Fixes for WinSCP and MS Live

Some fixes in the Catalog today

• The WinSCP installer was stopped when an instance of WinSCP was running
• Several international links of Microsft Live Essentials were invalid (ex: the Chinese and Norvegian links)

Soft2base v2.1 has been released

Soft2base v2.1 is available for download.

The link remains the same: http://download.soft2base.com/soft2base.exe

When Soft2base 2.0 is started, you will be asked to choose to update or not.

The following items were fixed and/or added:

• Soft2base GUI now in German and Portugues Brazil
• 31 languages are available during the application setup.
• More parallel downloads by default.
• Added an animation during the application installation.
• The Next button now offers to quit Soft2base after the installations
• New dependency link between applications
• Enhanced auto-update
• More accurate log information
• Existing versions are displayed without [a-z] characters.
• More applications: 
• TrueCrypt
• EasyBCD
• Microsoft Live Messenger
• Microsoft Movie Maker

Soft2base will be also in Portuguese Brazilian

The Soft2base GUI and Catalog have been translated in Portuguese Brazilian

This will be available in the upcoming version 2.1c, beside the German, English, Italian and French translations.

Soft2base 2.1 will be available in German

The Soft2base GUI and Catalog have been translated in German

This will be available in the upcoming version 2.1c

Java 7 : previous versions are now detected

The checker of Java v7 is now handling versions 5 and 6.

This is particularly useful when you plan to install Open Office or Libre Office on a machine with Java 5 or 6 already installed: soft2base won't force anymore the update to Java 7

Note: Java 1.4 and prior are considered as "to be updated" asap !

Soft2base at 01net.com

Article about Soft2base at 01net.com (French)

Soft2base now available at cnet.com

Soft2base is now available at download.cnet.com

Soft2base v2.0 is released !

The new executable for Soft2base 2.0 is available for download.

The main new features are

• Compare applications version (older, same, new, newest) to ease upgrades 
• Downloads of setup files are now done in parallel
• First application ready First installed
• Silent install supports 19 languages
• Save / Load list of applications in profiles
• Advanced configuration stored in a custom ini file (soft2base.ini by default)
• The executable and the application catalog are managed separately
• Dynamic GUI language selection (En/Fr/It)

Improvments in existing features

• Applications are stored dynamically by category
• The USB/offline modes have been improved
• Silent mode for Soft2base

What's new in the future v2.0

The upcoming Soft2base v2.0 is a complete rewritting of the application in order to overcome limitations seen in v1.x

What's so exciting ?

• The downloads are done in parallel
• First downloaded First installed
• Multi-language installation (added spanish, portuguese, german, dutch, japanese ....)
• Save / Load list of applications in profiles
• Compare applications version (older, same, new, newest) to ease upgrades
• Advanced configuration stored in a custom ini file (soft2base.ini by default)
• The executable and the application database are totally splitted 
• Dynamic GUI language selection (currently En/Fr)

As before

• Applications are stored by theme
• The offline mode (for setup from USB drive) has been improved
• Silent mode

Release Date

• We expect to release Soft2base 2.0 in March 2012