News Archive

For discussion on the latest changes to Charles, please see the developer blog.

27 February 2007 | Charles v2.6.4 release. Minor bug fixes:

  • IBM JDK compatibility
  • Improved malformed Referer header support
  • and more...

17 February 2007 | Charles v2.6.3 release. Minor bug fixes:

  • Fixed Port Forwarding fault introduced in v2.6.2

1 February 2007 | Charles v2.6.2 release. Major improvements and bug fixes including:

  • No more recording limits. Large responses are now saved to temporary files, reducing memory usage.
  • MTU support in the throttle settings
  • AMF3 / Flex 2 bug fixes
  • and more...

2 December 2006 | Charles v2.6.1 release. Minor bug fixes and improvements:

  • SOAP information visible while response is still loading
  • AMF3 externalizable object parsing regression fixed
  • AMF view for AMF3/Flex messages simplified to hide Flex implementation details
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27 November 2006 | Charles v2.6 release. Major improvements and bug fixes including:

20 September 2006 | Charles v2.5 release. Major improvements and bug fixes including:

  • Major UI improvements
  • Support for new filetypes including FLV
  • Major improvements to AMF / Flash remoting viewer
  • and more...

Thank you to everyone who made suggestions and participated in the long testing process.

1 June 2006 | Charles v2.4.2 release. Minor improvements and bug fixes including:

  • Support for request body compression (used by web services)
  • Fix for parsing of AMFPHP responses
  • Improvements to AMF viewer
  • and more...

6 May 2006 | Charles v2.4.1 release. Minor improvements and bug fixes including:

  • Firefox extension improved
  • AMF 0 and AMF 3 parsing improved
  • Look and Feel changes to give a greater (and more consistent) range of font sizes in the Charles look and feel
  • SSL error reporting improved when a connection cannot be made to a remote host
  • Port Forwarding tool and Reverse Proxy tool re-bind exception fixed
  • and more...

24 April 2006 | Charles v2.4 release. Major new features, improvements and bug fixes including:

I have also started a developer blog where I'll make mention of new Charles releases and occasionally discuss what I'm working on.

25 March 2006 | Charles v2.3 release. Major improvements and bug fixes including:

  • Proxy implementation improvements including better handling of keep-alive connections
  • SOCKS proxy added, so any SOCKSified application can now run through Charles
  • External proxies configuration improvements including authentication
  • Flash Remoting / AMF viewer improvements
  • Dynamic proxy port support, for multiuser systems
  • and more...

30 November 2005 | Charles v2.2.1 release. Minor improvements and bug fixes including:

  • Further improved Firefox proxy configuration
  • Port Forwarding enhancements including port ranges and UDP forwarding
  • Bug fixes for Reverse Proxy and AMF viewer
  • and more...

7 October 2005 | Charles v2.2 released. Major enhancements and bug fixes including:

  • Improved Firefox proxy configuration
  • XML viewer improvements
  • Line numbers displayed in ASCII viewer
  • and more...

2 September 2005 | Charles v2.1 released. Major new features and enhancements including:

  • Automatic Firefox proxy configuration
  • Formatted form posts and query string information
  • Parsing of SWF and AMF (Flash Remoting) binary formats
  • and more...

18 June 2005 | Charles v2.0 released. Major enhancements and improvements.

See the version history for details of the changes.