VIPole Changelog

What's new in VIPole 3.7.12 Build 30761

Mar 22, 2018
  • New features:
  • Basic user management operations became available to administrators on the user profile page on the site - invitation of new participants, blocking, promoting administrators.
  • Invitation of new Team members via email through the site and admin dashboard in desktop application.
  • Invitation of already registered users through the VIPole application to join the Team account.
  • All new members of the Team account are added to the dynamic contact group and appear in each other contact list.
  • Added the option to prevent members of the Team account from editing and deleting messages.
  • Ability to choose a template for security settings when inviting new members.
  • Added the ability to delete a user from the list of contacts of Team account members, when deleting from the dynamic group of contacts.
  • Other options and fixes:
  • Ability to clear the list of recent chats, either clear a single chat, or the entire list, or prevent selected chats from being added to the Recent list.
  • Improved window for sending images from the clipboard - displaying the image in full size with the option to scroll and crop the desired fragment before sending.
  • Fixes of minor bugs and improved performance.

New in VIPole 3.7.9 Build 28283 (Aug 9, 2017)

  • New features:
  • Improved user search dialog;
  • Status added for read messages,
  • The «Last seen» status of contacts,
  • Advanced search in Active Directory/LDAP in the corporate version.
  • Improvements and bug fixes:
  • Improved video quality in video conferencing;
  • Improved file removal when deleting history;
  • Improved file management;
  • Easy language selection in Options;
  • Improved message display in chats.

New in VIPole 3.7.7 Build 24455 (Apr 7, 2017)

  • With screen sharing, team collaboration is even easier. You no longer need to explain and discuss the issues that can be solved in no time when your contacts see them. Screen sharing is a great way to show your animated presentations and speak about the details that you wish to emphasize. Your tech support department will especially appreciate this feature, as it allows to help the new team members to get around.

New in VIPole 3.7.6 Build 21703 (Jan 31, 2017)

  • New features:
  • Improved video quality of calls and conferences;
  • Adjusting the image quality in videoconferences;
  • Updated encrypted file storage driver;
  • Extended set of smiles;
  • Special notifications for messages addressed personally to a user;
  • Optimized order of folders in the password manager, a «Not in group» folder added;
  • Disabling smiles option in 'Settings'.
  • Improvements and bug fixes
  • Fixed:
  • Bug with displaying active sessions;
  • Bug with canceling downloads of large files,
  • Team account: fixed administrator panel performance when reconnecting to the server.
  • Managing video quality

New in VIPole 3.7.5 (Nov 2, 2016)

  • VIPole interface has been significantly changed in this update: we have optimized the main menu for handier navigation, added avatar generating for users without profile pictures, and changed the way of displaying the list of group chat participants. Not only the interface of VIPole has changed, but the functionality as well: individual security settings for group chats are added that allow chat creators and moderators to regulate invitation of new participants and their access to chat history.

New in VIPole 3.7.4 (Aug 16, 2016)

  • Encryption key management system, bulk operations with messages and new chat interface
  • In the new VIPole desktop version, users can manage the encryption keys and view the key change history. In addition, message threads in chats can now be copied, forwarded or deleted.

New in VIPole 3.7.3 (May 24, 2016)

  • In the 3.7.3 update, we have focused on the elimination of all identified and potential bugs in VIPole desktop application performance.
  • Improvements touched upon permanent and session video conferencing, file management and search in history.
  • We are continually improving our search mechanisms, and the new system, employing different dictionaries, will be presented in one of the next updates.

New in VIPole 3.7.0 (Dec 30, 2015)

  • New features:
  • Сonferences: instant creation of videoconferences and audioconferences introduced for group chats with up to 256 participants, 9 people can talk simultaneously.
  • Group chats: moderator assigning.
  • Notifications: notification settings for new messages from contacts and group chats.
  • Privacy settings: hiding phone numbers and group chats from the contact list.
  • Files: a feature added to save a group of files from history and forward them.
  • Files: a button added to forward files from history to contacts.
  • History: a hotkey Ctrl+Shift+H introduced to open the entire history.
  • Improvements and bug fixes:
  • Improved scrolling in the contact list.
  • Fixed starting dialogue of proxy settings.
  • Improved automatic updates system.
  • General bug fixes and improved performance.
  • New features and improvements in the Business account:
  • Bulk user operations: moving groups of users to a different account and deleting groups of users.
  • Applying security templates to all users – new and existing.
  • Display of the current status of group members added.
  • Easy search in the list of account members added.
  • The interface of the administrator extension opening dialog improved.
  • Fixed scroll on the settings page.

New in VIPole 3.6.1 (Aug 11, 2015)

  • Interface and fixes:
  • Visual refinements of the contact list.
  • Start dialog changed for handier interaction.
  • Visual refinements of the task editor and the reminder editor.
  • Contact adding menu changed in group chats, tasks and reminders.
  • Video call improvements.
  • Contact list:
  • The new type of contacts introduced – hidden contacts.
  • Setting a fixed online status for particular contacts.
  • Blocking messages from the users that are not in your contact list.
  • Privacy settings for authorization requests: allowed for all, open after an answer to the question, denied for all.
  • File exchange and storage:
  • Changing the folder for file storage, storing files separately from the profile.
  • Downloading the files automatically, without clicking on them in the dialog window.
  • Privacy settings:
  • Self IP-address masking for all or for certain contacts.
  • Setting the expire date for auto deleting messages for all or for certain contacts.
  • Saving the secret phrase for auto login.
  • Task manager:
  • Task assigning on multiple observers.
  • Collaborative work with the tasks improved.
  • Business Account special features:
  • Customizing contact list settings to communicate only with Business Account users.
  • Emergency tools: an urgent member block button.
  • Emergency tool: message history clearing.
  • Blocking auto login for members.
  • Blocking file downloads from the server.
  • Managing IP-address masking.
  • New settings for auto deleting messages.
  • Disabling the users to change their contact list.

New in VIPole 3.5.15 (Apr 4, 2015)

  • The new version includes major improvements, bug fixes and a number of new features.
  • The most noticeable new feature is SMS confirmation for changing user’s password, secret phrase and email in order to strengthen the security of VIPole accounts.

New in VIPole 3.5.7 (Nov 13, 2014)

  • Optimized contact list performance and sending multiple messages across the contact list.
  • The update also brings a new feature for VIPole business account users that allows managing business account balance and setting money limits for each user separately.

New in VIPole 3.5.5 (Oct 23, 2014)

  • The update brings settings for those VIPole users that use connection via a proxy or a firewall.

New in VIPole 3.5.3 (Oct 23, 2014)

  • file management improvements, adds viewing the number of self connections, fixes for voicemail player and a new feature for corporate customers.

New in VIPole 3.4.5 (Oct 23, 2014)

  • Improvements in chat history and special built-in extension for Business account administrators.

New in VIPole 3.4.2 (Mar 11, 2014)

  • Brings brand new feature for Professional account users called auto-delete messages.
  • Now you can set pre-specified time for any sent message or file to burn from both the receiver's and your chat history with no record left.
  • To set the time you want the messages to burn, you should click the burn icon on message edit panel and select the time period starting from 1 minute and up to 3 months. If you want to disable the feature, click the burn icon again.