What's new in the F-Secure app for Mac This article outlines important changes and features, as well as fixes released in the latest versions of the F-Secure app.
Version 19.5 (build 61616)
Released March 2024
- New features
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Enhancements to the file and URL safety checks that provide improved security
- Other changes
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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.