Editing Directory Opus (section)

==History==

===Release history===
[[File:DOpus.png|thumb|Version 4.17 (GPL release): design circa 1992]]
[[File:DOpus8.jpg|thumb|Version 8: design circa 2004]]

====Amiga release history====
*Opus 1: January 1990
*Opus 2: February 1991
*Opus 3: 1991-12-01
*Opus 4: 1992-12-04
*Opus 5: 1995-04-12
*Opus 5.5: 1996-08-01
*Opus Magellan (5.6): 1997-05-17
*Opus Magellan II (5.8): 1998-11-01
*Opus Magellan II GPL (5.90): 2014-05-11

Versions 1 and 2 were only available direct from the author. Versions 3 and 4<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Holborn|first=Jason|date=April 1993|title=Directory Opus 4|magazine=Amiga Format|publisher=Future Publishing|issn=0957-4867|issue=45|page=135}}</ref> were published by Inovatronics. Versions since 5 have been published by GPSoftware (German versions were published by Stefan Ossowskis Schatztruhe). The full version of Magellan II is included for free with [[AmiKit]] package.

====Windows major release history====
*Opus 6: 2001-06-18
*Opus 8: 2004-10-04
*Opus 9: 2007-04-27<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://resource.dopus.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4526|title=Directory Opus 9 release announcement}}</ref>
*Opus 10: 2011-04-30<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://resource.dopus.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=13940|title=Directory Opus 10 release announcement}}</ref>
*Opus 11: 2014-03-03<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://blog.dopus.com/2014/03/directory-opus-11-is-now-available.html|title=Directory Opus 11 release announcement}}</ref>
*Opus 12: 2016-09-05<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://blog.dopus.com/2016/09/directory-opus-12-is-now-available.html|title=Directory Opus 12 release announcement}}</ref>
*Opus 13: 2024-01-23<ref>{{cite web | url=https://resource.dopus.com/t/directory-opus-13-now-available/48103 | title=Directory Opus 13 Now Available! | date=23 January 2024 }}</ref>

All Windows versions published by GPSoftware. (German versions published by [[Haage & Partner|Haage & Partner Computer GmbH]].)

====Open source release history====
*GPSoftware released the older Amiga Directory Opus 4 [[source code]] in 2000 as [[open-source software|open-source]] under the [[GNU General Public License]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://slashdot.org/story/00/01/30/007250/amiga-directoryopus-4-released-under-gpl|title=Amiga DirectoryOpus 4 Released Under GPL|date=31 January 2000 }}</ref> [[AmigaOS4]], [[AROS]] and [[MorphOS]] ports of this version were made available.  Magellan II was released as open source under the [[AROS Public License]] in December 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sourceforge.net/p/dopus5allamigas/code/66/tree/README.txt|title=Dopus5 – Directory Opus 5 (OpenSource)}}</ref>
The open source [[Worker (file manager)]] is heavily inspired by the Directory Opus 4 series.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boomerangsworld.de/cms/worker/|title=Worker file manager|website=boomerangsworld.de|author=Ralf Hoffman}}</ref>