Complete record of all versions, improvements and fixes to Firewall Manager since its first release.
➕ Email to Plesk customer if new login was from different country
➕ Now can change RDP port to prevent brute force
➕ Block IPs that accumulate more than 20 blocks and unblocks within 24 hours
🛠️ COM+ on rare scenario with low resources
🛠️ Fix Edit Notes on Exception List (Whitelist)
🔄 Minor improvements
➕ Redesign Website https://firewall.flexservices.app/ and translate to 5 languages.
🛠️ Fix log performance. Now show information more fast.
🔄 Minor improvements
🔄 Updated code for better performance for concurrent connection on different services with same wrong attempts ip
🛠️ Fast checking ip for better performance using concurrent connection
ℹ️ Published Windows version setup without Plesk Panel for administrator RDP. Now not need web control panel.
➕ New website link: https://firewall.flexservices.app/windows/
➕ Exclusion List: IP Range for IPv4 using hyphen (IP - IP)
🔄 COM+ Updated (PHP, .NET, ASP)
🔄 Exclusion List: Validated each IP before add
➕ Security Kernel: Block the connection when was closed because no any requests after opening the TCP (*)
➕ Security Kernel: Block the connection when was closed because the client was sending data too slowly to collapse the pool (*)
🔄 Minor improvements
🛠️ Updated to Stable version
➕ Now detect stopped pools by DDOS attack and them auto-restart pool on that case (*)
🛠️ Wrong note description when add new ip to whitelist
🛠️ Exception on WordPress Protection with empty username
🛠️ Exception on Plesk Protection
🛠️ Issue on ar-SA language date format
🔄 Updated date format cultures for all app
🔄 Updated Settings by default values for possible exceptions
➕ WordPress Protection (Settings > Web)
➕ List WordPress Sites (Settings > Web)
➕ IIS Module LOG (Logs > IIS)
➕ IIS Module (Fast Cache as CDN) — All domains with module enabled load fastest (css, js, images, fonts) without normal browser delay
🔄 Optimized Windows Service
🔄 Optimized IIS Module
➕ Exclusion List: New field for note or descriptions
➕ New Plesk Setup Wizard
🔄 Optimized
🔄 Minor improvements for Setup
➕ Beta: Admin Flex Firewall App (Check new link on Windows Desktop)
🛠️ FTP Detection Better (now include outside Plesk path)
🛠️ SmarterMail improvements and fixed on no domain created on first setup
🛠️ Cloudflare issue on update credentials
🔄 COM+ Updated (PHP, .NET, ASP)
🔄 AbuseIPDB: Now stop to report to AbuseIPDB if same IP was recently reported
🔄 Optimized ASN Range, AbuseIP Range, Country Range
🔄 Minor improvements and fixes
🛠️ Optimized for over 100 domains with low CPU usage
🛠️ Optimized Native IIS Module for Web Protection
🔄 Minor improvements and fixes
➖ Remove Administrated Module IIS
➕ New Native Module IIS (now available for all domains and pools with better performance)
➕ New Server-Var X-FIREWALL-ASN
➕ Allow to Customer by Service Plan delete IP from rules (SMTP, IMAP, FTP)
➕ Global Permission for delete IP from rules (SMTP, IMAP, FTP)
➕ Language tr-TR
➕ Windows Server 2025
➕ AI Protection using Module IIS
➕ Cloudflare automatically removes the oldest IP (when try to add new one) if the maximum number of rules allowed by the plan were created.
➕ Optimize Web Rule (Cloudflare): On each domain can (Enable/Disable) autoremove IP. On disabled show alert maximum number of rules.
🔄 Pool Update to New Native Module (Enable / Disable per site)
🔄 Global internal improvements
🔄 First setup improvements speed
🔄 Now RDP can block the custom port or windows default port when turn on this option
🛠️ Issue on Cloudflare Rule is Full (High CPU)
🛠️ Issue on Plesk if Account is Suspended
🛠️ API Cloudflare New Rules Attributes Policy
🛠️ Without Mail Server (System Always Restore Default Settings on any change)
➖ Plesk Catalog: WebPros International GmbH doesn't want the extension into catalog.
➖ Admin Home Page Information
➕ New Admin Home Page Card
➕ New Statistics Card (Firewall, Plesk, RDP Statistics)
➕ Rules Status Column (Firewall, MailEnable, CloudFlare)
➕ Block Plesk Login on Fail (Security Settings)
➕ Show Last Login IP (Admin home)
➕ Show Last Login IP (New column on client/reseller lists)
➕ Show Last Login IP (Domain Footer Card)
➕ Plesk Logins (View Logs Tabs)
➕ RDP Logins (View Logs Tabs)
🔄 Internal improvements
🔄 New Icon Tabs
🔄 Module IIS improvements
🛠️ Fix License (Local IP with Public IP)
➕ DDoS Attack feature (high CPU usage and lot active or sync connection with same IP)
➕ Filter Log from Admin Home Page
➕ Daily Blocked Log File
➕ Optimize Extension (Free up RAM)
➕ Auto-Disable BOT Rule if change param to off
🛠️ ASN Information - Improvement Performance
➕ Feature to (Migrate/Backup/Restore) Settings and Rules
➕ WebSite Security (Control Panel URL)
➕ Reset Exception List
➕ RAM Performance
➕ MailEnable Search Improvement
➕ Plugin MailEnable Clam Antivirus
🛠️ Cloudflare: ASN (BOT Rule)
🛠️ WebSite Security (Exception in a rare scenario)
🔄 Plugin Anti-Spam Filter MailEnable: Improvements
🔄 Improvements MailEnable SMTP (Prevent Block): if send on same connection a lot of mails and some address no exist, but connection is verified.
➕ CLI Utility with ApiCli — Easy run cmd command (plesk ext flex-firewall-manager)
➕ RPC Utility — Easy run as ApiRpc
➕ Transfer Rule from Firewall to MailEnable (SMTP, POP)
➕ Move IP from Firewall to MailEnable (inside rule SMTP, POP)
➕ MailEnable Settings: Enable Plain Authentication (IMAP, SMTP)
➕ MailEnable Settings: Set Welcome Message (POP, SMTP)
➕ MailEnable Settings: Override Firewall (Block only MailEnable)
➕ MailEnable Settings: Block IP if there was a lot of bad commands
🛠️ Report AbuseIP (Error 408)
🛠️ Cloudflare: Multiple Rules
🔄 MailEnable Tab UI improvements
🔄 Plesk UI improvements for works faster than old versions
➕ CLI Utility (New API cmd command plesk sbin modules\flex-firewall-manager\ffm)
➕ IIS Module (New Protection Web)
➕ SSL Cipher Settings and HTTP/3 QUIC
➕ Plugin Anti-Spam Filter MailEnable: AbuseIP
➕ Language Arabic
➖ Cloudflare Filters (End of life date: January 15th, 2025)
🛠️ WebSite Security Detection
🛠️ MailEnable SMTP, IMAP, POP (on mass connection)
🔄 Internal improvements AbuseIP
🔄 Internal improvements (FTP, Compact Ranges IP, WebSite Security, Cloudflare)
➕ Cloudflare UI Design: Switch domains in pathbar
🧹 Cloudflare Unlock IP (on large list)
➕ Language sv-SE
➕ Language nb-NO
➕ Language pl-PL
➕ Language fi-FI
➖ Auto Minify (End of life date: August 5th, 2024)
➖ Brotli Compression (End of life date: June 14th, 2024)
🔄 Internal improvements (WebSite Security)
🔄 Internal improvements UI Design
👑 First Release for Plesk Catalog
➕ Report AbuseIPDB
➕ Language ca-ES
🧹 CloudFlare: AutoSync for disabled settings
➕ WebSite Security: MailEnable (Webmail && Admin)
➕ WebSite Security: SmarterMail (Webmail)
➕ MailEnable Setting: Allow valid domain aliases in usernames (mailbox@aliaspostoffice)
➕ CloudFlare HSTS
🔄 Exclusion List improvements (Better Performance)
🔄 Private IP has been configured as internal exclusion list
➕ Block Country: IPv6
➕ Clean Rule on start
➕ Delay Auto Block RDP
🔄 Internal improvements UI Design
🔄 Internal improvements CloudFlare
🔄 Internal improvements SmarterMail (Release)
🔄 Improvements for Plugin Anti-Spam Filter MailEnable
🔄 Internal improvements Ext
🔄 Internal improvements UI
➕ Helper Tools UI for first setup
➕ New Beta Rule — WebSite Security
➕ CloudFlare Bot Fight Mode
➕ CloudFlare DNSSEC
🔄 CloudFlare Credential
🔄 Internal improvements
🔄 Improvements for Plugin Anti-Spam Filter MailEnable
➕ CloudFlare SSL Settings
➕ Browser Log
➕ MailEnable Advanced Settings
➕ Plugin for MailEnable: Windows Defender
➕ Plugin for MailEnable: Anti-Spam Filter
🔄 Global Permissions to all accounts
➕ Enable/Disable Permissions by Subscription accounts
🔄 Internal improvements
🔄 Better Performance
➕ SmarterMail (Beta Tester)
🔄 Internal improvements
➕ MailEnable BlackCountry
➕ CloudFlare Domains
➕ CloudFlare Rules
➕ CloudFlare DNS
➕ CloudFlare Settings
➕ CloudFlare Free Tools
➕ CloudFlare Cache
➕ CloudFlare BlackCountry
🔄 Internal improvements
➕ Block PostgreSQL Attack
➕ Block SSH Attack
➕ Block VNC Attack
➕ First Release
➕ Block Microsoft DNS Attack
➕ Add button for Filter by Rule Group
🔄 Internal improvements
➕ Can Block ASN Range
➕ Reputation IP
➕ Add Language DE, FR, IT, NL, PT
➕ First Beta
➕ Language EN, ES
➕ Promo License Free
➕ Create firewall.flexservices.app