BitTally Changelog

What's new in BitTally 2.1.012

Jan 14, 2014
  • Fixed: Real-time display didn't work for traffic not matching any internal networks (even if it did match users).
  • Disabled text wrapping in report cells.

New in BitTally 2.1.006 (Jan 7, 2014)

  • Improved Skype and BitTorrent recognition.
  • A few new protocols.
  • Updated domain category database.

New in BitTally 2.0.200 (Jan 7, 2014)

  • Recognition of TCP flows where SYN/SYN-ACK handshaking was missed.
  • DNS is not recognized by port number only anymore.

New in BitTally 2.0.096 (Sep 19, 2013)

  • Fixed a crash in packet processor. Updated packet stress test.

New in BitTally 2.0.078 (Aug 12, 2013)

  • Fixed a serious bug (crash) in recognition engine
  • Added two new protocols: Canon BJNP, Nintendo

New in BitTally 2.0.076 (Aug 8, 2013)

  • Reworked protocol recognition engine
  • Added recognition for ~30 new protocols
  • More protocols are now recognized by data patterns, just a few are still recognized by port numbers only

New in BitTally 1.4.180 (Dec 3, 2012)

  • Country flag image size in by-country report templates.
  • Changed look of real-time traffic display.

New in BitTally 1.4.156 (Oct 11, 2012)

  • Excluded stock exchange charts from google search requests.
  • 2 new protocols recognized.
  • Updated domain classification database.
  • Fixed a bug in HTTP server: incorrect parsing or IE cookies with "proxy" field.
  • Now internal web serber is automatically restarted when one of http*.cfg files is changed.

New in BitTally 1.4.142 (Sep 26, 2012)

  • 9 new protocols recognized.
  • Updated domain classification database.

New in BitTally 1.4.124 (Sep 26, 2012)

  • Bugfix: got rid of unneeded HTML-encoding of the query string in search report.

New in BitTally 1.4.116 (Jul 7, 2012)

  • Fixed a bug were program sometimes entered endless loop after system time sync.

New in BitTally 1.4.112 (Apr 9, 2012)

  • Fixed a bug in web UI: authetication should not be required for paths under /public

New in BitTally 1.4.110 (Mar 17, 2012)

  • Fixed report time interval rounding (somewhat broken in 1.4.102)

New in BitTally 1.4.108 (Mar 7, 2012)

  • Web UI improvements. Avoid losing frames forever (until browser window is refreshed) when server is restarted. Still broken with Chrome.
  • Improvements in reports. Disabled wrapping for date/time columns.

New in BitTally 1.4.102 (Feb 20, 2012)

  • Added logging of IMDb searches.
  • Fixed search logging delay.
  • Updated report templates.

New in BitTally 1.4.012 (Feb 8, 2012)

  • New action: log_search. Search logging is now optional and is done by the new log_search action with the usual filtering by user and domain. Users updating older versions will have to add the action manually (see Configuration Guide). For clean installs log_search is enabled by default.
  • Minor fixes to QoE calculation logic.

New in BitTally 1.2.138 (Feb 8, 2012)

  • Search engine report now can display search request in any language.
  • Some pruning of google search results.

New in BitTally 1.0.136 (Jan 3, 2012)

  • Web UI improvements.
  • Updated domain database.

New in BitTally 1.0.110 (Nov 30, 2011)

  • Improved heuristic protocol recognition (in particular, FTP/TLS).

New in BitTally 1.0.006 (Nov 15, 2011)

  • A buffer overflow bug fixed in the new real-time traffic display feature.

New in BitTally 1.0.002 (Nov 9, 2011)

  • Real-time traffic display (/live-traffic).
  • New path /protocols returns a full list of recognized protocols.
  • Fixed some protocols' colors, descriptions, groups.

New in BitTally 0.9.102 (Nov 9, 2011)

  • Links on /domain-info page.

New in BitTally 0.9.100 (Nov 9, 2011)

  • Added MMP recognition.

New in BitTally 0.9.078 (Aug 7, 2011)

  • Improved Skype recognition.

New in BitTally 0.9.072 (Jul 20, 2011)

  • Web UI: auto refresh option on /counters page. Some pruning of bing search results.

New in BitTally 0.9.070 (Jul 11, 2011)

  • Updated domain category and country dataMinor tweaks to web UI

New in BitTally 0.9.064 (Jun 27, 2011)

  • Search logging: Added bing serach tracking. Filter out google search suggestions.
  • Improved HTML report templates.

New in BitTally 0.9.046 (Jun 8, 2011)

  • Raised level of trigger toggle log messages.
  • Small changes to thread priorities.

New in BitTally 0.9.040 (Jun 8, 2011)

  • Fixed crash in packet processor shutdown.
  • Fixed a bug related to "soft" restart when a licence is applied (garbage stats).
  • Moved SSL from `Web Browing' to `Other Protocols' group.
  • Web UI: removed /ui link (ui.cfg will soon be removed).
  • More report styles. The default style changed to style-compact.
  • Updated web UI look.

New in BitTally 0.9.006 (Jun 8, 2011)

  • Auto-refresh option in reports. Note: HTML report templates have to be upgraded.
  • Filtering for trigger reports. By scope, by user (for user-scope triggers).
  • Funetuning of algorithms and data structures.
  • Search log: ignore /url?* and /maps/suggest?* google search requests.
  • Fixed LLMNR recognition.

New in BitTally 0.8.102 (Jun 8, 2011)

  • Bug fixed: overcounting UDP recognition (udp_sessions_recognized).
  • Corrected detail link in domain-by-user report to expand higher level domain.
  • Search log: ignore some of google image search requests (/imghover?*, /sbd?*).
  • Don't redirect on non-webUI reset_conters and reset_triggers commands.

New in BitTally 0.8.080 (Jun 8, 2011)

  • Monitor can sniff traffic on multiple interfaces.

New in BitTally 0.8.066 (Jun 8, 2011)

  • Garbage collect domain entries to prevent domain table from overflowing.

New in BitTally 0.8.058 (Jun 8, 2011)

  • New url=@{url} macro in redirect URLs.
  • Adding licenses via web UI.
  • New "restart" comand.
  • Added the missing integration guide.
  • Configuration guide corrections.

New in BitTally 0.8.050 (Jun 8, 2011)

  • Much faster loading of category configuration.
  • Bug fix: domain-info links ("?") in report templates always used truncated domains by mistake.
  • Web UI: Flag images are now built-in (std edition).
  • Longer timeout for FTP control connections.
  • Installer: the "Update" mode now will rewrite some config files (e.g. report templates) with newer versions, but only if they haven't been modified by the user since they were installed.

New in BitTally 0.8.024 (Jun 8, 2011)

  • Fixed a buffer overflow bug in internal HTTP server.

New in BitTally 0.8.016 (Jun 8, 2011)

  • Web UI: added trigger reset button.
  • Cached reverse lookup in /domain-info.
  • Lots of small changes in packet processing.
  • Improvements to Web UI.
  • Slightly smaller installer.