This article outlines important changes and features, as well as fixes released in the latest versions of the F-Secure app.
Version 19.8 MR1 (build 63381)
Released September 2024
Device Protection
- Improved logic for suppressing smart tasks for features not included in the license.
Version 19.8 (build 63352)
Released September 2024
macOS Sequoia 15 support
- This release bring full support for macOS 15 Sequoia operating system release.
Device Protection
- The DeepGuard feature blocks unknown software from accessing your data in simple mode. If you still wish to be prompted by DeepGuard, enable Advance Mode in DeepGuard settings.
- Improved Protection history view including new functionality to view all events and clear history.
Scam Protection
- The Cookie blocker feature rejects automatically the cookie consent prompts that websites show when you enter them for the first time.
- Note that the feature detects only the most common cookie consent providers and does not work for all websites. The feature will be improved in future versions.
- Improved statistics view to include "banking sessions", "blocked ads" and "rejected cookies" counters.
Version 19.7 MR1 (build 62280)
Released June 2024
Updates to the main user interface
- Resolved an issue that prevented customers from unlocking Password Vault when using specific languages, such as French.
Version 19.7 (build 62236)
Released May 2024
Updates to the main user interface
- Fixed the “Install“ action in the Safari extension smart task.
- Fixed an issue where the “Allow on every website” smart task for the Safari extension was not displayed in certain cases.
New features
- Device Protection improvements:
- Optimized load on the file reputation backend service by placing an hourly quota.
- Secure Browsing improvements
- The Secure Browsing feature now uses the new F-Secure URL reputation backend service. The updated service offers faster and more accurate assessments of website safety, helping to keep your browsing experience smooth and secure.
Other changes
- Improved deep link handling to avoid unnecessarily launching the main product UI to open the product settings.
- Fixed system proxy support for downloading product updates.
- Updated the Password Vault service to run continuously in the background, ensuring a smoother and more responsive user experience.
Version 19.6 (build 61923)
Released April 2024
New features
- Updates to the main user interface:
- The style of the main user interface has been updated. Issues that require action are now displayed more prominently.
- Trusted Shopping has been renamed to Shopping Protection.
- Viruses & Threats has been renamed to Device Protection.
- Secure Browsing improvements
- Shopping Protection settings are opened when you click the popup that appears when you visit an online shopping website (available on extension version 5.5.0 and newer). This gives you easy access to the Shopping Protection settings
Other changes
- A smart task has been added to the main user interface for unsupported macOS versions
Version 19.5 (build 61616)
Released March 2024
New features
- The main view now shows a history of product-related events that include:
- Detected infections
- Blocked activity
- Blocked unsafe websites
- Banking session activation and websites that were blocked during banking sessions
- Product and subscription updates
- Secure Browsing improvements
- Improved the state detection in browser extensions to provide better and more responsive notifications.
- Improved the memory consumption of messaging subsystems in browser extensions.
- Improved and refactored Banking Protection.
- Performance and stability improvements for the antivirus component
- Optimized the validation logic for file reputations.
- Updated the allowlist for Apple and third-party app files.
- Improved caching and made it persistent.
Other changes
- Stability improvements and modified logic for the update subsystem.
- Stability improvements for the VPN subsystem in macOS systems using non-standard configurations.
- Optimized the disk space requirements for product files.
- Improved the compatibility of DeepGuard with the latest macOS versions.
Version 19.4 (build 60838)
Released December 2023
New features
- Trusted shopping feature
- Get notifications on the trustworthiness of shopping websites that you visit. This is implemented through the extensions in supported browsers, and you can configure the feature in the product settings.
- Update history
- Added a new section to the product settings that shows the state of product updates, including a log of received updates and statistics on when the product last checked for updates.
- New antivirus protection implementation
- Added a new and improved antivirus component. The component has been rebuilt to optimize it for modern macOS systems, improve performance, and enrich the feature set.
Other changes
- macOS 11 (Big Sur) dropped
- Support for macOS 11 (Big Sur) is dropped in this release.
Version 19.3 (build 52927)
Released October 2023
New features
- macOS 14 Sonoma support
- This release brings full support for the macOS 14 Sonoma operating system version.
- New Safari web extension for Secure Browsing
- This release supports the brand new Secure Browsing Safari extension, which matches the look and feel of other Secure Browsing extensions, enabling cross-platform feature delivery, more frequent releases for new functionality, and improved user experience.
- Secure Browsing support for Microsoft Edge
- Secure Browsing now supports Microsoft Edge, with a browser extension that has the same look and feel as for other browsers.
- Ad blocker
- Secure Browsing extensions now come with an ad blocker feature that prevents loading content from common advertising servers, improving your browsing experience.
- New look and feel of notifications on the main view
- This release includes enhancements to the look and feel of smart task notifications on the main view of the app.
Other changes
- VPN stability improvements for macOS 14 Sonoma
- Improved virus scanner detection logic during database definition updates
Version 19.2 (build 51879)
Released June 2023
New features
- New Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browser extensions
- Added support for new cross-platform browser extensions. These extensions are available on both macOS and Windows and share the same codebase, providing the same functionality across both platforms.
- Added a migration flow to the new cross-platform extensions for customers who have used legacy macOS-specific extensions.
- Enhanced Banking Protection
- Introduced an enhanced banking protection feature. This is designed to protect your browsing experience when you navigate to a malicious site during an active banking session.
- New settings UI controls for the Secure browsing tab
- Added a new option to show or hide reputation ratings for websites in search results.
- Added a new option to clear the clipboard after a banking session is over.
- Added a new view to show the status of each browser extension.
Other changes
- Refined the layout and texts of the product's settings tabs.
- Improved the stability of the main user interface.
- Improved messaging for cases when notification permission is not granted to the product.
- Decreased the load on activation backend systems.
Version 19.1 MR1 (build 50190)
Released May 2023
Other changes
- Improved how DeepGuard makes decisions for applications that are unknown to Security Cloud.
- Improved macOS Ventura compatibility for VPN.
Version 19.1 (build 50041)
Released April 2023
New features
- Enhancements to the file and URL safety checks that provide improved security
Other changes
- Browser extensions now notify you of incompatibility when running on an unsupported OS version
- Improvements to macOS firewall state management
- Improvements to the Safari extension's block page rendering on macOS Ventura
- Improvements to the translation of texts with special characters (ellipsis, etc.)
- Improvements to the product update system, Password Vault, and VPN features
Version 19.0 (build 48998)
Released February 2023
New features
- Integrated Password Vault (F-Secure Total)
Note: This feature is only available if included in your subscription.- You can access your passwords in the product's main user interface.
- If you have the standalone ID PROTECTION product installed, you can migrate your passwords to the integrated Password Vault.
- After migrating your passwords, the standalone ID PROTECTION product will continue to work, but you can also uninstall it.
- Note that you can only configure the password manager browser extension to work with one product at a time.
- Integrated Virtual private network (VPN)
Note: This feature is only available if included in your subscription. - Viruses and Threats
- Optimized the update process for the real-time scanner database to achieve better stability and overall security.
- Improved performance during system startup.
- DeepGuard
- Improvements to memory consumption in DeepGuard.
- Secure Browsing
- Improvements to how the safety ratings are added to adapt to the new layout in Google search pages.
Other changes
- Support for macOS 10.15 (Catalina) has been dropped. Version 19.0 of the app cannot be installed on this macOS version.
- Improvements to Password Vault for biometric authentication.
