DNS Proxywall Changelog

What's new in DNS Proxywall 5.65

May 30, 2023
  • Fixed: intermittent communication interruption between UI and the service.
  • Improved: stability on Windows 11.
  • Improved: reduced conditions requiring restart after the installation.
  • Improved: updated internal GeoDefsBD to 29-5-2023.
  • 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 DNS Proxywall 5.63 (Mar 8, 2023)

  • Fixed: intermittent hang upon closure of Settings dialog.
  • Improved: blocking performance during slow traffic.
  • Improved: embedded GeoDefsDB updated to 2023-03-07.
  • Added: setting to block the outgoing DNS-over-TCP traffic, the default setting is to block.
  • Added: menu to perform diagnostics output to notepad.exe.
  • Added: diagnostics now shows all locations of installed Verigio drivers.

New in DNS Proxywall 5.62 (Dec 13, 2022)

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

New in DNS Proxywall 5.61 (Dec 2, 2022)

  • Fixed: installer to uninstall leftover driver INF files.
  • Fixed: processing of OPT record was causing DNS response processing failure.
  • Fixed: UI crash during the update of proxy client statistics.
  • Improved: output of critical events into Event Viewer log.
  • Improved: IP Geo Lookup dialog appearance.
  • Improved: upgraded internal geo definitions database (GeoDefsDB) to 11/15/22.
  • Added: setting for extra time for DNS requests.
  • Added: setting to Block/Allow unknown (not within DB) subnets.
  • Added: added diagnostics tracing integration with Windows Performance Monitor.

New in DNS Proxywall 5.43 (Oct 1, 2020)

  • Fixed: permanent address table was not resolving IP addresses when upstread DNS server had IPv6 address.
  • Fixed: centering of message boxes on second monitor.
  • Fixed: geo lookup dialog was not accepting non-standard IPv6 addresses.
  • Fixed: expired subscriptions should be skipped when an unexpired one is present.
  • Improved: loading and saving of Settings.
  • Improved: faster detection when UI disconnects from the service.
  • Improved: a catch-up download of geo-definitions database is performed after wake up from the sleep.
  • Improved: updated internal geo-definitions database.
  • Added: compatibility with Microsoft Hyper-V.

New in DNS Proxywall 5.41 (Jun 1, 2020)

  • Fixed: the reset of GeoDefsDB to build-in GeoDefsDB was clearning the rules.
  • Fixed: the unchecking a whole territorial region was locked.
  • Fixed: user-defined networks did not get visual selection during opening of the context menu.
  • Fixed: blocked IPs were not aggregated within Activity log.
  • Fixed: the autoscroll did not scroll to the end when logging in and the list was already populated.
  • Fixed: the visual association of some countries to respective regions was incorrect.
  • Fixed: was unable to add the same serial key for a subscription as for the active product.
  • Fixed: the activation dialog did not prevent the same subscription key adding multiple times during the product activation.
  • Fixed: now preventing rollback of GeoDefsDB upon cancellation of Settings dialog.
  • Fixed: now preventing loss of selection of a subscription within Activations dialog during refresh/re-validation.
  • 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 during online communications.
  • Added: support for optimized geo database GeoDefsDB v2.0
  • 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.