Follow up on the latest improvements and updates.

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April 9, 2024

improved

fixed

Web App

April 9, 2024 Dashboard App Release

Improvements 🛠️

Insights Reporting breakdowns now use labels instead of icons for improved usability.

Bug Fixes 🐞

Fixed a issue that could allow extra long organization names to distort the Org Selection menu for MSP and other Dashboard fields.
Reduced extraneous reloads of the Geo Map on the Overview page that were updating as often as 1 sec.

April 4, 2024

improved

Mac Roaming Client

RC Release Channels

Apr 4, 2024 - macOS RC 1.8.2 Beta Release

A new version of the macOS RC is now available via the Beta channel. This version can be downloaded from the dashboard Deployments
 → Roaming Clients
 → Install.
 Additionally, your existing RCs can be configured to receive the Beta release via auto-update by modifying its Release Channel from Roaming Clients
 → Manage
.
For more details on Release Channels and the current versions available for both Beta and Production channels, check out our help docs.
Included in macOS v.1.8.2
Improvements 🛠️
Continuing our improvements for captive portal compatibility, v1.8.2 is now able to more accurately detect when a network is preventing HTTP/S connections while not affecting DNS traffic. This should improve compatibility on the networks that still faced connectivity issues on v1.8.0 and earlier. Additionally, a new option in the menubar icon is now shown when connected to a captive portal that will trigger the page to open in a browser if the automatic mini browser does not open.

April 3, 2024

fixed

iOS Roaming Client

Apr 3, 2023 Release - iOS RC v1.2.0

A new version of the iOS Roaming Client has been released and is available for download in the App Store and will beginning rolling out via auto-update today.

Bug Fixes 🪲

Fixed issue that caused connectivity to fail when on certain cellular networks with IPv6-only connections.

April 3, 2024

improved

fixed

Relay

April 3, 2024 Release - Relay v0.2.0

A new version of the DNSFilter Relay v0.2.0 is now available. Updated binaries can be downloaded from the Dashboard (

Deployments

→

Relay

→

Install

) and our Help Docs. VM images will be updated with v0.2.0 in the coming weeks.

Improvements 🛠️

Updated the behavior when Relay is configured with multiple local resolvers — previously, attempts would be made to each resolver in sequence leading to slow resolution times. In v0.2.0, unreachable resolvers are not attempted, speeding up resolution times. To get started with the new functionality, please see this new section in the Relay Deployment Guide

Bugs 🐞

Fixed an issue that could cause the Relay to bind to port 5353 when configured to use port 53.

April 1, 2024

improved

Categorization

Popular Gmail domain changes

DNSFilter will be adding the

Webmail & Chat

category, in addition to the existing

Business

category to the following popular domains:

googlemail.com
m.gmail.com

This change is being done to better reflect the nature of these domains. DNSFilter will make these changes on Wednesday at 12pm (US EDT / UTC−04:00).

March 27, 2024

improved

Chrome Extension

Mar 27, 2024 Release - Chrome RC 2.3.0

A new version of the Chrome extension Roaming Client v2.3.0 is now available.
Improvements 🛠️
This version includes a behavior change when the Chrome Ext attempts to connect from a Chrome device or browser that is unmanaged.
 We've always recommended that our Chrome Ext be used on only managed devices due to the end user of an unmanaged device being able to easily remove or disable the extension. 
However, in previous versions of the Chrome RC, when connections were attempted on an unmanaged device the extension would register with DNSFilter as a new device with an empty hostname, leading to unwanted clutter in the Dashboard. In 2.3.0, Chrome RC will no longer registry as a new device when run on an unmanaged, making managed devices required to run DNSFilter's Chrome Extension
.

March 19, 2024

fixed

improved

Web App

March 19, 2024 Dashboard App Release

Improvements 🛠️

Our latest machine learning model,
Malicious Domain Protection
is now enabled in "Your First Policy" for new users.
Tweaked the UI of the Dashboard's sidebar menu to make nested menus more clear and easy to navigate.

Bug Fixes 🐞

Improved the usability of the domain filter on Insights reporting (
Reporting
->
Insights
) by waiting for multiple characters to be entered before loading data.
Fixed a display bug on Filtering Schedules that weren't correctly updating assignments for a Collection.
Fixed a bug when attempting to add an entry to a Universal List that would close the input window and require a second attempt to complete the action.

March 8, 2024

fixed

Windows Roaming Client

RC Release Channels

March 8, 2024 - Windows RC v1.13.0 Beta and v1.12.1 Production Releases

A new version v1.13.0 of the Windows RC is now available in the Beta release channel for New Installs and Auto-Update. This version can be downloaded from the dashboard Deployments
 → Roaming Clients
 → Install.
Auto-update will push out the new release to RCs in the Beta Release Channel within the next 24-72 hours. Please refer to our release status page for the latest available versions in both Beta and Production channels.
Today we have also updated the latest version in the Production channel with v1.12.1 - this build only includes a refreshed installation certificate used for the auto-update capability and is otherwise identical to v1.12.0 released on
January 10th, 2024
. This will ensure roaming clients can auto-update to upcoming releases that will require the updated certificate. 
Included in WinRC v1.13.0
Bug Fixes 🪲
Improved the reliability and resilience in setting the active local user when installing,  restarting or switching users on the device.
Fixed an issue when an RC configured to use IPv6 only (via Registry key value) connects to an IPv4 only network that prevented resolution. 
Improved handling of restoring previous DNS settings in scenarios where the RC fails to operate due to inability to bind port 53. 
Fixed issues resolving .local
 requests when no local Resolver is configuration for the user - default behavior will now automatically resolve request to fallback settings of the network device.
Improved detection of manual changes to network device DNS servers while RC is running, resetting DNS back to DNSFilter. 
Fixed a compatibility issue with using Hyper-V and Windows Sandbox simultaneously. 
Reduced the frequency of the RC querying the windows domain controller for retrieving local user details, this should reduce CPU load on the domain controller.

March 6, 2024

fixed

Web App

March 5, 2024 App Dashboard Release

Bug Fixes 🐞

Fixed an issue on Data Explorer that did not correctly list data broken down by Collections
Fixed a bug that prevented a user from selecting "No Policy" for an existing deployment. We recommend policies are always applied to support greater protection but allow no policy to be applied for testing/deployment purposes.
Corrected an display issue on Insights reporting that could display a single datapoint for a 24 hour period instead of a detailed breakdown.

February 29, 2024

improved

fixed

Mac Roaming Client

RC Release Channels

February 29, 2024 - macOS RC v1.8.0 Beta Release

A new version of the macOS RC is now available via the Beta channel. This version can be downloaded from the dashboard

Deployments

→

Roaming Clients

→

Install.

Additionally, your existing RCs can be configured to receive the Beta release via auto-update by modifying its Release Channel from

Roaming Clients

→

Manage

For more details on Release Channels and the current versions available for both Beta and Production channels, check out our help docs.

Included in macOS v1.8.0

Improvements 🛠️

Support for Captive Portals has been improved in this version with more intelligent handling of fallback to local network resolution to access the captive portal site and accept terms. Networks that previously required manually navigation to captive.apple.com should now reliability forward to the captive portal without specific user action.

Bug Fixes 🪲

Resolved a reporting issue that could display "127.0.0.1" instead of hosthame for queries generated after connecting to a Captive Portal

We are continuing to gather feedback from the wide variety of captive portals and have have included additionally logging via the Diagnostic Tool to assist with further investigations if have you experience difficulties connecting. Please share any feedback you have while running v1.8.0

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