PortAuthority Versions Save

A handy systems and security-focused tool, Port Authority is a very fast Android port scanner. Port Authority also allows you to quickly discover hosts on your network and will display useful network information about your device and other hosts.

v2.4.5

1 year ago

v2.4.4

1 year ago
  • Updated translations
  • Fixed potential crashes in database code

v2.4.3

1 year ago

This release fixes an invalid localization abbreviation. Otherwise it is the exact same as v2.4.2:

  • Updated translations
  • Fix progress reporting on port database downloads
  • Provide more clarity for the situation where the MAC address is completely inaccessible to us
  • Bump up various libs
  • Require API 19 (Android 4.4) as the minimum version
  • Rework internal host scanning logic to support Android 13
  • NetBIOS resolution improvements and fixes
  • mDNS hostname resolution support
  • Hostname resolution now respects the LAN socket timeout setting
  • Faster gradle builds

v2.4.2

1 year ago
  • Updated translations
  • Fix progress reporting on port database downloads
  • Provide more clarity for the situation where the MAC address is completely inaccessible to us
  • Bump up various libs
  • Require API 19 (Android 4.4) as the minimum version
  • Rework internal host scanning logic to support Android 13
  • NetBIOS resolution improvements and fixes
  • mDNS hostname resolution support
  • Hostname resolution now respects the LAN socket timeout setting
  • Faster gradle builds

v2.4.1

3 years ago

v2.4.0

3 years ago
  • Italian, German, and Brazilian Portuguese translations
  • Display live progress when download port/MAC databases
  • Allow sorting of discovered hosts by IP
  • Detect private and multicast MACs
  • Migrate support layer to AndroidX
  • Fix resource leak in DB layer
  • Fix potential null pointer crashes
  • Fix async tasks from blocking each other

v2.3.3

3 years ago
  • Fix public IP API service.

v2.3.2

4 years ago
  • Switch to a new DNS lib
  • Prevent possible divide-by-zero scenario

v2.3.1

4 years ago
  • Add support for user-specified Wake-on-LAN hosts
  • Fix Android 4 breakage due to the upgrade of OkHttp
  • Fix some crashes caused by recent changes to DNS functionality
  • Fix some rare crashes around user preferences

v2.2.13

4 years ago
  • Fix broken DNS lookups on production builds optimized with R8