What's new in TracePlus Web Detective (Standard Edition) 5.64.000
Apr 9, 2010- The "Open" option was not appearing on the File menu. (FIXED)
- When saving a view as HTML, the application would crash. (FIXED)
New in TracePlus Web Detective (Standard Edition) 5.60.000 (Apr 9, 2010)
- Updated to better compatibility with dual-core, quad-core, and 8-core processors.
- Updated email activation dialog boxes for better explain how the eamil activation process works.
- User interface has been changed to MDI (Multiple Document Interface) to facilitate easier cross-referencing of information. The following views display in separate windows: (NEW)
- Protocol View
- Object View
- Page View
- Data View
- Comprehensive tutorial for both new and experienced users. (NEW)
- Added a second toolbar below the main toolbar which contains the following navigation buttons: (NEW)Move to First Item Move to First Highlighted Item
- Move to Previous Item Move to Previous Highlighted Item
- Move to Next Item Move to Next Highlighted Item
- Move to Last Item Move to Last Highlighted Item
- Added a new View menu containing navigation shortcuts for the Protocol View. (NEW)
- Added the ability to locate a specific item in the Protocol View by entering a sequence number. (NEW)
- A "Select Related Items" feature has been added to the Edit menu which selects groups of objects in the Protocol View by the following criteria: (NEW)By Conversation Remote Port Responses with Status Code 4xx
- HTTP Method Thread ID Responses with Status Code 5xx
- Process ID Responses with Status Code 2xx SSL Encrypted
- Remote Address Responses with Status Code 3xx Non-cached Responses
- Added the ability to hide selected items and unhide items in the Protocol View. (NEW)
- Added a "Hide Conversation" option to the Edit menu which hides methods and responses in the Protocol View that are part of a conversation as described by the selected method or response. (NEW)
- Added the ability to highlight items in the Protocol View with a fixed color for later reference. The status of all highlighted items can be saved to disk. The following items have been added to the Edit menu:
- Toggle Highlight
- Highlight Selected Items
- Highlight All Items
- Reset Highlighted Items
New in TracePlus Web Detective (Standard Edition) 5.45.000 (Apr 9, 2010)
- Drag and drop applications and documents from the Windows Desktop, Start Menu, and folders onto the application main window in order to launch them from TracePlus. (NEW)
- TracePlus has been modified to run with standard permissions instead of with administrator privileges in Vista. (NEW)
- If the target application is Internet Explorer and TracePlus is running with standard user permissions under Vista, Protected Mode must be turned off. (NEW)
- Applications requiring adminstrative rights will cause a warning message to appear in TracePlus if TracePlus is not running with administrative rights. (NEW)
- Help files reformatted as HTML Help for compatibility with Vista. (NEW)
- .PDF manual updated with latest product information. (NEW)
- Internet Explorer would crash while running inside TracePlus on Vista when a secondary browser window was opened. (FIXED)
New in TracePlus Web Detective (Standard Edition) 5.40.000 (Apr 9, 2010)
- The capacity of the Protocol View has been increased to 7,000 records. (NEW)
- Capacity of the Data View has been increased to 25,000 lines. (NEW)
- Reading files previously generated by TracePlus may cause the application to crash due to incorrect size information recorded for compressed and chunked packets. (FIXED)
New in TracePlus Web Detective (Standard Edition) 5.39.000 (Apr 9, 2010)
- HTTP and HTTPS communications may not be captured as expected because of previous changes to the API hooking technology used by TracePlus. (FIXED)
New in TracePlus Web Detective (Standard Edition) 5.38.000 (Apr 9, 2010)
- The maximum number of records displayed in the Protocol View has been increased from 8,000 to 12,000. (NEW)
- The maximum number of lines displayed in the Data View has been increased from 12,000 to 20,000. (NEW)
- The base technology used to intercept Winsock, WININET, and NSPR APIs has been been updated for more stability and speed. (NEW)
- The decompression of content types "gzip" or "deflate" may cause a buffer overrun in TracePlus which would result in a crash. (FIXED)
- SSL data may not display as expected when an applications closes a WININET connection handle. (FIXED)
New in TracePlus Web Detective (Standard Edition) 5.36.000 (Apr 9, 2010)
- Objects whose HTTP response does not contain a "Content-Length" field may not be captured in their entirety. (FIXED)
- Objects with the content type "gzip" or "deflate" would be decompressed up to maximum of 65535 bytes. (FIXED)
- Certain SSL enabled sites would not be captured as expected. This problem is seen particularly when the "Remote IP Resolution" feature is disabled. (FIXED)
- Patch updater would not patch properly licensed products due an error in checking for a digital signature in previous versions of the product. (FIXED)
New in TracePlus Web Detective (Standard Edition) 5.32.000 (Apr 9, 2010)
- The Setup application was modified to install certain TracePlus menu items under the "All Users" directory which means that they will appear for all user accounts on the PC. Note that this feature can only be obtained by requesting a new SETUP.EXE from the Support department. (NEW)
- Updated to create, read, and write certain necessary files under limited user accounts. (NEW)
New in TracePlus Web Detective (Standard Edition) 5.30.000 (Apr 9, 2010)
- Updated so that the product is compatible with 32 bit versions of Windows Vista Home/Business/Ultimate Editions. (NEW)
- A colored bar appears in the Elapsed Time column of the Page Summary View which represents the percentage of time taken relative to other objects on the page. (NEW)
- A colored bar appears in the Size column of the Page Summary View which represents the percentage of bytes downloaded relative to other objects on the page. (NEW)
- The DLL which intercepts browser requests and responses has been modified for faster execution and compatibility with Windows Vista. (NEW)
- The ability to intercept applications launched from the Start menu or the Desktop will not be available in Windows Vista. The implementation of his feature uses functionality available in previous versions of Windows that was removed from Vista by Microsoft because of security concerns.
New in TracePlus Web Detective (Standard Edition) 5.22.000 (Apr 9, 2010)
- The colored bars appearing in the Page View have been updated for a 3-D appearance. (NEW)
- The URL column in the Object View now includes any parameter information specified in the request URL. (NEW)
- The URL column in the Page View now includes any parameter information specified in the request URL. (NEW)
- HTTP protocol element help can now be accessed in the Protocol View from the Header, Header+Body, and Body Content views. (NEW)
- HTTP protocol element help can now be accessed in the Object View from the Request, Response, and Body Content views. (NEW)
- HTTP protocol element help can now be accessed in the Page View from the Request, Response, and Body Content views. (NEW)
- Enhancements to the core API interception technology provide greater compatibility with applications running on all Windows platforms. (NEW)
- An application may crash when intercepted by TracePlus while running on a HyperThreaded CPU (Intel processors only) on Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server. (FIXED)
- SSL requests and responses may not appear when using an application via a proxy server and the "Remote IP Resolution" option is unchecked. (FIXED)
- RTSP objects were being tracked and accumulated in the Object View and Page View. This was not intended behavior and has been disabled. (FIXED)
- Updates of the summary line for one or more pages in the Page View may cause TracePlus to crash due to a threading issue. (FIXED)
New in TracePlus Web Detective (Standard Edition) 5.20.000 (Apr 9, 2010)
- The Page View has been updated to display objects in order by client request time within the page. The GUI has been enhanced with colored bars for the root page and the summary for that page. (NEW)
- The Object View has been updated to display root pages using the same color scheme as the Page View.
- An Offset column has been added to the Page View which displays the request time as an offset from the request time of the root page. (NEW)
- An Delta Time column has been added to the Page View which displays the offset between the request time of the object and the request time of the previous object. (NEW)
- A colored bar now appears in the Elapsed Time column which represents the percentage of time taken relative to the page that requested the object. (NEW)
- A colored bar now appears in the Size column which represents the percentage of bytes downloaded relative to the page that requested the object. (NEW)
- RTSP methods and responses made by streaming media objects are now displayed in the Protocol View. (NEW)
- Sizes of objects appearing in the Object View included the size of the HTTP response header. (FIXED)
- Sizes of objects appearing in the Page View included the size of the HTTP response header. (FIXED)
- Problems with Winsock 2 implementation caused data to be missing or out of sequence. Particularly effects .NET applications but can affect any application using Winsock 2 and GetQueuedCompletionStatus(). (FIXED)
- Incorrect parsing of chunked data may cause objects to display incorrectly or not at all in the Object View and Page View. (FIXED)
- Some third party Browser Helper Objects were passing invalid parameters to certain WININET functions causing Internet Explorer to crash when TracePlus referenced the parameter. (FIXED)
New in TracePlus Web Detective (Standard Edition) 5.18.000 (Apr 9, 2010)
- Minor GUI enhancements such as replacement of dark vertical lines in all grids with lighter colored lines, transparent painting of bitmaps, light colored (white) backgrounds in grids instead of dark colored (dark gray). (NEW)
- Certain types of domain resolution calls made via the getaddrinfo() API may cause the target application to crash in certain circumstances on Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server. (FIXED)
- Newer versions of the Java Runtime Environment would pass an incorrect parameter to the Winsock connect() API causing memory corruption and termination of the target application. (FIXED)
- Certain Browser Helper Objects would pass an invalid parameter to InternetConnect() and InternetOpenURL() causing memory corruption and termination of the target application. (FIXED)
- The IP Address "2.0.0.0" may appear in various Views during SSL connections due to an issue handling domain name requests via getaddrinfo() when running Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server. (FIXED)
- The socket number appearing in the Data VIew as part of an SSL connection may be interpreted as a socket number instead of a WININET handle. (FIXED)
New in TracePlus Web Detective (Standard Edition) 5.16.000 (Apr 9, 2010)
- Added a /PROMPT option which can appear before an executable filename on the TracePlus command line. This forces the Capture Settings dialog box to appear before the application specified after the /PROMPT option is executed. This option is useful when debugging NT services. (NEW)
- The default behavior of the Capture Settings dialog box appearing when TracePlus is launched with an executable filename specified on the command line has been disabled. Use the /PROMPT directive before the application path if you need the Capture Settings dialog box to appear. (NEW)
- Random timing errors would occur when running TracePlus on a dual-processor PC or a PC with a dual-core CPU. (FIXED)
- Removed the prompt to debug child processes since there already is a checkbox for enabling this feature on the Launch Tab of the Capture Settings dialog box.
- Browser Automation Scripts did not work due to invalid parsing of the command line passed to TracePlus. (FIXED)
- Browser Automation Scripts may not execute correctly because of faulty DDE communications with Internet Explorer. (FIXED)
- Specifying /START, /STOP, or /RESUME within a Browser Automation Script would not update the toolbar in the main window as expected. (FIXED)
- Certain applications such as Java Applets launched from a Web Browser may terminate unexpectedly. (FIXED)
- Start times and elapsed times may be incorrect if the source of data resulted from a call to GetQueuedCompletionStatus(). (FIXED)
- Memory leaks may occur in the target application because of errors in cache reporting logic. (FIXED)
- Pressing the Pause button on the toolbar in the main window would disable the Stop button. (FIXED)
- The splash screen logo would display when TracePlus was launched as a result of double-clicking on a .WDV file in Windows Explorer. (FIXED)
- The splash screen logo would display when launching a service with TracePlus. (FIXED)
- The splash screen logo would display when TracePlus was launched using a Browser Automation script. (FIXED)
- The demo dialog box would display when specifying an application on the TracePlus command line (only in demo versions of the product). (MODIFIED)
- The demo dialog box would display when launching a service with TracePlus (only in demo versions of the product). (MODIFIED)
- Certain applications such as Java Applets launched from a Web Browser may terminate unexpectedly. (FIXED)
- Pressing the Pause button on the toolbar in the main window would disable the Stop button. (FIXED)
- When clicking on an .WDV file in Windows Explorer, it would be ignored if TracePlus was already running. (FIXED)
New in TracePlus Web Detective (Standard Edition) 5.12.000 (Apr 9, 2010)
- All 32-bit versions of Windows Vista supported with this release. (NEW)
- Added a new menu item "View Online FAQ" to the Help menu. This will launch the default browser with the URL of a new Frequently Asked Questions page containing information on how to use the product. (NEW)
- Added official support for debugging Windows NT services. (NEW)
- Increased the maximum number of viewable lines in the Data View from 10,000 to 15,000. (NEW)
- No records would appear in any of the views after receiving the "Do you want to trace" message. (FIXED)
- Child processes would not be debugged as expected. (FIXED)
- Incorrect interpretation of calls to getaddrinfo() may result in empty addresses appearing in the DNS Lookup View. (FIXED)
- Double-clicking on a .WDV file in a "My Computer" or Windows Explorer window launches TracePlus but crashes before the file is loaded. (FIXED)
New in TracePlus Web Detective (Standard Edition) 5.05.000 (Apr 9, 2010)
- Added a column labeled "Process" containing the process name and ID to the Object View. (NEW)
- Added a column labeled "Thread" containing the thread ID to the Object View. (NEW)
- Added a column labeled "Thread" containing the thread ID to the Data View. (NEW)
- Added a column labeled "Process" containing the process name and ID to the DNS Lookup View. (NEW)
- Added a column labeled "Thread" containing the thread ID to the DNS Lookup View. (NEW)
- Running TracePlus as a service would not launch the service specified on the command line. (FIXED)
- Launching TracePlus with an application specified on the command line would not launch the application. (FIXED)
- When accessing the Capture Options dialog box via the Options menu item on the Capture menu, the application would crash when the Apply button was pressed. (FIXED)
New in TracePlus Web Detective (Standard Edition) 5.04.000 (Apr 9, 2010)
- Updated the "Save as HTML" feature in all views to enhance the visual presentation of the data. (NEW)
- Updated the page layouts in all views that support the Print feature. (NEW)
- Double-clicking on a .WDV file in a "My Computer" or Windows Explorer window launches TracePlus but crashes before the file is loaded. (FIXED)
- Saving a view as HTML would display an "not available in demo" message. (FIXED)
- The Protocol Colors tab in the Display Options dialog box would not save colors for the specified items as expected. (FIXED)