DNS Firewall - Change Log

January 22, 2018

The new 4.32 version has been released.

• Added an option to open last opened file upon the program start.

November 26, 2017

The new 4.31 version has been released.

This is a maintenance release for compatibility with other products.

June 14, 2017

The new 4.30 version has been released.

• Upgraded driver version to 6.43 for compatibility with other released products.

April 25, 2017

The new 4.21 version has been released.

• Email-based product activation was replaced with Offline activation and manual license request upload to the website. Online activation is unchanged.
• Improved license dialog with periodic automatic license request approval checking when the dialog is open.
• Switched licensing to automatically use shared on the same computer licenses. Licenses are now stored within the local application data directory of a user profile.
• Added product edition and build date information to About dialog.
• Closing the main window now places the program on system tray notification area.
• Added settings for auto-start-on-user-login to load last used file.
• Improved centering of message boxes.
• Added capability to cancel saving a file on exit.
• Added a Close button to filter-bar.
• Changed licensing limits for the number of rules. Ult/Pro/Basic - 10000/500/50.
• Added system tray menu to temporarily suspend rules.
• Fixed: loading most recently changed file was not prompting to save unsaved changes.
• Fixed: crash on Windows 10 during uninstall.

December 24, 2016

The new 4.14 version has been released.

• Added "Observe Neighbors" mode for monitoring of DNS name resolution activity of other devices on the same network segment (works with most non-smart network switches).
• Added minor cosmetic improvements to prompt dialog windows.

November 20, 2016

The new 4.2 version has been released.

• This is a maintenance release for compatibility with our new products.

September 17, 2016

The new 4.1 version has been released.

• Fixed incompatibility with Windows 10 Anniversary update.
• Added IP Firewall for blocking of non-DNS resolved IP addresses.
• Added editing of subnet exclusions for IP Firewall.
• Simplified activation user interface.

September 3, 2016

The new 4.0 version has been released.

• The project was fully redesigned and renamed to DNS Firewall.
• Improved user interface.
• The storage of DNS filtering rules is now separate from the storage of the DNS cache.
• Added DNS record expiration settings. Added DNS cache Exclusive mode.
• Added refresh of all DNS cache items.
• Added rules that hide their actions from activity logging.
• Added color settings.
• Added operations on DNS activity log.
• Added automatic flush to disk of DNS activity log and DNS cache.
• Files are transitioned to XML based format.

The previous history is available under the old project Portable DNS Cache.