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New 🔔
- Log In with Googleis now available as a Sign-In option for the DNSFilter Dashboard. You can add Google to an existing account if your email address matches — you can find the option on your Account Settings page.
Improved 🛠️
- We've modified our handling of uncategorized subdomains when we have an accurate category for the parent domain. Subdomains will now inherent the parent's category when there isn't a more specific category for the subdomain. This will result in more consistent reporting of subdomains and fewer blocked requests if Uncategorizedis enabled on your Policy's Advanced Settings and the parent domain would otherwise be allowed.
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Anycast Network
DNSFilter is powered by our Global Anycast Network with over 85 locations, bringing you the fastest DNS resolution in the world.
This month, we've expanded our network with new nodes in
Guatemala
🇬🇹, Lisbon
🇵🇹, Zagreb
🇭🇷, Athens
🇬🇷, and Costa Rica
🇨🇷. Check our our interactive map for the full list of locations.
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Web App
Improved 🛠️
- Quickly add domains to your Policy's Block or Allow lists from the Query Log with our new shortcut actions! Go to Tools→Query Logand for each query you can chose to add or remove the domain to one or more of your Policies or your Universal Lists from the actions menu.
Bugs 🪲
- Fixed an issue that could display empty charts of requests when drilling down to individual subdomains on an Insights report (Reporting → Insights)
- Corrected a display issue for charts on the Overview and Insights pages to prevent flatlines from appearing at the right-side edge when viewing current day data.
- Fixed a bug that would attempt to load AppAware reports (Reporting→AppAware) with an invalid date, resulting in an error message.
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Mac Roaming Client
A new version of the macOS Roaming client is now available in the dashboard (
Deployments
-> Roaming Clients
-> Install
) for download and installation.v1.6.1 should begin rolling out via auto-update the week of September 11th.
New 🔔
- Introducing the Roaming Client Diagnostic Toolto easily run system and configuration checks to help diagnose issues. Open the Diagnostic Tool from your menubar icon to quickly generate log-files for your own investigation or to share with DNSFilter Support to assist with troubleshooting.
Improved 🛠️
- The macOS Roaming Client is now a Universal App with native support for both Apple Silicon and Intel machines. Also with this release, the minimum supported macOS version is 11.x Big Sur. To continue to receive RC updates, please update your OS version.
Bug Fixes 🪲
- Improvements have been made to address reliability issues when using the RC alongside an IKEv2 VPN.
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Windows Roaming Client
A new version of the Windows Roaming client is now available in the dashboard (
Deployments
-> Roaming Clients
-> Install
) for download and installation. Auto-update will beginning rolling out in the coming weeks.New 🔔
- Introducing the Roaming Client Diagnostic Tool to easily run system and configuration checks to help diagnose issues. Open the Diagnostic Tool from your icon tray menu to quickly generate log-files for your own investigation or share with DNSFilter Support to assist with troubleshooting.
Improved 🛠
- Roaming Client auto-update process is now FIPS compliant — RC versions prior to 1.10.5 would fail to auto-update when running with a FIPS enforced group policy. Future updates will now be delivered via auto-updated if enabled for your organization Deployments→Roaming Clients→Settings
Bug Fixes 🪲
- Fixed a bug that could cause DNS resolution to fail when RC is running on a network environment with IPv6 enabled.
- When an request to access a local domain fails due to unreachable local resolvers, a failover to DNSFilter resolvers will be attempted.
- Fixed an issue in the Roaming Client Dashboard that would truncate hostnames of Windows RC users.
- Fixed an issue that could cause manually configured network settings to not be correctly restored when the RC is stopped or uninstalled.
- Fixed a bug that could cause internet connectivity to fail (DNS set to 127.0.0.0) when a conflicting VPN is running that prevents the RC from starting as expected.
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Web App
Blocked Page
Improved 🛠️
- Blocking categories Advertising and Trackers (Policies→Filtering→Advanced→ExtraSettings) have been expanded with two levels each —Moderate | Strict. The new Moderate option still blocks most advertising and tracking domains, respectively, while excluding certain popular domains like Google Ads and streaming video advertising for a less disruptive user experience.
- The External Block Page with 302 Redirect support has been enhanced with URL Parameters for common attributes of the blocked request. Requesting IP Address, Domain and Domain Category are now passed with the redirect. Find attribute names and formatting details at Policies→Block Page → Create/Edit.
- Query Log records will now display the local IP address of the requesting user if no user name is available, such as with network or Relay deployments.
Bugs 🪲
- Fixed an issue on the Billing page that would incorrectly display and upgrade banner if using AppAware on an Enterprise or Pro plan.
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Chrome Extension
A new version of our Chrome extension Roaming Client 2.2.4 is now available.
Bugs 🪲
- Fixed an issue where an allowed domain could be unexpectedly blocked when accessed immediately after a reboot/restart.
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Web App
Improved 🛠️
- The Roaming Client CSV export now includes the OS version of the local machine for each agent. Please see our supported versions documentation to make sure your users are on a recommended version.
Bugs 🪲
- Fixed an issue where confirmation emails to inaccurate domain category reports were not being sent to the submitted user.
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Chrome Extension
A new version of our Chrome extension Roaming Client v2.2.2 is beginning its release rollout on Aug 3, 2023.
Improvements 🛠️
- Chrome RC agent that has been deleted from the dashboard will now reactivate and restore to the dashboard when it is reinstalled on the same device.
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A new version of the iOS RC has been released and is available in the App Store - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dnsfilter-roaming-client/id1473741349
Improvements 🛠️
- Site keys can now be updated on existing iOS RCs by pushing new/updated MDM profiles — without requiring user action or the RC to be reinstalled.
Bugs 🪲
- Fixed an issue that was causing duplicate rows on the RC dashboard when a device with a custom name was restarted.
- Fixed an issue when enabling the DNS over TLS setting that could occasionally fail to switch from UDP.
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