Multi Port Forwarder - Change Log

December 10, 2024

Version 6.53 has been released.

• Fixed: The network adapter dropdown in the rule properties shows no network adapters.

May 30, 2023

Version 6.50 has been released.

• Fixed: An intermittent communication interruption between the UI and the service.
• Fixed: After reordering rules, the activity indicator showed traffic for the wrong rule.
• Improved: Reduced the conditions requiring a restart after installation.
• Added: Support for Windows 11.
• Added: The OS build number is now displayed in the diagnostics.
• Added: An installer option to place (or not place) a shortcut on the Desktop.
• Added: An installer option to launch the application after installation.

March 9, 2023

Version 6.47 has been released.

• Fixed: An intermittent user interface hang when closing the Settings dialog.
• Added: A menu to perform diagnostics and output the results to notepad.exe.
• Added: Diagnostics now show all locations of installed Verigio drivers.

December 12, 2022

Version 6.46 has been released.

• Fixed: A notification of "unable to establish driver trust" after an upgrade.

December 1, 2022

Version 6.45 has been released.

• Improved: the output of critical events into the Event Viewer log.
• Added: diagnostics tracing integration with Windows Performance Monitor.

September 5, 2022

Version 6.43 has been released.

• Fixed: traffic cloning.
• Fixed: monitoring-only rules.

March 22, 2022

Version 6.40 has been released.

• Fixed: An issue where the service would not start after updating from Windows 10 1809 to 21H2.
• Improved: performance on 10Gbps networks.
• Added: Now works with most VPNs.
• Added: The CPU mask and utilization limits are now configurable via the registry.

January 18, 2021

Version 6.38 has been released.

• Fixed: in rule properties, changes were being cleared regardless of whether OK or Cancel was clicked.
• Improved: the layout and visual appearance of the rule properties dialog.
• Added: a toolbar button to prevent changes to rules and settings.
• Added: a toolbar button for calculating the best route.
• Added: rule cloning to the rule's context menu.

December 11, 2020

Version 6.37 has been released.

• Fixed: an issue where the uninstaller was unable to shut down the UI while a message box was open.
• Fixed: an issue where high CPU utilization triggered the UI to report an expired license.
• Fixed: an issue where rules could not be moved up or down due to a loss of selection when the mouse left the rules area.
• Improved: the responsiveness of the user interface.
• Improved: the use of all processors for traffic filtering on multi-processor systems.
• Added: context menu items to move rules up or down.

November 6, 2020

Version 6.36 has been released.

• Fixed: a popup notification of an expired license for an activated product on a 32-bit OS.

October 1, 2020

Version 6.35 has been released.

• Fixed: the loading of recent files.
• Improved: faster detection when the UI disconnects from the service.
• Added: compatibility with Microsoft Hyper-V.

May 1, 2020

Version 6.25 has been released.

• Fixed: an issue where the activation dialog did not reflect the server's success/failure response for some time.
• Improved: avoiding displaying the expiration of a subscription license that is not used in online communications.
• Added: the ability to import/export program-wide settings into an XML file.
• Added: a progress animation in the Activation dialog for product and subscription activations.
• Added: a notification for new releases and a setting for the update check frequency.

February 3, 2020

Version 6.24 has been released.

• Fixed: a recovery issue after an unexpected shutdown corrupted the user.config file.
• Fixed: an incompatibility with the 'Windows Network Data Usage Monitoring Driver' that was causing a memory leak.
• Fixed: occasional DHCPv4 packet loss on a mixed IPv4-IPv6 network.
• Fixed: the license status refresh during activation.
• Added: support for Windows 10 1909.
• Added: an overlay image when the UI disconnects from the service.
• Added: subscription management in the Activation dialog.

June 18, 2019

Version 6.17 has been released.

• Fixed: an issue where traffic was blocked when the TCP connection timeout in the settings was greater than 5 seconds.
• Fixed: a failure to detect network adapters on Windows 10 1903.
• Added: support for Windows 10 1903.

June 3, 2019

Version 6.15 has been released.

• Added: the display of the last 5 characters of the license key in the activation dialog.
• Added: detection and recovery for a corrupt user.config file that was preventing the UI from starting.
• Added: a diagnostics utility to show the .NET Framework and Windows versions.
• Improved: upon uninstall, all programs using the driver are now shut down.
• Updated: the end-user license agreement.
• Fixed: an "Process unauthorized..." event that was being written to the event log on UI and service startup.
• Fixed: a service timeout on startup during OS startup.

January 14, 2019

Version 6.12 has been released.

• Added support for Windows Server 2019.

January 11, 2019

Version 6.11 has been released.

• Improved: changed the window overlay that indicates UI disconnection from the service to grayscale.

December 10, 2018

Version 6.10 has been released.

• Improved: transitioned the program to a Windows service-based architecture.
• Added: the capability to start automatically on Windows start without a logged-in user.
• Improved: Previous settings are now automatically saved and loaded on service start.
• Improved: User interface changes.

November 26, 2018

Version 5.65 has been released.

• This is a maintenance release for compatibility with other products.

October 17, 2018

Version 5.63 has been released.

• This is a maintenance release for compatibility with other products.

January 22, 2018

Version 5.62 has been released.

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

November 26, 2017

Version 5.61 has been released.

• This is a maintenance release for compatibility with other products.

June 14, 2017

Version 5.60 has been released.

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

April 25, 2017

Version 5.51 has been released.

• Improved: Email-based license activation has been replaced with Offline activation and manual license request upload to the website. Online activation is unchanged.
• Improved: the license dialog now automatically checks for license activation approval.
• Improved: Switched to shared licenses on the same computer, which are now stored in local app data.
• Added: the product edition and build date to the About dialog.
• Improved: closing the main window now minimizes the application to the system tray.
• Improved: the centering of message boxes.
• Added: the ability to cancel saving a file on exit.
• Added: settings for auto-start, colors, loading the last file, etc.
• Improved: Transitioned the data file format to XML; the old format is now load-only.
• Added: a rule option for MAC "Derive from IP".
• Added: a routing address calculator to find addresses on the path to a destination.
• Added: a context menu to the rules.
• Fixed: a crash on Windows 10 during uninstall.

November 20, 2016

Version 5.30 has been released.

• Fixed: an issue where traffic reflection was incorrectly calculating the IP address and Port.

September 17, 2016

Version 5.20 has been released.

• Fixed: an incompatibility with the Windows 10 Anniversary update.
• Improved: increased the rule limit for the Ultimate edition to 50.

August 3, 2016

Version 5.19 has been released.

• Fixed: an issue where rules were not automatically applied from a loaded file when the program was started with the "/systray" switch.

June 10, 2016

Version 5.18 has been released.

• Fixed: a loss of connectivity after installation on Windows 7/2008 R2 with certain network cards.

May 27, 2016

Version 5.1 has been released.

• Fixed: an application crash on CPUs that do not support AVX instruction set (binaries are now built with SSE2 instruction set).

May 5, 2016

Version 5.0 has been released.

• Added: support for Windows 10.
• Removed: support for Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008.

September 26, 2015

Version 4.11 has been released.

• This release includes changes for compatibility with our other products.
• This is the last version to support Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008.

August 10, 2015

Version 4.10 has been released.

• Added: traffic cloning capability.

June 27, 2015

Version 4.0 has been released.

• The project has been renamed to Multi Port Forwarder.
• To access the old project webpage, use this link: PC Port Forwarding version (3.x)
• Added: The new UI for .NET 4.0.
• Added: forwarding by direction (incoming/outgoing), protocol (TCP/UDP), port, IP (IPv4, IPv6, DNS name), MAC, and network interface.
• Added: traffic reflection with Local/Remote address transposition.
• Added: traffic activity monitoring and online product activation.
• The trial license expires 30 days from the installation date.