What's new in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.8.1

Apr 29, 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.8 (Apr 1, 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.7.8 (Jan 28, 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.7.7 (Jan 3, 2024)

  • added error message when loading library on subscribe
  • added comment item for apps/rules (issue #1664)
  • added recheck app hash in properies dialog
  • fixed disaplying incorrect error messages
  • added highlighting of undelatable apps
  • fixed high disk usage (issue #1655)
  • updated ports list

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.7.5 (Nov 1, 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.7.4 (Oct 27, 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.7.3 (Oct 11, 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.7.2 (Sep 21, 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.7.1 (Jul 31, 2023)

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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.6.7 (Sep 21, 2022)

  • Added windows update service solution
  • Added feature to allow only the requested ip in notification
  • Added 12 and 24 hour timer values
  • Fixed opening editor are overlapped by notification window
  • Fixed uwp apps are reset after installing updates
  • Fixed select all with search filter selects everything
  • Fixed loading default icons for services and uwp apps
  • Fixed check update option in main menu
  • Fixed port numbers are now verified

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.6.6 (Aug 12, 2022)

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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.6.5 (Aug 11, 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)

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.6.4 (Jun 19, 2022)

  • Added focus assistant support (win10rs3+)
  • Fixed notification sometimes can lose focus of fullscreen app
  • Fixed internal profile loading crash (issue #1228)
  • Fixed blank notifications (issue #1009)

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.6.3 (May 10, 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 blank notification (issue #1009)
  • Fixed uninstaller delete not all files
  • Improved workqueue environment
  • Improved threading model
  • Fixed internal bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.6.2 (Apr 26, 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 installer launches simplewall without asking user (issue #1119)
  • fixed restore properties window position
  • fixed blank notification (issue #1009)
  • fixed rule tooltip whitespace
  • fixed internal bugs
  • updated network monitor
  • updated locales
  • cosmetic fixes

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.6.1 (Nov 11, 2021)

  • Added clear search on escape button
  • Fixed crash on delete filters (issue #1084)
  • Fixed import profile warning (issue #1086)
  • Fixed crash dumps processing
  • Updated locales
  • Cosmetic fixes

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.6 (Nov 9, 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.5.3 (Oct 17, 2021)

  • Fixed using uninitialzed port variable in ip ranges [regression].

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.5.2 (Oct 17, 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.5.1 (Oct 5, 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)

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.5 (Oct 4, 2021)

  • In this release fqdn support was removed because of security issue
  • Improved performance due caching network resolution and file information
  • Partially revert of windows defender power off
  • Added ballon tip to display input limitations
  • Added compress internal profile in resources with lznt1
  • Fixed signatures information pointer use-after-free when dns resolver avoid arpa requests
  • Fixed resolve network addresses can cause crash
  • Fixed notification color issues
  • Fixed update installation
  • Fixed blank notification
  • Fixed version information retrieval
  • Fixed workqueue environment
  • Fixed internal bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.4.3 (Aug 30, 2021)

  • Added verify code signatures from catalog files
  • Fixed crash at startup
  • Fixed rule reference

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.4.2 (Aug 24, 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.4.1 (Aug 16, 2021)

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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.4 (Aug 11, 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.3.5 (Jul 5, 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.3.4 (Jun 3, 2021)

  • This is a maintenance release.
  • 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.3.3 (Apr 29, 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.3.2 Pre-release (Apr 23, 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.3.1 Pre-release (Apr 16, 2021)

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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.3 Pre-release (Apr 16, 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.2.4 (Sep 5, 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.2.3 (Aug 25, 2020)

  • This is a maintenance release:
  • 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.2.2 (Jul 30, 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.2 Pre-release (Jul 18, 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.1.2 (Mar 26, 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.1.1 (Feb 27, 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.1 (Feb 8, 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.0.9 (Nov 15, 2019)

  • do not set notification to top when fullscreen apps working
  • fixed motifications disable notifications (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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.0.8 (Nov 8, 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.0.7 (Nov 3, 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.0.7 Preview (Nov 1, 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.0.6 Preview (Oct 14, 2019)

  • Added windows 10 rs6 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
  • 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.0.5 Preview (Aug 6, 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
  • fixed connections hashing
  • listview menu cosmetics
  • cosmetics fixes
  • fixed bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.0.4 Preview (Jul 23, 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.0.2 Preview (Jun 23, 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
  • 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.0.1 Preview (May 22, 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 3.0 Preview (May 7, 2019)

  • NOTE 1: New version fully compatible with 2.x versions profile
  • NOTE 2: There is no Windows Vista support anymore (use 2.x versions instead)
  • 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

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.4.6 (Mar 27, 2019)

  • enabled special rules group by default (issue #352)
  • fixed removing dropped packet items when overflow
  • fixed notifications crashing (issue #360)
  • fixed checkbox saving state (issue #355)
  • fixed possible memory dereferencing
  • fixed errors log overflow
  • cosmetic fixes
  • fixed bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.4.5 (Mar 20, 2019)

  • Fixed user reported bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.4.4 Pre-release (Mar 15, 2019)

  • added safety timeout for notification buttons
  • added filename highlighting into notification window (issue #344)
  • fixed new notifications replacing old one (issue #299)
  • fixed updates installation in some cases
  • cosmetic fixes
  • fixed bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.4.3 Pre-release (Mar 9, 2019)

  • access filters access rights
  • fixed race conditions crash (issue #337)
  • fixed notifications locale
  • fixed bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.4.2 Pre-release (Mar 9, 2019)

  • Fixed crash (issue #337)
  • Updated blocklist
  • Cosmetic fixes
  • Fixed bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.4.1 Pre-release (Mar 1, 2019)

  • Improved notifications speed
  • Fixed rules listview sorting
  • Fixed notification ui
  • Cosmetic fixes
  • Fixed bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.4 Pre-release (Mar 1, 2019)

  • New notification ui
  • Improved transactions processing
  • Added predefined rules (ftp, http etc)
  • Added option to configure 6to4 redirections (it's allowed, but undocumented earlier)
  • Added double-click for statusbar parts to make purgen faster
  • Added option to secure installed filters
  • Added more list view modes
  • Fixed notifications stay visible when special rules applied for the app
  • Fixed possible duplicate of special rules from notifications
  • Fixed multithreading and possible race conditions
  • Fixed duplicate filters callback on device arrival (issue #291)
  • Fixed dropped packets csv log delimeter
  • Fixed packages path retrieving (win8+)
  • Replaced netsh commands by com interface
  • Cosmetic fixes
  • Fixed bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.3.13 (Jan 4, 2019)

  • Added dns resolver caching
  • Added dns resolver winsock fallback (issue #290)
  • Avoid window flickering on window sizing
  • Revert refresh filters on device arrival
  • Fixed access rights for wfp provider and sublayer
  • Fixed allocated strings dereferencing (issue #285)
  • Fixed parsing hosnames with dashes (issue #271)
  • Fixed localization (issue #288)
  • Fixed bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.3.12 (Dec 25, 2018)

  • added (partialy) win10rs5+ dark theme (issue #248)
  • allow loopback connections by default for new users
  • fixed allocated strings dereferencing (issue #283)
  • cosmetic fixes
  • fixed bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.3.11 (Dec 14, 2018)

  • Added "/install" argument for install filtering
  • Added cache auto clean up (to prevent overflow)
  • Changed minimum size of main window (issue #269)
  • Changed installation message
  • Increased rule parsing speed (issue #276)
  • Memory optimization
  • Fixed notification window appears on taskbar (regression)
  • Fixed exclude user rules option was not working
  • Cosmetic fixes
  • Fixed bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.3.10 (Nov 28, 2018)

  • fixed old bug where incorrect rules are may accepted as filters
  • fixed bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.3.9 (Nov 20, 2018)

  • Fixed resolving ip addresses may hang out net events thread (issue #256)
  • Fixed net events subscription when option is not set
  • Fixed protocol names
  • Fixed bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.3.8 (Nov 7, 2018)

  • fixed #251
  • fixed #253

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.3.7 (Nov 5, 2018)

  • fixed dropped events callbak subscription on latest win10
  • fixed notifications sound cannot be played in some cases
  • fixed fastlock race condition (critical)
  • cosmetic fixes
  • fixed bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.3.6 (Oct 16, 2018)

  • Added purgen submenu into tray menu
  • Added more statusbar information
  • Set extra large icons view by default
  • Tray menu services counting bug
  • Fixed app with overdue timer still enabled on profile load
  • Fixed resetting some data on profile load
  • Fixed timer resetting on profie load
  • Fixed listview checkboxes
  • Cosmetic fixes
  • Fixed bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.3.5 (Oct 15, 2018)

  • Added extra large icons view
  • Use correct function for netevents subscription (win10rs4+)
  • Fixed forced cleartype font style (issue #233)
  • Fixed possible buffer overflow
  • Rerwritten timer engine
  • Cosmetic fixes

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.3.4 (Sep 21, 2018)

  • Fixed dns system rules when dns service is stopped
  • Fixed listen filter conditions (issue #213, #222)
  • Fixed memory referencing bug (issue #221)
  • Fixed massive handles leak (issue #230)
  • Fixed thread termination
  • Various ui fixes

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.3.3 (Jul 8, 2018)

  • added system rules update feature
  • fixed inaccurate timeout between notifications (issue #194)
  • fixed fullscreen apps showstopper (issue #209)
  • fixed possible crash for device path resolution
  • fixed skipuac warnings for some machines
  • fixed some services path resolution
  • fixed saving empty rules config
  • fixed update engine (issue #182)
  • updated system rules

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.3.2 (Jun 27, 2018)

  • Added sorting by state for user rules in app context menu
  • Increased priority for blocking user rules
  • Fixed loading on startup (issue #75)
  • Fixed editor apps list sorting
  • Fixed service names displaying
  • Fixed skipuac

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.3.1 (Jun 25, 2018)

  • Fixed loopback rules (added more reserved ip addresses)
  • Fixed sometimes system cannot be going to sleep
  • Fixed applying rules for services (appcrash)
  • Fixed update sometimes cannot be installed
  • Fixed services enumeration
  • Fixed system rules

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.3 (Jun 19, 2018)

  • Added allowed connections monitoring in dropped packets log (win8+)
  • Added inbound multicast and broadcast connections logging (win8+)
  • Added outbound redirection filter layer (win7+)
  • Added separation for remote/local address/port in rules editor
  • Added hotkeys for import/export profile
  • Added win10 rs5 support
  • Prevent memory overflow for singly linked lists (win7+) (issue #193)
  • Do not load icons for processes if icons displaying are disabled
  • Improved multiple rules applying speed in settings window
  • Increased time limit for displaying same notification (win7+)
  • Search loading dlls in system directories only (safety)
  • Check for correct xml data type before loading
  • Store last notification timestamp for apps
  • Removed proxy support (win8+)
  • Fixed dropped events callback crash (win7+)
  • Fixed applying services filters
  • Fixed alphanumeric sorting
  • Improved port scanning defense
  • Improved loopback connections
  • Improved boot-time filters
  • Stability improvements
  • Cleanup xml atributes
  • Updated system rules
  • Cosmetics fixes
  • Fixed ui bugs
  • Fixed bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.2.12 (Jun 6, 2018)

  • Fixed win10rs4 netevents subscription (win10rs4+)
  • Fixed double race condition lock (critical)

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.2.10 (Jun 6, 2018)

  • Added feature to disable special rules group (issue #181)
  • Revert special rules highlighting
  • Fixed listview focusing (maybe?) (issue #164)
  • Fixed switching modes
  • Fixed reported bugs
  • Code cleanup
  • Fixed bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.2.9 (Jun 5, 2018)

  • Added exclude custom rules from notifications feature (issue #177)
  • Fixed app does not change group when special rule was removed
  • Fixed sometimes netevents cannot be unsubcribed
  • Fixed ipv6 addresses loopbacks
  • Fixed thread event synchronization
  • Fixed special rules group sorting
  • Cosmetics fixes
  • Fixed bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.2.8 RC (May 21, 2018)

  • fixed device changes notifications (issue #128)
  • fixed fullscreen apps loses focus (issue #178)
  • fixed saving new rules (issue #179)
  • fixed loopback condition flag
  • code cleanup

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.2.7 RC (May 13, 2018)

  • removed search feature (do not used by anyone)
  • stability improvements
  • fixed loopback blocking (adobe software now working well when you enable loopback connections)
  • fixed singly linked list structure alignment for 32-bit
  • fixed apps does not change sorting sometimes
  • fixed apps does not change group sometimes
  • fixed device changes notifications
  • fixed bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.2.6 Beta (May 11, 2018)

  • Fixed special rules does not change apps group
  • Fixed notifications indexing
  • Fixed notifications icon redraw
  • Fixed another dns caching
  • Fixed ui bugs
  • Fixed bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.2.5 Beta (May 4, 2018)

  • Fixed saving profile on manual apps state changing
  • Fixed some untranslated strings
  • Fixed installer/uninstaller
  • Fixed rules checkboxes
  • Fixed ui bugs
  • Fixed bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.2.4 Beta (May 3, 2018)

  • Now simplewall install filters fastest than Manco pulls out his revolver
  • Reworked update engine, now it check all components updates automatically
  • Sort rules alphabeticaly
  • Fixed threads priority race condition
  • Fixed applying filters without pause
  • Fixed dns caching (issue #153)
  • Fixed ui bugs
  • Fixed bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.2.3 Beta (Apr 16, 2018)

  • Added drop settings to default feature
  • Changed log format to csv (comma-separated values) table
  • Changed install/uninstall filters button icon
  • Notifications: instant timer applying in notification window
  • Notifications: cosmetics ui (issue #150)
  • Notifications: restored "disable notifications for this app" button
  • Notifications: fixed notification buttons behavior
  • Notifications: removed timeout threshold
  • Changed current locale version calculation method (more precision)
  • Removed special rules highlighting (they have own group for it)
  • Updated to the latest pugixml 1.9
  • Cosmetics update engine
  • Fixed ui bugs
  • Fixed bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.2.2 Beta (Mar 27, 2018)

  • New update engine
  • Show full app paths in notifications when "show filenames only" is unchecked
  • Added grouping for apps with user rules
  • Added opening file properties feature
  • Cosmetics for the notification ui (issue #146)
  • Cosmetics for the apps menu
  • Fixed installer who does not removing profile backups
  • Fixed signature of apps cannot be checked at startup
  • Fixed dns resolution in some cases (issue #127)
  • Fixed various memory leaks because of icons resources
  • Fixed ui bugs
  • Fixed bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.2.1 Beta (Mar 14, 2018)

  • Instant apps list sorting
  • Notifications: added information about blocked protocol
  • Notifications: replaced "disable notifications for this app" icon
  • Notifications: changed default timeout between same notifications
  • Notifications: tray popup sometimes won't shown on some systems
  • Notifications: ignore button combined with block button
  • Notifications: changed texts for remote/local addresses
  • Timer does not removed when user manually uncheck apps
  • Removed font boldening for itself (issue #135)
  • Changed minimal width of main window
  • Fixed timers formatting
  • Fixed ui bugs
  • Fixed bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.2 Beta (Mar 5, 2018)

  • new notification ui
  • now simplewall added to the apps list automatically (issue #106)
  • added windows services support [beta] (issue #88)
  • added profile timestamping
  • new localization engine (single .lng file)
  • more sensitive notifications (issue #107)
  • lock-free dropped events callback (win7+)
  • added group total items count indication
  • added block action for notifications (issue #123)
  • automatic profile backup (issue #110)
  • added network address resolution
  • make internal apps undeletable
  • menu bitmap transparent icons
  • app paths case correction
  • added timers (issue #96)
  • set process high priority
  • ipsec dropped packets logging (win8+)
  • removed wow64 redirection (use simplewall 64-bit binaries for win64)
  • revert "purge unused apps" feature
  • optimized apps types recognition
  • improved tray context menu (issue #103)
  • improved memory allocation
  • changed verify signatures algorithm (issue #94)
  • changed "purge invalid apps" hotkey
  • changed default font
  • cosmetics for filter names
  • cosmetic fixes (issue #108)
  • stability improvements
  • updated default colors
  • updated localization
  • fixed dropped events callback failure (win10 rs3 and above)
  • fixed steal focus at startup and when notification displaying
  • fixed working under blacklist mode
  • fixed multi-monitor support
  • fixed ui bugs
  • fixed bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.1.4 (Nov 27, 2017)

  • Do not verify signatures for store apps (win8 and above)
  • Optimized digital signatures verification (issue #94)
  • Fixed appcontainers listing (removed firewallapi.dll dependence) (win8 and above) (issue #104)
  • Fixed notifications race conditions (it may fix issue #73)
  • Fixed status does not changed when app deleted
  • Fixed "system" process marked as pico
  • Updated blocklist
  • Code cleanup
  • Fixed bugs

New in Portable simplewall (Wfp Tool) 2.1.3 (Nov 23, 2017)

  • Disabled loopback and digital signatures config by default
  • Fixed displaying name of store apps (win8 and above) (issue #98)
  • Fixed network paths rules (issue #102)