Virtual Network Hub - Change Log

March 22, 2022

The new 3.36 version has been released.

• Fixed: the service was not starting after Win10 1809 to Win10 21H2 update.
• Improved: performance on 10Gbps networks.
• Added: now works with most VPNs.
• Added: CPU mask and utilization limits are configurable via registry.

December 11, 2020

The new 3.30 version has been released.

• Fixed: the uninstaller was unable to shutdown UI while UI had a message box open.
• Fixed: high CPU utilization on the system was triggering UI to report that the license has expired.
• Improved: better responsiveness of the user interface.
• Improved: better use of all processors for traffic filtering in multi processor systems.

October 1, 2020

The new 3.28 version has been released.

• Improved: loading and saving of Settings.
• Improved: faster detection when UI disconnects from the service.
• Added: compatibility with Microsoft Hyper-V.

May 1, 2020

The new 3.26 version has been released.

• Fixed: the activation dialog was not reflecting success/failure response from server for some time.
• Added: import/export of program-wide settings into an XML file.
• Added: the progress animation within Activation dialog for product and subscription activations.
• Added: the notification about new releases and the setting for frequency of update checks.

February 3, 2020

The new 3.21 version has been released.

• Fixed: recovery after unexpected shutdown corrupted user.config.
• Fixed: incompatibility with 'Windows Network Data Usage Monitoring Driver' was resulting in a memory leak.
• Fixed: sometimes DHCPv4 packets were discarded when on mixed IPv4-IPv6 network.
• Fixed: license status refresh during activation.
• Added: support for Windows 10 1909.
• Added: overlay image when UI is disconnected from the service.
• Added: subscriptions management within Activation dialog.

June 14, 2019

The new 3.15 version has been released.

• Fixed: failure to detect network adapters on Windows 10 1903.
• Added: support for Windows 10 1903.

June 3, 2019

The new 3.14 version has been released.

• Added: Service-based architecture.
• Added: Support for up to 4 isolated hubs with up to 16 slots each.
• Added: Drag-n-Drop: adapter onto slot, adapter order change, slot order change, moving slots between hubs, hub order change.
• Added: DHCP server configuration for IP range.
• Added: 'Default Gateway' slot type with DHCP client for uplink network connectivity.
• Added: 'Wi-Fi Hot Spot' slot type for wireless adapters with Wi-Fi software access point functionality.
• Added: multiple levels of settings: global settings, hub settings, slot settings.
• Added: buttons for wireless adapter Connect/Disconnect
• Added: displaying last 5 characters of the license key within activation dialog.
• Added: detection and recovery mechanism for corrupt user.config file that was preventing UI from starting.
• Added: diagnostics utility to display .NET Framework version and proper Windows version.
• Improved: upon uninstall shutdown of all programs that use the driver.
• Updated: end-user license agreement.
• Fixed: "Process unauthorized..." event was written into event log upon UI startup.

January 14, 2019

The new 2.87 version has been released.

• Added support for Windows Server 2019.

January 11, 2019

The new 2.86 version has been released.

• This is a maintenance release for compatibility with other products.

November 26, 2018

The new 2.84 version has been released.

• This is a maintenance release for compatibility with other products.

October 17, 2018

The new 2.83 version has been released.

• This is a maintenance release for compatibility with other products.

November 26, 2017

The new 2.81 version has been released.

• This is a maintenance release for compatibility with other products.

June 14, 2017

The new 2.80 version has been released.

• Upgraded driver version to 6.43 for compatibility with other released products.

April 25, 2017

The new 2.71 version has been released.

• Email-based product activation was replaced with Offline activation and manual license request upload to the website. Online activation is unchanged.
• Improved license dialog with periodic automatic license request approval checking when the dialog is open.
• Switched licensing to automatically use shared on the same computer licenses. Licenses are now stored within the local application data directory of a user profile.
• Added product edition and build date information to About dialog.
• Closing the main window now places the program on system tray notification area.
• Improved centering of message boxes.
• Added capability to cancel saving a file on exit.
• Added settings for auto-start-on-user-login to load last used file.
• Transitioned data file format to XML-based. The old format is supported for loading only.
• Fixed: crash on Windows 10 during uninstall.

December 24, 2016

The new 2.21 version has been released.

• This is a maintenance release for compatibility with our products.

November 20, 2016

The new 2.14 version has been released.

• This is a maintenance release for compatibility with our new products.

September 17, 2016

The new 2.12 version has been released.

• Fixed incompatibility with Windows 10 Anniversary update.

August 5, 2016

The new 2.11 version has been released.

• Fixed rules are not automatically applied from the loaded file when the program is started with "/systray" switch.

June 10, 2016

The new 2.10 version has been released.

• Fixed loss of connectivity after install on Win2008R2/Win7 when certain network cards are connected to the system.

May 27, 2016

The new 2.9 version has been released.

• Fixed the application crash on CPUs not supporting AVX instruction set (binaries are now built with SSE2 instead of AVX instruction set).

May 5, 2016

The new 2.8 version has been released.

• Added support for: Windows 10.
• Removed support for: XP/2003/Vista/2008.

September 26, 2015

The new 1.10 version has been released.

• Implemented functionality to build a custom Virtual Network Hub with custom settings for each port.
• This is the last version supporting Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008.