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What is changing in TranslatorX, why it matters, and where to learn how each new capability works.

Announcement

TranslatorX 26.1.1 is now available

August 3, 2026

Version 26.1.1 is the first version of the new TranslatorX app. It retains deep protocol evidence while adding a native multi-window investigation workspace, broader import and collection workflows, explainable call and media analysis, and optional evidence-grounded AI assistance.

The release is available as verified packages for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Stable and beta channels remain separate, and every stable build is checked for code vulnerabilities, dependency risk, platform signatures, updater integrity, checksums, and versioned software bills of materials before publication.

Stable release

TranslatorX 26.1.1

August 3, 2026Download 26.1.1CycloneDXSBOMSHA-256SPDXSBOMSHA-256

Version 26.1.1 is the first version of the new TranslatorX app. This cumulative catalog covers features that are new or substantially expanded since TranslatorX Classic 15.0(3), with links to the current user documentation.

Application, platform, and delivery

Ground-up modern rewrite

The legacy application has been completely rebuilt using modern frameworks, creating a maintainable cross-platform foundation for faster ongoing development.

Modern application documentation

Native multi-window workspace

Call List, Call Flow, filters, source traces, CDR details, preferences, and inspectors open as reusable native desktop windows with platform menus and shortcuts.

Windows, menus, and shortcuts documentation

Light, dark, and system appearance

The interface can follow the operating system or use an explicit light or dark appearance while retaining protocol and call correlation colors.

Preferences documentation

Responsive background processing

Large folder imports, parsing, correlation, and call analysis remain responsive and report clear progress for each phase of the work.

Loading and progress documentation

Signed packages for three desktop platforms

Universal macOS, 64-bit Windows, and 64-bit Linux packages use platform or updater signatures, notarization or Authenticode where applicable, and per-platform SHA-256 manifests.

Software update documentation

One adaptive Windows installer

Choose a current-user or all-users installation from one signed package, with integrated WebView2 setup and clear recovery guidance for restricted or offline systems.

Windows installation documentation

Stable and beta update channels

Choose an update channel, check automatically or manually, and receive verified releases through the application’s signed updater. A deliberate rollback to Stable is permitted only after native confirmation and a compatibility check of application-owned data.

Update-channel documentation

Versioned dependency and security records

Each release retains CycloneDX and SPDX software bills of materials with independent checksums, alongside platform checksums and signed updater metadata.

26.1.1 CycloneDX SBOM

Import, parsing, and source handling

One flexible import pipeline

Open files, recursive folders, drag-and-drop selections, or clipboard text and choose whether new evidence appends to or replaces the current session.

Trace import documentation

Compressed and nested evidence

Read gzip logs, ZIP bundles, and ZIP files nested to a controlled depth while reporting unsupported or unsafe entries instead of silently skipping them.

Archive import documentation

Resilient PCAP and PCAPNG decoding

Support common link layers, VLANs, IPv4 and IPv6 fragments, nanosecond timestamps, TCP reassembly, retransmissions, compact headers, and SIP bodies spanning packets.

Open traces documentation

Broader product and log coverage

Decode current and legacy Unified CM, CUBE, Expressway, Webex, endpoint, CUSP, BroadWorks, IOS binary, H.323, Q.931, SCCP, MGCP, SIP, and SDP sources.

Supported data documentation

Portable TranslatorX traces

Re-import source-neutral .txtrace evidence with normalized metadata instead of depending on the original vendor wrapper or source path.

Portable trace documentation

Full-message and summary merging

Use Unified CM calllogs to fill missing events, then replace a matching summary with the full SDL message if richer evidence is loaded later.

Calllog documentation

Message workspace and investigation

Normalized, resizable message table

Compare time, endpoints, direction, protocol, message name, handles, tags, and call identifiers across vendor formats with resizable and content-aware columns.

Message workspace documentation

Contextual SIP and SDP help

Resolve payloads and codecs across media sections; decode common FMTP, transport, security, feedback, ICE, BFCP, and Cisco multistream values; highlight related SDP lines on hover or keyboard focus; and provide plain-language explanations and standards references without altering selectable message text. The SDP interpretation builds in part on SDPlorer, created by Rob Hanton. We thank Rob for sharing the code.

Decoded content documentation

Unified CM SIP normalization comparison

Review wire, before, after, and highlighted semantic differences for changed inbound or outbound SIP normalization events without duplicate rows.

SIP normalization documentation

Reusable structured filters

Combine protocol, direction, endpoint, message, identifiers, correlation, text, and time criteria using AND within rows and OR across rows, then save them as .txf.

Filter documentation

Live search and display controls

Search message content and independently hide protocol families or routine traffic without deleting evidence from the active session.

Search and display documentation

Dedicated source viewer

Jump from a decoded message or AI citation to exact raw lines with line numbers, horizontal scrolling, previous/next search, and matches-only mode.

Source viewer documentation

Multi-source clock alignment

Normalize to GMT using explicit zones, device identity, matching SIP messages, missing-year inference, sub-minute skew correction, evidence confidence, and user overrides.

Source-time documentation

Event Log diagnostics

Review parsing warnings, collection status, inferred values, remote connection events, and cleanup results in one support-oriented window.

Event Log documentation

Persistent device aliases

Edit discovered device names once, use them throughout the workspace and diagrams, and import or export alias sets as JSON.

Device alias documentation

Calls, sessions, signaling, and media

Three-purpose Call List

Separate Unified CM CDR records, trace-derived SIP calls, and explicitly correlated multi-leg SIP sessions instead of treating every investigation as one flat list.

Call List documentation

Explicit multi-leg SIP correlation

Connect call legs through Session-ID, remote-cc, Cisco-Guid, and related identifiers without relying on phone-number or timing guesses.

SIP session documentation

Call outcomes and Session Inspector

Distinguish connected, completed, cancelled, redirected, rejected, failed, and incomplete calls, then inspect route, legs, endpoint history, evidence, and key events chronologically.

Call analysis documentation

CUBE route and VRF context

Retain matched inbound and outbound dial peers with their calls, preserve CUBE VRF metadata, and filter messages, calls, or sessions by one or more VRFs without hiding related cross-VRF legs by default.

CUBE call-context documentation

Observed session topology

Reconstruct retries, forks, transfers, transit hops, and multi-interface signaling devices from the direction and identifiers actually present in the trace.

Session topology documentation

Interactive Call Flow inspector

Keep timestamps visible, suppress duplicate SIP retransmissions when desired, select any arrow for detail, and retain a dense chronological ladder.

Call Flow documentation

Editable lanes and call-aware colors

Reorder or combine lanes, apply persistent aliases, keep media-only endpoints adjacent, and use restrained per-call band colors without alternating row shades.

Call Flow lane documentation

Negotiated RTP and SRTP visualization

Follow SDP offer and answer endpoints across intermediary signaling legs and show audio, video, direction, hold, rejection, resume, port, and transport changes without duplicate streams.

Media stream documentation

Explainable media-quality evidence

Extract endpoint, Webex App, CUBE, RFC 6035, and Unified CM CMR reports; grade each established stream direction as Good, Bad, or Unknown; warn on Call Flow only when poor media is known; compare compatible TX and RX counters; preserve independent viewpoints and copied source representations; and browse complete evidence from established Media Streams or compact CDR-to-CMR links.

Media quality documentation

Visible disconnect context

Show SIP Reason and Warning values directly on BYE arrows when present while leaving ordinary BYE labels compact.

Call Flow label documentation

Expanded CDR and CMR review

Open standalone or embedded records, search grouped and raw fields, decode disconnect causes, create trace filters, and launch related Call Flow views.

CDR and CMR documentation

Automatic Facility IE decoding

Decode Q.931 and Q.SIG Facility information in the message where it occurred rather than requiring a separate developer utility.

Protocol support documentation

Remote collection and secure access

Reusable remote profiles

Manage and test Unified CM, CUBE, and Expressway connections once, then use the same profiles across historical, coordinated, troubleshooting, and live workflows.

Profile documentation

Native credential storage

Keep passwords and key passphrases in the operating system credential manager rather than serializing secrets into profile or settings files.

Credential storage documentation

Advanced SSH authentication

Use passwords, OpenSSH keys, hardware-backed FIDO2 keys, keyboard-interactive MFA, enable passwords, and independently authenticated jump hosts. Bundled production clients include validated FIDO2 support on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

SSH authentication documentation

Modern SSH compatibility and policy

Support a wider range of current SSH algorithms consistently across macOS and Windows, prefer hybrid post-quantum key exchange, exclude legacy algorithms, and review the exact security negotiated with every host.

SSH security documentation

Reviewed HTTPS and SSH trust

Require TLS 1.2+, review untrusted certificate identity before credentials are sent, pin accepted certificates by origin, accept alternate already-trusted SSH key types, and reject genuinely changed keys.

Connection trust documentation

Reusable HTTP and SOCKS5 proxy profiles

Use system proxy settings, direct connections, or independently managed HTTP and SOCKS5 profiles for supported HTTPS traffic. SOCKS5 can also route CUBE and Expressway SSH, including connections that continue through a jump host.

Proxy documentation

Connection tests and readiness actions

See active progress, authentication and negotiated-security results, CUBE VoIP Trace state, and buffered-logging readiness, then apply permitted running-configuration fixes and optionally save logging changes to startup configuration.

Connection-test documentation

Unified CM cluster collection

Discover every node from a publisher profile and collect the requested SDL, SDI, calllog, CDR, or related timeframe across the cluster.

Unified CM collection documentation

Bounded historical imports

Discard messages outside a selected collection interval before call reconciliation and analysis while preserving the complete downloaded source files on disk.

Historical import-boundary documentation

CUBE historical VoIP trace

Inspect trace state and coverage, offer to enable VoIP trace when privileges permit, collect bounded evidence, interpret router clock information, and divide busy ranges into sequential batches without splitting individual calls.

CUBE collection documentation

Expressway Network Log and diagnostics

Collect historical signaling, discover supported diagnostic operations, coordinate captures, and handle current and legacy Network Log formats.

Expressway collection documentation

Parallel multi-device collection

Apply one absolute or relative timeframe to several products and open their independently collected evidence as one correlated timeline.

Multi-device collection documentation

Persistently approved collection folders

Folders selected through native controls remain approved across launches, while every collection stays contained within the chosen destination.

Collection destination documentation

Bounded troubleshooting sessions

Select participating systems, record the exact reproduction interval, coordinate Expressway capture state, stop cleanly, and collect one combined session.

Troubleshooting session documentation

Multi-source live tracing

Trace one or more CUBE and Expressway sources while filters, calls, sessions, and open diagrams update incrementally. CUBE uses sequenced five-second logging-buffer polls with gap detection and guided readiness checks.

Live trace documentation

Verified CUBE debug cleanup

Enable only the required signaling and transport debugs, strip shell noise safely, and report any stop or cleanup state that cannot be confirmed.

Live CUBE cleanup documentation

AI-assisted analysis

Multiple local and cloud providers

Configure Ollama, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Google Gemini, or custom endpoints compatible with Anthropic Messages or OpenAI Chat Completions, including flexible provider-specific authentication.

AI provider documentation

Scoped call and trace evidence

Start analysis from a SIP call, correlated session, or filtered trace with deterministic observations and a bounded catalog of exact source ranges.

AI evidence documentation

Citable context retrieval

Allow the model to request validated literal or regular-expression searches and exact surrounding lines without granting arbitrary filesystem access.

Context retrieval documentation

Evidence-linked structured reports

Review probable cause, confidence, findings, alternatives, recommendations, limitations, and citations that open the supporting message or source lines.

AI report documentation

Interactive follow-up analysis

Ask follow-up questions against the same frozen evidence case, retain the conversation and provider-supplied reasoning history, and keep every supported citation linked to source evidence.

AI follow-up documentation

Portable AI analysis reports

Export the complete evidence-grounded analysis as Markdown or a paginated PDF with findings, recommendations, limitations, usage, and source links.

AI export documentation

Cloud privacy controls

Always remove credentials and SDP keys, anonymize telephone numbers, IP addresses, and hostnames by default, and keep local Ollama traffic on loopback.

AI privacy documentation

Token and cache accounting

Accumulate input, output, cache-read, and cache-write usage across context rounds when the selected provider reports it.

AI usage documentation

Export, security, and operational handoff

Readable filtered trace export

Export the full session or only the current search, filter, protocol, and routine-traffic result as normalized readable text.

Readable export documentation

Source-neutral re-importable export

Share a portable trace containing protocol content and structured analysis metadata without original local paths or vendor wrappers.

TranslatorX trace documentation

Complete Call Flow SVG export

Save the signaling and visible media diagram with its current labels and lane arrangement as a scalable vector image.

Call Flow export documentation

Portable analysis handoff

Share evidence-grounded AI results as Markdown or PDF without changing the underlying trace, while preserving supported source links and report context.

Analysis export documentation

Local-first analysis

Perform normal parsing, filtering, correlation, call analysis, diagram generation, and export locally without requiring a cloud service.

Security and privacy documentation

Hardened data handling and connections

Protect temporary trace data, limit archive and network content, validate remote destinations, and restrict sensitive application operations.

Application security documentation

Verified release delivery

Check every release for quality, vulnerabilities, and dependency freshness; sign platform packages and updater files; and publish checksums plus reproducible CycloneDX and SPDX inventories.

Release integrity documentation

Installer and historical release records

GitHub retains versioned installers, checksums, updater manifests, and earlier release entries.

Open release history