v1.5.0

What's new

• Better in-kernel connections interception (WireGuard, IP tunnels, NFS and SMB connections, ..) - 0526b84
• Added Reject action. Improves user experience in some situations, like when blocking ads or trackers. - 8d3540f
• Use system notifications to display alerts - 843412d
• More flexbility to block ads, trackers or malware domains system wide - 3b6c041 - learn more
• Support for SysV based init systems like Devuan - 91ff72b

What's changed

• Improved connections parsing - 479b8de
• Improved eBPF subsystem - 7c87baf
• Improved GUI user experience:
  • Better key navigation - 434bbf9
  • Better rules handling - #560
  • Improved performance when saving events to a DB on disk - #565 , #566 , 75cfd39 , deee72a
  • Allow to limit the numbers of connections saved to the DB.
  • Allow to apply filters in all views, as well as in detail views.
  • Better multiple nodes support - 5d6121b , #576
  • Added help button, to display a quick help.
  • The Address view will display the Network Name (ASN) if the package python3-pyasn is installed - 42b8774
  • Allow to copy selected rows to clipboard.
• Regression: The Events view is not as performant as before. We'll have to work on that area.

Misc

• More unit tests for GUI and daemon.
• Fixed several GUI crashes.

Known bugs

• On lxQt, the GUI is not launched from the system menu.
• On Ubuntu 22.04, the GUI never appears. See this comment to work around this problem: #647 (comment)

Contributors ❤️

@ryanolton @staticssleever668 @Scrumplex @tioguda @themighty1 @BobSquarePants @bob04619 @wsgcsysadmin @Shadow505 @alexholox @Natrinicle @chicagoo17 @pizzadude @NRGLine4Sec and others.

Full Changelog: v1.4.0...v1.5.0

Downloads

daemon

(NOTE: if the daemon doesn't autostart, enable it: $ sudo systemctl enable opensnitch; sudo systemctl start opensnitch)

• deb x86_64

• deb i386

• deb armhf (for raspberry pi and others)

• deb arm64 (for raspberry pi, Librem5, and others)

• rpm x86_64

• rpm arm64

• rpm armhf

• rpm i386

GUI

(IMPORTANT NOTE (Ubuntu 22.04 users): See this comment after installing the GUI: #647 (comment))

• rpm
• deb

(If the above packages complain about dependencies, use these ones)

• deb - for old distributions (Ubuntu <= 18.04)
• rpm - for old distributions (Fedora < 29)