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Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner Changelog

What's new in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 8.2.1

Mar 5, 2024
  • Added: Enhanced device recognition through online queries.
  • Added: Instant multi-value matching filter implemented as regex.
  • Improved: Shorter timeouts for FTP probing, host name resolution, and WMI.
  • Improved: Retention of host names post-IP conversion.
  • Improved: WQL editor shows sample WMI data for root namespaces and children.
  • Improved: Main window title now shows current user's admin status.
  • Fixed: Issue with assigning friendly names for multiple keys.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 8.2 (Nov 3, 2023)

  • Added: User-configurable toolbar.
  • Added: Column grouping for enhanced main view organisation.
  • Added: Splitting of multi-value cells into rows in CSV and TXT exports.
  • Added: Direct access to multi-value column entries in device properties.
  • Added: New PowerShell, SSH and WQL editors with highlighting and execution features.
  • Improved: Multi-value cells are now marked with an icon for quick recognition.
  • Improved: Double-click functionality on multi-value cells for viewing contents as a list.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 8.1.8 (Oct 10, 2023)

  • Added: Support for the Linux platform.
  • Added: Support for ARM64 architecture.
  • Added: Search functionality within settings.
  • Added: Geolocation capabilities for public IP addresses.
  • Improved: Provided extended error information when login to WMI fails.
  • Improved: Warnings about non-writable locations in portable Windows builds.
  • Improved: Bookmarks and dynamic menu items are now accessible in the navigator.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 8.1.7 (May 19, 2023)

  • Added: scan progress bar for each IP address.
  • Added: pending operation time in device properties.
  • Improved: dark mode appearance on Windows.
  • Fixed: sorting by remote time due to time-zone string.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 8.1.6 (Mar 6, 2023)

  • Added: users can now link associated data to MAC or IP addresses, such as device location and asset tag, to aid in tracking and management.
  • Improved: importing previously exported data has been improved with a choice of merge with, append to, or replace existing data.
  • Improved: several minor user interface elements have been redesigned to enhance the user experience and streamline workflows.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 8.1.5 (Jan 5, 2023)

  • Added: custom regular expression patterns for matching and highlighting the data displayed in columns.
  • Added: the ability to set and clear custom row highlighting for faster distinguishing of important information displayed in rows.
  • Added: credentials tags for efficient identification and use of saved credentials in scripts and external applications.
  • Improved: redesigned credential manager, with added columns and sorting functionality.
  • Improved: Network Scanner EXE files are now dynamically based, which ensures their compatibility with Data Execution Prevention (DEP).
  • Fixed: index of bounds error and subsequent crash that occurred at re-scanning of a single column.
  • Fixed: incorrect MAC addresses that were displayed when scanning external subnets.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 8.1.4 (Apr 29, 2022)

  • Added: automatic SMTP settings.
  • Added: fetching SSL cert details.
  • Added: import/export of credentials.
  • Fixed: crash in HTTP banner detection.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 8.1.2 (Oct 5, 2021)

  • Improved: portable version can be safely shared over network.
  • Improved: fonts can be set separately on columns and data.
  • Improved: sort order is maintained at all times.
  • Improved: incrased number of user filters to 10.
  • Fixed: importing CSV files with unquoted values.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 8.1.1 (Aug 3, 2021)

  • Added: basic filter editing for saved filters.
  • Fixed: reading non-Latin chars from console programs.
  • Fixed: rare crash when deleting nodes with enabled Live Display.
  • Changed: minimum OS version is now macOS 10.8 or Windows 7.
  • Changed: removed dependency on OpenSSL for sending e-mails.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 8.1 (May 24, 2021)

  • Added: WS-Discovery support to locate services in a local network.
  • Added: separate setting for maximum number of threads in live display.
  • Added: scan result export to SQLite database for further processing.
  • Improved: UPnP discovery allows to scan detected devices and shows device type.
  • Improved: scanning for shares on macOS detects disk space, writability and security.
  • Fixed: filter display in the recent list if only one filter was defined.
  • Fixed: applications sorting order when a new item is added.
  • Fixed: resolution of non-ASCII computer names.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 8.0.2 (Apr 21, 2021)

  • Improved: list headings appearance on macOS.
  • Fixed: search speed regression when finding text.
  • Fixed: importing configuration files from version 6.x.
  • Fixed: lost settings after minimisation to the notification area.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 8.0.1 (Mar 11, 2021)

  • Fixed: IPv6 addresses are now quoted in brackets for external apps.
  • Fixed: opening of applications using keyboard hot keys.
  • Fixed: sorting of applications and unintended duplication of items.
  • Fixed: missing applications for browsing shared folders (with %1).

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.3.0 (Nov 10, 2020)

  • Added: SNMPv3 support in router MAC address discovery.
  • Added: option to include/exclude ports in Nmap scans.
  • Added: new menu for creating instant filters from scan results.
  • Added: active filter applied during scanning.
  • Fixed: vanishing shares when saving and excluding unrelated columns.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.2.9 (Jul 14, 2020)

  • Added: quick device search in WOL manager.
  • Added: auto-collected host names in WOL manager.
  • Improved: startup time and overall scan performance.
  • Fixed: odd controls alignment issue on high resolutions.
  • Fixed: crash if live display log pointed to an invalid location.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.2.8 (Mar 23, 2020)

  • Added: wildcard support in Equal/Not Equal filters.
  • Added: new regex filter for advanced filtering of results.
  • Added: new menu item to remove all inactive devices at once.
  • Improved: discovered devices can now be deleted during scanning.
  • Improved: a number of smaller enhancements in the user interface.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.2.7 (Feb 11, 2020)

  • Added: new repetitions display settings: As Is, Fold and Hide.
  • Added: AES-192 and AES-256 ciphers support in SNMPv3.
  • Fixed: occasional erroneous characters in OIDs fetched via SNMP.
  • Fixed: occasional division by zero error during data retrieval via SNMPv3.
  • Changed: Windows 7 is now the minimum required OS version.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.2.6 (Oct 14, 2019)

  • Added: searching alternate paths in remote registry wildcard queries.
  • Added: built-in registry browser for quick path and parameter lookup.
  • Added: a navigator under Help menu to quickly find a setting or command.
  • Improved: new system-independent implementation to access HTTP and HTTPS.
  • Improved: suppress messages about domain resolution when using command line.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.2.5 (Aug 21, 2019)

  • Fixed: column regex was not used when referring to scripting columns from a script.
  • Fixed: trailing commas are no longer wrriten to a CSV file at the end of each line.
  • Added: a button in the save dialog to choose exported columns for text, CSV and HTML.
  • Added: variables %0 (IP address) and %1 (MAC address) whose bytes can be used in SNMP OID.
  • Added: built-in SNMP scripting object for custom queries to any SNMP-capable device.
  • Added: mDNS and SNMP are used to resolve device names if anything else fails.
  • Added: full UTF8 support in SNMP responses can now handle non-Latin characters.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.2.4 (Jul 29, 2019)

  • Added: quick filter in friendly names, bookmarks and display filters.
  • Added: secure WMI connection support to access restricted namespaces.
  • Improved: downloading mappings file OUI.TXT for NIC vendor lookup.
  • Fixed: columns lost hidden status when their settings were changed.
  • Fixed: crash when closing and aborting scan and Live Display was on.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.2.3 (Jul 5, 2019)

  • Added: quick filter in credential manager and third-party applications.
  • Added: quick filter in Remote WMI, SSH, SNMP, etc and virtual columns.
  • Added: command to start/stop background scan (Live Display) on demand.
  • Added: export of results to a file upon completion of each Live Display round.
  • Improved: permit device deletion when Live Display is running.
  • Improved: saving/loading multi-clause filters and their UI layout.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.2.2 (Jun 10, 2019)

  • Added: frozen columns support under the View main menu item.
  • Added: XPath Query Builder for Remote XML and Nmap Integration features.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.2.1 (Apr 17, 2019)

  • Added: multiline display mode for long strings.
  • Added: incremental search across output columns.
  • Added: process class in scripting for handling output of console applications.
  • Added: integration with Nmap with OS detection, vulnerability scans and much more.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.2.0 (Feb 18, 2019)

  • Improved: virtual columns can now be used as keys for mapping friendly names.
  • Improved: live notifications expanded to four types (online, offline, new MAC, changed IP).
  • Improved: retention of column metadata and width when changing multi-column items.
  • Improved: output of scripted columns made available to the scripts themselves.
  • Improved: MAC address resolution via SNMP: added SNMPv2c and IPv6 address support.
  • Improved: column limit of each type increased from 10 to 50, the /maxcols switch abolished.
  • Improved: rescanning limited to the target column when rescanning a column in multi-column group.
  • Added: configurable background colour and text colour in column headers.
  • Added: custom sender e-mail in e-mail settings.
  • Added: drag-n-drop of computers from Windows Explorer's Network to Network Scanner's main view.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.1.9 (Jan 4, 2019)

  • Implemented [*] as array index in JSON query.
  • Added regex replacement support for column data.
  • Added support for NPcap without WinPCap compatibility installed.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.1.8 (Oct 25, 2018)

  • Added a configurable delay between live display rescan rounds.
  • Added a setting to show filtered/online/offline devices in status bar.
  • Added a MIB browser for easy OID selection in SNMP queries.
  • Added official Windows Server 2019 support.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.1.7 (Sep 25, 2018)

  • Added Remote JSON feature for retrieving and parsing JSON responses from network devices.
  • Added access to Redfish Scalable Platforms Management built on top of Remote JSON.
  • Added Portuguese (Brazil) as a supported UI language.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.1.6 (Jul 16, 2018)

  • Added HTTPS protocol support in Remote XML.
  • Added WMI monitor information example script.
  • Added scripted DNS resolver object for VB scripts.
  • Added Dutch and Swedish UI languages.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.1.5 (May 23, 2018)

  • All graphics and icons are now vector images and scale to any DPI on high-resolution displays.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.1.4 (Feb 26, 2018)

  • When a startup error if non-English user interface was selected.
  • Fixed an issue when loading a config with higher than standard column count.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.1.3 (Jan 29, 2018)

  • Added UI languages: French, Norwegian, Italian.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.1.2 (Nov 27, 2017)

  • Fixed a software exception on Windows XP.
  • Added displaying Time to live (TTL) for ping.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.1.1 (Nov 20, 2017)

  • Added filter management with favourite filters.
  • Added an option to lookup NetBIOS names only.
  • Added UI languages: German, Czech, Chinese, Japanese.
  • In console mode show UI messages and prompts in the console.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.1.0 (Oct 23, 2017)

  • Fixed occasional "Cannot register tab" error.
  • Added synchronous I/O cancellation for faster thread stopping.
  • Added multilingual user interface support (more languages to come).

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.0.9 (Aug 8, 2017)

  • Added "Mark All/None" in visible columns setup.
  • Added configurable font styles in column display settings.
  • Added support of column reference in column value highlight.
  • Fixed poor drawing performance issue in older 7.0.x versions.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.0.8 (Jun 6, 2017)

  • Added terminal sessions enumeration under the Additional tab.
  • Added a choice of "all", "selected" and "displayed" devices to save.
  • Added shared folder comment display next to workstation comment.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.0.7 (Apr 20, 2017)

  • Added [Eye] button to reveal passwords and removed the /openpass switch.
  • Added faster multi-threaded live scan to replace old single-threaded one.
  • Fixed a display issue with apps user prompts and MAC address SNMP settings.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.0.6 (Apr 12, 2017)

  • Added built-in Telnet object that can be used in scripting.
  • Added key-based authentication for Remote SSH connections.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.0.5 (Mar 1, 2017)

  • Added a way to choose custom colours in row and column highlight.
  • Added a way to disregard names among logged users or user accounts.
  • Added a way to access column values from a script and a usage example.
  • Added JScript support in addition to VBScript under Remote Scripting.
  • Added auto-complete features in the script editor (Ctrl+Space to invoke).
  • Added improved script debugging with user input prompted on the go.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.0.4 (Feb 13, 2017)

  • Added keeping sort order when a device is discovered in Live Display.
  • Added quick access from columns related to the global settings.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.0.3 (Feb 3, 2017)

  • Added virtual columns to manipulate values from other columns.
  • Added exporting per share security information in HTML report.
  • Added wildcard support in remote registry for broad value search.
  • Added quick access to column queries (right-click column heading).
  • Added looking up MAC addresses through WMI.
  • Added SNMP Context Name support in SNMPv3.
  • Improved display of SNMP v1/v2c/v3 responses in a uniform way.
  • Improved free-form IP address input now accepts reversed ranges.
  • Fixed sorting that didn't take into account regular expressions.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.0.2 (Jan 3, 2017)

  • Fixed showing tree context menu when the key was used instead of mouse.
  • Fixed choosing visible columns in Scan Comparison with reordered columns.
  • Enhanced Visible Columns dialog to show formatting and reorder multiple columns
  • Enhanced public IP address detection to obtain both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
  • Added showing highest IP address for input in CIDR notation.
  • Added copy command in Detect Address dialog.
  • Added entering scan information from a string.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.0.1 (Nov 24, 2016)

  • Added Remote Scripting - execute VBScript against remote devices
  • Added default items for uptime in Remote Performance and WMI
  • Minor user interface fixes for systems with high DPI screens

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 7.0.0 (Nov 10, 2016)

  • Added viewing and saving discarded lines to a file during IP address import.
  • Added automatic caching of successful logins to speed-up scanning.
  • Added preview and customisable filters for Active Directory import.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 6.2.1 (Oct 18, 2016)

  • Added passing PowerShell scripts as Base-64 to wrap DOS-unfriendly symbols.
  • Added new expressions "Less than" and "Greater than" to the filter conditions.
  • Added conditional column highlighting if a row value meets a specific criterion.
  • Added a list of disregarded account names in User and Group Membership queries.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 6.2 (Oct 13, 2016)

  • Added a simple Yes/No test for file or folder existence in Remote Files.
  • Added large toolbar and menu icons for systems with screen DPI of 192 or more.
  • Fixed an issue with saving columns order as in some cases they weren't remembered.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 6.1.9 (Sep 5, 2016)

  • Added create/modify/access time retrieval in Remote Files.
  • Added getting host names from a DNS server for offline nodes.
  • Fixed quoting variables if those are used within quotes already.
  • Fixed the tab key to go through filters in addition to IP editors.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 6.1.7 (May 20, 2016)

  • Added installation package as a form of distribution in addition to the portable build.
  • Added workaround for using Win10Pcap in duplicate IP finder due to an incompatibility.
  • Added /openpass command line switch to reveal stored passwords within the UI.
  • Added downloading sanitised OUI.TXT from LinuxNet.CA rather than the IEEE web-site.
  • Fixed initialisation of NIC and port databases if they were enabled just before rescan.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 6.1.6 (May 20, 2016)

  • Added a last-seen time column similar to what previously was scan-time
  • Added showing adapter name next to responses received from DHCP servers
  • Fixed taking filter into account when automatically saving to the MRU file

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 6.1.5 (May 20, 2016)

  • Added choosing what columns are retained when a device goes off-line.
  • Added extracting serial and model from EDID descriptors in monitor info.
  • Added a PowerShell option that allows not to load the current user's profile.
  • Added showing how long a device has been on-line/off-line under Last Scan Time.
  • Fixed a crash message if a device was deleted from the main view while scanning.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 6.1.4 (May 20, 2016)

  • Added combined option not to scan network and broadcast addresses.
  • Added a progress bar when checking if device is up on launching a command.
  • Added showing current config name in the title bar when using an external file.
  • Added optional comment field to each user name in the credential manager.
  • Added an option to show the bookmark name that displayed IP address falls into.
  • Fixed maintaining row order when copying to the clipboard and creating a batch file.
  • Fixed string sorting in columns, which also fixes reporting TCP port numbers in order.
  • Fixed Live Display handling of a CIDR adress range as wrong addresses were scanned.
  • Fixed issues in UI: remote items selection, use the "device" term instead of "computer".
  • Changed logged-on user retrieval from Win32_LoggedOnUser to Win32_ComputerSystem.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 6.1.3 (May 20, 2016)

  • Fixed a PSCredential authentication error in Remote PowerShell.
  • Fixed WMI parser that failed on statemements containing the WHERE clause.
  • Fixed Live Display and Rescanning when duplicate IP addresses were present.
  • Added getting a list of logged-on users via WMI if all other methods fail.
  • Added automatic encoding detection when parsing a HTML page in Remote XML.
  • Added a new Rescan option to rescan both listed and undiscovered computers.
  • Added a Scan Comparison tool to highlight differences between any two scans.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 6.1.2 (May 20, 2016)

  • Added the Remote SSH feature to execute commands in a shell.
  • Added JSON support on command line to enable export to JSON.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 6.1.1 (May 20, 2016)

  • Added support of host names as a target in the WOL manager
  • Added measuring round trip time for ARP-discovered devices
  • Added an option to show succeeded ping type, i.e. ICMP or ARP
  • Fixed text export output with aligned space-padded columns
  • Fixed occasional empty MAC addresses shown in the output
  • Fixed a crash if the config was corrupted, instead recreate it

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 6.1 (May 20, 2016)

  • Added probing UDP ports 1434-MSSQL and 1812-RADIUS.
  • Fixed occasional empty MAC addresses shown in the output.
  • Fixed painting the progress bar to make the resize grip visible.
  • Fixed indicating progress when rescanning a specifc column on selected devices.
  • Fixed minimised launch and respecting the Minimise to the Notification Area setting.
  • Fixed asking to download the service mapping DB when the TCP port scan option was turned off.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 3.9 Build 186 (Feb 3, 2009)

  • Added a 'Rescan all computers' command that lets you re-scan all the computers shown in the list (filtered or not).
  • Added a quick check whether a host is on-line before attempting to explore shared folders. This is to prevent the network scanner from being unresponsive while attempting to explore a shared folder on an off-line host.

New in Portable SoftPerfect Network Scanner 3.9 Build 185 (Jan 7, 2009)

  • Enhanced the on-line auto update feature