Installer
- Seamless upgrade from v1.6 and v1.7 to v1.8
- Installer completely rebuilt and now 2.7MB (!!) smaller
- Uninstaller optionally stops/uninstalls FireDaemon services
- Custom install options now actually do something!
- Digitally signed
Executables
- All executables and DLLs digitally signed
- DLL redirection used to ensure correct runtime DLLs are used
- Microsoft Winqual integration
GUI
- Replacement of toolbar icons with simpler (and hopefully more intuitive) ones
- synchronisation fixes when using FireDaemon via GUI and command line simultanously
- drag and drop FireDaemon configurations to/from the GUI and your desktop
- ability to select multiple FireDaemon services to start/stop/delete
Command Line
- Two new environment variables available for scripting: FIREDAEMON and FIREDAEMON_HOME
- Ability to enumerate FireDaemon services (--list)
- Ability to export FireDaemon services to XML (--export)
Functionality (the meat!)
- Verified on 32-bit and 64-bit systems
- Support for system and service specific environment variables just about everywhere
- Support for mapped drives and UNC paths
- Improved scheduling
- Dialog popup control (see the new Dialogs tab)
- Console Applications now shutdown gracefully (if Console Application is checked)
- Interact with Desktop code when run as a Domain or Local user now bullet proof
- Improvements to GUI Graceful Shutdown feature
- Enhanced debug logging
- Empty environment variables now permitted
- Services can be stopped/started via bit twiddling in the registry
- Numerous fixes and robustness improvements
* 1.8.60 build here (v1.8 GA)
- General Availability (GA) Build
- Installer, binaries and DLLs Authenticode signed
- Support for mapped drives and UNC paths
- Bulk service configuration import/export fixes
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