What's new in Angry IP Scanner 3.9.1
Feb 12, 2023
- Mac: fix permissions in bundled JRE, so that MAC address scanning would work #384
- Linux startup fix if JAVA_HOME has spaces #391
- Update MAC vendors
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.9.0 (Dec 19, 2022)
- Mac: bundle Java 17 runtime, so that Java doesn't need to be installed separately
- Mac: change next alive host shortcut to Cmd+N (Cmd+H is conflicting with hide window)
- Windows installer: update bundled Java runtime to 17
- Linux XFCE: execute terminal properly #379
- Remember last window position #278
- Faster File Feeder when loading large files #347
- Update SWT for all platforms
- Update MAC vendors
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.8.2 (Jan 22, 2022)
- Allow building if .git is not present (e.g. from source zip) #319
- Windows installer now includes a stripped-down JRE to avoid downloading Java separately
- Windows 32-bit build has been removed
- Linux deb & rpm packages now correctly specify Java 11 dependency, not 8
- Mac: display a notification if java not in PATH #279
- If scanning a local network, then ARP will be used in addition to chosen Pinger to detect more hosts #280
- Improved storing/finding of MAC-based host comments. In LAN, they will always be MAC-based now #311
- Removed root-only ICMPPinger that worked using RawSockets, JavaPinger will use ICMP if has permissions to do so
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.8.1 (Jan 20, 2022)
- Make 32-bit Windows build still run under Oracle Java 8 - it seems to still be popular #324
- Make deb files install on older Debian without zst compression support #327
- Add "allow anonymous error reports" checkbox also to Preferences to make it more discoverable #326
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.8.0 (Jan 17, 2022)
- Support for Mac M1 (provided that it runs an arm64 build of Java) - thanks to @aplr #284
- SWT updated for all platforms
- Java 11 is now the minimum required (due to SWT), source can now be built with Java 17
- If real network netmask is known (e.g. LAN), then skipping of broadcast addresses will respect that instead of always skipping .0 and .255 #309
- Pressing IP^ button to prefill local network interfaces will now set netmask in Range Feeder
- LinuxMACFetcher will now read Kernel ARP table directly, not relying on the arp utility to be available #320
- Keywords added to Linux desktop file/launcher to make searching easier #321
- Introduce ARPPinger for pinging LAN hosts that don't respond to ICMP, etc #308
- Mac vendors updated
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.7.6 (Feb 15, 2021)
- Many rare bug/crash fixes reported to Google Analytics
- Translations updated
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.7.5 (Feb 3, 2021)
- Upgrade SWT for all platforms, some UI alignment improvements
- Fix resolving of MAC vendors and Comments if MAC separator is changed to non-standard
- Support for NetBIOS (NBSTAT) responses containing no names (often returned by Apple devices)
- Mac vendors updated
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.7.4 (Jan 23, 2021)
- Allow changing of MAC address separator (many tools use "-" instead of ":") #261
- Cleanup some GUI resource leaks
- Fix "ghost hosts" on macOS if using TCPPinger #269
- Comments for hosts on LAN (tied to MAC address) will now display even if MAC fetcher is not selected, or is after the Comments fetcher #124
- Preference added to opt-out of checking for new versions #270
- Calculate IPv6 range scanning percent correctly #267
- Mac vendors updated
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.7.3 (Oct 28, 2020)
- Local IP address popup will now list IPv6 addresses and support IPv6 netmasks
- Support for silent uninstall on Windows #263
- Improve detection of the default primary network interface on Windows #257
- Update Linux SWT for better support for KDE dark themes #247
- Support installing of .deb packages with Java 15 #266
- Do not show first run dialog nor check version updates if run with any command-line arguments (for automation)
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.7.2 (Jun 2, 2020)
- Fix choosing openers from main menu on macOS #243
- Install 64-bit binary by Windows installer if Java is not detected at all #245
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.7.1 (May 17, 2020)
- Enable ICMP Echo pinger for Linux x64 only, as it requires the corresponding native .so implementation that is not available for Mac and not needed for Windows
- Add a new Java Built-in pinger by default (InetAddress.isReachable()), which uses ICMP if enough privileges or falls back to TCP port 7
- Fix handling of escape sequences in HTTP Sender
- Fix macOS dark mode switching for some users
- Some fixes in Russian translation
- Internally, replaced Dagger with much simpler DI implementation. Plugins can now declare non-default constructors to benefit from Dependency Injection as well.
- Mac vendors updated
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.7.0 (Mar 15, 2020)
- Windows: use latest NSIS for installer generation, fixing DLL hijacking
- Mac: dark mode support
- Linux: add helpful error message when X Session is not available / running under full root in terminal
- Linux/Ubuntu: fix launching of terminal in openers for newer versions of Gnome
- Raspbian/ARM: New experimental builds without bundled SWT, using the one provided by system
- Dropped 32-bit Linux binaries in favor of "any" one that will use SWT packaged with the system
- Updated SWT for all 64-bit platforms
- Updated Chinese translations
- Mac vendors updated
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.6.2 (Oct 15, 2019)
- New launcher for Windows that respects JAVA_HOME and PATH environment variables and thus works with AdoptOpenJDK
- Improve detection of 32/64-bit JVM in Windows installer. Assume 64-bit if detection fails (was 32-bit before)
- Checkbox allowing opt-out of crash reports to Google Analytics to Getting Started dialog
- Mac vendors updates
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.6.0 (Aug 12, 2019)
- HTTP Proxy is now available
- Java 8 is now the minimum required
- Experimental (and incomplete yet) IPv6 support
- Try to select the real network interface by default on launch
- KDE launching support & other small fixes
- Windows Java detection has an improved error message
- Translation updates, added Chinese traditional and simplified
- Mac vendors updated
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.5.5 (Dec 28, 2018)
- Translation updates, added Brazilian Portuguese
- Small bugfixes
- Mac vendor updates
- JDK 11 support in Windows exe
- Linux version will now use GTK 3 by default, enabling touch screen support
- New build system using gradle and proguard
- This is the last release to support running under Java 7
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.5.4 (Dec 27, 2018)
- Translation updates, added Brazilian Portuguese
- Small bugfixes
- Mac vendor updates
- JDK 11 support in Windows exe
- Linux version will now use GTK 3 by default, enabling touch screen support
- New build system using gradle and proguard
- This is the last release to support running under Java 7
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.5.3 (Aug 27, 2018)
- Translation updates
- Ping Packet Loss fetcher
- Mac vendor updates
- Debian packages have updated licensing and Java 10 support
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.5.2 (Nov 20, 2017)
- Support for Java 9 in Windows installer and executable as well as deb packages
- Support for lang_COUNTRY locales, e.g. pt_BR
- Easier testing of new translations by putting the messages* file to the same directory as executable
- Some common error cases improved (using gathered data from GA)
- Increased maximum number of addresses generated by Random Feeder
- Added Russian translation, updated other languages
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.5.1 (Jan 25, 2017)
- Restore support for Java 7 (accidentally removed in 3.5)
- Allow editing of preferences even of deselected fetchers
- Improve detection of IPs/hostnames in file import and file feeder
- New HTTPProxyFetcher that checks for working HTTP proxies
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.5 (Dec 13, 2016)
- HiDPI/retina display support for Windows and Linux
- Flatter icons
- Select fetchers added to columns menu for easier discoverability
- Show scanning progress in the system taskbar (no Linux support due to SWT)
- Details window size is really persisted now
- Mac vendors updated and are no longer cut to 8 characters
- Smaller bugfixes
- Java 6 support dropped due to SWT update
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.4.2 (Dec 13, 2016)
- This is a bugfix release:
- Launch4J upgraded to fix finding the 1.8.0b101 JRE on Windows
- Show version check dialog only if it was requested by the user
- Italian translation added
- Rename IP List file feeder to Text File for clarity
- Mac vendors updated
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.4.1 (Jan 13, 2016)
- Favorites saving bug fixed
- More forgiving importing of previously saved scanning results
- IP details and some other functions now work properly for imported results
- Mac vendors updated
- Other small stability improvements
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.4 (Sep 9, 2015)
- Openers can open several IPs at once
- More bugfixes in opener editor + OK/Cancel buttons
- File Feeder now supports extracting of hostnames in addition to IP addresses
- Loading of exported files will no longer try to rescan the last loaded IP
- User is asked whether to resume the loaded scan if it seems unfinished
- Fixed MAC address fetcher for Mac OS
- MAC vendors updated
- Check for new version automatically once per month
- Internal and plugins: Dagger is now used instead of PicoContainer for dependency injection
- New translations: Turkish, German
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.3.3 (Jun 6, 2015)
- Fixed a bug in opener editor when swithing between openers could overwrite them
- Bind comments to MAC addresses if possible, making comments for local hosts persist even for dynamic IPs
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.3.2 (Oct 1, 2014)
- Much smarter HostnameFetcher, which queries mDNS and NetBIOS in case standart DNS reverse lookup doesn't provide results
- Packaging fix for Windows, which could prevent "display alive only" from working
- Fixed prepopulation of feeder from command-line
- Fixed dimensions on command-line usage dialog
- Updated MAC vendors
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.3.1 (Oct 1, 2014)
- Quicker hostname lookups
- Small optimizations in UDP/TCP pingers
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.3 (Oct 1, 2014)
- IP range now defaults to the current netmask on start to make it easier to start scanning the current network
- Can load previously saved .txt file with incomplete scanning results and resume the scan
- IP range can now be scanned in reverse
- Language can now be selected in preferences
- Hungarian translation added
- Fixed links in the Help menu
- SWT upgraded to 4.3
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.2.2 (Mar 13, 2014)
- MAC vendors updated
- Update site URLs
- Upgrade JNA to 4.0
- Windows: remove license step from the installer
- Minor bugfixes
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.2.1 (Aug 26, 2013)
- New Windows installer that includes both 32 and 64-bit binaries
- More improvements for Windows binary (better icon, manifest, etc)
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.2 (Mar 12, 2013)
- New MAC Address fetcher
- New MAC Vendor fetcher
- iBoot devices are now detected on the network
- Netmask field on Windows now behaves better
- Better handling of ICMP replies coming from firewall, not the host itself
- Fixed exporting of selected results
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.0 Beta 4 (Mar 25, 2009)
- bugfix: rescanning when display=alive or open does not properly render dead hosts
- appending from command-line is now supported
- feeder selection from command-line now also works
- some layout fixes, especially on windows
- cross-platform builds fixed: now all platform-specific code is isolated, so no more problems with mixing of 64-bit and 32-bit code
- Better following of Human Interface Guidelines: File menu renamed to Scan, because ipscan's primary job is not operating on files, some class renames as well for consistency
- bugfix: xfce is now correctly detected
- next bits of command-line usage implemented + some refactoring: FeederCreator introduced to reduce dependencies on AbstractFeederGUI
- making Angry IP Scanner really translatable, Estonian example (incomplete) provided
- added support for button stock icons, linux version now makes use of GTK stock icons
- not changing the default button height on MAC, maybe it will make buttons appear the standard way under Leopard
- First bits of command-line support
- bugfix: still try to load the icon if it is not yet loaded
- bugfix: StatisticsDialog will no longer appear icon-less if the program was not active at the time of finishing
- use only IPv4 by default
- bug #2629462: allow exporting while scanning is in progress (with a warning message). This can be useful in case of synchronization or other bugs when scanning cannot be finished.
- question added to the end of crippled windows message
- setting pinger.windows as default for Windows
- dependencies fixed - deb package will now install on clean systems without java pre-installed
- FetcherPrefs interface introduced instead of Runnable
- HTTPSenderFetcherPrefs generified as PortTextFetcherPrefs
- SelectFetchersDialog now has the preferences button
- AbstractModalDialog now enforces stricter rules resulting in smaller subclasses
- refactoring: fetchers prefs introduced
- comments are now edited in the IP details window
New in Angry IP Scanner 3.0 Beta 1 (Nov 17, 2007)
- Native exe is now provided for Windows
- More default openers: ping, traceroute, geolocate
- New Preferences and Select fetchers buttons in the main window
- New Tools->Select in list menu for selection of hosts according to their result type (alive, dead, etc)
- New NetBIOS Info fetcher (feature-compatibility with version 2.x)
- New Comments fetcher and Commands->Set Comment menu
- Some menu items/buttons/functionality are now disabled during scanning to prevent unexpected behavior
- Non-existing fetchers in preferences will not result in crash anymore
- Proguard is now used for obfuscation, resulting in somewhat smaller binaries
- Other internal improvements