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As you can see from the News link on this page, we have shipped the next release of InterMapper - version 5.4. Read the What's New? page for all the details; here are a few of my favorites:

• InterMapper Reports. Now you can view the data collected in the InterMapper Database directly in your web browser. A simple right-click on a device will give access to a full device history, charts of its variables, and lots of…

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There has been a lot of IPv4- and IPv6-related news recently.

1. As expected, on Tuesday 1 February 2011 the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the final free, unused block of IPv4 address space to the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre. This triggered the automatic distribution of one final unallocated block to each of the five regional Internet Registrars, in North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and…

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Last week, we released InterMapper 5.3. It's major features are:

• Localization to Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese
• Significant performance improvements for database exports and handling maps with thousands of interfaces
• Improved Interfaces window that lets you show and hide interfaces easily
• InterMapper RemoteAccess license pool simplifies serial number administration: you can allow multiple people to connect to the server without requiring that each…

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Folks,



We have learned of a nasty bug in Apple's Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that can affect InterMapper users. The symptoms are that the InterMapper GUI appears to freeze: the windows do not respond to mouse or keyboard, and people report that they have to force quit.



It only happens when using OSX 10.5 or 10.6 with Java version 1.6.0_20. (installed with Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 7 or Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 2) with InterMapper (and RemoteAccess) versions 5.2.6 and… Continue