Release Notes

v 2.6.0 19 Nov 2024

Module	Description
General	Introduced Port Scan Tool (Beta) for locating servers on your network.
Advisor	Added support for Columnstore Indexes in Index Naming Conventions.
General	Upgraded to .NET 8 for better performance, compatibility, and stability.
General	Upgraded the entire UI library, bringing improved responsiveness, modern features, and bug fixes.
Advisor	Improved Advisor UI with streamlined workflows and integrated resource mapping.
General	Fixed double toolbar UI issue for a cleaner interface.
Advisor	Resolved NPE (NullPointerException) during checks selection.
Estate	Fixed issues with server connection string creation for blank server setups.
General	Addressed UI issue with the close box for better stability.
General	Reinstated SSMS integration, allowing direct launch from Aireforge Studio.
General	Resolved issues with exporting data to CSV for smoother operations.
General	Improved feature restriction messages for better clarity.
General	General performance improvements for faster and more reliable operations.

v 2.4.4 24 May 2024

Module	Description
General	Bug Fix: No longer display "What's New" dialog when the local version is the same or newer.
General	Migration from IE Web Browser control to WebView2.

v 2.4.2 22 May 2024

Module	Description
Advisor	Bug fix when generating FK check script(s).

v 2.4.0 17 May 2024

Module	Description
General	Full icon refresh and updated UI framework.
General	Increased trial period to 14 days.
General	Enhanced Launch RDP from all modules and the ribbon "Connect to Server".
General	Support for Entra MFA.
Advisor	Rewritten checks compatible with "Project Holywood" for structured responses.
Advisor	Advisor Results UI improvements.
Advisor	Export results to Markdown & Word (beta) and based on UI filters.
Advisor	Ability to hide accompanying web pages.
Advisor	Reinstated showing indexes in the tree.
Estate	Improved Add/Update Server Dialog.

v 2.3.2 14 Feb 2024

Module	Description
Script	Results to grid now auto sizes columns based on data and heading lengths.
General	Updated ALL tooltips and headings. Tooltips, tooltips and then more tooltips.
Monitor	Bug fix. Closing results tab now returns to Monitor, not Estate.

v 2.3.1 13 Feb 2024

Module	Description
Estate	Improvements to the add server dialog and progress bar.

v 2.3.0 12 Feb 2024

Module	Description
General	Upgrading the application will now run in SILENT mode, streamlining updates.
General	Major changes to trials to enhance user experience, offering a smoother onboarding and evaluation process.
General	Major changes to licensing, messaging, handling, and dialogs for a more intuitive and user-friendly experience.
General	Resolving some dynamic sizing issues to improve UI responsiveness and adaptability.
General	Removed HtmlAgilityPack & updated dependencies for improved performance and security.
Advisor	Fixed NPE (NullPointerException) when sending from Advisor to Script, enhancing stability.
Advisor	Improved Advisor screens for enhanced usability, providing a more intuitive user experience.
Advisor	Build indexes online when using Enterprise or Developer editions, allowing for more efficient database management.
Script	Change from 'Advisor>Script' to 'Send to Script' for clarity, simplifying user actions and terminology.
Estate	Licensing can be administered from the login screen to avoid forced updates, providing more control over the licensing process.
Monitor	Improved tab names for Monitor for better navigation, making it easier to switch between different monitoring aspects.

v 2.2.1 01 Feb 2024

Module	Description
General	The license now displays licensed Company or User.
General	Resolved UI issue with message box icons.
General	Resolved UI issue with watermarks.
General	Code refactoring and simplification, especially around licensing.
General	Fixed some long-standing issues with displaying text.
General	Improvements to asynchronous license check.

v 2.1.1 31 Jan 2024

Module	Description
General	Added support for Beta, Dev, and Early access modes.

v 2.1.0 25 Jan 2024

Module	Description
General	Addressed the SQL Data Provider Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

v 2.0.2 29 Sep 2023

Module	Description
General	Updated credits to include changes for .NET 6 support

v 2.0.1 28 Sep 2023

Module	Description
General	Upgraded to .NET 6 and compatible libraries
General	Enhanced UI for better user experience
General	Improved DPI scaling for high-resolution displays
Advisor	Fixed Advisor issues for Azure SQL DB
Advisor	Skipped heap indexes in duplicate/overlapping index check
General	Tested additional server properties during connection validation
General	Installer now checks .NET version and offers download link if necessary

v 1.21.8406.28012 07 Jan 2023

Module	Description
General	Improvements for 4k screens

v 1.21.8401.21483 01 Jan 2023

Module	Description
Advisor	Highlight if TF1117 & TF1118 have been added to SQL Server 2016 or newer
Estate	Removed server version from server import dialog
Advisor	Heaps are now taken into consideration when making suggestions
General	UI improvements
Compare	Added support for SQL Server 2022 and improved database check for SQL Server 2019
Advisor	Don't suggest adding/converting a clustered index for unused or small (<255 rows) heaps
Advisor	Resolved a bug when making missing index suggestions
Advisor	Resolved a bug with socket/core check

v 1.20.8212.33518 26 Jun 2022

Module	Description
Advisor	Boost SQL Server Priority Check
Advisor	CLR integration and related security options check
General	Upgraded Aireforge to .NET 4.8
Advisor	Renamed Optimize to Advisor
Monitor	Renamed Check to Monitor
General	Improved menu text and fixed typos
Advisor	Skip Query Store checks for Express Edition
Advisor	Affinity Type Check
Advisor	xp_cmdshell check
Advisor	Remote access check
Advisor	Analyse worker threads
Advisor	Blocked process threshold check
Advisor	Ole automation procedures
Advisor	Results layout improvements
Advisor	Improvements to Query Store checks
Advisor	Expanded the affinity check to include processor and I/O
Advisor	Ignore disabled constraint that have been generated by a SQL Server component
Advisor	Ensure Query Store trace flags are enabled if Query Store is in use
Advisor	Suggest trace flag to suppress successful backup messages
General	Do not open JSONs once saved
General	Prevent opening RDP for everything but SQL Server
Advisor	Check for Scan for Startup Procs
Advisor	Check for Data Purity Checks
General	Support for SQL Server 2022
Advisor	Improved the message when the fill factor is explicitly set to the same server default
Advisor	Advisor will no longer attempt to run for unsupported versions of SQL Server
Advisor	Suggested indexes follow the index naming convention and do not clone the stats of existing indexes

v 1.19.8046.25926 11 Jan 2022

Module	Description
Optimize	No longer recommends dropping unused indexes that are unique or unique constraints.
General	Resolved some spelling mistakes in the app and on the site, impacting the compatibility checks.
Optimize	Removed Optimize from the standard trial (available on request).
Compare	It's now possible to export Comparisons to JSON.
General	Updated the MSSQL versions.
Optimize	Standardise the categories and brought them inline with other industry tools.
Optimize	Added basic support for SQL Server 2022 and Azure Synapse.
Optimize	Check hosts for incorrectly configured or wasteful CPU / Socket configurations
Optimize	It's now possible to export Optimize to JSON.

v 1.18.7788.23001 28 Apr 2021

Module	Description
Compare	Fixed a bug within the comparison differences results view.
General	Provided deprecated license key information for Aireforge Pro users attempting to validate old licenses.

v 1.18.7778.33382 20 Apr 2021

Module	Description
Optimize	We now flag items as unused after 90 days.
Optimize	Improved message for Query Store recommendations.
Optimize	Duplicate and overlapping indexes now show the potential storage savings.
Optimize	Fixed a bug with incorrectly reporting tables as having no clustered index.
General	Migrated user licensing library to the latest major version.

v 1.17.7696.15356 26 Jan 2021

Module	Description
Optimize	Various improvements to the findings output.
Optimize	Multiple Query Store issues will be highlighted if found.
Optimize	Non-default fill factors check moved to Housekeeping.

v 1.17.7695.20378 25 Jan 2021

Module	Description
Optimize	More items are cached to improve the performance.
Optimize	Improved output scripts for filtered indexes.
Optimize	Optimize won't run for 2005 or before (our suggestions is to upgrade, it's 15 years old!!!).
Optimize	Improved the information given when suggesting missing indexes.

v 1.17.7693.22378 23 Jan 2021

Module	Description
Optimize	Major improvements to missing index suggestions & information.
Optimize	Missing index suggestions with low estimated impact scores can now be ignored (default 100,000).
Optimize	Major improvements to the fragmented index suggestions & information.
Optimize	Rebuild indexes now defaults to SORT_IN_TEMPDB = ON
Optimize	Fixed a bug when ordering tables by missing index impact.
General	Fixed a bug where Aireforge unable to obtain the instance version.
Script	Expanded the list of T-SQL keywords.
General	Improvements and standardization of the toolbar, icons and options.

v 1.17.7691.24850 21 Jan 2021

Module	Description
Optimize	Wide-ranging improvements to Optimize suggestions. Better formatting and more detail/metrics.
Optimize	Fixed a bug with index column orders, which could result in incorrect suggestions.
General	Added support for Azure Active Directory - Password & Integrated.

v 1.16.7520.27251 03 Aug 2020

Module	Description
Optimize	Fixed error with checking max memory on SQL Server 2016+ Enterprise Edition
Optimize	Added a check to warn when the SQL Server version support is about to or has expired.
Optimize	Ignore old backup history if there are less than 1,000 rows.
General	Community Edition is now limited to 5 servers for Compare and Script.
Optimize	Added support for LARGE_PAGES when check memory model.
Optimize	Improved formatting within the Optimize result pane.
General	Uninstalling Aireforge will now launch the website to request feedback.
Optimize	Improved the output for failed logins check.
Optimize	Improved output for data & log sizes.
Optimize	Improved all documentation and explanation pages.

v 1.15.7375.34487 11 Mar 2020

Module	Description
General	Added Copy Hostname right-click functionality throughout each module
Check	Added Launch RDP/SMSS right-click functionality to Results view
Compare	Added Higher Resolution images for Check & Summary buttons
General	Added Compare Selected Servers right-click functionality to Compare/Check/Script modules
General	Added Optimize Highlighted Server right-click functionality to Estate/Check/Script modules
Estate	Improved Discover from SSMS functionality.
Estate	Documentation is from aireforge.com.

v 1.14.7159.31284 08 Aug 2019

Module	Description
Check	Updated definitions and added several new ones.
General	Support for database names with special characters.
Script	Improved database connection management

v 1.14.7143.19426 23 Jul 2019

Module	Description
Optimize	Errors running individual checks won't cause the entire analysis to fail (although errors such as failure to connect will still cause it to abort).
General	Improved the handling of timeouts.
Optimize	Suggest converting unique indexes to clustered if no primary key or identity columns are found.
Optimize	Resolved a bug where included columns could be scripted for clustered indexes.
Optimize	Resolved a bug where suggested indexes are considered when checking for duplicate indexes.
Optimize	Check for orphaned distributed transactions and provide KILL SQL.
Optimize	Suggest converting identity columns found on heaps to be clustered primary keys.
Optimize	A summary of the analysis results is displayed before the results themselves. Users wanting to ignore the summary can turn this off via the Optimize page on the Settings dialog.

v 1.14.7114.19663 24 Jun 2019

Module	Description
Optimize	Removed the clustered / non-clustered usage comparison check.
Optimize	Fixed a bug with duplicate columns names when comparing indexes.
Optimize	Performance improvements.
Optimize	Removed 'Ease of Use' checks from the default options.
Optimize	Halved the number of threads used when running a check.
Optimize	Index naming convention issues are now flagged as Low Priority rather than Best Practice.
Optimize	Resolved a bug when decimal \ numeric is used as an identity column.

v 1.14.7061.20468 02 May 2019

Module	Description
Optimize	Resolved an issue with divide by zero.
Optimize	Resolved an issue with checking TF 1117 & 1118.

v 1.14.7055.25997 27 Apr 2019

Module	Description
General	Internet proxy support for license management.
Compare	The System Information comparison now compares Linux OS info.
Optimize	Advise functionality has been renamed to Optimize.
Check	Health Check functionality has been separated out into it's own tab.
Optimize	A bug in the checking of SQL Error Logs has been fixed.
Optimize	If failed login attempts are found, far more useful information it output about the failed attempts.
Optimize	Supporting articles have been added for all checks that were previously missing them.
Optimize	New check to see if DBCC CHECKDB has been run recently.
Optimize	New check on database recovery model.
Optimize	New check for identity columns reaching their maximum.
Optimize	New check for empty file groups.
Optimize	New check to detect disabled check constraints.
Optimize	New check to detect disabled foreign key constraints.
Optimize	New check to detect if the Query Store isn't enabled, has failed or is close to failing.
Optimize	New check to detect if transaction log hasn't been backed up (if in FULL recovery model).
Optimize	New check to detect if 'sa' user hasn't been renamed.
Optimize	Updated UI for choosing the checks to run, with clearer top-level categorisation (performance, security, stability, data integrity and ease of use).
Optimize	New settings pages for controlling what checks are run and for customising parameters for various checks (e.g. how recent a transaction log backup should have been).
Optimize	New check to detect data and log files on the same volume.
General	Server tag tree widths are now consistent throughout the application.
Check	Health Checks now handle errors due to Availability Groups better, no longer showing them as outright errors.
Optimize	The internet-based content panel on the bottom right of the results page will not be displayed if no internet connection is detected.
General	The server search field has been moved to a consistent location (above the tag tree) and will support regular expressions for more powerful searching.
General	The application will display a "What's Changed" button on the main title bar after an update, giving quick access to the recent change list.
Optimize	When choosing to ignore a finding, it's now possible to permanently ignore that finding on that server, so it won't come up again (although it can be found again by turning on the filter option to display ignored findings).
Optimize	Trial length now extended to 14 days.

v 1.13.6992.30226 22 Feb 2019

Module	Description
Compare	Compare results now default to grid view, rather than the summary graphs.
General	Registration prompt removed from application.

v 1.13.6988.34256 18 Feb 2019

Module	Description
Script	Executing scripts with lots of batches (i.e. GO statements) is now much faster (25 times faster in some cases).
Script	If a SQL connection is lost or closed while a query is executing, the UI correctly detects this and displays it.
Script	Progress area below results area now shows count of batches and which batch is currently executing.
Script	The results area will update as results are returned, so it's clear that long-running queries are progressing.
Script	The messages tab will always be selected if any errors occurred.
Script	SQL validation (Ctrl+F5) is much improved and will detect more errors.

v 1.13.6961.39706 23 Jan 2019

Module	Description
Advise	Bug fix where instance properties were not captured if a certain combination of options was selected.

v 1.13.6927.21366 19 Dec 2018

Module	Description
General	A small painting bug on the main Ribbon has been fixed.
Advise	A bug that stopped queries running in Advise, if a query was stopped and quickly restarted, has been fixed.
Compare	Compare will no longer flag errors due to non-readable AG nodes as differences.

v 1.13.6922.30844 15 Dec 2018

Module	Description
Compare	Added right-click 'Take Snapshot' option to servers table on Compare view.
Compare	The UI for loading comparison snapshots has been re-written so it's much clearer what you can do with them.
Advise	A bug in Advise that meant database file sizes weren't always checked has been fixed.
Advise	TempDB is now shown as a separate node in the Advise results view, under the instance node, so all Temp DB issues can easily be seen together.
Advise	Quote characters can be escaped in Health Check scripts by using a backslash character.

v 1.12.6900.20402 22 Nov 2018

Module	Description
Advise	Resolved an issue with an incorrect script for addressing low free space.
Advise	Fixed a bug with sizing small databases.
Estate	Tag tree on Estate view now has check boxes for bulk-selecting servers by tag.
Advise	Primary keys are never highlighted as unused indexes.
Advise	Added PageCount to index information dialog.
General	Fixed bug with About dialog failing to load.
Script	Bug fix when refreshing the list of database names in Script.
Script	The Compare tab now has a new 'Snapshot' button to allow immediately capturing a snapshot to file for later viewing.

v 1.12.6863.24060 16 Oct 2018

Module	Description
Script	Fixed a bug where the Run button didn't work.

v 1.12.6862.30751 15 Oct 2018

Module	Description
Advise	Fixed a bug where Advise results didn't resize or appear correctly.
Advise	Fixed a bug with incorrectly displayed tempdb file counts.
General	The settings dialog has been updated to clearly indicate which settings relate to the application and which relate to the profile.
Estate	Updated health checks to support SQL Server 2019.
Estate	New health checks for suspect pages, auto_close, unsent mail, DBCC checks, QueryStore, untrusted FKs / Constraints 8 AG delays.
Estate	Updated connection test dialog to indicate progress and allow restarting the tests.
General	Added F5 support throughout the application, so F5 will start an Advise analysis, start a Compare check etc.
Estate	Added a Launch menu to the Estate view, with options to launch Remote Desktop and SSMS for the highlighted server.
Advise	A bug handling URL clicks in Advise results has been fixed, so the linked page will now be opened in the default browser.
General	Browser proxy settings are used when checking for app updates etc.
General	Product update dialog, shown when a new update is available, shows changes in all versions between the current version and the new one, so if multiple versions behind, all missed changes are shown.
General	Estate view shows an Aireforge logo watermark in bottom right.
Estate	Update of health check definitions.

v 1.12 05 Oct 2018

Module	Description
General	Added support for SQL Server 2019.
Advise	Check index names against pre-defined and custom naming conventions.
Advise	Advise "unused index" warnings now include information about when the table was created, or the server was last restarted (whichever is more recent).

v 1.11 01 Aug 2018

Module	Description
Advise	Improvements to Advise UI.
Estate	Display SQL build number, edition and OS name in Estate overview.
Advise	Improved non-clustered index check. Suggest converting a non-clustered primary key before an identity column.
Advise	Index property dialog now shows seeks, scans, lookup and fragmentation information.
Advise	Check virtual log file (VLF) count.
Advise	Check for suspected bad pages.
Advise	Flag unused tables (no rows or reads since the instance was started).
Advise	Ignore unused indexes or missing clustered indexes on empty tables.
Advise	Bug fix: When checking auto update / create statistics settings.
General	Bug fix: Application freezes when sending mail in offline mode.
Advise	Bug fix: Ignore hypothetical indexes when checking for duplicates.
Advise	Improvements to indexes being used more than clustered indexes.
General	Updated application & CLI icons to dog icon.

v 1.10 01 Apr 2018

Module	Description
Compare	Resolved an issue with comparing SQL Agent Jobs.
Script	Fixed a bug connection couldn't be established responding with a success.
Advise	Improved the profiler check. Now shows the login, host and a script to kill the connection.
Advise	Support for filtered indexes.
Advise	Fixed a bug when checking for disabled indexes.
Compare	Improved user and login checks, reducing noise for all systems and only comparing user sid if the instance is in an availability group cluster.
Advise	Fix a bug with failed logins check.
General	Suport for FIPS enabled systems.
Advise	Updated suggested maximum memory.
Advise	Bug with the Advise SQL version check has been fixed.
General	Updated "in progress" UI.
Advise	Several performance improvements and big fixes.
General	Support for snapshot databases.
Script	Performance improvements.
Advise	Tuned the suggested memory for smaller systems.
Estate	New Feature: Estate Health Checks (Custom and predefined).
Advise	New UI for the Advise results, showing a lot more information and providing new ways to sort and filter the results.
Advise	Significant performance improvements for Advise.
Compare	Bug fixed where system default comparisons don't get automatically deleted.
Advise	Max memory for editions is now based on buffer pool + in-memory + columnstore for supported versions.
Advise	SQL suggested by the Advise module now has a button to copy the script directly into the Script module.
Estate	Improved connection test now works from the ticked servers on the Estate view, rather than the highlighted ones.
Advise	New check: I/O bottlenecks detected.
Advise	New check: Database File Initialization Disabled.
Advise	New option to ignore a specific update (not available in community edition).
Advise	Check that use Backup Checksum Check as Default is enabled.
Advise	Check that use Backup Compression as Default is enabled.
Advise	Check that Optimize for Ad-hoc Workload is enabled.
Advise	Check that remote Dedicated Admin Connections are allowed.
Advise	Check that Index create memory is set to default (self-configuring).
Advise	Check for instance fill factors that are not default (not 0).
Advise	Fixed a bug when comparing space of data files in filegroups.
Advise	Taken out painting of split pane dividers while resizing.

v 1.1 01 Aug 2017

Module	Description
General	Improvements to almost every screen and dialog.
Advise	Added partial support for column store indexes.
Advise	Ignore fragmented indexes now based on pages rather than rows. Defaults to Microsoft recommended value of 1,000 pages.
Advise	Warn if database owner does not exist & suggest fix.
Advise	Added suggested fix SQL when (auto close enabled, auto shrink enabled, auto create/update statistics disabled, page verify not CHECKSUM).
Advise	Warn if auto update statistics is disabled.
Advise	Warn if data files are larger than 10GB and have more than 90% unused.
Advise	Changed cost threshold for parallelism check to alert if < 15 but still suggest 30.
Advise	Changed the suggested size for new tempdb files to total space / existing files * number of suggested files.
Advise	Added fix SQL for old compatibility modes and disclaimer about breaking changes.
General	Professional Edition is now unlimited for Compare and Script.
General	Improved error handling surrounding the licencing.
Script	Fixed bug when displaying varbinary.
Script	Script is now Free (limited to 200 servers but contact us if you need more).
Compare	Compare is now Free (limited to 200 servers but contact us if you need more).
Advise	Fixed a bug with indexes in filegroups other than primary.
Advise	Improvements to auto growth check.
Compare	Updated comparisons definition.
Advise	Fixed an issue with memory optimized filegroups.
CLI	Security fix for the CLI module
Advise	Fixed a bug when checking backup histories.
Script	Fixed a bug when running batch queries in Script.
General	Fixed a bug when discovering SQL Server 2017 servers.
General	Now installs to program files rather than program files (x86).
Advise	Improvements and bug fix for database file auto growth suggestions.
Advise	Database auto growth flags if less than 5% percent growth or MB but still recommend 10%.
Script	Script module introduced. This new tab allows running SQL against multiple servers at once, with various options on how the results are combined (or not).
General	User interface rewritten to allow themes to be applied. Current theme can be selected via the User Interface page in the Settings dialog.
Advise	Advise results now have an Explain link next to them, taking you to a page in the Aireforge knowledge-base, giving more details on the warning.
Advise	Resolved a bug with auto growth checks for database files < 256MB.

v 1.0 01 Mar 2017

Module	Description
Advise	Intermittent painting issue resolved on the results screen.
Advise	Advise now checks for low physical memory availability.
Compare	Removed size from database files, leaving size_mb.
Advise	Resolved an issue with getting physical index stats on 2008 & R2.
Advise	Improvements to resolve painting issues and improve the performance.
Advise	Advise checks for old backup information that should be cleared down.
General	Resolved non-HTTPS font issue with changelog page.
General	It's now possible to quickly add servers to the Estate from a free-text list of addresses, using the new Import -> Text option.
General	External changes to profiles and comparisons are now detected, and the user is given the opportunity to load the changed files.
Advise	Advise now checks for sys.configuration records where the value_in_use differs from the value.
Tune	Renamed Tune to Advise.
Tune	Resolved a performance issue with Tune whilst obtaining index fragmentation information.
Tune	Fixed a bug where filestream files were counted as log files.
Tune	We no longer check growth settings for filestream data files.
Tune	Fixed a database check for 2012 and before.
Tune	Fixed a bug with DROP USER scripts.
Tune	Fixed a bug with incorrect MAXDOP recommendations.
Tune	Ability to analyze instances.
Tune	Ability to analyze databases.
General	Automatic version checking now delayed slightly after app start up, so it won't happen before the first form is shown.
General	When adding a SQL Server instance on the local host, it will automatically test all connection protocols.
General	Changed all web links to HTTPS.
Tune	In-memory tables now ignored completely (until we decide how to handle them correctly).
General	Server tags can now be colored (e.g. red for Production, green for Test, etc.).
General	The Delete button on the login dialog will now correctly delete the selected profile.
Compare	Added support for SQL Server 2017.
General	Fixed a website problem with the host comparison updates.
Tune	The View SQL dialog now has a Copy to clipboard button to copy the entire script.
Tune	The Tune UI has been redesigned to present new instance and database tuning options, which check things like memory settings and data files.
Tune	A bug where Tune recommended making an index unique when it shouldn't have, has been fixed.
General	The License Key will no longer be shown on the Licensing dialog.
General	Error handling around blank temporary files.

v 0.9 01 Jan 2016

Module	Description
Tune	The first functionality in the Tune module is now available! You can use it to analyze table schema and indexes!
Tune	Index tune will no longer suggest using a disabled index over an existing non-disabled one.
Tune	Index tune will suggest dropping disabled indexes.
Tune	Index tune will suggest dropping and recreating indexes with additional included columns, to make other indexes redundant.
Tune	Schema tune will no longer suggest renaming bit columns.
Tune	There's a new Custom button on the Tune tab, allowing more control over the tune analysis.
Tune	Tune analysis will now scale the number of threads used according to the number of cores on the PC, rather than using a fixed number of threads.
Estate	Drag and drop in the tag configuration dialog works again.
Estate	New profiles will automatically have four tags created by default, so new users have something to start from.
Estate	The Delete key will delete the selected servers (with a confirmation question first).
Estate	A new "Add Server..." option is now available on the right-click of the tag tree.
Estate	When adding an Azure SQL database, the network protocol option now disables named pipes and shared memory as TCP/IP is the only option.
Estate	When adding a new server, it's now possible to set the time-out and SSL encryption settings.
Estate	When adding a new server and specifying an overriding connection string, the connection string is validated when the OK is pressed.
Estate	When adding a new server, it's possible to set a color against it. This color is then shown everywhere that server is.
Estate	A display bug, where renaming a tag didn't update the tags column in the Estate view, has been fixed.
Compare	Selecting a comparison category from the results summary will now correctly update the category filter combo box.
Compare	Bugs in both hiding comparison results and suppressing comparison warnings are fixed.
Compare	Comparisons will now scale the number of threads used according to the number of cores on the PC, rather than using a fixed number of threads.
Compare	A new "Repeat" button on the comparison results tab allows re-running the comparison again with all the same details.
Compare	If a comparison fails, two new buttons are shown to allow retrying the comparison or running again but with just the servers that were successful.
Compare	Comparison tabs are added in order now, so Comparison 2 is to the right of Comparison 1 etc.
Compare	The button to load a past snapshot now has a drop down, listing recently saved snapshots.
Compare	Comparison file updates are now downloaded from the Aireforge web server, so comparison updates no longer require product releases.
Compare	Custom comparisons can be configured to ensure a value is in or outside of a specific range.
Compare	Custom comparisons can be configured to ensure a value is equal or near another value in the same result set (e.g. to ensure a configuration value_in_use is the same as the value).
Compare	New right-click menu on comparisons table on the Compare tab, allowing easy editing and creation of comparisons.
Compare	When editing a comparison, a new "Test" button allows direct running of the query against a server and uses the result set to populate the columns table.
Compare	A bug that prevented the mouse wheel working on the comparison results combo box filter is fixed.
General	Buttons for connecting to Aireforge Server have been removed.
General	Buttons for Twitter and LinkedIn have been added to the Help tab.
General	Log file naming has been changed to include the date and time in the file name itself.
General	The login window has a checkbox to make it automatically log in with the same profile each time.
General	New checkbox on the Settings dialog to disable automatic version checking, for use in environments without internet access.
General	Application updates are downloaded in the application itself, prompting for a restart when complete.
General	A bug that caused an exception when closing the app has been fixed.