GeniaFirewall 0.7.4 RC2

GeniaFirewall 0.7.4 RC2

Release Candidate — testing release, not Stable.

GeniaFirewall 0.7.4 RC2 introduces a hardened single-EXE portable deployment model, protected embedded service lifecycle, improved WFP cleanup and diagnostics, and stricter global Block All behavior.

Highlights

• Single-file portable package containing only GeniaFirewall.exe.
• Embedded service is installed automatically into the protected %ProgramFiles%\GeniaFirewall\Service location.
• Transactional service updates with rollback to the previous executable if health verification fails.
• Verification of embedded payload SHA-256, SCM configuration, service and file ACLs, BFE dependency, executable path, and IPC service identity.
• Improved Windows Firewall Compatibility handoff with persisted WFP policy cleanup verification.
• Service activation and safe deactivation from the application settings.
• Block All is now an absolute global mode covering TCP/UDP, IPv4/IPv6, inbound/outbound traffic, including previously allowed applications and loopback.
• UI clearly indicates the active global block state without modifying saved per-application rules.
• Improved boot-policy restoration diagnostics.
• Added bundled .NET license and third-party notice documentation.

CI / security status

Built from commit:

df3dc40d136fd5c155e0dc969b2b960499c796bd

• CI #13: passed
• CodeQL #16: passed
• GitHub Code Scanning: no new alerts in code changed by this pull request

Download verification

GeniaFirewall-0.7.4-RC2-SingleExe-Portable-win-x64.zip

SHA-256:

19c0a8b664030c5dce465908b4fc4f2f7133f48c8ab533ec50422784009223a2

The same checksum is included in GeniaFirewall-0.7.4-RC2-SHA256.txt.

Important

This build is a Release Candidate and is not considered Stable.

Authenticode signing and the complete final Windows release-validation gate are still pending. SHA-256 verifies file integrity but does not provide publisher identity verification.

Please report any issues found during testing.