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New with this COMPROTware:Testtool release:

• IEC 60870-5-101 & -104: Dissector: Many more options for Cause of Transmission-Message Filter.
• CPTT 2.21.3 is adapted to and successfully tested with MS Windows 10 version 21H1 (May 2021 update).
• Many minor improvements ...

For details and to download this release see Product | CPTT | 2.21 .

We are open to any suggestion or problem report! Please mail us: e-mail cptt@realthoughts.de

For the release series 2.21 for the year 2021 we now published COMPROTware:Testtool 2.21.1.

Standing out with CPTT 2.21.1: At the beginning of a line a orange marker indicates a warning and a red marker indicates an error. For an error the descriptive text is always shown. For a warning the descriptive text is shown if in Formatting Options the corresponding toggle switch is on.

More changes:

• At start resp. end of simulation or monitoring, the protocol profile, statistics etc are shown with Formatting Option "Brief" with limited and with Formatting Option "Full" in full detail.

• CPTT now is a RIO-Server, too: Without protocol license and without dongle now the in CPTT integrated RIO-Server can be turn on and can be controlled by a remote CPTT.
• Serial line receiving improved in case of fast, en masse stream of (unexpected non-Frame) characters and of bad parity/bad framing chars.
• Many minor improvements ...

For details and to download this release see Product | CPTT | 2.21 .

We are open to any suggestion or problem report! Please mail us: e-mail cptt@realthoughts.de

New with this COMPROTware:Testtool release:

• In all windows now toggle switches to turn on/off functions are used whenever it makes sense.
• If a newer CPTT release is available, this is indicated at the start from now on and also in the Help, About window.
• Many minor improvements ...

For details and to download this release see Product | CPTT | 2.20 .

We are open to any suggestion or problem report! Please mail us: e-mail cptt@realthoughts.de

New with this COMPROTware:Testtool release:

• CPTT 2.20.5 is adapted to and successfully tested with MS Windows 10 version 20H2 (October 2020 update).
• With Amazon Corretto 8, 32 bit another Java Runtime Environment is supported.
• The IEC 60870-5-101 and -104 dissector now shows warnings with improper Cause of Transmission-Type Identifier-pairs and with non-valid VSQ SQ bit and VSQ N values.
• Many minor improvements ...

For details and to download this release see Product | CPTT | 2.20 .

We are open to any suggestion or problem report! Please mail us: e-mail cptt@realthoughts.de

With this COMPROTware:Library release we introduced a new licensing alternative: Now license granting for MS Win32-Dll/PC Linux-Shlib can also be made by a software key.

This considerably simplifies the use of COMPROTware:Library on virtual machines.

A separate license is necessary per protocol and per communication direction. Use is NOT limited by a hardware key or to a computer.

This version can be used on any number of computers, even in a virtualized productive environment. API for .NET and API for Java are included.

For more details on our protocol stacks see COMPROTware:Library.

Do you have a question? Or a suggestion? Please mail us: e-mail cplb@realthoughts.de

We have worked intensively on our development infrastructure in the last few weeks.

With our virtual machines we moved away from VMware ESXi and VMware Workstation and towards [ Proxmox VE ] (based on QEMU/KVM). We have the impression that this makes handling and installing updates more efficient. At the same time, Proxmox VE copes much better with USB for VM guests with Linux. We ave finally switched off our oldest VM server (Dell PowerEdge), some Intel NUCs and Apple Minis now form our virtualization cluster.

As an additional file version management, we are now using [ GitLab ] locally in our network. This allows our developers to easily access the central master repository with our Sourec code. Because of the distribution of the individual source code files to the various protocol stacks, derived products and customer-specific projects, we will stick to our own file version management as the central repository.

If you have any questions about our development infrastructure, please e-mail us: e-mail info@realthoughts.de

This COMPROTware:Testtool release sees many minor fixes and improvements and paves the way for more in the releases to come.

For details and to download this release see Product | CPTT | 2.20 .

We are open to any suggestion or problem report! Please mail us: e-mail cptt@realthoughts.de

New with this COMPROTware:Testtool release:

• CPTT 2.20.2 is adapted to and successfully tested with MS Windows 10 version 2004 (May 2020 update).
• Improvements around output and presentation of statistics.

• RIO-Server 3.20.1 published.
• Many minor improvements ...

For details and to download this release see Product | CPTT | 2.20 .

We are open to any suggestion or problem report! Please mail us: e-mail cptt@realthoughts.de

The first version of the release series COMPROTware:Testtool 2.20 for the year 2020 is now available.

Standing out with CPTT 2.20.1: Additionally to Oracle Java 8, 32 bit, [ AdoptOpenJDK 8, 32 Bit ] can be used as Java runtime environment. After Oracle Java is only available in a paid version, with [ AdoptOpenJDK ] an open and cost-free Java environment can still be used.

More changes:

• Improvements and adaptations around the handling of station and data object names in the DataObjDb.

• When starting a simulation or a monitoring session, for all protocols more details about protocol profile are shown. After the end of the simulation, even more statistical values are shown in Message Storage.
• The list of available serial ports is now determined much faster.
• Many minor improvements ...

For details and to download this release see Product | CPTT | 2.20 .

We are open to any suggestion or problem report! Please mail us: e-mail cptt@realthoughts.de

After 20 years we are not a start-up any more: We moved from the [ Technologiefabrik Karlsruhe ] to our new office space.

Our new address is:

The changes are summarized in RealThoughtsChanges2020.pdf (86K) . Print the PDF and attach it to your documents!

In Imprint you find additional details to Real Thoughts GmbH .

In COMPROTware:Testtool 2.19.6 protocol communication can now be imported from another source: With support of ABB Power Grids in Mannheim, DE we implemented the import of ABB MicroSCADA/COM600 logging-files. Textfiles containing protocol logging, created with the communication monitoring/debugging interface of ABB MicroSCADA/COM600, can now be imported into CPTT. All protocols implementd in CPTT are supported.

More changes:

• Further improvements and fixes around Remote I/O implementation (RIO), in particular with the integration of ABB RTU500 series: Among others monitored ABB SPA-Bus communication is now correctly displayed.
• COMPROTware:Testtool 2.19.3 is adapted to and successfully tested with MS Windows 10 version 1909 (November 2019 Update).
• Many minor improvements ...

For details and to download this release see Product | CPTT | 2.19 .

We are open to any suggestion or problem report! Please mail us: e-mail cptt@realthoughts.de

COMPROTware:Testtool 2.19.4 news:

• Improvements and fixes around Remote I/O implementation: Particularly the integration with ABB RTU500 Series significantly improved.
• We removed UEC (User Engine Class) V1 and V2.

• Many minor improvements ...

For details and to download this release see Product | CPTT | 2.19 .

We are open to any suggestion or problem report! Please mail us: e-mail cptt@realthoughts.de

COMPROTware:Testtool 2.19.3 is adapted to and successfully tested with MS Windows 10 version 1903 (May 2019 Update).

For details and to download this release see Product | CPTT | 2.19 .

We are open to any suggestion or problem report! Please mail us: e-mail cptt@realthoughts.de

Many customers use COMPROTware:Testtool to ensure the availability and stability of their grid. In the 2010s to achieve this, it is necessary to carry out day- or week-long protocol monitoring or simulations.

We continued to work on this goal in the current release: When used for days or weeks a very large amounts of data is collected. In order to compensate this, we worked on our MLG file format and now compress the stored Frames. The file sizes were more than halved depending on the protocol, thus speeding up file reading.

For details and to download this release see Product | CPTT | 2.19 .

We are open to any suggestion or problem report! Please mail us: e-mail cptt@realthoughts.de

With COMPROTware:Testtool 2.19.1, we have successfully completed some open tasks:

• Experimental: TLS-secured TCP/IP connections now for MODBUS TCP/IP too, both for client and server simulation. In this way, we support TLS-secured connections for all our TCP/IP-based protocols.
• All protocol implementations now use the CPLB Design pattern "Frame Scanner NGT 2018": This provides greater robustness and problem tolerance over faulty characters on a serial line. Additionally, the new Frame Scanners are more resource-efficient, resulting in an enhanced user experience.

• Many minor improvements ...

For details and to download this release see Product | CPTT | 2.19 .

We are open to any suggestion or problem report! Please mail us: e-mail cptt@realthoughts.de

In the dongle licensing software "WibuKey Runtime" (by [ Wibu-Systems ] ), several security vulnerabilities have been fixed. We advise all users of our products

• COMPROTware:Testtool
• COMPROTware:Library MS Win32-Dll (Shlib)

to update "WibuKey Runtime" to version 6.50 or newer.

"WibuKey Runtime 32/64 Bit" can be downloaded from [ WibuKey Runtime ] (alternatively: [ WIBU-User Software ] ).

Wibu-Systems has provided the following user information: WibuKey-User-Information-20181219a.pdf (500K)

You can request further information about the vulnerabilities from us: e-mail info@realthoughts.de