Dotfuscator Professional Edition, Version 4.31.0 – Release Date August 23, 2017
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Change Log – Version 4.31.0 – Release Date August 23, 2017
Enhancements
- A new user-friendly interface for configuring Checks has been added.
- The Instrumentation tab has been renamed to Injection and has been split into two sub-tabs: the original Instrumentation editor and the new Checks editor.
- Tamper Checks, Debugging Checks, and Shelf Life Checks are now configured using the Checks sub-tab. They can no longer be configured as extended attributes in the Instrumentation sub-tab. Checks configured in earlier versions of Dotfuscator will be automatically shown on the new Checks tab.
- A Check, when configured in the user interface, can now target multiple methods. Checks that are configured by in-code attributes only target the method they annotate.
- Obfuscation of apps made with the Unity game engine is now supported. Please see the User Guide for details.
- Supported app platforms: PC, Mac, and Linux Standalone, Android, iOS, and Windows Store (UWP).
- Supported scripting backends: .NET and Mono.
- Obfuscation of .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Standard 2.0 assemblies is now supported.
- Improved support for Xamarin code and XAML so fewer renaming exclusions are required.
- When a method that returns a Value Tuple is renamed, the
TupleElementNamesAttribute
for the method will also be removed, preventing decompilers from discovering the original names of the returned tuple. - The User Guide has been converted to a new format and extensively reorganized to make content easier to find, concepts easier to understand, and to make the documentation itself easier to use.
- The Dotfuscator command line interface can now be used in a specialized Dotfuscator Command Prompt, preventing the need to find the executable and add it to your path in a standard Windows command prompt.
- The prompt is available from the Start Menu as Dotfuscator Command Prompt.
- You can also access the prompt from within the standalone user interface through the Tools menu. If you have a Dotfuscator config file loaded when you do this, the prompt will start in the directory of that config file.
- The user interface now abbreviates the paths of input assemblies in tree views, to make the actual assembly easier to see. The full paths are now provided by tool tips.
- The standalone GUI now switches to the Output tab after a build. This behavior can be disabled via a checkbox on the Output tab.
- Sample projects included with Dotfuscator have been updated.
Functional Changes
- When the Visual Studio integration is installed into an edition of Visual Studio 2017, the relevant MSBuild tasks and targets are now also installed into that edition.
- Automatic Authenticode re-signing of output assemblies is now deprecated, as the feature only supports SHA-1. A link has been added to the standalone user interface, providing advice on how to configure Authenticode signing with SHA-1, SHA-256, and dual-signing.
- Newer Microsoft-authored assemblies will now be automatically treated as artifacts when present in a package, as certain older assemblies are.
- The command line interface will now only display usage help if requested (via the
/?
or/??
arguments, or a lack of arguments) or if the arguments provided are invalid. Other errors no longer display usage help. - The full version number has been simplified.
Fixes
- Corrected an issue where a MSBuild task fails when a new version of Dotfuscator is available.
- Corrected an issue where the Japanese localization is not correctly installed for the Visual Studio integration and MSBuild tasks and targets.
- Corrected an issue where Dotfuscator added a reference to
mscorlib
to assemblies that did not reference it before processing. - Corrected issues with Dotfuscator and Lucidator decoding obfuscated stack traces.
- Corrected an issue where Dotfuscator fails to resolve assembly references if a directory is inaccessible.
- Corrected an issue where the
Dotfuscate
MSBuild task’sDebugSymbols
item contained entries for PDB files that do not exist. - Corrected an issue where Dotfuscator does not detect tools included with certain Windows Kits in the Windows 10 Creators Update.
- Corrected an issue where ZIP-based packages written by Dotfuscator had invalid directory separators on non-Windows platforms.
- Corrected an issue that occurs when Dotfuscator reads a config file containing extended attributes that it does not recognize.
- Fixed other minor issues.