March 27th, 2012· New: Improved support for UPnP routers.
· New: "Connect Automatically" option is more reliable.
· Fixed: Issue with private key files in custom locations.
· Other: Various bug fixes and tweaks.
· Other: The demo period has been reset for all users.
March 6th, 2012· Fixed: Issues updating from version 2.2.7 to 2.3.
· Other: The demo period has been reset for all users.
March 5th, 2012· New: Compatible with Mountain Lion 10.8 Developer Preview.
· New: Improved network performance & reliability.
· Fixed: Remote iTunes services no longer appear on the LAN.
· Other: Various bug fixes and tweaks.
· Other: The demo period has been reset for all users.
October 3rd, 2011· Fixed: Multiple issues with the daemon under Mac OS X Lion.
· Fixed: The daemon created duplicate UPnP port mappings.
· Other: Various bug fixes and tweaks.
· Other: The demo period has been reset for all users.
September 6th, 2011· New: Faster performance under OS X Lion.
· Fixed: "Keep Computer Awake" feature didn't work reliably under Lion.
· Other: Various bug fixes and tweaks.
· Other: The demo period has been reset for all users.
July 21st, 2011· New: Faster performance under OS X Lion.
· New: Improved support for BusyCal and BusySync.
· Fixed: Screen Sharing issues under Mac OS X 10.6.8 and Lion.
· Other: Various bug fixes and tweaks.
· Other: The demo period has been reset for all users.
July 18th, 2011· New: Fully compatible with Mac OS X Lion.
· Other: The demo period has been reset for all users.
May 27th, 2011· Fixed: Various bug fixes.
· Other: The demo period has been reset for all users.
March 25th, 2011· Fixed: Various bug fixes.
· Other: The demo period has been reset for all users.
February 4th, 2011· Fixed: Bug affecting some UPnP routers.
· Updated: The demo period has been reset for all users.
January 26th, 2011· New: Automatic support for routers that require matching port numbers.
· New: HTTPS port is now mapped by default for improved reliability.
· New: You can now tell ShareTool to ignore system proxy settings.
· New: Improved support for Windows File Sharing services.
· Fixed: ShareTool is more aggressive about keeping connections active.
· Fixed: VPN mode is optional when connecting to a public IP address.
· Other: Various other bug fixes and tweaks.
· Updated: The demo period has been reset for all users.
October 5th, 2010· New: Basic client-side logging.
· Fixed: Important issue with the daemon.
· Fixed: Timing issue with remote login.
· Other: Various other fixes and tweaks.
· Updated: The demo period has been reset for all users.
September 3rd, 2010· New: ShareTool compatible with iTunes 10 for iTunes Sharing and iTunes Home Sharing.
· Fixed: iTunes connections are no longer closed after an hour.
· Updated: The demo period has been reset for all users.
August 12th, 2010· New: ShareTool can be run as a service via a background daemon.
· New: iTunes Home Sharing across the internet is fully supported.
· New: Right-clicking a network also lists remote computers & their associated Bonjour services.
· New: Enable/disable "Common Bonjour Services only" directly from the services sheet.
· New: Windows can now resize automatically to accommodate content.
· New: Networks are now sortable by online/offline status.
New: Display of Bonjour services:
· The "Show Common Services Only" option has been removed from the Preferences window.
· The setting is now saved independently for each remote network.
New: Getting the WAN IP for a network:
· There's a new "Network Address" menu under the Edit menu.
· Both the WAN & LAN IP addresses can be viewed & copied.
· "Copy" command will save the WAN IP to the clipboard.
· Updated: AFP & VNC URLs are now persistent across ShareTool connections.
· Updated: Improved compatibility with PPC systems.
· Updated: Many performance tweaks.
· Fixed: Network status display is now more accurate.
· Other: All executables are now code-signed.
· Other: Demo period has been reset.
July 15th, 2010· New: More reliable VPN detection & support.
· New: Improved Bonjour service discovery.
· Fixed: Connection timeouts in iTunes & some third-party applications.
· Other: Various other fixes and tweaks.
· Other: Demo period has been reset.
May 21st, 2010· Fixed: Addressed the crash some users were having with version 2.0.1.
May 14th, 2010· Fixed: Addressed some UPnP issues some users were experiencing with certain routers.
May 13th, 2010· New: Completely re-written and redesigned for maximum security, performance, and reliability.
· New: Network is now shared quietly in the background.
· New: No more IP addresses or ports to remember.
· New: Access all of your Bonjour services remotely - securely.
· New: Connect to multiple networks simultaneously.
· New: Transparent SOCKS/HTTPS proxy support.
· New: Ability to save login information to the Keychain.
· New: All traffic travels through an encrypted SSH tunnel.
· New: On-the-fly compression for maximum performance.
· New: Browse the Web securely from any WiFi hotspot.
February 12th, 2010· Misc: Various bug fixes and performance tweaks.
January 15th, 2010· Fixed: AFP connectivity issues.
· Fixed: VPN issues should all be resolved.
· Misc: Many under the hood performance tweaks and optimizations.
December 29th, 2009· New: Remote services are now marked with a symbol instead of being renamed.
· New: Remote AFP volumes are now ejected automatically upon disconnect.
· Fixed: "Unable to retrieve services" error messages.
· Fixed: Delay when accessing services in Finder.
· Misc: Various tweaks and optimizations.
December 10th, 2009· New: The Mac OS X "short" username is now displayed for reference.
· New: Clicking on a "x-sharetool" URL now sets the correct username automatically.
· New: ShareTool can now authenticate using private keys in custom locations.
· Fixed: ShareTool now recovers gracefully from certain unexpected UPnP errors.
· Fixed: Bug related to public key authentication.
November 27th, 2009· New: Redesigned the client-side interface.
· New: Improved interface & instructions for VPN users.
· New: Improved reliability on unstable networks.
· New: Various other fixes and enhancements.
November 19th, 2009· Fixed: optimized for Mac OS X 10.6.2.
· Fixed: improved compatibility with certain UPnP routers.
· Updated: under the hood performance has been tweaked for enhanced stability and better performance.
October 27th, 2009· Fixed: bug with single-quote characters and truncated names.
· Fixed: tab order has been corrected in all windows.
· Fixed: addressed an issue that would cause a crash when saving pass-phrases to the Keychain.
· Updated: under the hood performance has been tweaked for enhanced stability and better performance.
October 6th, 2009· New: Added more Mac OS X 10.6.1 compatibility.
· Misc: Enhanced reliability and bug fixes.
September 15th, 2009· New: Fully optimized for Snow Leopard.
· Other: Many internal engine and UI tweaks.
July 28th, 2009· New: ShareTool now supports full Playback integration.
· New: Hi-res ShareTool icon.
· Other: Various internal and UI tweaks.
March 27th, 2009· New: ShareTool now supports remote sleep and wake up functionality.
· Updated: "Email" button no longer launches email client unless ShareTool hasn't been configured to send emails.
· Updated: Fixed bug related to password-protected iTunes and iPhoto libraries.
· Updated: German, French, Polish, Spanish translations.
· Other: Various internal and UI tweaks.
February 6th, 2009· New: ShareTool now displays a warning when more than one copy of ShareTool is sharing on the same network.
· New: ShareTool can now be configured to work more efficiently with VPN connections.
· New: Double-clicking on a Bonjour service now connects to it directly.
· New: Emails sent out by ShareTool now includes both the external and the local IP address.
· New: "Browse Web Securely" is now disabled when connecting through a VPN.
· New: Added a preference to resize main window when services are added.
· New: ShareTool displays more info in the Dock menu.
· Updated: "Connect through proxy" is now under the Connect tab.
· Updated: Several tweaks and enhancements to the remote printing feature set.
· Updated: ShareTool now saves to Documents folder and prints to the default printer automatically.
· Updated: German, French, Polish, Spanish translations.
· Other: Various internal tweaks.
December 1st, 2008· New: ShareTool can now be configured to automatically email the connection info every-time it is restarted.
· New: ShareTool can now import connectivity information from user's email client for even quicker setup.
· New: ShareTool will now automatically re-email you if/when connection information changes while sharing (checks every 15 minutes).
· New: Clickable URLs included in emails for quick connectivity in ShareTool.
· New: ShareTool now detects when the LAN IP address has changed and updates mappings.
· New: ShareTool can detects when the connection is broken on the client-side (may take up to 3 minutes). SSH attempts to re-establish the connection before giving up.
· New: Bonjour listings are refreshed periodically to make sure information doesn't get stale.
· New: When connected through a router, a new external IP address is now detected within 2 minutes.
· New: When connected directly to the Internet, a new IP address is detected within 1 minute.
· New: When "Configure router automatically" is disabled, a new IP address is detected within 15 minutes.
· New: Tunnels through SOCKS and HTTPS proxies. (Mac OS X Leopard only).
· New: ShareTool detects SSH/Remote Login if it's running on a non-standard port.
· New: There is now a status indicator in the sharing window (Green when the Internet connection is active; Red when the connection is disrupted).
· New: When the Internet connection is disrupted and then restored, port mappings are now renewed immediately.
· New: Improved public key authentication (Leopard only).
· New: User will no longer be prompted for their key passphrase repeatedly by Leopard's SSH agent.
· New: ShareTool can store the key passphrase in the Keychain.
· New: Updated text and tooltips for Welcome screen.
· New: Copy button now copies the same text as the email.
· New: Updated text for the activity log "Copy" button.
· New: Made several changes to port mapping code in response to testing with Actiontec MI424WR.
· New: Increased UPnP broadcast timeout to 6 seconds (from 2.5 seconds).
· New: Increased UPnP mapping timeout to 20 seconds (from 5 seconds).
· New: ShareTool now remembers the protocol used previously(UPnP or NAT-PMP) and tries that first. This results in much less time in the "Configuring router..." stage.
· New: Added Spanish localization.
· Fixed: Bug causing old "Now sharing..." window to appear is gone.
· Updated: Much better handling of DynDNS.org updates when "Configure router automatically" was disabled.
· Updated: Polish, French, and German localizations.
· Other: Various internal tweaks.
October 28th, 2008· New: Added French localization.
· New: Added German localization.
· New: Added Polish localization.
· Changed: Leopard Firewall no longer prompts for permission repeatedly.
· Improved: Should now update dynamic domains properly when ports are forwarded manually.
· Fixed: ShareTool should no longer die when left idle for too long.
· Fixed: Password is no longer required when a private key is present.
· Other: Tons of internal tweaks for increased performance.
September 23rd, 2008· New: More major interface tweaking to accomodate for an enhanced feature set and simplified usage.
· New: ShareTool checks if Remote Login is enabled on your Mac before enabling the sharing.
· New: Sharing: Added Info tab to display network IP and port number.
· New: Sharing: Added Bonjour tab to enable choosing which Bonjour services are available to network users.
· New: Sharing: Added Users tab that keeps a log of all remote connections to the ShareTool network (IP, Username, and Time).
· New: User is asked to confirm the server fingerprint at least once a day.
· New: Connecting: ShareTool displays the IP of the ShareTool network that you are connected to.
· New: Connecting: Automatic Refresh enabled to detect changes from the remote ShareTool network.
· New: Connecting: Manual Refresh button available to force a refresh.
· New: ShareTool validates the network connection info before the login info.
· New: Password is no longer required when a private key is present.
· New: ShareTool can now automatically connect to many types of services.
· New: New Log window.
· New: Added better handling of SSH Public Key Exchanges.
· New: Overhaul to the preferences for simplified use.
· New: Much improved error handling.
· Other: Tons of internal tweaks for increased performance and security.
August 12th, 2008· New: Major new interface changes for even more simplified usage.
· New: Updated internal ShareTool protocol to be more versatile.
· New: Added Remote Printing functionality.
· New: Integrated Sparkle support for future updates.
· New: Remote Login detection procedure.
· New: Built-in Help menu added.
· New: Updated ShareTool manual added.
· Other: Many internal tweaks to ensure optimal performance and security.
July 14th, 2008· Fixed a crash/freeze.
· Added version checking.
June 30th, 2008· Automatic port mapping is now optional.
· Better support for iPhoto.
· Network traffic can now be automatically compressed.
· Interface improvements.
· Several bug fixes.
May 5th, 2008· Much improved router compatibility.
· Added support for the No-IP and DNS-O-Matic dynamic domain services.
· Users can now specify a custom port number.
· ShareTool can now be set to begin sharing at login.
· Secure web browsing is faster.
· Bug fixes.
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