qbPortWeaver v2.6.5

Detection of client settings that quietly undo your forwarded port, a calmer response when your internet goes down, a check that your VPN really came back after a restart, and a Detect button for your VPN provider.

New Features

• Spots client settings that undo your forwarded port - some options in your client work against the port you are forwarding: a randomised listening port, or the client doing its own router forwarding; qbPortWeaver already turns these off whenever it sets the port, and now tells you if one has been switched back on, naming it as your client labels it; Diagnostics reports it too; this matters most for Transmission and Nicotine+, where such a setting shows no symptom at all until the client is next restarted
• Tells you when your VPN does not come back - when qbPortWeaver restarts your VPN service to recover the connection, it now checks that the service really did start again instead of assuming it worked; if it did not, you get a clear message rather than a quiet note saying it was restarted; worth having if you use a killswitch, since a VPN service that fails to come back can leave you with no connection at all
• Calmer behaviour when your internet goes down - if the connection itself drops, restarting your VPN cannot bring it back, so qbPortWeaver no longer keeps trying at full speed; it checks whether anything is reachable, then spaces its attempts out to 5, 10 and then 15 minutes for as long as the outage lasts, and returns to normal on its own once the connection is back; it never stops retrying entirely, so a VPN that is genuinely stuck still gets restarted
• Finds your VPN provider for you - Settings can now detect which VPN provider is installed on your machine and select it, the same way the Client row already fills itself in; gateways that use NAT-PMP have nothing to detect, so pick NAT-PMP yourself if that is what you use

Full Changelog: v2.6.4...v2.6.5