Connection Explorer 1.2 Release Thread

Date

08/19/2026

Version

1.2.0.0

Changes

New

• Devices setup is now a guided three-step flow: Enable network sharing  Enable pairing  Add device, with steps unlocking as you complete them

• Add device now shows an inline "Waiting for a device…" panel with a 10-minute pairing window and countdown, replacing the old pop-up instructions

• Beta badge on the Devices page — Local Group device sharing is new and still being tested

• Dark mode is now the default theme for new installs (your saved theme choice is kept)

Fixed

• Pairing no longer dead-ends when Nearby discovery is off: creating a Local Group now turns discovery on automatically

• The Nearby discovery toggle now shows its actual state instead of always appearing off after a refresh

• Removing a device now actually removes it everywhere: the removed PC is notified, resets itself to setup, and no longer lingers as a phantom member

• Leave Local Group now tells the other devices — the departed PC no longer stays in everyone's device list as a permanent offline entry

• A removed PC can now be re-paired to the group; previously removal permanently blocked that machine from rejoining

• IPv6 connections now show their application name, PID, and path instead of "Unknown"

• Devices page text is now readable in dark mode (titles were rendering black on dark)

Date

08/04/2026

Version

1.1.6.0

Changes

Added — Visualize

• New Visualize tab: four ways to explore network behavior, with a device selector and time range on each.

• Connection Constellation: applications, services, and destinations as a linked map you can zoom, fit, and click.

• Click any node for its connection count, destinations, countries, and upload/download totals.

• Watch button turns any service or country on the constellation straight into an alert rule.

• Connection Flow: traces application traffic through services out to destination countries; click a path for its upload and download split.

• Network Weather: an hourly heatmap of how far activity sits from your own normal, not a generic traffic threshold.

• Weather status summary: unusual hours, new destinations, and your quietest period at a glance.

• "What drove this hour" breaks an unusual period down into the applications behind it.

• Hover any hour for its connection count, its typical baseline, and how many times over normal it ran.

• Three plain-language states — Typical, Elevated, Unusual — instead of a raw number.

• Hours with no history yet say so, rather than pretending you have a baseline.

• App Fingerprints: today's behavior for an application against its own 30-day pattern, with an optional baseline overlay.

• Fingerprints cover destinations, upload ratio, country spread, active hours, and connection persistence.

Added — Multiple devices

• Local Group: pair Connection Explorer installations on the same private LAN into one view.

• Alerts, map, and timeline federate across paired devices, with per-device filtering and coverage indicators.

• Visualize honors the same device selector, so any view can show one device or the whole group.

• Nearby discovery toggle controls whether new installations on your LAN can find your Local Group.

• LAN access card shows whether firewall rules and network profile are ready, with one-click allow or repair.

• Devices panel: rename or remove any paired device, and see which one is this PC.

Added — Connection test

• Test button on every paired device walks the connection step by step and names the one thing that is wrong.

• Checks network profile, firewall rules, device address, same-subnet, reachability, secure handshake, authentication, clock sync, and discovery.

• Each failure comes with what to do about it, in plain language.

• Copy report puts the whole result on the clipboard for a support ticket, including both agent versions and the resolved address.

• Reports a clock more than 30 seconds out of sync, which silently discarded live updates with no visible symptom.

• Reports when two devices are on different subnets, so guest Wi-Fi and VLAN splits are caught before anything else.

Added — Map and appearance

• Bandwidth arcs rebuilt: full draw-and-decay arcs with a glow underlay and traveling head, up to three in flight.

• Arcs cast the top uploader and downloader plus rotating guests, with new endpoints announced in purple.

• Dark mode overhaul: theme-aware brushes across every view, brand purple headers, and readable interactive text.

• Optional daily event log for AI-assisted anomaly review, per category, following your existing retention setting.

Fixed

• Devices panel no longer reports "tray service is unavailable" while the tray service is running normally.

• Pairing checks give up on a switched-off device after 2 seconds instead of 10, which had kept the channel to the tray busy continuously.

• Map no longer blinks all dots in unison; redraws that change nothing visible are skipped.

• Home location appears as soon as the map does, using the last session's position instead of waiting on a lookup.

• Network Weather excludes listener and unattributed rows from both current counts and the baselines they are compared against.

• Alerts view shows local data immediately while paired devices respond, instead of overlapping loading and empty states.

Changed

• Peer alert fan-out timeout cut from 10 seconds to 3.

• Devices panel polls for pairing requests every 5 seconds instead of every 2.

• Device names are no longer broadcast in presence announcements on the LAN.

Date

07/21/2026

Version

1.1.2.0

Changes

• New Apps view
  The "Processes" tab is now Apps — a clearer picture of what each program on your PC is doing on the network. Every app shows its status, how many connections it has open, how much data it's moved in the last 24 hours, which countries it's talked to, and its memory use. Click any app to expand it and see its individual processes and every destination it connected to.

• Block an app in one click
  Stop (or re-allow) a program's network access right from the list — no digging through settings.

• Activity at a glance
  Each app now has a mini activity graph showing its connection activity over the past 24 hours, so you can spot which apps are busy and when.

• Bandwidth trends
  The Bandwidth list now shows a traffic trend graph for each item, and you can expand any row to see exactly where its data went.

• A more consistent, polished look
  The Apps, Bandwidth, DNS, and Connections screens now share the same clean table design.

• Speed improvements
  Scrolling and resizing the monitoring screens are much smoother, even with lots of activity, and the app is lighter on system resources in the background.

• Improved Database consistency 
  Connection Explorer now cleans up all older history consistently and reclaims the freed disk space automatically — so the database no longer grows unchecked over months of use, even when the app is running quietly in the background.

• Translations
  Various updates to translation files to improve consistency and accuracy.