Little Snitch | Homepage | Download | Release Notes | Support | Blog | Little Snitch 5.7.2 has been released. (09-January-2024) Spoiler January 9, 2024 Little Snitch 5.7.2 ( 6298 ) Improvements Rules for operating system processes in Xcode’s Simulator (iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, …) are now effective for all simulated OS versions and platforms. Note that existing Simulator rules are not automatically converted to the new “catch all” format, so you will get connection alerts for these processes one more time, but from then on, they will remain effective also for other Simulator instances. Bug Fixes Fixed: The traffic diagram shown in Network Monitor sometimes stopped auto-scrolling for no obvious reason. Fixed: The “Mark new rules as unapproved” option in Settings > Advanced was not properly considered for newly added rules in subscribed rule groups. These new rules were always marked as unapproved, even if the setting’s option was turned off. Fixed: The inspector pane in the rule’s window was always opened with its maximum width on macOS Sonoma. Fixed: The main window of Network Monitor stopped updating after a “Make connections private…” dialog.
Little Snitch | Homepage | Download | Release Notes | Support | Blog | Little Snitch 5.7.3,6299 has been released. (12-January-2024) Spoiler January 12, 2024 Little Snitch 5.7.3 (6299) Bug Fixes This version fixes a new bug in 5.7.2 where connection alerts appeared without the big app icon of the connecting application on macOS 13 Ventura and probably older systems. MacOS 14 Sonoma was not affected.
Little Snitch | Homepage | Download | Release Notes | Support | Blog | Payware | Little Snitch 5.7.4,6301 has been released. (08-March-2024) SHA-256 bc1025c19341f10b9f38b1187e8a742bf6da4953d849fe307edf4e7554f0b5b9 Spoiler Fixed an issue on macOS Sonoma 14.4 causing Automatic Profile Switching to not work with Wi-Fi networks. Fixed a bug in Configuration where badges in the sidebar were not correctly displayed. Fixed a bug in Network Monitor where the map would initially open 180 degrees longitude off from your location on large displays. Fixed a drawing bug in the traffic diagram of Network Monitor.
Little Snitch | Homepage | Download | Release Notes | Support | Blog | Payware | Little Snitch 5.7.6,6304 has been released. (16-May-2024) SHA-256: f0a9905f0f4222273febf4f1ae1a330770a064b7454583bd48e8152cc4bb30f8 Spoiler May 16, 2024 Little Snitch 5.7.6 (6304) In this release, we've addressed an issue in the inspector of Network Monitor causing text sections to be cut off, preventing the full text from being visible. This bug was a side effect of fixing a hang in the Little Snitch app with the previous release. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by two updates occurring in such quick succession!
Little Snitch | Homepage | Download | Release Notes | Support | Blog | Payware | Little Snitch 6.0,7100 has been released. (21-May-2024) SHA-256: 12e9efa8ee310c733d6623e8cf5c51141324a0a719ef008fc7ec8f13dbe5b5f3 Spoiler May 21, 2024 Little Snitch 6.0 (7100) We are proud to announce a new major version of Little Snitch! Give it a try! Your existing rules and settings will be preserved so you can always go back to the previous version. If you’re enjoying it, we would be happy if you considered buying the upgrade to support our work! Visit https://obdev.at/littlesnitch for an immediate first look! Upgrade pricing If you have purchased Little Snitch 5 after January 1, 2024, you can upgrade to Little Snitch 6 for free – just use your existing license key. If you purchased before, you can get the upgrade at a reduced price. New in Little Snitch 6 Blocklists Enhanced support for blocklists, similar to the features found in Little Snitch Mini. Conveniently choose from a curated list of blocklists, organized by topic (like Advertising, Tracking, Malware, etc.), allowing you to enable these blocklists with just a few mouse clicks. Automatic daily updates ensure that your blocklists are kept up to date when the maintainer adds new entries. Improved filtering performance when filtering network connections based on large blocklists. DNS Encryption All DNS lookups can now be securely transmitted via encrypted connections to a DNS server of your choice, ensuring enhanced privacy when browsing the web. Configurable, system-wide DNS encryption. Can be enabled in Little Snitch Settings > DNS Encryption. Predefined configurations for the most popular DNS encryption services, so you can get started with just a few mouse clicks. Network Activity Monitoring Improved design of the Network Monitor user interface. Introducing a revamped traffic chart for clearer visualization and analysis of network activity. Versatile grouping options for connections in Network Monitor. Connections can now be grouped not only by process, but alternatively also by domain/server or by country. So you can quickly see at a glance all apps to connect to a particular country or to a particular domain. All connections related to one app are now grouped under one entry in the connection list, including incoming connections and connections established via helper tools. Configurable traffic meter appearance: Choose between two types of traffic activity indicators – either a live meter showing the current activity (like in Little Snitch 5) and a new thumbnail chart showing a history of the last five minutes (like in Little Snitch Mini). Improved legibility of connection lines shown in the map. Display of named location labels in the map. Automatic updates of the Geolocation Database for enhanced accuracy and reliability. Improved display of App Extensions in the connection list. More powerful search and filter options. Status Menu Revamped status menu, including an animated traffic chart, information about recent network activity and recently denied connections. Configurable traffic meter appearance: Like in Network Monitor, you can now choose between two types of traffic activity indicators to be shown in the menu bar: Either a live meter showing the current activity and a new thumbnail chart showing a history of the last five minutes. Creating and managing rules A new types of rules allows showing notifications in Notification Center whenever a certain kind of network activity occurs. Ability to create rules for “Any macOS Process” and “Any Simulator Process”. Local, editable rule groups, allowing you to organize rules by topic and enable or disable multiple related rules at once. Attach notes to newly created rules directly from within the connection alert. Rules now identify processes based on their cryptographic code signature, irrespective of their location in the file system. This makes rules resistant against moving or renaming apps. The previous, path-based identification is still available as an option. Bidirectional rules that match both incoming and outgoing connections from/to certain IP addresses or ranges. Improved Homebrew support. Rules for Homebrew executables are now independent of the version number, which is part of the executable path. Sound Notifications Get an acoustic feedback whenever a certain kind of network activity occurs. Become aware of such network activity even when you are not actively watching the Network Monitor window or when you don‘t even watch your screen. Select from a fun variety of built-in notification sounds. Some sounds are also modulated to indicate the amount of data that is currently transferred. Usage statistics for rules and blocklists See how often rules or blocklist entries have been used and when they were last used. Sort the rule list by “Last Used Date” or by “Usage Count”. The new “Unused” filter helps you quickly find rules that haven’t been used for quite a while. Other new features and improvements Customization options to disable specific types of notifications from being shown in Notification Center. All credit and thanks to @FanJ for notification of this major upgrade!
Little Snitch | Homepage | Download | Release Notes | Support | Blog | Payware | Little Snitch 6.0.1,7102 has been released. (10-June-2024) SHA-256: fa91673e29cd0915c468f65e0565bf12d1ed297e2ae5e0443f0f1f7070bde816 Spoiler June 10, 2024 Little Snitch 6.0.1 (7102) Improvements DNS encryption can now be disabled completely in particular profiles. Enter an asterisk (“*”) for the domain in the “DNS Encryption Exceptions” settings, which acts a wildcard for “All Domains”. IP address based blocklists now have precedence over all DNS/name-based rules. When selecting a recently denied connection from the status menu, the specific server is now selected in Network Monitor, not just the domain. Added an option in Settings > Status Menu to choose if local network traffic shall be included in status menu traffic rates and graphs. Improved confirmation dialog when deleting a rule group or profile: You are now asked to explicitly choose whether to keep or delete rules that are contained in that group or profile. Improved searching for rules via search field. By default, the bundle identifier of the rule or the rule’s notes are no longer searched because this often resulted in too many and sometimes unexpected search results. You can still search in these fields by choosing a dedicated search scope. Improved feedback when the update of a blocklist failed. The yellow warning triangle can now be clicked to reveal more information about what went wrong. Clicking on an already selected filter in the sidebar of the rules window now resets an active focus mode. The summary inspector in Network Monitor now shows connection statistics for the deepest leaf nodes of the current grouping. Bug Fixes Exception domains for DNS encryption are now case-insensitive. The context menu in the connection list of Network Monitor can now also be opened with control-click. Clicking the clear button in the search field of the rules window and Network Monitor no longer removes keyboard focus from the search field. Fixed textual search for internationalized domain names in blocklists. Fixed a bug where total traffic amounts displayed in the connection list did increase over time, even if a fixed time range was selected in the traffic chart. Fixed a bug causing the summary statistics in the inspector of Network Monitor not being updated after changing connection grouping. Fixed: Search field filter buttons didn’t work in the Suggestions section of Little Snitch. Fixed: Pressing Down-Arrow in Rule Editor text field did open the wrong menu. Clearing Port/Process text fields in rule editor did not reset to Any/Any Process. Accessibility: The context menu in the rule list could not be opened via VoiceOver. The traffic chart icon shown in the menu bar was sometimes displayed with the wrong color while the menu was open. The “Differentiate by color” option was not properly considered for numeric data rates when the 5-minute history style of the chart was used. Fixed icon representing “Alert Mode” in profile editor. Added missing German localizations.
Little Snitch | Homepage | Download | Release Notes | Support | Blog | Payware | What's New | Compare | Little Snitch 6.0.3,7108 has been released. (24-July-2024) SHA-256: f56c8dca3e39164e7e844a41b2bd87224b1ced5d3db8497de654683787d9478a Spoiler July 24, 2024 Little Snitch 6.0.3 (710 Improved Demo Mode Little Snitch now offers a free, fully featured 30-day trial for existing customers with a valid license for version 5. New users without a license can still run Little Snitch in demo mode, where the network filter is turned off after each three hours of operation. The current status of the trial is shown in the toolbar of the rules window and in Network Monitor. New littlesnitch restrictions Terminal command to query the status of the trial. New Features and Improvements Increased precedence of blocklists so they can block connections that would otherwise be allowed by Any Process / Domain rules. New littlesnitch profile command to enable disable profiles. New littlesnitch rulegroup command to enable or disable rule groups. New option --preserve-terminal-access for littlesnitch restore-model to prevent lockout. Debugging of DNS encryption problems is now easier: If errors occurred recently, an error log is available in the DNS Encryption settings pane of Little Snitch. A “Troubleshooting” menu is added to the Help menu when it’s opened with the Option key held down. When copying rules from the rules window, blocklists are now represented as reference to the blocklist URL, not by copying a list of all blocklist entries. Bug Fixes When deciding about DNS encryption exceptions, Little Snitch now also considers DNS queries of type MX, PTR and others. When an error occurs in the connection to an encrypted DNS server, Little Snitch now always attempts to reconnect to the server. Fixed: When importing a backup, DNS encryption settings were not restored. Fixed: Settings for enabled and disabled notifications were not correctly encoded in a backup. Preventing the creation of invalid rules when pasting into the rules window. When deleting a selected blocklist, rule group or profile, the selection in the sidebar now switches back to “All Rules”. Fixed a crash in Network Monitor when right-clicking on “Incoming Connections”.
Little Snitch | Homepage | Download | Release Notes | Support | Blog | Payware | What's New | Compare | Little Snitch 6.0.4,7111 has been released. (01-August-2024) SHA-256: 6c195378ced1b90c2352469aca0d9893fd03b7b88f2d2875af4103df1eed5710 Spoiler Bug Fix for users upgrading from Little Snitch 5 When upgrading from Little Snitch 5 to version 6.0.3, the existing rules and setting were not preserved but reset to the factory settings. This bug has been fixed in this version. If you have been affected by this bug, you can restore your previous rules and settings by choosing File > Restore from Backup from the menu bar in the Little Snitch app. A backup file of your Little Snitch 5 configuration can be found in the /Library/Application Support/Objective Development/Little Snitch folder. The name of that backup file is configuration5_YYYY-MM-DD_hh.mm.ss_crashOnLoad-5.xpl (the middle part of the filename is the date/time when the backup was created).
Little Snitch | Homepage | Download | Release Notes | Support | Blog | Payware | What's New | Compare | Little Snitch 6.1.1,7124 has been released. (18-September-2024) SHA-256: 9e2cf3c267c62df60190fe18ae35815ef690e2e2a6ced38193748522686ddb8c Spoiler Little Snitch 6.1.1 (7124) This version fixes a problem where DNS lookups would leave the computer unencrypted, although DNS encryption has been turned on. This bug was new in 6.1, previous versions are not affected.
Little Snitch | Homepage | Download | Release Notes | Support | Blog | Payware | What's New | Compare | Little Snitch 6.1.2,7132 has been released. (15-October-2024) SHA-256: f62d587642ef6423acfbdff88596c8fd710d4414ae4771643084ce6628320cd4 Spoiler October 15, 2024 Little Snitch 6.1.2 (7132) Improvements Added a hovering effect to Internet Access Policy buttons in the connection list of Network Monitor to indicate that they can be clicked. Improved handling of connection errors in DNS encryption. Update “Last Used” statistics also for ask-rules. Preserve the traffic chart zoom level when Network Monitor is restarted. Bug Fixes Network Monitor Fixed: Some text input methods like Chinese or Japanese did not work in the search field. Fixed: The Internet Access Policy button was incorrectly shown for the “Local Network” group of a connection. Fixed a flickering of Internet Access Policy buttons and rule management buttons when scrolling quickly through a large list of connections. Fixed possible crash on startup of Network Monitor. Fixed false labeling of weekdays in traffic chart when the configured first day of the week was not Monday. Little Snitch App Fixed a crash when a rule for an app with a corrupted Info.plist file was found. Fixed a bug where changes of a rule’s remote endpoint did not become effective until another rule change occurred. Fixed incorrect updates of the rule list when rules were added or removed via Network Monitor. Connection Alert Fixed a bug where a connection alert incorrectly reported a change in the authorship of a TestFlight app, although the original and new author were identical. Status Menu Fixed behavior when clicking a recently denied connection which was denied by an IP address rule.
Little Snitch | Homepage | Download | Release Notes | Support | Blog | Payware | What's New | Compare | Little Snitch 6.1.3,7141 has been released. (20-November-2024) SHA-256: c107e465d98ef68b1086eb111c804889fcb91a0dff6ae17d958e7bd1da2818c7 Spoiler November 20, 2024 Little Snitch 6.1.3 (7141) Improvements DNS encryption now supports password authentication to DoH servers (DNS over HTTP). Improved detection of Wi-Fi network changes for automatic profile switching. Improved responsiveness of Network Monitor when selecting a time range in the traffic chart. Improved accessibility via VoiceOver. Bug Fixes Fixed dimming of status menu icon on inactive display. Fixed a bug where traffic meters in Network Monitor did not update correctly. Fixed a bug where the creation of rule groups for Apple Apps or Third-Party Apps did not complete. Fixed possible deadlock during installation of Little Snitch for certain network configurations. Fixed a rare bug where the rule inspector in Little Snitch could stop working.
Little Snitch version 6.2 (7147) released - February 3, 2025 Release Notes: https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/releasenotes.html (sitting in for @1PW ; see the links above posted by 1PW )
Little Snitch | Homepage | Download | Release Notes | Support | Blog | Payware | What's New | Compare | Little Snitch 6.2.1,7149 has been released. (18-February-2025) SHA-256: 05fd24609d21a33a2897397c75714e3b2c67c98857477f08e2f5d0bbd8deb372 Spoiler Little Snitch 6.2.1 (7149) Network Monitor Connections from helper processes that are contained within an app bundle are now attributed to their parent app in the connection list of Network Monitor, so they no longer show up as separate, nested connections. The connection list now shows more useful names for XPC helper processes running from a temporary, random path which may no longer exist. Improved information shown in the inspector’s header section when an app group or app extension is selected. Configuration The rule list now shows an info text overlay for empty search and filter results (explaining why the list is empty). Connection Alert If the Network Extension frameworks provides the URL leading to a connection, this information is now shown in the details section of the connection alert. Bug Fixes and Improvements Improved the installation process to initiate a retry sequence if the Agent process did not start after installation. Fixed a missing localization in the Endpoint Security installation dialog on macOS Sonoma. This bug prevented the installation of the Endpoint Security system extension on Sonoma. The “Select All” and “Deselect All” commands no longer worked in Network Monitor. The Command-Delete keyboard shortcut for removing connections from the connection list no longer worked in Network Monitor. Fixed the incorrect appearance of another “Private Relay” label, shown in the map. Fixed an issue causing updates of the geolocation database to happen too often or not at all. Fixed a display issue in Network Monitor when hovering certain elements in the inspector with the mouse, causing the displayed icon to overlap with the underlying text.
Little Snitch | Homepage | Download | Release Notes | Support | Blog | Payware | What's New | Compare | Little Snitch 6.2.2,7151 has been released. (26-February-2025) Signed. SHA-256: 56b1ce2eb4ec34dd1c259157f423c09430fb1bfcb55ed725b247bd64f875e908 Spoiler Little Snitch 6.2.2 (7151) Software Update Hot Fix This version fixes a bug introduced in the previous version, 6.2.1: For some users, the automatic software update fails to check for new versions. As a result, affected users are not notified when a new version of Little Snitch (such as this one, which resolves the issue) becomes available. Instead, they must manually check for updates by selecting “Check for Updates” from the “Little Snitch” menu within the application. We therefore highly recommend that all users of Little Snitch 6.2.1 install the 6.2.2 update. Other Bug Fixes Fixes an issue in the map of Network Monitor, causing incorrect city names to be shown for connections to Africa.
Little Snitch | Homepage | Download | Release Notes | Support | Blog | Payware | What's New | Compare | Little Snitch 6.2.3,7153 has been released. (11-March-2025) Signed. SHA-256: 4368de875082fb9bfa626cf8c9232505d22d6d2ea7da937c09ccf66635824950 Spoiler March 11, 2025 Little Snitch 6.2.3 (7153) Improvements Improved compatibility with programs using UDP communication by avoiding deep packet inspection for most UDP traffic. Bug Fixes Fixed an issue causing some rules in the Configuration window to be shown with their Code ID instead of the process name. Fixed a crash of Network Monitor when opening the connection inspector. Fixed detection of Wi-Fi networks for Automatic Profile Switching when the router cannot not be found.
