1.3.10

• Drag & drop reordering. Click and hold anywhere on a probe, then drag to the desired new location, and release.
• Full control over creating and editing favorite sets. When creating or editing a favorite, you are now given a large multi-line textbox for entering hosts within the favorite. Hosts in the textbox can be one per line, comma-separated, or any combination of new lines and commas.
• Numerous minor UI changes, including:
  • Edit alias button is disabled and grayed out if no host name is entered.
  • Subtle placeholder text in textbox if no host name is entered.
  • Short animation on popup notification window when it first appears.
  • Removed the system animation for context menus in the menu bar, because sometimes the animation would appear to flicker.
  • Most image files have been replaced by vector graphics. Not a visible change, though some icons have changed slightly.

1.3.8

• New options window. The options window was given a minor makeover and now uses a vertical tab layout. This allows room for additional option screens in the future.
• New Notifications tab in the options window for configuring popup notifications. You can now save a default popup notification setting.
• New feature to auto-dismiss popup notifications. This is currently configured through the Notifications tab in the options window.
• New feature to play a sound when a host comes up (previously you could only play sounds when a host went down).
• If you have an alias set for a host, the alias is now shown in popup notifications and email alerts.
• Bug fix: TCP port pings to IPv6 targets now work. If pinging a port on an IPv6 address, wrap the address in brackets, such as [::1]:443 where ::1 is the target IPv6 address and 443 is the target TCP port.

1.3.4

• Bug fix: A crash would occur if popup notifications were set to display only when minimized and a host status change occurred. Thanks @chuckbales for the bug report!

1.3.3

• Improved handling of loading hosts from a text file to account for empty lines and comments. Thanks @larntz for adding this feature!
• Added a Test button to the Email Alerts tab so that you can validate and test email alerting. Thanks @bodagetta for the suggestion.
• Added a Test button to the Audio Alerts tab that plays the audio file you've selected.
• Added simple informational text to the Email Alerts and Audio Alerts tabs.
• Bug fix: Logging status changes would fail if multiple hosts changed status at the same time. This has been corrected. Thanks @Sola1991 for the bug report.
• Bug fix: When setting a default configuration that includes email alerts with authentication, the config write would fail. This has been corrected. Thanks @wndncg for the bug report.
• Bug fix: Aliases would not show when loading hosts from the command line or after selecting a favorite set. This has been corrected. Thanks @MeatyFresh for the bug report.
• Bug fix: Added error checking to audio alert playback.

1.3.2

• New option to trigger playing a sound when a host goes down. The setting is found under the Audio Alerts tab on the options window. Thanks @larntz for adding this feature!
• Bug fix: Using the log file feature would not work on IPv6 hosts or hosts doing a TCP port ping due to invalid characters in the file name that was being generated. This is now checked and logging will work in those situations.

1.3.1

• New traceroute probe! In the hostname box, type 'T/name_or_ip' and it'll perform a traceroute right in a probe window. This feature will become more apparent in a future release, and additional probe types are planned. Eventually, the old separate traceroute window will go away.
• New option to log status changes to a text file. This option only writes to the log when a host goes down or up. The output is in a tab delimited format that is suitable for Excel or database imports. Note: vmPing does not lock the file, so logging will fail if the file is opened by Excel and vmPing tries to write to the file.
• Fix for vmPing no longer reading hostnames from the command line.
• New command line option to specify a file containing a list of hostnames. One host per line. The file is read at startup and vmPing immediately begins pinging each host. Remember to use quotes if your file path contains spaces. Usage: 'vmPing.exe <path_to_file>'
• Darkened the default color for DNS and traceroute probes. This is not yet customizable.
• The control bar that appears when you hover over a probe window is now darker (50% black with 50% transparency). The icons are now darker and the highlight style was changed to accommodate the new colors.
• Re-styled the custom dialog window so it's wider and uses a smaller font.
• Extra tooltips explaining the options under Options -> Log Output.

1.3.0

Most of the changes in this release are under the hood. Code has been refactored to make way for future enhancements. Please let me know if you encounter any bugs.

Here are the visible changes:

• The project now targets .NET 4.5. It previously targeted .NET 4.0.
• New DNS probe! In the hostname box, type 'D/name_or_ip' and it will perform a DNS lookup. This feature is fairly hidden at the moment, but will become more apparent in a future release. Additional probe types are planned.
• Renamed 'Change Log' to 'Status History'.
• Most dialog boxes have been converted to custom dialog boxes.
• Added an error icon to custom dialog boxes when displaying error-type messages.
• Options -> Advanced -> Don't fragment: This control is now a checkbox and it now includes an information popup that explains the option.
• Don't fragment option now defaults to off.
• The generic background logo in each probe window no longer re-appears after stopping a probe.

1.2.15

• Added the ability to customize the colors. Most colors within the application can now be set to your liking. To access: open the application options and then select the Layout tab.

1.2.12

• Added advanced ICMP options:
  • Set a custom time to live value.
  • Option to set / unset the "don't fragment" flag in the packet.
  • Set ICMP message size.
  • Set custom ICMP message data.

1.2.11

• The options window now has a checkbox for saving your vmPing settings to disk.
• TCP port ping intervals can now go below 4 seconds and is tied to your ping interval setting.
• If you downloaded v1.2.10, this releases fixes improper writing of SMTP credentials to the config file.