Release notes
BetaNetworkTuna v1.0.8
Firewall profiles with a default action, a clearer Overview, and programs started by Windows services shown under their own names.
NetworkTuna 1.0.8 Beta lets you decide what happens to apps without a rule and keep separate sets of rules in firewall profiles. Overview now shows your security status at a glance, and programs started by Windows services, such as scheduled tasks, get their own names and rules.
Install this release over your current version. Your rules, settings and history are kept. The installers are digitally signed by DeinitLabs.
New features
- Choose a default firewall action for apps without a rule: Ask, Allow or Block.
- Firewall profiles keep their own app rules and default action. You switch between them yourself, for example to a stricter profile when you travel.
- Essential Windows network services can stay allowed even when you block everything else, so your internet connection keeps working.
- When NetworkTuna can't ask you because its window is closed, it now allows once or blocks right away, as you choose, instead of holding the connection for up to a minute.
- Overview shows your security status in one card: an icon for each area, the events that need your attention, and a 24-hour chart of incoming connections and blocked attempts. Hover an icon for details and quick switches.
- Mute incoming alerts for an app that is meant to accept connections, such as a file-sharing app. Its connections stay listed in gray.
- The tray menu has an Emergency stop item, and programs are named by their file description, so Windows programs show names such as Host Process for Windows Tasks.
Fixes
- Programs that a Windows service starts, such as scheduled tasks, appeared under that service and shared its rule. They now appear under their own names, and some may ask once for a decision after the upgrade.
- With automatic approval of signed apps turned on, an app you had blocked for incoming connections could lose that block on its first outgoing connection. Your block now stays.
- When an app such as OneDrive updated itself, removing the old version could take the app's rule with it, so NetworkTuna asked about the app again. The rule now stays with the versions still installed.
- With thousands of connections, for example from a file-sharing app, the NetworkTuna window could keep losing its connection to the service. Overview and Realtime now handle such numbers.