Little Snitch
6.2
The Little Snitch Network Monitor shows you where your Mac connects to on the Internet. You decide what you want to allow or deny.
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Description
Alerts you about outgoing network connections.
The Little Snitch Network Monitor shows you where your Mac connects to on the Internet. You decide what you want to allow or deny.
Track background activity
As soon as your computer connects to the Internet, applications often have permission to send any information wherever they need to. Little Snitch takes note of this activity and allows you to decide for yourself what happens with this data.
Control your network
Choose to allow or deny connections, or define a rule how to handle similar, future connection attempts. Little Snitch runs inconspicuously in the background and it can even detect network-related activity of viruses, trojans, and other malware.
What's new
Network Monitor
- New option in context menu of Network Monitor to focus on connections of a particular process.
- Connections of other users are now hidden by default in Network Monitor to prevent confusion of having e.g. multiple instances of Safari and Mail (owned by different users) shown in the connection list. You can still enable the display of these connections in the view options menu in the toolbar, by choosing “Show Connections of Other Users”.
- Improved display of connections without an existing allow or deny rule in the connection list, showing a completely empty allow/deny button instead of no button at all.
- Improved display of connections via iCloud Private Relay on the map. Since the actual IP address of the server is unknown for these connections, it’s not possible to determine their actual location. Little Snitch therefore collects all these connections under a virtual location labeled “Private Relay”.
- Improved keyboard navigation in connection list to expand the “more items” section by pressing the right arrow key twice.
- Improved display of process paths in the inspector view.
- Clicking a process path in the inspector now opens a menu offering to show the app in Finder or to copy the path.
Configuration
- Added several new filter options in the rule window, accessibly by long-clicking the filter buttons in the search field.
- When viewing the contents of a blocklist, there’s now a new “Used Entries” section (which is shown by default), presenting only those blocklist entries that have been used at least once.
- Preventing the search string from getting cleared when switching between different blocklists.
Other new features and improvements
- Improved accessibility via VoiceOver.
- Improved Wi-Fi name detection using the CoreWLAN API in favor of other methods. Wi-Fi name detection is required for Automatic Profile Switching.
- Improved installer to better handle Agent installation issues.
- Further improved detection of Homebrew executable paths.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a rare crash or hang due to a leak of file descriptors when Automatic Profile Switching is enabled.
- Fixed a bug in the littlesnitch rulegroup Terminal command where the requested rule group or blocklist was not found.
- Fixed a bug where clicking the “Delete All Redundant Rules” button in the Redundant Rules filter section did nothing.
- Fixed an issue causing the map to open with a rather small width after launching the Network Monitor.
