Folks,
It has been a little over a month since AES Crypt 4 was released. The
feedback was very positive, though there were a few issues observed. We
have been making incremental updates over the past month to resolve
various issues. Most significantly was a crashing issue on certain
Windows machines. After spending a couple of weeks trying to isolate the
issue (because it did not happen on any of our systems), we were able to
narrow down the problem to a particular line of code.
Curious why, we discovered that Microsoft made a change to their runtime
libraries that broke backward compatibility. That was a rather stunning
discovery, and to resolve it the choice was either to force everyone to
upgrade their Microsoft Runtime libraries to the latest release or to
implement a workaround as proposed by one of the Microsoft engineers. We
opted for the latter, as we want the software to "just work." If you
are curious about the details, you can find a post about it here:
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Access-violation-in-_Thrd_yie…
Anyway, that change was implemented in release the GUI version numbers
4.0.6, so if anyone was experiencing a crashing issue, that should now
be resolved.
Cheers!
Paul
