Changelog
Friday, 20 March 2026
Edited Saturday, 14 June 2025
3.0.2 Beta
Fixes
- #58 Silent list update was installing empty blocklists
- #27 Japanese path support
3.0.1 Beta
New
- The options windows is back, starting with some basic settings, but with more to come
- You may disable the software update check when IPFilter starts (enable this in the Options)
- Try the latest features by enabling pre-release updates
- Get IPFilter to schedule itself to do an automatic silent update of the list every day
Improvements
- Performance improvements when loading, merging and outputting lists
- A link button to open the log file using your default editor
- The exe and installer are now signed using a code signing certificate for authenticity
Changes
- Removed the old app.config / user.config settings; settings are now stored in settings.json
3.0.0 Beta 2
New
- Added initial support for eMule
Improvements
- For troubleshooting, a basic log is written to ipfilter.log
- Downloaded list(s) are now sorted and merged to make the list smaller, more compact and faster to load by P2P clients
- Applications receive their own copy of the ipfilter.dat, formatted to each application's preferred format
Changes
- Now installing to \AppData\Local\Programs\IPFilter (instead of AppData\Local\IPFilter) to follow the established convention for per-user applications
- The cached ipfilter.dat will now be stored in \AppData\Local\Programs\IPFilter\ipfilter.dat
3.0.0 Beta 1
Fixes
- #40 Automatic update fails due to github SSL/TLS restrictions
Changes
- Program updates from GitHub Releases
- Distributing a curated, combined default list available from GitHub Releases page
- Requires .NET 4.5
26 Jan 2010
Changes
- Now requires .NET 3.5, and allows mirror selection
- Zip file support
- Allows list selection