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harrwiss edited this page Mar 14, 2020 · 2 revisions

Version History

Current WIP

General

  • Migrated the whole project from .NET 4.5.2 to .NET Core 3.1
  • Performance has been generaly improved e.g. console startup time etc.

LogHelper

  • Performance improvement showing log events

Update 7 (Version 2020.02-u7)

Notifier

  • Notifier2 is now a stand-alone program (its not triggered anymore from the windows event log)
  • Per default the Notifier window is started after login
  • Add an activity indicator (as an option to the trayicon) which can be freely positioned or hidden
  • New buttton layout and defaults
  • Allow/Block rules are working again

Logging

  • Using now the log4net logging framework which allows logging into a rolling file appender, limiting the file size
  • It can now also be configured in WFN.config.log4net by a user

Update 6 (Version 2020.01-u6)

Notifier

  • Add a system tray icon to minimize the Notifier (when minimized notifications are recorded without popping up the window)
  • Add a system tray right-click menu to open the Notifier or Console directly

Update 5 (Version 2019.12-u5)

08.12.2019

General

  • Changed the multiple instance policy for the scheduler task from Parallel to Queue (to avoid problems with notifier window on heavy load)
  • Changed checkbox defaults for ip and ports to make more sense

Update 4 (Version 2019.11-u4)

23.11.2019

Notifier

  • Implemented a tray notiy icon for notifier which is shown when minimizing
  • Keep notifier minimized (silent) when the tray icon is shown
  • Anmimated the tray icon when blocking events triggered
  • Added TargetInfoUrl (https://bgpview.io/ip/{0}) and TargetPortUrl (only in app.config) for customization. The previously used TargetInfoUrl displayed a captcha.

Settings

  • Had to change CustomSettingsProvider#SectionName to be consistent with the namespace used in the Settings class. Mainly because the Settings.Designer in VS inserted entries in the wrong section in app.config.
  • Improved parsing in the CustomSettingsProvider on missing or corrupted settings which lead to illegal reference exception. E.g: Loghelper failed to read the FirstRun setting when trying to log an error and then WFN crashed.

LogHelper

  • Improved null checks, most importantly on Settings.Default.FirstRun which lead to app crash on startup. To avoid this a default setting is used for missing ones.

app.config

  • Settings are stored under a different section
  • Old: Wokhan.WindowsFirewallNotifier.Configuration
  • New: Wokhan.WindowsFirewallNotifier.Common.Settings
  • Consequence: User settings in Options are lost/set to defaults from app.config.

Connections and Map

  • Added DNS host name resolution for ip addresses

Test Projects

  • Created new test projects for Console.Tests and Common.Tests

Update 3 (Version 2019.11-u3)

09.11.2019

Security Log

  • Added tcp only filter checkbox and remote host name column
  • Added DnsResolver to resolve remote ip's to hostname using dns asynchronous
  • Improved filter lookup to include wfp state which includes filters from other filter providers besides windows firewall (e.g third party firewall)

Options/Settings

  • Added Enable DNS host name resolver setting for Security Log
  • Added Enable successful connection events setting for Security Log (auditpol /success:enable)

TestProject

  • Added additional tests for NetshHelper and DnsResolver
  • Cleanup namespace

Various

  • Removed old ip database (IPDatabase.gz)
  • Cleanup and fix some warnings

Update 2 (Version 2019.10-u2)

20.10.2019

Map Improvement

  • Added GeoConnection2 to use the Maxmind GeoIP-City database and API instead of the CSV files
  • Changed the Map to use GeoConnection2

New TestProject

  • Added a TestProject for unit testing the new GeoConnection2

FirewallHelper

  • Add code for IANA protocol SDRP connections

Update 1 (Version 2019.10-u1)

04.10.2019

Security event log

  • Added coloring and font style to the Dir, Action column

30.9.2019

Security event log

  • New columns: PID, App, Service, FilterId, Dir, and Action
    • App: Shows the filename for better readability and displays the full path as a tooltip
    • Service: Detects the service name based on PID (given the service is still started)
    • Dir: Direction In/Out
    • FilterId: Filter rule id which caused the connection to block
    • Action: Displays whether the connection was blocked/allowed based on the eventid logged e.g. 5157. In addition, other eventid's are supported as well when such events are produced (depends on the audit policy settings)
  • Improved the performance and also increased the nr of rows to 1500
  • Improved the extraction of app icons by expanding env variables in the path
  • Clicking on a row stops automatic refresh to avoid that scrolling is interrupted

Event details and filter name

Clicking on a cell in the action column shows additional details from the event log and also tries to identify the blocking filter rule using NetShellHelper

Options

  • Added console width/height settings (needs restart after change)
  • Some layout improvements and tooltips added
  • Removed (commented out) MinimizeToTry because it's not working
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