Proxy Switcher Standard

What's new in this version:

Proxy Switcher Standard 7.5.0
Changed:
- Future version will not have code signature due to changes in the code signing requirements and prices

Improved:
Updates:
- OpenSSL 1.1.1u
- CA root certificates updated
- IP2Country


Proxy Switcher Standard 7.4.0
Improvements:
- If test for SocksV5 proxy fails, always retry as v4

Updates:
- OpenSSL 1.1.1s
- CA root certificates updated
- IP2Country


Proxy Switcher Standard 7.3.0
Improvements:
- Changed folder names and logic
- Servers that do not support SSL/TLS are now moved to "Non-SSL" folders
- Removed "SSL" subfolders

More fine grained Special GEO rules:
- Can have multiple rules for each county. Processing stops after the 1st rule matched is executed
- Filter by type allows to specity Socks server version 4 or 5
- User folders (under My Proxy Servers) are included in background testing
- Added logic to retry testing socks server with v4 protocol if there was no response to Socksv5

Updates:
- OpenSSL 1.1.1l
- CA root certificates updated
- IP2Country

Fixed:
Special GEO handling fixes:
- Non-standard rules
- Socks servers
- Fix crash in Settings dialog if it's closed while the special geo settings are being edited
- OpenSSL state machine fix to skip re-negotion if connection is already established
- Unicode issues in custom tray menu notes display
- Out of memory error if there is an prolonged connectivity issue that prevents submitting of testing results
- Few minor memory leak fixes
- Other minor problems


Proxy Switcher Standard 7.2.0
Improvements:
- Immediate re-testing of servers that were working in last N attempts but tested as dead
- Added settings to control this under Scanner->Other
- When adding server manually try to detect address that's already in clipboard
- Wizard and background tasks will not move alive/working/etc. servers to "New" when re-testing

Updates:
- OpenSSL 1.1.1i
- CA root certificates updated
- IP2Country
- PCRE 8.44

Fixed Issues:
- Wizard and scheduled tasks did not always properly start scanning
- Other minor problems


Proxy Switcher Standard 7.1.1
Improvements:
Updates:
- CA root certificates updated

Fixed Issues:
- Preferences window not fully loaded in trial mode
- Links to program's homepage changed to https://
- Other minor problems


Proxy Switcher Standard 7.1.0
Improvements:
- Compatbility with "strange" SOCKSv4 servers

More flexible rules for special geo processing:
New modes added:
- Option to filter by type (Alive, ...) and put in certain folder
- Option to match all countries
- Rule evalution order

Tweaks:
- Higher threshold to server relegation to "permanently dead"
- Adjusted background scanner to re-test dead servers that are more likely to work
- Can set lower minimal response times for scanner
- Ability to set shorter auto switching period
- Do not switch to internal proxy server for SOCKS servers anymore
- Adjustable re-testing of the server when server is manually switched (View->Preferences->Scanner->Other)
- Language picker added to the wizard

Updates:
- OpenSSL upgraded to version 1.0.2u
- Root CA certificates
- Ip2Country

Fixed Issues:
Hi-DPI:
- Correctly restore window position
- Improve dialog window position
- When switching away from socks servers correctly clear the "connected" icon
- Correctly update special geo processing rules when user renames a folder
- Fixes for wizard
- In auto switch mode popup menu correctly set SSL checkmark
- Other minor problems


Proxy Switcher Standard 6.5.0 Build 7674

Improvements:
- Added strict checking for servers that attempt to server malware
- Added code to avoid connecting to servers that have tried to serve malware to anyone
- Test targets revamped - more stable ones added

Improved HiDPI handling:
- Fonts in main window
- Hints
- Updated root CA certificates
- Updated Ip2Country

Fixed Issues:
- Do not change target enable/disable state if program is using newer targets than built-in list
- Other minor problems


Proxy Switcher Standard 6.4.0 Build 7666

Improvements:
- OpenSSL upgraded to version 1.0.20
- Major Ip2Country and IP2City updates

Fixed Issues:
- Other minor problems


Proxy Switcher Standard 6.3.0 Build 7637

Improvements:
Auto Switching:
- New mode - Prefer next by alphabet
- New button to change switching modes from main window
- Reduce CPU load during startup/when no servers to take from
- Improved database integrity checks and repairs on startup - should help to recover in case of DB index corruption and hopefully reduce chance of future crashes
- Tune background task priority on single core systems (virtual machines)
- Improved startup speed on multicore systems

High DPI improvmenents:
- Adjusted status bar text size on high dpi screens
- Adjusted high dpi layout for the auto switching and keep alive windows
- Scalable country flags
- Tray menu country flag scaling support
- OpenSSL upgraded to version 1.0.2
- Updated Ip2Country

Fixed Issues:
- Properly add trailing / to the URLs if it's missing
- Removed endless loop (hang) condition in case of DB crash/error
- Font fixes
- Other minor problems


Proxy Switcher Standard 6.2.0 Build 7598
Improvements:
- Detect and mark as dead webroot proxy servers
- Added strict checking of allowed redirection URLs for built-in test targets
- Improved processing speed on multicore PCs, especially on proxy moving between folders
- Updated Ip2Country

Fixed Issues:
- Properly handle requests that return 0 content length
- Other minor problems


Proxy Switcher Standard 6.1.0 Build 7559

Improvements:
- Reworked all the HTTP protocol connections to simulate browser behavior more closely. Using keep-alive instead of connection close
- Added more DB consistency checks
- Updated Ip2Country

Fixed Issues:
- Fixed case of not rebinding of the built-in proxy servers when required
- Other minor problems


Proxy Switcher Standard 6.0.1 Build 7535
Improvements:
- Reduced minimal auto switching period to 3 seconds
- Rebind built-in proxy servers only when needed
- Updated Ip2Country


Proxy Switcher Standard 6.0.0 Build 7487

Improvements:
- Customizable User Agent for the User Defined Test Targets

Additions to CORE background scanner:
- Re-Test all the working servers starting from the ones tested longest time ago
- Re-Test Dead servers picking ones that are likely to work (recently tested as working)
- Faster stopping of the testing upon user request
- Reduced CPU load when testing SSL servers
- On settings change restart internal proxy servers only if required
- Updated root CA certificates
- Updated Ip2Country

Fixed Issues:
- Hangs caused by a bug in B+Tree
- Properly handle Delete key in View->Configure Test Targets...
- Properly enable/disable items in context popup menu
- Changed default scanner User Agent to one matching Chrome/58
- Other minor problems


Proxy Switcher Standard 5.21.0 Build 7466

Improvements:
- Added new feature "Advanced Export" - filtering and export servers to CSV file from multiple source folders
- Added SSL SNI (Server Name Indication) - fixes issues with virtual hosted SSL servers
- Added new test target - doubleclick dot net
- Removed stopspam target as it's API was disabled
- Renamed server state from (Alive) to (Alive-SSL)
- Updated Ip2Country

Fixed Issues:
- Do not re-create icons when running from auto update
- Other minor problems


Proxy Switcher Standard 5.21.0 Build 7433

Improvements:
- Avoid crashes due to timeouts on slow systems when deleting large quanities of servers
- Adjust running frequency of the CORE background scanner depending on how many new servers are found each run
- Upgraded to OpenSSL branch 1.0.2 due to 1.0.1 going out of service
- Updated root CA certificates
- Updated Ip2Country

Fixed Issues:
- Case when high anonymity testing service was falsely detected as being down
- Other minor problems


Proxy Switcher Standard 5.20.0 Build 7423

Improvements:
- Added SSL subfolder to "Basic Anonymity"
- Updated OpenSSL to 1.0.1u
- Updated CA certificates
- Updated Ip2Country

Fixed Issues:
- Few crashes when certain part of registry is unreadable
- Fixes few crashes in virtual tree code
- Other minor problems