Open Source Release

Portable VLC Media Player is now VLC Media Player Portable, and version 0.8.5 has been released as a multilingual package. For the unfamiliar, VLC Portable is the popular VLC Media Player packaged with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your audio and video files along with a player that can handle them all with you. This new release adds in several new features, including: the ability to run from a CD, in-place upgrades, partial WINE support and more. Read on for all the details...

Portable FileZilla is now FileZilla Portable, and version 2.2.26a has been released as a multilingual package. For the unfamiliar, FileZilla Portable is the handy FileZilla FTP client packaged with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your FTP client and site list with you. This new release adds in several new features, including: improved CD and read-only USB support, in-place upgrades, full WINE support under UNIX/Linux and more. Read on for all the details...

Portable AbiWord is now AbiWord Portable, and version 2.4.5 has been released as a multilingual package. For the unfamiliar, AbiWord Portable is the lightweight AbiWord word processor packaged with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your word processor and documents with you. This new release adds in several new features, including: the ability to run from a CD, in-place upgrades, full support for AbiWord plugins, Open Document support and more. Read on for all the details...

Portable ClamWin is now ClamWin Portable, and version 0.88.4 has been released. For the unfamiliar, ClamWin Portable is the handy ClamWin Free Antivirus packaged with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your antivirus with you. This new release adds in several new features, including: the ability to run from a CD, in-place upgrades, automatic fixes for some common issues and more. It's also 30% smaller when installed. Read on for all the details...

Portable Thunderbird is now Mozilla Thunderbird - Portable Edition (Thunderbird Portable among friends), and version 1.5.0.5 has been released. It's the popular Mozilla Thunderbird email client packaged with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your email and contacts with you. This new release adds in a ton of new features, including: the ability to run from a CD, complete Thunderbird partial update support, in-place upgrades, lots of handy bug fixes, support for running within Wine on *nix and more. It's also available with Enigmail and GPG built in for secure, encrypted email. You can even get a copy of the latest Thunderbird 2.0 Alpha 1 as well. Read on for all the details...

Mozilla Firefox - Portable Edition (Firefox Portable among friends) has been updated to 1.5.0.6 following the recent bug fix release by Mozilla. For the unfamiliar, it's the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser packaged with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you. This new release includes all the new features - and the new name - introduced in the 1.5.0.5 release. Get it from the Firefox Portable homepage.

Portable NVU is now NVU Portable, and version 1.0 Rev 3 has been released. For the unfamiliar, NVU Portable is the handy NVU webpage editor packaged with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your web pages and everything you need to edit them with you. This new release adds in a ton of new features, including: the ability to run from a CD, in-place upgrades, lots of handy bug fixes, support for running within Wine on *nix and more. Read on for all the details...

Portable Sunbird is now Mozilla Sunbird - Portable Edition (Sunbird Portable among friends), and versions 0.2 Revision 5 and 0.3 Alpha 2 have been released. For the unfamiliar, Sunbird Portable is the handy Mozilla Sunbird calendar packaged with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your schedule and to-do lists with you. This new release adds in a ton of new features, including: the ability to run from a CD, in-place upgrades, lots of handy bug fixes, support for running within Wine on *nix and more. Read on for all the details...

Portable Firefox is now Mozilla Firefox - Portable Edition (Firefox Portable among friends), and version 1.5.0.5 has been released. It's the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser packaged with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you. This new release adds in a ton of new features, including: the ability to run from a CD, complete Firefox partial update support, in-place upgrades, lots of handy bug fixes, support for running within Wine on *nix and more. And this release is also paired with releases of Firefox Portable 1.0.8 and Firefox Portable 2.0 Beta 1 using the same updated launcher, for all the web developers and testers out there. Read on for all the details...

Portable FileZilla 2.2.23a has been released as a multilingual package. Portable FileZilla is the popular FileZilla FTP client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your ftp client, server list and settings with you. This version updates the included FileZilla binaries to 2.2.23a (fixing a critical security issue) and switches to using split App/Data directories.

Get it from the Portable FileZilla homepage on PortableApps.com.

Unfortunately, FileZilla has dropped support for Win 95/98/Me with the 2.2.23 release. Portable FileZilla 2.2.22 still supports them.