What's New


 

Version 6.9

New Features:

  • Support Windows 7 32bit and 64bit Edition.

  • Packet Player: Support replay multiple packet files simultaneously.

  • Globally added two new options: alias(or hostname) and address can be displayed simultaneously.

  • There is a new option in the global Option settings users can enable to prevent hibernation when capturing.

  • New protocol ISL and FCoE can be recognized now.

  • Decoders for ISL, FCoE protocols.

  • Support Windows Server 2008 32bit and 64bit Edition.

Enhancement:

  • A online help section activated in Start Page below Quick Link.

  • The Loopback won't be shown in the NIC test wizard.

Bug Fixed:

  • A wrong value has been displayed in the decode area for IP Fragment Offset.

  • Users login as other windows ID will have to reactivate Capsa each time.

Version 6.8

New Features:

  • New Option for "Auto save packet file" in General Settings to specify the length of each packet to be saved.

  • New GEO collum in Endpoint View.

  • New dock window for "Colasoft Centre".

  • New protocols decoder supported: BitTorrent, eMule, MSSQL, TNS.

Enhancement:

  • Updated the lib for National IP Address information.

  • Improved the DNS analysis modules.

Bug Fixed:

  • When the program is not running, openning unsupported packet file by double click may cause incorrect value under count value in Summary View and Diagnosis view.

Version 6.7

New Features:
  • 110 new protocols supported, including Time, Nameserver, Tacacs, Xns-time, JE, Discard, Systat, Qotd, MSP, Daytime, Msg-auth, Auditd, Ni-ftp, MPM, MPM-snd, Re-mail-ck, La-maint, XNS-ch, XNS-auth, XNS-mail, Tacacs-ds, Mit-ml-dev, CTF, NPP, DCP, Supdup, Swift-rvf, Tacnews, Mcidas, Pwdgen, Cisco-fna, Cisco-tna, Cisco-sys, Statsrv, Emfis-data, Emfis-cntl, GGP, HMP, PRM, RDP, IRTP, NETBLT, DCCP, IDPR, DDP, SDRP, IDRP, DSR, NARP, TLSP, PVP, SMP, PTP, CRTP, CRUDP, PIPE, FC, SPS, SNP, ISO-TP4, SKIP, CFTP, EIGRP Hello, EIGRP Query, EIGRP Reply, EIGRP Update, Login, Who, Yahoo Messenger, X-Window, ISMP, UMA, ISO-TP0, ISO-IP, BFTP, SGMP, SGMP-traps, NAMP, Send, RIS, MPP, CDC, Http-mgmt, PIP, Rtsps, Pdap, NSRMP, RSVP_tunnel, IBM-app, SNPP, RCP, NMSP, IDFP, SCC Security, Submission, Password-chg, SMIP, XDAS, CFS, RAMP, ACNET, Sflow, CRIP, TRIP, Mnet-discovery, Rwhois, SCCP, Citrix ICA, Rexec, Biff, RTP with VLC.
  • Support decoding GGP, ISMP, IGRP, EIGRP, CDP, CGMP.
Bug Fixed:
  • DHCP decoder may cause program hang when decoding certain DHCP packets.
  • On Windows x64 platform, cannot start capture due to packet buffer size validation failure if available physical system memory larger than 2GB.


Version 6.6

New Features:
  • Support Windows Vista 64-bit Edition.
  • 15 new protocols supported: Tunnel, Echo, CMIP-Agent, CMIP-Man, SFTP, RAP, RLP, Radius, Radius-acct, Radius-dynauth, eMule, PPlive, SShell, Kerberos, Windows NLB
Improvements:
  • Port 4443 now recognised as AIM protocol.
Bug Fixed:
  • Packet distribution statistics dose not work when restart capture after open an exsiting project file.
  • The 1 byte packet value filter dose not work correctly with byte masks.

Version 6.5

New Features:
  • Analysis of 4 IM protocols: MSN, Yahoo Messenger, AIM and ICQ; real-time message display and record;
  • User Wizard to test NIC and check installation and deployment.
Improvements:
  • Alter Log file format from ANSI to UTF-8.
Bug Fixed:
  • Graph view: crash after multi-clicking on "compare mode";
  • Report: blank "traffic" and "packet" under Top titles of Report under Windows 2000 + SP4 and Windows 2003 + SP1.

Version 6.4

New Features:
  • Supports Windows Vista.
  • Supports Windows XP 64-bit Edition and Windows Server 2003 64-bit Edition.
Improvements:
  • New protocol decoders: Gopher, ICP, SCTP, VRRP.
  • Add "Custom Columns" toolbar button in the Endpoints, Protocols, Conversations, Packets and Logs view.
Bug Fixed:
  • Email analyzer: Incorrect email address extracted from certain MIME header.
  • Demo version: Log buffer limitation should be 512KB, the old version limited it to 512 bytes.

Version 6.3

New Features:
  • Packet Builder, constructing custom packets and sending them into the network.
  • New analyzer setting page in Options.
Improvements:
  • New protocol decoders: PPTP, RSVP, COPS, L2TP, LPD, ICMPv6, IPv6, MSN, QQ.
  • Packet Player now supports burst mode and loop sending.
  • Enhanced send packets in Capsa now supports burst mode and loop sending.
  • Add 'Locate Explorer Node' toolbar button in all sub-views.
Bug Fixed:
  • Log view didn't refresh automatically.
  • Selected columns didn't work when exporting list items to txt, csv or html files.
  • No data in 'Decode' column when exporting packet list to txt, csv or html files.
  • In project setting, the bandwidth value of adapter will become negative if enter a value large than 2147.
  • Summary view didn't remember column status and width.

Version 6.2

New Features:

  • Send packets.
  • Built-in tools: Packet Player, MAC Address Scanner and Ping Tool.
  • Customizable external tools.
Improvements:
  • New protocol decoders: AH,  ESP, GRE, EGP, IGMP, IPX, SPX, NCP, RIP v1, RIP v2, OSPF, SAP, HSRP.
  • New protocol identification: NetWare IPX, NetWare Link Services Protocol, NetWare RIP Reply, NetWare SAP.
  • Optimized packet protocol identification process, 200% faster.
  • Improved statistic counter updating efficiency, 100% faster.
  • Manual host name resolution now supports reviewing the results.
  • Improved TCP stream view updating method.
Bug Fixed:
  • Some protocols field may displays incorrect value in decode column of packets list view.
  • Packet decode view couldn't restore protocol field selection correctly. Error packet and lost packet counter data didn't reset to zero when clear project data.

Version 6.1

  • New Reports view displays the real time statistics reports of global or specific groups
  • New display type combo box in the Protocols view
  • New Decode column in the Packets view
  • New Next Sequence Number of the decoded packets in the Packets view
  • New Bytes Send/Receive Ratio and Packets Send/Receive Ratio displayed in the Endpoints view when the number of packets exceed 10
  • Enhanced protocol identification now supports loopback, SNMP Trap, SSDP, ICP, COPS, RTP, IP Fragment, GDP, HSRP, MPLS, XNS and AARP
  • Enhanced MPLS packets decoding
  • Enhanced import/export packets file in TCP DUMP(*.dmp) format
  • Enhanced resolve host name manually in every views which displays the IP address
  • Enhanced the size of chart samples
  • Enhanced the details of ICMP decoding

 

Version 6.0

  • New Expert Matrix view shows all communicating endpoints within your network
  • New Conversations view now supports physical, IP, TCP and UDP conversation.
  • New DNS analysis module provides DNS-specific diagnoses and DNS query log.
  • New protocol decoders Finger, TFTP, Telnet and SSH
  • Enhanced protocol identification now supports RIP, RIPV1, RIPV2, RIPV3, RIPV4, QQ, BitTorrent
  • Enhanced project explorer - Groups Internet address by its geographical location
  • Enhanced project explorer - Displays the realtime status of each nodes
  • Enhanced graphs view extensive use of GDI+ supports shading, antialiasing and highlighting
  • Exporting chart now supports PNG and EMF format
  • Passively resolve IP addresses instead of automatically resolve
  • Importing packets file now supports EhterPeek v7, ArioPeek v9 and OmniPeek v9 format
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