Portmaster

Safing ICS Technologies GmbH·Safing.Portmaster

Portmaster is a free and open-source application that puts you back in charge over all your computers network connections.

Portmaster is a free and open-source application firewall that does the heavy lifting for you. Restore privacy and take back control over all your computer's network activity. Discover everything that is happening on your computer. Expose every connection your applications make and detect evil ones. Finally get the power to act accordingly. Protect your whole computer, not just your browser. Block all advertisements and trackers for every application. Easily add your own rules and block individual domains. Make your own rules. Completely cut off applications from the Internet. Or block all p2p connections except for certain apps. Or never connect to specific countries. Portmaster has you covered.

winget install --id Safing.Portmaster --exact --source winget

Latest 2.2.1·June 11, 2026

Release Notes

New

  • Split Tunneling: Route specific apps through a different network interface - #2182 / documentation

Fixes

  • App profiles not migrating correctly when application fingerprints change - #2181 / #1997
  • (Linux) Pre-existing connections could bypass SPN routing rules after Portmaster start/resume - 315fc254
  • (Linux) IPv6 conntrack entries not correctly removed during cleanup - 8d627bc1
  • (Linux) Improved compatibility with IVPN Client in some environment configurations - e2f6f1f8

UI

  • Removed username display from the main dashboard (privacy improvement) - dea00888 / #2123
  • "SPN Tunnel" connection detail is now only shown when the connection was actually routed through SPN - ee2e3ef3

Installer type: nullsoft

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Details

Homepage
https://safing.io/
License
GPL-3.0
Publisher
Safing ICS Technologies GmbH
Support
https://safing.io/support/#portmaster
Privacy Policy
https://safing.io/privacy/
Moniker
portmaster

Tags

ad-blockeradministrationdnsfirewallfossinternetnetworknetwork-monitoropen-source

Older versions (9)

2.1.19
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2.1.7
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2.0.25
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2.0.24
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1.6.5
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