August 5, 2022 - Colasoft Capsa Enterprise 15.1

New Features:

  • Add global display filter function, users can set the global display filter in the analysis interface.
  • Add host behavior analysis, analyze the network behavior of IP and services through statistical traffic data.
  • Add filter expression session. Decrypted payload in TCP conversion, for details see Online help (F1).
  • Users can directly set various items of analysis settings on the start page, and can customize the items to be set in the analysis settings.
  • Add advanced filtering function for global display filter, users can write the relationship (and, or, not, and group) between each filter item through the advanced filtering function.
  • Add judgment prompts for packet view. TCP Window Full (red), TCP ZeroWindow (red), and TCP Window Update (prompt).
  • Add exporting pictures function to transaction sequence diagram in TCP transaction analysis.
  • Add conversation TTL field for TCP conversation and UDP conversation.

Improvements:

  • Improve the stuttering problem when switching views under large data volumes.
  • Improve the memory usage during product startup, greatly reducing the memory usage during startup.
  • Optimize the allocation and use of packets display cache, improve the utilization of system memory in the analysis process. Users can customize the maximum packets display cache size.
  • Improve Colasoft Packet Builder tool, support batch editing and packets and support the creation of more packet templates.
  • Improve online query function of threat intelligence.

February 26, 2020 - Colasoft Capsa Enterprise 13.0

New Features:

  • Internet IP device identification feature is added.
  • Replay analysis supports wireless packets decryption.
  • Users can locate related conversations from the Diagnosis Details tab.

Improvements:

  • Packets can be exported in libpcap-nanosecond type.
  • Analysis Profile and Network Profile are merged to be Analysis Settings.
  • Analysis settings are independent per project.
  • Users can configure whether to stop analyzing when available memory is less than a specified threshold.
  • Users can view traffic logs on lower panes.
  • In DPI filter mode, conversation views support script-based display filters.
  • Reconstructed files will be saved in one file folder every 1,000 conversations.
  • Format-supported trace files can be replayed without file extension.

Bugs Fixed:

  • Email analysis for some IMAP4 conversations may cause Capsa locked.
  • HTTP logs cannot be exported automatically.
  • VoIP analysis may cause crash.
  • DPI filter with specific rules doesn't take effect.
  • Copying or exporting the hex data on Hex view of data Flow tab may cause Capsa to crash.
  • IP addresses may be grouped wrongly.
  • Routing Loop and Physical Loop events of Diagnosis settings are displayed as unchecked even though they have been checked.

July 23, 2019 - Colasoft Capsa Enterprise 12.0

New Features:

  • A full traffic decoding feature is provided.
  • DPI filter is provided.
  • Decoding script editor tool is provided.
  • A Service view is added to provide service access statistics.
  • TCP graph stream is added for TCP conversations.

Improvements:

  • Add national flag to geolocation.
  • The hex display of client and server data for TCP and UDP flow is colorized.
  • Users can customize column width or set the column width to default by right-click or shortcut.
  • Users can modify time display precision via Options -> Display Format -> Time precision.
  • IP address location information can be obtained via a find function.
  • The analysis for huge packets is optimized.
  • The packets with incorrect IP header checksum will not be corrected.

April 25, 2018 - Colasoft Capsa Enterprise 11.1

New Features:

  • Users can select which packets they want to replay according to their requirement
  • Packet storage filters are provided
  • Exporting the packets of HTTP conversation in TCP Conversation view is supported
  • Advanced filter can be imported and exported

Improvements:

  • The IP address library is updated
  • The log view is sorted by packet timestamps
  • Sorting conversations by time as default
  • The function of packet compulsive decoding is optimized

April 25, 2018 - Colasoft Capsa Enterprise 11.1

New Features:

  • Users can select which packets they want to replay according to their requirement
  • Packet storage filters are provided
  • Exporting the packets of HTTP conversation in TCP Conversation view is supported
  • Advanced filter can be imported and exported

Improvements:

  • The IP address library is updated
  • The log view is sorted by packet timestamps
  • Sorting conversations by time as default
  • The function of packet compulsive decoding is optimized

February 12, 2018 - Colasoft Capsa Enterprise 11.0

New Features:

  • IPv6 packet analysis is provided
  • Endpoint analysis and conversation analysis based on IPv6 is provided
  • Files transmitted over HTTP protocol can be reconstructed, including HTML files, images, CSS, JS, EXE, etc
  • Files transmitted over FTP protocol can be reconstructed
  • SSL certificates can be reconstructed
  • RTP flow can be analyzed when signaling packets are not captured
  • An SSL Log sub-view is added to the Log view.
  • An X-Forwarded-For field is added to the HTTP Log view

Improvements:

  • Capsa can remember the file path for last replay
  • A "Path" column is added to the Replay tab to display the path of the packet file

Bugs Fixed:

  • Sometimes, the event Duplicated Acknowledgement was misjudged

July 26, 2017 - Colasoft Capsa Enterprise 10.0

New Features:

  • An Interaction Diagram column and a Transport Layer Max ACK Time column are added for TCP Conversation view
  • A Payload column is added for TCP Conversation view and Packet view.
  • Audio and video can be played for SIP VoIP calls based on following codecs: G.711/a, g.711/u, GSM, BV32, Speex, PCM, H.264 (unencrypted), H.263(unencrypted), Mp4v-es
  • Audio and video can be played for H.323 VoIP calls based on following codecs: G.711/a, g.711/u, GSM, H.264(unencrypted), H.263 (unencrypted)

Improvements:

  • VoIP analysis is improved to support both SIP and H.323 protocol
  • MAC address library and IP address library have been updated
  • The calculation for TCP conversation metrics has been updated
  • Average bps, average utilization, and average pps are added for traffic statistics
  • Packet timestamp supports nanosecond, and some statistics are accurate to nanosecond

Bugs Fixed:

  • Capsa crashes when the Packet Decoding pane is minimized to zero
  • The packet is identified as retransmission when the previous packet sequence number reaches the 32-bit integer limit
  • Capsa sometimes hangs on the initializing page when starting a project
  • Capsa sometimes crashes when saving the statistics on the Diagnosis view
  • Network adapters occasionally cannot be detected on Windows 10

January 19, 2017 - Colasoft Capsa Enterprise 9.2

New Features:

  • HTTPS packets can be decrypted with key files
  • Application based traffic analysis and statistics are available
  • An Application view and an Application Explorer are provided
  • More than 1800 built-in applications are provided
  • Custom applications are available
  • A Base64 Codec is provided

Improvements:

  • A Protocol column is added for the Port view
  • A Dup Ack mark is added to the Summary column on the Packet view
  • The display of top charts is optimized
  • The display on HiDPI screen is optimized
  • IP address conflict detection is optimized

Bugs Fixed:

  • The Find box cannot be called out from the Node Explorer
  • Packets cannot be located for a specific diagnosis event on the Diagnosis view

September 6, 2016 - Colasoft Capsa Enterprise 9.1

New Features:

  • Conversation filter is provided to define filter rules for MAC/IP/TCP/UDP conversation
  • Packets can be decoded as specified protocol
  • Packets can be filtered based on time rule
  • Enable batch address/port input for advanced capture filter
  • A Time Sequence tab is added for DNS-based conversation
  • The protocol PPP for POS can be recognized and decoded

Improvements:

  • Name table file supports .csv format
  • An option is added to enable/disable the automatic loading of packet files replayed last time

June 21, 2016 - Colasoft Capsa Enterprise 9.0

New Features:

  • Network traffic can be analyzed based on local processes
  • A Process view and a Process Explorer are provided

Improvements:

  • bps calculation is optimized
  • No "Limited Group" for Node Explorer
  • View Display is optimized
  • Conversation data display is optimized.
  • IP address geographical information library is updated for Colasoft Ping Tool
  • User interface display is optimized for Colasoft Ping Tool
  • MAC address manufacturer information is updated for Colasoft MAC Scanner

Bugs Fixed:

  • Chart cannot be saved sometimes for Colasoft Ping Tool

March 29, 2016 - Colasoft Capsa 8 Enterprise 8.3

Improvements:

  • The recognition of some protocols is more accurate

Bugs Fixed:

  • The Windows 10 operating system logs off from time to time when starting Capsa
  • Added name table cannot be auto-saved
  • Packet files with capitalized extension cannot be replayed
  • Log View settings in Analysis Profile cannot be auto-saved
  • For wireless analysis, no packets are shown on the Packet view when a MAC address is selected in the Node Explorer

Feburary 23, 2016 - Colasoft Capsa Enterprise 8.2

New Features:

  • Support analyzing the traffic of 2-channel wireless AP.
  • Support displaying decoded data in hex in Data Flow sub-view in TCP Conversation view and UDP Conversation view

Improvements:

  • Optimize the display of Data Flow sub-view in TCP Conversation view and UDP Conversation view
  • Support recognizing 1546 protocols and sub-protocols

December 15, 2015 - Capsa Network Analyzer 8.1

New Features:

  • Add online auto-update feature.
  • Add conversation filter.
  • Add signature recognization of DNS packets.

Improvements:

  • Optimize the interface of TCP Flow Analysis.
  • Optimize system architecture, upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit version.
  • A maximum of 100,000 analysis objects are supported in 64-bit version. Packet buffer size can be set as the total idle RAM of the system.
  • Analysis performance is improved greatly.
  • Add field sorting capability in the Log view.
  • Support recognizing 1040 protocols and sub-protocols, support decoding 142 protocols.

Bugs Fixed:

  • Fix the problem of command line calling error.

June 17, 2015 - Capsa Network Analyzer 8.0

New Features:

  • The third-generation Colasoft Traffic Recognition Engine (CSTRE) provides more accurate protocol and application recognition.
  • Add IP fragment packet decoding capability.
  • Add HTTPS stream reassembly decoding capability.
  • Support auto-resolution of domain name and host name.
  • Protocol decoding content can be exported.
  • Add two diagnosis events: physical loop and routing loop.
  • MAC/IP/TCP/UDP Conversation View can be located directly from Packet View.
  • Add packet time shift function to Packet View.
  • Support chunked encoding reassembly and gzip compression decoding in HTTPS stream reassembly content.
  • Colorizing the packets for a conversation in MAC/IP/TCP/UDP Conversation View.
  • Support running Capsa with command lines.
  • 83 new protocols supported: NJACK,6LoWPAN,Adwin-Config,PEEKREMOTE,Etch,AppleMIDI,AR Drone,ACN,ARTNET,BSSGP,TUXEDO,BFD Control,Bitcoin,BT DHT,XCSL,Auto_RP,CWLCCP,Clique-rm,CTDB,CIGI,DPLAY,DCC,DVB-S2,E100,DCP(ETSI),XMCP,GIOP,GPRS,HiSLIP,IEC MMS,IEEE_1588,iFCP,Interlink,ICEP,Kismet,LANforge,LBMR,LAPD,PKTGEN,LBT-RM,LBT-RU,MAC-LTE,MSRP,MS SGSN LLC,Mojito,NORM,NBD,OSC,openflow,PVFS,Pathport,PDCP-LTE,IEEE_1588_PCSP,PANA,RLC,RTPS,RedbackLI,RLM,RMCP,RPCAP,RELOAD,RLC-LTE,SERCOSIII,SAP 822,SPRT,H1,SKTP,Spice,StarTeam,SDCP,Teredo,UDT,UCP,UMA_M,MIOP,BT-uTP,VNC,WOL,waveagent,MQ,WLCCP,YMSG and ZIOP.

Improvements:

  • Address Resolution Options is added.
  • Network Profile is enabled by default when creating a project.

Bugs Fixed:

  • TCP data reassembly display is not accurate.
  • Crash caused by repeated clicks of Replay button after packet replay storage space is full.

August 20, 2014 - Capsa Network Analyzer 7.8 Released

New Features:

  • Adds VoIP analysis, including VoIP analysis profile, call statistics, VoIP dashboard, diagnosis, logs, reports, and VoIP Explorer.
  • Domain based statistics is available.
  • Advanced display filter for packets.
  • Port based statistics is available
  • IMAP4 based emails can be analyzed.
  • Windows Server 2012 support (except for Colasoft Packet Builder).

Improvements:

  • The Packet tab for the TCP Conversation view is optimized to be identical to the Packet view.
  • The color scheme for TCP Transaction Summary Pie Chart is improved.
  • Dashboard is optimized to provide more default graphs.
  • Several built-in reports are added to the Report view.
  • Default Packet Buffer is increased to 128 MB.

February 26, 2013-Capsa Network Analyzer 7.7 Released

New Features:

  • Adds the identification and decoding of the protocols: SIP, SDP, MEGACO/H.248, MGCP, Q931, SAP, H.225, RMI, Oracle, MMS, GOOSE, SMV, and GMRP.
  • Alarm notification now by both audio and email.
  • Added Custom Reporting capability for individual nodes within the Node Explorer.

Bug Fixed:

  • The Analysis Profile Settings dialog box could not be closed when a scheduled project was running.
  • Restored the manufacturer information for the Colasoft MAC Scanner.
  • Resolved Checksum Error in the Summary column on the Packet view when decoding UDP protocol under IPv6.
  • Eliminated program crash during packet file replay.
  • No packets were captured when a capture using multiple NICs was stopped and restarted again.

June 19, 2012-Capsa Network Analyzer 7.6 Released

New Features:

  • You can now schedule task to automatically start a new analysis project at specified time.
  • Configurations of the program can be exported and imported. The configurations include the settings of network profile, analysis profile, dashboard, matrix and report.
  • Display filters are provided for isolating and viewing particular items.
  • You can now add new report with user-defined name and optional statistic items.
  • Packets can be highlighted and noted.

Improvements:

  • Logs can be automatically saved in *.csv format.
  • Capsa can now identify encryption type of AP automatically.
  • An MAC address column is added to the Log tab.
  • Settings for analysis profile have been optimized.
  • Local engine settings are merged into Options on the Menu button.
  • Capsa can now decode Tunnel IP in IP protocol.
  • The analysis profile, Protocol Analysis, is removed.

Bug Fixed:

  • The layout of columns, including column arrangement and column width, cannot be memorized.
  • The Find dialog box cannot remember the search content typed last time.

September 26, 2011-Capsa Network Analyzer 7.5 Released

New Features:

  • Powerful TCP flow analysis for application performance optimization.
  • Add ICQ monitor to analyze and log ICQ activities.
  • Support RADIUS protocol analysis.
  • Intuitive TCP transaction sequence diagram.
  • Enhanced user interface & performance.

Improvements:

  • The layout of Tab view has been optimized, and the computer resource usage is reduced significantly.

Bugs Fixed:

  • The log view statistics are inaccurrately retrieved and displayed sometimes.
  • Occasionally, the program keeps reactivating after a couple of days running.
  • Reports can not dispaly properly sometimes.
  • Bugs in ICMPv4 module.
  • when a project file is replayed, the size of cscproj project file can be automatically changed.
  • Random failure to export a report to PDF.

March 15, 2011-Capsa Network Analyzer 7.4 Released

New Features:

  • Complete support for wireless traffic capture and analysis from all 802.11 a/b/g/n networks.
  • Decryption of WEP/WPA/WPA2 protected packets.

Improvements:

  • Redesigned Start Page layout.
  • Optimized network profile settings that a capture can be started without a network profile.
  • New icons for network tools on the Ribbon.
  • Prompt of wireless disconnection when clicking the start button to start a wireless analysis.
  • A replay bug fixed that a certain type of packets cannot be loaded.

October 20, 2010 - Capsa Network Analyzer 7.3.1

New Features & Improvements:

  • Add Security Analysis Profile to analyze DoS attack, ARP attack and worm activities, etc.
  • Add tab show/hide management panel for the main view.
  • Add Data Storage on the Start Page to configure packet and log save settings.
  • Add Report Logo preview in Report Settings.
  • Add New Packet Storage and Log File Save icon on the Ribbon.
  • Renamed Packet Buffer property page in the Analysis Profile Options to Packet Display Buffer, and the Packet Storage was removed from this page.
  • Redesigned Log Settings property page in the Analysis Profile Options, and add new Export Log Settings to enable/disable log auto saving.

Bug fixed:

  • Reactivation required when switching to other user accounts.
  • Customize Protocol function may not apply.
  • NetRay2.0 and Windows Sniffer (*.cap) packet files replaying incompatible.

June 17, 2010 - Capsa 7.2.1 Newly Released

New Features & Improvements:

  • Support MSN, Yahoo Messenger monitoring.
  • Support saving email content to hard disk.
  • Support opening project file from Capsa 6.9.
  • Display connection number of each node in the Matrix tab.

Bug fixed:

  • The IP address range and mask condition of filter may not work.
  • Cannot change 0 to another number in Analysis Profile Options.
  • No separate check for Windows version of 32/64 bits before network adapter driver registry.
  • Too much time to initiate a project.
  • Wrong Delta Time in Packet tab.

Mar 4, 2010 - Capsa 7.1.2 Newly Released

New Features:

  • Add Duplicate function for Network Profiles and Analysis Profiles in Start Page.

Improvements:

  • New Start Page makes it easy to use.
  • Add Local Engine Setting build in System Menu.
  • Editing function of Network Profile and Analysis Profile moved to context menu.
  • Format and Report setting page moved from "System Options" dialog to "Local Engine Setting" dialog.

Bug fixed:

  • Cannot add new network group in Network Profile when auto network config detection failed.

Feb 1, 2010 - Colasoft Capsa 7.1

New Features:

  • New interface style.
  • New global dash board.
  • New Diagnose view provides overview of related hosts list. Rapidly pinpoint problem hosts.
  • Add Network Profile. It is a series of settings for different network environment, which including Network Group, Name Table, Alarm and Network Bandwidth setting.
  • Add new analysis solutions. Include Global Analysis, Large Traffic Analysis and various frequently-used protocols analysis.
  • Add online real-time alerts.
  • Add new time sequence diagram for TCP conversation. Show both SYN and ACK response of TCP connection.
  • Real-time analysis. Set adapters as source of data collection, which provide an intuitive display of traffic.
  • Replay analysis. Set archive packet files as source of second time analysis. Support various replay speeds and provide retrospective analysis of historical issues.
  • Support customized protocols for Ethernet II, IP, TCP, UDP.
  • Support customized graphs.
  • Support customized report and export as PDF.
  • Enhanced packet filters.

July 1, 2009 - Colasoft Capsa 6.9 R2

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.

Improvements:

  • 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.

Oct 16, 2008 - Colasoft Capsa 6.9

New Features:

  • Globally added two new option: Show Physical address as & Show IP address as.
  • A new option added to prevent hibernation when capturing.
  • Support decoding ISL, FCoE

Improvements:

  • 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.

July 04, 2008 - Colasoft Capsa 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 column in Endpoint View.
  • New dock window for "Online Resources".
  • New protocols decoder supported: Bittorrent, Emule, MSSQL, TNS.

Improvements:

  • 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.

February 21, 2008 - Colasoft Capsa 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.

November 5, 2007 - Colasoft Capsa 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 recognized as AIM protocol.

Bug fixed:

  • Packet distribution statistics dose not work when restart capturing after open an existing project file;
  • The 1 byte packet value filter dose not work correctly with byte masks.

September 3, 2007 - Colasoft Capsa 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.

March 22, 2007 - Colasoft Capsa 6.4

New Features:

  • Supports Windows Vista.
  • Supports Windows XP 64-bit Edition and Windows Server 2003 64-bit Edition (AMD x64 Processor architectures).

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 rather than 512 bytes.

December 13, 2006 - Colasoft Capsa 6.3 build 1073

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.

September 27, 2006 - Colasoft Capsa 6.2

New Features:

  • Send packets
  • Built-in tools: Packet Player, MAC Address Scanner and Ping Tool
  • Customizable external tools

Improvements:

  • New protocol decoders: 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

July 25, 2006 - Colasoft Capsa 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 Packet 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

April 25, 2006 - Colasoft Capsa 6.0

New Features

  • 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

January 20, 2006 - Colasoft Capsa 5.5

New Features

  • Expert network diagnosis module
  • Filter table to share packet filter across projects
  • Graphic packet filter interface
  • Auto save captured packets to one or more packet files
  • Find items in the explorer windows and almost all list views
  • Sub views in the endpoints view and protocols view displaying related packets
  • Identifiable protocol: IGAP, RGMP and PPPoE
  • Protocol decoder: NetBIOS, DHCP, BOOTP, SMB, CIFS, SMTP, POP3, FTP and PPPoE
  • Project setting options: save setting as default, custom port, statistics settings
  • Global options: keep recent file, disable smooth scrolling
  • Import wizard with range options
  • Export process window
  • Hot keys in the packets view
  • Warning notice for project setting
  • Import/export feature in the name table
  • Layout options for protocol filter

August 26, 2005 - Colasoft Capsa 5.0

New Features

  • New statistic views
  • New graphs view (unique to enterprise edition)
  • New statistic reports (unique to enterprise edition)
  • Preview and print
  • More supported network protocols
  • New command line parameters
  • Enhanced name table
  • Summary statistics snapshots (unique to enterprise edition)
  • New packet summary
  • Enhanced log views and log files
  • Enhanced packet filter
  • Locate explorer nodes
  • Multiple adapters in a project (unique to enterprise edition)
  • Enhanced advanced analyzers
  • Local host TDI loopback traffic (unique to enterprise edition)
  • New related packets
  • Enhanced project explorer
  • New project status
  • New network profile (unique to enterprise edition)

January 28, 2005 - Colasoft Capsa 4.06

  • New: Resolve Host Name in Scope Explorer View, Node List View and IP List View
  • New: Change Host Name in Scope Explorer View, Node List View and IP List View
  • New: Product activation system
  • New: Separately store web/transaction log in different files by time
  • New: Support the conversion between ASCII and EBCDIC in TCP Stream View, Packet Decode View, Packet Hex View
  • New: Predefined web accesses filters
  • New: Optional peer nodes creating in Scope Explorer and Nodes List View
  • Other miscellaneous bugs fixed

November 2, 2004 - Colasoft Capsa 4.05

  • Improved Web access log, Content-Length is recordable now
  • New project options for long-term traffic analysis
  • Supports multi-subnet Intranet configuration, subnet address/mask customable

Bug fixed:

  • the value of certain columns always return zero when exporting packet data
  • Capsa didn't open project files via DDE
  • Capsa stopped to capture network packets if reset a network adapter connection
  • Miscellaneous improvements to online help
  • Other miscellaneous bugs fixed

December 12, 2003 - Colasoft Capsa 4.0

What's New:

  • New web access analysis module
  • New transaction analysis module
  • New TCP connection stream view
  • New UDP session analysis
  • High resolution timestamp (millisecond)
  • Dynamic update of packets view
  • More packets buffer options including ring buffer
  • Automatically save projects
  • Font and color customization in all views
  • New layout of project setting dialog
  • Improved capture filter settings
  • New project summary view
  • New filter settings for email, web access and transaction analysis module
  • Improved hostname resolve method
  • Add port name display options
  • Custom port options
  • New data exporting wizard
  • New protocol driver supports Windows 2003 Server

April 25, 2003 - Colasoft Capsa 3.0

What's New:

  • New connection view
  • New wireless adapter support
  • New Terminal server support
  • New multi monitor support
  • New higher-performance packet capture driver
  • New column sorting support
  • Improved network adapter enumeration
  • Improved user interface
  • Installation improvements
  • Fixed memory leaks in packet capture driver
  • Other miscellaneous bugs fix and improvements