This is a partial list of Network Utilities versions as they were released over the years. We still continue to release new versions often in order to add support for new routers. The software is mature enough and stable enough that the development cycle has greatly slowed down. We are able to add support for new routers server-side, so we continue to add new routers daily.
Version 3.0.55 Released
January 14, 2022
There were a few updates in between here and the last update that didn't get recorded. Most of them were HTML parse related for various minor routers that we added support for.
This version 3.0.55 was a big update that didn't add much for features, but added a ton of reliability on the backend.
- Moved all server side code to new instances, which should result in faster runs and higher availability
- Improved software update process
- All software is now hosted on front-end cache for lightning fast updates
- Better NSIS installer wrapper
Version 3.0.34 Released
August 24, 2017
Maintenance release to add minor new features for routers that are being introduced, and fix a few bugs.
- Improved the way port ranges merge.
- Improved the detection of router IP address.
- Make sure that forwarded IP address is in the same subnet as the router's IP address.
Version 3.0.20 Released
December 1, 2016
This is a very minor maintenance release that just fixes some of the little bugs that came up in the past 2 weeks.
- Made modifications to how the router's IP address and the computer's default IP address are detected. Some anti-malware software were preventing both Network Utilities and PfConfig from working correctly.
- Made some modifications to how regular expressions work on the back end to make supporting more old router's easier.
- Created some routines to help detect when anti-malware software prevented Network Utilities from starting the other applications.
Version 3.0.16 Released
November 17, 2016
Wow, a 3rd release in the same month. I must be crazy. Fixed the remote admin tools so that Tad and Allen can add support remotely to some customers.
- Remote admin tools fixed.
- Updated link to portforward.com router passwords page.
- Created more exception debugging information.
Version 3.0.14 Released
November 15, 2016
Minor release to help track down more exceptions, and a few little features added.
- Lot's of object null exceptions fixed.
- Router Login was not loading the user email address, so when a user had an error the error report didn't have the user email address in it.
- PfConfig now lists your external ip address in the main window.
Version 3.0.12 Released
November 1, 2016
This is the first of what is going to be a few releases to try to rapidly find and fix some strange exceptions that we are seeing in error logs. I think that they are related to anti-malware software preventing the software from running at certain steps in various processes. I think that some actions might be limited, like probing the network, if you are not an admin.
- When launching Static IP Setter as a non admin, if you deny the UAC prompt, then the StartProcess routine was throwing an exception. This has been addressed.
- Added some code to the PfConfig engine to allow us to change all of the elements in a router at the same time. This makes creating a port forward in a router a lot faster.
- Added some code to the PfConfig engine to allow us to work with fancy CSS routers that do funny things.
- Router Detector has been rev'ed up to 3.0.12 and will stay in lock step with the rest of the bundle now. It has been rolled into the common code base so bugs fixed in any application will fix those bugs in Router Detector as well.
Known bugs:
- Remote Admin appears to be broken for some users and not for others. It works fine for me but not for everyone. I'll need to work on this one.
- The links to router passwords on portforward.com are sometimes wrong if the router manufacture name in the software doesn't match the router manufacturer on the website.
Version 3.0.10 Released
October 23, 2016
This is a major release and features the first release of our new Find Password App. Changes include:
- Incudes new Find Password App.
- Network Utilities reskinned to handle more buttons on the Tools page.
- Added new commands to PfConfig to support more advanced routers.
- Includes lists of default router usernames and passwords for attempting auto login.
- All server side support rewritten.
Version 3.0.10 Released
October 23, 2016
This is a major release and features the first release of our new Find Password App. Changes include:
- Incudes new Find Password App.
- Network Utilities reskinned to handle more buttons on the Tools page.
- Added new commands to PfConfig to support more advanced routers.
- Includes lists of default router usernames and passwords for attempting auto login.
- All server side support rewritten.
Version 3.0.5 Released
August 23, 2016
This is mostly a reskin of Network Utilities as well as some minor bug fixes discovered in support. Changes include:
- Fixed a bug that Tad found that was affecting framed routers on a second run.
- Minor improvements to the ticket number logs to make them easier to read.
- The GUI for Network Utilities is now resizable with a sizing handle at the bottom right corner.
- Logic improvements in PFConfig for some new commands.
Version 3.0.4 Released
July 22, 2016
This is a minor revision to address some new problems that came about with the last frame handling change. Changes include:
- Frame handling changes now persist from page to page, previously they were only working for the first page visited in routers.
- HTML Document parsing gained an additional brain cell :) Now it is smart enough to handle a failure and parses all the pages across frames.
Version 3.0.3 Released
July 2, 2016
This is a bug fix release to fix a problem that tedie discovered in some frame based routers while supporting customers. Changes include:
- Frame handling code can now restric which frames it controls.
- HTML Document parsing now returns more data to parse.
Version 3.0.1 Released
May 18, 2016
This version adds some new features for some new router behavior that we've noticed. Changes include:
- PFConfig can now get the X,Y coordinates of an HTML control location relative to the entire virtual screen.
- HTML controls can now be clicked by positioning the mouse over them and sending a hardware click event.
Version 3.0.0 Released
Feb 28, 2016
We are very excited to release Network Utilities 3.0.0. This version includes a major rewrite of the entire PFConfig application, as well as significant improvements to all other tools in the bundle. This version is a free upgrade for all users. Changes include (but are not limited to):
- PFConfig has been completely rewritten in .Net, currently targeting 3.5 for maximum compatibility with Windows 7, but works great on Windows 8.1 and 10 as well.
- PFConfig now uses the Internet Explorer 11 (trident) rendering engine to support almost every router.
- Support can now specify which version of Internet Explorer to use for older routers that do not work with IE11.
- Frame handling is now automatic for framed routers. This should make adding support for new framed routers much faster.
- PFConfig can now use the Windows SendKeys api call to attempt keyboard navigation of routers.
- Support for slow routers is vastly improved.
- Hidden Javascript can now be called.
- Router IP address detection is significantly improved.
- HTTP Status Codes can now be used to determine if a login attempt was successful.
- The standard HTML error messages can now be automatically detected and login automatically retried.
Version 2.0.25 Released
May 21, 2015
This is a minor maintenance release to add some features that are needed by support to work with some hard to program routers. Changes include:
- Some routers were having a problem with unicode "space" characters. This has been fixed.
- The helper app was sometimes not starting because the path that it was in.
- The remote support application was sometimes not shutting itself off.
- Static IP Setter has been updated to work with virtual networks better.
Version 2.0.20 Released
Mar 9, 2015
This is a minor maintenance release to add support features for new routers. Changes include:
- Added the ability to simulate a click on some HTML elements.
- Added some new ways to set a controls value for some hard to parse HTML.
- Static IP Setter parser has been updated to work with foreign languages better.
Version 2.0.15 Released
Jan 17, 2015
This is a mostly cosmetic update, but it also fixes some Windows compatibility issues. Changes include:
- Changed most of the skin to rely less on third party DLL's and just did it the hard way with the Windows API.
- Updated common control references to work better with Windows 10 and Windows 7 x64.
- Added a feature where it's easier to post an image to the support team in the message system.
- Some minor internal changes about where settings are stored in the registry to make the external helper tools easier to work with.
Version 2.0.1 Released
Oct 6, 2014
We are very excited about this release. This is a major new release and is a free upgrade to all users. This is the first release that includes all of our products under a single bundle called "Port Forward Network Utilites", or PFNU, or just "Network Utilities". As a product it will make setting up and troubleshooting and port forwards much easier. Changes include:
- Created new front end application that has the ability to launch all of the included tools.
- Static IP Setter is now very reliable at applying DHCP and Static settings.
- Router Detector can now detect the manufacturer of most routers.
- Port Checker is pretty much 100% reliable at this point in time.
- Remote Support is integrated into PFConfig.
- PFConfig now has a helper application for simulated multithreading in Javascript, because Javascript is not really multithreaded.
- Router Screenshot Grabber has been completely rewritten in .Net and is targeting version 3.5.
- Router Screenshot Grabber is now aware of virtual screens.
- Router Screenshot Grabber is now able to sync during capture instead of sending the entire capture at the end.
Version 1.x.x and Earlier
There were many versions before here. Notably, 1.0.296 is the version that still shows up on pirate sites and torrent sites.
Just in case you are not sure, those versions on the torrent sites are all infected. We didn't infect them, the pirates that are sharing them did. Old versions simply will not work, so don't waste your time testing them.
