What's new in RDS-Knight 6.4.3.1
Mar 20, 2023
- Improvements:
- RDS-Knight 6.4 includes all the improvements and fixes released in previous versions
- Working Hours: performance improvement
- (2023/02/20) Updated Chinese translations
- (2023/02/20) Added command line to add whitelisted programs
- (2023/02/20) Bruteforce: improve Bruteforce reactivity during bruteforce attacks
- (2023/02/20) Homeland: updated IP / Countries database
- (2023/02/20) Ransomware: improved performance while analyzing events
- (2023/02/20) Improved overall performance when writing to the database
- (2023/03/01) Improved Chinese translations
- (2023/03/01) Setup: added Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional, Arabic and Farsi translations
- Fixes:
- Ransomware: fixed report not saved in database
- Ransomware: fixed snapshot file path displayed as "0"
- Builtin Firewall: fixed error on initialization while Windows starts
New in RDS-Knight 6.3.11.23 (Dec 5, 2022)
- Improvements:
- RDS-Knight 6.3 includes all the improvements and fixes released in previous versions
- Add new Hacker IP protection feature
- Events: improved user interface and added one click actions on selected event
- Events: add a new event when connection is denied for already blocked IP addresses
- Homeland: add a new Homeland protection implementation leveraging the built-in firewall
- (2021/07/25) Updated Chinese translations
- (2022/07/25) Homeland: updated IP / Countries database
- (2021/08/01) Updated Portuguese translations
- (2022/08/01) Homeland: updated IP / Countries database
- (2022/08/24) Homeland: updated IP / Countries database
- (2022/09/09) Homeland: updated IP / Countries database
- (2022/10/10) Secure Desktops: added Remove This PC, Recent Files and Quick Access
- (2022/10/10) Homeland: updated IP / Countries database
- (2022/11/03) Volume Licensing: added /renewsupport command to extend existing support
- (2022/11/03) Updated Spanish translations
- (2022/11/03) Added command line to add whitelisted IP addresses
- (2022/11/03) Homeland: updated IP / Countries database
- (2022/11/23) Added command lines to add and remove blocked IP addresses
- (2022/11/23) Homeland: updated IP / Countries database
- Fixes:
- Homeland: fixed homeland issue with reverse proxy configuration
- IP addresses: fixed removing an entry from the list fails
- IP addresses: fixed sorting by date was sometimes incorrect
- Groups: fixed only 1000 domain groups were retrieved from AD
- (2022/06/16) Homeland: updated IP / Countries database
- (2022/06/16) Homeland: fixed built-in firewall mode for Homeland shows high CPU usage
- (2022/07/25) Events: fixed logon event shows private IP address of remote client
- (2022/08/24) Advanced Security crashes when started
- (2022/08/31) Brute Force: fixed potential error when request's country is undefined
- (2022/09/09) Brute Force: fixed wrong IP matching for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2
- (2022/10/10) Ransomware: fixed total snapshot file size was never reduced
- (2022/11/03) Events: fixed Blocked Connection event is displayd as informational
- (2022/11/03) Hacker IP: fixed whitelisted IP address was still blocked by Hacker IP
New in RDS-Knight 5.3.6.22 (Jun 23, 2021)
- Improvements:
- Updated chinese translations
- Homeland: updated IP / Countries database
- Bruteforce Defender: disable feature if Maximum Failed Logon Attempts setting equals zero
- Fixes:
- License: fixed license is invalidated when scaling Amazon hosted virtual machines
New in RDS-Knight 5.3.4.15 (Apr 21, 2021)
- Updated IP/Countries database
- Ransomware: enhanced detection engine
- IP Addresses: added Country name column
- Fixes:
- System.ArgumentException: license doesn't contain data for model
- Ransomware: machine is frozen and must be rebooted
- IP address filter doesn't filter displayed status
New in RDS-Knight 5.3.1.27 (Feb 22, 2021)
- RDS-Knight 5.3 includes all the improvements and fixes released in
- Previous versions
- License:
- Repair invalid hardware identifier issue from License tab
- Fixed no error dialog shown when migration fails
New in RDS-Knight 5.2.11.16 (Dec 12, 2020)
- Improvements:
- RDS-Knight 5.2 includes all the improvements and fixes released in previous versions.
- Added multi-selection for permission management
- Homeland: updated IP / Countries database
- (2020/11/02) Added advanced view to add and manage users and groups from every accessible domains
- (2020/11/16) Added configuration of email alerts when activating Ransomware Protection
- Fixes:
- Permissions: fix change permissions was denied when item owner is NT SERVICETrustedInstaller
- License: fix license migration fails to generate logs
- (2020/10/16) Fixed TSplus Web portal requests were not watched by Homeland on WIndows Server 2019
- (2020/10/16) Fixed Endpoint Protection event displayed with empty username
- (2020/10/16) Fixed Homeland failed to block previously unblocked IP address
- (2020/11/16) Fixed PIN code did not accept alphanumerical characters
- (2020/11/16) License: fixed invalid hardware identifier error for cloud hosted machines
New in RDS-Knight 5.0.7.6 (Jul 13, 2020)
- RDS-Knight is available in version 5! This new version includes a brand-new Ramsomware Protection more powerful than ever!
New in RDS-Knight 4.6.4.28 (Apr 28, 2020)
- Improvements:
- RDS-Knight 4.6 includes all the improvements and fixes released in previous versions.
- Added a "Read changelog" button in Home section
- Homeland: updated IP / Countries database
- Homeland: Added watched ports setting in advanced settings
- (2020/02/10) Check and mitigate Bluekeep vulnerability (CVE- 2019-0708)
- Fixes:
- Event Viewer: Fixed date filtering
- (2020/02/10) Bruteforce: Fixed failed login attempt ignored for Network logon type
- (2020/02/25) Audit rules: Fixed Windows Firewall check rule when domain profile is used
- (2020/02/25) Working hours: Fixed domain users not being logged off
- (2020/04/28) UI: Fixed update button not working properly
- (2020/04/28) Fixed bruteforce event duplication issue
- (2020/04/28) Fixed checks for Bluekeep vulnerability fail for Windows Server 2012
New in RDS-Knight 4.0 (Mar 16, 2019)
- Refreshed and modernized user interface: Based on the same smart and easy to use design, the new RDS-Knight Admin Tool offers greatly improved experience and feature sets for both Users and Administrators.
- The Homepage displays the five last security events and allows administrators to update RDS-Knight to the latest version directly from the Version tile.
- Security events logs trace up to 2500 events. The possibility to copy an event with a right-click has been added.
- A specific Unified IP addresses management tab was created to manage both blocked and whitelisted IP addresses. A full-text search capability was also added, as well as one-click actions.
- When adding a country in Homeland protection whitelist, administrators are now able to unblock all blocked IP addresses associated with the selected countries.
- IPs were updated to Countries list.
New in RDS-Knight 3.3.11.1 (Nov 5, 2018)
- Email Settings can now be validated when saving SMTP settings:
- Ignoring local and private IP addresses is now possible for the Bruteforce Attack Defender feature:
- You can now show / hide events on RDS-Knight Events Viewer if the associated IP address is a loopback address:
- An issue concerning Homeland Access Protection blocking legit connections (introduced with v3.2) has been fixed.
- Translations were updated.
New in RDS-Knight 3.2.10.19 (Oct 31, 2018)
- VNC support is now included for Homeland Access Protection and Brute-Force Attacks Defender:
- Homeland Access Protection now supports TightVNC, UltraVNC, TigerVNC and RealVNC (standard ports only for RealVNC)
- The Brute-Force Defender now supports UltraVNC and TightVNC.
- Homeland Access Protection and Bruteforce Attack Defender features allow blocked IP addresses list to be filtered:
- The time-zone can now be selected to apply Working Hours Restriction rules differently depending on the employee’s office location
- With your consent, RDS-Knight will be collecting and sending anonymous data in order to improve future releases
- The overall performance is highly enhanced to deliver more security and reliability:
- The target .NET Framework was changed to 3.5 to improve RDS-Knight overall performance,
- security and maintainability.
- A caching mechanism was added to the Homeland Access Protection.
- Ransomware Protection activation is now prevented if Windows Controlled Folder Access is enabled.
- Ransomware Protection’s quarantined files collision is now prevented by setting a unique file name.
- Translations were updated.
New in RDS-Knight 3.1.10.9 (Oct 10, 2018)
- Improvements:
- Improved the startup time of the application
- Sampler uses less memory
- Changed default "Channel to" setting in track inspector to 1.
- Fixes:
- Quneo script would crash when receiving some MIDI CC messages
- Some png files could crash the application on Windows if there were errors downloading them (e.g in the dashboard help)
- Panning or zooming with middle mouse button would put focus into the viewport being panned which it shoudn't
- Only try to focus a Bitwig Studio main window if the user explicitly closes a plugin window by clicking on the close button in the window title
New in RDS-Knight 2.0.7.24 (Jul 25, 2018)
- Blocked, Failed or Granted connections.
- Configured User Sessions.
New in RDS-Knight 1.9.7.2 (Jul 16, 2018)
- RDS-Knight is now available on Windows 32-bit.
- Brute-force attacks detection were improved for every Windows version.
- A better protection against unintended blocking of IPs was added.
- RDP-Defender is now completely integrated into RDS-Knight.
- IPs to Countries list were updated.
New in RDS-Knight 1.8.6.1 (Jul 16, 2018)
- RDS-Knight is now available on Windows 32-bit.
- Brute-force attacks detection were improved for every Windows version.
- A better protection against unintended blocking of IPs was added.
- RDP-Defender is now completely integrated into RDS-Knight.
- IPs to Countries list were updated.
New in RDS-Knight 1.8.6.1 (Jun 13, 2018)
- Today the developer confirms its full compatibility with Windows systems, including the 32bits.
New in RDS-Knight 1.7.12.20 (Dec 20, 2017)
- Setup: the Windows “Security” tab is not hidden anymore for whitelisted users and users in “Windows” security level
- Homeland Access Protection: in some culture/languages configurations, IP addresses blocked by Homeland Access Protection were not displayed correctly
- Updated IP to Countries list
New in RDS-Knight 1.6.10.19 (Oct 23, 2017)
- Working Hours Restrictions: Settings are now saved for this feature on the Security Essentials edition.
- Brute-Force Attacks Defender: A special case were fixed, when Windows decided to re-submit all existing failed logon attempt audit logs to the program, thus erroneously blocking IP addresses.
- IP to Countries list and translations were updated.