Want to know what has changed since a previous version? This page lists those changes. You can alter the range of release notes to display if you wish.

The latest release of Simon is version 5.1.1.

Monitor window:

• Added a View Options sheet to the Monitor window. It allows adding or removing columns in the Tests table of the Monitor window, and allows specifying whether to use relative times or absolute dates for each date column.
• Added new columns for the Tests table, available via View Options: Last Downtime, Last Error, Last Event, Last Check, Last Recovery, Last Check Duration, and Last Change Difference. These new columns aren't included by default.
• The Tests table now automatically hides its vertical scrollbar if all of the tests fit, and has a horizontal scrollbar, if needed.
• Changed "--" to "n/a" and "disabled" to "--" in the Last Changed column, just for ACE. :)
• Removed the tooltip on the Tests table, as it isn't really useful and just gets in the way.
• When checking all tests, or multiple at once, Simon now waits for one second between starting each, to spread out the load. This interval can be altered in the preferences.

Reports:

• Added a significant new feature: HTML reporting. Simon can now generate HTML pages at a specified frequency (e.g. every 5 minutes) to let you watch it remotely. By default, reports include a Summary page that is similar to the main Tests table in the Simon Monitor window, listing the included tests and the status and time since the last change, failure, etc. Each test name is a link, that when clicked takes you to a Detail page for that test, with more information, including tables of recent changes, failures, etc.
• The reports can use custom templates to match your website design. Several templates are provided built-in, including a simple HTML text one, one that uses CSS and icons, a RSS feed, one that creates tab-delimited text files, and one that can be embedded in your existing site. Updates and user-submitted templates are available via a new Simon Extras page.
• Added a Save Locally report plug-in. You can use it to save reports to your Personal Web Sharing folder, or any other location.
• Added an Upload to Remote Server report plug-in. It outputs the reports to a remote server via FTP, so you can view them in a web browser on a different computer — anywhere with web access.

Tests, Services, Notifiers:

• Added a section to the test editor window for Reports, allowing specifying whether the test is included or excluded on all reports, or on specific reports. The latter allows separate reports for just some tests, e.g. for each of your clients, or groups of sites.
• The File ▸ Preview Page and Show Source menu items are now available in the test editor window, as alternatives to the in-window buttons.
• Renamed the File ▸ Add and Alter commands (and their corresponding toolbar buttons) as New and Edit, respectively, for increased consistency.
• Updated the test, service and notifier editor windows to use the New / Edit terminology, and to use just OK for the buttons.
• Added a File ▸ Duplicate command (and toolbar button) to make a copy of a selected test, service, notifier, or report.
• The Preview and Source windows now automatically show and hide their scrollbars as necessary.
• Changed the underlying implementation of the Port service plug-in to improve efficiency.
• Enhanced the E-mail notifier to support an Automatic transport option, which is now the default. If chosen, Simon will attempt to use a SMTP server specified in the computer's mail settings that corresponds with the From address you specify, which will usually be valid if you have used Apple Mail or a similar mailer. The custom SMTP and Sendmail options still remain in case you want or need to override this.
• Enhanced the Speech notifier to avoid multiple notifiers speaking over the top of each other. They will now politely wait their turn.

Preferences:

• Added a new General preference to allow disabling the unviewed indicator on the Dock icon and status menu.
• Removed the Dates preference page, now that those options are in the View Options sheet.
• Added a slider to the Advanced preferences page to control the new interval between starting checks; you can set to zero to restore the old behavior, or up to 10 seconds.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug with sorting the Time column of the Failures table.
• Fixed a crasher with the Port service in rare situations.
• Fixed an occasional crasher after closing the Preview window while a page is still loading.
• Disabled the Show Source feature for the Port service, as it no longer works with the improved service plug-in handling.
• Fixed an issue with the French localization that prevented the Find License (Chercher la licence) feature from working.

Other:

• Sped up the splash dissolves; now twice as fast (half a second each).
• Added Last Recovery to the tooltip information in the status menu.
• Added a Help ▸ Simon Extras command to allow quickly getting to the new Simon Extras page.
• Updated the User Guide for the 2.1 release.
• This is a free update for licensed Simon 2.0 users.