CHANGELOG.md

v2.8.361

Server

• Feature: Enable hot reconfig for VpnHood Server TCP listener to avoid unnecessary restarts on unchanged endpoints
• Update: Replace AllowIpV6 to BlockIpV6
• Update: Improve server security

v2.8.360

Client

• Fix: Used traffic was not displayed correctly

Server

• Fix: Used traffic was not reported correctly

v2.7.357

Client

• Fix: Windows: Too long filter expression error

v2.7.356

Client

• Farture: Windows: Add "Open in Browser" item to system menu
• Update: windows: ""Open in browser" if WebView is not initialized properly

Server

• Farture: Merge Server Configuration
• Fix: Setting TCP kernel buffer
• Fix: Error in parsing IPNetwork as Range
• Update: Move NetFilter event from log to track
• Update: Set Send Kernel TCP buffer sizes
• Update: Use 24h in filename in track archives

v2.7.350

Client

• Feature: Follow server-supported networks by IP range
• Update: Performance improvement
• Windows: Fix Auto Updater

Server

• Farture: Filter server local networks
• Farture: Filter networks by IP ranges
• Fix: Missing some NetProtector log
• Fix: Windows: AutoUpdater
• Security: Always block access to loopback addresses
• Update: log file archive format

v2.6.346

Client

• Update: Improve stability when using no UDP mode

Server

• Feature: Improve stability by adding lifetime to TcpDatagarmChannel
• Fix: IpV6 detection

v2.6.342

Client

• Fix: UDP port memory leak
• Feature: Notify when a new version is available
• Update: Add the build version on the top right of the screen
• Update: Windows: Switch to MSI package to prevent False positive virus detection

Server

• Fix: UDP port memory leak
• Update: Separate new/close session logs
• Update: Improve log format
• Update: Change log files extension from txt to log

v2.6.339

Server

• Feature: Report server public IPs to log
• Update: Improve IPv6 stability

Server

• Fix: It doesn't generate log
• Feature: Add linux-arm64 installation

v2.6.336

Client

• Update: Optimizing UDP Processing
• Update: Improving Garbage Collector
• Update: Async Disposal
• Update: Windows: Upgrade WinDiver to 2.2.2
• Update: Improve performance

Server

• Feature: Allow disabling LogAnonymizer in the server config
• Feature: NetScanner protector
• Feature: Access ServerConfig overwrite
• Feature: UdpProxyPoolEx
• Update: Optimizing UDP Processing
• Update: Reporting improved; prevent too many duplicate errors
• Update: Windows updater write its log
• Update: Improve performance
• Update: Add NetScan to Track log
• Update: Improve the Tracer Log File format
• Fix: File Access Server throw access volatile randomly
• Fix: Disconnecting Idle users after an hour of inactivity of FileAccess Server
• Fix: Linux Auto Installation
• Fix: Too many session recoveries after hot restart

v2.6.329

Server

• Fix: Report CPU Usage on Linux
• Fix: Windows Server Auto Update
• Fix: Windows Auto Install
• Fix: Stop accepting connection on specific errors
• Update: Report more config on start up

v2.6.327

Server

• Fix: Error on centos
• Feature: Report CPU usage to access server
• Feature: Add TcpConnectWait control
• Feature: Add TcpChannelCount control

v2.6.326

Client

• Feature: Windows: Compile as Win-x64. NET runtime is not required anymore.
• Feature: Windows: WebView2 is optional. Run UI in the default web browser if WebView2 was not installed
• Fix: Unable to connect to IpV6 supported site on chrome when server IpV6 is not configured
• Fix: Hold some TCP connections
• Fix: The client tries to connect to the IPv6 endpoint regardless of its connectivity
• Fix: Show Blank screen
• Update: Restore auto-reconnect
• Update: Improve performance and memory usage
• Update: Windows x86 (32-bit) is not supported anymore

Server

• Feature: Report IPv6 support to client
• Feature: Add -domain to File AccessServer to set access-key endpoint will set to certificate domain
• Fix: Update Script doesn't work
• Fix: Hold some TCP connections
• Fix: Delay in showing command-line helps for File Access Server
• Fix: "Sequence contains no elements" Error when could not find any Public IP
• Update: Improve performance and memory usage
• Update: Improve Logging
• Update: Change config JSON property name for SessionOptions and TrackingOptions

v2.5.323

Client

• Update: Improve messages of disconnection reason
• Feature: Replace Always ON with auto-reconnect
• Fix: Anonymize VpnHood Server IP in diagnose
• Fix: Windows Installer

Server

• Update: Improve Log for AccessServer API CALL
• Update: Port Tracker
• Update: Improve session recovery
• Fix: Critical bug that consume much resources

v2.4.321

Server

• Update: Remove extra trace log from OS

v2.4.320

Client

• Update: Upgrade to .NET 7

Server

• Feature: Compile as a self-contained; No need for .Net Framework Runtime
• Update: Upgrade to .NET 7
• Update: New Installation For Linux
• Update: New Installation For Windows Server
• Update: New Installation For Docker
• Update: Improve logging
• Update: Removing App Launcher project
• Fix: Error on Windows Server. unsupported option or level was specified in a getsockopt or setsockopt call
• Fix: Archiving the log file when another instance of the server is already running
• Fix: Preventing running multiple instances from once location

v2.4.318

Client

• Feature: Show a message a device disconnected by your device
• Feature: Android TV support
• Update: Updating IP Location Database
• Update: Improve Client Battery Usage
• Update: Show SupportId (sid) to servers list
• Update: Remove Legacy AccessKey support
• Fix: Randomly select previous profile in UI

v2.4.310

Client

• Update: Removing Google Ads

v2.4.307

Client

• Feature: Add basic advertising support. Ouch!
• Update: Upgrade to android 12.1

v2.4.304

Client

• Fix: Triming AccessKey
• Update: Improve detecting countries

Server

• Fix: Nlog doesn't log some events
• Fix: Docker Installation on ubuntu
• Update: Add destination port in tracking

v2.4.303

Client

• Update: Simplify Client's Country exclusion

Server

• Update: Improve Session Management

Developer

• Update: Move VpnHood.Client.WebUI to a standalone repo

v2.4.299

Client

• Fix: Windows: Installation Package

v2.4.297

Server

• Fix: Reporting Negative usage

v2.4.296

Client

• Fix: Windows: WebView2 could not be installed on some devices

Server

• Feature: Add linux docker package
• Update: Sync all active sessions to access the server every few minutes
• Fix: Maintenance mode detection
• Fix: Synching sessions to access server on shut down

v2.4.295

Client

• Update: Tune TCP connections for games
• Fix: Error when setting PacketCapture include filter

Server

• Feature: Server sends its last config error to access server
• Fix: TcpHost is already Started error
• Fix: Linux installation on some distribution
• Fix: LogLevel.Trace in DiagnoseMode

v2.4.292

Client

• Update: Improve stability and memory usage

Server

• Update: Use keep-alive for TCP timeout
• Fix: Double Configure at startup
• Fix: Sending multiple requests to access server for session recovery
• Fix: Memory leak! Some dead sessions remain in memory
• Fix: Memory leak! TcpProxy remains in memory when just one peer has gone
• Fix: Memory leak! UdpProxy remains in memory
• Fix: Unusual Thread creation
• Fix: UDP Packet loss

v2.3.291

Client

• Fix: Android: Improve performance and stability in Android
• Fix: Add time-stamp to logger

Server

• Update: Move Sessions options to AccessServer via ServerConfig
• Fix: Catch a lost packet when removing TcpDatagramChannel

v2.3.290

Client

• Fix: Crash on Android 12

Server

• Feature: LocalPort and ClientIP Tracking Options
• Update: Set default port for -ep command
• Update: Use NLog.config in app binary folder if it does not exists in working folder

v2.3.289

Client

• Update: Add Logging Policy Warning
• Update: Create Private Server Link

Server

• Update: Linux: Some issue in installation
• Fix: Maintenance mode detection

v2.3.287

Client

• Update: Upgrade to .NET 6
• Update: Diagnose just check some HTTPS sites to check internet connectivity
• Update: Windows: Disable right click on App WebView
• Fix: Not a valid calendar for the given culture

Server

• Update: Upgrade to .NET 6
• Update: Configuration by access server
• Feature: Close session faster by handling client bye request
• Fix: Refact IP addresses in the log

v2.2.283

Client

• Feature: Allow to have multi-endpoints in AccessToken
• Feature: Create IPv6 tunnel when a client has access to a server by IPv6
• Feature: Add "Exclude Local Network" to UI settings
• Fix: UDP Channel

Server

• Feature: Dynamic configuration from AccessServer
• Feature: Multi listeners for different EndPoints
• Fix: Few bug in disposing
• Fix: linux: systemctl restart VpnHoodServer

v2.1.276

• Feature: IPv6 Support
• Fix: Some packet loss in ping

v2.1.276

• Feature: IPv6 Support
• Fix: Some packet loss in ping

v2.0.272

• Feature: Block all IPv6 Global Unicast to prevent leak
• Fix: Android: Vpn Connection keeps open after disconnecting
• Fix: Android: Crash in android 5.1
• Fix: IpFilter miss some IPs of countries
• Update: Improve the speed of establishing the connection

v2.0.271

Client

• Feature: Server Redirection
• Feature: Server Maintenance mode detection
• Feature: Validate packets integrity in UdpChannel
• Update: Android: Hide notification icon on the lock screen
• Update: Improve Performance and Memory usage
• Change: Stop supporting the old version
• Fix: Instability in reconnecting and disconnecting
• Fix: IpFilter didn't work properly when more than one country was selected
• Fix: Android: System Notification remain connected after disconnect
• Fix: Android: Some Apps were not shown in the AppFilter list (Require Permission: QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES)
• Fix: Android: Crash if a selected app in AppFilter does not exist anymore
• Fix: Android: Crash after disconnect

Server

• Feature: Host Restart with REST access server (No UDP yet)
• Feature: Validate packets integrity in UdpChannel
• Update: Stop supporting the old version
• Update: Improve Performance and Memory usage
• Update: New REST AccessServer protocol
• Change: Stop supporting the old version

Developer

• Update: Respect C# Nullable Reference Types
• Update: Mass Code cleanup
• Update: Decouple access manager from server to access server

v1.3.254

Client

• Feature: Android: Add Manage button to the system notification
• Fix: Casual packet loss!
• Fix: Empty error message after immediate disconnection
• Fix: Could not open the Protocol page
• Fix: Android: No window open by pressing menu items
• Fix: Windows: Could not load WinDivert

Server

• Fix: Casual packet loss!

v1.3.253

Client

• Feature: IpFilter by countries
• Feature: Android: Exclude local networks from VPN
• Feature: Android: Add disconnect to device notification bar
• Update: Improve Performance and Memory usage
• Update: Reduce number of Public Server hints
• Fix: Windows: Didn't bypass Some local network traffics

Server

• Update: Imporve Performance and Memory usage

v1.2.250

Client

• Update: Display error for unsupported client
• Fix: Random Crash!
• Fix: No error message when Client lost the connection

Server

• Update: Check session id for each UdpPacket
• Update: Reject unSupported client
• Fix: Updater on linux
• Fix: Nlog maxArchiveDays maxArchiveFiles

v1.2.249

• Feature: Reset apps TCP connections immediately after VPN get connected
• Update: Significantly optimize performance & stability
• Update: Improve power usage

Client

• Fix: Attempting to connect after stopping the VPN

v1.2.248

Client

• Feature: Windows 7 Support
• Feature: Add "What's New" link in the main menu
• Fix: Windows: Display Main window location depending on TaskBar position
• Fix: Freeze network after auto reconnect
• Fix: Freeze network when UDP connection lost
• Fix: Freeze network after network lost
• Fix: Selecting current active server causes disconnection

Developer

• Fix: Public Server in Android Sample

v1.2.247

• Feature: Add UDP Protocol
• Update: Improve datagram performance
• Update: Improve overall performance
• Update: Improve messaging security
• Update: Improve Stability
• Fix: Problem in sending some UDP packets
• Fix: Json length is too big

Developer

• Upgrade to SharpPcap 6.0

v1.1.242

Client

• Update: Windows: Installer check for new updates before installation

v1.1.241

Client

• Fix: Freeze in Disconnecting state
• Fix: Reconnection

v1.1.240

Client

• Fix: Diangnostic report "No Internet", when there is internet
• Update: Windows: Change Updater

v1.1.238

Client

• Feature: Set allowed or disallowed Apps that can use VPN
• Update: Windows & Linux: Check TargetFramework before update
• Update: Show warning for Public Server

v1.1.236

Client

• Fix: Android: Crash when sending feedback on Android 11
• Fix: Connection already in progress error when changing server
• Update: Show traffic speed

Server

• Update: Auto restart if VpnHoodServer stops unexpectedly
• Fix: Typo error in default.pfx filename for FileAccessServer
• Fix: linux: Stop working after server update

v1.1.235

Client

• New: New public server
• New: Windows: Bypass local network from tunneling

v1.1.232

Client

• New: Android: Prevent landscape orientation
• Update: Significantly improve speed and stability
• Update: Automatically remove profiles when token does not exist
• Update: add some log EventId
• Fix: UDP loss in mass UDP traffic

Server

• New: Send ClientVersion to AccessServer
• Update: drop Hello version 1 support
• Update: Significantly improve speed and stability
• Update: Automatically remove profiles when token does not exist
• Update: add some log EventId
• Fix: token is ignored when created by FileAccessServer
• Fix: UDP loss in mass UDP traffic

v1.1.217

Server

• New: Rest server validate Self-Signed certificates by RestCertificateThumbprint property in appsettings

v1.1.216

• New: Updater has completely changed

Server

• New: Add stop command to stop all server instance
• New: Linux: Add installation script
• New: Linux: Run server as a service
• Change: rename "run" command to "start"

v1.1.202

Client

• New: Change server list page
• New: Android: Change system status bar color to match UI
• New: Windows: Change icon on notification area by connection status
• Fix: Big UI on some devices
• Update: Change Public Server Name

Server

• Update: Start new log file on every run

v1.1.197

Client

• Fix: rejecting accesskey with vh://

Server

• New: Report Linux Distribution info
• New: Report connected ClientVersion
• Fix: "Permission Denied" error in Linux while sending some UDP packets

v1.1.195

Client

• Feature: Modern UI
• Feature: Show usage if there is any limitation
• Feature: Windows: reconnect last connection after auto update
• Fix: Windows: Fix main window size
• Fix: Windows: launch application after installation

Server

• Fix: Use last command line argument after auto update

v1.1.187

Client

• Feature: Windows: Use new standalone UI
• Feature: Windows: Add Context menu to system tray
• Update: Add Microsoft WebView2 Edge to Windows Installer prerequisites
• Update: Send ClientVersion to server
• Fix: accesskey prefix

Server

• Fix: Reading server port number from appsettings.json
• Update: Support multiple public IP and Amazon ElasticIP

v1.1.184

Client

• Feature: Auto Configure Windows Defender Firewall
• Update: Improve diagnosing
• Fix: Significantly Improve connection stability & speed
• Fix: Displaying connection state

Server

• Fix: Unhandled NullReferenceException on ping packets
• Fix: Improve server memory cleanup
• Fix: Prevent new conenction after session disposed
• Fix: Speed Monitor and connection idle state
• Fix: Improve connection stability and lost packets
• Feature: ICMP logging for client and server with IsDiagnoseMode
• Feature: Use NLog for logging
• Feature: Auto initialize NLog config and appsettings.json

v1.1.177

• Fix: Client close the entire VPN connection when a requested site refuse a connection

v1.1.176

• Feature: Client can detect its expired session

Client

• Change: Always Open the main window at start if App is already running

Developer

• Change: Update TcpDatagramHeader from binary to TcpDatagramChannelRequest json
• Change: Move IDevice and IPacketCapture to VpnHood.Client.Device module
• Developer: Add Simple Sample for Windows Client usage
• Developer: Fix PublishApps.ps1 scripts to create publish folder when it does not exist

v1.1.138

• Fix: Checking update from the Internet

Server

• Update: add subdomain when creating self-signed certifiates with random CN

v1.1.91

• Fix: AppUpdater throw error if UpdateUrl in publish.json was empty string

Client

• Update: Add client prefix to Bug Report File Name
• Update: Close Bug Report bottom page after sending report
• Update: Separate SPA from VpnHood.Client.App.UI. Make it easier for developers to use custom SPA
• Update: Change Anonymous IP masking from ..x.x to ".x.x."
• Update: Diagnose set Last error to "Diagnose has been finished" if there is not other error
• Fix: Dark Icon
• Fix: Open BugReport page on external web browser
• Fix: Disable Diagnose button when a connection already diagnosing
• Fix: Reporting .NET version instead of App Version

v1.1.75

• Initial Release