15 Jan 2020
Charles 4.5.6 released with minor bug fixes and patched security vulnerability. Read more.
5 Dec 2019Charles 4.5.5 released including bug fixes for SSL certificate imports. Read more.
3 Nov 2019Charles 4.5.2 released including new features, bug fixes and improvements. Read more.
28 Feb 2019Charles 4.2.8 released with minor bug fixes. Read more.
14 Sep 2018Charles 4.2.7 released with minor bug fixes and improvements. Read more.
5 May 2018Charles Security Bulletin for a local privilege escalation in Charles 4.2 and 3.12.1 and earlier. Read more.
7 Apr 2018Charles 4.2.5 released with major bug fixes and minor improvements. Read more.
28 Mar 2018Charles for iOS released. Read more.
22 Nov 2017Charles 4.2.1 released with important bug fixes. Read more.
30 Sep 2017Charles 4.2 released with major new TLS debugging capability, minor improvements and bug fixes including macOS High Sierra support. Read more.
10 Jul 2017Charles 4.1.4 released with minor improvements and bug fixes. Read more.
20 Jun 2017Charles 4.1.3 released including Brotli compression support and other minor bug fixes and improvements. Read more.
13 May 2017Charles 4.1.2 released with bug fixes and minor improvements. Read more.
21 Apr 2017Charles 4.1.1 released with bug fixes. Read more.
10 Apr 2017Charles 4.1 released including major new features and bug fixes. Read more.
19 Nov 2016Charles 4.0.2 released including bug fixes and minor improvements. Read more.
20 Sep 2016Charles 4.0.1 released including bug fixes. Read more.
16 Sep 2016Charles 3.11.6 released with support for macOS Sierra and minor bug fixes. Read more.
1 Aug 2016Charles 4 released featuring HTTP 2, IPv6 and improved look and feel. Read more.
29 May 2016Charles 3.11.5 released including minor bug fixes; especially fixes SSL certificate installation on Android. Read more.
29 Feb 2016Charles 3.11.4 released with support for ATS on iOS 9 and crash fixes for older versions of Mac OS X. Read more.
Charles v3.11.3 released including bug fixes and minor improvements. Read more.
9 Nov 2015Charles v3.11.2 released with SSL and Websockets improvements. Read more.
4 Oct 2015Charles 3.11 released including major new features. Read more.
7 Jul 2015Charles 3.10.2 released with bug fixes and improvements. Read more.
31 Mar 2015Charles 3.10.1 released with minor bug fixes. Read more.
21 Mar 2015Charles 3.10 released with improved SSL (new SSL CA certificate install required), major new features and improvements. Read more.
22 Oct 2014Charles v3.9.3 released with improvements to SSL support, Mac OS X Yosemite support and other minor bug fixes and improvements. Read more.
26 May 2014Charles v3.9.2 released with minor bug fixes. Read more.
5 May 2014Charles 3.9.1 released with minor bug fixes and improvements. Read more.
25 Apr 2014Charles 3.9 released with major new features and bug fixes, including the ability to "focus" on hosts so they are separated from the noise. Read more.
23 Oct 2013Charles 3.8.3 released with support for Mac OS X Mavericks and minor bug fixes. Happy Mavericks Day. Read more.
21 Oct 2013Charles 3.8.2 released with minor bug fixes. Read more.
9 Sep 2013Charles 3.8.1 released with minor bug fixes and improvements. Read more.
4 Sep 2013Charles 3.8 has been released with new features and bug fixes. Read more.
12 Feb 2013Charles 3.7 has been released. Includes new features, bundled Java runtime (so you don’t need to install Java anymore), and bug fixes. Read more.
27 Jun 2012Charles 3.7 beta 2 has been released. This changes the SSL signing for Charles on Mac OS X to use Apple's new Developer ID code-signing. Read more.
8 Dec 2011Charles v3.6.5 released including bug fixes and minor changes. Read more.
15 Nov 2011Charles v3.6.4 released including major bug fixes and enhancements. Read more.
5 Sep 2011Charles v3.6.3 released including minor bug fixes. Read more.
24 Aug 2011Charles v3.6.1 released including minor enhancements and bug fixes. Read more.
18 Aug 2011Charles v3.6 released including new features, enhancements and bug fixes. New features include HAR and SAZ file import. Read more.
Charles v3.5.2 released including bug fixes and minor new features. Read more.
1 Jan 2010Charles 3.5.1 released. Minor bug fixes. Read more.
23 Dec 2009Charles 3.5 released. Major new features, bug fixes and enhancements.
17 Oct 2009Charles 3.4.1 released. Minor features and bug fixes.
27 Sep 2009Charles 3.4 released. Major changes especially to SSL.
11 May 2009New website launched. Follow @charlesproxy on Twitter. Say hi in San Francisco when I'm there for WWDC!
7 Mar 2009Charles 3.3.1 released. Minor new features and bug fixes. Experimental 64 bit Windows support. Read more.
15 Feb 2009Charles 3.3 released. Major new features. Download
24 Sep 2008Charles Autoconfiguration add-on for Mozilla Firefox adds support for Firefox 3.1
23 Sep 2008Charles 3.2.3 released. Minor new features and bug fixes.
6 Sep 2008Charles 3.2.2 released. Minor new features and bug fixes.
17 Apr 2008Charles 3.2.1 released. Minor new features and bug fixes.
24 Mar 2008Charles 3.2 released. Major new features. Release Notes
28 Jan 2008Charles 3.2 public beta released. Download and more information on my blog.
19 Dec 2007Charles 3.1.4 released. Bug fixes and minor new features.
21 Nov 2007Charles Mozilla Firefox add-on updated for compatibility with Firefox 3.0.
12 Nov 2007Charles 3.1.3 released. Minor bug fixes, minor new features.
- Chart tab now includes charts for sizes, durations and types
- Request & Response can now be displayed combined on one split-panel
- SSL handshake and certificate errors are now displayed in the tree
Charles 3.1.2 released. Minor bug fixes.
27 Aug 2007Charles 3.1.1 released. Minor bug fixes.
13 Aug 2007Charles 3.1 released.
22 May 2007Charles 3.0.4 released. Fixes SSL bug on Java 1.4.
Charles 3.0.3 re-released. Fixes launch bug on computers that haven't used Charles before.
12 May 2007Charles 3.0.3 released. Various improvements and minor bug fixes.
23 Apr 2007Charles 3.0.2 released. Minor bug fixes and improvements.
28 Mar 2007Charles 3.0.1 released. Minor bug fixes.
24 Mar 2007Charles 3.0 released. Major new features and improvements
7 Mar 2007Charles 3.0 public beta released.
27 Feb 2007Charles v2.6.4 release. Minor bug fixes:
- IBM JDK compatibility
- Improved malformed Referer header support
Charles v2.6.3 release. Minor bug fixes:
- Fixed Port Forwarding fault introduced in v2.6.2
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
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
Charles v2.6 release. Major improvements and bug fixes including:
- Major UI overhaul
- JSON and JSON-RPC support
- SOAP support
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
- Thank you to everyone who made suggestions and participated in the long testing process.
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
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
Charles v2.4 release. Major new features, improvements and bug fixes including:
- AMF 3 support
- SSL support for IBM JDK (thanks to Lance Bader for helping solve this)
- Automatic Update Checking
- Documentation wiki open to public
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
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
Charles v2.2 released. Major enhancements and bug fixes including:
- Improved Firefox proxy configuration
- XML viewer improvements
- Line numbers displayed in ASCII viewer
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
Charles v2.0 released. Major enhancements and improvements.