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Jetico Personal Firewall Changelog

What's new in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.1.0.14.2477

Feb 25, 2015
  • Improved drivers' stability.

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.1.0.13.2470 (Jul 22, 2013)

  • Jetico Personal Firewall is now compatible with ESET NOD32 on 64-bit Windows systems

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.1.0.12.2465 (Nov 2, 2012)

  • Added Windows 8 compatibility.

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.1.0.6 (Oct 21, 2009)

  • Resolved problem with Windows 7 User Account Control
  • Stateful engine settings can now be tuned via registry

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.1.0.5 (Oct 21, 2009)

  • Stateful inspection engine improved.
  • Resolved problem with IIS7 incoming connections under Vista or Server 2008.
  • Process protection enabled for Windows 7.
  • A table's default action restored after import or clone operations.
  • Popup dialog now supports empty groups list.
  • "Critical system object modification" event parameters corrected.
  • Application accessibility improved.
  • Romanian translation provided by Mihai Iepure.

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.1.0.4 (Oct 21, 2009)

  • Added ARP packet MAC addresses filtering
  • Added Table hints for best template selection
  • Added Table properties dialog
  • Help file updated
  • Minor issues resolved

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.1.0.2 (Oct 21, 2009)

  • Pete Mierski translated language file to Polish language.
  • Empty event in Application checksum rules fixed.
  • Improved hash calculation.
  • Documentation updated.
  • JPF 2.1 beta only: UDP broadcasts support.
  • JPF 2.1 beta only: resource leaks fixed.

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.1.0.1.2333 Beta (Feb 3, 2009)

  • JPF 2.1 beta has new stateful packet inspection module.
  • New SPI module features:
  • passthrough connections handling;
  • improved port scan detection.
  • Please note: replies to broadcast UDP packets are not recognized in JPF 2.1 beta.

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.2.8.2327 (Dec 8, 2008)

  • Visual Studio build process hangup fixed.
  • Stateful ARP filtering imroved.
  • Process protection improved.
  • Registry monitoring improved.
  • New "change process privileges" process attack event introduced to control process privelege elevation.
  • Ukrainian translation created by Xa0c.
  • Language files updated.
  • Configuration template updated

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.2.7.2309 (Oct 3, 2008)

  • Setup program improved.
  • Uninstall program improved.
  • New "critical system object modification" process attack event introduced to control access to critical system configuration objects.
  • System crash caused by hook detector fixed.

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.2.4.2264 (Jun 30, 2008)

  • Firewall now creates backups prior to updating configuration file.
  • More accurate "indirect access to network" detection.
  • "Access to network" for large .exe files fixed.
  • Truncated path in "access to network" events fixed.
  • Kernel exception on fast user switch fixed.
  • Protocol list in low level protocol module fixed.

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.2.3.2255 (May 26, 2008)

  • Problem with Firefox access to network fixed.
  • Windows 2000 protection improved.

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.2.2.2253 (May 20, 2008)

  • Inter-process communication monitoring improved on Vista systems.
  • Executable image hash is now checked on-demand for large files.
  • Bug in Security Center detection on Windows XP SP3 fixed.
  • Import/Export and Language menu item id collision fixed.
  • Brasilian, Russian and Turkish language files updated.

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.2.1.2248 (May 5, 2008)

  • Configuration Import/Export added. Now Jetico Personal Firewall can import/export individual tables or security policies.
  • New process attack evens added: "control process" produced when an application requests access rights that will allow it to terminate suspend or crash another application; / "control system services" produced when an application requests access to Service Control Manager.
  • By monitoring these events Jetico Personal Firewall can effectively defeat attacks modeled by kill, crash, suspend and system shutdown simulator tests.
  • Default configuration template updated.
  • System crash on logging fragmented packets fixed.
  • Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 random crash fixed.
  • Group management code improved.
  • Group contents are displayed in rule parameter editors (tooltips).
  • Minor group tab user interface bugs fixed.
  • Table names in actions list are sorted alphabetically.
  • Wrong registry key and application path report in Process attack popup dialog fixed.
  • Chinese Traditional translation provided by Steven Nien.
  • Turkish translation provided by Mehmet Kalyon.
  • Authors updated language files to reflect the latest user interface changes.

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.1.5 (Feb 18, 2008)

  • Short filenames problem fixed.
  • "Clone table" problem fixed.
  • Dutch translation updated.
  • Seamonkey detection added.

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.1.4 (Feb 1, 2008)

  • Port scanning problems fixed.
  • Hangup while updating DNS cache fixed.
  • Hangup after security policy switching fixed.
  • Spanish translation contributed by Senpai.
  • Skype detection updated.

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.1.3 (Jan 24, 2008)

  • System crash after group update fixed.
  • Configuration Wizard UI is now correctly translated during setup.
  • Dutch translation contributed by Jochem.

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.1.2 (Dec 11, 2007)

  • Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 support.
  • Jetico Personal Firewall v.1 hook detector added to 32-bit version.
  • Sending message to another application detected. "Breakout" tests passed.
  • ARP stateful filter parameters can be changed via registry now.
  • Problems with network connections after installation on Vista systems fixed.
  • Hook detector hangup on SMP Vista systems fixed.
  • PFN_LIST_CORRUPT blue screen on Vista systems fixed.
  • Memory leak during uninstallation on Vista systems fixed.
  • Stability at high load improved.
  • Policy combobox behavior fixed.
  • Configuration template updated.

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.0.36 (Oct 16, 2007)

  • Memory leak in bcftdi.sys driver fixed.
  • Domain names are printed in configuration tables is available.

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.0.35 (Sep 20, 2007)

  • System crash caused by bc_tdi_f.sys driver under heavy load fixed.
  • Application adding via "..."(Browse) problem in rule editor on Vista fixed.
  • Firewall shutdown now allowed with expired license.
  • Configuration Wizard "Next >" button behavior fixed.
  • Default configuration template updated: Rule for Ximeta NDAS devices added (off by default) / "Network Time Protocol client" application template table added / "Allow everything" application template table added

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.0.34 (Aug 22, 2007)

  • Stateful inspection for ARP protocol added.
  • Monitoring of direct access to memory, OLE/COM communications, process code/memory modifications disabled in 64-bit versions to prevent conflict with Kernel Patch Protection after Windows Update KB932596.
  • Clone/Delete policy, Clone table commands added to the policy tree context menu.
  • Expand/Collapse command added to the policy tree context menu.
  • Empty values handling fixed in rule parameter editors.
  • Column order save/restore bug fixed.
  • French translation provided by Patrick Leloup.
  • Default configuration template updated: Explorer.exe is allowed to access the network / Stateful ARP enabled to prevent ARP poisoning / "Bypass" rule fixed in the "Access to network" table

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.0.33 (May 31, 2007)

  • System crash on high load fixed.

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.0.32 (May 28, 2007)

  • Firewall freezing on switching security policy fixed.
  • Setup program registartion fixed.
  • JPF server memory usage reduced.
  • Russian translation updated.

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.0.31 (May 22, 2007)

  • Log subsystem performance improved.
  • Log race conditions fixed.
  • Commercial license expiration bug fixed.
  • Opera 9.20 and Skype detection improved.
  • 'About' dialog text fixed.
  • Traffic summary labels corrected.

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.0.30 (May 16, 2007)

  • Rule update after group values change fixed.
  • Rule reordering for copy/move operations fixed.
  • Application rule parameters (local port, remote address) order corrected.
  • Hash parameter handling bug fixed.
  • Event log mesaages improved.
  • IP rule parameters are displayed in the 'Misc' column.
  • Configuration Wizard import function fixed.
  • Chinese (simplified) translation contributed by Gao Xue Feng.

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.0.29 RC (Apr 13, 2007)

  • Extra memory usage issue fixed.
  • JPF.exe startup problems fixed.
  • Domain names added to IP addresses in Log tab and Popup dialog.
  • Configuration template updated. Added templates for: Skype, ICQ (ICQ, ICQ Lite, Miranda, Trillian, QIP), IRC (mIrc, Miranda, Trillian), Windows Messenger, Windows Media Player, Direct Connect (DC ), BitTorrent (uTorrent)
  • Language file and translations updated.

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.0.28 Beta (Apr 9, 2007)

  • System crash on installing global hook fixed.
  • Basic SYN flood protection added to stateful rules.
  • License expiration warnings added.
  • Brasilian Portugese translation contributed by Milton Chaves de Almeida.
  • Language file (langfile.txt) updated.

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.0.27 Beta (Apr 2, 2007)

  • "Critical registry modification" process attack event added.
  • DLL injection detection code improved.
  • Crash on cancelling new rule creation fixed.
  • Setup program prepared for localization.
  • Updated Configuration Wizard can translate configuration texts.
  • Language file (langfile.txt) updated.
  • Japanese translation contributed by Dobry Den.
  • Registration dialog bugs fixed.

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.0.25 Beta (Mar 1, 2007)

  • System crash on launching applications from network drive fixed.
  • Random system crash in bcftdi.sys fixed.
  • Vista 64-bit edition login problems solved.
  • System crash after firewall uninstallation on Vista 64-bit edition fixed.
  • Network problems after JPF uninstallation on Vista fixed.
  • Windows Media player file access problem fixed.
  • Firewall hangup on changing configuration file fixed.
  • Firewall crash on adding rule with "go to table" action fixed.
  • Default configuration updated to minimize amountof popups.

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.0.20 Beta (Jan 15, 2007)

  • Vista systems support added.
  • System crash on intensive logging fixed.
  • "indirect relativeness" indirect access to network type added for complex indirect relationships like process_1-parent->process_2-interprocess call->process_3
  • "Browse" button added to application groups editor.
  • Popup dialog updated.
  • Terminated process ID logging fixed.
  • Firewall upgrade procedure fixed.

New in Jetico Personal Firewall 2.0.0.5 Beta (Aug 1, 2006)

  • Removed features:
  • Windows 9x/Me system support discontinued. Please use Jetico Personal Firewall v1 for these systems.
  • System-related changes:
  • Jetico Personal Firewall v2 runs as privileged Windows service. It can protect computer before user logon.
  • Native support for Windows XP Fast User Switching and Terminal Services.
  • Jetico Personal Firewall supports Access Control Lists for all main functions. Administrator can configure ACL to grant access to particular firewall functions for any user or group.
  • Windows XP Service Pack 2 Security Center support.
  • User interface changes:
  • Improved rule editing interface.
  • New popup message. The new look for popup dialog is presented. Popup message text and rule creation options can be modified.
  • Firewall variables formerly controlled by Configuration Wizard, are integrated into main application window.
  • Language file support for easy localization. All translatable words and phrases are taken from single UTF-8 encoded text file.
  • Configuration changes:
  • New XML-based open configuration file format. Detailed documentation is available upon request.
  • The new version maintains single protected firewall configuration for all users.
  • Simplified controls for configuration.
  • New hash handling scheme. Separate table for hash checking.
  • Each firewall filtering layer has own root table.
  • New automatic variables (per-connection) for local connections are supported.
  • Changes in firewall rules:
  • Rules support lists of parameters where possible.
  • IP rules support IP address ranges.
  • Low level protocol rules support filtering by MAC address.
  • Application rules have events for direct and indirect access to network. Indirect access details are also available.
  • New module for hash checking created.
  • Application, Process attack and Hash checking rules support wildcards in file paths.
  • Logging subsystem changes
  • Log entries can be associated with rule.
  • Firewall can create rule based on log information.
  • New WELF-compatible text log format. WELF is supported by many log analyzers.
  • Improved log control.