What is OpenCandy ? OpenCandy runs a moderated recommendation network that enables software developers to recommend other software during installation of their application they believe will be valuable to their users. OpenCandy was started by a passionate group of people…

The new version of RIOT – 0.4.6 is mainly a maintenance release. Several bugs are fixed, especially affecting the DLL version, the batch mode and the external optimizer implementation. The overall stability of the program was greatly increased by this…

RIOT 0.4.5 was released to fix two annoying bugs: * fixed a bug with Paste from clipboard. Pasted images were shifted a few pixels. * fixed a bug in the DLL version with the toolbar containing rotate, resize, compress to…

This release fixes an issue introduced in v.0.4.3 present in the DLL version, when used with Windows Vista (possible Windows 7). AdvPNG users will be happy to find out that RIOT has now an internal preset for using this tool.…

This version is a bugfix release. It also optimizes the startup sequence by delaying some processing after the main window is visible. This is probably the last release from branch 0.4., focusing in improving it’s overall stability. The development will…

What are your plans or objectives in the near future? Lucian Sabo: I want to find a long-term collaboration with a company willing to outsource it’s web development to me and my team. This can be made also with classic…

This is a maintenance release, focusing on solving the known bugs and issues – thus improving overall program stability. The main fixes address problems with PNG and ICO transparency, RAW + HDR plugin package, possibility to specify both dimensions in…

Pierre-e Gougelet, the author of XnView, created an addon to use RIOT in it’s well known viewer. Now XnView users have RIOT integrated into their favorite viewer to be able to easily optimize pictures using RIOT. XnView is the third…

With 0.4.0 in beta for more than a month, it is the time now to release the first stable version of this branch – 0.4.1 As you would guess this version fixes some issues of the beta version. Now 0.4.1…

With the version 7.0.0.125 of the virus signatures RIOT 0.4 is detected as trojan (Trojan.Win32.Swisyn.aeca). As this program does not contain malware and was tested with other antivirus engines, I contacted the Kaspersky Team to find out more. Kirill Kruglov,…