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| category | layout | title | date | author | custom_thumbnail_name | portmaster_plug | portmaster_update |
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| blog | blog | Portmaster v0.9: New Network Monitor | 2022-08-16 | daniel | placeholder-announcement | true | true |
New Network Monitor with Graphs
Many of you have been asking for this, and finally it is here: The new network monitor with elaborate search, filter and grouping support - with beautiful graphs everywhere!
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Support for DNS-over-HTTPS
We have support DNS-over-TLS (DoT) from the beginning. Due to popular request we now additioanlly support DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH). Just paste your favourite provider into the setting and go! If you don't want to depend on your ISP for resolving the IP of your DoH resolver, you can also add the IP manually for even better security.
Note: We still think that DoT is superior due to the fact that it is a lot less overhead that can (and did in the past!) leak identifier data about you.
Custom Filter Lists
An even more requested feature has been to ability to add custom filter lists in addition to the defaults. You can now specify a file that Portmaster automatically imports and monitors for changes. Compile you own list of baddies and block them!
New Place for Version, Tools, and Restarting
The "interesting" bar at the top of the settings page has always been a quick-fix that we finally replaced with a much better solution. You can now find all this information and buttons on the bottom of the navigation bar to the left.
Improved GeoIP Database
We've also been hard at work below the surface. Since MaxMind has switched its free GeoIP database to a more restrictive license, we started building our own GeoIP database by combining data from different sources. This improves many aspects of Portmaster and SPN - for example, we now have a more accurate map of the current network.
For techy people out there, we are in the process of writing a blog post about how we are building the GeoIP database. Stay tuned!
Explaining the SPN
Another thing we've been continually improving is how we communicate the SPN in a way that everyone understands. I think we are getting the hang of it:
Thank You!
To all our users and customers: Thanks for using Portmaster and the SPN, thanks for reporting bugs and for telling your friends. All of this is only possible through your support.
If you are using Portmaster and SPN and experience problems, we'd love to hear abot them!