# sniffnet v1.5.0

- Product: sniffnet (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/sniffnet)
- Vendor: GyulyVGC
- Date: 2026-04-14
- Version: v1.5.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet/releases/tag/v1.5.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/sniffnet/releases/v1.5.0

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- **added** — Show which apps and programs are generating network traffic
- **added** — Add charts to preview network adapters traffic in Initial page
- **added** — Support custom IP blacklists
- **added** — Enhance favorites to support services, programs, and persistence
- **added** — Add command line option --config_path to print the path of the app configuration file
- **changed** — Migrate to Iced 0.14
- **added** — Add animated welcome screen
- **added** — Support search prefixes ! and != in Inspect page filters to allow searching values that don't contain or aren't equal to a given string
- **added** — Add various sanity checks when loading app configurations from file for window properties, scale factor, themes, and notifications volume
- **fixed** — Fix app configurations backward-compatibility when an existing field is updated or invalid
- **fixed** — Return a PCAP error when trying to start a capture from an unknown adapter name

##### New features
- Show which apps and programs are generating network traffic ([#1056](https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet/pull/1056) — fixes [#170](https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet/issues/170))

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- Add charts to preview network adapters traffic in Initial page ([#1026](https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet/pull/1026) — fixes [#556](https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet/issues/556))

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- Support custom IP blacklists ([#1055](https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet/pull/1055) — fixes [#729](https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet/issues/729))
- Enhance favorites: support services, programs, and persistence ([#1109](https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet/pull/1109) — fixes [#839](https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet/issues/839))
- New command line option `--config_path` to print the path of the app configuration file

##### Improvements
- Migrate to Iced 0.14 ([#1032](https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet/pull/1032) — fixes [#589](https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet/issues/589), [#639](https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet/issues/639), [#653](https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet/issues/653), [#656](https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet/issues/656), [#675](https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet/issues/675))
- Add animated welcome screen ([#1002](https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet/pull/1002))
- Support search prefixes `!` and `!=` in Inspect page filters to allow searching values that don't contain or aren't equal to a given string
- Added various sanity checks when loading app configurations from file (window properties, scale factor, themes, notifications volume)
- Updated some of the existing translations to v1.5:
  - Romanian ([#942](https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet/pull/942))
  - Japanese ([#1020](https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet/pull/1020))
  - Turkish ([#1074](https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet/pull/1074))
  - Simplified Chinese ([#1021](https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet/pull/1021))
  - Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) ([#1021](https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet/pull/1021))

##### Fixes
- Fix app configurations backward-compatibility when an existing field is updated or invalid
- Return a PCAP error when trying to start a capture from an unknown adapter name

##### Thanks to:
- @recallai, @ipinfo, @cthulu201, @ZEROF, @wahn, @orhun, @3kh0 for [sponsoring Sniffnet](https://github.com/sponsors/GyulyVGC) 💖 
- [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl) for supporting the development of this version via the [NGI Zero Commons Fund](https://nlnet.nl/commonsfund/)
- @paco1127, @shu-kitamura, @MelcuGoa, @DeeEffAre for updating the existing translations

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