2008-10-29

StarBurn 10.5 released.

Rocket Division Software announces immediate availability of the new version of its award winning StarBurn software application. New version (v. 10.5) introduces number of fixes and improvements. The most important are:

• StarBurn now has portable edition unified with the base installation.
  
• Wizards complete C++ source code included. StarBurn now is open
  source application!
  
• Skin manager bug (no skins under x64 Vista/Longhorn Windows) fixed.
  
• Broken non-English volume label names bug fixed.
  
• Can work now w/o Administrator rights (except StarPort-based wizards)
  under Vista/Longhorn.
  
• SAO & DAO methods now correctly report they cannot do "test" burn.
  
• DVD+R DL (Double Layer) now correctly sets layer break border.
  
• Probing for supported read modes now does not probe DVD and Blu-Ray
  for raw reads they cannot do.
  
• PIONEER 116 and 216 (PATA & SATA models) workaround added.
  
• Now we can do true session and disc finalization for BD-R media
  (don't always leave disc opened).
  
• BD-RE and DVD+RW erase sequence changed. Now we do completely erase
  UDF header.
  
• TOC reading has workaround for broken AnyDVD software (with
  protected Blu-Ray movie disc inserted).
  
• TOC sequence changed to report correct track ends for DVD and
  Blu-Ray disc (w/o link blocks).
  
• Conflict with Romeo Burner application fixed.
  

2008-10-06

StarWind 3.5.5 has been released.

Rocket Division Software, Ltd announces immediate availability of the new version of its flagship product StarWind. StarWind is highly advanced software-only iSCSI target for Microsoft Windows family OSes. The new version (3.5.5) of the product introduces number of fixes and improvements to the product. The most important news in this version are:

• Core: TcpKeepAlivePeriod config parameter added to allow TCP/IP keep alive feature for iSCSI connections
  
• Core: fixed a problem with loading of Access options after service restart
  
• Core: allowed clustering by default for all target types
  
• Core: removed the old ISID workaround for the MS initiator
  
• Core: fixed the ExpCmdSn increment's behavior in some situations
  
• Core: iSCSI negotiation fixed to allow bigger data packets
  
• Core: added Config parameters for tuning of the iSCSI negotiation
  
• Core: enhancements in the StarWind Plugin API
  
• IMG: fixed an issue with online extending of image files
  
• MIR: changed the Online synchronization algorithm
  
• MIR: fixed an issue with memory allocation
  
• IBV: fixed problem with child devices (snapshot-based)
  
• IBV: fixed MaxStoredSessions behavior
  
• IBV: speed up for read requests to data in old journals
  
• IBV: fixed issues with Vmware ESX clients when snapshots happened during large write operations
  
• Control: fixed issues that led to crashes in some situations
  

2008-07-15

StarBurn SDK 10 released.

Rocket Division Software announces immediate availability of its StarBurn SDK version 10. The very imported upgrade comes with serious improvements and additions to the award winning SDK and introduces new and improved functionality for developers. Among these additions and improvements are:

• New Unicode-based UDF mastering engine represented.
  
• All of the core SDK samples are completely re-worked, updated and new VC2003, VC2005 and VC2008 project files have been created. Now wizard-based samples are in sync with our commercial StarBurn application wizards.
  
• Finally StarBurn comes with completely new StarBurnX OCX wrapper for easy use of it's features. C#, VB.NET & VB6 and C++ samples are included. Written from the scratch.
  
• New SPTD re-distributable executables to provide exclusive access to the burner has been included into SDK. Also new CreatExEx(...) API call to serve SPTD transport is fully documented.
  
• Audio compression engine has been re-worked. Now we do encoding not only to WMA but also to MP3 and OGG Vorbis audio formats (decoding was available before). Also audio recording can accept Unicode file names.
  
• Track-At-Once recording for audio now accept variable pause length between tracks (just like DAO).
  
• Now StarBurn can burn with 32KB and 64KB packets to DVD and Blu-Ray media. Better compatibility.
  
• Boot image handling code changed. Now we patch CRC checksums so Linux bootable media works.
  
• WPP tracing added (optional).
  
• Burning using pipe as a source was made much easier. Pipe-related Win32 calls re-wrapped inside StarBurn for faster & safer use.
  
• IFO/BUP patching fixed. Better DVD-Video compatibility.
  
• Numerous bugfixes & hardware workarounds added.
  

2008-04-14

StarPort 3.6 released.

Rocket Division Software releases version 3.6 of its award-winning iSCSI and AoE initiator software product. The version comes with number of improvements the most important of which are:

• AES256 Encrypted Virtual Hard Disk Support
  
• Fully skinnable new GUI
  

2008-03-27

StarBurn 10 has been released.

Rocket Division Software announces availability of the new release of its FREE CD/DVD/Blu-Ray burning, ripping and mastering StarBurn application. The new version comes with the number of fixes and improvements. The most important are:

• Support for burning audio discs of extra capacity (up to 99 min).
  
• UDF images mastering wizard and functionality.
  
• Skinnable wizards.
  

2008-02-27

StarWind 3.5.3 has been released.

StarWind iSCSI target version 3.5.3 has been released. Among the updates, changes and fixes introduced in this version the most important are:

Version 3.5.3 build 2008-02-19

• IBV: The core logic redesigned to fix problems with data corruption
  
• IBV: Added protection against power off of the host that led to missing data
  
• IBV: fixed problems with request sequencing (the logic redesigned)
  
• IBV: fixed problems with failed sessions
  
• IBV: Fixed issues with multi-initiator access
  
• IBV: the core journal switching logic has been reworked and bullet-proofed
  
• IBV: Enhanced creation of manual snapshots
  
• IBV: Cleanup of old journals fixed and enhanced
  
• IMG: Fixed a problem with some disk controllers when ImageFiles were erroneously recognized as hard drives
  
• RAM: fixed issues with formatting to FAT32
  
• VDVD: some enhancements in the MODE_SENSE handler
  
• Core: work around for incoming MaxConnections=0 on negotiation
  

2008-01-21

StarPort version 3.5.4 released,

Rocket Division Software announces new maintenance release of its iSCSI/AoE storage controller for Windows. New version 3.5.4 among others addresses these issues:

• Fixed corruption of active AoE sessions on wake up after sleep/hibernate on Vista.
  
• Enhancements in the DVD emulation module to support DVD speed get/set requests.
  

2007-12-31

Free Blu-Ray and HD-DVD burner released.

Rocket Division Software announces the release of its freeware tool for CD/DVD and Blu-Ray/HD-DVD grabbing, burning and mastering. Product available for immediate download from RDs site. More information at:

StarBurn info

2007-12-28

StarBurn COM & .NET Wrapper released

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We're happy to announce we've released StarBurnX, COM & .NET wrapper over StarBurn Core SDK. Now COM & .NET application design should be trivial. StarBurnX comes with a set of samples for C++, C#, VB.NET and VB6.

Future versions of the StarBurn SDK will have StarBurnX as part of the standard installation, StarBurn.OCX will be dropped and kept as a stand-alone installation for compatibility reasons. For now StarBurnX has a separate installation. You can download it directly here:

www.rocketdivision.com/downloads/starburnx.exe

Enjoy :)

2007-11-27

StarPort 3.5.1 released.

Version 3.5.1 build 2007-10-25 of StarPort comes with these updates:

• Vista-related enhancements in the StarPort Console application
  
• Fixed issues in the Virtual DVD module in Vista