1.1.1.0 (2008-07-10)

• Added support for custom source PAR
  
• Many fixes and Improvements regarding various source formats
• Many minor fixes and improvements
  
• x264 updated to 900
  
• DGAVCDec updated to 1.0.0a26 (info)
• Some new MKV features added (info)
  
• Tooltip added to tray icon showing console output (info)
• Preparers can define which formats to be used and which not
  
• Various aspect ratio fixes and improvements
• VirtualDub updated to 1.8.1 (info)
  
• Pass through encoder improved to handle not only previously encoded project but also source files
• Since the pass through encoder was improved StaxRip can now be used to (batch) remux source files.
  
• MediaInfo updated to version 0.7.7.2, it fixes reading aspect ratio from anamorphic avi source files
  
• Some fixes and improvements picking up audio files
• Added MP4 demuxing, improved MKV demuxing
  
• Added support for more then one IDX (vobsub) file (info)
• Added support to reorder IDX (vobsub) subtitles (info)
  
• Various setup fixes and improvements (info, info, info)
  
• Many useful directories added to the main menu
• A couple of improved tooltips (info)
  
• Fixed two bugs with adding jobs from a second StaxRip instance (info, info)
  
• New command to play a sound file (info)

1.1.0.1 (2008-05-27)

• Fixed bug changes to the audio command line don't get saved
  

1.1.0.0 (2008-05-27)

• x264 updated to 859
• DGMPEGDEC updated to version 1.5.0
  
• The filter list control can be double-clicked in the empty area below the filters to add new filters
  
• Added support for creating jobs with a second StaxRip instance
  
• Fixed audio settings dialog command line preview not reflecting all changed parameters
  
• Added command to set the maximum value of the target image resize slider
• Menu item added in preview to set the end credits
• Fixed various aspect ratio related bugs occuring with HD sources
• Added support for image subtitles for MP4
  
• Fixed shutdown being broke by XP SP3
  
• Fixed broken Quick Search dialog which didn't set the selected path
  
• mkvtoolnix updated to version 2.2.0
• Downloading a external application will now delete the install files of the previous version
  
• Fixed bug StaxRip asking for ProjectX and Java even when ProjectX is disabled
  
• x264 profiles updated
• Controls for various x264 switches added
• Import of x264 profiles added
  
• Yadif AviSynth filter added
  
• Fixed bug in calculations occuring when crop values are set but the filter is disabled or missing
• The aspect ratio display in the main dialog displays now the PAR
  
• Support for using AviSynth scripts as source file
  
• Distribution is now only three files (StaxRip.exe, Stax.dll, ReadFirst!.txt), 7-Zip archive is only 310 KB!
  
• The .NET library to unpack zip files was replaced with 7-Zip to unpack external application
  
• The Issue modul got dumped because of several issues, a forum is used instead for support now
  
• The documents directory was removed, all docs are now online or created dynamically
• Online links in the help browser are now opened with the default browser
  
• Feature to add and remove file associations (main menu under 'Tools')
• Couple of cosmetic changes in the main dialog
• ProjectX updated to 0.90.2
• Vorbis updated to TuVb5.5
• Added possibility to copy seperators in the menu editor
• DivX settings of old DivX versions will be reused with new DivX versions.
  
• Various new macros and commands added
• Split of output file added for XviD/DivX AVI output
• MKV preparer added demuxing all streams using mkvextract
• DGAVCIndex preparer added
• The muxing profiles were replaced with a universal muxing profile that auto detects the stream type
• New option which output mod to force, this was hardcoded to 16 previously
• The range of the resize slider is adjusted automatically according the source image size
• Improved assistant tips
• TomsMoComp motion compensating deinterlace filter added
• Improved Vista UAC handling
• The mode in the dialog to open source files was changed to use large command buttons instead of a small list box
• The profile 'Misc/No Encoding' was replaced with 'x264 pass through and 'AVI pass through'
  
• New option to use NicAudio as alternative cutting method for mp2 and ac3
• The x264 fixed size and constant quality profiles are now based on the HQ-Slow profile
• MP4Box was downgraded since the used versions had some issues
• Fixed assistant complaining the image size isn't mod 16 even when it is
• The crop and preview dialog have improved startup dimensions for HD sources
• With auto resize disabled StaxRip will now auto adjust the height according to the aspect ratio
• New option to limit the aspect ratio to a defined value to auto crop the width instead
• Fixed a bug with three pass encoding
• Fixed crash caused by applications like TrueCrypt creating virtual hard drives
• The preview can now show the display aspect ratio for anamorphic sources
• The preview has now a menu to toggle between aspect ratios for anamorphic sources
• The video and the window position of the crop and in the preview dialog is now remembered
• The page in the x264 dialog is remembered
• The external preview menu in the preview use now KMPlayer or MPC passing the current video position
• Added setting to use double-click instead of single-click for the tray icon, the default remains single-click
• When the process window is hidden in the tray, all applications will now be started hidden
• Added button to the processing dialog showing a menu to disable jobs
• The MKV and MP4 container settings have a option to add additional command line switches
• The x264 dialog has a feature to manage custom switches more convenient
• Automatic VobSub is now always performed if the option is enabled
• Changing encoding settings from quality mode to multi pass and back updates the menu now
• Changing the encoder will keep the muxer if compatible
• Improved verifications to prevent users from problems
• Improved diagnostics to help users better with errors
• Most command line applications are executed hidden showing the output on the log dialog

1.0.0.3 (2008-03-05)

• Updated x264 profiles and encoder version
• Automatic aspect ratio signaling added for DivX, that mean it's supported for all codecs
  now
• DivX is the only application I don't host myself. StaxRip links to the download
  provided at divx.com. The reason is it's 15 MB big. Unfortunately there are
  silent updates very often. While silent updates usually work with StaxRip, the
  version detection complains. I've added a special handling for DivX now to
  handle this issue. StaxRip don't require the exact but a minimum version now for
  DivX
• Automatic subtitle demuxing using VSRip added
• The profiles dialog has a button now to clone profiles
• Muxing audio profiles are now editable from the audio profiles dialog in order to edit the stream type
• MPA and MP2 were added to be valid stream types for the MP4Box muxer
• Warning added to be shown when trying to open files containing character in the filename the command line parser of  DGIndex can't cope with
• The embedded folder browser used to select directories to batch process shows now volume names and hides hidden folders
• The delay macro was only available in the scope of the audio settings, there are
  now three global macros delay, delay1 and delay2. The help of the audio settings
  dialog explains now the different scope
• %bitrate% macro added to be used in the audio settings dialog
• The filters dialog, script editor in the filters dialog and the audio settings
  dialog remember their size
• The filter editor in the main dialog shows a script editor on double-click
  instead of enable/disable the filter. The filter dialog shows the script editor
  with a left-click while pressing Ctrl
• Improved support running StaxRip with limited user privilegs which is the normal
  case under Vista

1.0.0.2 (2008-01-06)

• StaxRip is now distributed with a installer checking if .NET framework 3.5 is
  installed. Unfortunately it wasn't possible to make the auto updater of the old
  version beware of setup versions so the first setup version has to be downloaded
  manuallymanually
• The following external applications were updated: NeroAACEnc, DGMPEGDEC, DivX,
  MP4Box, XviD, x264, VirtualDub, MKVtoolnix. Furthermore more applications are
  hosted by myself since my webspace now has unlimited traffic
• A bug was fixed causing a crash using the 'Edit' feature in the profiles dialog
• A bug was fixed regarding the setup, settings location, local and roaming application data directory
• A bug was fixed with the turkish and maybe other locales causing a crash while encoding
• A bug was fixed causing StaxRip to auto resize the image size even when this feature was disabled
• A bug was fixed not allowing to define the escape key as shortcut in the menu editor
• On a crash StaxRip now saves the active project silently instead of showing a
  dialog asking to save which had a recursion issue. On next startup the crashed
  project gets loaded automatically

1.0.0.1 (2007-05-27)

• The mkv muxer supports now text subtitles which can be reordered and edited in place
  and are loaded automatically
• There is now a option to define the maximum aspect ratio error
• A bug was fixed causing StaxRip to crash on exit
• A bug was fixed causing StaxRip to crash while trying to shutdown after encoding
• A bug was fixed that occured when only some streams were extracted with VSRip instead
  of all streams
• The main dialog displays now more friendly profile names
• All x264 profiles use now auto for threads
• VirtualDub was updated to version 1.6.18
• DivX was updated to version 6.6.1
• Some fixes and improvements for minor issues or less common scenarios

1.0.0.0 (2007-04-28) Final :-)

• Fixed bug with AVI source files having more than one audio stream. For such sources only the last stream was demuxed
• Updated to another silent DivX update
• Updated to x264 rev 654
• Since the local and roaming application data directories has better names under Vista the setup has now options for both
• Minor improvements regarding setup and error handling

0.9.9.9 (2007-03-31)

• Command Line was broke due to a command handling bug
• Another command handling bug causing StaxRip to crash if a menu was reused instead of reseted while updated from an old StaxRip version
• The homepage was updated from Drupal 4.7.2 to Drupal 5.1, it uses the garland theme now

0.9.9.8 (2007-03-28)

• Some fixes to make StaxRip working with a restricted user account
• Some fixes to make StaxRip work loading all AviSynth plugins manually
• Added support for custom macros, the value of custom macros may contain default macros
• Added a eval macro that evaluates a VBScript expression
• Added context menu to tray icon to enable/disable jobs that follow the running job
• mkvtoolnix updated to 2.0.2-1
• MediaInfo 0.7.4.5 added
• Fixed Vista crash due to wrong use of MediaInfo (thx to paulotwo for providing the patch)
• New command 'Perform/Delete Files', new event 'Application Exit', new macros %install_dir% and %download_dir%. With all that a event command could be created to delete all zip files from the download directory on application exit as keeping them is usually pointless. The command can also be used to delete temp files after encoding
• Updated to another silent DivX update
• Fixed bug with the pause feature which pauses external processes
• Fixed bug causing non film material to be detected as film
• Fixed bug audio encoding with multiline command line didn't work
• As usual many more minor changing not mention otherwhile

0.9.9.7 (2007-02-25)

• Sharktooth's x264 profiles were updated
• New and much improved AviSynth filter editor
• In case a AviSynth plugin is loaded with 'LoadPlugin' StaxRip now won't insist that the plugin is located in the auto plugin loading directory
• There was a issue with vob files in file browsers and the new directory batch feature
• NeroAacEnc was updated to the latest version
• Instead of blindly setting default values StaxRip askes now several setup questions
• The 'Encode' command does now add a new job and runs the job list. The 'Add Job' command now doesn't show a warning about the assistant not completed when called from the command line

0.9.9.6 (2007-02-16)

• Drog & Drop triggering longer processing won't any longer block the drag source
• Reshowing the hidden windows by clicking on the tray icon does put the windows now in the foreground on top of all other windows
• The crop dialog can be opened even if the crop filter is disabled or missing
• The controls in the main dialog get now updated when filter settings are changed, e.g. if crop is disabled, zoom values get updated or if the resize filter is disabled, the image size get adjusted to size of the cropped image
• Target path is verified to not contain invalid characters
• The editor to edit AviSynth filter profiles was replaced with a simplier ini based editor
• Entering illegal filesystem characters as target file is no longer possible
• The option 'Dangerous/Save Cropping' was reseted and renamed to 'Advanced Automation/Auto correct crop values'
• Event Commands allows to define a command to be executed on a defined event. Furthermore criteria can be defined to execute the command only if certain criteria is matched. Some commands where renamed and some are new. This means command line parameters have changed so please check your command lines
• More tooltips, new option to disable tooltips, if disabled a right-click still shows a tooltip, more controls support now tooltip with right-click
• 'What's this help' (the quotation mark title bar button/quotation mark mouse pointer to show context help/tooltips) got dumped. This button shows now the help document of the dialog. Almost all new Microsoft applications do this now, StaxRip has right-click tooltips (even for main/context menus, toolbars and most other controls) and now also popup tooltips (can be disabled in the settings).
• Gradient colors are now system color bases, that means theme colors.
• All dialogs respond to the 'Escape' key for closing the dialog and F1 for showing the help (all dialogs are derived from the same base dialog now)
• The features in the dialog to open source files should now be more transparent and better documented and most importantly it has a new feature 'Directory Batch' which processes multiple directories where every directory is processed as seperate source
• DivX updated to version 6.5.1
• The 'Show Command Line' feature in the muxer dialogs were showing wrong command lines
• When vobsubs were disabled in VSRip the ones after the disabled ones were broke
• There was a annoying directory browser asking for a DivX directory constantly

0.9.9.5 (2007-01-21)

• mkvtoolnix 2.0.0 added, StaxRip can handle now raw x264 streams
• MP4Box 0.4.3_2006-11-15 added
• Additionally to the 'Default Target Directory' project option there is now a 'Default Target Name' option. The value of both options may contain macros which can be choosen from a new menu containing friendly names
• The button to open a source in the main dialog shows the 'Source Files' dialog directly instead of displaying a context menu. To show the file browser directly the text box can be double clicked, the file browser shown here supports multiselect, multible files will be alphabetically ordered. Hovering the mouse over text boxes in the main dialog shows a hint that the text box can be double clicked
• Check for updates can be performed manually ('Help/Check For Updates')
• Lanczos4Resize added to the filter profiles as 'Very Sharp'
• Saving a template profile from now on flags the active project as saved so StaxRip won't any longer bother asking to save
• The title bar shows now always the name of the template used
• Auto Resze is now restricted to not resize the width higher as the source width (only applied if the source width is higher than 576). Please report a Issue if this is a limitation for you
• Improved initial directory for file browser dialogs
• The download page has now a link pointing always to the latest StaxRip version using a php redirect