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Multi Port Forwarder Changelog

What's new in Multi Port Forwarder 6.50

May 30, 2023
  • Fixed: intermittent communication interruption between UI and the service.
  • Fixed: now works on Windows 11.
  • Fixed: after reordering of rules the activity indicator showing traffic for the wrong rule.
  • Improved: reduced conditions requiring restart after the installation.
  • Added: to display OS build number in diagnostics.
  • Added: installer option to place or not a shortcut on the Desktop.
  • Added: installer option to launch after the intallation.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 6.47 (Mar 8, 2023)

  • Fixed: intermittent user interface hang upon closure of Settings dialog.
  • Added: menu to perform diagnostics output to notepad.exe.
  • Added: diagnostics now shows all locations of installed Verigio drivers.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 6.46 (Dec 13, 2022)

  • Fixed: notification of "unable to establish driver trust" after the upgrade.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 6.45 (Dec 1, 2022)

  • Improved: output of critical events into Event Viewer log.
  • Added: added diagnostics tracing integration with Windows Performance Monitor.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 6.40 (Sep 5, 2022)

  • Fixed: traffic cloning.
  • Fixed: monitoring-only rules.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 6.40 (Mar 23, 2022)

  • Fixed: the service was not starting after Win10 1809 to Win10 21H2 update.
  • Improved: performance on 10Gbps networks.
  • Added: now works with most VPNs.
  • Added: CPU mask and utilization limits are configurable via registry.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 6.38 (Jan 17, 2021)

  • Fixed: within the rule properties dialog, the clearing was applying changes to the rule regardless of Ok or Cancel.
  • Improved: the layout and visual appearance of rule properties dialog.
  • Added: the toolbar button to prevent any changes to rules and settings.
  • Added: the toolbar button for calculation of the best route.
  • Added: the rule cloning to the rule's context menu.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 6.37 (Dec 11, 2020)

  • Fixed: the uninstaller was unable to shutdown UI while UI had a message box open.
  • Fixed: high CPU utilization on the system was triggering UI to report that the license has expired.
  • Fixed: unable to move rules up/down due to the loss of selection when mouse was leaving the rules area.
  • Improved: better responsiveness of the user interface.
  • Improved: better use of all processors for traffic filtering in multi processor systems.
  • Added: context menu items to move rules up/down.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 6.36 (Nov 6, 2020)

  • Fixed: popup notification of expired license for already activated product on 32-bit OS.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 6.35 (Oct 1, 2020)

  • Fixed: loading of recent files.
  • Improved: faster detection when UI disconnects from the service.
  • Added: compatibility with Microsoft Hyper-V.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 6.25 (May 2, 2020)

  • Fixed: the activation dialog was not reflecting success/failure response from server for some time.
  • Improved: avoid displaying expiration of the subscription lincense that is not actually used in online communications.
  • Added: import/export of program-wide settings into an XML file.
  • Added: the progress animation within Activation dialog for product and subscription activations.
  • Added: the notification about new releases and the setting for frequency of update checks.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 6.24 (Feb 3, 2020)

  • Fixed: recovery after unexpected shutdown corrupted user.config.
  • Fixed: incompatibility with 'Windows Network Data Usage Monitoring Driver' was resulting in a memory leak.
  • Fixed: sometimes DHCPv4 packets were discarded when on mixed IPv4-IPv6 network.
  • Fixed: license status refresh during activation.
  • Added: support for Windows 10 1909.
  • Added: overlay image when UI is disconnected from the service.
  • Added: subscriptions management within Activation dialog.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 6.17 (Jun 19, 2019)

  • Fixed: traffic was blocked when TCP connection timeout within settings was greater than 5 sec.
  • Fixed: failure to detect network adapters on Windows 10 1903.
  • Added: support for Windows 10 1903.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 6.16 (Jun 15, 2019)

  • Fixed: failure to detect network adapters on Windows 10 1903.
  • Added: support for Windows 10 1903.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 6.15 (Jun 3, 2019)

  • Added: displaying last 5 characters of the license key within activation dialog.
  • Added: detection and recovery mechanism for corrupt user.config file that was preventing UI from starting.
  • Added: diagnostics utility to display .NET Framework version and proper Windows version.
  • Improved: upon uninstall shutdown of all programs that use the driver.
  • Updated: end-user license agreement.
  • Fixed: "Process unauthorized..." event was written into event log upon UI and service startup.
  • Fixed: timeout of the sevice upon startup during OS startup.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 6.12 (Jan 15, 2019)

  • Added support for Windows Server 2019.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 6.11 (Jan 11, 2019)

  • Changed to grayscale the window overlay indicating disconnected UI from the service.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 6.10 (Dec 9, 2018)

  • Transitioned program to Windows service based architecture.
  • Added capability to start automatically upon Windows start without logged in user.
  • Previous settings are automatically saved and loaded upon the service start.
  • User interface changes.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 5.65 (Nov 26, 2018)

  • This is a maintenance release for compatibility with other products.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 5.63 (Oct 17, 2018)

  • This is a maintenance release for compatibility with other products.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 5.62 (Jan 23, 2018)

  • Added an option to open last opened file upon the program start.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 5.61 (Nov 27, 2017)

  • This is a mainteenance release for compatibility with other products.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 5.60 (Jun 14, 2017)

  • Upgraded driver version to 6.43 for compatibility with other released products.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 5.51 (Apr 26, 2017)

  • Email-based product activation was replaced with Offline activation and manual license request upload to the website. Online activation is unchanged.
  • Improved license dialog with periodic automatic license request approval checking when the dialog is open.
  • Switched licensing to automatically use shared on the same computer licenses. Licenses are now stored within the local application data directory of a user profile.
  • Added product edition and build date information to About dialog.
  • Closing the main window now places the program on system tray notification area.
  • Improved centering of message boxes.
  • Added capability to cancel saving a file on exit.
  • Added settings to auto start on user login, to change colors, to load last used file, etc.
  • Transitioned data file format to XML-based. The old format is supported for loading only.
  • Added rule option for MAC "Derive from IP".
  • Added routing address calculator to obtain addresses on path to specific destination.
  • Added context menu to rules.
  • Fixed: crash on Windows 10 during uninstall.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 5.30 (Jan 2, 2017)

  • Fixed the issue that during traffic reflection was incorrectly calculating IP address and Port.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 5.21 (Dec 2, 2016)

  • This is a mainteenance release for compatibility with our new products.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 5.20 (Sep 18, 2016)

  • Fixed incompatibility with Windows 10 Anniversary update.
  • Increased the limit on the number of rules for the Ultimate edition to 50.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 5.19 (Aug 5, 2016)

  • Fixed rules are not automatically applied from the loaded file when the program is started with "/systray" switch.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 5.18 (Jul 6, 2016)

  • Fixed loss of connectivity after install on Win2008R2/Win7 when certain network cards are connected to the system.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 5.1 (May 29, 2016)

  • Fixed the application crash on CPUs not supporting AVX instruction set (binaries are now built with SSE2 instead of AVX instruction set).

New in Multi Port Forwarder 5.0 (May 11, 2016)

  • Added support for: Windows 10. Removed support for: XP/2003/Vista/2008.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 4.10 (Aug 11, 2015)

  • Added traffic cloning capability.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 4.0 (Jul 7, 2015)

  • The project has changed its name to Multi Port Forwarder. New UI for .Net 4.0. Added functionality to perform forwarding by a combination of: direction (incoming/outgoing), protocol (TCP/UDP), Port, IP (IPv4, IPv6, DNS name), MAC, and Network Adapter. Added back the traffic refection functionality with capability to transpose Local/Remote addresses. Added capability to monitor traffic activity. Added online product activation. Trial license expiration is 30 days from install date.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 3.94 (Apr 28, 2015)

  • Resolved "unable to verify trust" message upon startup on WinXP/Win2003 x64. License expiration date is July 1, 2015.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 3.92 (Mar 4, 2015)

  • Resolved connectivity issue on Windows 7 x64.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 3.91 (Mar 2, 2015)

  • Fixed the crash on Windows 7 x64 under certain conditions. License expiration date is May 1, 2015.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 3.90 (Feb 28, 2015)

  • Added diagnostic utility to Help menu. License expiration date is May 1, 2015.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 3.80 (Dec 2, 2014)

  • Added IPv6 support
  • Added UDP forwarding notification
  • Improved performance on multi-core CPUs
  • Improved installation experience
  • Removed Reflection feature

New in Multi Port Forwarder 3.73 (Sep 30, 2014)

  • The new 3.73 version has been released for x86 and x64 platforms.
  • Extended license expiration date.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 3.72 (Apr 29, 2014)

  • Fixed condition that treated "reboot required" after driver install as an error.
  • Added support for Windows Server 2008 R2 by disabling notifications.
  • Extended license expiration date. License expiration date is October 1, 2014.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 3.71 (Jan 31, 2014)

  • Added support for Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 3.70 (Jan 27, 2014)

  • The digital signature was updated from 1024-bit to 2048-bit. Added access-related security features. Fixed BSOD under low memory conditions.
  • Important: Requires hot fix KB942288, when installed on Windows XP SP3.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 3.51 (Sep 6, 2013)

  • It resolves the delay issue when enabling or disabling a network adapter. Added changes to display error codes during installation whenever the driver cannot be installed.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 3.50 (Aug 29, 2013)

  • Added compatibility with 3rd party PeerBlock software.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 3.48 (Aug 10, 2012)

  • Added Windows 8 Release Preview compatibility.
  • License expiration date is October 2013.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 3.47 (Aug 10, 2012)

  • Fixed crash under certain conditions during the installation.
  • License expiration date is October 2012.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 3.46 (May 28, 2012)

  • It includes removal of prompt for Administrative privileges.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 3.27 (May 28, 2012)

  • It includes performance inprovements in idle state and better compatibility with other networking programs. Expiration date is October 2012.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 3.11 (May 28, 2012)

  • It addressed the installation issue under certain conditions on Windows XP.

New in Multi Port Forwarder 3.1 (May 28, 2012)

  • 64-bit support
  • Significant performance upgrades
  • Reduced number of questions prompted during installation
  • Resolved issue with program stability under limited conditions
  • The program now clears rules under all termination circumstances normal and abnormal
  • Resolved ESC key was closing the main window