Windows WiFi Scanner Release Notes
Windows WiFi Scanner v2.9.1.549 Release Notes (August 15, 2024)
- Fixed bug where BSSID Notes were not properly sorting
- Added quotes to vendor names in CSV export to prevent comma issues during import
Windows WiFi Scanner v2.9.0.548 Release Notes (March 22, 2024)
- Fixed bug with 6 GHz center channel detection
Windows WiFi Scanner v2.9.0.546 Release Notes (February 12, 2024)
- Improved channel detection logic for wide channels on 6 GHz
- Performance improvements
Windows WiFi Scanner v2.9.0.544 Release Notes (January 30, 2024)
- Updated spectrum graphing library to improve performance in busy RF environments
- Support for latest WLAN Pi Pro, M4 and R4 firmware
- Performance improvements
Windows WiFi Scanner v2.8.50.60 Release Notes (August 16, 2023)
- Improvements to WiFi Survey (Beta) heat map generation. Contact support@accessagility.com to have feature enabled for your license key.
- Preferences setting to age out networks based on user settings
- Updated OUI database
- Performance improvements
Windows WiFi Scanner v2.8.45.55 Release Notes (July 6, 2023)
- Improvements to WiFi Survey (Beta) heat map generation. Contact support@accessagility.com to have feature enabled for your license key.
- Performance improvements
Windows WiFi Scanner v2.8.31.41 Release Notes (April 19, 2023)
- WiFi Survey (Beta) feature added. Supports passive and active surveys using built-in and USB adapters. Contact support@accessagility.com to have feature enabled for your license key.
- Performance improvements
Windows WiFi Scanner v2.8.26.36 Release Notes (March 9, 2023)
- Fixed issue where a 5 GHz AP channel width was detected as 40MHz instead of 20MHz. The issue was only with 5 GHz APs when the HT capability section was present and the AP supports 40 MHz but was not configured for 40 MHz.
- Copy spectrum and other graphs to clipboard and save option
Windows WiFi Scanner v2.8.21.31 Release Notes (February 4, 2023)
- Fixed issue experienced by some remote sensor users where results were not returned in a timely manner
- Improved remote sensor support for WLAN Pi Pro w/ Intel AX210 adapter, M4 w/ MT7921K (PCIe m.2) adapter, and R4 w/ M7921U (USB) adapter.
Windows WiFi Scanner v2.8.15.26 Release Notes (November 22, 2022)
- Added ability to make notes / annotations per BSSID and import / export this information
- Added ability to copy license key from About WiFi Scanner > License screen
- Fixed bug where all 5 GHz networks were showing as 40 MHz wide
- Fixed bug where AP Beacon Interval was not saved in session file
- Fixed bug where AP Uptime was not saved in session file
- Fixed bug where incorrect wireless adapter firmware version was displayed in About WiFi Scanner > Capabilities and Network and Interface screens
- Overall performance improvements in UI navigation
Windows WiFi Scanner v2.8.9.20 Release Notes (November 8, 2022)
- Improved license management system
Windows WiFi Scanner v2.8.8.19 Release Notes (November 4, 2022)
- Performance improvements to scanning
Windows WiFi Scanner v2.8.5.15 Release Notes (October 15, 2022)
- Fixed issue where some users were not able to use integrated speed testing feature
Windows WiFi Scanner v2.8.2.12 Release Notes (September 13, 2022)
- Additional 6E / 6 GHz detection tweaks for beacons with Multiple Basic Service Set Identifier (MBSSID) information
Windows WiFi Scanner v2.8.2.8 Release Notes (August 24, 2022)
- Added support for scanning 6E / 6 GHz access points / channels using WLAN Pi Pro and WLAN Pi M4
Windows WiFi Scanner v2.8.2.7 Release Notes (August 19, 2022)
- Improved remote sensor support for all WLAN Pi models (WLAN Pi NEO2, WLAN Pi Pro, WLAN Pi M4).
Windows WiFi Scanner v2.6.7 Build 822 Release Notes (June 28, 2022)
- Fixed issue to correct 5 GHz channel width detection
Windows WiFi Scanner v2.6.3 Build 818 Release Notes (June 16, 2022)
- Fixed issue that prevented loading of pcap capture when "Vendor NS Next" is set to true in file
- Improved loading of large pcap / pcapng files
Windows WiFi Scanner v2.6.2 Build 817 Release Notes (June 14, 2022)
- Added WiFi 6E / 6 GHz access points out of band discovery using 2.4 and 5 GHz adapters
- Fixed issue where freeform text filtering was not working when scanning adapter selection was changed
- Fixed issue where Basic Rates were not displayed correctly
- Added additional entries to Genius tab
--- 6 GHz Access Point Detected Using 2.4 or 5 GHz Adapter alert
--- 802.11e Not Detected alert
Windows WiFi Scanner v2.5.18 Build 813 Release Notes (June 3, 2022)
- Support for detecting WiFi 6E / 6 GHz access points
- Support for external adapters that are compatible with Windows 10 and/or Windows 11
- Show the Basic Rates column by default and hide min rate column
- Fixed issue where save session window was not fully visible
- Added additional entries to Genius tab
--- Added Wi-Fi Multi-Media (WMM) related alerts
--- Added Forty MHz Intolerant alert
--- Added Rate Limiting alert
--- Added WPA3 SAE detected alert
--- Added Space-time Block Coding (STBC) detected alert
--- Added High Stream Capable Access Point detected alert
--- Updated Management Frame Protection (802.11w) Required detected alert
--- Updated logic for detecting High Beacon Overhead detected alert
--- Updated Protection in ERP detected alert
Windows WiFi Scanner v2.5.13 Build 802 Release Notes (May 15, 2022)
- Added Transmit Power Control (TPC) column to scan results
- Added AP Uptime column to scan results
- Improve color coding of suggestion priorities (Very High, High, Medium, Low, Very Low, Alert)
- Added Alert suggestion priority for items that are informational only
- Renamed Suggestions tab to Genius tab
- Added additional entries to Genius tab
--- 80211.r OTD detected
--- Access point short uptime detected
--- High access point power level detected
--- 802.11h related suggestion
--- Same SSID on both bands detected
--- Long guard interval detected
--- Non standard beacon interval detected
--- Mixed channel width on same SSID detected
--- Meraki mesh hidden SSID detected
Windows WiFi Scanner v2.5.12 Build 795 Release Notes (March 15, 2022)
- Add suggestions tab that provides guidance on potential issues with selected SSID
- Added Beacon Interval information per SSID
- Added MCS Index column to scan results
Windows WiFi Scanner v2.5.8 Build 771 Release Notes (September 10, 2021)
- Fixed issue where app was reverting to trial mode after proper license registration
- Add "Custom Filters" to filter tree allowing users to save filters.
- Add ability to import / export Customer Filters.
- Fixed issue where 11ax adapters in about screen were listed as 11ac
- Added support SSH integration via key-based authentication
- Add "Alerts" to filter tree with predefined filters that are most relevant to analyzing WiFi networks
- Other fixes for speed improvements
Windows WiFi Scanner v2.4 Build 755 Release Notes (March 31, 2021)
- Fixed sorting issue in scanner table view grid. Some were sorting alphabetically when they should have been numerically sorted
- Fixed sorting issue in scanner tree on left side for BSSID and a few others
- Fixed issue where license key was not reflected correctly requiring reentering of license key
- Improved Remote WiFi Scanner configuration testing to alert OS issues to WiFi Scanner
- Fixed issue where some devices were not showing interface information in About WiFi Scanner tabs
- Improved logging of remote WiFi Scanner using SSH to WLAN Pi / any Linux device that supports tcpdump and has WiFi adapter that can be configured for monitor mode.
- Fixed signal issues withe remote wifi scanner device. has USB Adapter with multiple transmit and receive antennas
- Improved Performance
- Many other bug fixes
Windows WiFi Scanner v2.2 Build 731 Release Notes (January 14, 2021)
- Remote WiFi Scanner using SSH to WLAN Pi / any Linux device that supports tcpdump and has WiFi adapter that can be configured for monitor mode.
- Improved Performance
Windows WiFi Scanner v2.1 Build 714 Release Notes (November 10, 2020)
- Ability to open in pcap files and analyze wifi information
- Improved detection of wide 2.4 and 5 GHz channels (40, 80, 160)
- Improved visualization of ACI (adjacent channel interference) and CCI (co-channel interference) networks
- Fixed issue where BSS Load station count and/or utilization was not correct for all scenarios
- Many other minor improvements
- Improved performance
Windows WiFi Scanner v2.0 Build 681 Release Notes (September 24, 2020)
- Updated user interface to match Windows 10 user interface guidelines
- Windows WiFi Scanner v1.x is End of Sale and End of Support. All existing v1.x users with an active license should upgrade to version 2.0 at no cost.