11/05/2008

TrafMeter 8.4. What's new:
- New feature: redirect packets to a specified TCP port number
- New feature: date range for filters
- New feature: storing IP Address Groups in external files

08/29/2008

TrafMeter 8.2. What's new:
- The built-in DNS Server
- New runtime library (Microsoft Visual Studio 2008)
- Many minor bug fixes

04/09/2008

TrafMeter 8.0. What's new:
- Support for any x64 Windows including Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008 x64 Editions
- TrafReport (the utility for viewing the traffic reports) is rewritten completely in order to be better!
- New feature: Port redirect in built-in NAT engine
- New feature: "Any authenticated user" can be used during creating of the rule
- New feature: Creating backup for XML traffic reports
- New feature: Squid-compatible format of Host Header log (to use the analyzers like Webalizer)
- Interface improvement for managing the user accounts in TrafMeter Administrative Console
- The significant performance optimization (to reduce the CPU usage) when blocking a lot of amount of packets
- Many small bugs fixed

07/10/2007

TrafMeter 7.5. What's new:
- Fixed bug with detecting network adapters under Microsoft Windows Vista.
- Added built-in NAT (network address translation) engine.
- Added auto-refreshing the list of network adapters (you can plug and unplug network adapters when Traffic Capture is running).
- New capture engine (solves compatibility problems with many firewalls).
- New Capture Mode called "Strong" (allows blocking all networking packets when TrafMeter Service is down).
- New feature: auto-sending Short Messages from Administrative Console to connected users when the traffic limit is exceeded.
- New feature: "Reverse counter" (allows to count the traffic in descending manner).
- New feature: Setting up any values of Traffic counters (using TrafMeter Administrative Console or built-in webserver).

10/10/2006

TrafMeter 6.6. What's new:
- The purpose of TrafMeter Service Monitor is significantly extended. From this moment, it can also be used as an authentication agent running on remote computers that allows to construct traffic rules based on usernames. The authentication of the users can be performed by TrafMeter native authentication protocol or by Windows Domain authentication. This feature solves problems with counting the traffic in DHCP-based network and spoofing IP- or MAC- addresses by the users.
- Added Windows Domain authentication mode for TrafMeter Service Monitor.
- New feature: The list of currently authenticated users can be viewed in TrafMeter Administrative Console.
- TrafMeter migrated to new development environment (Microsoft Visual Studio 2005) and started using new shared runtime libraries to increase an overall stability of the application. However, it requires installed Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 on your PC.

01/24/2006

TrafMeter 6.4. What's new:
- Added creating unlimited number of user accounts and assigning to specific user the permission for remote viewing the following parameters of traffic filters: the current traffic counters, the current speed and the traffic to exceed the limit.
- Added address groups which you can use in traffic rules.
- Added "work hours" for the traffic filter.
- Added "work hours" for the traffic filter.
- Added a traffic limit at the traffic filter level.
- Many other minor changes added and bugs fixed (too long for listing here)

10/17/2005

TrafMeter 6.1. What's new:
- New design of packet-filtering firewall.
- Allowed using network interfaces in rules.
- Improving zeroing traffic counters: it is not required that TrafMeter Service works at midnight.

08/30/2005

TrafMeter 6.0. What's new:
- Fully new design of TrafMeter Administrative Console which allows simplifying a management of filters and rules
- Added new type of rules for counting traffic by hostname (DNS or NetBIOS)
- New feature: Stateful Inspection in TrafMeter rules. This lets creating more flexible rules for packet-filtering (firewall)
- New feature: counting FTP traffic (Passive and Active FTP Modes are supported)
- Added a rotation for log files (to prevent the application log files from growing unexpectedly)
- Many other bugs fixed (too long for listing here)

05/02/2005

TrafMeter 5.9 (build 321). What's new:
- "Flicker-free" drawing of the graph
- New feature: Administration Console connects automatically to TrafMeter service at startup with blank password
- More stable implementation of MD5 algorithm (without using Microsoft CryptoAPI)
- Fixed bug with restoring icon of TrafMeter Service Monitor in the try when taskbar recreated

04/20/2005

TrafMeter 5.9. What's new:
- Traffic shaper that allows to setup maximum speed of bytes per second for specific filter
- Added analyzing packets with 802.1q VLAN tag
- Better compatibility with personal firewalls
- Added right align of traffic counters in the main grid
- Memory usage of HTTP Host Headers collector was reduced

02/16/2005

TrafMeter 5.7. What's new:
- Added host name resolver in Rule Editor
- Added changing the size of Packet Collector (Packet Collector is expanded up to 5000 positions)
- Added sounds alerts in TrafMeter Administrative Console when error message is appeared
- Fixed bug with incorrect displaying the MAC addresses in new filter after its copying

01/13/2005

TrafMeter 5.6. What's new:
- Added capturing the packets from up to 32 network adapters simultaneously
- Added a feature for zeroing the traffic counters on a daily or monthly basis
- Added a feature for reloading the filterset "on the fly"
- New XP icons on the toolbar in TrafMeter Administrative Console
- Fixed bug of viewing the service status by Mozilla Forefox browser

12/14/2004

TrafMeter 5.5. What's new:
- New optimization for memory usage for the filterset
- Unlimited number of rules in the filters
- New features for creating rules: processing SYN flag in TCP packet, detecting ICMP echo reply packets
- Using char data type for storing counters in a database (maybe useful for Microsoft Access Database because it doesn't have bigint data type)
- Visual improvements in TrafMeter Administrative Console: XP styles, XP menu

10/26/2004

TrafMeter 5.2. What's new:
- New feature: Counting unencrypted VPN packets captured from Ethernet interface. VPN packets can be compressed using MPPC algorithm (RFC 2118)
- Added a feature to exclude recording traffic counters of specific filters to reports.
- Added a feature to use function CONVERT() while recording HTTP Host Headers into MSSQL database.
- Packet Collector is expanded in 2 times.

09/29/2004

TrafMeter 5.1. What's new:
- TrafMeter package contains new tool for viewing the Traffic Reports (trafreport.exe).

08/26/2004

TrafMeter 5.0. What's new:
- The program has been splitted in two versions: TrafMeter and TrafMeter Lite.
- Support a traffic capture from USB network devices.
- Added a faster access to Traffic Reports from System Tray (using TrafMeter Service Monitor).
- New rule condition allows to count a traffic depending on a time and a day of week.
- Added a feature for changing a number of bytes in megabytes.
- Copying filters within the filterset allows setting up filters based on filter template.
- An optimized logic of recording data in databases.
- Auto scaling mode for traffic graph.
- A lot of minor tweaks.

04/12/2004

TrafMeter 4.4. What's new:
- Local Address Table (LAT) can hold unlimited number of records
- Fast algorithm for searching an address inside LAT
- New delimiter between starting IP address and ending IP address during importing LAT from an external plaintext file (see manual)
- Important notice for upgrading from TrafMeter 4.3 and lower: LAT must not contain overlapped ranges of IP addresses pairs
- Added 2-hour traffic samples in monthly XML traffic report
- Fixed bug with updating a link to XSL file in a prolog of XML traffic reports

12/18/2003

TrafMeter 4.3. What's new:
- Added Host Header Logging. This allows recording into plaintext file or into database the host names obtained by analyzing a content of HTTP request and an amount of transferred bytes during HTTP session.

11/26/2003

TrafMeter 4.2. What's new:
- New optimized protocol of exchanging data between TrafMeter Service and TrafMeter Administration Console
- Switching visible/invisible state of color curves on the graph by "one click"

11/10/2003

TrafMeter 4.1. What's new:
- allowed to restart TrafMeter Service using TrafMeter Service Monitor
- fixed bug with incorrect displaying a name of the network adapter after its selection

10/08/2003

TrafMeter 4.0. What's new:
- New packet capture engine allowing to block packets like the firewall
- Capturing the packets from the several network adapters simultaneously
- Running as the "native" Windows NT service
- Remote administration
- New features in XML Traffic Reports
- Traffic limits

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Some news about releases are skipped here

06/11/2001

TrafMeter 1.0 was released