Feature: The "Load file system from device" dialog is enabled for non-Windows systems (Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris are supported initially).
Change: The HFSExplorer Windows launcher (hfsexplorer.exe) can now open the Java download page from the dialog box displayed when no Java runtime could be located.
Change: Binaries and scripts have been relocated into the "bin" directory.
Bugfix: Extracting files in Windows under Java 7 or higher caused false errors to be thrown because HFSExplorer tried to set UNIX-specific UID/GID properties for the extracted files.
Bugfix: The HFSExplorer Windows launcher (hfsexplorer.exe) threw errors in certain situations because the JVM couldn't locate the Microsoft Visual C++ runtime (msvcr*.dll) required by the JVM. This has now been fixed by appending the path of the directory containing the required .dll to the system path before loading the JVM.
Publisher review: When having a Mac and a PC, you may have one or more storage devices formatted for Mac, Windows, and thus unreadable. HFSExplorer should be able to help you, allowing you to read and write to hard drives or USB drives formatted HFS or HFS +. Completely free, it requires downloading Java SE Runtime Environment to run. HFSExplorer works as a single application, and must be open to explore through its interface, the contents of your devices.
Google Chrome version 42 comes with implementation of interesting options for software developers who want to turn their websites into complex Web applications: Push notification system which is permanently active.
The Windows 10 preview event brought also to the attention of gamers a demonstration of the advantages of the new DirectX 12 API by Microsoft, which announced several technologies providing integration with Xbox One game consoles.
Finally was officially released version 40 of Chrome browser for Android devices, iOS and Windows PCs, coming up with an interesting range of bug fixes and optimizations.