What's new in A Handy Address Book Server 4.1

Feb 24, 2023
  • Added support for birthdays and anniversaries without a year
  • Improved the setup program to better deal with installing when running as a service
  • Improved the shutdown procedure to be more robust
  • Improved logging

New in A Handy Address Book Server 4.0 (Jun 20, 2018)

  • Increased the number of available custom fields to 8. When using the Handy Client, Handy Server 4.0 requires the use of the Handy Client version 9.0 or later because of this change.
  • Removed Yahoo as a choice for Map Server as that service is no longer available
  • Fixed a bug where it was possible to corrupt the photo of a contact when editing with the web browser interface

New in A Handy Address Book Server 3.5.0 (Apr 19, 2017)

  • More efficient memory usage. Reduced overall memory requirements.
  • Fixed a URI redirection vulnerability. (Credit malwrforensics.com)
  • Built with latest development tools for improved speed and security

New in A Handy Address Book Server 3.4.0 (Aug 27, 2016)

  • Bug fix: Program could crash when importing through web interface and ignoring imported duplicates

New in A Handy Address Book Server 3.3.0 (Jul 1, 2016)

  • Implemented a user-adjustable timeout on export command through the Web interface.
  • Improved license key entry to be more reliable.
  • Bug fix:
  • Program could crash when accessed via web with certain combination of invalid arguments.

New in A Handy Address Book Server 3.2 (Dec 11, 2014)

  • Speed improvements
  • Implemented new license key format.

New in A Handy Address Book Server 3.1 (Apr 22, 2014)

  • Reliability improvements. Program could crash under certain conditions.

New in A Handy Address Book Server 3.0 (Feb 8, 2013)

  • Added contact photo support. Requires the use of the Handy Address Book Client version 7.0 or later for the photo features.
  • When using the Handy Address Book Client, the Client must be version 7.0 or later. Older versions of the Client are not compatible with Handy Address Book Server 3.0 or later.

New in A Handy Address Book Server 2.8.0 (Mar 13, 2012)

  • Added feature to ban specified IP addresses from accessing Handy Address Book Server

New in A Handy Address Book Server 2.7.0 (Mar 8, 2012)

  • Improved memory usage, especially for large installations with many address books
  • Improved listing/search speed of web interface, especially for large address books

New in A Handy Address Book Server 2.6.0 (Mar 2, 2012)

  • Bug fix: Web interface would not always default sorting list view to first displayed name column

New in A Handy Address Book Server 2.5.0 (Nov 9, 2009)

  • Bug fix: Program could crash when importing a badly formatted file

New in A Handy Address Book Server 2.4.0 (Jul 8, 2009)

  • Significantly improved (~100X) speed when working with large address books

New in A Handy Address Book Server 2.3.0 (Jun 23, 2009)

  • Bug fix: Program could crash in some cases when parsing category information

New in A Handy Address Book Server 2.2.0 (Feb 17, 2009)

  • Bug fix: Importing addresses via web interface could crash the program under some conditions

New in A Handy Address Book Server 2.1 (Feb 13, 2009)

  • Bug fix: Opening "Categories" link in address book administration with the web interface could cause program to crash.