Wonder boy Irfan Skiljan has just released Irfanview v4.2.  Complete with a new fresh interface update.

You can download it here.  Don’t forget to download the updated plugins, too.

Here’s a summary of the sweetness:

• Basic Unicode support added (Properties->Misc 1, thanks to Christophe Paris!)
  
• New zoom options; improved relative zoom (Properties->Viewing)
  
• Thumbnails can be sorted manually using drag/drop
  
• GIF animations can be played in fullscreen/slideshow mode
  
• New Advanced batch options: Fine rotation, Blur, Median …
  
• Option to show TIF Annotations created by Kodak Imaging (Properties->Viewing)
  
• New JPG save option: Set file size (PlugIn: thanks to Lucian Sabo)
  
• New save menu: Save for Web (PlugIn: thanks to Lucian Sabo)
  
• New thumbnails options to disable or configure info text on mouse over
  
• New edit menu: Auto crop borders (remove outside lines/rows of same color)
  
• New feature in Canvas dialog: negative border sizes are allowed (border crop)
  
• New option in Capture dialog: Capture desktop on current monitor only
  
• New options in Custom selection dialog: Set custom ratio; Save values
  
• New slideshow option (window mode): Set window position
  
• New Fullscreen display options: Fit to screen width/height (Hotkeys: 5/6)
  
• IPTC data in TIF files can be showed (no editing yet)
  
• Fixed Thumbnails crash on multi core CPUs
  
• New command line option for EXE Slideshow: /window=(x,y,width,height)
  
• Option to set Status bar text using placeholders (Properties->Misc 3)
  
• Option for proportional paste into selection (Properties->Misc 3)
  
• Support for EXR format (PlugIn)
  
• Support for MAG format (MAKI, Formats PlugIn)
  
• Default display option is now: Fit only big images to desktop
  
• Expanded Copy/Move dialog (4 more folders)
  
• New Edit menu: Maximize and center selection (hold CTRL to center only)
  
• New option in Edit Palette dialog: Click on image to find color index
  
• New Thumbnails menu: Remove selected thumbs from list, Hotkey: Ctrl+Del
  
• New Thumbnails menu: Save selected files names as TXT
  
• New Thumbnails menu: Start Panorama dialog with selected files
  
• The Enhance/Correct colors dialog can be resized/maximized
  
• Enhanced TIF-LZW saving with 24 BPP images (smaller files are created)
  
• New command line option: /jpg_rotate=(…values…)
  JPG lossless rotation, see i_options.txt for examples
  
• New command line option: /transpcolor=(r,g,b)
  Set transparent color: can be used for GIF/PNG/ICO saving
  
• New Hotkey: SHIFT + F = Fit only big images to desktop
  
• New Hotkey: SHIFT + W = Fit images to window
  
• New Hotkey: NUM-PAD 5 = Scroll to image center
  
• New Hotkey/Menu: CTRL + N = Open current file in another IrfanView window
  
• New Thumbnails option: Auto scroll during creation
  
• New option in JPG IPTC/Comment dialog: Append text to old text
  
• Scan dialog: ‘Skip existing files’ works also for multipage TIF files
  
• Several PlugIns are changed/updated, please install the newest versions
  http://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm
  
• Some minor bugs/features fixed/added (scrolling)