Dotfuscator Professional Edition, Version 4.28.0 – Release Date March 9, 2017
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Change Log – Version 4.28.0 – Release Date March 9, 2017
Important Compatibility Changes
- In order to install and use Dotfuscator, you must have at least .NET 4.5.2 installed. Dotfuscator will still process assemblies built with older versions of the .NET framework.
- Dotfuscator no longer supports its Visual Studio integration with Visual Studio 2008.
- Dotfuscator’s Visual Studio integration is now available for Visual Studio 2017 (VS 15.0).
- Dotfuscator is now supported on Windows Server 2016.
Enhancements
- The Debug Check can now detect the presence of native debuggers such as WinDbg.
- The Debug Check now provides anti-debug defense for UWP applications.
- Lucidator output now looks like a stack trace, making it much easier to read. It is still possible to obtain the old output style with the command line option `/legacyoutput`.
- Lucidator no longer displays version and licensing information every time it runs. This information can be accessed with the command line option `/version`.
- Assorted changes were made to the Dotfuscator GUI’s menu structure to make things easier to find:
- Moved the `Build` menu entry from the File menu into a new Build menu and named it `Build Project`.
- Moved ‘User Preferences’ out of the View menu and into the Tools menu.
- Renamed some other menu items for clarity.
- Added a button to the toolbar that will open the location of the obfuscated asssemblies in Windows Explorer. Furthermore, the build output will say where the processed assemblies have been written.
- Dotfuscator will now automatically save your project when you build it.
Functional Changes
- Improved network connection management for product activation and update checking.
- The command line version of Dotfuscator will display more user-friendly, succinct usage when requesting it with ‘/?’. ‘/??’ will provide the original, extended help information.
- Dotfuscator no longer ships with a PDF version of the User Guide.
- Previously, the analytics exception message sent from a positive Debug Check was “No message specified”. It is now “Debugging was detected”.
Fixes
- Fixed an issue where sending analytics messages to a dynamic endpoint failed when running Dotfuscator from the MSBuild task (as opposed to running the Dotfuscator executable directly).
- Fixed an issue where Dotfuscator failed to successfully parse certain combinations of generic arguments in CustomAttribute definitions, resulting in the production of invalid assemblies.
- Fixed an issue where having multiple Tamper Check attributes in a single Dotfuscator project could result in invalid injected code.
- Fixed a display issue when running Dotfuscator on a mixed DPI multi-monitor setup.
- Fixed assorted issues where specifying inputs with trailing backslashes resulted in assemblies not being found or the Dotfuscator config file not being written out properly.
- Fixed a bug where Dotfuscator was incorrectly writing out XAML binding elements.