF PlugIn (enable in Properties->PlugIns->PDF)
- New in Thumbnails window: Export image tiles for selected files (batch mode)
- Load cursors and bitmaps from EXE/DLL files (Thanks to Jason Hood)
- Option to set a custom font for TXT loading (Properties->Browsing/Editing)
- Option to use left mouse button for fullscreen scrolling (for touch screens)
- The 2 GB limit for EXE/SCR-Slideshow files changed (now: 4 GB, Windows EXE limit)
- New Fine Rotation method/option added (faster for very large images)
- New option for the Red-Eye-Correction effect (dialog): Set gray intensity
- Some fixes in the Paint PlugIn
- New hotkey: CTRL + SHIFT and '+' or '-' to change GIF/ANI/PNG animation speed
- New hotkey: CTRL + SHIFT + mouse click: Create selection based on clipboard image
- New button in Batch processing dialog: Pause/Resume
- New button in Advanced batch dialog: Get current selection for cropping
- You can Drag&Drop (or Send To) multiple files to IrfanView shorcut or window
- PlugIns 'Metadata' and 'JPG-Transform' included in the IrfanView installer
- New command line option: /file=filename(s)
- => set the input filename(s) (at the end of the command chain)
- New command line option: /display=(x,y,w,h,zoom,scrollX,scrollY)
- => set position, size, zoom and scroll position of the window and image
- Command line: wildcards support for /extract (see 'i_options.txt')
- Command line: /panorama, /multitif and /multipdf can use 'filelist=txtfile'
- (see 'i_options.txt' for examples)
- Several PlugIns are changed/updated, please install the newest versions
What's New in version 4.38:
- New Options menu/feature: Export image tiles (split image)
- New Options menu: Hotfolder (Watch folder and show new images)
- New view modes in Thumbnails window: Tiles, Details and List mode
- New feature: (new) 'IrfanView Shell Extension' available on PlugIns website
- (= adds Context menu with some IrfanView operations to Windows Explorer)
- New options in the 'Adobe 8BF filters' dialog (Thanks to Frank/jazzman)
- Improved speed in the LCMS (Color Management) PlugIn
- Added support for old formats like: Amiga, Atari, C64, ZX Spectrum etc.
- New Print dialog features: Borderless print, Negative positions, better preview
- New command line option: /makecopy, a flag for /convert
- => if destination file exists, save new file as copy: (1), (2), (3) etc.
- Option to add max. 10 external editors (for advanced users): Properties->Misc
- Option to Drag&Drop current file to other programs: SHIFT + left mouse + drag
- New Print dialog option: Always use default printer at dialog start
- New hotkey: CTRL + SHIFT + N = Negative image (all channels)
- Better support for high resolution screens (high DPI)
- Several PlugIns are changed/updated, please install the newest versions
What's New in version 4.37:
- New options in Resample dialog: Use Resample filters for shrinking; Gamma fix
- Improved GIF animations
- Features from Adobe-8BF PlugIn (8BF_FILTERS.DLL) moved to Effects PlugIn
- New Image menu: Adobe 8BF PlugIns; with new fixed and dynamic PlugIns like
- Perspective Transformations and SmartCurve - big thanks to PlugIn authors
- Option to set custom folder for Adobe 8BF PlugIns menu (Properties->PlugIns)
- Added Drag&Drop from Thumbnails window to another programs
- New menu: File->Open Recent Files (can be disabled in Properties->Misc)
- New option in Advanced Batch dialog: Don't shrink bigger images
- Added Center option for Crop in Advanced Batch dialog and /crop
- Replace Color option can work on selections
- GIF bug fixed
- MrSID bug fixed
- Japanese folder name bug fixed
- Several PlugIns are changed/updated
What's New in version 4.36:
- New Lossless JPG Dialog option: Rebuild EXIF-Thumbnail
- Update of EXIF-Thumbnail on JPG-Lossless-Crop
- Option to Edit EXIF date/time (Options menu or Thumbnails window for batch mode)
- Improved color accuracy in 'Decrease color depth' function
- Added 'Best quality' option in 'Decrease color depth' dialog
- New (Freeware) PlugIn for DWG format - thanks to BabaCAD-Software guys!
- New feature: Replace Color (Image menu and Advanced Batch dialog)
- New feature: Create tiled image (Image menu)
- New effects PlugIn: Filter Sandbox (Image->Effects menu, JewelScript)
- Option to invert single color channels only (Image menu)
- New Edit menu option: Show Grid (see also Properties->Editing for cell size)
- New Slideshow Burning PlugIn for WinXP SP3 or later
- New display options added: Fit small image side to window/desktop
- Profiles option added to Batch Rename dialog
- New Advanced Batch dialog option: Set new image size in MegaPixels
- New options for Fine Rotation effect: Keep old image size and background
- New feature in Color Corrections dialog: Change White Balance
- New effect in 'Image->Add border/frame' dialog: Inside fading frame
- New Thumbnails menu: Extract pages from selected multipage files
- New Add Text dialog effect: Filled outline text
- Negative and Grayscale menus can work on selections
- Improved selection handling with large zooms
- Updated Icons-Plugin (bigger/nicer icons, thanks to Florian Kilzer)
- New hotkeys: CTRL + SHIFT + left/right arrow: Fine rotation, 0.10 deg
- New hotkeys: CTRL + SHIFT + up/down arrow: Fine rotation, 0.05 deg
- Batch-Scan dialog: some placeholders can be used for the filename
- New text placeholders to add $ and | characters
- New (admin) INI file option: Set save formats in Save-As dialog
- New hotkey for slideshow mode: SHIFT + Z = show all or portrait/landscape images
- Hotkey: G = stop or resume GIF/ANI animation (browse frames/pages if stopped)
- DCX/ANI loading bug fixed
- FPX bug fixed
- Added reading support for 32-bit (96 BPP) TIF images
- New command line option: /multipdf (same syntax as /multitif)
- Several PlugIns are changed/updated, please install the newest versions
What's new in version 4.32:
- New feature: Add watermark image (Edit menu and Advanced batch dialog)
- Improved zooming: CTRL + wheel (keep mouse coordinates) and centered zoom
- Support for WebP format (Weppy format, PlugIn, reading + saving)
- Support for PDN format (Paint.NET format, PlugIn, thanks to ComSquare AG)
- Support for XCF format (GIMP format, PlugIn, thanks to ComSquare AG)
- Face Detection Plugin (Thumbnails window, thanks to MulticoreWare guys)
- New JPG save option: Try to save with original (estimated) JPG quality
- Improved/changed sort menus (XP/natural order)
- New batch rename option: Run test rename
- New Thumbnails menu: Refresh selected thumbs
- Batch dialog, Output directory: Placeholders are now allowed
- New Properties dialog: Zoom / Color management
- New expert zoom option: Edit table with fixed zoom values (Properties->Zoom)
- New fullscreen options: Center image, Text layer (Properties->Fullscreen)
- New option in 'Create multipage TIF/PDF' dialog: Load filenames from TXT file
- New options in JPG IPTC/Comment dialogs: Allow Unicode PlugIn to change text
- New command line option: /cmdexit (close current IrfanView after command line)
- TIF with some SGILog compressed images fixed
- New special INI option to hide common folders in Open/Save dialog (see FAQs)
- New hotkey: CTRL + SHIFT + K = Keep Scroll position