Release Notes
List of the changes applied to Loadkit after each update can be found below. This list gets updated every time a new version arrives.
Jan 2020
Version 3.5.2
- Internal improvements.
May 2019
Version 3.5.1
- Minor user interface improvements.
- Fixed a crash which occured when resettings categories to default.
- Fixed a crash which occured when choosing or resetting temporary folder.
Apr 2019
Version 3.4.1
- Minor user interface improvements.
- Fixed an issue caused the link to the downloaded file does not work.
Mar 2019
Version 3.2.2
- Fixed an issue which caused the app to crash on Windows mobile.
Mar 2019
Version 3.2.1
- Improved functionality of the scheduler.
- Fixed size of the logo on small tile.
Dec 2017
Version 3.1.2
- Brought back an option to import multiple links from clipboard
- An issue that caused crash when restoring default settings for temporary folder
- Pin icon in the in-app browser
Aug 2017
Version 3.1.1
- Ability to calculate checksum of downloaded files
May 2017
Version 3.0.29
- Fixed an issue related to resuming downloads when using the System engine
- Fixed an issue caused the app UI does not update and become unresponsive
May 2017
Version 3.0.27
- Fixed an issue with applying the "Maximum number of concurrent downloads" to the queue
- Fixed the link to the browser integration section in settings
Apr 2017
Version 3.0.26
- Fixed an issue with the input pane when using the in-app browser
- Fixed some crash issues
Mar 2017
Version 3.0.22
- Increased opacity of the progress bar
- Fixed an issue in license validation process
Mar 2017
Version 3.0.19
- Ability to select download engine for each download
- Lock Screen notification
- Toast notifications for scheduler
- Ability to resize list of downloads horizontally (wide views)
- Thumbnail image for unfinished downloads in the list
- Temporary data are stored in download folder by default to avoid storage issues
- "System" downloads are directly saved to the download folder to eliminate the "Completing..." process
- Sequential execution of multiple completion processes to improve performance
- Delay between each automatic retry of scheduler
- Improvements in scheduler
- Reduced loading time
- UI and performance improvements
- Improvements in UI responsiveness
- A few bugs regarding to background downloading
- An issue that caused download error (80131509)
- "Cannot resume download" error (A0000001) when server returned a different value for LastModified header
- Paused downloads (due to metered nework) did not resume after swithcing "Transfer on metered network" option on
- UI issues when with text scaling
Oct 2016
Version 2.5.16
- Help & User Manual (English)
- Ability to cancel filter and selection mode with back/escape button
- Incorrect download speed after resuming the app
- Default http port number (80) where included in copied address
- App failed to start due to weak internet connection
Aug 2016
Version 2.5.7
- Progress is displayed in "Completing" process
- Significant performance improvements in the "Completing" process
- Improvements in accuracy of calculating download speed and remaining time
- Improvements in translation
- Problem in downloading from particular hosts
- Irrelevant "Loaded" status for paused downloads, after switching back to the app
- UI issues with high contrast theme
- App crash when resuming the app
- Problem in custom search engines (in-app browser)
- Navigation issue when closing new opened tabs (in-app browser)
- Scrolling problem in tabs menu (in-app browser)
Jul 2016
Version 2.4.7
- "Max. number of concurrent downloads" in queue options also applies to manually started downloads
- French translation
- Imrpoved loading and resuming time
- Improved scheduler (scheduler core is redesigned)
- Performance and stability imrpovements
- Minor UI improvements
- Limited maximum number of concurrent downloads (app overall) to improve stability
- Action Center Integration did not work properly if more than 5 queues exist
- Inability to redownload missing parts ("The system cannot find the specified file" error)
Jul 2016
Version 2.3.7
- Improved loading and resuming time
- App crash in some circumstances
- New windows were opened in default browser instead of the in-app browser
Jun 2016
Version 2.3.5
- Download Action: Add downloads from Action Center without opening the app
- "Started" and "Error" notifications in addition to the "Completed" notification
- Improved stability of background downloading
- "Completed" notification appears immediately after a download completes, even if the app is not running
- Opened tabs get restored after unpexpected app termination (in-app browser)
- Notifications always pop up, unless user is interacting with the downloads page
- Minor UI improvements (in-app browser)
- Background downloads stuck at 96%, required running the app to download the remaining
- Changing temporary folder did not effect
- Very tiny logo on small pinned tiles
- Incorrect context menu position in non-default DPI on desktop (in-app browser)
- Flicker when opening tabs menu (in-app browser)
Jun 2016
Version 2.2.3
- Ability to pin transparent tile to Start
- Ability to pin categories to Start
- Ability to pin web pages to Start (in-app browser)
- Ability to sharing web pages and links (in-app browser)
- Shortcut keys for refresh-f5 and stop-esc (in-app browser)
- URL is displayed at the bottom of the page when moving mouse over a link (in-app browser)
- Full Screen feature is added for mobile (in-app browser)
- Option to choose the primary button in the address bar (in-app browser)
- Ability to set the app as default web protocol handler (browser/downloader) in desktop
- Added title to dialogs
- Status bar becomes hidden in landscape mode
- The browser view becomes full-screen when an element (usually video playback) becomes full screen
- Hamburger menu goes in overlay mode in the in-app browser
- Increased stability of the in-app browser
- More UI improvements
- Error a0000080 when loading or resuming the app
- Hamburger menu re-opened when selecting menu items quickly
- Shortcut keys of a page was working even if a popup dialog is over it
- App crash due to low memory when opening many tabs (in-app browser)
- Tab items moved in wrong direction when attempting to use swipe-to-close feature in rtl layout (in-app browser)
Apr 2016
Version 2.1.2
- "Update Address" feature to change broken address of a download
- Chinese translation
- Improved design of the logo
- Creation time of downloads was displayed in UTC instead of local time
- Fixed a few display issues with high contrast theme
- Fixed an issue with switching app while a download is completing
- Fixed a crash issue in the in-app browser
Mar 2016
Version 2.0.9
- Master-Detail view for downloads (wide view)
- Separated download page (narrow to medium view)
- Simple view mode to view more downloads without scrolling
- Ability to change save folder after adding a download
- Russian and Turkish translation
- Faster and more reliable downloads with new download engine
- Two-step file storage to increase reliability
- App bar and popup dialogs appear on different positions with different view sizes
- Filter, Sort and Select buttons moved to app bar to be easier to work with in mobile devices
- Loading and resuming time reduced a little bit
- Action Center notifications are disabled when app is in foreground
- Hamburger menu can be opened by less accurate swiping
- App navigation is improved
- More UI improvements
- Resuming did not work properly for some users
- Problem with downloading large (over 200MB) files
- Fixed a few more bugs
Jan 2016
Version 1.8.9
- Indonesian and Spanish translations
- Ability to personalize accent color
- Theme changes now apply immediately
- Empty space in place of the hamburger menu in full screen mode of browser
- Hamburger menu did not open sometimes
- Fixed: Access denied error on attempt to download from private network
- Fixed: Tab preview did not scale correctly
Dec 2015
Version 1.7.9
- Ability to open and close the hamburger menu by swiping to right and left respectively
- Ability to close tabs by swiping left (portrait view) or top (landscape view)
- Added "Send to" menu item to send downloads to another queue directly from the downloads list
- Added address bar to the blank page of the in-app browser
- New logo
- Queues are now update faster
- Number of running downloads in a queue exceed the maximum limit
- Start date in scheduler did not always work properly since the last update
- List of browser search engines reset and did not preserve correctly
- Fixed a bug that caused app crash when opening a link in a new tab
Nov 2015
Version 1.6.3
- Multi-Language base implemented, two languages so far
- Queued downloads can be identified with "Queued" status
- UI improvements
- Navigation integrated with back button
- Performance improvements
- An issue that caused startup delay with slow internet connection
Nov 2015
Version 1.5.17
- User Interface enhancement for mobile
- Virtual Keyboard does not popup automatically anymore
- Issue with synchronizing download progress when app is in background
- Issue caused app crash when removing a queue
Nov 2015
Version 1.5.13
- An option that allows user to use system default theme
- User Interface enhancement for mobile
- Fixed a bug that was preventing downloads to start on cellular (metered) network
- Fixed a bug related to status bar
- Fixed more bugs
Nov 2015
Version 1.5.11
- Improved resuming time
- User Interface enhancement for mobile
- Fixed a bug caused displaying wrong progress info when downloading in background, implying that download does not work in background
- Fixed mobile status bar problem (was not displayed properly)
- Fixed a few bugs
Oct 2015
Version 1.5.4
- "Add Download" dialog now shows whether the download supports resume or not
- Link to system proxy settings in Network Settings pane
- Progress percent now is displayed for stopped downloads
- User Interface improvements/bug fixes
- Fixed a crash issue when trying to open folder of a download with removed file