[Feb 2008] Release of PingFu Iris, PingFu UDP, ATGG updates!

[ForeverNotYours]

Announcing the new release of our PingFu Iris, PingFu UDP, and AutoTunnel GG updates!

Posted below [first reply] is the list of fixes, changes, enhancements.

Enjoy! Please post your feedback or support requests in the appropriate forum.

[ForeverNotYours]

List of changes [partial]

Fixes
1. Blue Screen of Death with McAfee Antivirus Enterprise 8.5
2. Default Local Port conflicts with Kaskersky, NOD32, other antivirus applications with 'email / protocol scanners' - that resulted in applications not being tunneled for some users.
3. Several crashes in the PingFu Iris/UDP/ATGG codebases - one of them was related to application launcher, others related to UDP tunneling over time.
4. Failure of UDP tunneling on Windows Vista while using our proxification drivers (only worked with ProxyCap for some users).
5. Failure of NTLM Authentication for some users (on some NTLM/ISA proxy servers)
6. Failure of Logging / creation of Application list files on Vista
7. Incorrect display of European server status for US subscribers logged on via the European client - while they are logged onto the US servers automatically, the server status was not being updated
8. Issues with the storage of proxy authorization [user/pass] in the registry - they are now stored in the binary format, which eliminates all such problems. Some users earlier had to re-enter them each time.
9. Better handling of HTTP status messages from proxy servers
10. Better testing of Bridge Ports to eliminate unnecessary selection of unfavourable bridge ports (lots of you may have seen bridge port 143 - that is undesirable, and not required in most cases)
11. Cosmetic change - Active Connections window in the Status Monitor page will now show full application names where available (was earlier chopping them off e.g. iexplorer.ex instead of iexplore.exe
12. Feb 12, 2008 - Fixed crash when user clicks 'Browse' button when adding new applications (on some systems)
13. Feb 12, 2008 - Proxy Credentials are now cleared correctly when switching to 'Firewall-Only' Configuration
14. Feb 12, 2008 - Banner files now saved in the correct folder - %APPDATA%\ArtOfPing on Windows 2000, XP, Vista
15. Feb 19, 2008 - Added option to supply Command Line Parameters when Adding a New Application. Useful for game mods!
16. Feb 19, 2008 - Fixes of miscellaneous small memory leaks / bugs that potentially could lead to instability.
17. Feb 19, 2008 - PingFu UDP and AutoTunnel GG updated so that the 'Submit support ticket' button now sends the user to the correct forum.
18. Feb 19, 2008 - PingFu UDP and AutoTunnel GG updated so that the tooltips (tray icon bubbles) show the correct product name, not PingFu Iris.
19. Feb 24, 2008 - Fixed issue on Vista when some games/applications required administrative elevation to be launched hence launches failed
20. Feb 24, 2008 - Fixed issue with McAfee drivers [blue screen of death] - rare bug
21. Feb 24, 2008 - Fixed crash in code which tests auto detected/manually configured connection settings - crash occurs when it finds no working ports to tunnel through.

Enhancements
1. New 'Add Application to List' button to allow you to automatically add a new, unsupported, or undetected application to application list! No more depending upon our support to get a new app working
2. New NTLM test performs a connection test using the NTLM settings, ensuring that only correct NTLM credentials are entered. Should now support usernames including DOMAINs as well e.g. NT\Administrator
3. Statusbar now shows whether logged into USA server or Euro server
4. "Open Log Folder" button in the Status Monitor page to allow you to quickly locate your logs to send to Support for troubleshooting.



Changes
1. Important Note - Local Port has now changed by default for all users to 2020 from 1080. This is to prevent filtering by intrusive protocol scanners of Antivirus apps. If (and only if) you had browser/other apps manually configured to use localhost port 1080, please change that to port 2020.


Known Issues
1. Final Fantasy XI disconnects at random periods of time
2. LOTRO: EU issues - we are working on this
3. FlyFF - does not tunnel [gameguard error]
4. Rare crashes over long periods of UDP tunneling - seem to be fixed
5. Latency issues from time to time [we do not know whether the error is user-side or at our end, since these are rare]

All these issues are on our list to examine. Any crashes have the highest priority.

[ForeverNotYours]

Installation

Important Note: You must, for safety's sake, reboot before you install the updated version of PingFu Iris, UDP, or AutoTunnel GG. To miss a reboot may cause the install to not overwrite existing files, and lead to issues



Download

Please visit our main website to download the required files
http://www.artofping.com/