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Introduction
BrowserHawk 11 is hands-down our biggest major version release in years, providing several new powerful features and functionality that you've requested. In addition, it's packed to the brim with dozens of enhancements and important updates.
Updates in BrowserHawk 11.04
BrowserHawk 11.04 includes the following update:
- Added: Flash 10 support: Detection of the Flash 10 plug-in was added. Previous versions of BrowserHawk will detect Flash 10 as Flash 2 or as not installed. [Applies to BH for .NET, ActiveX, and 4J]
Updates in BrowserHawk 11.03
BrowserHawk 11.03 includes the following update:
- Added: Google Chome browser: Detection of the Google Chrome browser was added. The Browser property returns "Chrome" for this browser. Note that because this is a major new browser, this cannot be handled by a browser definition update alone - it requires both the 11.03 version of BrowserHawk and the latest browser definitions (installed with 11.03 and also on the browser definition update server). [Applies to BH for .NET, ActiveX, and 4J]
Updates in BrowserHawk 11.02
BrowserHawk 11.02 includes the following updates:
- Updated: Silverlight detection: Detection of the Silverlight plug-in was enhanced to detect recent releases of the plug-in. [Applies to BH for .NET, ActiveX, and 4J]
- Updated: BrowserHawk samples: The BrowserHawk RET samples were updated to use relative paths to the XML files. [Applies to BH for .NET only]
- Updated: browserhawk.properties file The browserhawk.properties file used when manually deploying BrowserHawk in a .NET environment is now included with the installation. [Applies to BH for .NET only]
Updates in BrowserHawk 11.01
BrowserHawk 11.01 includes the following updates:
- Fixed: cyScape Update Service with non-US regional settings: The cyScape Update Service would not download updates if the regional settings on the machine were set to use a date format of DD/MM/YYYY. This only affected users with non-US regional settings. [Applies to BH for .NET and ActiveX]
- Fixed: Plugin_SilverlightVerEx property logging: Fixed an issue which caused BrowserHawk to return an error stating that 'plugin_silverlightverex' was not a valid property for logging when calling the LogData or GetLogData methods. [Applies to BH for .NET only]
- NEW! PLT samples for ActiveX: BrowserHawk now includes samples which demonstrate how to monitor Page Load Times and log this data along with details about the user's browser configuration. Similar samples were already included for .NET and 4J. [Applies to BH for ActiveX only]
- Updated: Visual Studio templates: The Visual Studio templates for use with RET were updated to reference the updated build 11.0.1.1 of the BrowserHawk assembly. [Applies to BH for .NET only]
- Attention BrowserHawk4J users: BrowserHawk4J did not require any of these updates.
New in BrowserHawk 11.0
BrowserHawk 11 includes the following important enhancements and updates:
- NEW! Rules Enforcement Technology (RET): RET makes it easy to ensure each user meets your site's minimum system requirements and to provide automated browser help and troubleshooting to those users who do not meet requirements. Just define your "rules" using XML, and watch BrowserHawk do all the work for you - with no programming required! See the new RET video tutorials for more information.** [Applies to BH for .NET and 4J]
- NEW! Support for Vista: BrowserHawk 11 now fully supports installation and use under Vista. Previous versions of BrowserHawk will not install or run properly under Vista. [Applies to BH for .NET, ActiveX, and 4J]
- NEW! cyScape Update Service: BrowserHawk 11 introduces the new cyScape Update Service, which fully replaces the old BrowserHawk BDF Service. The cyScape Update Service is now responsible for monitoring cyScape for updated browser definitions and installing these for you automatically when available. Among other improvements, this new service adds full support under Vista, the ability to specify SMTP Authentication for receiving email notifications when updates are downloaded, and more! In addition it is now possible to monitor cyScape for updates without having to install the BH Editor on production servers.* [Applies to BH for .NET, ActiveX, and 4J]
- NEW! Support for 64 bit operating systems: BrowserHawk is now available with native 64 bit versions of the components to take full advantage of 64 bit operating environments. [Applies to BH for .NET and ActiveX]
- NEW! Detection of Silverlight plug-in: BrowserHawk now detects the Microsoft Silverlight plug-in and its version number using the new Plugin_Silverlight and Plugin_SilverlightVerEx properties.* [Applies to BH for .NET, ActiveX, and 4J]
- NEW! Expandable API: You can now extend BrowserHawk to add your own properties by executing any custom JavaScript as part of the BrowserHawk testing. The results are then available through the BrowserHawk API, just as if natively provided by BrowserHawk.** [Applies to BH for .NET and 4J]
- NEW! Monitor JavaScript errors: BrowserHawk can now automatically monitor your site for any JavaScript errors that users experience, and log these errors to your database. You can associate the user ID and session ID for which the error occurred for easy troubleshooting. It also provides the ability to log your own custom error messages back to the database from your JS code or error handlers.** [Applies to BH for .NET, ActiveX, and 4J]
- NEW! PLT and RET samples: Several new samples were added to demonstrate how to use BrowserHawk's Page Load Time (PLT) technology and Rules Enforcement Technology (RET). These samples are installed by default by BrowserHawk. Access using Start-> All Programs-> cyScape-> BrowserHawk-> Samples. [Applies to BH for .NET, ActiveX, and 4J]
- NEW! Visual Studio Template: A Visual Studio "New Item Template" is now included. This templates enables you to add RET to your web site with just a couple of mouse clicks. Watch this video tutorial to learn how. The template is installed to \Program Files \cyScape \BrowserHawk \dotnet \templates.** [Applies to BH for .NET]
- Updated: Improved error handling: Enhancements were made that provide improved error handling when testing for Flash and other plug-ins, as well as the ServicePack property. [Applies to BH for .NET, ActiveX, and 4J]
- Updated: BrowserHawk Reports Web Service (BRWS) enhancements: The BRWS was enhanced as follows: adds native 64 bit support for use on 64 bit operating systems, adds support for logging Silverlight plug-in information, and adds the new BrowserErrors table for tracking JavaScript errors on your site.** [Applies to BH for .NET, ActiveX, and 4J]
- Updated: Product documentation: The documentation has been improved and expanded, and now distributed as HTML Help (chm file) rathen than WinHelp as before. In addition the PDF version of the documentation has also been revamped to include hyperlinks within the document for easy navigation. The online help has also been revamped to improve presentation and usablity. [Applies to BH for .NET, ActiveX, and 4J
- NEW! RET Users Guide: The Rules Enforcement Technology Users Guide is now available which details the full specifications and options available with RET. This guide is installed with the product and also available for download here. [Applies to BH for .NET, ActiveX, and 4J]
* = Requires Professional or Enterprise Edition | ** = Requires Enterprise Edition
How to Upgrade | Pricing and ordering
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