PortableApps.com is proud to announce the PortableApps.com Platform 12.0. This release adds new features like a cascading app menu in the system tray, automatic app closing, proxy support, a great set of themes, a much faster updater and app store, improved app searching, a cloud+portable+local installer, improved multilingual support, and lots more! As always, it also features a complete app store, automatic updater, easy app organization, portable fonts, and lots of other features to make it your favorite set of apps whether you're running from a portable drive, a cloud drive, or run locally.
New in Platform 12.0Automatic App Closing - Closing down and getting going is easier than ever with the platform automatically (and safely) closing your running portable apps and letting you know which ones need to be closed before you eject and finish syncing your cloud drive. Luthfi Harahap was kind enough to re-license some of his code to help with this feature
Awesome Themes - The theming engine has been revamped and looks even better than before. The modern default theme matches well with Windows 7, Windows 8 and the upcoming Windows 9 release.
Cascading Tray App Menu - Several long time users wanted access to a full app menu on right-click, and Martijn (user: Kloas76) answered the call
Better Always-Ready Search - The app search box is always visible and ready by default, so you can open the platform - possibly with the CTRL-ALT-SPACE hotkey - and just start typing to launch your favorite app. You can even search in app descriptions if you'd like by ticking a box in Options
Proxy Support - The connections tab in Options lets you automatically or manually configure the platform to work with your internet proxy
Full Featured Installer - The Platform installer can now detect and install to your portable devices, synced cloud directories, local machine, and more
Much Faster Updater / App Store - The code to check for updates is now 10x faster and the download of the app database 1/5th the size. You save time and bandwidth every day.
Lots of bug fixes and tweaks - Lots of little things throughout the platform have been fixed and spruced up. It's faster, sleeker, and more stable than ever before. Even with all 300+ apps installed.
Localization Updates Galore - We've had a ton of updates to all of our locales courtesy of our hard working translation team. You'll see them in the forums and in story comments with a little translation flag next to their name.
Whats new: >>ADDED: Selectable Automatic, Eject, Power for left bottom button by right-clicking
ADDED: 'Portable' now hidden in app names in app store / updater when set to be in platform
CHANGED: Made showing publisher and app path in tooltips advanced options disabled by default
UPDATED: Bulgarian, Chinese Simplified, English, EnglishGB, Latvian, Polish, Turkish locales
FIXED: Brackets in path names interfere with rename, category, etc
FIXED: Menu moves when positioned at bottom and switch between modern and classic themes
FIXED: More than 6 apps get cut off in the 'still running' dialog
FIXED: Error when set to StartMinimized and Collapse Categories on Minimize
FIXED: 'Required Platform Update' in updater not translated
FIXED: Large fonts makes fonts too large when Windows DPI is high
FIXED: Platform listed in apps still running dialog
FIXED: Platform installer showed blank New vs Upgrade page in untranslated languages
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