ActiveSMART Changelog

What's new in ActiveSMART 2.14.0.180

Jun 2, 2023
  • Add more support for M.2 NVMe SSD drives
  • Add support for hi-res laptop screens
  • Improved UI on different desktop scaling modes
  • Minor bufixes

New in ActiveSMART 2.13.0.179 (May 21, 2023)

  • Fixed wrong USB drives detection
  • Updated SMART Attributes definitions
  • Minor UX changes

New in ActiveSMART 2.12.0.178 (Aug 3, 2020)

  • Improved support for NVMe SSD drives
  • Fixed “Send SMART Report”
  • Fixed licensing issues
  • Minor, but important cleanups

New in ActiveSMART 2.10.0.164 (Sep 11, 2017)

  • Major improvements for drives, connected through USB (WD My Passport, WD Elements, Seagate Backup and others)
  • UI related fixes
  • Fixed S.M.A.R.T. attribute raw data intepretation for Seagate drives
  • Add check mark for selected drive

New in ActiveSMART 2.9.82.162 (Aug 4, 2017)

  • Fixed crash in Disk Space Analyzer
  • Cosmetic improvements

New in ActiveSMART 2.9.81.161 (Feb 16, 2017)

  • Added "Clear Temperature History" button
  • Improved support for SSD Samsung 850 EVO M.2 hard drives
  • Updated S.M.A.R.T. attributes database
  • Fixed temperature support for some hard disks
  • Fixed license dialog bug and some others

New in ActiveSMART 2.9.8.152 (May 9, 2016)

  • Improved SSD drives support
  • Improved Windows 10 support
  • Improved Used Disk Space visualisation
  • Updated S.M.A.R.T. attributes definitions, added SMART attributes for SSD hard drive
  • Fixed wrong status for Crucial SSD hard drives and other minor bugs

New in ActiveSMART 2.9.5 (Nov 25, 2013)

  • Improved S.M.A.R.T. engine and hard drives detection
  • Improved Windows 8 support
  • Improved Disk Space visualisation
  • Updated S.M.A.R.T. attributes definitions
  • Fixed some bugs

New in ActiveSMART 2.9.4 (Jul 18, 2012)

  • Fixed bugs, updated SMART attributes definitions, GUI improved

New in ActiveSMART 2.9.3.788 (May 7, 2012)

  • Updated SMART attributes definitions, improved disk space detection and some bugs fixed

New in ActiveSMART 2.9.2.787 (Mar 19, 2012)

  • Added File Shredder - tool to permanently wipe files rewriting their content with random series of binary data multiple times
  • Updated Installer and Uninstaller
  • Added UI language selection
  • Updated user interface
  • Updated S.M.A.R.T. attributes definitions
  • Fixed some bugs

New in ActiveSMART 2.9.0.716 (Jan 11, 2011)

  • Added Disk space usage overview, based on TreeMap technology. It scans through files and folders and create a visualization of the disk space usage
  • Improved hard drive detection on Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit)
  • Updated user interface
  • Updated S.M.A.R.T. attributes definitions
  • Fixed many bugs

New in ActiveSMART 2.8.0.693 (Aug 27, 2009)

  • Added notebooks support - ActiveSMART detects notebook power mode changes and enables Power-Saving mode to save the battery power
  • Updated S.M.A.R.T. attributes definitions
  • Added support for Airflow temperature attribute

New in ActiveSMART 2.7.1.680 (May 8, 2009)

  • Added log message when one of the SMART attributes crosses custom threshold (if Custom Attribute Notification used)
  • Added full support for Fahrenheit temperature scale
  • Some minor bugs were fixed

New in ActiveSMART 2.62 (Jan 10, 2009)

  • Improved ActiveSMART service management,
  • Added multy-user mode for ActiveSMART agent module,
  • Added S.M.A.R.T. log size limit and rotation,
  • Added support for custom SMTP server ports (for example mail.server.com:port),
  • Fixed error with grayed out preferences,
  • Fixed service crash while notification.

New in ActiveSMART 2.7.662 beta (Dec 26, 2008)

  • - Improved ActiveSMART service management
  • - Added Total Free Space informaton on all hard drive volumes (Overview tab)
  • - Added Disk Monitoring Statistics with vital drive information
  • - Added hard drive temperature tray icon
  • - Added buttons - Next attribute and Previous attribute in Attribute Lifetime Simulation window
  • - Updated program settings window
  • - Added new option "Only critical notifications" - enabled by default (No more annoying popups)
  • - Updated SMART attributes information
  • - Some GUI facelift
  • - Hard drive temperature changes do not logged now
  • - Balloon tip appears only when SMART attribute changed
  • - Removed unwanted link on C:
  • - Some minor bugs were fixed
  • Released: December 26, 2008
  • Expires: February 1, 2009

New in ActiveSMART 2.62.639 Beta (May 30, 2008)

  • Improved ActiveSMART service management
  • Added multy-user mode for ActiveSMART agent module
  • Added S.M.A.R.T. log size limit and rotation
  • Added support for custom SMTP server ports (for example mail.server.com:port)
  • Fixed minor bugs

New in ActiveSMART 2.6 (Jul 21, 2007)

  • Windows Vista compatible
  • Application structure rewritten, now it's completely service based
  • Added SSL authentication for the Email notifications
  • Fixed bug with custom notifications
  • Fixed some minor bugs