It feels like ages since the last alpha release of GNS3 1.0. But its certainly been worth the wait.
What's new in GNS3 1.0 Alpha 7
Packet capture for IOS routers.Packet capture for the Ethernet hub and Ethernet, ATM and Frame relay switches.
Packet capture for IOU (not working, issue with iouyap).
Every one loves a good packet capture. Being able to do packet captures is an integral part of every engineers toolkit - as for that matter is GNS3! :)
Right click a link, select "Start capture", and wireshark fires up. This does seem much quicker than on the 0.8.6 release.
Add notes, rectangles & ellipses to topologies.
Duplicate option for notes, rectangles and ellipses.
Style settings for note, rectangle and ellipse items. Possibility to edit interface and node labels.
It's a small thing really, but I have missed the ability to add notes, it does make things much easer to understand when you have labels!
Show/hide interface labels.
Same as above really, it does make life much easier to be able to turn this on and off at will!
Contextual device menu.
You can get the same menu by right clicking, but it is useful to have it in more than one place.
Recent file menu.
This is on the old 0.8.6:
This is the new version:
Not sure which version I prefer really.
Lab instructions support (automatically open any file named instructions.* in the project directory or from the Help menu)
Just add any file called instructions to the project folder and open the project, it'll open up in the appropriate program:
Load a project by dropping the project file on the view.
Pretty cool, means it is quick to jump from topology to topology. It is fast and responsive.
Option to uncompress IOS images.
Makes booting router a little quicker.
Other stuff:
Fix: use Dynamips, IOU and VPCS identifiers to correctly load topologies.
IOU: rename startup-config to initial-config (makes more sense for IOU).
Check for sticky bit when checking for executable access.
Fix: IOS image relative path problems.
Lots of small bug fixes.