Open Source Release

Portable Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 has been released. Portable Thunderbird is the popular Mozilla Thunderbird email client packaged with a PortableApps Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your email, address book and account settings with you. It's also available packaged with GPG and Enigmail pre-configured if you wish to encrypt and sign your email. New in this version is:

• Update to Thunderbird 1.5.0.2
• New self-extracting package download (only 5.9MB)
• New App/Data internal directories for easy backups
• Improved GPG/Enigmail support
• Fix for default mail client check
• New localization instructions so you can use PTB in your own language

Get it from the Portable Thunderbird homepage at PortableApps.com.

Portable Firefox 1.5.0.2 has been released. Portable Firefox is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser packaged with a PortableApps Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you. New in this version is:

• Update to Firefox 1.5.0.2
• New self-extracting package download (only 5MB)
• New App/Data internal directories for easy backups
• New localization instructions so you can use PFF in your own language

Get it from the Portable Firefox homepage at PortableApps.com.

Portable FileZilla 2.2.22 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 2.2.22, fixing an issue with the Queue pane and adding the ability to clear the QuickConnect history.

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

Portable ClamWin 0.88.1 has been released. Portable ClamWin is the popular ClamWin antivirus software client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your antivirus scanner with you.

Get it from the Portable ClamWin homepage on PortableApps.com. Digg It

Portable FileZilla 2.2.21 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 2.2.21, fixing an issue with FTP over SSL.

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

Portable GIMP 2.2.11 Beta has been released in both English-only and multilingual packages. Portable GIMP is the popular the GIMP for Windows image editor packaged as a portable app, so you can take your images with you and do your editing on the go. In this version:

• the GIMP updated to 2.2.11
• launcher fixed to handle alternate directories and INI settings
• switched to self-extractor packaging (25% smaller download)

In addition, an option to speed startup and an experimental fix for the intl.dll issue are available for testing.

Get it from the Portable GIMP homepage at PortableApps.com.

Portable FileZilla 2.2.20 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 2.2.20 and switches to a self-extractor download for easier installations.

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

Portable AbiWord 2.4.4 has been released. Portable AbiWord is the lightweight AbiWord word processor packaged as a portable app, so you can take your documents along with your word processor wherever you go. It is available in multilingual packages with and without OpenDocument support. New in this version:

• AbiWord updated to 2.4.4
• Added package with OpenDocument support (extra 2.2MB install size)
• Switched to packages for smaller downloads (about 5MB)

Get it from the Portable AbiWord homepage at PortableApps.com.

Portable Miranda IM is the popular Miranda IM packaged as a portable app, so you can take your instant messaging client on the go. It supports AIM, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and other formats. Although Miranda IM is quite portable by default, this release allows users of other portable apps to easily use the same directory structures as Portable Firefox, etc.

Get it from the Portable Miranda IM homepage at PortableApps.com.

Portable VLC Media Player 0.8.4a has been released as a multilingual package. Portable VLC is the popular VLC media player packaged as a portable app, so you can take your audio and video files along with everything you need to play them on the go. It plays most types of audio and video files -- including MPEG, WMV, DivX, XviD, ogg, mp3, etc -- and is only about 10MB.

Get it from the Portable VLC Media Player homepage at PortableApps.com.