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Little Snitch for Mac

Little Snitch 5.3.1

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Sometimes latest versions of the software can cause issues when installed on older devices or devices running an older version of the operating system.

Software makers usually fix these issues but it can take them some time. What you can do in the meantime is to download and install an older version of Little Snitch 5.3.1.


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What's new in this version:

Improvements:
- Improved user guidance when starting Little Snitch for the first time. Instructions how to enable the Network Extension are now illustrated
- Added support for Private Relay connections on macOS Monterey. Since the Internet address of a Private Relay connection is not known, Little Snitch now shows it as “Private Relay”
- When recording traffic of a process via littlesnitch capture-traffic from the command line, traffic from related helper-processes is now included as well. Parameters for the capture-traffic subcommand have been renamed to reflect this change
- Connection details in the Network Monitor inspector now reflect the displayed and selected time period
- When a temporary rule expires, Little Snitch now shows a connection alert for all related connections that are still active but no longer covered by the now expired rule. These connections can then again be allowed or denied, but until a new decision is made, the previous, temporary decision (allow or deny) remains effective
- Improved connection alert to allow the creation of “Until Quit” rules for apps that are connecting via a helper tool, when the helper is already terminated, but the parent app is still running
- Improved wording of the term “software update” in German localization
- Corrected wording in tooltips of rule buttons in Network Monitor

Fixed:
- a rare crash in the Little Snitch network extension
- a rare issue where the host name of the remote server could not be determined for unencrypted HTTP connections
- expiry handling of time based temporary rules. The expiry was delayed while the computer was in sleep mode
- a possible deadlock which occurred when a “New Network” alert should have been shown
- “Sort by Data Volume” behavior in Network Monitor. The values used for sorting did not take the displayed time period into account
- a bug where the type of traffic meters in Network Monitor was not updated in all rows when switching the sort order between Last Activity and Data Volume
- the computation of traffic rates shown in the inspector of Network Monitor. Rates may have been about 30% too low
- a bug where data volume meters did not update when sorting by data volume
- When switching the displayed time period in Network Monitor from a long to a short interval, some connections did not drop off the list, even if their last activity was outside the chosen interval. This issue has been fixed
- a possible crash of the Little Snitch application when searching rules for occurrences of a string
- an issue causing lots of warning messages regarding “deprecated use of NSObject in XPC” to be shown in the Console of macOS Monterey
- a bug causing the connection alert not to update the indication that the connecting process just terminated
- a bug causing a “location services disabled” alert message to appear twice when running Network Monitor for the first time
- an issue where starting the Little Snitch application with the Option key held down did not open the Installation Status window
- various bugs with mouse-hovering sensitive areas in the connection inspector of Network Monitor
- an issue causing the “Show in Finder” button in the connection inspector of Network Monitor to disappear when clicked
- a bug causing the Little Snitch application to hang after pasting a large number of hostnames or IP addresses in the rule editor
- Corrected a typo in the German localization of the Profile popup in the connection alert
- Corrected some layout and appearance issues in the “Welcome to Little Snitch” window