Portmaster

Portmaster 2.2.3

Portmaster is a free and open-source application that puts you back in charge over all your computers network connections.

  • By Safing ICS Technologies GmbH
  • Open Source
  • Updated Aug 21, 2026
Download for Windows

About Portmaster

Portmaster is a free and open-source application firewall that does the heavy lifting for you. Restore privacy and take back control over all your computer's network activity.

Discover everything that is happening on your computer. Expose every connection your applications make and detect evil ones. Finally get the power to act accordingly.

Protect your whole computer, not just your browser. Block all advertisements and trackers for every application. Easily add your own rules and block individual domains.

Make your own rules. Completely cut off applications from the Internet. Or block all p2p connections except for certain apps. Or never connect to specific countries. Portmaster has you covered.

What's new in 2.2.3

What's Changed

  • fix: Oversized DNS packets could kill the internal DNS listener by @stenya in #2227
  • fix: Multiple mDNS reliability and correctness issues by @stenya in #2229
  • fix: Internal service workers could silently stop recovering after a failure by @stenya in #2228
  • fix: Portmaster crash after the first restart on some systems by @stenya in #2191
  • fix: (Windows) Uninstall overwriting unrelated startup registry entries by @GCDBusiness in #2217
  • fix: (Windows) Logging regression that broke log output after service restart by @stenya in #2221
  • fix: (UI) Enter key accidentally triggering delete buttons in the profile editor by @stenya
  • improvement: Automatically repair corrupted intel/resource update artifacts by @floze-the-genius in #2196
  • improvement: Enable HTTP/2 for DNS-over-HTTPS resolvers by @stenya
  • improvement: Include block reason in denied DNS query logs by @stenya
  • improvement: (UI) Add fingerprint tooltip to app profile cards in "All Apps" view by @stenya in #2183
  • improvement: (UI) Add tooltips and group entries in the tools menu by @stenya

New Contributors

  • @GCDBusiness made their first contribution in #2217
  • @floze-the-genius made their first contribution in #2196

Full release notes »

Technical details

PublisherSafing ICS Technologies GmbH
Version2.2.3
Release date2026-08-21
LicenseGPL-3.0
Installer typenullsoft
Architecturex64
Package IDSafing.Portmaster

Links & install command

Install Portmaster from the command line with Windows Package Manager (winget):

winget install --id=Safing.Portmaster -e

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Older versions

  • 2.2.1
  • 2.1.19
  • 2.1.18
  • 2.1.7
  • 2.0.25
  • 2.0.24
  • 1.6.5
  • 1.0.13.0
  • 1.0.0