From ChangeLog:
# Ndiswrapper, which allows Windows XP wireless network drivers to be used in Linux, was broken in Puppy 2.12. I have upgraded to Ndiswrapper v1.33, which fixes the problem.
# Jason (plinej in Forum) has created a great little frontend for sox and ffmpeg, Soxgui, which can perform various operations on audio files, including file format conversion.
# Jason has updated PBrename batch file renamer to v0.4 and Pupdvdtool DVD ripper tool to v0.5B.
# Ian (Ian in Forum!) has upgraded Xwget GUI frontend for wget to v0.5.
# Geany text editor upgraded to v0.10.
# Isomaster ISO file editor tool upgraded to v0.6.
# Sigmund (zigbert on the Forum) has created a couple of little GUI gems: PuppyBackup v0.6.3 for backing up to CD/DVD/HD and PuppyMirror v0.1 for syncing directories.
# SeaMonkey upgraded to v1.0.6. The 'profile roaming' extension and an extension for editing Cascading StyleSheets in Composer have been added.
# At first shutdown the user chooses to save personal settings and data in a file, that we call 'pup_save.3fs'. This file internally had a ext3 filesystem, however for various technical reasons we have changed to a ext2 filesystem. New personal storage files will now be called 'pup_save.2fs', where the '2' indicates ext2.
# The Puppy live-CD is created from a pool of packages that we call the Unleashed suite. Individual packages from this pool that are not in the live-CD can be installed later. We used to call the installer the PupGet package manager and the packages PupGet packages. The individual Unleashed packages are available for download and are 'tarballs' (compressed files) with the '.tar.gz' extension. These packages are now called PET packages, the package manager is called PETget and the files have the extension '.pet'.
# PET packages can now be installed from ROX-Filer. Download a PET package, click on it, and it will be installed. Currently only 'official' PET packages from the Unleashed suite are available, but it is expected that 'unofficial' PETs will soon become available.
# PETget now has more powerful dependency checking. The idea is, you install a PET package and any missing dependency is determined and installed.
# Omair (Dougal on the Forum) has done a lot of debugging of the GTK2 version of Xdialog and it now works well. This is based on the v2.3.1 source.
# The Xorg Video Wizard now has hardware profiling. For the end-user it is extremely simple. At bootup if there is new video hardware the Xorg Wizard will automatically run. But, if you change the video hardware back to something that you had used earlier, Puppy will remember and automatically use the correct profile. So, Puppy booting off a USB Flash stick can be used on several different PCs and the Video Wizard only runs once each time.