What's new in XL Screen Streamer 2.3.0.0
Aug 29, 2016
- Changes: Added option to auto-reconnect on FTP/SFTP failures.
New in XL Screen Streamer 2.2.0.0 (May 18, 2015)
- New: Added support for IPv6. You can now run your server with a local IPv6 address.
- Fixed: Tray icon menu can now start the server in Regular, SSL, and FTP mode.
New in XL Screen Streamer 2.1.0.0 (Nov 17, 2014)
- New: Added visual notifications when starting and stopping the server.
- New: Redesigned the way the server shuts down to allow connected viewers to receive a message that the stream has ended.
- Improved: Image compression improved by up to 10%.
- Fixed: Starting the tool from the command line with the "Send to tray on minimize" option enabled would cause a crash.
- Fixed: UI issues with Windows 8.1.
New in XL Screen Streamer 2.0.0.0 (Dec 7, 2012)
- New: Redesigned screen capture engine:
- Captures screen images twice as fast
- Uses less resources
- Better image compression
- Faster image processing
- Capable of handling more real time connections
- New: Create live one-on-one chat sessions using your web cam from your web browser. Chat live with video and voice. Viewers require a web browser and Flash player
- New: Full support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012
New in XL Screen Streamer 1.9.0.0 (Jan 10, 2012)
- New: Ability to instantly ban users for the remainder of the session.
- New: Consolidated user interface.
- Fixed: Threading exception when too many users connected at the same time.
- Fixed: Certain system configurations could prevent the application from starting up properly.
New in XL Screen Streamer 1.8.0.0 (Nov 14, 2011)
- New: Templates can now be customized using variables in the settings dialog.
- New: Added option to display a welcome message to your viewers.
- New: Added option to reset all settings to their default values.
- Improved: Default web viewer now performs at about the same speed as the advanced flash based viewer.
- Fixed: Property settings will no longer get corrupted and fail to save properly.
- Fixed: Port forwarding wizard would take a very long time to open up ports on certain types of routers.
New in XL Screen Streamer 1.7.0.0 (May 19, 2011)
- New: Ability to set the image size ratio.
- New: Added option for image smoothing. (Helps reduce overall image size.)
- New: Timed capture mode.
- New: Support for secure SMTP.
- Improved: Image capture routines have been optomized for performance.
- Improved: Image compression has been improved to provide about a 10% increase in performance.
- Fixed: FTP mode was not properly setting the image quality property.
New in XL Screen Streamer 1.6.4.0 (May 19, 2011)
- New: Template options including time out message and refresh interval can now be customized.
- Improved: Web viewer and LAN viewer have been combined into one single option. The specific option for LAN viewer is no longer available.
- Improved: Default index page now uses graphics to display the available viewers.
- Fixed: SSL certificate path and SFTP private key path can now be cleared.
New in XL Screen Streamer 1.6.3.0 (Oct 15, 2010)
- New: Added ability to specify the FTP server timeout.
- Fixed: FTP upload interval was not being set correctly.
New in XL Screen Streamer 1.6.2.0 (Sep 27, 2010)
- Now supports SFTP servers.
New in XL Screen Streamer 1.6.1.0 (Sep 10, 2010)
- New: Image transfer quality is now displayed on the status bar.
- New: FTP mode test function to fully test your FTP settings and validate that XL Screen Streamer can read and write to your FTP server.
- Improved: Added more status messages when in FTP mode, you will now see when the stream has started, began uploading to the FTP server, and has been aborted.
- Fixed: Active window capture did not work properly in FTP mode.
- Fixed: FTP mode will no longer transfer the mouse cursor coordinates file, mouse cursor is now part of the image.
- Fixed: FTP mode would stall if the program failed to connect to the FTP server.
- Fixed: Email message text box could cover the send button when large fonts were set in Windows.
- Fixed: Some sections of the settings dialog did not have a theme applied.
New in XL Screen Streamer 1.5.1.0 (Sep 10, 2010)
- New: Secure server mode using SSL.
- New: Server mode can now be selected from the run button.
- New: Added new command line options to start a specific server mode.
- Improved: Port wizard now supports more UPnP enabled routers.
- Fixed: Default email template did not include the server password.
New in XL Screen Streamer 1.4.1.0 (Apr 30, 2010)
- The internal web server has been completely redesigned resulting in a huge performance increase.
- New network transfer graph that shows the average server transfer rate.
- FTP upload interval can now be defined.
- Capture settings are now saved between sessions.
- New support for streaming to Android devices.
- New IP based security to allow or ban specific IP addresses.
New in XL Screen Streamer 1.3.1.0 (Jan 25, 2010)
- Added: Template editor for email invites.
- Added: Client viewers can now detect when a stream has ended and alert the user.
- Improved: Screenshots will now include the mouse cursor as part of the image.
- Improved: Screenshot routine works about 50% faster.
- Improved: Reduced the number of requests needed to stream images from the server by 66%.
- Improved: Reduced number of connections needed per client.
- Improved: Server can now handle twice as many users on Windows XP, Vista, and 7.
- Improved: Server response time increased by 20%.
- Fixed: Closing the program while the server is active could cause it the hang in the background.
- Fixed: Mouse cursor would lag/freeze in the advanced viewer.
- Fixed: Bug reporting feature could timeout on slower Internet connections.
New in XL Screen Streamer 1.2.0.1 (Jan 25, 2010)
- Added: Customizable templates. The index and viewer pages can now all be modified using your favorite HTML editor.
- Added: FTP server mode. Allows you to use an external web server by connecting via FTP to upload the screen images.
- Fixed: Basic web viewer could end the stream prematurely if the server took too long to respond.
- Fixed: Check for update feature was broken.
New in XL Screen Streamer 1.1.4.0 (Jan 25, 2010)
- Added: Copy URL to clipboard button for quick access to the IP addresses.
- Improved: Index page is now cleaner and easier to use.
- Improved: Drawing on an overlay will now take less resources.
- Fixed: Window overlay could show a blank dialog that would take up the entire screen in Windows XP.
- Fixed: Overlay Tools dialog was not accessible on a 2nd monitor.
- Fixed: Overlay Tools button is now disabled in Windows XP. (This feature is only compatible with Windows Vista.)
- Fixed: Capture area highlight now displays correctly in Windows XP.
New in XL Screen Streamer 1.0.4.1 (Jan 25, 2010)
- Added: Overlay tools.
- Added: Active Window capture type.
- Added: Mouse cursor support.
- Improved: UPnP Port Forwarding Wizard.
- Improved: Help file.