Rolling Release Notes & Changelogs – Cubbit

Please note: this is a combination of both web and desktop application changes.

Cubbit Hatch Web v. 5.4.8a

Date of release: January 10th, 2021

What's new

Redesigned cookie banner to allow 1-click management of cookies
Initial page load optimizations
We are hard at work to bring you more soon! ⚙️🔨

Cubbit Hatch Desktop v. 9.1.2

Date of release: December 23rd, 2021

What's new

Minor fixes and optimizations
Improve local conflict detection logic
Added a feature to select a previous Cubbit folder on new sign-in
The new year will bring even more! Happy Holidays! ✌️🎆

Cubbit Hatch Desktop v. 9.1.1 | Web v. 5.4.8 - Release notes

Date of release: December 14th & 17th, 2021

What's new

Fixed a crash issue on some specific older operating systems
(Web) Link preview improvements in third party apps
(Web) Performance optimization (reduced unnecessary back-end requests)
(Web) Font self-hosting
(Web) Minor fixes and error catching
Santa has more fixes/improvements coming soon. Elves are testing! 🎅👨‍💻

Cubbit Hatch Desktop v. 9.1.0 | Web v. 5.4.7 - Release notes

Date of release: December 1st, 2021

What's new

Engine improvement
Minor fixes
Added Cell claim button for business accounts
Added feedback button
(Web) Minor fixes
(Web) UI updates
(Web) Added feedback button
(Web) Fix storage visualization
On our way into the holiday period and still going strong! Stay tuned! 💪🎄

Cubbit Hatch Desktop v. 9.0.6 | Web v. 5.4.6 - Release notes

Date of release: November 12th, 2021

What's new

New optimized desktop logger
Added a desktop maintenance mode
4 account feature v.1 release (see here for more info)
More fixes + optimizations coming soon! We are on fire (in a good way) 🔥

Cubbit Hatch Web v. 5.4.5 - Release notes

Date of release: November 9th, 2021

What's new

Remove web app download limit for single files (see application status page for details)
Settings pages are now accessible from URL (.../home/settings/profile, ...home/settings/privacy, etc.)

Cubbit Hatch Desktop v. 9.0.5 - Release notes

Date of release: October 27th, 2021

What's new

Bugfixes
Disable extensions to support M1 Macs
Implemented metadata folder size reduction
Added manual tools to reduce size of metadata folder and re-download files at a specific path
More fixes + optimizations coming soon!

Cubbit Hatch Desktop v. 9.0.4 - Release notes

Date of release: October 5th, 2021

What's new

Fix issue with selective sync
Fix for log creation bug
Fix for notifications not showing on first start
Minor performance improvements

Cubbit Hatch Desktop v. 9.0.3 - Release notes

Date of release: September 28th, 2021

What's new

Minor changes to help reduce CPU consumption (further investigation ongoing!)
New advanced panel in settings (extension management, startup toggle, log collection)
Minor fixes for migration and operation stability (file system and missing folders check)
Fix edit for shared link
New engine event queue system (metadata operations will not be blocked behind transfers)
Minor design updates

Cubbit Hatch Desktop v. 9.0.2 | Web v. 5.4.2 - Release notes

Date of release: September 20th & 22nd, 2021

What's new

Disabled extensions for M1 processor
Auto repeat sync if a file was not correctly retrieved
Improve library stability to prevent sync-engine stall
(Web) Introduced transfer progress animation
(Web) Filename length check to ensure OS compatibility

Cubbit Hatch Desktop v. 9.0.1 - Release notes

Date of release: September 1st, 2021

What's new

Fixed bug that prevented app from loading after updating to v9.0.0
Minor bug fixes and stability enhancements

Cubbit Hatch Desktop v. 9.0.0 | Web v. 5.4.1 - Release notes

Date of release: August 31st, 2021

What's new

New sync engine to optimize sync performance and management
Bug fixes for selective sync and sync consistency
UI improvements: user tray menu, transfers grouped by folder
(Web) Bug fixes for shared folders
(Web) Added shared folders without members to the Shares panel

Cubbit Hatch Web v. 5.4.0 - Release notes

Date of release: August 24th, 2021

What's new

Added Shares panel to have quick access to all active and pending shared folders and linked contents
Some further general bug fixes
Changed logic so that deletion of parent folder on web or desktop will not delete nested shared or linked files/folders by default (they can be deleted from the Shares panel)

Cubbit Hatch Web v. 5.3.0 - Release notes

Date of release: August 11th, 2021

What's new

Optimizations to increase transfer speeds on web app
Refinements to design and notifications
Enabled image preview navigation using arrow keys
Fixes for web app use on mobile devices
Added user feedback when adding the same files asking whether to keep or replace
General web bug fixes and stability enhancements

Cubbit Hatch Web v. 5.2.6 - Release notes

Date of release: July 14th, 2021

What's new

Enabled transfers from mobile web app

Cubbit Hatch Desktop v. 8.2.4 | Web v. 5.2.5 - Release notes

Date of release: July 1st, 2021

What's new

Fixed undesired Cubbit folder creation inside main Cubbit folder
Added option to select all folders in Selective Sync pane
Fix for an issue that caused Windows Explorer to stall
Fixed bug that prevented Cubbit icon from hiding from Mac dock
Improved Microsoft Office temporary files handling
Web: fixed Copy to my Cubbit issue for big folders
Web: fixes and tweaks for some UI elements (folders download, files preview, new message banner for unsupported browsers)
Web: improved some UI/UX elements on mobile web app (landscape mode banner, long filenames trimming)

Cubbit Hatch Desktop v. 8.2.3 | Web v. 5.2.4 - Release notes

Date of release: June 15th, 2021

What's new

Fixed network error message on Cell claim
Fixed bug that prevented app from automatically rechecking network connection, showing it was offline
Web: fixed some UI elements on mobile web app
Web: fix for an issue that caused the web app to need logout/login or cache clearing to see file list

Cubbit Hatch Desktop v. 8.2.2 | Web v. 5.2.3 - Release notes

Date of release: June 7th, 2021

What's new

Improve transfer performance by reducing the number of network requests per transfer
Removal of upload/download icons in desktop app for improvements
Web: UI adjustments
Web: fix share folder and link for large folders
Web: added function to download multiple selected files as zipped folder

Cubbit Hatch Desktop v. 8.2.1 - Release notes

Date of release: April 29th, 2021

What's new

Improvement to Selective Sync data handling
Enforced client recovery
Minor fixes to metadata management

Cubbit Hatch Web v. 5.2.1 - Release notes

Date of release: April 21th, 2021

What's new

Fixed share link issue for users who were not signed-in
Enabled automatic preview for share links with displayable content
Enabled preview/opening of plain text files

Cubbit Hatch Desktop v. 8.2.0 | Web v. 5.2.0 - Release notes

Date of release: March 31st, 2021

What's new

Transfer tab redesign (see here)
Fix for bad decryption on filename which caused error
New offline/no network error message for clarity
Pause/resume feature from tray (bottom right, hover to see)
Web: auto-fill enabled on signup page
Web: new maintenance page during downtime

Cubbit Hatch Desktop v. 8.1.2 - Release notes

Date of release: March 25th, 2021

What's new

Core transfer configuration updates

Cubbit Hatch Web v. 5.1.1 - Release notes

Date of release: March 11th, 2021

What's new

Fix for badly decrypted folder name
Faster loading of file view

Cubbit Hatch Desktop v. 8.1.1 - Release notes

Date of release: February 25th, 2021

What's new

Enable 2FA settings in desktop app
Fix some upload errors

Cubbit Hatch Desktop v. 8.1.0 | Web v. 5.1.0 - Release notes

Date of release: February 23rd, 2021

What's new

Enabled two-factor authentication (2FA)
Fix the generation of an empty file on failed download
Enable check on downloaded files to reduce download failure

Cubbit Hatch Desktop v. 8.0.2 - Release notes

Date of release: February 16th, 2021

What's new

Design updates to reflect full space roll-out
Core bug fix

Cubbit Hatch Desktop v. 8.0.1 - Release notes

Date of release: February 4th, 2021

What's new

Improve Selective Sync design and feedback
Some design/UI tweaks (fix for advanced tab, claim screen, app icon in Mac dock)
Fix to better facilitate file editing and synchronization on different machines

Cubbit Hatch Desktop v. 8.0.0 | Web v. 5.0.0 - Release notes

Date of release: January 26th, 2021

What's new

Improve sync performance for larger quantities of files
Desktop: Introduce new application design
Desktop: Fix Windows Unicode support
Small bug fixes (long PDF scrolling, design tweaks)

Cubbit Hatch Desktop v. 7.4.4 - Release notes

Date of release: January 11th, 2021

What's new

Desktop: fix crash on download due to metrics error

Cubbit Hatch Desktop v. 7.4.3 - Release notes

Date of release: January 8th, 2021

What's new

Desktop: improve core stability
Desktop: improve metrics for analysis

Cubbit Hatch Desktop v. 7.4.2 | Web v. 4.2.1 - Release notes

Date of release: December 30th, 2020

What's new

Desktop: CPU resource usage optimizations
Desktop: fix sync restart after system sleep
Desktop: added icon to show connection offline
Web: fix image preview zoom and scroll
Web: fix scroll on long PDF documents

Cubbit Hatch v. 7.4.0 - Release notes

Date of release: December 1st, 2020

What's new

New authentication method (see here)
Increased security for Share folder invites
Disconnect web app on password reset/change

Cubbit Hatch v. 7.3.1 - Release notes

Date of release: November 26th, 2020

What's new

Fix desktop app crash on indexing

Cubbit Hatch v. 7.3.0 - Release notes

Date of release: November 23rd, 2020

What's new

Folder share and share link from desktop app
Thumbnails in web app
Fast micro-transfers (100kb or less)
Folder/file name character update
Visual bug fixes in web app
Added low space notification
Improved icon stability
Increased security of the desktop app
Added ability to mark all notifications as read

Cubbit Hatch v. 7.2.3 - Release notes

Date of release: November 9th, 2020

What's new

Metric encoding fix
Unix socket error fix
Linux tray bug fix
Badge/icon reliability improved

Cubbit Hatch v. 7.2.2 - Release notes

Date of release: October 2nd, 2020

What's new

Improve metrics for analysis
Support node pagination
Improve transfer scheduling
App notification updates (for share functions and activity, storage space warnings)
Improve port-mapping
Added support for HTTP transfers
Fix thread race bug in hermes
Fix connection crash
Fix upload retry bug
Language fixes
Share and Get Link generation in context menu (feature currently disabled)

Cubbit Hatch v. 7.1.2 - Release notes

Date of release: August 12th, 2020

What's new

New license to include share files/folder policy
Some language fixes, text updates
Fix crashed when reporting metrics
Fix unix extensions buffer management (cleaning the buffer to avoid crash)
Fix hermes unordered map (bugfix + library update)
Replace custom scheduler with marl (bugfix + performance increase)
Fix shared node synchronization order
Fix hermes thread race (ordered thread execution to avoid crash)

Cubbit Hatch v. 7.0.1 - Release notes

Date of release: August 12th, 2020

What's new

Handle level meta crash on Windows
Avoid client disconnect if cache server is not reachable in back-end

Cubbit Hatch v. 7.0.0 & Web v. 4.0.0 - Release notes

Date of release: July 30th, 2020

What's new

This update is to begin to address some further core tuning, security and performance elements of the applications while we continue monitoring back end data.

Updates to share folder encryption
Updates to Electron
Web app notification panel
Performance boost to desktop indexing
Initial performance boost to transfers (more to come)

Cubbit Hatch v. 6.7.5 - Release notes

Date of release: July 14th, 2020

What's new

addition of an update notification
addition of a soft block for outdated versions for security

Cubbit Hatch v. 6.7.4 - Release notes

Date of release: July 13th, 2020

What's new

addition of support for shared folders
addition of support for shared link
an update of sync engine for secure decryption/encryption of shared files

Cubbit Hatch v. 6.4.0 - Release notes

Date of release: February 21st, 2020

What's new

Enabled web app manager

Bug Fixing and Improvements

Fixed memory leak
Fix of minor glitches and graphical issues
Fix delete bug on web app

Cubbit Hatch v.6.1.3 - Release notes

Date of release: February 7th, 2020

What's new

Updated tray design
Change tutorial logic to open the tray menu instead of the Claim window

Bug Fixing and Improvements

Fix a major transfer bug which prevented users to download duplicate files
Fix a bug which prevented users to download files
Fix tray positioning on OSX and Windows
Fix a bug on tray which misplaced recent files
Fix a bug on conflicted copies
Introduce metrics and analytics

Cubbit Hatch v. 6.1.1 - Release notes

Date of release: January 16th, 2020

What's new

Password recovery
Co² savings information in tray
Core functionalities refactoring
Password recovery
Name, email and password change
Desktop app restyling

Bug Fixing and Improvements

Pause/Resume bug
Storage display issues
Upload and download resume
UI/UX bugs

Cubbit Hatch v.5.1.3 - Release notes

Date of release: December 18th, 2019

What's new

Password recovery
File recovery
Change sync folder location
New tray menu
Co² savings information in tray
Release notes on app download

Bug Fixing and Improvements

Improved performance for upload and download
Bug related to move/rename/delete of Cubbit sync folder
Bug of folder selection push on software update
Bug of the finder extension on restart of the app