What's new in Intel Battery Life Diagnostic Tool 2.2.0

Aug 8, 2022
  • Updates:
  • Performance optimizations to minimize impact on CPU busyness/idleness
  • Application telemetry (if enabled) is suspended while test is running
  • Battery Level monitoring in UI is suspended while test is running
  • Updated Socwatch to version 2022.3
  • Added restriction that application must be installed on "Program Files (x86)" or it will
  • abort execution
  • Added process names to WMI widget
  • When running in CLI mode, application no longer opens report in browser at completion
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed bug in which generated ZIP archive is sometimes corrupted and cannot be expanded properly
  • Fixed bug in which a test in progress could continue executing when UI is terminate

New in Intel Battery Life Diagnostic Tool 2.1.0 (Apr 1, 2022)

  • New Features:
  • Redesigned user interface
  • Allow customization of flow settings directly in the UI (Socwatch collection time, and min battery
  • Charge)
  • Added "–console" flag to prevent hiding console output window when running in GUI mode
  • Added detection of supported CPU platforms when running an assessment. If unsupported, test will fail immediately and communicate reason to user.
  • Updates:
  • Updated SocWatch to version 2022.1
  • Assessment log file now begins collecting output when installing required packages for assessment instead of at the execution of the first assessment step.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed bug when running BLDT under usernames containing dots (“.”) in the name
  • Fixed bug in which console output is not visible when using cmd.exe to launch BLDT in cli mode

New in Intel Battery Life Diagnostic Tool 2.0.1 (Dec 7, 2021)

  • Updates:
  • Updated SocWatch to version 2021.4
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Sending error metric information for product improvement

New in Intel Battery Life Diagnostic Tool 2.0.0 (Oct 22, 2021)

  • New Features:
  • Added “WMI Activity Analysis” module
  • Added optional participation on Intel® Product Improvement Program
  • Added support command line execution (no UI) by using the "--type" flag
  • Updates:
  • Updated SocWatch to version 2021.2
  • Changed naming and location of output files. All output files (report and data) are now saved on the same location and with the same base name but with different extension (html for report, zip for data file) log file renamed to “application.log”
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed bug in Update Checking mechanism that was preventing the application to recognizing available updates.

New in Intel Battery Life Diagnostic Tool 1.1.2 (Mar 13, 2021)

  • Fixed bug that caused application to report no results for all CPU Idle Power States

New in Intel Battery Life Diagnostic Tool 1.1.1 (Jan 31, 2021)

  • Updates:
  • Added support for 11th Generation Intel® Core Processors
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed bug for handling proxy settings from preset environment variables
  • Fixed bug that caused application to miss version check notifications when there was new update available

New in Intel Battery Life Diagnostic Tool 1.1.0 (Dec 19, 2020)

  • New Features:
  • Added "Context Switches and Idle Histogram" moduleo
  • Added "Energy Estimation" moduleo
  • Added support for custom flows
  • Updates:
  • Updated SoCWatch to version 2020.3.2o
  • Updated inter-process communication with a more reliable and secure protocolo
  • Updated how BLDT identifies and uses system's configured Proxyo
  • Updated Chrome Browser detection to match latest guidelines from Chromium project
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed bug that caused application to crash when an error was found while generating reporto
  • Fixed bug that prevented application to fully wait for battery to charge in some conditionso
  • Fixed bug that prevented flows from completing when a Language Pack is installedoMultiple security updates and 3rd party library upgrades