Codelaide Software sends out virtual “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year” cards to everybody!
As a little update on what we’ve been up to, our development is currently focusing on a 1.1 release of Lighthouse. It will be a significant feature upgrade. Expect it to come out in January!
In the meantime… Happy Holidays!
We’re releasing Lighthouse 1.0.4 today, implementing an important fix for everybody who has RapidoWrite installed.
Previous versions of Lighthouse would crash upon launch when RapidoWrite was installed. The reason for this is that there’s a naming conflict between the two applications that causes RapidoWrite to overwrite a part of Lighthouse’s code with its own, making Lighthouse crash. Lighthouse 1.0.4 implements a fix for this issue by resolving the naming conflict, so Lighthouse will no longer crash on Macs that have RapidoWrite installed!
Additionally, we have added the obligatory work-arounds for more UPnP quirks on some routers (did we already mention that UPnP was designed by Microsoft? Clears up some things, doesn’t it?).
However, our UPnP implementation seems to be quite stable now, so if Lighthouse fails to associate with your router at all, chances are very high that your router either doesn’t support UPnP or that you have UPnP disabled in your router’s administration panel (Those things are different for every brand, so please refer to your router’s manual). On the other hand, if you are sure that your router supports UPnP, have all the latest firmware upgrades installed and it still doesn’t work, please contact us and we’ll look into getting it to work!
Download Lighthouse 1.0.4 here!
With Lighthouse 1.0.3, we’re introducing even more fixes for some routers’ flaky UPnP implementation. We’ve had good results with the new version on our test routers, so we hope that it’ll support quite a few routers that haven’t worked previously.
As a next step, we want to concentrate on adding new features to Lighthouse and are working on a 1.1 release. Thanks to everybody who has registered so far!
Lighthouse 1.0.3 can be downloaded here.
We’ve been hearing that some users were experiencing problems with Lighthouse’s UPnP support, not being able to get their UPnP-enabled router to be recognized.
Therefore, quite a good chunk of our last week has been dedicated to scrutinize some debugging code, dig through various UPnP-related technical references and do our best to figure out how to get it working as well as possible (meaning we’re trying to put in un-quirkification code to deal with quirky routers!).
As a result, we proudly present Lighthouse 1.0.2 today. Lots of UPnP-related fixes have been merged into our codebase. It is highly recommended to check it out! Of course, we also put in some more fixes and little enhancements to make 1.0.2 even juicier!
You know what sucks most when trying out some shareware? If your trial period expires just the day when a new version comes out that may fix some problems that have been bugging you earlier! And that’s the reason why Lighthouse 1.0.2 will reset the trial expiration date to give you another 14-day test-drive! Yippie!
You can grab Lighthouse 1.0.2 here. But remember, it’s still highly recommended to make sure the latest firmware upgrade for your router is installed, especially when UPnP is being used!
Have fun, and many many thanks to everyone that helped to get Lighthouse 1.0.2 out!
