Fences 5.80 Changelog (Released 07/30/2024)

07/29/2024

Version

• UI: 5.80

• Fences.exe: 5.8.0.3

Changes

• UI changes to Backup section to improve panel layout.

• Roll-up of fixes to ensure compatibility on Windows 11 24H2

07/26/2024

Version

• UI: 5.80

• Fences.exe: 5.8.0.1

Changes

• Fixes crash some users may be experiencing during app startup

07/10/2024

Version

• UI: 5.58

• Fences.exe 5.5.8.5

Changes

• Beta updated to 5.58

• Fixed mouse-wheel scrolling inverted (from 5.55)

• Fixed swipe from right edge broken (from 5.57 internal)

• The "View" context menu should work properly on Windows Insider 26244, including toggling and checkboxes for Auto Arrange and Grid options

• Peek should work on Windows Insider 26244

• Updated ‘Configure Fences’ desktop right-click menu instructions for the new Windows 11 menu

07/02/2024

Version

• UI: 5.56

• Fences.exe: 5.5.6.4

Platforms

• Stardock and Steam

Changes

• "Configure Fences" now appears in Windows 11 desktop right-click context menu (won't apply until subsequent installation after this one)

• Fix scrolling Fences Folder Portals with precision trackpads

• Fix compatibility with Peek <-> new Copilot icon in bottom right corner of taskbar

• ‘Vanish’ changed to ‘Hide’ in the Fences config

  

***Reserved***

Looks cool but the permanent price-tag continues to bewilder me.  Not to mention the cop-out of relying on this forum for customer service to your retail customers...

All that said, in the event this goes on sale for $20 I'll be ready and waiting, that is, if you can answer for me some questions your customer support people never got back to me about(I used a different account for the forum as the one I've used with SD is my full name):

1. How exactly does it work?  A year of updates from date of purchase or until version 6?  Because y'all just jumped pretty significantly closer to v6 since the last update.

2. Are there any differences between the business version and the personal or home version?  The price seems to be the same for 5 machines for the "permanent" license I just wonder if they behave differently.  Like, is the business one more robust and less eye-candy-focused or is it more a matter of which marketing list we get stuck on?

3. Would purchasing the business version entitle me to direct customer support or is that left to a forum as well?

We use our forums for basic support to help the most people for the longest period of time. If we work tickets for support issues, it helps just one person and just that one time.

The forums are staffed with support personnel, developers, and seasoned users of our products and issues are answered 24\7.  It takes just a moment to see that we have a variety of issues, large and small, that are posted to the forums and leagues of individuals - most notably, the developers themselves - participate in the solution.   That beginning, middle, and end to all forum threads exists for all to see and be helped by for all time.  A ticket, once closed, is never seen again and helps no one else going forward.  If a well-known example would help here, Nvidia users are more helped by Reddit posts than by their ticket system. 

There are a variety of differences.  Please see the product page itself:

It allows for curated deployment help as it can be quite involved in setting up any given product for thousands of users in their environment. 

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

I believe Fences 5 on ARM is only available with an Object Desktop subscription, as it is still in pre-release testing.

This is correct, ARM support for Fences is currently only available as part of Object Desktop.

What happened to the naming / renaming ability for the titles of the Layout backups? 

I have 4 different locations where I work from.  Home, work, lake, and remote work site.

I use the naming / renaming to help me find the correct layout. 

I also liked the "Re-take snapshot" option as well.

Thanks, Chris

Is this something you are proposing, or something that exists. I don't see this on 5.80

Did you see the screenshot I added in Reply #15? I'm not seeing this feature in 5.80.

EDIT: Fixed please see next post.

Windows 11 Pro
Version 23H2 (OS Build 22631.3958)

It would seem, yet again, that my 6 monitor setup isn't eligible for an update. 5.80 doesn't work correctly for me.
I have had to revert back to Fences5 v5.5.4.2-j56 pre release
https://forums.stardock.com/528092/get;3931676

This time, I have lost the ability to see snapshots (backups seem to be missing from the program) or did I miss something in the change log?

Any information you may need can be found in my past bug reports.

Thanks

Thank you ckvick, Pelaird (and basj), I've logged the current state of naming layout backups functionality internally.

Internal Ref: ODNT-8503

Best regards,

Adam McGuinness
Stardock Customer Support Specialist

I want to be clear on this - its not logged as a 'bug', but rather to keep an eye on a possible feature add \ evolution.  How it worked before was never intended to be what it was often used for - a workaround for different monitor configurations that Fences had trouble maintaining on its own (for reasons outside its control most often).  However, that is no longer the case so the feature was re-focused to what it always was indeed to be, backups. 

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

Still got the "small desktop icon spacing" issue, making them overlap in big size mode. I'm a little tired, it's unusable, I must roll back to Fences 4.