What's new in MultiPing 3.20.2
Dec 12, 2015
- Fixed issue where .wav files were not working with audio alerts on some systems
- A handful of other minor tweaks/bug fixes
New in MultiPing 3.20.1 (Dec 3, 2015)
- Version updates auto-download and launch with a single click (sorry, you have to do this one via a regular download / install, but the next one will be faster!)
- Some of the popup error messages have been streamlined and made less severe
- Error reports now properly report Windows 8 and 10 build numbers
- Good handful of squashed bugs and tweaks.
- Updates to alerts:
- Now includes a handful of sample alerts that can be used or cloned
- Alerts can play MP3 files (and other typical sound formats) in addition to wav file. There's a handy "play" button in the alert to allow testing of the sound, too
- Program ships with some of our favorite alert sounds so you don't have to hunt your own down
- New alert event type "Add a comment" to the time graph
- Email server settings can now be tested in the configuration screen - no need to configure, then switch to an alert to test
- Quick-lookups for the most common email server error messages
- Fixed a bug where cloning alerts only really worked if you did it one at a time, then saved
- A handful of other tweaks / improvements / fixes
New in MultiPing 3.11.0 (Jun 25, 2015)
- Packet loss bar in the statistics graph is simplified to make it easier to view (text has been removed). Right-click on the upper graph and re-enabled "Show packet loss text on graph" if you liked it the old way better
- Removed the "Enter license key..." button from the splash screen if you're licensed
- Floating graphs now work more sanely with multiple stacks of floating time graphs - new ones are added up, then left. If there is no room, the last resort location is on the bottom left
- Significant performance improvements when sorting the targets. It's reasonable to always sort now
- Fixed some unicode issues when converting from version 3.0
- MultiPing auto-pauses when your computer sleeps, and auto-resumes when it wakes back up. A comment is added to the time graphs to show where this happened
- Handful of other stability, performance and usability improvements
New in MultiPing 3.10.3 (Mar 25, 2015)
- Fixed access violation in Windows XP when adding an address range
- Fixed error in email alerts when STARTTLS is turned off and no username / password specified
- Minor tweak to REST calls to work better with Hipchat and Slack
- Fixed UTF-8 encoding conversion issue, including problems with high-ANSI characters in MultiPing.ini, Alerts.Ini and Workspaces
- Fixed bug when running from a USB drive
- Tweaked HTML emails to have alternating colors on rows
New in MultiPing 3.10.0 (Mar 12, 2015)
- Stole UI improvements from upcoming PingPlotter 4 release:
- New graphics
- Friendlier colors
- New alert and timegraph icons
- Minor tweaks to upper graph legend
- HTML formatted alert emails. Send text, HTML, or combo alert emails; all of it is editable
- Unicode support so non-English characters can be used in comments, target names, and elsewhere
- Alert subnet masks now use industry standard ip/mask format (examples: 192.168.1.1/29 or 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.248) to associate a specific alert with only appropriate targets
- Prettier, more informative (awesome), welcome screens. Goes away automatically, or if you click anything else. If you never want to see it, turn it off in options and please let us know why
- Upper target graph blinking doesn't happen. Especially when sorting on a dynamic column like average or packet loss %
- Updated to latest compiler and component versions
- Progress dialogue when loading target list from file
- Rebranded from Nessoft to Pingman Tools
New in MultiPing 3.01.0 (Mar 12, 2015)
- New "Search" menu allows searching for a target by name or IP address
- Web-based REST alert events
- Target count now shows up on the status bar
- Right-clicking a time graph has option to attach / edit alerts
- Fixed bug that would cause error from File -> Add Target if the targets panel was hidden
- Fixed problem where alert menu was disabled in some cases late in a trial period
New in MultiPing 3.00.2 (Mar 12, 2015)
- Fixed an issue where time graphs would get behind if the ping rate (Ping Interval + # of targets) exceeded a machine's ability to ping
- Fixed a memory growth problem that would occur when ping rate exceeded the ability to ping
- Fixed the "Settings not saved" error that would occur when picking a new auto-save workspace interval from the drop down menu
- Fixed the "Maintenance expired/expiring" message that would sometimes not get updated when installing a license-embedded version of the program
- Fixed the access violation that would occasionally happen on startup if there was a corrupted license key present
- Fixed a problem where some unicode characters in the install filename would cause a launch error on the installer
- Fixed the access violation that would happen on shutdown if the targets/history panel was closed while docked
- Updated "Launch an executable" alert event so testing uses variables
- History bar size and location are now better remembered on close/reopen of program
- Fixed the resize cursor on targets/history to match the divider a bit more closely
- Fixed the default width on targets/history bar
- Fixed the ping interval drop-down to properly use regional decimal point settings
New in MultiPing 3.00.1 (Mar 12, 2015)
- Fixed an access violation that would happen erratically when new pings arrived.
- Fixed "Maintenance expired" message that would sometimes show up, even when your maintenance was not expired.
New in MultiPing 3.00.0 (Aug 5, 2014)
- Fixed missing float over hints on time graph
- Streamlined license system
- Updated help file
- Alert names can use variables
- Removed "Skip" buttons from error submission report
- Minor shutdown memory leaks cleaned up
- Added DEL and INS links to graph right-click menu
- Workspace loading and resizing performance enhancements
- Scroll wheel behavior changes on upper graph
- More descriptive error messaging for packets expired in transit
- Increased maximum outstanding samples from 45 to 80