Little Snitch for Mac

The new features are great, but the light blue/light pink color scheme is hideous. I look forward to their next update when they let users change the default colors.

Oh and... "Little Snitch 6 requires macOS 14 Sonoma or newer."

v6.0 DETAILS: "We are proud to announce a new major version of Little Snitch! Give it a try! Your existing rules and settings will be preserved so you can always go back to the previous version. If you’re enjoying it, we would be happy if you considered buying the upgrade to support our work! Visit https://obdev.at/littlesnitch for an immediate first look! - - • Upgrade pricing: If you have purchased Little Snitch 5 after January 1, 2024, you can upgrade to Little Snitch 6 for free – just use your existing license key. If you purchased before, you can get the upgrade at a reduced price. - - --> New in Little Snitch 6: • Blocklists - Enhanced support for blocklists, similar to the features found in Little Snitch Mini. Conveniently choose from a curated list of blocklists, organized by topic (like Advertising, Tracking, Malware, etc.), allowing you to enable these blocklists with just a few mouse clicks. Automatic daily updates ensure that your blocklists are kept up to date when the maintainer adds new entries. - Improved filtering performance when filtering network connections based on large blocklists. • DNS Encryption - All DNS lookups can now be securely transmitted via encrypted connections to a DNS server of your choice, ensuring enhanced privacy when browsing the web. - Configurable, system-wide DNS encryption. Can be enabled in Little Snitch Settings > DNS Encryption. Predefined configurations for the most popular DNS encryption services so you can get started with just a few mouse clicks. • Network Activity Monitoring - Improved design of the Network Monitor user interface. Introducing a revamped traffic chart for clearer visualization and analysis of network activity. Versatile grouping options for connections in Network Monitor. Connections can now be grouped not only by process but alternatively also by domain/server or by country. So you can quickly see at a glance all apps to connect to a particular country or to a particular domain. All connections related to one app are now grouped under one entry in the connection list, including incoming connections and connections established via helper tools. - Configurable traffic meter appearance: Choose between two types of traffic activity indicators – either a live meter showing the current activity (like in Little Snitch 5) and a new thumbnail chart showing a history of the last five minutes (like in Little Snitch Mini). - Improved legibility of connection lines shown in the map. - Display of named location labels in the map. - Automatic updates of the Geolocation Database for enhanced accuracy and reliability. - Improved display of App Extensions in the connection list. - More powerful search and filter options. • Status Menu - Revamped status menu, including an animated traffic chart, information about recent network activity and recently denied connections. - Configurable traffic meter appearance: Like in Network Monitor you can now choose between two types of traffic activity indicators to be shown in the menu bar: Either a live meter showing the current activity and a new thumbnail chart showing a history of the last five minutes. • Creating and managing rules - A new type of rules allows to show notifications in Notification Center whenever a certain kind of network activity occurs. - Ability to create rules for “Any macOS Process” and “Any Simulator Process”. - Local, editable rule groups, allowing you to organize rules by topic and enable or disable multiple related rules at once. - Attach notes to newly created rules directly from within the connection alert. Rules now identify processes based on their cryptographic code signature, irrespective of their location in the file system. This makes rules resistant against moving or renaming apps. The previous, path-based identification is still available as an option. - Bidirectional rules that match both incoming and outgoing connections from/to certain IP addresses or ranges. - Improved Homebrew support. Rules for Homebrew executables are now independent of the version number, which is part of the executable path. • Sound Notifications - Get an acoustic feedback whenever a certain kind of network activity occurs. - Become aware of such network activity even when you are not actively watching the Network Monitor window or when you don‘t even watch your screen. - Select from a fun variety of built-in notification sounds. - Some of the sounds are modulated to also indicate the amount of data that is currently transferred. • Usage statistics for rules and blocklists - See how often rules or blocklist entries have been used and when they were last used. - Sort the rule list by “Last Used Date” or by “Usage Count”. - The new “Unused” filter helps you quickly find rules that haven’t been used for quite a while. • Other new features and improvements - Customization options to disable specific types of notifications from being shown in Notification Center."

Little Snitch v6.0 is out. I'll post the changes/improvements in another post. The UPGRADE PRICING: (1) "Licenses purchased after January 1, 2024 are already valid for Little Snitch 6." (2) Upgrade Single License Pricing: $39. Family License: $69. Multiple (5x) License: $159. - - REGULAR PRICE remains $59 for a single license, etc. No nasty subscriptions! Bless them. Details of the upgrade are above in another post.

v5.7.6 is out in a hurry: "In this release, we‘ve addressed an issue in the inspector of Network Monitor causing text sections to be cut off, preventing the full text from being visible. This bug was a side effect of fixing a hang in the Little Snitch app with the previous release. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by two updates occurring in such quick succession!"