View Full Version : Is this truly the final version of 1.5.2?
Title of the thread says it all http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Spybot_Search_and_Destroy/1043809773/1
Claims to be but I don't see any mention of it here.
spybotsandra
2008-01-29, 22:35
Hello,
It will be tomorrow ;)
Right now it is pretty late here in germany.
Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot
md usa spybot fan
2008-01-29, 22:41
lardboy:
Official releases are published here:
Downloads - The home of Spybot-S&D!
http://www.spybot.info/en/download/index.html
That Web page still indicates:
Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.5.1 - product description
md5: 9286D3952F8CB08AD1BB4F3122E144CC
Application to scan for spyware, adware, hijackers and other malicious software.
So are you now telling me that that isn't the final version?
spybotsandra
2008-01-29, 23:00
Hello,
The final version 1.5.2 will be released tomorrow.
We have informed our mirrors so far - as that are all different time zones.
Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot
It is the final. PepiMK has already started the upload today. It seems it will take some time until it is available on all supported mirrors.
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=23269&page=2
The security center stuff should have been optimized (I'll have to check whether it really has, I just took place in making plans on how to do it), so that it would only show if no other security application that changes that setting is installed.
I'll have to ask about the immunization count, or better wait until Buster is back tomorrow, he'll know when it has been updated last etc..
Btw, the final 1.5.2 is finished, sent to mirrors already, should be out very soon
md usa spybot fan
2008-01-29, 23:59
I am truly sorry to here that you are going to a final version of Spybot 1.5.2 without first releasing another Release Candidate for testing. The last Release Candidate was Spybot 1.5.2 RC 1 that had problems both in the main program (SpybotSD.exe) and TeaTimer (TeaTimer.exe) and had to be patched with the following to operate properly:
SpybotSD.exe-1.5.2.20-2008-01-10 (http://www.safer-networking.org/files/beta/%20SpybotSD.exe-1.5.2.20-2008-01-10.zip)
TeaTimer.exe-1.5.2.16-2008-01-10 (http://www.safer-networking.org/files/beta/TeaTimer.exe-1.5.2.16-2008-01-10.zip)
I hope that that this will not be a repeat of the problem encountered with the final release of Spybot 1.4. In Spybot 1.4, Spybot underwent the testing of two Release Candidates Spybot 1.4 RC1 and RC2 and because of problems encountered in RC1 and RC2 there was promised Spybot 1.4 RC3. However, Spybot 1.4 RC3 was never released and the final version of Spybot 1.4 without any testing by the user community. As a result of Spybot 1.4 had a display defect in TeaTimer where necessary buttons to properly use that facility were hidden.
Although the decision appears to have already made, I suggest that you revisit that decision and allow those members of the user community willing to test another Release Candidate the opportunity to do so before releasing Spybot 1.5.2 to the general public.
spybotsandra
2008-01-30, 00:10
For sure it is nicer to have a final version out without a startup problem that can take quite a few minutes to run, isn't it? :laugh:
duvallite
2008-01-30, 00:26
For sure it is nicer to have a final version out with a startup problem that can take quite a few minutes to run, isn't it? :laugh:
:blink: Hopefully you are kidding?! Does this mean that the new public version 1.5.2 will have the same slow startup time that the earlier version has????
duvallite
2008-01-30, 01:18
My bad. Ignore my previous post. I totally mis-understood what spybotsandra was saying, and could not delete my previous post. Really glad that the startup problem has been fixed in 1.5.2.
spybotsandra corrected a typo, you were fast. ;)
noel-pr7
2008-01-30, 02:26
My bad. Ignore my previous post. I totally mis-understood what spybotsandra was saying, and could not delete my previous post. Really glad that the startup problem has been fixed in 1.5.2.
It was first fixed in the 1.5.2 RC release I recently beta-tested, duvallite. No more spybot startup lag problems. so the fix should also be there in the final release.
I'll get the final release of spybot 1.52 ASAP and try that out.
I suppose we'll have to wait until tomorrow to get an official new features\change log\bug fixes thread?
The whole team here did nothing but click through everything for the past days. I remember seeing MisterW for example even clicking through the blind user mode things, and complaining about bad translations.
Another RC would've meant another two weeks at least, and thanks to the slow startup problem, a new version was really due. And hey, it's a bit different than 1.4, because we now still intend to have at least maintenance releases every few months ;) Ok, it has been 5 instead of 3 months, but in parallel to working on new stuff, we'll continue patching things in the 1.5 codebase and another 1.5 will be available in a few months (not 2 years) ;)
For more chances for testing though, we're currently looking into making our daily snapshots available automatically.
As for a change log, searching the project tools with a filter for 1.5.1 as the affected version and 1.5.2 for the addresses version gives a rough overview before we've created a nice public list; here is a link (http://forums.spybot.info/projectsearch.php?do=dosearch&projectid%5B%5D=1&appliesgroup%5B%5D=4&appliesgroup%5B%5D=3&addressedgroup%5B%5D=8) that should give that list (including pre-1.5.2 betas as affected versions might give more results, but some of them are just temporary bugs found in the beta, not in earlier versions).