Mobloquer 0.5 is out!

Published Thursday, 24th Apr 06:33 BST by jimtb in News


After about one month of development, mobloquer 0.5 is finally here!

This new release brings some really important features I've been planning since I starting creating the program such as the new dialogs which allow the user to easily whitelist IPs through the GUI or remove specific entries from the blockliss.

This is also the first version of mobloquer to have multithreading support. As the program now uses separate threads to execute shell commands the user interface will still remain responsive when these commands are executed.

Changelog: ADDED: Multithreading support. From now on, when mobloquer executes a shell command it uses a separate thread to do so. As a result the GUI will no longer freeze when doing specific tasks such as saving the settings or resolving a host. ADDED: "WhiteList IPs" dialog which allows the user to easily add IP addresses/ranges or hostnames into the whitelist or remove any whitelisted entry. ADDED: "Remove IPs" dialog which allows the user remove IP ranges with specific names/addresses from the blocklist. ADDED: The ability change the default front-end for sudo through the GUI. FIXED: Improvements in the way the program reacts when various tasks are taking place. When moblock-control executes a task the widgets which allow the user to change settings will be temporarily disabled and vice versa. FIXED: Improved documentation withing the program to help new users understand what each option does. FIXED: Reduced CPU usage by changing the way mobloquer checks if the moblock daemon is running. FIXED: Changed the date's format in the moblock-control log to be easier to read. FIXED: A bug which caused moblock log entries containing the pipe character in their "name" section to be ignored.

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