RDS-Knight Changelog

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.