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+======News Feed and RomVault Updates=====
+<WRAP info>This page may not be up-to-date and is primarily for historical reference. For the latest news visit the main site at [[http://www.romvault.com|romvault.com]]</WRAP>
+=====November 15th, 2021=====
+Time to automate your DAT downloading with: DatVault
+With the release of ROMVault V3.4.1 DatVault has been updated with a new UI to enable updating many of your Dats with just a couple of clicks.
+(DatVault helps support the development of ROMVault by being available through a Patron subscription.)
+A couple of other Bugs have also been fixed in V3.4.1 the 7z cache has been improved, and a couple of UI crashes have been resolved.
+=====October 25th, 2021=====
+Time for an update release with a bunch of good features updates included:
+Cache write to a full disk does not corrupt the cache. (just leaves the old cache, so it will be out of date, just not corrupt.)
+Better double check delete checking to try and stop the case where people have mapped the same directory to two different parts of the tree. (PS. Don't do that.)
+The Dat info is more in sync when clicking around the tree, and game grid.
+Global file ignore has been replaced with ToSort file ignore.
+Directory rules now contain the file ignore lists (At the directory level.)
+The file ignore lists now work with wide cards and regex.
+Reporting the correct rule if you hit the reset all rules button.
+Shift click the check boxes in the tree does not set all the child tree nodes.
+zSTD read support is now built in for zip and 7z. (does not need the external .dll)
+reworked/cleaned up the 7z writing code. (should not see any external different.) But getting ready for future plans.
+Pressing the Cancel button while fixing cancels immediately instead of waiting until the end of the current fix.
+Go download the update here RomVault V3.4.0
+=====July 4th, 2021=====
+Happy 4th of July Everyone, and to celebrate here is the big new V3.3.0 RV Release, with one of the biggest whats new / bug fix list in a long time:
+Big updates:
+The RV UI can still be used will Scanning/Fixing
+Added in most ZIP de-compression methods (all that I have ever actually see in the wild.)
+- The file is stored (no compression)
+- The file is Shrunk
+- The file is Reduced with compression factor 1
+- The file is Reduced with compression factor 2
+- The file is Reduced with compression factor 3
+- The file is Reduced with compression factor 4
+- The file is Imploded
+- The file is Deflated
+- Enhanced Deflating using Deflate64(tm)
+- File is compressed using BZIP2 algorithm
+- LZMA
+,93 - (Supported, with external DLL) Zstandard (zstd) de-compression
+- PPMd version I, Rev 1
+I do not belive there is any other C# library anywhere that supports this many ZIP compression methods, I hand coded a number of these more obscure de-compression methods myself from scratch!
+V1,2,3,4 (Compression method <3) CHD's are now supported/scanned internally within RV's own code. (latest ChdMan does not read V1 CHD files.)
+Scanning level 2 is now the default scanning level, you can Scan at level 1 & 3 from right click menu on the tree
+Now using a nice new cleaner looking RomVault Logo.
+Other Fixes:
+Can now sort on more columns in the game lists
+Worked on Case Sensitivity issues while fixing files.
+Fixed a t7zip checking bug for bigger that 32bit t7zip files
+Re-worked Checking for Fixes with Zero Length files, so fixing workes faster with zero length files.
+Fixed: If an archive contains all the correct files, and then there is a DAT update that changes only the character case of any of these files, then the archive is still marked as good and the files are not renamed to the proper case.
+Fixed: If a set needs a fix from an archived file with the “incorrect character case” issue above, then a file system error is thrown when that fix is attempted.
+DAT's that named the CHD's with the extention are no longer named file.chd.chd
+Cleaned up the Color Key Help Form
+Go download the update here RomVault V3.3.0
+RomVaultCommand.exe - Command line version
+I am now compiling RVCmd using .NET Core 3.1, and as such there are now native Windows-x64 and Linux-x64 builds!!
+CommandLine Version:
+RV CommandLine V3.3.0 Windows
+RV CommandLine V3.3.0 Linux
+=====April 26th, 2021=====
+One bug leads to another... so while deep testing the V3.2.4 version I found a different logic problem going on while fixing. (This one have been around for about 5 months.)
+And while talking to some others on Discorde another problem with case sensitive file systems showed up, so that also got a fix. So go grab V3.2.5
 =====April 23th, 2021=====
 Another edge case bug squashed (Unknown status in double check delete.), and a nice little speed up while fixing (Found a way to get the code a little more parallel). Both added to this release.