WiFi Explorer Lite Release Notes
Known Issues
- WiFi Explorer Lite on Apple silicon Macs running macOS Ventura or later may not identify Wi-Fi 7 networks as 802.11be and show an incorrect channel width when scanning using the built-in Wi-Fi interface due to missing information elements in the scan results provided by macOS. Apple Feedback: FB13078660.
- Wi-Fi 7 networks using an upper 320 MHz channel may be displayed incorrectly in the 6 GHz Spectrum chart.
Release Notes
- Fixes an issue where some WPA/WPA2 networks were being identified as WPA2 only.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
| Version 1.6.4 |
Jul 21, 2023 |
- Fixes filtering by security mode.
- Improves vendor name resolution.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
| Version 1.6.3 |
Jun 7, 2023 |
- Fixes visualization of 5 GHz networks using 160 MHz channels in the UNII-3 and UNII-4 bands.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
| Version 1.6.2 |
Apr 7, 2023 |
- Fixes incorrect security mode for networks using FT SAE.
- Improves vendor name detection heuristics.
- Improves support for 6 GHz networks.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
| Version 1.6.1 |
Jan 25, 2023 |
- Adds support for scanning and displaying 6 GHz networks on Macs with Wi-Fi 6E.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
| Version 1.5.5 |
Apr 19, 2022 |
| Version 1.5.4 |
Mar 15, 2022 |
- Adds ability to define 0% and 100% dBm values when displaying signal strength as %.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
| Version 1.5.3 |
Jan 13, 2022 |
- Fixes the display of invalid UTF8-encoded SSIDs.
- Improves the filtering of networks by BSSID.
| Version 1.5.2 |
Nov 10, 2021 |
| Version 1.5.1 |
Aug 3, 2021 |
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Fixes an issue when entering filter strings with tabs and other whitespace characters.
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Fixes highlighting of column values matching the specified filter.
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Other fixes and improvements.
- Adds support for grouping filter expressions using parenthesis. Also, logical operators are now AND, OR, and NOT, instead of &, comma, and !, respectively.
- Adds option to show/hide row separator lines (see View > Show Row Separator Lines).
- Fixes the formatting of the “Last Seen” column for networks found during the last scan.
- Updates Help documentation.
- Other fixes and improvements.
| Version 1.4.4 |
Jun 18, 2021 |
- Fixes missing keyboard shortcut for entering/exiting full screen mode.
| Version 1.4.3 |
May 3, 2021 |
- Fixes the display of networks in the 5 GHz band that are using a 160 MHz channel width.
| Version 1.4.2 |
Feb 22, 2021 |
- Minor fixes and improvements.
| Version 1.4.1 |
Dec 18, 2020 |
- Adds Touch Bar support.
- Other fixes and improvements.
- Refined user interface.
- New, comprehensive help.
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements.
| Version 1.3.2 |
Jul 16, 2020 |
- Fixes an issue that occurs on first launch where rows are too small to accommodate the text.
| Version 1.3.1 |
Jul 15, 2020 |
- Adds option to show/hide vertical grid lines in tables.
- Fixes incorrect max data rates for 11ax APs using 160 MHz channels.
- Improves heuristics for resolving vendor names.
- Other fixes and UI tweaks.
- Some fixes and minor improvements.
| Version 1.2.1 |
Jul 1, 2019 |
- Improves heuristics to resolve vendor names.
- Added support for Mist AP names.
- Added ability to filter by channel range. You can now use, for example, the filter expression 36-48 to display only the networks configured on channels 36, 40, 44 or 48.
- Fixed appearance of checkboxes and other UI components when using dark mode in macOS Mojave 10.14.
- Other minor UI tweaks and enhancements.
- Added support for 802.11ax D3.0 (D2.1 is no longer supported).
- Other UI improvements.
