What's happening with SPHINX Windows10

I still will forgo. I am 3 days into a trial of ESET Smart Security Premium which incorporates a set and forget firewall. I had to do nothing.

 

ESET has a pretty good Firewall. You have four modes: Automatic, Interactive, Policy-based and Learning. You could also create your own rules... Surprisingly, it's very light on resources. On Windows 11 Enterprise with Intel i9 and 128 GB of RAM... you wouldn't even know it was there.

 

I wonder if my laptop with just half of that memory and an i7 from 5 years ago would work with it

 

I will wait for the release, no difference here with beta.

 

Hello, according to https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/vistafirewallcontrol/the-latest-betas-releases-t6.html v 9.1.0.97 should be a release, not yet official, but not beta anyway. Certainly a changelog would have helped. To me it seems that the only difference is that in the new version many pre-configured zones are updated as I presume that those listed with (prev) are related to previous version 8

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That weird I have no (prev) in my zones, I notice a couple of new ones such as "NewsGroupZone". I am testing the Network Cloud Edition.

 

I though only Plus and Server version 9 were available unless Server edition is the same as Network Cloud, I don't know. Both Tapatalk forum https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/vistafirewallcontrol/the-latest-betas-releases-t6.html and official Sphinx Software webpage https://www.sphinx-soft.com/ redirect for download to https://github.com/Windows11FirewallControl/Windows11FirewallControl/tree/main/precompiled. Under English folder I found zip files for Plus and Server editions. I updated Plus edition version 8, for which I purchased a license some years ago to version 9 and on W11FC settings page the version no. is 9.1.0.97 like it should be.

 

This was what I downloaded. I have a paid for Control Server setup, shown in photo.
I have reverted to Eset for now. Sorry it was called Network Cloud Edition with V8.
To complicated to see the facts, and not enough info now. I will wait for the new version 9 and will pay, but for now will be using Eset paid for version good till end of year, my as well.
I am glad to see progress with Windows 11 Firewall Control!

 

If you already paid for Windows 10 Firewall Control version 8 - Server Edition you don't need to pay again for Windows 11 Firewall Control version 9 - Server Edition. Just run Windows11FirewallControlServer-Setup.exe: this will uninstall Windows 10 Firewall Control version 8 and it will install Windows 11 Firewall Control version 9 in a new folder by preserving all the settings of previous version. I did this process for the Plus Edition following the instructions provided by developers and the update went smooth without issues. Please see my post with the questions I asked them, here https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/whats-happening-with-sphinx-windows10.451558/#post-3232844
Anyway if you prefer to use Eset it's ok, of course. I presume that Sphinx Software official website will be updated with features, changelog, editions compare, screenshot etc. when the developers will be ready for a official release.

 

This is the version i am using for testing.

 

Nice, so you already updated to Windows 11 Firewall Control version 9.1.0.97. The developers responded to me that future updates will be available for free up to version 10, at least. I hope they will release a changelog. As I wrote above I noticed they added updated pre-configured zones. It's not the same for Server Edition ?

 

Here is what the zones look like for me.

I wish I could get info if they update, through the program.