What's new in Packet Sender Portable 8.6.5
Dec 28, 2023
- This update contains:
- Wake-On-LAN / Magic Packet generation tool
- Showing full date in log (to support long-term testing)
- A new built-in example for DNS over HTTPS. Note that examples are loaded upon initial install.
New in Packet Sender Portable 8.6.3 (Dec 21, 2023)
- This update contains:
- Wake-On-LAN / Magic Packet generation tool
- Showing full date in log (to support long-term testing)
- A new built-in example for DNS over HTTPS. Note that examples are loaded upon initial install.
New in Packet Sender Portable 8.5.2 (Oct 8, 2023)
- This update containes:
- Bug fix that prevented transitioning from HTTP/UDP sending.
- Italian language translation (thanks Cifi79! #335)
New in Packet Sender Portable 8.4.3 (Aug 21, 2023)
- This update covers these underlying libraries:
- Universal (Native ARM) binaries for Mac! It's finally here!
- OpenSSL updated to 3.0.7 for Windows. This also uses the new Apache License, which does not require direct mentions.
- Qt updated to 6.5.2 for Windows and Mac. This should improve 4K rendering.
- There is one new feature update:
- The Intense Traffic Generator CLI is now threaded and much faster (Windows and Mac only)
New in Packet Sender Portable 8.3.5 (Mar 20, 2023)
- You can now launch the starter panel in read-only mode from the command line using --starterpanel option. This will be very helpful for control systems.
- The {{TIME}} and {{DATE}} format can be customized.
- The Windows version is now running Qt6. This should help with 4K rendering.
- Traffic log can now be sorted
- A starter panel is now bundled that demonstrates sending and panel transitions
- Can now bypass the Linux gui test (using --gui)
New in Packet Sender Portable 8.1.1 (Dec 18, 2022)
- Http mode on the CLI actually works now
- Bug fix when recalling http versus tcp/udp packets in the main table
- Intense Traffic generator now supports macros
- CLI now supports macro translations
- Fix light mode TCP disconnect
- CLI-only Packet Sender requires far fewer DLLs. Which ones to delete are noted in the README
- Now code signing with a 3-year EV certificate (Windows virus checkers should be a little happier)
- Added a VPAT and Contributor Covenant.
New in Packet Sender Portable 7.2.3 (Apr 2, 2021)
- There is now a toggle switch for Dark Mode. It seems some of you actually prefer light mode (you monsters). The light mode is actually just dark styling turned off in attempt to better reuse the system OS style
- Some touch-ups to the Dark Mode (maybe you will turn it back on?)
- Macros now support re-use during persistent connections
- The snapcraft snap has finally been fixed and a new build released
New in Packet Sender Portable 7.0.5 (Jul 27, 2020)
- Dark Mode for all platforms!
- Packet Starter set! Send immediately after installing!
- Macro send support
- Qt SDK upgrades
- Installer upgrade (windows)
- Lowercase executable (now for Mac --others already had it)
- Socket race condition fix on persistent TCP
- Long-overdue bug fix of empty TCP log entries
- Multi-Send removed (was always buggy)
- Clipboard copy modal prompt is now a quiet status bar notification
- Persistent TCP UI is now a fixed-width font
- Lots of compiler warnings cleaned up (the remaining warnings were very recently deprecated. They are left behind those so older compilers can still work.)
New in Packet Sender Portable 6.2.6 Pre-release (Oct 4, 2019)
- This version of Packet Sender was tested with Windows 7 32-bit. It should work with later versions of 32-bit Windows. This version will not run on Windows XP. Auto-update is disabled in the config.
- For performance reasons, the standard 64-bit version is recommended for operating systems that support it.
New in Packet Sender Portable 6.2.3 (Jun 10, 2019)
- IP-specific port binding.
- UDP flooding tool.
- Send UDP even if port is disabled.
- Append r in persistent connections remembers last state.
- Packet Sender Cloud is now UTF-8 to handle more characters.
- Bug fix in named packets for command line parsing.
New in Packet Sender Portable 6.1.25 (Mar 25, 2019)
- Traffic log is much faster.
- IPv4/6 Toggle button is back.
New in Packet Sender Portable 6.0.25 (Mar 25, 2019)
- No new features. Just good ole fashioned performance improvements:
- Traffic log is significantly faster
- The IPv4/IPv6 toggle is back.
- I've given up on the trying to make the Qt "Any" bind work reliably. I wish I did not need a toggle button, but testing has shown "Any" to be unstable. The app now uses AnyIPv4 or AnyIPv6.
New in Packet Sender Portable 6.0.19 (Dec 29, 2018)
- Windows builds are now fully 64-bit.
- Qt, OpenSSL, and Codesign update.
- Linux AppImage targets Ubuntu 16 for wider support.
- Mac has significantly improved dark theme support.
New in Packet Sender Portable 5.8.5 (Oct 29, 2018)
- Packet Sender now supports UDP multicast (Experimental, IPv4 only).
- Non-loopback IP addresses are now displayed in the title bar.
New in Packet Sender Portable 5.7.52 (Jun 24, 2018)
- Noteworthy fixes:
- Dark theme for Mac
- TCP connection hang problem in command line version
- Qt version update
- Also new:
- Now using CI / CD support (hopefully may have more frequent and stable releases)
New in Packet Sender Portable 5.6.2 (Jan 9, 2018)
- Packet Sender Cloud:
- Packet Sender Cloud allows saving/retrieving/sharing your packets with the public. Like your favorite network utility, this service is free.
- Other changes:
- Major performance for larger packets.
- Command-line sending size increase
- Auto-update service
- Packet Sender is now owned by NagleCode, LLC
New in Packet Sender Portable 5.5.1 Pre-release (Oct 6, 2017)
- Memory bottlenecks were reworked so Packet Sender can now support sending up to 100 MiB files. The previous limit was 10 MiB.
- The code that was edited is used everywhere. Please open an issue if problems are found.
New in Packet Sender Portable 5.4.2 (Sep 2, 2017)
- This update fixes a UDP performance bug. UDP packets were doing additional DNS resolves that did not need to occur.
- This was a pretty severe bug. There are no other fixes.
New in Packet Sender Portable 5.4.1 (Aug 11, 2017)
- This also fixes some issues that have accumulated the past few months.
- SSL Server support for the GUI.
- File sending and copy to clipboard in persistent connection window
- Upgrade to Qt 5.9
- New macro: UNIQUE
New in Packet Sender Portable 5.4.1 Beta (Aug 9, 2017)
- Packet Sender now has an SSL Server!
New in Packet Sender Portable 5.4 Beta (Aug 7, 2017)
- This also fixes some issues that have accumulated the past few months.
- SSL Server support for the GUI.
- File sending and copy to clipboard in persistent connection window
- Upgrade to Qt 5.9
- New macro: UNIQUE
New in Packet Sender Portable 5.3.1 Build 2017-02-20 (Apr 29, 2017)
- Critical bug fix when sending responses.
- Now using AppImage for Linux (thanks probonopd!)