CHANGELOG.md

v3.8.5 (27 November 2024)

• fixed adding apps with drive letters instead of specific apps (issue #1887)
• fixed creating rules for inaccessible paths (issue #1891)
• fixed opening log with spaces path (issue #1912)
• fixed windows 7 loopback rules
• cosmetic fixes

v3.8.4 (11 September 2024)

• added listview empty markup
• fixed tray icon middle click not worked when log ui is disabled
• fixed notification displays invalid signature (issue #1871)
• fixed does not show up tray icon (issue #1844)
• fixed crash when cleanup timers (issue #1860)
• fixed possible memory leak
• updated project sdk
• updated rule hint
• cosmetic fixes

v3.8.3 (8 August 2024)

• added remember last position of notification window (issue #1659)
• added watch services & uwp apps for install/uninstall
• added displays long time for apps
• improved windows 7 compatibility
• improved arm64 compatibility
• improved dark theme support
• fixed show log button does not work as expected (issue #1757, again!)
• fixed apps sometimes delete themselves (issue #1794, not fixed)
• fixed duplicate process at startup (issue #1769)
• fixed do not save hash when it is not enabled
• fixed row colors for dark mode (issue #1767)
• fixed log listview sorting by date
• fixed displaying timer tooltip
• updated project sdk

v3.8.2 (9 May 2024)

• revert back windows 7 & windows 8 support
• improved dark theme support
• improved log subscription
• fixed show log button does not work as expected (issue #1757)
• fixed search visibility

v3.8.1 (27 April 2024)

• fixed lacks search context (issue #1760)
• fixed incorrect log ui listview item counting
• updated confirm message for timers cleanup
• updated confirm message for unused cleanup
• updated cppwinrt package
• updated project sdk

v3.8 (1 April 2024)

• added mitigations (win10+) (issue #611)
• added dark theme support (issue #248)
• fixed displaying same context menu on apps and packets log
• updated search engine
• updated project sdk

v3.7.8 (28 January 2024)

• added saving flag state for install/uninstall filters
• fixed crash on tooltip (issue #1686)
• fixed apps disabled removal menu
• updated dropped packets (ui) listview context menu
• updated project sdk

v3.7.7 (3 January 2024)

• added error message when loading library on subscribe
• added comment item for apps/rules (issue #1664)
• added recheck app hash in properies dialog
• added highlighting of undelatable apps
• fixed displaying incorrect error messages
• fixed high disk usage (issue #1665)
• updated ports list

v3.7.6 (30 November 2023)

• fixed configuration of windows update (issue #1648)
• fixed auto update fails to install (issue #1565)
• updated project sdk

v3.7.5 (1 November 2023)

• fixed saving services and uwp apps (issue #1616)
• fixed file locked by simplewall (issue #1621)
• fixed removing unused apps
• fixed process creation
• updated project sdk

v3.7.4 (27 October 2023)

• added set option to disable apps removal from profile (issue #1155)
• fixed cannot save itself as unchecked (issue #1609)
• fixed could not save profile (issue #1594)
• fixed crash (issue #1582)
• updated project sdk

v3.7.3 (11 October 2023)

• added error message for saving profile
• removed redistributable package requirement (issue #1587)
• fixed profile was not found message (issue #1557)
• fixed crash on reading version information
• revert back certificates checking option
• updated project sdk

v3.7.2 (21 September 2023)

• dropped windows 7 and windows 8 support
• fixed launch of several copies of the application (issue #1547)
• fixed create filters for inaccessible apps (issue #1528)
• fixed displaying update dialog at startup (issue #1511)
• fixed retrieving version information for some files
• fixed slow apps search (issue #1477)
• fixed periodicaly crashing (issue #1486)
• fixed retrieving some apps icons
• fixed saving input on settings
• fixed saving unused apps
• fixed process creation
• improved signature checking
• updated project sdk

v3.7.1 (31 July 2023)

• fixed import not correcly worked (issue #1466)
• fixed crash when checking files (issue #1455)
• updated project sdk

v3.7 (27 July 2023)

• added profile encryption [oldest versions cannot open new profile] (issue #599)
• added terminate process into notification window (issue #1398)
• added checksum calculation for the apps (issue #394)
• added error message for log subscription
• improved search performance (issue #1383)
• fixed timer and apps timestamp displays incorrect information (32-bit only)
• fixed sometimes application displays incrorrect icons
• fixed possible crash when clearing log
• fixed silent uninstaller do not worked
• fixed arm64 build crash (issue #1228)
• fixed internal bugs
• fixed memory leaks
• updated nuget package
• updated project sdk
• updated locale

v3.6.7 (21 September 2022)

• added windows update service solution (issue #677, thx @taviso) [win10+]
• added feature to allow only the requested ip in notification (issue #1265)
• added 12 and 24 hour timer values (issue #1298)
• fixed opening editor are overlapped by notification window
• fixed uwp apps are reset after installing updates (issue #1294)
• fixed select all with search filter selects everything (issue #1264)
• fixed loading default icons for services and uwp apps
• fixed check update option in main menu (issue #1309)
• fixed port numbers are now verified (issue #1240)

v3.6.6 (12 August 2022)

• fixed editor does not disable save button when rule name is empty
• fixed network monitor duplicate calls
• fixed application crash (issue #1272)

v3.6.5 (11 August 2022)

• added group for apps with timers
• display long time in packets log date column
• fixed uwp packages display name parsing
• fixed blank notifications (again!) (issue #1009)

v3.6.4 (19 Juny 2022)

• added focus assistant support (win10rs3+)
• fixed notification sometimes can lose focus of fullscreen app
• fixed internal profile loading crash (issue #1228)

v3.6.3 (10 May 2022)

• fixed installer launches simplewall without asking user (issue #1119)
• fixed saving unused apps in profile (issue #1216)
• fixed app crash on create process (issue ##1224)
• fixed uninstaller delete not all files
• improved workqueue environment
• improved threading model
• fixed internal bugs

v3.6.2 (26 April 2022)

• added autoinstall non-executable updates feature (issue #1122)
• added clear search with escape button for editor
• added fallback for font loading when it does not exists
• improved uwp packages information loading
• fixed restore properties window position
• fixed rule tooltip whitespace
• fixed internal bugs
• updated network monitor
• updated locales
• cosmetic fixes

v3.6.1 (11 November 2021)

• added clear search with escape button
• fixed crash on delete filters (issue #1084)
• fixed import profile warning (issue #1086)
• fixed crash dumps processing
• updated locales
• cosmetic fixes

v3.6 (9 November 2021)

• improved multi-threading safety
• improved startup time
• improved dpi support
• added option to confirm allowing applications (issue #1070)
• added filtering for the application list (issue #663)
• added editor list items count mark for tab title
• added wfp initialization failure workaround
• added filtering for editor apps and rules
• added layer name into log
• moved log exclude configuration into another settings page (issue #1064)
• revert notification x button (issue #973)
• changed create rule toolbar icon (#723)
• fixed filters with hard permit can access internet (issue #689)
• fixed issue with hotkeys for switch tabs (issue #723)
• fixed rebar incrorrect resizing when dpi was changed
• fixed update installation issue (issue #1061)
• fixed notification multi-monitor support
• fixed service missing path (issue #1036)
• fixed editor can cause crash (#1071)
• fixed big memory leak (issue #1066)
• fixed net events unsubscription
• optimized listview sorting
• fixed internal bugs
• cosmetic fixes

v3.5.3 (18 October 2021)

• fixed using uninitialzed port variable in ip ranges [regression] (issue #1055)

v3.5.2 (17 October 2021)

• builded with windows 11 sdk
• fixed port can be omited when parsing ip ranges (issue #1010)
• fixed remote range replaces local range (issue #1044)
• fixed interface stuck by comctl library (issue #1009)
• fixed massive gdi handles leak
• fixed internal bugs

v3.5.1 (6 October 2021)

• optimized certificate checking
• fixed check apps for digital signatures option not works (issue #1037)
• fixed lock to avoid duplicate file information loading
• fixed crash on profile loading (issue #1033)

v3.5 (4 October 2021)

• in this release fqdn support was removed because of security issue (issues #1012)
• improved performance due caching network resolution and file information
• partially revert of windows defender power off (issue #1022)
• added ballon tip to display input limitations (issue #809)
• added compress internal profile in resources with lznt1
• fixed signatures information pointer use-after-free when dns resolver avoid arpa requests (issue #1008)
• fixed resolve network addresses can cause crash (issue #1015)
• fixed notification color issues (issue #1007)
• fixed update installation (issue #1016)
• fixed version information retrieval
• fixed workqueue environment
• fixed internal bugs

v3.4.3 (30 August 2021)

• added verify code signatures from catalog files (issue #1003)
• fixed crash at startup (issue #995)
• fixed rule reference (issue #1002)

v3.4.2 (24 August 2021)

• enable checking apps certificates by default
• show notifications immediately without waiting for busy operations to complete
• impoved listview responsiveness by using virtual listview callback
• fixed packets log displays incorrect direction (issue #945)
• fixed missed listview icons on refresh
• fixed thread environment
• fixed internal bugs
• cosmetic fixes

v3.4.1 (15 August 2021)

• fixed blocklist can does not change action status
• fixed crash at startup (issue #976)
• fixed profile import compatibility
• fixed install update

v3.4 (11 August 2021)

• added arm64 binaries (portable only)
• added protocol and host name information into network alert window (issue #843)
• added limit number of packets log entries (issue #941)
• added host resolving for packet logger listview
• added listview group for forever blocked apps
• fixed loading icons of each application freezes interface (issue #830)
• fixed log listview can have empty lines due to race condition
• fixed ui not properly display installation status (issue #962)
• fixed memory leak when loading profile (issue #888, #937)
• fixed high cpu usage for packet logger (issue #949)
• updated system rules
• updated project sdk
• fixed internal bugs

v3.3.5 (5 July 2021)

• added command line short opts
• use guid for tray icon
• updated project sdk
• fixed toolbar glitch on hidpi displays (issue #950)
• fixed multi-monitor with diffirent dpi support
• fixed installer creates unused files
• fixed internal bugs

v3.3.4 (3 June 2021)

• autoclean packets log ui when system suspended
• fixed config may not be saved when profile directory does not exist
• fixed unnecessary checking for app paths attributes
• fixed threadpool does not initialized com library
• fixed installer silent mode (issue #907)
• updated blocklist and system rules
• fixed internal bugs

v3.3.3 (29 April 2021)

• fixed listview tooltip can cause crash (issue #890)
• fixed editor does not create filters for the app
• fixed incorrect shared icons behaviour
• fixed interlocked operations logic
• fixed caching behaviour
• fixed internal bugs

v3.3.2 Beta (23 April 2021)

• added half an hour timer
• added missing spinlocks
• fixed file write operation can cause crash
• fixed path unexpand does not worked
• fixed running log viewer
• fixed little memory leak
• fixed bugs

v3.3.1 Beta (16 April 2021)

• added workaround for native paths on profile loading (issue #817)
• fixed net events does not subscribe on os version lower than 1607

v3.3 Beta (15 April 2021)

• added option for tray icon to open window in single click
• added warning message for allowing service host
• added quic service for internal rules (issue #819)
• added multiple rules at once in rules editor
• added properties dialog for apps
• added index column for logs
• added sorting for logs
• do not mark apps as unused if it applied for rules
• set limit for rules popup menu (issue #692)
• increased speed of service enumeration
• removed notification ignore button
• use threadpool for timers
• improved multi-monitor support
• improved listviews highlighting
• improved file dialogs
• fixed rule window does not display rule length limitation (issue #867)
• fixed update period timestamp does not set correctly (issue #745)
• fixed crash when user uses ipv6 range in rules (issue #822)
• fixed support filesystems with custom driver (issue #817)
• fixed blank notification window (issue #775)
• fixed dependencies load flags for win10rs1+
• fixed crash on app startup (issue #775)
• updated project sdk
• cosmetic fixes
• fixed bugs

v3.2.4 (5 September 2020)

• removed assertion from release builds (issue #764)
• removed user service instance from the list (win10+)
• fixed parsing not existing apps (issue #732, #739)
• displays incorrect name on timer expiration
• check app timer expiration on profile load
• incorrect read-only rules tooltip markup
• create filter does not report errors
• fixed checking of file attributes
• fixed parsing ip/port ranges
• cosmetic fixes
• fixed bugs

v3.2.3 (25 August 2020)

• added ncsi system rule (issue #709)
• added command line mutex checking (issue #750)
• added noficitation window redraw (issue #731)
• use logical sorting order (issue #735)
• check for provider status before create filters
• do not highlight connections in log tab
• fixed support oldest win7 versions (issue #737)
• removed listview empty markup
• cosmetic fixes
• fixed bugs

v3.2.2 (29 July 2020)

• user rules broken with 3.2.1 (issue #729)

v3.2.1 (29 July 2020)

• added Enable silent-mode when full screen app in foreground option
• added error message for createprocess failure (issue #720)
• highlighting valid connections in network tab
• changed "Disabled apps" group title into "Apps without internet access"
• skip uac warning does not worked (issue #724)
• notification window localized in english only
• revert ip version selection ipv4/ipv6 in rules editor (issue #723)
• revert expand rules in tooltip (issue #723)
• revert "recommended" tag (fix #719)
• fixed bugs

v3.2 Beta (18 July 2020)

• new rules editor
• added option "IsInternalRulesDisabled" for completely disable internal rules (issue #630)
• added temporary filtering mode whether is active until reboot (issue #576)
• added packets logging interface (issue #672)
• added tile view for listview
• added information for export profile failure (issue #707)
• improved tooltips details for apps and rules
• improved listview resizing performance
• changed "Enabled apps" group title into "Apps with internet access"
• now highlight app with user rules only when user rules group is disabled
• removed compatibility with v2 profile databases
• removed special group for rules
• removed user id from title
• fixed local network connection treats as valid network connection (issue #579)
• fixed notification window will bring focus to it's parent window (issue #668)
• fixed "/uninstall" argument does not removing filters (issue #645)
• fixed wfp engine security violation (issue #680)
• fixed support custom windows themes (issue #701)
• fixed getting uwp app paths and timestamps
• fixed dpi support (issue #693)
• fixed internal upnp rule
• fixed bugs

v3.1.2 (26 March 2020)

• reverted disable windows firewall on startup (issue #559 and #562)
• fixed application cannot be started because of continuously restart
• fixed possible duplicate apps entries with short path (issue #640)
• fixed network alert steals the focus (issue #637)
• fixed network paths parsing (issue #629)
• fixed netbios direction (issue #636)
• fixed localization (issue #607)
• fixed bugs

v3.1.1 (27 February 2020)

• fixed displaying tooltips for non-existing apps in network tab (issue #422)
• fixed wsl apps do not display names in the network tab (issue #606)
• fixed incorrect default locale name on some systems (issue #621)
• fixed process mitigation policy (win10rs2+) (issue #611)
• fixed persistent dark theme (win10rs5+) (issue #609)
• fixed update window does not close (issue #616)
• fixed log cleanup (issue #613)
• updated blocklist
• fixed bugs

v3.1 (8 February 2020)

• changed compiler build settings
• changed settings interface
• improved windows 10 1903+ suppport
• show log cleanup confirmation only when it has entries
• fixed notification tabstop processing (issue #497) by @flipkick
• fixed downloading updates progress gets stuck (issue #568)
• fixed find dialog does not worked correctly (issue #511)
• fixed drawing filename in notification (issue #595)
• fixed adjust privileges (theoretically fixes #596)
• fixed inbound direction recognition (issue #581)
• fixed search for next/active notification
• fixed notification hotkeys (issue #597)
• fixed memory duplicate allocation
• updated project sdk (routine++)
• updated ports definitions
• updated blocklist
• fixed bugs

v3.0.9 (15 November 2019)

• do not set notification to top when fullscreen apps working
• fixed disable notifications for app from notification (issue #563)
• fixed crash on system settings changing (issue #552)
• fixed winhttp encoding conversion (issue #568)
• fixed statusbar glitch (issue #569)
• updated blocklist
• fixed bugs

v3.0.8 (8 November 2019)

• removed disable windows firewall on startup (issue #554)
• updated default timer values (issue #340)
• fixed non-default system dpi (issue #544)
• fixed overwrite notifications
• fixed crash (issue #552)
• cosmetics fixes
• fixed bugs

v3.0.7 (1 November 2019)

• improved dpi support (win81+)
• fixed ended timer handling on restart
• fixed regular update message (issue #543)
• fixed components update installation
• fixed window and listview sizing
• updated project sdk
• updated blocklist
• cosmetics fixes
• fixed bugs

v3.0.6 RC (12 October 2019)

• added windows 10 1903+ support
• added csv file title (clear the log to see changes)
• disable network address resolution in network tab by default (issue #515)
• improved refreshing filters on device connecting
• improved network monitoring speed and ui
• improved notification ui
• improved dpi support (win81+)
• fixed collecting services & uwp information
• fixed device names resolution (issue #529)
• fixed toolbar gray text draw (issue #437)
• fixed network items blinking on refresh
• fixed flickering on window resizing
• fixed notification windows refresh
• fixed hostname restricted symbols
• fixed wfp security attributes
• fixed highlighting priority
• fixed memory leak
• updated system rules
• cosmetics fixes
• fixed bugs

v3.0.5 RC (6 August 2019)

• added option to block outbound connections globally
• added close connection feature (issue #506)
• added powerful blocklist configuration
• removed listen layer
• skip saving default rules configuration
• fixed connections port byte order (issue #504)
• fixed user rules ui bug (issue #500)
• fixed dropped packets log layout
• fixed internal rules editor
• fixed ipv6 rule formatting (issue #475)
• fixed connections hashing
• listview menu cosmetics
• cosmetics fixes
• fixed bugs

v3.0.4 RC (23 July 2019)

• added rules and blocklist options into main menu
• set security settings enabled by default
• set protocol names based on IEEE
• made correct backups for profile on reset
• bring notification window to top
• correct determine connections for apps
• fixed error message on new device insertion (issue #215)
• fixed missing connections (issue #423)
• fixed listview sorting does not save state sometimes
• fixed listview sorting compare checked items
• fixed uninstaller does not remove new profile
• fixed tray menu notifications cosmetics
• optimized group items counting
• optimized listview sorting
• cosmetics fixes
• fixed bugs

v3.0.3 Beta (3 July 2019)

• added option to show notification window on tray
• added highlighting for network tab
• redraw app item on connection change
• remove "beta" mark from network tab
• improved wfp transactions
• fixed ipv6 rules port parsing for system rules (issue #475)
• fixed direction case for log and notification (issue #474)
• fixed notification action adds timer (issue #472)
• fixed timer set does not work (issue #484)
• fixed notification refresh when app remove
• fixed configuration reset does not work
• fixed menu graphics (issue #473)
• fixed log stack cleanup
• updated port service names
• cosmetics fixes
• fixed bugs

v3.0.2 Beta (22 Juny 2019)

• new notification ui
• allow microsoft update & microsoft apps servers by default
• added information about ports into the log
• moved icmp4 and icmp6 rules into custom rules
• improved dropped packets log markup cosmetics
• improved network monitoring speed
• improved blocklist configuration
• fixed saving special rules for uwp apps and services (issue #454)
• fixed tray icon dissapear sometimes (issue #450)
• fixed profile import does not work (issue #445)
• fixed semicolons in app paths (issue #462)
• fixed windows 20h1 uwp apps loading crash
• fixed parsing rules with "*"
• updated locales
• cosmetic fixes
• fixed bugs

v3.0.1 Beta (22 May 2019)

• new profile structure
• added checking for correct xml file format before import
• added service name resolution for connections
• added Reverse DNS Lookup for IP
• more flexible autoresizing for listview
• fixed column size initialization (issue #426)
• fixed apps list sorting by date (issue #412)
• fixed status refreshing on timer deletion
• fixed table view for rules (issue #438)
• fixed connections recognition condition
• fixed highlighting (issue #408)
• fixed timers sets (issue #424)
• fixed services icons
• updated locales
• cosmetic fixes
• fixed bugs

v3.0 Beta (7 May 2019)

• dropped windows vista support
• improved dpi support (ui)
• moved rules list into main window
• added services and uwp apps tab
• added network connections monitor
• fixed displaying notifications when it's disabled
• fixed log file write through (issue #369)
• fixed notifications safety timeout
• fixed possible race conditions
• fixed services path retrieve
• fixed notifications cleanup
• improved listview resizing
• improved listview sorting
• removed blacklist mode
• cosmetic fixes
• fixed bugs