DNS Firewall - Change Log

January 22, 2018

The new 4.32 version has been released.

• Added: An option to open the last file upon program start.

November 26, 2017

The new 4.31 version has been released.

• Info: 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.

• Replaced: Email-based product activation 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 licenses shared on the same computer. Licenses are now stored within the local application data directory of a user profile.
• Added: Product edition and build date information to About dialog.
• Changed: Closing the main window now places the program in the 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).
• Improved: Minor cosmetic improvements to prompt dialog windows.

November 20, 2016

The new 4.2 version has been released.

• Info: 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 dialog user interface.

September 3, 2016

The new 4.0 version has been released.

• Redesigned: The project was fully redesigned and renamed to DNS Firewall.
• Improved: User interface.
• Changed: The storage of DNS filtering rules is now separate from the storage of the DNS cache.
• Added: DNS record expiration settings and 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.
• Changed: Files have been transitioned to an XML-based format.

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