Aug 11th 2009 - Version 7.1.4.3443/3445

• This is the last 7.1 version: See PRTG 7.2 History for more recent versions
• Overview: This maintenance release includes a few minor bugfixes as well as the new German manual and help files
  
• New: Added German manual (PDF and HTML)
• Bugfix: System status webpage showed incorrect number of sensors
• Bugfix: Non-Admin users could not change their password
• Bugfix: Fixed timing in Oracle SQL sensors
• Bugfix: XML data of the API is now correctly encoded as UTF

Jul 28th 2009 - Version 7.1.4.3437/3439

• Bugfix: Some users experienced slow object editing when reports covered many sensors

Jul 22nd 2009 - Version 7.1.4.3432/3434

• Overview: This is a maintenance release with a few minor bugfixes
• New: Read-only users can no longer change their /home URL
• Bugfix: Overlapping dependencies could cause dependency state locks
• Bugfix: Fixed OIDLIB scans reporting no accessibility in some cases
• Minor bugfixes

Jul 8th 2009 - Version 7.1.4.3417/3419

• Overview: Main new feature of this release is the French user interface
• New: User Interface available in French (French manual not included yet)
• New: Better support for PCs with dynamic IPs
• Bugfix: Fixed a memory leak in the probe when using many WMI sensors (introduced in build 3333)
• Bugfix: Fixed error message "Retrieving Mail: Cannot create file xxx.tmp. The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process." in email round trip sensors
• Minor bugfixes

Jun 22nd 2009 - Version 7.1.3.3376/3378

• Overview: This is a maintenance release with a few minor bugfixes
  
• Bugfix: Scanning certain devices' SNMP interfaces did not work properly when using multiget
• Bugfix: List index error out of bounds when starting the server service
• Bugfix: HTML mails were not working properly with certain mail clients
• Minor changes

Jun 4th 2009 - Version 7.1.3.3333/3335

• Overview: This is a maintenance release with a few minor bugfixes
  
• Note: We recommend not to use Vista or Windows 2008 as monitoring stations for WMI monitoring due to their massive WMI performance problems (see blog entry Don’t Use Windows Vista And Windows 2008 for Network Monitoring via WMI!)
• New: Added a sensor and device template for MS Exchange 2007 mail server
• Bugfix: Moved report intro text below the header image
• Bugfix: HTTP Advanced sensors reported incorrect file size (one byte too large)
• Bugfix: Access violations when creating SNMP sensors for port names with < or >
• Bugfix: Checkbox "Revert children's access rights to inherited" did not work properly
• Bugfix: Browser "Google Chrome 2" is now correctly detected
• Minor changes

May 25th 2009 - Version 7.1.3.3317/3319

• Overview: 7.1.3 introduces the Spanish translation and includes some minor bugfixes
  
• New: Added Spanish user interface translation
• Bugfix: Fixed a bug in the SNMP engine for auto-discovery and port scans
• Bugfix: Some 365 day graphs in maps showed data for two days

May 6th 2009 - Version 7.1.2.3273/3275

• Overview: 7.1.2 adds a few new features and contains a number of bugfixes for V7.1.1
  
• New: Live Toplists can now be shown in maps (user must select a "primary toplist" in the sensor settings)
• New: "Clone Map" function
• New: "Used by" link for schedules and notifications shows monitoring objects using a specific schedule or notification
• New: Added a WMI timeout setting (see WMI Compatibility Options for probes, groups und devices)
• New: Date/time format can be set for each user account (reports, maps and notifications use admin settings)
• New: Improved device template for MS Exchange 2003 Server used for auto discovery (now monitors receive queue size and send queue size (for each store), RPC latency and number of RPC requests, SMTP local and remote queue)
• New: Improved support for multi byte characters (names of sensors, devices, groups in Japanese, Chinese, etc.)
• Bugfix: Unhide context help did not work completely
• Bugfix: iPhone Web interface showed incorrect status messages
• Bugfix: Rearranging of sensors on the device page (using drag&drop) did not reload the sensor list
• Bugfix: Some custom sensors incorrectly showed legacy "alarm/warning limit" entry fields on their settings page (use the "Channels" tab instead)
• Bugfix: Handling of custom snmp sensors which use "signed integer" OIDs was incorrect. Such sensors must be recreated
• Bugfix: Fixed error message "Invalid HTML Encoded character" when adding/editing reports
• Bugfix: Limits did not work for "SUM" channels
• Changed: "Set sensor to error" starts error state within 10 seconds (had required one sensor interval)
• Changed: Group dependencies now always propagate down to all sensors in a group (in earlier versions "master objects" were not paused when parent group or parent device got paused by dependency)
• Minor bugfixes and changes

Apr 14th 2009 - Version 7.1.1.3093

• Overview: This version fixes some bugs which users reported for the initial V7.1 release
  
• New: "Restart all probes" link on system status page
• New: User can optionally disable alarm popup
• Bugfix: "%down" placeholder in emails showed incorrect content
• Changed: WMI sensors that run into timeouts and thus freeze all WMI monitoring are now shown with an according error messageand should be paused
• Changed: Smaller XML output for API calls
• Changed: For security reasons we had to disable Windows Authentication for SQL Server Sensors
• Various minor issues

Mar 30th 2009 - Version 7.1.1.3072

• Overview: Version 7.1 is a major update for PRTG. It includes many new features as well as performance and stability improvements. This update is strongly recommended for all users of previous versions.
  
• Improved Web Interface:
  • New: Massive speed improvements on all browser platforms
  • New: Groups, devices, and sensors can now be moved using drag&drop
  • New: Quick edit tools and live graphs pop up when mouse pointer hovers over an object
  • New: Improved object selection (e.g. for maps, dependencies)
  • New: Alerts are now optionally shown at the bottom right of the browser window
  • New: Added various new map object templates, including larger icons and channel list for sensors
  • Recommended browser for PRTG 7 is now Google Chrome (see blog entry "The Best Browser for PRTG 7")
• Automatic Probe Updating for Remote Probes:
  • Whenever a new version of PRTG is installed on the core server all remote probes will automatically download and install the updated version of the probe as soon as they reconnect to the updated core (see blog entry "Automatic Probe Updating")
  • When updating from V 7.0.x to V7.1 you must update all remote probes manually for the last time
• New Sensor Types:
  • Sensor Factory is the successor to the "Aggregation Sensor" in PRTG 6 (see blog entry "The Sensor Factory")
  • HTTP Full Page Sensor (uses an instance of Internet Explorer to measure download time for a webpage including all page elements)
  • SMTP&POP3/IMAP Email Round Trip Sensor (sends an email by SMTP and measures the time until it reaches a POP3/IMAP inbox, see blog entry "Email Round Trip Monitoring")
  • HDD Health Sensor (uses SMART feature for IDE disk drives to measure drive temperature, drive failures, etc.)
  • Custom EXE sensor for load testing of available CPU and disk resources (computes 1 Mio primes or reads/writes 1000 files)
  • HTTP Advanced sensor now also measures "time-to-first-byte", "bytes received" and "download bandwidth" (see blog entry "Monitoring the Available Bandwidth")
• Toplists Feature:
  
  • For Packet Sniffer and NetFlow sensors PRTG can now display the Top Talkers (IPs that use the most bandwidth), Top Connections (connections that use the most bandwidth) and Top Protocols (most used protocols in the network) as well as customized toplists (see blog entry "Toplists")
• Improved Reporting:
  • Percentile-Calculation
  • You can now select groups and devices for a report (all their sensors will be dynamically included in the report)
  • PDF reports are automatically broken into several files when necessary to avoid overload
  • PDF Reports now include all table columns (by zooming)
• Improved Notifications:
  • Email notifications use HTML format (optional)
  • Added Syslog Notifications
  • Added SNMP Trap Notifications (see blog entry "SNMP Trap Notifications")
  • "Simulate Error" (sensor context menu) switches a sensor to error state in order to test notifications
• Channel Settings:
  • User can change various settings for each channel of a sensor
  • Editing of channel name, graph color and line width
  • Editing of axis minimum/maximum per channel
  • Spike Filter hides impossible values or counter rollovers for delta sensors
  • Alarm limits and warning limits can now be entered per channel
  • Enable/disable individual channels for charts and for tables
  • For tables the number of decimal places can be set for each channel
  • The primary channel can be selected for sensors with multiple channels
• Stability and Reliability Improvements:
  • New: Major improvements for probe/core connections
  • New: Major improvements for WMI monitoring (WMI engine was completely rewritten for more stability, especially for installations with hundreds and more WMI sensors)
  • New: Probe and Core service are marked „restart on failure” in service manager to improve uptime
  • New: Probe automatically performs a service-restart when instabilities occur
• Other New Features:
  • New: Official support for virtualized platforms (PRTG was tested on VMware, XEN Server, Amazon EC2 and Virtuozzo; see blog entry "Official Support for Virtualized Platforms")
  • New: Added Multi Language Support, added Language "German"
  • New: Device Templates can be created from existing devices and stored on disk for reuse with the auto discovery features (see blog entry "Copying Devices by Cloning or Using Device Templates")
  • New: Updated API documentation with more functions documented
  • New: API supports logging in using username/passhash along with the previous username/password option
  • New: Tray tool now uses a password hash instead of the password when opening web pages in a browser
  • New: Divide/Multiply setting for WMI Custom sensors
  • New: Multiple Custom EXE Sensors can be serialized using a Mutex
  • New: Event Log sensor can filter events
  • New: A default report is created for new installations
  • New: Notifications can now be paused
• Notable Changes:
  
  • Changed: Updated drivers for SQL monitoring (MySQL, MS-SQL, Oracle)
  • Changed: Updated SQLite drivers (used for internal databases)
  • Changed: Public maps are now refreshed by Javascript (instead of META REFRESH tag) to avoid constant reloading of css files and images
  • Changed: The URL in HTTP sensors can now optionally be entered without a servername (e.g. /home), the device name will automatically be added for sensors checks
  • Discontinued: Support for SNMP Helper (please switch to its parent product SNMP Informant)
• Plus bugfixes and countless smaller improvements, too many to mention them all

Jan 14th 2009 - Version 7.0.9.2193

• Overview: Build 2193 covers three minor bugs
  
• Bugfix: For some users probe/core connections failed
• Bugfix: Fixed time measurement for HTTP Transaction sensor
• Bugfix: Fixed trigger editing for Internet Explorer

Dec 3rd 2008 - Version 7.0.9.2049

• Overview: This is a maintenance release covering multiple bugfixes, particularly covering a number of WMI issues
  
• Bugfix: Probe stopped monitoring when disconnected from the core (bug was introduced in previous build)
• Bugfix: Stalled sensors could prevent probe reconnection after a TCP disconnect
• Bugfix: VMware sensors could hang when the SSL Soap webserver of the ESX server crashed (this now generates a error message for the sensor and requires a probe reboot after fixing the issue on the ESX server)
• Bugfix: Removed potential deadlock in WMI code
• Bugfix: Folder sensor is allowed to take longer than 15 minutes to recurse folders
• Bugfix: No time labels in day reports with long averages (>5min)
• Bugfix: VMware sensors could not be edited
• Bugfix: Todo mails are no longer sent for scheduled reports that are not stored on disk
• Bugfix: Removed potential minor web interface cross-site scripting vulnerability
• Bugfix: SNMP V3 with SHA did not work
• Bugfix: Too many slow SNMP V3 sensors could stop probe monitoring (all sensors "black")
• Bugfix: Scanning interfaces for SNMP traffic sensors could return errors when using "singleget" compatibility mode

Nov 19th 2008 - Version 7.0.9.1928

• Overview: This recommended update covers a number of bugs that were reported by users since the release of V7.0.9
• New: WMIProcess sensors can now handle multiple instances of the same process name (display totals for all processes)
• Bugfix: User could not select some objects for maps and dependencies when number of sensors was above 1000 (now the user can manually enter an object ID at the end of the list)
• Bugfix: WMI Process sensor now shows correct cpu usage (total cpu load instead of per-processor load)
• Bugfix: WMI sensors use a different system for time measurement to achieve reliable results even on virtualized systems
• Bugfix: WMI sensors now detect 32bit overflows when they occur and try to correct them (or show an error state if counter rollovers happen too frequently)
• Bugfix: WMI CPU sensor are now able to detect 32bit overflows that occur on some buggy Windows systems and switch into a compatibility mode
• Bugfix: WMI did not work when account password contained ";"
• Bugfix: several fixes for core/probe connection problems
• Bugfix: Fixed a problem with selection of schedule and dependencies
• Bugfix: Removed problems with input validation for trigger editing
• Bugfix: Fixed group display in the main menu for users with limited rights
• Bugfix: Deletion of inherited triggers did not stop the corresponding notifications until the core was restarted
• Bugfix: HTTP Notification did not handle GET params without '=' correctly

Nov 4th 2008 - Version 7.0.9.1832

• Bugfix: Fixed a javascript bug in the iPhone user interface

Oct 30th 2008 - Version 7.0.9.1817

• Bugfix: WMI sensor fixes (improved stability, faster recovery)
• Bugfix: Inheritance checkbox for schedules/dependencies did not work
• Bugfix: Improved Core/Probe connection stability and recovery
• Bugfix: Several minor fixes

Oct 21st 2008 - Version 7.0.9.1751

• Overview: This release includes more than 200 improvements and changes. Highlights are an improved web interface (with support for IE8, Chrome & Safari browsers), new sensors for VMware servers and an improved reporting engine.
• Upgrade is recommended for all users of previous versions
  
• New: Support for additional browsers
  • Added support for Apple Safari 3.1 and Google Chrome (Webkit engine)
  • Added support for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2
  • Note 1: The officially recommended browser for PRTG still is Firefox 3.0.
  • Note 2: Google Chrome is currently the fastest browser for PRTG.
• New: Reporting Improvements
  • Reports now include more computed information about each sensor
    • Averages
    • Totals (for traffic sensors)
    • Uptime/downtime (total and percent)
    • Good and failed requests (total and percent)
  • Users can now run a report for any custom time span
  • Sensors can be added to a report using tags (Tags are inherited from parent objects, i.e. if you enter a specific tag into a group's tag setting and into this report setting, all sensors of that group will be included in the report - additionally to the sensors selected manually)
  • Improved sensor selection
  • User can select papersize of PDF files (A4, legal, letter)
  • Printing of HTML reports now works on IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome
  • Improved report layout (better page breaks, removed empty last page from reports)
  • HTML reports now open in a new window
• New: Improved web interface
  • "Clone Group" function duplicates a group with all subgroups, devices and sensors
  • Devices and groups can be "Folded" and "Unfolded"
  • Sensor tree remembers "view" setting (S, M, L, XL)
  • Objects in the sensor tree display an "edit" link when hovered which takes the user directly to their edit page
  • Improved layout for object settings
  • Improved menu structure
  • Cross reference and "Top 10" lists are now also available on group level
  • Sensors with alarm status are shown on red background in tables
  • Web browser optionally plays an alarm sound if the number of sensors with "error" state is larger than zero
  • Added "Dashboard 3" as third dashboard option
  • More reliability for Ajax features
  • Better handling of unstable server connections
  • Updated jQuery Javascript library to V1.2.6. This should provide performance improvements of up to 600% for the web interface
• New: VMware Sensors
  • Added two new sensor types: VMware Server Host sensor and VMware Virtual Machine sensor
  • Both monitor CPU, disk, memory and network
  • Added new device template for automatic discovery of VMware ESX servers
  • Requires direct connection to a VMware ESX server
• New: "Read Only" User
  • A user account can be set to "read only" mode in the account settings
  • Read only users can not see all the links to add, modify or delete objects (and they can not access the associated URLs)
    
• New: Added new sensor types
  • New: "File" sensor monitors a file's existence, size, and age and also discovers changes to the file
  • New: "Folder" sensor monitors a folder's existence as well as the number of files and their ages/sizes and also discovers changes to the folder's content
  • New: "Share Disk Space" sensor monitors free disk space on SMB shares (e.g. Windows and Samba)
• New: Improved Maps
  • Objects shown in tables of maps can be filtered with tags (see map settings page)
  • Timezone for a map can be set by the user
  • Added new map objects (icons with large text, graphs without axis labels, alarm sound)
• New: "Change" trigger type sends notifications whenever the monitoring target changes (for WMI File sensor and HTTP Advanced sensor)
• New: Custom EXE sensors now support DLLs and can report "warning" states
• New: Unusual detection can be enabled/disabled on group level
• Changed: New sensors are created when autodiscovery rediscoveres a device and finds ports that had been inactive before
• Changed: For SQL sensors the returned value now is primary channel (which means that it is now used for warnings/alarms)
• Changed: Windows 2000 is no longer supported as operating system for the core and probe
• Changed: Updated setup binaries to latest version
• Changed: Updated cache file version number (=> after upgrading the graph data cache will be recomputed in the background)
• Changed: Removed the Firebird installer from the PRTG installer (is only needed when upgrading data from IPCheck on a machine that has no IPCheck installation)
• Changed: PRTG Import Tool is now always installed
• Bugfix: "Re-Discover Now" did not work properly
• Bugfix: Fixed instability in SNMP V3 support
• Bugfix: Non-Admin users were unable to delete their reports/maps/schedules/notifications
• Bugfix: Mobile Dashboard did not automatically reload every 60 seconds
• Bugfix: For some device templates the auto discovery re-created some sensors with each run of the auto discovery
• Bugfix: "Save To file" icon did not work for Flash graphs
• Bugfix: Fixed Javascript exception in the web interface when loading new pages
• Bugfix: Could not add SNMP traffic sensors for ports with "<" or ">" in port names
• Bugfix: iPhone user interface only showed sensors of the last probe in the tree
• Bugfix: Layout of Top 10 pages was broken
• Bugfix: SNMP Counters from OIDLIB files that are marked as "delta" sensors were not evaluated as delta sensors
• Bugfix: When cloning a device the manually selected channels were not copied
• Bugfix: Heavy use of the search feature could cause instability
• Bugfix: Probe connection was dropped when scanning an SNMP device with an OIDLIB that contains many items
• Bugfix: Oracle Sensors now support port numbers <>1521
• Bugfix: Various minor bugfixes

Sep 23rd 2008 - Version 7.0.8.1509

• Maintenance Release (no technical changes)

Sep 3rd 2008 - Version 7.0.8.1426

• Overview: This release includes a faster web interface, the first version of the PRTG API, an improved map editor, an iPhone-optimized user interface and a probe installer for faster remote probe updates and many more improvements
  
• New: Improved map editor
  • Map items can now be resized
  • Content and template of the map items can now be edited
  • User can add own HTML code to add titles, comments or even images (e.g. a data center webcam) to a map
• New: Improved CSS and HTML
  
  • Pages now use the full browser window where useful
  • New design uses fewer graphics for faster page loads
• New: PRTG API
  • This is the first incarnation of the API, more improvements will be available soon
  • API allows access to PRTG's monitoring results
  • For details see menu item "Help|API" or this blog post
• New: iPhone optimized user interface
  
  • Allows read-only access to monitoring results for Apple iPhone users
  • Your PRTG installation must be accesible from the Internet
  • Access it with your iPhone at the URL https://yourserver/iphone (where yourserver is the IP or DNS name of your PRTG installation)
  • Using HTTPS is recommended to secure credentials, but HTTP can also be used
  • See this blog post for screenshots
• New: "Probe Only" installer
  
  • Provides faster distribution of the probe installer (only 4 MB) whenever a new software version is installed on the core server
  • Can be downloaded on probe computer by accessing PRTG's web interface (see item "Downloads" of the "Setup" menu).
• New: TEXTLIST Interface
  • PRTG 7 supports IPCheck Server Monitor 5's "TEXTLIST" interface
  • This means that custom PHP scripts written by IPCheck 5 users now work with PRTG 7
  • Also, the Windows Mobile User Interface of IPCheck Server Monitor will now work with PRTG 7
  • This feature is provided for easier upgrades only and should be considered deprecated (it will not be developed further)
  • See this blog entry for screenshots and more
• New: Sensors, devices and groups can now be paused for 5/15/60/180 minutes or one day (e.g. for maintenance or a reboot). Choose "Resume" to start monitoring before the scheduled pause is over.
• New: Improved wording for Notifications (e.g. the subject now shows "UP" instead of "Downstate Ended")
• New: Added a less sensitive default setting for the unusual detection
• New: Graphs now display the primary channel's minimum and maximum values
• New: Live graphs show a red dot for failed requests
• New: Added sensor type "SNMP System Uptime" which monitors a SNMP device's uptime
• New: Non-admin users are no longer able to see any system administration links and pages in the web-based UI
• New: Improved handling of "read only" access rights for users throughout the interface (e.g. if a user does not have "write" access for a device he cannot go through the "Add Sensor" wizard anymore)
• New: Added report template "List of Sensors (no graphs)"
• New: Notifications can now be paused by schedules
• New: For some sensor types (e.g. WMI Diskspace and WMI CPU) the user can now select what channel the warning/error levels are processed for (e.g. to define alarm levels for % free or GB free for disk sensors)
• New: Namespace can now be selected for WMI Sensors
• New: Reports can now be sent to multiple email addresses
• New: HTTP sensors' user agent can be defined by the user (Registry Key: LocalMachine\software\Paessler\PRTG Network Monitor\V7\Server\useragent)
• New: "Sensors by state" counters for groups and devices are now fully-functional links (e.g. top left corner of PRTG's web interface)
• New: Added several demo scripts for "Custom EXE" and "Custom WMI" sensors
• New: Text messages from Custom EXE sensors are now shown in the web interface
• New: "Add Autodiscovery Group" links show the Automatic Network Discovery feature more prominently
• New: Added a "XL" view to the sensor tree (shows each sensor in a line of its own)
• New: Updated Manual
• Changed: Removed Root Group's default notification for new installations
• Changed: We had to remove the AIM notifications (PRTG cannot create a connection with their servers)
• Changed: User can enter < and > in bodies of notification emails (e.g. to enter XML)
• Bugfix: Some Internet protocol sensors (SMTP, IMAP, POP3, FTP) would run into a frozen state
• Bugfix: User could not create OIDLIB-based sensors
• Bugfix: Weekly reports were sent 1 day too early
• Bugfix: Email footer setting in system setup did not work
• Bugfix: Maps were broken as soon as a referenced object was deleted
• Bugfix: Map refresh did not work correctly on URL /mapshow.htm
• Bugfix: Some reports showed empty graphs
• Bugfix: In some situations the live graph only showed very few data points
• Bugfix: Latencies did not always work correctly for State Triggers
• Bugfix: Many small bug fixes and enhancements

July 31st 2008 - Version 7.0.7.1206/1207

• Overview: This version mainly includes bugfixes based on users' feedback
• New: Notifications can be sent to one or more email address(es)
• New: Notifications can optionally be sent to PRTG's internal user groups
• New: Internal web server applies deflate compression to HTML, JS and CSS files for HTTP/1.1
• Changed: Improved layout for core connection settings in the Probe Admin Tool
• Bugfix: Context menu item "Toggle Favorite" did not work (groups, devices, sensors)
• Bugfix: Top 10 list "Best/Worst Availability" was sorted incorrectly
• Bugfix: Notification emails used incorrect priority setting
• Bugfix: Notifications contained incorrect downtime values
• Bugfix: Various minor issues

July 22nd 2008 - Version 7.0.6.1172/1173

• Overview: This version includes new features, usability improvements and a number of bugfixes
• New: "Clone Device" function duplicates a server with all settings
• New: "Zoom Table": Most data tables now offer a zoom icon that expands the table to full size in a new browser window
• New: "Compare" function enables the user to compare 48h/30d/365d graphs of two groups/devices/sensors
• New: "Quick Login": Added a "use default login" option to the login window (only when default login parameters prtgadmin/prtgadmin are used)
• New: Improved context menus use cascading menus for faster and easier navigation
• New: "Dashboard 2": Alternate dashboard layout
• New: Added "Open Support Ticket" link to the Help menu (Commercial Edition only)
• New: Added custom SMS gateway functionality for notifications
• New: Tray Tool is automatically closed by the installer before installing a new version (to avoid reboots)
• Changed: Faster rendering for "Dashboard 1" (does not use IFRAMEs anymore)
• Changed: The Import Tool now automatically saves logs to a file
• Changed: Revised manual and help information
• Changed: Todo list now sorted by date only (was priority/date)
• Changed: Enabled browser's context menu for charts and links (to make it easier to copy links/content) and for edit boxes (to make it easier to use copy/paste via the browser context menu)
• Changed: SNMP Helper installer can be downloaded from the PRTG web interface (Setup|Downloads)
• Changed: Improved compatibility for HTTP sensors with NTLM authentication
• Changed: Improved WMI Vital System Data sensors
• Changed: Improved MultiEdit menu
• Changed: Various Import Tool tweaks (mainly for importing IPCheck data)
• Changed: Dropped the Mini Browser (based on Mozilla Prism) and the Adobe Flash installer from the setup to create a smaller download (both files are available online)
• Bugfix: Top 10 list selection filter settings were dropped upon auto-refresh
• Bugfix: When creating new SNMP Helper sensors some selection items were truncated
• Bugfix: System Tray Tool failed to open web pages if the webserver was running on ports other than 80
• Bugfix: Some WMI sensors showed red error states after a certain navigation path between the pages of sensors, devices and groups
• Bugfix: URLs with more than one parameter (e.g. the Alarms page) were not stored correctly as "My Homepage"
• Bugfix: Postdata for HTTP notification was not being transmitted
• Bugfix: Some WMI sensors sporadically showed incorrect "No data" messages when down
• Bugfix: Report PDF files were still stored in default folder when data file location for the core was changed within the Core Admin Tool
• Bugfix: Remote Probes with Packet Sniffing sensors sometimes crashed upon reconnection after the initial connection to the core was dropped for a few minutes

July 14th 2008 - Version 7.0.5.1117/1118

• Overview: This version mainly covers bugfixes based on user feedback
• Changed: Community password is now stored in an encrypted format (in configuration XML file)
• Changed: Improved web server initialization code for handling of IP/port bindings that manages already occupied IP/port combinations better. User can now select only one TCP Port setting.
• Bugfix: On some systems WMI Traffic Sensors had trouble with counter rollovers
• Bugfix: In some installations probes stopped working (due to a bug in the Packet Sniffing Sensors)
• Bugfix: Notification settings were lost when editing particular sensors
• Bugfix: Various import issues
• Bugfix: Limit error/warning states display was being delayed
• Various minor bugfixes

July 7th 2008 - Version 7.0.5.1097/1098

• Overview: This version covers a number of bugfixes that are based on user feedback
• Bugfix: Fixed sporadic freezes of packet sniffing sensors
• Bugfix: PRTG did not work on Windows in Czech language
• Various minor bugfixes

July 4th 2008 - Version 7.0.4.1085/1086

• Overview: This version covers a number of bugfixes that are based on user feedback
• New: Import process writes its logfile to the disk for later review
• Changed: Published Maps now use the faster PNG-based graphs instead of Flash-based graphs
• Bugfix: Custom EXE sensors are not fully compatible with IPCheck Custom EXE sensors
• Bugfix: In some situations the Import process did not import historic sensor data
• Bugfix: Some users experienced an error message when they tried to add a new user
• Bugfix: Some users experienced a crash when starting the service (only when SQL sensors were configured)
• Various minor bugfixes

June 30th 2008 - Version 7.0.4.1033

• Initial Release of Version 7
• What's new? Please see the following two Knowledge Base articles:
  • Introduction to PRTG 7 for PRTG 6 users - What's new? What's different?
  • Introduction to PRTG 7 for IPCheck 5 users - What's new? What's different?