v0.12.0

What's New

Volume Locker Speaks Your Language

• Volume Locker can now be translated. It follows your Windows display language and falls back to English for anything not yet translated.
• Simplified Chinese (简体中文) is the first translation. A big thank you to @BaoZiFly-233 for contributing it! 🎉
• Want to see Volume Locker in your language? Adding one only takes a single text file. See Localization to get started.

Clearer Names in the Menu

Two features have friendlier names that better describe what they do. Your settings carry over automatically.

• Device priority is now Default device order, named after the Windows default device it picks. For example, Output device priority is now Default output device order, Temporary priority is now Temporary default device, and Notify on restore is now Notify on switch. See Set the default device order.
• Settings transfer is now Devices seen as new, because it's about Windows treating a device as new, not about moving the app's settings around. Its options are now Keep their settings, Keep their name and icon and Notify when it happens. The last two are greyed out while Keep their settings is off, since they have no effect then. See Devices seen as new.

Note

If you later go back to an older version, it won't recognize the new setting names: your device orders will be lost and the Devices seen as new options will return to their defaults.

Smoother Updates

• Downloading an update no longer freezes the tray icon. The menu shows a greyed-out Downloading update... while it works, and Volume Locker restarts on its own when it's done.
• A stalled connection now fails instead of waiting forever, and a half-finished download is cleaned up.
• Installing an update now waits for Volume Locker to fully close, so a slow exit no longer makes the update fail silently.

Works on a Fresh Windows Install

• Volume Locker no longer needs the Visual C++ Redistributable, so it starts on a clean Windows install without installing anything else.
• The download is also smaller, about 1.6 MB.

Fixes

• When Volume Locker is placed in a folder it can't write to, it now shows a notification explaining why, instead of quietly not starting.
• Opening Volume Locker a second time no longer clears the log of the copy that's already running.

Pull requests

• Download updates without blocking the event loop by @felipecrs in #196
• Don't send real notifications from tests by @felipecrs in #199
• Show the notification when the app folder is not writable by @felipecrs in #197
• Add localization support with Fluent by @felipecrs in #195
• Run background work on smol by @felipecrs in #198
• Shrink the binary, simplify platform code and test COM and updates by @felipecrs in #201
• Update Rust crate notify-rust to 4.19.0 by @renovate[bot] in #206
• i18n: add Simplified Chinese (zh-Hans) translation by @BaoZiFly-233 in #205
• Lock file maintenance by @renovate[bot] in #207
• Link the C runtime statically by @felipecrs in #208
• Rename Device Priority to Default device order by @felipecrs in #209
• Rename Settings transfer to Devices seen as new by @felipecrs in #210

New Contributors

• @BaoZiFly-233 made their first contribution in #205 💙

Full Changelog: v0.11.0...v0.12.0