Fort Firewall 3.20.9 has been released, featuring a new Rules list tab, per-program icons, and support for Farsi and Romanian languages. A significant change in this update is the alteration in the evaluation order of program rules and Network Filters, which could impact how connections are managed. This release comes shortly after the discontinuation of its main competitor, SimpleWall, highlighting Fort Firewall's position as one of the few actively maintained free host firewalls for Windows. The update also includes various bug fixes and improvements, with the software available in multiple builds for different Windows versions
Fort Firewall 3.20.9 Release: New Features, Order Change, and the Core Isolation Catch
Fort Firewall 3.20.9 shipped today, as a small polish-and-fix build adding a new Rules list tab, per-program icons, and Farsi and Romanian languages. The standout change is under the hood, where a program's rules are now evaluated after its Network Filters, shifting how connections get decided. It lands while Fort stands as one of the few actively maintained free Windows host firewalls left, especially after rival SimpleWall was archived.
