What's new in DynDNS Updater 5.5.0
Apr 30, 2019
- Remove support for periodic timing statistics sent to Dyn, as backend service is deprecated.
New in DynDNS Updater 5.4.8 (Dec 18, 2018)
- Changes:
- Complete migration to Oracle code signing certificate. If you are not on version 5.4.7, upgrades to 5.4.8+ will not succeed without reinstalling the application from http://www.dyn.com/updater/.
New in DynDNS Updater 5.4.7 (Dec 18, 2018)
- Changes:
- Important update: Changes to allow migration from Dyn code signing certificate to Oracle code signing certificate in next release. Without this update, upgrades to 5.4.8+ will not succeed without reinstalling the application from http://www.dyn.com/updater/.
New in DynDNS Updater 5.4.5 (Jul 24, 2018)
New in DynDNS Updater 5.4.2 (Dec 7, 2016)
- Changes:
- EULA update
- Include LGPL license files
- Bug fixes:
- Correct issue with stats beacon not conforming to strict HTTP.
New in DynDNS Updater 5.4.1 (Oct 6, 2016)
- Bug Fixes:
- Correct issue causing ports to increasingly open when setting RDNS is enabled on the client.
- Changes:
- Update localization with new strings.
New in DynDNS Updater 5.4.0 (Aug 31, 2016)
- New Features:
- Support for sending periodic timing statistics to Dyn to help improve service.
- Changes:
- Updated End User License Agreement.
New in DynDNS Updater 5.3.2 (Jul 14, 2016)
- New Features:
- Support for setting recursive DNS servers on the local machine to dynalertbot.
- Bug Fixes:
- Fix code signing validation on OS X 10.11.4+
New in DynDNS Updater 5.2.1 (Oct 24, 2014)
- Changes:
- Fixes for code signing compatibility with OS X Yosemite.
New in DynDNS Updater 5.2.0 (Sep 26, 2014)
- New Features: Support secure update key for account.dyn.com in place of account credentials.
- Bug Fixes: Fix bug where main window may not be displayed if app launched a second time.
New in DynDNS Updater 5.1.0 (Sep 1, 2014)
- New Features:
- Native language support for Spanish, German, and Brazilian Portuguese.
- Changes:
- Codesigning compatibility changes for OS X 10.9.5 and 10.10 Preview 5.
- Minimum required OS X version is now 10.7.
New in DynDNS Updater 5.0.2 (May 24, 2014)
- Bug Fix: Fix a case where a DNS lookup failure can cause updates to fail.
New in DynDNS Updater 5.0.1 (Apr 9, 2014)
- Bug Fix: Fix problem detecting IPv6 addresses when ‘bypass proxy’ is not enabled.
New in DynDNS Updater 5.0.0 (Apr 3, 2014)
- New Feature Support for DynECT Managed DNS DDNS service
- Change Attempt to restart backend service if it exits uncleanly
- Change No longer considered Beta
- Change Include account creation link in credentials dialog
- Change Log if a corrupt configuration file is detected and reset
- Bug Fix Fix instance where the client may not be able to detect IPv6 address when using certain DNS resolvers
- Bug Fix Fix focus issue with username field of the credentials dialog
New in DynDNS Updater 4.9.8 Beta (Mar 3, 2014)
- New Feature: Preference to start at boot. This manages a login entry entry for the Dyn Updater
- New Feature: Add proxy bypass preference to allow detecting IP addresses on an alternate port to work around proxy servers when a hostname is configured for “Automatic” IP detection
- Change: Specify a default directory and filename when exporting log files
- Change: Don’t consider link-local addresses for updates when a hostname is configured to use the address of a local interface
- Bug Fix: Don’t allow editing of the hostname table via double clicking
New in DynDNS Updater 4.9.7 Beta (Feb 24, 2014)
- New Feature Added log viewer via ‘View Details’ link
- New Feature Added more descriptive status in log viewer, along with a reset link when an error is encountered
- New Feature Allow exporting configuration and logs via log viewer
- Change Show a warning message in Configure Hosts if IPv6 is not detected
- Change Renamed several buttons and labels for clarity
- Change Include client name and version in daemon log on start
- Bug Fix Fix issue with input being blocked at Welcome screen on first run
- Bug Fix Handle corrupt configuration files by resetting to defaults
New in DynDNS Updater 4.9.6 Beta (Feb 24, 2014)
- Change: User interface improvements, including a redesigned header area providing more information.
New in DynDNS Updater 4.9.5 Beta (Feb 24, 2014)
- Change: Include Host Status to indicate whether the updater is monitoring address changes for a host.
New in DynDNS Updater 4.9.4 Beta (Feb 24, 2014)
- Change: Performance improvements
- Bug fix: Allow ‘-’ characters in usernames
- Bug fix: Display empty hostname table if none exist on an account
- Bug fix: Clean up stale daemon files if daemon stops unexpectedly
- Bug fix: Fix issue when running client from DMG, then unmounting and running from Applications
- Bug fix: Fix issue with client not starting on some systems
- Bug fix: Show version number correctly in ‘Get Info’ in Finder
New in DynDNS Updater 4.9.3 Beta (Feb 24, 2014)
- Change: Quit background daemon when quitting menu bar icon
- Bug fix: Correct problem with code signature causing “Unidentified Developer” Gatekeeper warnings on OS X 10.7+
- Bug fix: Fix high CPU usage in background daemon
New in DynDNS Updater 4.9.1 Beta (Feb 24, 2014)
- Change: OS X 10.6 and higher support
- Change: Reduced application size by 50%
- Change: Use gray scale icon on menu bar
- Change: Welcome screen when no accounts are configured
- Change: Improve performance when loading data in the GUI
- Bug fix: Show spinner when loading hosts table
- Bug fix: Don’t change size of host table while loading data
- Bug fix: Remove host configuration from client when account is removed
New in DynDNS Updater 4.9.0 Beta (Feb 24, 2014)
- Feature: Rewrite of the client to support OS X 10.9 and leverage a cross-platform code base.
- Feature: IPv6 update support.
New in DynDNS Updater 3.0 (Jan 7, 2010)
- Internet Guide integration - set your DNS servers dynamically without interfering with VPN connections.
- Improved diagnostic email template with more useful information for troubleshooting.
- Reduced logging of non-warning messages by default.
- Fix for a version problem with the widget present in the beta release.
New in DynDNS Updater 2.4 (Nov 30, 2009)
- Fixed issue causing daemon to not start on boot up in OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
- Fixed a bug that could cause a deadlock when initializing SSL in some rare cases.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the updater to say "The DynDNS Updater daemon was installed but could not be launched" when the install had actually failed.
- Changed how the path is determined when installing the daemon to be a little more resilient.
New in DynDNS Updater 2.3 (Jun 16, 2008)
- Fixed bug where a host or account could be set inactive if an error occurred while updating hosts.
- Fixed a bug where a host could potentially not update if the IP changed while the daemon isn't running.
- Fixed the Check IP update URL.
- A few minor text changes to make error messages more descriptive.
- Made the interface IP checking code a bit more robust.
New in DynDNS Updater 2.1 (Feb 28, 2008)
- Added a problem description dialog to assist users in generating a diagnostic email.
- Added a timestamp to daemon log messages.
- Fixed a bug where the daemon wasn't exiting in a timely fashion when OS X was in the shutdown process.
- Fixed a bug where the application wouldn't run from a path with non-ASCII characters in it.
- Fixed a bug where NOCHG wasn't sent to the DynDNS server for flags like MX, wildcard, etc.
- Removed excess logging to help make diagnosing problems easier.
- Compressed the account-host info printed in a diagnostic email to shorten the text.