What’s new?

Version 1.30 - Released December 17, 2011

Nodescan Server

  • Improved Access Permissions
  • Server window now displays both local and external IP addresses.
  • Improved Presence management (roster subscriptions are saved and restored during server restarts)
  • Added support for user icon synchronization

Nodescan Client 

  • Contacts window displays a user’s icon and status and access to update availability
  • Added support for custom user icons
  • IM message windows display icons for sender and receiver
  • Various improvements to Chat including user icons and support for longer chat messages
  • Fixed a problem deleting files stored on the server

Version 1.29 - Released October 3, 2011

Nodescan Server

  • Rewrote XMPP Server to confirm with XEP-0077 (In-Band Registration) specification.
  • Subscription requests and presence updates are sent and received mostly in accordance with the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (rfc 3921)
  • Can see which users are logged in
  • Brought Linux versions up to feature parity with Windows and Mac OS X versions (except for drag and drop)
  • Updated graphics
  • Changed to “.exe” application on Windows

Nodescan Client

  • Now uses the more secure digest authentication process
  • New login screen
  • Improved Japanese and French localizations
  • Improved Linux version (see screenshots)
  • Changed to “.exe” application on Windows

Version 1.28 - Released August 20, 2011

New graphics for Nodescan Client. Fixed a number of bugs. Undelivered messages are now saved when the server is shutdown and restored when it starts up. Many improvements related to user presence. Scan hosts to see if they are available and open to register accounts. Fixed a problem updating the transfer progress when downloading Instant Message attachments, etc.

Version 1.27 - Released June 21, 2011

New features:

Introducing Slingshot… The easy way to send a file. No complicated sign-up. No cumbersome web-browser based file upload with an email notification. Just drop a file on to a user in your Contacts list to create a message already addressed with the file attached, ready to send. And for those with even less patience…

Hold down the Option or Control key when dropping the file to automatically start sending the attachment (Slingshot mode).

or

Hold down both Shift and Control keys together when dropping the file to automatically send the message without even showing the message window (super-slingshot mode).

Other improvements:

  • Double click downloaded files in the Transfer Manager to open them
  • Drag downloaded attachments from message windows directly to your desktop or another location
  • Added ability to stop file transfers, both in the Transfer Manager and when sending and downloading attachments in instant messages
  • Client toolbar automatically resizes based on display resolution. (A smaller toolbar will be shown on displays less than 1,000 pixels in height)

Version 1.26 – Released June 6, 2011

New features and improvements:

  • Double click attachments in message windows to open after downloading them
  • Added warning when opening web URLs and files in IM message windows.
  • New interface icons (Thanks Fat-Cow)
  • Added support for non-English user and account names

Bug fixes:

  • Set correct version in app’s get info window
  • Server – preferences. Prevent closing the window if “Use a dynamic domain name” is checked but the dynamic domain name is empty.
  • Compiled against Java 1.5 to fix problem opening apps on Mac OS 10.4
  • Fixed AutoLogging
  • Allows non-English language settings to be saved in preference and settings files

Version 1.25 - Released May 15, 2011

Bug fixes:

  • Couldn’t send instant messages in Japanese (and presumably other languages).
  • Preferences files were stored in users’ folder instead of <user>Library/preferences/. Changed to user/library/preferences on Mac and NodeScan_Data_Folder on other platforms.
  • Downloading attachments in received IM messages usually failed. Substantially revised. Now users can also drag attachment ‘links’ from Search (results) window onto the attachment icon in IM messages. Sending messages with these shortcuts allows receivers to download the shared file. (Haven’t checked what happens if they are password protected but this should work).
  • Uploading files in Sharing window sometimes failed.
  • Host Browser didn’t work – removed it.
  • File Transfer Manager Window – set Min size. FIxed layout issue
  • Preferences Window – Fixed layout issue
  • Some file category icons did not load. Fixed, improved automatic detection of category from attachments
  • If “Connection to host failed” in Accounts window, progress bar is not hidden.
  • The IMClient timeout was too short and settings were not being saved correctly. Increased default timeout to 30mins and fixed the saving issue.
  • Made a number of other minor interface improvements