AlwaysUp 7.9.8.23 - Changelog

What's new in AlwaysUp 7.9.8.23:

January 9th, 2012

Fixes & Improvements:
· Improved licensing on virtual machines.

What's new in AlwaysUp 7.9.7.50:

January 9th, 2012

New features:
· Added support for sending email with TLS or STARTTLS encryption (for Office 365).
· Added the ability to run a command when the application stops.

Fixes & Improvements:
· Applications that need additional time to stop are handled more gracefully when shutting down.

What's new in AlwaysUp 7.9.6.22:

January 9th, 2012

Fixes & Improvements:
· Fixed a bug that caused the max CPU to show up as 0% in the reports.

What's new in AlwaysUp 7.9.5.18:

January 9th, 2012

Fixes & Improvements:
· Fix for some Java applications not receiving shutdown events.

What's new in AlwaysUp 7.9.4.33:

January 9th, 2012

Fixes & Improvements:
· Fix for not recording the correct peak memory in activity statistics.
· Improved the licensing models.

What's new in AlwaysUp 7.9.3.85:

August 5th, 2011

New features:
· Added the option to send an email when the service starts/machine reboots.

Fixes & Improvements:
· Fix for not deteting a hang in MetaTrader 4 / audio applications.
· Improved licensing on virtual machines.

What's new in AlwaysUp 7.8.3.91:

February 21st, 2011

New features:
· The first sanity check can now be delayed to avoid statup conflicts.
· Can now switch to Session 0 from the menu.
· Added a menu option to report on all activity for the past 30 days.

Fixes & Improvements:
· Fixed a problem running .CMD files with arguments.
· Fix for not deteting a hang in Windows Forms applications.
· Fixed a daylight savings time bug with emailed reports.
· Fixed a bug where time zones in email dates could be negative.
· Improved the performance of reading from the Event Logs.

What's new in AlwaysUp 7.5.0.39:

February 21st, 2011

New features:
· When the settings of a running application have been changed, AlwaysUp
· will now ask permission to restart the application. Settings can be saved without restarting the application.
· Added support for disabling services/applications.
· Improved the display of the list of applications.

Fixes & Improvements:
· Fixed the message logged when a scheduled stop is not executed.
· Fixed the formatting of numeric memory values in the event log, to
· avoid values being missed in the generated reports.
· Fixed a problem where screen size changes would cause AlwaysUp not
· to restore its last position.
· Fixed a rare condition where a program could not be terminated and
· a second copy would be launched.

What's new in AlwaysUp 7.0.9.24:

April 9th, 2010

Fixes & Improvements:
· Restarting now only operates on running services.
· Improved the error message displayed when attempting to install
· AlwaysUp while it is already running.

What's new in AlwaysUp 7.0.8.51:

February 22nd, 2010

New features:
· Apply conditions when restarting (when idle, memory threshold exceeded, no one logged on).
· Keep retrying to restart if conditions are not initially met.
· Improved compatability with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
· Support for the "Automatic (Delayed Start)" option on 7/2008/Vista.
· Added a "Check for updates" feature.
· Option to not panic on "short" runs.
· Support for restarting the application at a specific time.
· When waiting to start, show a tooltip with details.
· Added support for suspending the computer while waiting to restart the application.
· Introduced the option to immediately close the application when certain critical/serious crash dialogs are encountered.
· Added support for waiting a while for the application to close properly.

Fixes & Improvements:
· Too many emails may be sent when an application is constantly failing.
· Problem entering an automate/sanity-check path with spaces.
· XML import is setting unwanted values (for limiting restarts).
· The last highlighted list entry is not properly restored when AlwaysUp starts.
· Clicking on the tooltip will now cause the toolip to stay on-screen.
· Automation set to run when the program starts only runs when AlwaysUp starts.
· When installing, complain if AlwaysUp is running.
· Delay when starting an application (1 second).
· When specifying a user account, test it before saving.
· AlwaysUp now formats time-strings with regional settings applied.
· Flap detection would occasionally fail when starting the application in the current session.
· Improved the monitoring of native 64-bit applications.
· Password was not always requested when importing an application from XML.
· A shortcut to a path with a space was not handled properly.

What's new in AlwaysUp 6.8.5.44:

February 16th, 2009

New features:
· Added the option to stop restarting the application if it fails to start properly after a few attempts.
· Allow the sanity check program to signal to reboot the computer or to stop the application and not restart it.
· Added the ability to automatically refresh the list of applications periodically.
· Show a "Waiting" status icon when an application is waiting to be started.
· Can now pass the sanity-check, stop and automation programs special variables.
· Sorting of the list columns now works.
· Allow the specification of additional text included with each email.

Fixes & Improvements:
· Disable drag & drop when busy.
· Fixed a crash during the installation of some complex applications.
· Recognize .CMD files as executables.
· Improved the checking and validation of application command lines.
· Fixed a problem where an application would always be restarted even if configured to run only once.
· Don't send email notifying scheduled restarts/reboots.
· Fix for encrypting the mail server password.

What's new in AlwaysUp 6.7.3.45:

July 13th, 2008

· Support new command line flags, "-start-all", "-stop-all", and "restart-all" for starting, stopping and restarting all services.
· Added the ability to start, stop and restart all applications from the "Application" menu.
· Added a tooltip showing details of running applications.
· Added support for sending email in plain text instead of HTML.
· Added support for drag-and-drop with Windows Explorer/the desktop.
· Support easily adding a copy of an existing application/service.
· Added support for Windows Server 2008 (all editions).
· Don't redirect the standard input stream when capturing output.
· Fixed a problem where AlwaysUp would sometimes stop when it was run in a remote session and that session would close.
· Fix for not writing out statistics in advance of a reboot.
· Fixed a situation where hang detection did not work for hidden applications.
· Improved the "ConnectToSocketSanityCheck" program to retry several times before declaring failure.
· Fix for not running the automation script or the stop-program on the same desktop as the application when hidden.
· Don't warn when adding services to run Microsoft Common Console files (with extension .msc).
· Don't always prompt for the password when making changes to applications running in a user account.
· Prevent AlwaysUp from closing while it is busy (to avoid crashes).
· Fixed a bug where an activity report could fail bacause of "insufficient space".
· Improved the error message when registration fails because of insufficient privileges.
· Improved the always-on-top placement for applications with multiple top-level windows.
· Fixed a situation where hang detection would occasionally fail on Vista

What's new in AlwaysUp 6.0.9.74:

March 26th, 2007

· Full support for Windows Vista
· Branding for Site and OEM licensees
· Various enhancements and bug fixes

What's new in AlwaysUp 5.7:

November 6th, 2006

· Import/Export;
· Basic scheduling

What's new in AlwaysUp 5.5.6.78:

August 28th, 2006

· User-interface improvements; bug fixes