What's new in ShareTool 2.4.2
Oct 14, 2013
- New: Compatible with Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
- Other: Various bug fixes and tweaks.
- Other: The demo period has been reset for all users.
New in ShareTool 2.4.1 (Dec 5, 2012)
- New: Improved performance and reliability.
- Other: Various bug fixes and tweaks.
- Other: The demo period has been reset for all users.
New in ShareTool 2.4.0 (Sep 17, 2012)
- New: Improved performance and reliability.
- New: Signed for Gatekeeper on Mountain Lion.
- Fixed: Connection delay on some systems.
- Other: This version drops support for PowerPC systems.
- Other: Various bug fixes and tweaks.
- Other: The demo period has been reset for all users.
New in ShareTool 2.3.2 (Mar 27, 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.
New in ShareTool 2.3.1 (Mar 6, 2012)
- Fixed: Issues updating from version 2.2.7 to 2.3.
- Other: The demo period has been reset for all users.
New in ShareTool 2.3.0 (Mar 5, 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.
New in ShareTool 2.2.7 (Oct 3, 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.
New in ShareTool 2.2.6 (Sep 6, 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.
New in ShareTool 2.2.5 (Jul 21, 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.
New in ShareTool 2.2.4 (Jul 18, 2011)
- New: Fully compatible with Mac OS X Lion.
- Other: The demo period has been reset for all users.
New in ShareTool 2.2.3 (May 27, 2011)
- Fixed: Various bug fixes.
- Other: The demo period has been reset for all users.
New in ShareTool 2.2.2 (Mar 25, 2011)
- Fixed: Various bug fixes.
- Other: The demo period has been reset for all users.
New in ShareTool 2.2.1 (Feb 4, 2011)
- Fixed: Bug affecting some UPnP routers.
- Updated: The demo period has been reset for all users.
New in ShareTool 2.2.0 (Jan 26, 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.
New in ShareTool 2.1.2 (Oct 5, 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.
New in ShareTool 2.1.1 (Sep 3, 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.
New in ShareTool 2.1 (Aug 12, 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.
New in ShareTool 2.0.3 (Jul 15, 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.
New in ShareTool 2.0.2 (May 21, 2010)
- Fixed: Addressed the crash some users were having with version 2.0.1.
New in ShareTool 2.0.1 (May 14, 2010)
- Fixed: Addressed some UPnP issues some users were experiencing with certain routers.
New in ShareTool 2.0.0 (May 13, 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.
New in ShareTool 1.3.8 (Feb 12, 2010)
- Misc: Various bug fixes and performance tweaks.
New in ShareTool 1.3.7 (Jan 15, 2010)
- Fixed: AFP connectivity issues.
- Fixed: VPN issues should all be resolved.
- Misc: Many under the hood performance tweaks and optimizations.
New in ShareTool 1.3.6 (Dec 29, 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.
New in ShareTool 1.3.5 (Dec 10, 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.
New in ShareTool 1.3.4 (Nov 27, 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.
New in ShareTool 1.3.3 (Nov 19, 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.
New in ShareTool 1.3.2 (Oct 27, 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.
New in ShareTool 1.3.1 (Oct 6, 2009)
- New: Added more Mac OS X 10.6.1 compatibility.
- Misc: Enhanced reliability and bug fixes.
New in ShareTool 1.2.9 (Sep 15, 2009)
- New: Fully optimized for Snow Leopard.
- Other: Many internal engine and UI tweaks.
New in ShareTool 1.2.8 (Jul 28, 2009)
- New: ShareTool now supports full Playback integration.
- New: Hi-res ShareTool icon.
- Other: Various internal and UI tweaks.
New in ShareTool 1.2.7 (Mar 27, 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.
New in ShareTool 1.2.6 (Feb 6, 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.
New in ShareTool 1.2.5 (Dec 1, 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.
New in ShareTool 1.2.4 (Oct 28, 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.
New in ShareTool 1.2.3 (Sep 23, 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.
New in ShareTool 1.2.2 (Aug 12, 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.
New in ShareTool 1.2.1 (Jul 14, 2008)
- Fixed a crash/freeze.
- Added version checking.
New in ShareTool 1.2 (Jun 30, 2008)
- Automatic port mapping is now optional.
- Better support for iPhoto.
- Network traffic can now be automatically compressed.
- Interface improvements.
- Several bug fixes.
New in ShareTool 1.1 (May 5, 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.