What's new in Wake On LAN Ex 3.34
Sep 10, 2022
- Added additional languages for Auto-Discovery support: Deutsch, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
- Updated dependencies.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 3.33 (Mar 5, 2020)
- Read-Only indicator for address books; see Settings - Interface. [more]
- Notification customisation; see Settings - Interface. [more]
- Command-line support was broken. [more]
- Restoring a back-up gave an error. [more]
- Improvements and fixes to accent colour and customisation. [more]
- Notification display interval wasn't being honoured. [more]
- Help is now correctly shown if license couldn't be loaded. [more]
New in Wake On LAN Ex 3.31 (Jan 26, 2020)
- Instrumentation update rate to Settings - Network. [more]
- Potential crash when opening the column editor. [more]
- Show help if license couldn't be loaded. [more]
- Lightened bottom panel in dialogs if Windows theme is dark.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 3.30 (Jan 3, 2020)
- WoLEX 3.30 and above now requires .Microsoft .NET 4.8.
- AutoSizeLastColumn and AutoSizeLastColumnPadding to Settings - Advanced.
- Icon Style to Settings - Interface.
- Additional codes to Device Editor - Frontend.
- Crash with certain malformed MAC IDs.
- Frontend code item was incorrectly inserting %connectionstatus.
- License plugin is no longer just ignored if broken due to breaking changes / being outdated; user is now notified.
- Huge, far-reaching rewrites to underlying dependencies - please report any issues, however minor.
- Significant number of "code correctness" changes to WoLEX and its dependencies.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 3.20 (Nov 12, 2018)
- Added: Additional keyboard mnemonics.
- Fixed: Rare crash at startup and when using the column editor.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 3.19 (Nov 5, 2018)
- Crash at startup.
- Completely rewritten update checker.
- Completely rewritten error handler.
- Completely rewritten logging window.
- Additional error checking when processing automation MacId files.
- Updated various dependencies.
- Various interface tweaks.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 3.18 (Aug 10, 2018)
- SAMBA Network Access waking no-longer locks the UI.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 3.17 (Jul 27, 2018)
- WoLEX 3.17 and above now requires .Microsoft .NET 4.7.2.
- Wake Via SAMBA Network Access to Device Editor - General. [more]
- Number of Devices to Settings - Enterprise - Stagger Wake-up. [more]
- StaggerScopes to Settings - Advanced.
- Potential fix for crash when the Status column was hidden when performing an action.
- Device Editor locks-up briefly when opened. [more]
- Various interface changes and fixes.
- Added link to WoLEX Sub-Reddit in the About window.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 3.16 (Nov 21, 2017)
- Added:
- ShutdownCommand to Settings - Advanced.
- Fixed:
- Main window shrinking in size under some circumstances (see workaround here).
- Scrollbar appearing when restoring the main window from the systray.
- Rare crash when opening the Address Book Manager.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 3.15 (Oct 30, 2017)
- Added: Enhanced tooltips.
- Added: Remaining tooltips for controls that didn't have them.
- Other: Interface fixes and improvements.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 3.14 (Sep 19, 2017)
- Additional keyboard shortcuts to the main window.
- Log window shrinking each time it's opened.
- Some control tab ordering were incorrect.
- Performance improvements to interface drawing.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 3.13 (Sep 7, 2017)
- Window sub-item to the main window's View menu item.
- Various internal code and interface improvements.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 3.12 (Aug 27, 2017)
- Show Minimise to System Tray button wasn't working.
- Clicking on the Documentation link in the Settings window resulted in two pages being opened.
- Main window wasn't easily resizable if no address book was set.
- Restoring the main window from the systray caused it to increase in size.
- Potential crash at start-up / shutdown.
- Various internal code and interface improvements.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 3.11 (Jul 26, 2017)
- Backup & Restore wasn't correctly backing-up Address Books
New in Wake On LAN Ex 3.10 (Jul 13, 2017)
- Buffalo TeraStation to the Device Editor - Ports menu.
- Updated installer was being downloaded as a .zip instead of an executable.
- Some URLs were pointing to the old WoLEX site.
- Performance improvements to the loading/saving of settings.
- Various code improvements.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 3.09 (Jul 11, 2017)
New in Wake On LAN Ex 3.08 (Jun 18, 2017)
- Extremes of dark or light accent colouring is disallowed to keep the interface usable.
- Improvements to Auto-Discovery.
- General interface improvements.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 3.07 (Jun 11, 2017)
- Get Host Names button to the top of the Auto-Discovery window.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 3.06 (Jun 9, 2017)
- Attempted fix for UI corruption on older versions of Windows (eg. 7).
- Minor fixes to the Backup & Restore window.
- The Auto-Discovery window should no longer sometimes freeze WoLEX instead of opening.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 3.05 (Jun 7, 2017)
- Customisation of the Copy MAC and Copy IP fields from the Auto Discovery window to Settings - Advanced.
- Tabs along the top of the Device Editor can now be used to drag the window.
- Interface accent colour could sometimes be the wrong colour.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 3.04 (May 13, 2017)
- Active Instrumentation menu to the Instrumentation panel at the bottom of the main window, if shown.
- Minor interface changes and fixes.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 3.03 (Apr 3, 2017)
- Added:
- Read Only property to the Address Book Manager.
- Fixed:
- Back-up error on first run.
- Some keyboard shortcuts were invoked twice when pressed.
- Updated Settings window checkboxes to be more visually appropriate.
- Minor interface changes and fixes.
- Other:
- Wake On LAN Ex now requires version 4.6.2 of the Microsoft .NET Framework.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 3.02 (Mar 26, 2017)
- Ctrl+W Action to Settings - Interface.
- Wake-Up, Log-Off, Restart, Shutdown to Settings - Interface - Device Double-Click Action.
- Device Editor: Test Frontend moved from menu to label.
- Iconset changed to a flat-style to better integrate with the interface.
- Minor interface changes and fixes.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 3.01 (Jan 6, 2017)
- If you have a license, it'll need to be updated for the SecureOn feature.
- Send Wake Via IP / Broadcast option to Device Editor - Network tab.
- Support for SecureOn for Home and Enterprise editions to the Device Editor - Network tab.
- Send Multiple Wake-Up Messages option to Device Editor - Network tab.
- Being unable to edit the 5th device in the Free edition.
- Moved Windows Username/Password fields to Instrumentation tab within Device Editor.
- General interface improvements.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 3.00.2.0 (Jan 3, 2017)
- Complete rewrite of Wake On LAN Ex.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 2.10 (May 5, 2010)
- Added: Limited skinning functionality.
- Fixed: Port wasn't be used.
- Other: Faster startup.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 2.09 (Jan 26, 2010)
- Fixed: MacID now checks for a 17 char ID rather that the incorrect 16 in v2.08.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 2.08 (Jan 26, 2010)
- Added: Check and warning message for non-writable settings path.
- Added: Configurable Escape key setting to the Settings window.
- Added: Introductory message if there are no address book entries (eg. first run).
- Fixed: Pings sometimes stalling indefinitely.
- Other: Main and About window interface changes.
- Other: Changed the way key detection works in the address book.
- Other: PingAddressBookEntriesThreads is now 6 by default on all OSes, including XP.
- Other: Ping threads priority changed from Normal to BelowNormal.
- Other: Error handling improvements.
- Other: Removed BiQubic.Suite.Controls.dll dependency.
- Other: Removed BiQubic.Suite.Core.dll dependency.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 2.07 (Jan 22, 2010)
- Added: Actions and Custom Actions in address book context menu. Using this
- menu will apply actions to selected entries as opposed to checkmarked entries like how the Send Action menu works.
- Added: Screen outofbounds checking and repositioning at startup, along with
- DoNotRepositionWindow option to the Settings window.
- Fixed: Multiple exceptions upon startup if Columns.xml couldn't be saved in AppData.
- Other: PingAddressBookEntriesThreads is now set to 3 by default in Windows XP.
- Other: Address book is saved immediately upon an entry being edited.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 2.06 (Jan 22, 2010)
- Added: OnOnline, OnOffline, and OnError events to the edit entry window.
- Added: Confirmation when deleting address book entries.
- Added: More keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+N: add entry, Enter: edit, Del: delete).
New in Wake On LAN Ex 2.05 (Jan 22, 2010)
- Fixed: Crash upon startup if there are no address book entries and pinging is enabled.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 2.01 (Jan 22, 2010)
- Added: Minimise to System Tray to the main window.
- Added: Column sorting.
- Added: "Select ..." item to the address book context menu.
- Added: Keyboard shortcuts (see menus). Escape now minimises WoLEX.
- Added: DefautAction and MessageType to the Settings window.
- Added: StartWithWindows and StartMinimised to the Settings window.
- Added: "minimise" / "minimize" commandline parameter support.
- Fixed: Potential crash with invalid MAC IDs.
- Other: Improved interface; replaced buttons with a toolbar; etc.
- Other: PingAddressBookEntriesTimeOut is now expressed in milliseconds.
- Other: Various minor changes.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 2.00 (Jan 22, 2010)
- Added: Included pad_file.xml with distribution.
- Other: Updated all graphics and some interface elements.
- Other: Improved update checker.
- Other: Minor changes and additions.
New in Wake On LAN Ex 0.96 (Sep 4, 2007)
- Added: Port setting.
- Fixed: Broadcast Address was being ignored.
- Other: Very minor GUI changes