Version history for Connectify

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Changes for v7.3.1 - v8.0

• Hotspot
• Hotspot Shut-off Timer extended to 90 minutes per session for free users
• Fix Android clients not being able to connect when Local Access is disabled.
• Option to ‘Disable Adapter Power Management’ (Under Settings/Advanced) on the Hotspot adapter. This may help users who have client devices all get kicked off or have the hotspot disappear if sharing Ethernet. You may need to reboot your computer after starting a hotspot for the first time for this setting to take full effect in Windows
• Give more time for adapters to come up when starting an Access Point to avoid some instances of ‘Hosted Network unavailable’ and similar failed starts.
• Fix a peer scanning deadlock on background threads
• Fix for some clients devices (mostly Android) avoiding a Hotspot or disconnecting from a Hotspot
• Enable Wi-Fi devices that are software-disabled when starting a Hotspot, instead of informing the user that they should enable their Wi-Fi devices.
• Dispatch
• New, updated Dispatch tutorial
• Fix Dispatch tutorial ‘Do not show this again’ button
• Detect multiple connections to the same network, which can lead to various connectivity issues
• Sort adapter list in Application Settings by most recent connections
• Fixes around secure connection grouping when an interface is set to NEVER or becomes Overlimit
• Reset connections on other adapters when setting an Application to a specific adapter
• General
• New, updated Activation screens
• Protect against deadlocks causing Hotspot and Dispatch UIs to freeze up
• Stabilize license check on some systems
• Fix Installer hang on ‘Checking software conflicts’
• Fix Hotspot/Dispatch hang on launch
• Support for activation behind a proxy that requires authentication
• Fix uninstaller not getting created on some systems during a fresh install
• Automatically start service dependencies if they are disabled (WLAN AutoConfig, Windows Management Instrumentation) and warn during install if these services are not present

Changes for v7.2 - v7.3.1

• Hotspot
• Hotspot Shut-off Timer extended to 90 minutes per session for free users
• Fix Android clients not being able to connect when Local Access is disabled.
• Option to ‘Disable Adapter Power Management’ (Under Settings/Advanced) on the Hotspot adapter. This may help users who have client devices all get kicked off or have the hotspot disappear if sharing Ethernet. You may need to reboot your computer after starting a hotspot for the first time for this setting to take full effect in Windows
• Give more time for adapters to come up when starting an Access Point to avoid some instances of ‘Hosted Network unavailable’ and similar failed starts.
• Fix a peer scanning deadlock on background threads
• Fix for some clients devices (mostly Android) avoiding a Hotspot or disconnecting from a Hotspot
• Dispatch
• New, updated Dispatch tutorial
• Fix Dispatch tutorial ‘Do not show this again’ button
• Detect multiple connections to the same network, which can lead to various connectivity issues
• Sort adapter list in Application Settings by most recent connections
• Fixes around secure connection grouping when an interface is set to NEVER or becomes Overlimit
• Reset connections on other adapters when setting an Application to a specific adapter
• General
• New, updated Activation screens
• Protect against deadlocks causing Hotspot and Dispatch UIs to freeze up
• Stabilize license check on some systems
• Fix Installer hang on ‘Checking software conflicts’
• Fix Hotspot/Dispatch hang on launch
• Support for activation behind a proxy that requires authentication
• - See more at: http://www.connectify.me/introducing-connectify-7-3/#sthash.mzWKQzCL.dpuf

Changes for v7 - v7.2

• New Dispatch Features
• Application Settings: The Applications screen (Settings -> Applications) has been totally redone, and has become a powerful new tool to both understand and control what your applications are doing with your Internet connections.
• The window is scalable. If you stretch it wide, it will show you all of the information on each application in separate columns. If the window is narrower, it will show only the most pertinent information.
• Every application running on your system gets a row in the table. That row turns green whenever it actually accesses the Internet. There are several columns of data: Current Usage, Total Usage and Tracked Connections (open sockets).
• Each application has an Adapter Setting. Selecting this brings up a dialog that lets you select how Dispatch will handle connections from the application:
• ?Smart Load Balancing (Default) - Uses Dispatch’s intelligent load balancing algorithm
• ?Use Only Adapter - assigns the traffic from the application to the specific adapter
• ?Use Any Adapter Except - Allows you to exclude traffic from a specific adapter while still gaining the benefit of using other adapters for the benefit of load balancing
• ?Round Robin - Ensure that each connection from this application ends up on the next available adapter
• ?Lowest Latency - Use the adapter with the lowest latency at the time the connection is made - please note that this will not ensure that another adapter might have lower latency than the one chosen in the future
• ?Do Not Dispatch - Use Windows Default Network as if Dispatch wasn’t started
• ?Blocked - Do not allow any Internet traffic from this application - useful for controlling Internet usage
• Actions ?Reset Connections: Immediately breaks all of that application’s connections (sockets, etc.). This can be useful with applications such a BitTorrent to force them to reopen the sockets when your internet connections have changed.
• ?Reset Usage: Resets the “Total Usage” number to 0, so that tracking starts over.
• cfy72-02 DNS Override -DNS Override - DNS Adapter Selection - When DNS Override is enabled, you can chose to balance the DNS requests using ‘Any Adapter’ (previous behavior; follows rules from Interface Selection tab), ‘Lowest Latency’, or ‘Round Robin’.
• Ability to hide News and Banners
• New Hotspot Features
• Firewall state of unknown clients - The default firewall rules from the Settings tab now affect clients prior to them being identified and showing up in the Clients tab as connected clients.
• Bug Fixes
• Hotspot
• Properly load ‘Always Show Ad-Hoc’ setting on UI start
• Work even when Windows Firewall has been uninstalled completely from the system
• Identify when Domain Group Policy forbids Connectify
• Dispatch
• Fix incoming connections to local servers (RDP fix, uTorrent opened port fix)
• More logging around Dashboard communication issues
• Improve Dashboard memory usage
• Fix interface latency/reliability measurements when WAN connections come and go
• General
• Fix case when Connectify service loses activation after reboot
• Fix upgrades from version 3.x not being able to stay activated
• Fix activation fallback methods on systems without default browsers set
• Add service dependency to fix activation on systems where Connectify service came up before the WMI service
• More logging around service installation and packet redirection errors
• Set Windows 8/8.1 to not minimize number of concurrent connections.
• Fix installer crash at ‘Checking for software conflicts’
• Fix for ‘Only one copy of installer can be run at once’
• Improved cleanup of old ports in Hotspot and Dispatch NAT layer

Changes for v7.00 Beta 1 - v7

• There are a lot of new goodies for both Hotspot and Dispatch users here, and we think you’re going to love it. For starters, Connectify 7 now includes Dispatch Lite, a free, feature-limited version of our popular load-balancing software. More than any previous release, - See more at: http://www.connectify.me/connectify-7-is-here-enjoy-20-off-instantly/#sthash.pGSCTpLI.dpuf

Changes for v6 - v6.0.1

• Fix endless upgrade window popups Fix Hotspot UI window title not changing on license activation Automatically work around DAP 10 bug that caused Dispatch Dashboard to be stuck loading Handle adapters which do not report an MTU Fix client network access icons not updating when hotspot-wide firewall settings changed Support larger client lists (over 100). We were delighted to see that at least one person really had a list of 122 clients which had connected to their hotspot. Fix Ethernet-mode existing DHCP server detection Fix XBox client icon - See more at: http://www.connectify.me/connectify601/#sthash.UCJzsY4k.dpuf

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