v2.000  September 02, 2004

• Demo and full version are now the same version. You simply unlock the demo version with a serial key.
• Windows 2003 and Windows XP SP2 support added and fully tested.
• Added KILOBYTES/second information for each socket in the display. Allowing you to see the speeds each socket on your system is sending and receiving.
• Added another fix to socket spy when closing the window when it is minimized
• Updated country database (30% bigger), should now cover even more countries.
• Reduced memory impact of Port Explorer on your system, in some cases a 20 fold decrease in physical memory utilization.
• Added ability to show either local and/or remote traffic in the window log. 
• Added better IPv6 socket detection in the main list and in socket spy.
• Fixed bug in WHOIS utility when the whois server returned too much data.
• Hundreds of minor bug fixes and tweaks to increase usability, stability and reliability of Port Explorer.

v1.800  September 12, 2003

• Now fully compatible with Windows 2003.
• Many dialogs will now auto-close and reopen when you want to view information about another process/socket.
• Process List utility added, with added ability to use it in conjuction with socket spy.
• The Process Viewer window now also shows the full commandline (NT/2K/XP/2003 systems), using the same trick that the DiamondCS CmdLine utility uses.
• Socket Spy data format changed to be faster and make the capture.bin file more compact.
• Bug fixed in Socket Spy when corrupted headers are detected.
• Socket Spy now remembers column widths and orders.
• Added optional path for the logfile in registry (read helpfile "Tips and Tricks" for more details).
• Fixed a rare bug that was caused by looping parent and child processes.
• Lots of misc. small additions, tweaks and speedups.

v1.700  June 12, 2003

• Fixed a problem to do with the program K9 which reported the incorrect proxy settings in the window log due to the methods used by K9.
• Fixed a GUI issue when the user had fonts that were larger or smaller than normal.
• Enhanced the DLL, several speed and performance improvements.
• Various tweaks and small bug fixes.

v1.680  June 03, 2003

• Added automatic IP-to-Country resolving of all remote IP addresses (there is now a Country column in the main display, file log, and window log).
• Added IP-to-Country capability to the Lookup utility.
• Resolve Utility now uses the IP database to locate countries (more accurate than the previous method).
• Fixed a possible lockup which could occur on 2K/XP machines with process resolving.
• Fixed a possible lockup during shutdown.
• Fixed a possible crash in Lookup dialog when searching for items not in the database.
• New evaluation version has more features enabled, including the Socket Spy packet-sniffer.
• Each resolve thread now has its own controller.
• More tweaks to the GUI.

v1.620   May 16,  2003

• Added new Bandwidth Throttling feature for sockets and processes allowing you to restrict how much data is sent per second.
• Increased speed of Ping and Traceroute, also making traceroute display more information.
• Recoded address resolving, making it faster and more accurate, also reduced memory used and thread count.
• Reduced time taken to properly close down Port Explorer.
• Reduced disk access everytime a socket was updated which helps when running with other programs and overall CPU usage.
• Trojan Detection improved and now uses even less CPU.
• Allowed icon imagelist to reduce its size saving memory.
• Fixed resolving threads not returning a small amount of memory on exit.
• Made all threads have less stack space decreasing memory usage a bit.
• Fixed a case where some NETSTAT sockets were incorrectly stating they were being spied upon or blocked.
• EXE size reduced considerably (around 50KB) due to some pruning of resources.
• Lots of cleanups and small tweaks

v1.600   April 5,  2003

• Fixed SocketSpy window saving its position incorrectly when minimized.
• Fixed rare bug in DLL with apps that use socket functions overlapping with closesocket().
• Fixed a possible bug in which memory for a socket may not be released.
• Fixed small issue in resolve utility with displaying very large hostnames.
• Added more states for status of sockets.
• Stopped a DLL being used by Port Explorer when on operating systems other than Windows 95, decreasing memory usage on all other Operating Systems.

v1.510   March 10,  2003

• Fixed a rare issue with Clear Window Log.
• Various language updates.

v1.500   March 6, 2003

• Added new traffic logging capability (logs to both window and file).
• New easy-to-use packet viewer for Socket Spy with a hex-editor influence.
• Socket Spy remembers window size and position, and is now fully resizable.
• Whois Utility improved and more servers added.
• Optimisations to Port Explorer and the LSP DLL to further reduce resource use.
• Memory interface redesigned.
• Italian language added.
• Commandline parameter '-m' added for automatic minimise-to-tray on startup.
• Improved performance (stress-tested in a 100mb/sec Local Area Network).
• Lots of minor fixes.

v1.4x   February 2003

• Private beta team releases.

v1.350   January 9, 2003

• Some Windows XP users reported 'menu blackening'. This was caused by Windows XP stealing the menu brush handle, but we've developed a workaround.
• Added UDP remote address and remote port information (you can now see DNS lookups and other UDP-based IP addresses).
• Fixed a rare problem where in some circumstances people were unable to run the EXE due to a strange issue in the anti-debug routines.
• "System" socket detection is now more reliable, fixing problems some people had where all sockets appeared as system ones.
• The closing-down dialog now hides the main window, and also fixed a possible problem that may occur if the user clicked Exit twice in quick succession.
• Fixed packets and bytes sent/received being incorrect in rare cases.
• Added "double-click" to the main display to show properties of the selected process.
• German translation added.
• Updates to helpfile - translators section updated, OS Specific Notes updated, and this page added.