Multi Port Forwarder - Change Log

December 10, 2024

The new 6.53 version has been released.

• Fixed: the network adapter dropbox within rule properties shows no network adapters.

May 30, 2023

The new 6.50 version has been released.

• Fixed: intermittent communication interruption between UI and the service.
• Fixed: now works on Windows 11.
• Fixed: after reordering of rules the activity indicator showing traffic for the wrong rule.
• Improved: reduced conditions requiring restart after the installation.
• Added: to display OS build number in diagnostics.
• Added: installer option to place or not to place a shortcut on the Desktop.
• Added: installer option to launch after the intallation.

March 9, 2023

The new 6.47 version has been released.

• Fixed: intermittent user interface hang upon closure of Settings dialog.
• Added: menu to perform diagnostics output to notepad.exe.
• Added: diagnostics now shows all locations of installed Verigio drivers.

December 12, 2022

The new 6.46 version has been released.

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

December 1, 2022

The new 6.45 version has been released.

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

September 5, 2022

The new 6.43 version has been released.

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

March 22, 2022

The new 6.40 version has been released.

• Fixed: the service was not starting after Win10 1809 to Win10 21H2 update.
• Improved: performance on 10Gbps networks.
• Added: now works with most VPNs.
• Added: CPU mask and utilization limits are configurable via registry.

January 18, 2021

The new 6.38 version has been released.

• Fixed: within the rule properties dialog, the clearing was applying changes to the rule regardless of Ok or Cancel.
• Improved: the layout and visual appearance of rule properties dialog.
• Added: the toolbar button to prevent any changes to rules and settings.
• Added: the toolbar button for calculation of the best route.
• Added: the rule cloning to the rule's context menu.

December 11, 2020

The new 6.37 version has been released.

• Fixed: the uninstaller was unable to shutdown UI while UI had a message box open.
• Fixed: high CPU utilization on the system was triggering UI to report that the license has expired.
• Fixed: unable to move rules up/down due to the loss of selection when mouse was leaving the rules area.
• Improved: better responsiveness of the user interface.
• Improved: better use of all processors for traffic filtering in multi processor systems.
• Added: context menu items to move rules up/down.

November 6, 2020

The new 6.36 version has been released.

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

October 1, 2020

The new 6.35 version has been released.

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

May 1, 2020

The new 6.25 version has been released.

• Fixed: the activation dialog was not reflecting success/failure response from server for some time.
• Improved: avoid displaying expiration of the subscription lincense that is not actually used in online communications.
• Added: import/export of program-wide settings into an XML file.
• Added: the progress animation within Activation dialog for product and subscription activations.
• Added: the notification about new releases and the setting for frequency of update checks.

February 3, 2020

The new 6.24 version has been released.

• Fixed: recovery after unexpected shutdown corrupted user.config.
• Fixed: incompatibility with 'Windows Network Data Usage Monitoring Driver' was resulting in a memory leak.
• Fixed: sometimes DHCPv4 packets were discarded when on mixed IPv4-IPv6 network.
• Fixed: license status refresh during activation.
• Added: support for Windows 10 1909.
• Added: overlay image when UI is disconnected from the service.
• Added: subscriptions management within Activation dialog.

June 18, 2019

The new 6.17 version has been released.

• Fixed: traffic was blocked when TCP connection timeout within settings was greater than 5 sec.
• Fixed: failure to detect network adapters on Windows 10 1903.
• Added: support for Windows 10 1903.

June 3, 2019

The new 6.15 version has been released.

• Added: displaying last 5 characters of the license key within activation dialog.
• Added: detection and recovery mechanism for corrupt user.config file that was preventing UI from starting.
• Added: diagnostics utility to display .NET Framework version and proper Windows version.
• Improved: upon uninstall shutdown of all programs that use the driver.
• Updated: end-user license agreement.
• Fixed: "Process unauthorized..." event was written into event log upon UI and service startup.
• Fixed: timeout of the sevice upon startup during OS startup.

January 14, 2019

The new 6.12 version has been released.

• Added support for Windows Server 2019.

January 11, 2019

The new 6.11 version has been released.

• Changed to grayscale the window overlay indicating disconnected UI from the service.

December 10, 2018

The new 6.10 version has been released.

• Transitioned program to Windows service based architecture.
• Added capability to start automatically upon Windows start without logged in user.
• Previous settings are automatically saved and loaded upon the service start.
• User interface changes.

November 26, 2018

The new 5.65 version has been released.

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

October 17, 2018

The new 5.63 version has been released.

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

January 22, 2018

The new 5.62 version has been released.

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

November 26, 2017

The new 5.61 version has been released.

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

June 14, 2017

The new 5.60 version has been released.

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

April 25, 2017

The new 5.51 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.
• Improved centering of message boxes.
• Added capability to cancel saving a file on exit.
• Added settings to auto start on user login, to change colors, to load last used file, etc.
• Transitioned data file format to XML-based. The old format is supported for loading only.
• Added rule option for MAC "Derive from IP".
• Added routing address calculator to obtain addresses on path to specific destination.
• Added context menu to rules.
• Fixed: crash on Windows 10 during uninstall.

November 20, 2016

The new 5.30 version has been released.

• Fixed the issue that during traffic reflection was incorrectly calculating IP address and Port.

September 17, 2016

The new 5.20 version has been released.

• Fixed incompatibility with Windows 10 Anniversary update.
• Increased the limit on the number of rules for the Ultimate edition to 50.

August 3, 2016

The new 5.19 version has been released.

• Fixed rules are not automatically applied from the loaded file when the program is started with "/systray" switch.

June 10, 2016

The new 5.18 version has been released.

• Fixed loss of connectivity after install on Win2008R2/Win7 when certain network cards are connected to the system.

May 27, 2016

The new 5.1 version has been released.

• Fixed the application crash on CPUs not supporting AVX instruction set (binaries are now built with SSE2 instead of AVX instruction set).

May 5, 2016

The new 5.0 version has been released.

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

September 26, 2015

The new 4.11 version has been released.

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

August 10, 2015

The new 4.10 version has been released.

• Added traffic cloning capability.

June 27, 2015

The new 4.0 version has been released.

• The project has changed its name to Multi Port Forwarder.
• To access the old project webpage use this link: PC Port Forwarding version (3.x)
• New UI for .Net 4.0. Added functionality to perform forwarding by a combination of: direction (incoming/outgoing), protocol (TCP/UDP), Port, IP (IPv4, IPv6, DNS name), MAC, and Network Adapter.
• Added back the traffic refection functionality with capability to transpose Local/Remote addresses.
• Added capability to monitor traffic activity. Added online product activation.
• Trial license expiration is 30 days from the install date.