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Jetico Personal Firewall for Windows v2.0 public beta
released on 1st August, 2006.

Important notes. Read before installation.

• Jetico Personal Firewall v2 is beta software. It has numerous improvements and may contain bugs.
  
  
• Please do not use it on production systems.
  
  
• Please uninstall previous versions of Jetico Personal Firewall software before installing this one.
  
  
• Installation program does not mark Jetico Personal Firewall server to start at boot time. Instead, it sets server startup type to "Automatic".
  
  
• Jetico Personal Firewall package does not contain Configuration Wizard program.

Removed features

• Windows 9x/Me system support discontinued. Please use Jetico Personal Firewall v1 for these systems.

System-related changes

• Jetico Personal Firewall v2 runs as privileged Windows service. It can protect computer before user logon.
  
  
• Native support for Windows XP Fast User Switching and Terminal Services.
  
  
• Jetico Personal Firewall supports Access Control Lists for all main functions. Administrator can configure ACL to grant access to particular firewall functions for any user or group.
  
  
• Windows XP Service Pack 2 Security Center support.

User interface changes

• Improved rule editing interface.
  
  
• New popup message. The new look for popup dialog is presented. Popup message text and rule creation options can be modified.
  
  
• Firewall variables formerly controlled by Configuration Wizard, are integrated into main application window.
  
  
• Language file support for easy localization. All translatable words and phrases are taken from single UTF-8 encoded text file.

Configuration changes

• New XML-based open configuration file format. Detailed documentation is available upon request.
  
  
• The new version maintains single protected firewall configuration for all users.
  
  
• Simplified controls for configuration.
  
  
• New hash handling scheme. Separate table for hash checking.
  
  
• Each firewall filtering layer has own root table.
  
  
• New automatic variables (per-connection) for local connections are supported.

Changes in firewall rules

• Rules support lists of parameters where possible.
  
  
• IP rules support IP address ranges.
  
  
• Low level protocol rules support filtering by MAC address.
  
  
• Application rules have events for direct and indirect access to network. Indirect access details are also available.
  
  
• New module for hash checking created.
  
  
• Application, Process attack and Hash checking rules support wildcards in file paths.

Logging subsystem changes

• Log entries can be associated with rule.
  
  
• Firewall can create rule based on log information.
  
  
• New WELF-compatible text log format. WELF is supported by many log analyzers.
  
  
• Improved log control.

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Beta Software - Use at Own Risk!

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Jetico 2.0.0.9 Beta released
13-September-2006
Changes:

• System crash on rules with empty groups (appeared in v 2.0.0.8) fixed.
  
  
• Rule from log creation function fixed.

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