Latest News, Releases and Updates
3 September 2026
SoftPerfect RAM File System v26.9
- Added: macOS support for Intel and Apple Silicon with the full feature set of the Windows version.
- Added: The Reload command for discarding changes and remounting from the image or folder.
- Added: An option to wipe memory before releasing it to the system.
- Added: The ramfsctl mount command for mounting a configured volume on demand.
- Added: A button for resetting lifetime statistics.
- Improved: Disk space is reserved at file allocation time, matching NTFS.
- Fixed: Creating a volume could freeze the application on some systems.
- Fixed: An interrupted mount could strand a folder-backed volume's source.
- Fixed: A volume could take a disconnected network drive's letter.
- Fixed: Some file managers could not copy empty folders to a volume.
- Fixed: Traffic double-count in lifetime statistics.
1 September 2026
SoftPerfect Switch Port Mapper v26.9
- Added: Automatic detection of SNMPv3 hash and cipher.
- Added: SNMPv3 support for SHA-224, AES-192-B and AES-256-B.
- Added: Reusable lists of ignored ports, matched by port name mask.
- Added: Reusable lists of network scan ranges.
1 September 2026
SoftPerfect Network Scanner v26.9
- Added: Live device monitoring with latency, loss, jitter and quality columns.
- Added: Live charts and per-hop route quality in the device properties.
- Added: MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256 checksum columns in the remote file properties.
- Added: Automatic detection of SNMPv3 authentication and privacy algorithms.
- Added: Saved SNMPv3 credentials, SHA-224 authentication and AES-192-B/AES-256-B privacy.
- Improved: New SNMP engine with IPv6 neighbour discovery and more reliable data retrieval.
- Improved: MIB browser now uses a built-in database instead of separate MIB files.
- Improved: Installed applications now include correct version numbers.
- Improved: Workstation probes, such as OS version and LAN group, are now cross-platform.
- Removed: Remote suspend/hibernate, Comment column, Uptime option and Telnet scripting object.
31 August 2026
SoftPerfect Ping Monitor v26.8
- Added: Optional TCP and HTTP/S probes per host and alerts for them.
- Improved: Window size and layout are remembered between sessions.
- Fixed: The 'forever' data retention option kept no history.
14 August 2026
SoftPerfect Switch Port Mapper v26.8
- Added: SNMPv3 authentication with SHA-384 and SHA-512.
- Added: Device search, layout reset and SVG export in the topology map.
- Improved: Console now reports unreachable devices explicitly.
- Improved: LLDP neighbour details now include the remote port description.
- Fixed: Incorrect LLDP neighbour decoding on some switch models.
- Fixed: Binary SNMP values produced invalid characters in exported reports.
- Fixed: No data retrieved over SNMPv2c/v3 from switches that drop oversized bulk responses.
10 August 2026
SoftPerfect RAM File System v26.8.1
- Added: Folder-backed volumes that mirror an existing folder in RAM.
- Added: Option to mount a volume as a removable drive for better compatibility.
- Added: The drive letter of an existing volume can now be changed.
- Improved: Image files with many small files are now much more compact.
- Fixed: A rare blue screen when the driver loaded at system startup.
- Fixed: An image file could fail to mount due to a permission issue.
- Fixed: Renaming a file to change only the letter case had no effect.
3 August 2026
SoftPerfect RAM File System v26.8
- Added: Support for Windows Subsystem for Linux.
- Added: Volume renaming via the label command and drive properties.
- Improved: Driver hardening in volume saving, renaming and file locking.
- Improved: The Create Folders list is no longer limited to 1023 characters.
- Fixed: File modification times were not updated on overwrite or truncation.
- Fixed: Reopening a file from an existing handle with ReOpenFile failed.
- Changed: Volumes now report their file system to Windows as NTFS for better compatibility.
30 July 2026
SoftPerfect Network Scanner v26.7
- Added: SNMPv3 authentication with SHA-384 and SHA-512.
- Improved: VBScript columns can now read Python columns and vice versa.
- Improved: Column display settings now belong to the scan item rather than the column itself.
- Changed: A script reading another column now receives the displayed value, with any regex applied.
- Changed: Remote Python and Remote Scripting item names must now be unique, as scripts address columns by name.
27 July 2026
SoftPerfect RAM File System v26.7.1
- Fixed: Memory-mapped file writes could be lost, producing empty or corrupt output.
- Fixed: Programs requiring administrator rights would not launch from a volume.
- Fixed: Renaming or moving files across a junction onto a volume could fail.
- Fixed: Creating a volume could fail when exFAT or FAT32 volumes were present.
24 July 2026
SoftPerfect RAM File System v26.7
- A high-performance in-memory file system for Windows that stores files directly in RAM as a native file system, with no virtual block device or NTFS layer, making it faster than any SSD and conventional RAM disks.
6 July 2026
SoftPerfect RAM Disk v26.7
- Improved: Memory freed by deleting files is now returned to the system within seconds.
- Improved: Lifetime usage statistics are saved less frequently, reducing background overhead.
- Fixed: NTFS compression on a dynamic disk could cause a failure to copy large files with a false "not enough space" error.
6 July 2026
SoftPerfect Certificate Monitor v26.7
- Added: Support for certificates on bare IP addresses.
- Improved: Expiry warnings and grades now scale to each certificate's lifetime.
- Improved: The details panel now follows the system colours for light and dark themes.
30 June 2026
SoftPerfect Ping Monitor v26.6
- Added: Alerts for sustained high latency or packet loss.
- Added: Detail graph can be scrolled back in time for reviewing past latency.
- Added: Hover crosshair on the latency graph showing time, latency and loss.
- Added: Customisable font family and size for tiles and charts.
- Added: Tags can be assigned or removed on multiple hosts simultaneously.
- Added: Tag import from CSV and text files.
- Improved: History is kept per-minute for 7 days and per-hour for the set retention period.
19 June 2026
SoftPerfect RAM Disk v26.6
- Added: macOS support for both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs, backed by a kernel extension (KEXT) driver and mirroring the full Windows feature set.
- Added: Linux support backed by a loadable kernel module (KO), mirroring the full Windows feature set, with DKMS and Secure Boot support.
- Added: ramdiskctl — a new cross-platform command-line tool for scripted disk management on Windows, macOS and Linux.
- Improved: Faster I/O on dynamically allocated disks through optimised hot-path locking and lookup.
- Removed: Command-line control of the application; use import/export or ramdiskctl instead.
- Removed: Legacy ramdiskc.exe console tool, superseded by ramdiskctl.
25 May 2026
SoftPerfect Network Scanner v26.5
- Added: Device history — long-term per-network record of every device ever seen.
- Added: Bold indicator in the device tree for devices new to the current network.
- Added: History dialog (right-click a device) showing the full timeline of recorded sightings.
- Added: Device Inventory report listing every device ever seen on the current network.
- Improved: Windows version detection is now build-precise via SMB2 NTLMSSP.
- Improved: Smoother scan start — the initial probe burst has been moved off the GUI thread.
- Improved: Tree-level export from various managers now offers TXT, CSV, HTML, XML and JSON.
- Improved: Nmap discovery on macOS and Linux now resolves .app bundles and standard system paths.
7 May 2026
SoftPerfect NetWorx v26.5
- Added: Native ARM64 build for Windows on ARM.
- Added: Area and Mirrored chart types for the traffic graph.
- Improved: Quota dialog now uses radial gauges with under/on/over budget indicators.
- Improved: Modernised usage report charts with auto-fit time scale and a top-10 ranking view.
- Improved: Per-application grouping now matches the same application installed in different locations.
- Removed: 32-bit Windows builds are no longer provided.
29 April 2026
SoftPerfect Ping Monitor v26.4
- Added: Per-host tagging with coloured labels and per-view filtering.
- Added: Windows taskbar widget showing host status and latency.
- Added: Import hosts from text and CSV files with automatic deduplication.
- Added: Configuration import and export with a recent files list.
- Improved: Host status uses a 30-sample window to ignore brief timeouts.
24 April 2026
SoftPerfect Cache Relocator v26.4
- Added: Chrome Canary and Ulaa browser support.
- Added: Support for browsers using randomised user data directories.
- Added: Full localisation with over 25 languages.
- Improved: Steam cache detection for both old and new cache paths.
- Changed: Versioning scheme updated to use the YY.MM format.
21 April 2026
SoftPerfect RAM Disk v26.4
- Added: Customisable tray icon style with three options: colour, white, and black.
- Improved: Refined UI with auto-fitting columns and speed display in status bar.
- Improved: Internal architecture restructured towards cross-platform support.
- Improved: Driver robustness and hardening.
- Changed: Configuration import and export now uses JSON instead of XML.
- Changed: Volume types simplified by merging logon and boot types into one.
- Changed: Licensing and user access control moved to the kernel driver for improved security.
- Removed: Drive letter namespace option, as drive letters are now system-managed.
- Removed: Auto-run applications feature, as OS startup mechanisms should be used instead.
13 April 2026
SoftPerfect Certificate Monitor v26.4
- A free cross-platform TLS/SSL certificate monitor that tracks expiry dates, evaluates certificate health with letter grades, and alerts you to expiring or misconfigured certificates.
5 March 2026
SoftPerfect IP Calculator v26.3
- A free cross-platform IPv4/IPv6 subnet calculator with binary bit visualisation, interactive subnet planning, VLSM, route summarisation and overlap detection.
2 March 2026
SoftPerfect Network Scanner v26.3
- Added: mDNS device discovery with support for common service types.
- Added: Webhook notifications for background scan events.
- Added: MQTT broker detection in server banner grabbing.
- Added: Device brand and type detection from HTTP response pages.
- Added: Mid-path wildcard support in remote file operations.
- Improved: TLS banners now show certificate organisation and self-signed status.
- Improved: HTTP redirect following to extract final server banner and page title.
- Improved: Discovery dialogs now run in the background with incremental updates.
- Changed: Dropped 32-bit Windows builds; added native ARM64 support.
23 February 2026
SoftPerfect Ping Monitor v26.2
- A free cross-platform network monitor that continuously pings hosts and displays real-time latency, packet loss and jitter in table, tile and route trace views.
11 February 2026
SoftPerfect Switch Port Mapper v26.2
- Added: Native ARM64 (Windows on ARM) support.
- Added: LLDP/CDP neighbour discovery in device discovery dialog.
- Added: Interactive topology map view built from LLDP/CDP neighbour data.
- Improved: LLDP neighbour discovery compatibility with non-Cisco devices.
- Improved: IPv4 input fields now support paste correctly.
- Removed: 32-bit (x86) Windows builds.
3 February 2026
SoftPerfect TFTP Server v26.2
- A lightweight, standards-compliant TFTP server for Windows, macOS and Linux. Supports GUI, console and Windows service modes.