Changelog · PacketHound

PacketHound 1.2.0 Latest

Released 6 November 2026 · Download

Decide later now has a home: apps you put off are listed on the Rules tab under "Waiting for your decision", with a Decide button to bring the prompt back. They stay blocked until you decide.
When the wait is over, PacketHound asks again straight away if the app is still running, or the next time it connects.
The main window, the tray icon and its menu show how many apps are waiting. In Activity, right-click a row to decide about that app or copy its IP address.
Pause protection for 5 minutes, 15 minutes or an hour, and it turns itself back on, even after a restart.
Installers and updaters that run from a temporary folder are recognised: their rules last only until they quit, and signed ones you allow are remembered, so the next copy is let through before it even starts.
After you allow an installer, a notification offers to pause protection for 5 minutes in one click, for installers that give up after their first blocked attempt.
Rules for programs that are no longer on your PC are highlighted as "Program not found", and "Remove missing" deletes them after asking you.
The rules list has a Status column.
The main window remembers its size, position and whether it was maximized.

Released 6 November 2026 · Download

The prompt can now limit a rule to one IP address, one host (api.example.com) or a whole domain (*.example.com), instead of the whole app. Any connection is still the default.
Rules can last forever or only until the app quits; temporary rules are removed once the app closes.
Rules list shows what each rule applies to, and which rules are temporary.
The prompt no longer has a close button, so it cannot be dismissed by accident: choose Allow, Block or Decide later.
Version number in the main window title bar.

Released 5 November 2026 · Download

First release.
Allow / Block prompt for apps connecting for the first time, with publisher, destination and port.
Windows components are allowed automatically; common download tools such as PowerShell and curl still ask.
Rules list with Allow/Block switches, search and sorting; activity log with hostnames.
Installer with a clean uninstall that restores Windows Firewall's settings.