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PingInfoView Changelog

What's new in PingInfoView 3.05

Apr 11, 2024
  • Added 'Source IPv4 Address' option. You can use this option if you have multiple network adapters and you want to send the ping from specific adapter.

New in PingInfoView 3.01 (Nov 8, 2023)

  • Fixed bug: when disabling one or more items, the ping interval was longer than the interval in the Ping Options window.

New in PingInfoView 3.00 (Oct 10, 2023)

  • Added support for IPv6 pings. In order to enable IPv6 pings you have to select the 'Allow IPv6 addresses' option.
  • Optionally, you can choose the source IPv6 address (It might be needed if you have multiple network adapters)
  • Be aware that TCP pings are not supported for IPv6 in this version.
  • When you specify host name and the 'Allow IPv6 addresses' option is selected, PingInfoView first tries to resolve the host name as IPv6 address, and if it fails, it resolves the host name as IPv4 address.
  • Added option to change the sorting column from the menu (View -> Sort By).
  • Added 'Sort By' button to the toolbar.
  • Added 'Update Settings' button to the 'Ping Options' window, which allows you to change some ping settings (e.g. : number of seconds to wait between the pings, ping timeout, window title) without resetting all ping data. You can also update the description of existing items, add new items, or change the groups.
  • Added 'Copy Stuck Threads Report' (Under Help menu) for debugging stuck threads problem.
  • The status bar now shows the number of active ping threads, and the number of stuck threads in parenthesis.
  • Fixed bug with stuck threads that occurred when PingInfoView failed to resolve host name.

New in PingInfoView 2.30 (Dec 21, 2022)

  • Added 'High Resolution Ping Time' option (Under the Options menu). When it's turned on, PingInfoView displays the ping time in microsecond resolution (For example: 2.351 ).
  • Added 'Hide Disabled Items' option (Under the View menu).

New in PingInfoView 2.25 (Jan 7, 2022)

  • Added option to disable and enable the selected items. When an item is disabled, PingInfoView will not sent pings to this host until it's enabled.
  • Be aware that the disable status is not remembered if you exit from PingInfoView and then run it again.

New in PingInfoView 2.22 (Dec 13, 2021)

  • The number of items in a group is now displayed in the group title.

New in PingInfoView 2.21 (Oct 10, 2021)

  • Added 'Copy Clicked Cell' option to the right-click context menu, which copies to the clipboard the text of cell that you right-clicked with the mouse.

New in PingInfoView 2.20 (Aug 31, 2021)

  • When the 'Use IP-Host Description format' option is turned on, you can now specify group name for every group of computers.
  • When group name is specified, every group is displayed separately, and you can collapse and expand a group by double-clicking the group header.
  • Look at the 'Use IP-Host Description format' section for an example of using this new groups feature.
  • Added 'Skip the first address' and 'Skip the last address' options for IP addresses range in CIDR format.

New in PingInfoView 2.16 (Apr 21, 2021)

  • Fixed the 'Execute the following command on success ping (After previous failure)' option (Added in version 2.15) to work according to the 'Number of consecutive failed pings to trigger the failed command/sound alert' option. For example: if you set the 'Number of consecutive failed pings...' value to 3, and there are 2 failed pings and then a success ping, PingInfoView will not activate the success command.

New in PingInfoView 2.15 (Mar 9, 2021)

  • Added new option: 'Execute the following command on success ping (After previous failure)' (In 'Advanced Options' window).
  • Updated to work properly in high DPI mode.

New in PingInfoView 2.10 (Nov 9, 2020)

  • Added new lower pane mode: 'Add ping line for every change in ping status'. When you choose this mode, a new ping line is added to the lower pane only when there is a change in the ping status.
  • For example: if you have a sequence of 10 succeeded pings and then a sequence of 5 failed pings, you'll see 2 lines in the lower pane - one line for the 10 succeeded pings and one line for the 5 failed pings.
  • The new 'Pings Count' column displays the number of failed/succeeded pings. The 'Sent On' column displays the time range of the succeeded/failed pings.

New in PingInfoView 2.05 (Sep 8, 2020)

  • Added 'Display Mode' option (Under the Options menu), which allows you to view only the hosts with succeeded pings or to view only the hosts with failed pings.
  • Added 'Add Header Line To CSV/Tab-Delimited File' option (Turned on by default).

New in PingInfoView 2.02 (Dec 26, 2019)

  • Added new column: 'Total Sent Pings'.

New in PingInfoView 2.01 (Nov 3, 2019)

  • Added 'Start As Hidden' option (Enabled only when 'Put Icon On Tray' option is on).
  • When both 'Start As Hidden' and 'Put Icon On Tray' options are turned on - PingInfoView starts to ping instantly when you run it without displaying the main window.

New in PingInfoView 2.00 (Oct 14, 2019)

  • Added support for TCP pings. You can now specify the host name or IP address with a port number (e.g: 192.168.0.100:80 192.168.1.10:443 www.nirsoft.net:443 ) and PingInfoView will check the TCP conection in the specified port number instead of using ICMP pings.

New in PingInfoView 1.86 (Jul 29, 2019)

  • Added option to specify IP addresses range in CIDR format (e.g: 192.168.0.0/24)
  • Added option to choose another font (name and size) to display in the main window.

New in PingInfoView 1.85 (May 22, 2019)

  • Added IP options: Time To Live and Don't Fragment.

New in PingInfoView 1.82 (Jan 4, 2019)

  • Fixed to sort properly the 'Last Succeed On' and 'Last Failed On' columns.

New in PingInfoView 1.81 (Nov 14, 2018)

  • Fixed bug with resizing the 'Ping Options' window.

New in PingInfoView 1.80 (Aug 16, 2018)

  • Added new option: Beep On Succeeded Pings (After Failure).
  • Fixed bug: When the lower pane option was turned off, PingInfoView didn't add the pings to the log file.

New in PingInfoView 1.75 (Mar 30, 2018)

  • Added 'Resolve host name to IP address on every ping' option. If the IP address of the host you ping may change, you should turn on this option , so when the IP address is changed, PingInfoView will ping the new IP address.
  • Added new option in 'Advanced Options' window: 'Limit the total number of accumulated pings' (Default is 50000). If you run PingInfoView for long period of time, you should use this option. Otherwise, the accumuated ping result will consume a lot of memory, and eventually PingInfoView will respond very slowly or crash.
  • Added 'Window Title' field. The text you type here will appear in the title of the main window.

New in PingInfoView 1.70 (Dec 10, 2017)

  • Automatic export feature: You can now choose to generate a new filename on every session (When you close the program and then run it again) or on every save. You can also generate a filename with date/time (e.g: ping20170925112130.csv) instead of numeric counter.

New in PingInfoView 1.65 (Jun 9, 2017)

  • The 'Consecutive Failed Count' column now keeps the last value when pings are ok again.
  • Added 'Max Consecutive Failed Count' column which displays the maximum number of consecutive failed pings and 'Max Consecutive Failed Time' which displays the date/time that the maximum number of consecutive failed pings was detected.
  • Added 'Add only failed pings' option to the 'Lower Pane Mode' in 'Advanced Options' window.

New in PingInfoView 1.60 (Mar 28, 2017)

  • Added:
  • Option to automatically export the current pings status to a file (csv/tab-delimited/html/xml) every xx seconds (In 'Advanced Options' window).
  • Option to execute a command on ping failure.
  • Option to specify the number of consecutive failed pings to trigger the sound/beep alert and the failed command executaion.
  • 'Consecutive Failed Count' column.

New in PingInfoView 1.55 (Jul 7, 2016)

  • Added option to choose the type of beep/sound to use when a ping fails (In 'Advanced Options' window).
  • Added option to add all ping results or only the failed pings into a comma-delimited or tab-delimited log file (In 'Advanced Options' window).
  • Added option to stop adding the ping results into the lower pane (In 'Advanced Options' window). It's recommended to use this option if you have large amount of pings, because the accumulation of ping results consumes a lot of memory and eventually causes PingInfoView to crash.
  • When 'Use IP-Host Description format' option is turned on, PingInfoView now adds the IP address even if it doesn't have a description.

New in PingInfoView 1.51 (Jun 17, 2015)

  • On IP-Host format, if you put '#' in the beginning of the line, PingInfoView will consider it as a remark line and ignore it

New in PingInfoView 1.50 (Mar 18, 2015)

  • Added option to specify the ping size (The default is 32 bytes).
  • Added 'Order' column, which specifies the original order of hosts, as you typed in the 'Ping Options' window.

New in PingInfoView 1.45 (Dec 23, 2014)

  • Added option to control the maximum number of concurrent pings (In 'Advanced Options' window - F9). The default value is 500.
  • Fixed bug: PingInfoView failed to remember the last size/position of the main window if it was not located in the primary monitor.

New in PingInfoView 1.43 (Jun 30, 2014)

  • Fixed bug: When using PingInfoView from command-line, /IPHostDescFormat and some other command-line options failed to work properly.

New in PingInfoView 1.42 (Apr 28, 2014)

  • Fixed issue: When editing PingInfoView_hosts.txt with external editor that adds Byte order mark to the file, PingInfoView failed to handle the first host name

New in PingInfoView 1.41 (Mar 14, 2014)

  • Added 'Sort On Every Update' option

New in PingInfoView 1.40 (Jan 9, 2014)

  • Added 'Auto Scroll Lower Pane' option.
  • Fixed bug: In some circumstances, when using 'Copy Selected Items' on the lower pane, PingInfoView copied the wrong items or crashed.
  • Improved the ability of PingInfoView to handle hundreds or thousants of IP addresses in the same time.

New in PingInfoView 1.36 (Sep 6, 2012)

  • Added 'Auto Size Columns+Headers' option, which allows you to automatically resize the columns according to the row values and column headers.
  • Fixed issue: The properties and the options windows opened in the wrong monitor, on multi-monitors system.

New in PingInfoView 1.35 (Aug 14, 2012)

  • Added a lower pane that lists the result of all pings for the selected IP address in the upper pane. (You can disable this feature by unchecking the 'Show Lower Pane' option under the Options menu)

New in PingInfoView 1.30 (Jul 16, 2012)

  • PingInfoView now resolves the IP addresses and displays the result under the 'Host Name' column.
  • Added 'Minimum Ping Time' and 'Maximum Ping Time' columns.

New in PingInfoView 1.28 (Apr 8, 2011)

  • Fixed the sorting problem of 'IP Address' and 'Reply IP Address' column

New in PingInfoView 1.27 (Mar 2, 2011)

  • Made another workaround that hopefully will solve the mysterious problem that people report where PingInfoView stop pinging after hours of continuous work. PingInfoView now check the pinging status, and if the pings stoped from some reason, PingInfoView should start them again

New in PingInfoView 1.26 (Nov 30, 2010)

  • Added command-line options to make a single ping test and save it to html/text/xml/csv file.
  • Fixed some problems with the xml file.

New in PingInfoView 1.25 (Apr 1, 2009)

  • New column: Last Succeed On.
  • New column: Last Failed On.
  • The % Failed value now shows the value in accuracy of 0.01% instead of interger values in previous versions.

New in PingInfoView 1.20 (Dec 15, 2008)

  • New column: % Failed.
  • New option: Beep On Failed Pings.
  • New option: Put Icon On Tray.

New in PingInfoView 1.18 (Oct 30, 2008)

  • Fixed bug: The size of addresses list text-box was limited to 32 KB

New in PingInfoView 1.17 (Oct 20, 2008)

  • Added new option: Start pinging immediately without displaying this dialog-box

New in PingInfoView 1.16 (Sep 24, 2008)

  • Added more accelerator keys

New in PingInfoView 1.15 (Sep 3, 2008)

  • Added support for IP Range (For example: 192.168.0.10-192.168.0.20)
  • Added support for IP-Host Description format. (See below)
  • Fixed bug: PingInfoView continued to ping even when 'Ping every...' option is unchecked.

New in PingInfoView 1.10 (Sep 3, 2008)

  • Added support for IP Range (For example: 192.168.0.10-192.168.0.20)
  • Added support for IP-Host Description format. (See below)
  • Fixed bug: PingInfoView continued to ping even when 'Ping every...' option is unchecked.

New in PingInfoView 1.10 (Jul 31, 2008)

  • Added command-line support.
  • Added 'Always On Top' option.
  • Added Drag & Drop support - You can drag a text file containing IP addresses into the main window of PingInfoView.
  • Added 'Start Pinging' option. (Start again after you previously used the Stop option)
  • Added 'Reset' option.
  • Added 'Load Addresses From File' option.

New in PingInfoView 1.05 (Jul 5, 2008)

  • Automatically save the hosts list and load it in the next time that you use PingInfoView utility.
  • Fixed the IP address sorting.
  • The 'Ping Options' dialog-box is now resizable

New in PingInfoView 1.01 (May 9, 2008)

  • Fixed bug: The main window lost the focus when the user switched to another application and then returned back to PingInfoView