Latest News, Releases and Updates
29 October 2026
SoftPerfect Cache Relocator v26.10
- Added: macOS and Linux versions.
- Added: Native Windows ARM64 version.
- Added: Command-line version for scripting.
- Added: Brave Origin and more Chrome channels.
- Removed: 32-bit Windows version.
28 October 2026
SoftPerfect Switch Port Mapper v26.10
- Added: Status line with progress and Up/Down port filters.
- Improved: Faster subnet scanning that can be stopped at once.
- Improved: Faster scanning of switches without SNMP bulk support.
- Improved: Modernised user interface.
- Improved: Console help now lists the column names for /column.
- Changed: The Linux version now uses GTK3.
- Fixed: Speed column sorted incorrectly, and 2.5G ports were shown as 2G.
- Fixed: LLDP neighbours missing on Cisco ports outside VLAN 1.
- Fixed: No IP information from devices with only the newer ARP table.
27 October 2026
SoftPerfect NetWorx v26.10
- Added: SNMPv3 SHA-384 and SHA-512 authentication.
- Improved: Modernised Settings and Usage Report windows.
- Improved: 64-bit router counters that tell a wrap from a reset.
- Improved: Router SNMP settings can be reused and edited.
- Improved: Sharper charts and gauges on high-DPI displays.
- Improved: Translations fit their windows and read naturally.
- Changed: Per-application monitoring uses a new driver.
- Changed: The Linux version now uses GTK 3.
- Removed: Windows 7 is no longer supported.
24 October 2026
SoftPerfect TFTP Server v26.10
- Added: Rules that move, copy or delete uploaded files.
- Added: Clickable status line with server state and transfers.
- Changed: The Linux version now uses GTK 3.
- Changed: 32-bit Windows is no longer supported.
- Fixed: Netascii transfers did not convert line endings.
24 October 2026
SoftPerfect Ping Monitor v26.10
- Added: Legend for status colours and quality bars.
- Added: Clickable host counts and alert state in the status line.
- Improved: Graphics scale with display DPI on Windows.
- Improved: Graph readout shows the latency range behind averaged points.
- Changed: The Linux version now uses GTK 3.
- Changed: 32-bit Windows is no longer supported.
- Fixed: Tag filter stopped alerts for hidden hosts.
- Fixed: Alerts after the cooldown did not name the hosts.
23 October 2026
SoftPerfect Certificate Monitor v26.10
- Added: Certificate checks for mail servers on ports 25 and 587 using STARTTLS.
- Added: Refresh command in the host context menu for rechecking selected hosts.
- Improved: Incomplete certificate chains are now completed from the issuer's download address, as browsers do.
- Improved: Tiles and grade badges now scale correctly with display DPI.
- Changed: 32-bit Windows is no longer supported.
- Changed: The Linux version now uses GTK 3.
20 October 2026
SoftPerfect WiFi Guard v26.10
- Added: Row spacing option in the View menu (Compact, Standard, Expanded).
- Added: CIDR notation support for custom IP ranges, e.g. 192.168.1.0/24.
- Improved: Modernised user interface with a new status bar, device cards and icons.
- Improved: Faster network scanning, with all device queries running in parallel.
- Changed: The Linux version now uses GTK 3.
- Changed: 32-bit Windows is no longer supported.
- Fixed: The device list being cleared when a new device joined the network.
13 October 2026
SoftPerfect NetGenius v26.10
- Added: Area and Mirrored graph types.
- Added: Native Windows on ARM64 support.
- Added: Usage report export to XML and JSON.
- Improved: Traffic shaping and scheduling.
- Improved: Graph sharpness and scalability with display DPI.
- Improved: Taskbar graph integration on Windows 11.
- Changed: Requires 64-bit Windows 10 or later.
- Changed: Versioning scheme updated to use the YY.MM format.
9 October 2026
SoftPerfect Virtual Disk Trim v26.10
- A tool for Windows, macOS and Linux that shrinks virtual machine disk images (VHD/VHDX, VMDK, VDI, qcow2, raw) without needing the VM or zeroing free space.
4 October 2026
SoftPerfect RAM Disk v26.10
- Added: Support for platform-native image files as RAM disk backing store: VHDX (Windows), DMG (macOS) and RAW (Linux).
- Added: Custom mount options on Linux and macOS, including noatime, noexec, nodiratime, nobrowse and noowners.
- Improved: The main window size and column widths are now remembered between sessions.
- Fixed: Kernel panic or freeze on macOS when creating large RAM disks of tens of gigabytes.
- Fixed: Disks with hard disk emulation on Windows could stall when a drive letter was a mapped network drive.
2 October 2026
SoftPerfect RAM File System v26.10
- Added: Linux support for Intel/AMD and ARM64 with kernel 6.8 or later, with the full feature set.
- Added: An option to keep file system filters off a volume on Windows 11 for maximum performance.
- Fixed: Files extracted from an archive could be copied off a macOS volume as empty files.
- Fixed: Cloned files were counted against the volume size on macOS.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.