DbgHelp Browser x86 Change History

Version 3.29, 14 November 2024
Version 3.29 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes.

Version 3.28, 05 November 2024
Version 3.28 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes.

Version 3.27, 24 October 2024
Version 3.27 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for handling displaying symbols for unsigned drivers and drivers when unable to contact the code signing certificate authority.

Version 3.26, 17 October 2024
Version 3.26 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release. Misc bug fixes.

Version 3.25, 01 October 2024
Version 3.25 includes the following functionality:

• Improved software update dialog.

Version 3.24, 13 September 2024
Version 3.24 includes the following functionality:

• Static analysis improvements.

Version 3.23, 30 August 2024
Version 3.23 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 3.22, 01 August 2024
Version 3.22 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 3.21, 21 July 2024
Version 3.21 includes the following functionality:

• Misc static code analysis bug fixes.

Version 3.20, 10 June 2024
Version 3.20 includes the following functionality:

• UX improvement for Path Substitutions to highlight substitutions for paths that don't exist and substitutions that don't exist.
• Bug fix for Path Substitutions to prevent path substitutions for paths that don't exist and substitutions that don't exist.
• Addition of ability to do automatic path substitutions without specifiying any paths.
• Misc bug fixes.

Version 3.19, 30 May 2024
Version 3.19 includes the following functionality:

• Addition of Path Substitutions to the settings dialog. These allow you to specify different source bases (drive and directories) so that you can correctly reference source code even though it's not on the same path in which it was built.

Version 3.18, 20 March 2024
Version 3.18 includes the following functionality:

• Minor bug fixes and continued improvement of secure data handling.

Version 3.17, 09 March 2024
Version 3.17 includes the following functionality:

• Minor bug fixes and continued improvement of secure data handling.

Version 3.16, 08 February 2024
Version 3.16 includes the following functionality:

• Changes to security attributes/descriptors placed on files and pipes etc. We no longer use default settings (Everyone all access), but restrict access to Admin/System/Interactive Users and Deny Guest.
• Improvements to security issues in various places in the codebase.
• Improved handling of low memory conditions in string handling.

Version 3.15, 01 February 2024
Version 3.15 includes the following functionality:

• Software improvements due to static analysis with VisualLint and Gimpel PC-Lint.
• Bug fixes for PE file reader.
• Bug fix for potential crash if NULL passed to Software Verify internal heap allocator.

Version 3.14, 11 December 2023
Version 3.14 includes the following functionality:

• Graphics update for 4K screens.

Version 3.13, 28 November 2023
Version 3.13 includes the following functionality:

• All threading synchronization primitives moved to the svlSupport.dll library, rather than included in each library. This has had the useful side effect of improving callstacks.

Version 3.12, 21 November 2023
Version 3.12 includes the following functionality:

• UX improvement - tree expand/collapse buttons are now easier to use because they are better sized on high DPI screens.

Version 3.11, 07 November 2023
Version 3.11 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release. Misc bug fixes.

Version 3.10, 19 October 2023
Version 3.10 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release. Misc bug fixes.

Version 3.09, 27 September 2023
Version 3.09 includes the following functionality:

• Update to handle DLL function importing by API Set rather than DLL name.

Version 3.08, 31 August 2023
Version 3.08 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 3.07, 25 August 2023
Version 3.07 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for help file downloading.

Version 3.06, 16 August 2023
Version 3.06 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 3.05, 27 July 2023
Version 3.05 includes the following functionality:

• Updated svlUXTheme.

Version 3.04, 17 July 2023
Version 3.04 includes the following functionality:

• Change to query symbol relative dialog. You no longer need to preset a symbol, you can choose the symbol from the dialog box.
• Change to query symbol when a filter is active. If the search fails, the filter is reset and the search run again.

Version 3.03, 10 July 2023
Version 3.03 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes.

Version 3.02, 31 May 2023
Version 3.02 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes.

Version 3.01, 21 May 2023
Version 3.01 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes.

Version 3.00, 11 May 2023
Version 3.00 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes.

Version 2.99, 25 April 2023
Version 2.99 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes.
• Bug fixes and additional safety measures added to SVL Admin Service.

Version 2.98, 04 April 2023
Version 2.98 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes.

Version 2.97, 09 March 2023
Version 2.97 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes.

Version 2.96, 23 February 2023
Version 2.96 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for display of line number information.

Version 2.95, 07 February 2023
Version 2.95 includes the following functionality:

• Update to detect Windows 11 operating system.
• Maintenance release.

Version 2.94, 11 January 2023
Version 2.94 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.93, 13 December 2022
Version 2.93 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes.

Version 2.92, 28 November 2022
Version 2.92 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes.
• Updated UX Theme.

Version 2.91, 08 November 2022
Version 2.91 includes the following functionality:

• Updated Help menu.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes.
• Updated documentation.

Version 2.90, 22 October 2022
Version 2.90 includes the following functionality:

• Updated Help menu.
• Minor bug fixes.

Version 2.89, 03 October 2022
Version 2.89 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for parsing XML event log data when it contained double quotes but parser was expecting single quotes.

Version 2.88, 13 September 2022
Version 2.88 includes the following functionality:

• Addition of Software Updates functionality and menu.

Version 2.87, 20 June 2022
Version 2.87 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for missing installer dependency on vanilla machines with no installs.

Version 2.86, 06 June 2022
Version 2.86 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for source code code scrolling drawing error on DPI scaled displays.
• Updated installer to only ask about closing Visual Studio after the choice for installing Visual Studio menus has been made.

Version 2.85, 01 June 2022
Version 2.85 includes the following functionality:

• Various static analysis bug fixes.

Version 2.84, 23 May 2022
Version 2.84 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fixes for incorrect test with FindFirstFile().

Version 2.83, 26 April 2022
Version 2.83 includes the following functionality:

• Static analysis bug fixes.
• Misc bug fixes.

Version 2.82, 07 April 2022
Version 2.82 includes the following functionality:

• Improved registry access handling.

Version 2.81, 15 March 2022
Version 2.81 includes the following functionality:

• Updated settings dialog. New source code paths setting.

Version 2.80, 07 February 2022
Version 2.80 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for reading debug symbols for DLL in directories that are write protected or require admin privileges to write files.
• Bug fix for symbol reader helper utility programs.

Version 2.79, 25 January 2022
Version 2.79 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.78, 05 January 2022
Version 2.78 includes the following functionality:

• Various UX improvements and performance improvements.

Version 2.77, 29 December 2021
Version 2.77 includes the following functionality:

• Minor improvement to displaying source code. If can't find source in the specified file location, will also check the same location as the exe/dll being inspected.
• Updated FORTRAN keyword colouring rules to include FORTRAN 2003, 2008.

Version 2.76, 23 December 2021
Version 2.76 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release: Software Verify UX Theme moved into it's own library.

Version 2.75, 07 December 2021
Version 2.75 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.74, 03 November 2021
Version 2.74 includes the following functionality:

• Minor UX tweaks.

Version 2.73, 18 October 2021
Version 2.73 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.
• Misc bug fixes.
• Modified installer shortcut criteria.

Version 2.72, 08 October 2021
Version 2.72 includes the following functionality:

• Addition of Contact customer support to Help menu, and various other related contact improvements.

Version 2.71, 29 September 2021
Version 2.71 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.70, 03 September 2021
Version 2.70 includes the following functionality:

• Filename sorting changed to case insensitive. This will make finding the correct filename easier.

Version 2.69, 12 August 2021
Version 2.69 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes including DLL inspection bug fix for potential crash.

Version 2.68, 26 July 2021
Version 2.68 includes the following functionality:

• Improved display of query results when the result is data rather than a function.

Version 2.67, 06 July 2021
Version 2.67 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for registry reading bug. Only affects installs on machines that don't already have an install.

Version 2.66, 03 July 2021
Version 2.66 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release. Various bug fixes and misc new functionality.

Version 2.65, 11 June 2021
Version 2.65 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes. Maintenance release.

Version 2.64, 27 May 2021
Version 2.64 includes the following functionality:

• Replace hard coded program files location with a version that reflects where the OS is installed - some people don't install the OS on drive C.

Version 2.63, 26 May 2021
Version 2.63 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for .Net Core runtime location discovery.

Version 2.62, 22 May 2021
Version 2.62 includes the following functionality:

• Updated help documentation

Version 2.61, 18 May 2021
Version 2.61 includes the following functionality:

• Support for Portable PDB formats - now we can display PDB files built for .Net Core.

Version 2.60, 16 April 2021
Version 2.60 includes the following functionality:

• Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements.

Version 2.59, 31 March 2021
Version 2.59 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for crash using Vector class.

Version 2.58, 17 March 2021
Version 2.58 includes the following functionality:

• Updated display colouring to aid readability.
• Bug fix for finding Program Files directory for non English language countries.
• Misc performance improvements.

Version 2.57, 10 March 2021
Version 2.57 includes the following functionality:

• Compiled HTML Help (CHM) and PDF help files are now downloaded outside of the setup executable. This is an attempt to stop anti-virus detectors mistaking the setup file for virus/malware because the CHM has triggered a FALSE positive virus detection.
• New Help menu options for PDF Help, Documentation, Readme and version history.

Version 2.56, 01 March 2021
Version 2.56 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes.
• Column highlighting is now handled by the UX Theme. Classic, modern and high contrast themes get different column highlighting.

Version 2.55, 12 February 2021
Version 2.55 includes the following functionality:

• Improvement to menu processing. Less CPU usage.

Version 2.54, 29 January 2021
Version 2.54 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release. Misc bug fixes.

Version 2.53, 05 January 2021
Version 2.53 includes the following functionality:

• UX improvements.

Version 2.52, 26 November 2020
Version 2.52 includes the following functionality:

• New Software Verify UX Theme. Easier to use. Calmer to look at. New icons.
• Updated documentation.

Version 2.51, 09 November 2020
Version 2.51 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release. Misc bug fixes.

Version 2.50, 02 November 2020
Version 2.50 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for crash undecorating symbol names.

Version 2.49, 26 October 2020
Version 2.49 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for symbol server PDB fetch failing sometimes.
• Bug fix for PDB reading failing sometimes.

Bug fix for crash with long symbol names.

Version 2.48, 21 October 2020
Version 2.48 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for filenames with non-ANSI characters in them (Chinese, Korean, etc).

Version 2.47, 08 October 2020
Version 2.47 includes the following functionality:

• Misc improvements.

Version 2.46, 02 October 2020
Version 2.46 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix to for incorrect data insertion into an array.

Version 2.45, 24 September 2020
Version 2.45 includes the following functionality:

• Misc performance improvements.

Version 2.44, 18 September 2020
Version 2.44 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.43, 14 August 2020
Version 2.43 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for grid rendering. Fixes a rare crash.
• Minor UX improvements.

Version 2.42, 25 June 2020
Version 2.42 includes the following functionality:

• New SVL UX Theme.
• Updated help to reflect the new SVL UX Theme.

Version 2.41, 13 May 2020
Version 2.41 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for saving data in Registry.
• Bug fix for memory leak in Microsoft's CPngImage class. Replaced class with our implementation. We found this leak with C++ Memory Validator.

Version 2.40, 05 May 2020
Version 2.40 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.39, 20 April 2020
Version 2.39 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.38, 20 March 2020
Version 2.38 includes the following functionality:

• Misc static analysis bug fixes.

Version 2.37, 15 March 2020
Version 2.37 includes the following functionality:

• Source code viewer now displays text at a readable size on high DPI screens.

Version 2.36, 02 March 2020
Version 2.36 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.35, 24 February 2020
Version 2.35 includes the following functionality:

• Addition of /filename and /offset command line parameters. See help for details.

Version 2.34, 12 February 2020
Version 2.34 includes the following functionality:

• Updated Event Viewer XML crash data dialog with XML editor.

Version 2.33, 07 February 2020
Version 2.33 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for DLL inspection component (fixes a crash in rare circumstances).

Version 2.32, 30 January 2020
Version 2.32 includes the following functionality:

• Misc bug fixes and UX improvements.

Version 2.31, 20 January 2020
Version 2.31 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release. Misc bug fixes, etc.

Version 2.30, 02 January 2020
Version 2.30 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release. Misc bug fixes and UI/UX tweaks.

Version 2.29, 17 December 2019
Version 2.29 includes the following functionality:

• Copy filename, line number, symbol and other data to clipboard.
• Data highlighting.
• Repeat queries have the previous query values preloaded.

Version 2.28, 03 December 2019
Version 2.28 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release

Version 2.27, 02 October 2019
Version 2.27 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for reading a minority of PE files.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes.

Version 2.26, 20 August 2019
Version 2.26 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for help file locating.

Version 2.25, 05 August 2019
Version 2.25 includes the following functionality:

• Default location for the symbol server cache is now pulled from the most recent version of Visual Studio that has this value set in the settings. If no value is available, a common Symbols directory is used for all Software Verify tools.

Version 2.24
Version 2.24 includes the following functionality:

• Addiition of listing member variables.
• Misc. bug fixes.

Version 2.23
Version 2.23 includes the following functionality:

• Changed installer to not require administrator rights.

Version 2.22
Version 2.22 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for GDI handle leaks caught with the new SelectObject detector in C++ Memory Validator V7.38
• Bug fix for memory leak.

Version 2.21
Version 2.21 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for symbol loading.
• Bug fix for command line handling.
• Addition of menus to Visual Studio for 2017, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2010.
• Bug fixes from static analysis.

Version 2.20
Version 2.20 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix when installing on Windows XP/ Windows XP x64.

Version 2.19
Version 2.19 includes the following functionality:

• Tool settings are now stored in the HKCU\Software\SoftwareVerify hierarchy (moved from SoftwareVerification). This is a recommended download.

Version 2.18
Version 2.18 includes the following functionality:

• New release that does not store any Software Verify DLLs in Windows system directories. This should reduce the likelihood that our software tools are mistaken for viruses/trojans.

Version 2.17
Version 2.17 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release, misc bug fixes.

Version 2.16
Version 2.16 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for memory leak.
• Performance improvement.

Version 2.14
Version 2.14 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance update.

Version 2.13
Version 2.13 includes the following functionality:

• Bug fix for PE format inspection DLL to prevent crashes when inspecting a DLL with an unusual data layout.

Version 2.12
Version 2.12 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.11
Version 2.11 includes the following functionality:

• Maintenance release.

Version 2.10
Version 2.10 includes the following functionality:

• Reworked UX to move all query controls to menu bar and settings dialog. Much cleaner user interface.

Version 2.00
Version 2.00 includes the following functionality:

• New version of DbgHelp Browser with improved UX and support for PDB files from 64 bit compilers.

Version 1.00
Version 1.00 includes the following functionality:

• Initial version of DbgHelp Browser.