New Looking Glass server is much more functional, and presents command results in real-time, whereas last version did not show these results until the execution came to a completely end. Consequently, results of those pings and traceroutes filtered or not accessible from CATNIX may have been shown way too slow, a problem that has been solved in the new version. New release does indeed automatically translate addresses without any intermediate step.
Aside from updating the service, the hardware hosting it has been replaced by a new one.