Release note of version 1.3.3.0

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# MultiPar
### v1.3.2.9 is public
  This is the final release of v1.3.2 tree.
Because I want to public this as a stable version, I didn't change contents so much.
PAR clients are same as previous version.
Including long term used applications may be good to avoid false positive at Malware detection.
### v1.3.3.0 is public
  I fixed a [compatibility issue in calling 7-Zip](https://github.com/Yutaka-Sawada/MultiPar/issues/92),
which I didn't know the change.
Thanks Lyoko-Jeremie for bug report.
The incident happened, when a user selected many files.
  This is a testing version to improve speed of PAR2 calculation.
Because the new method isn't tested so much, there may be a bug, failure, or mistake.
Be careful to use this non-stable version.
When you don't want to test by yourself, you should not use this yet.
If you see a problem, please report the incident.
I will try to solve as possible as I can.
  I made a sample feature to Save & Restore different "base directories".
When you put PAR files in another folder from source files, it will set the previous directory automatically.
Because this feature was tested little, it's disabled by default at this time.
If you want to enable, add section `[Path]` on "MultiPar.ini".
Then set `MRUMax` value, which is the maximum number of stored directries.
You may set the value upto 26. It's disabled, when the value is 0.
These two lines are like below:
```
[Path]
MRUMax=5
```
  The PAR2 calculation speed may be 10% ~ 50% faster than old version.
The optimization depends on hardware environment.
I don't know what is the best setting on which PC.
From [many tests of debug versions](https://github.com/Yutaka-Sawada/MultiPar/issues/99),
it will select maybe better setting automatically.
Thanks testers for many trials.
If you want to compare speed of different settings on your PC, you may try those debug versions.
  While I made MultiPar as an utility tool, I didn't give priority to its speed.
If someone wants faster Parchive tool, I suggest to use ParPar tools instead of MultiPar.
They are "[High performance PAR2 create client for NodeJS](https://github.com/animetosho/ParPar)" or
"[speed focused par2cmdline fork](https://github.com/animetosho/par2cmdline-turbo)".
Though the speed depends on hardware environments and user's setting, it would be 50% ~ 100 % faster than my par2j.
Only when you have a very fast graphics borad, GPU enabled par2j may be faster.
I plan to improve speed of par2j in next v1.3.3 tree.
Though it will become 20% ~ 30% faster than old par2j, ParPar would be faster mostly.
  I changed GPU implementation largely, too.
To adopt CPU optimization, it will process smaller tasks on GPU.
Because GPU don't use CPU's cache, it's inefficient for GPU's task.
I don't know that new method is faster than old version or not.
Threshold to use GPU:
- Data size must be larger than 200 MB.
- Block size must be larger than 64 KB.
- Number of source blocks must be more than 192.
- Number of recovery blocks must be more than 8.
  Because [a user requested](https://github.com/Yutaka-Sawada/MultiPar/issues/102),
I implemented a way to add 5th item in "Media size" on Create window.
Write this line `MediaList4=name:size` under `[Option]` section in `MultiPar.ini`.
Currently, you cannot change the item on Option window.
[ Changes from 1.3.2.8 to 1.3.2.9 ]
[ Changes from 1.3.2.9 to 1.3.3.0 ]
GUI update
- New
- Verification may save different base directories in MultiPar.ini file.
- Change
- Option adapted to new "lc" settings.
- It's possible to add 5th item in "Media size" on Create window.
- Bug fix
- Archiver's option was updated for recent 7-Zip versions.
PAR2 client update
- Change
- Max number of using threads is increased to 32.
- Threshold to use GPU was decreased.
- Improvement
- Matrix inversion may use more threads.
- L3 cache optimization was improved for recent CPUs.
[ Hash value ]
MultiPar132.zip
MD5: 305D86C8C7A0F5C1A23CEAFFBE4F02BF
SHA1: 464BB7AB7D14FD35D2AEF99042EEB8E556DA0417
MultiPar1330.zip
MD5: 79570F84B74ECF8E5100561F7AAC3803
SHA1: ACF7F164001708789C5D94003ED6B5C172235D54
MultiPar132_setup.exe
MD5: 18F9BE1FF1C6D668E3A3906C691CCB98
SHA1: 116C6B2A15FCFD9BB74F0EF9D6C8A4BF78299588
MultiPar1330_setup.exe
MD5: D1F1A5A4DF1C9EDD698C9A017AF31039
SHA1: 4C3314B909572A303EBBE8E015A2E813841CFA33
  To install under "Program Files" or "Program Files (x86)" directory,
you must start the installer with administrative privileges by selecting
"Run as administrator" on right-click menu.