You probably came here because your Mac showed a message telling you that software from “Objective Development Software GmbH” (Little Snitch) loaded a system extension that will no longer be compatible with a future version of macOS and that you should contact us, the developer, to get more information. Well, here you are.
In order to be able to perform filtering of network traffic, Little Snitch 4 installs a kernel extension (the above mentioned “System Extension”) which is based on Apple’s “Network Kernel Extension” API (NKE).
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This API will be deprecated in a future version of macOS and replaced with a new “NetworkExtension” API (NE). Despite their similarity in name, these two APIs work very differently, so the underpinnings of Little Snitch do require a substantial rework.
Will there be an updated version of Little Snitch that is compatible?
Yes. We are going to release an update of Little Snitch that will utilize the compatible replacement APIs.
When will Little Snitch 4 become incompatible?
We expect the deprecation to become effective with the next major release of macOS. There’s no official release date from Apple, but based on the release schedule of recent years it will not be before this fall. Little Snitch 4 will then not be loaded by the operating system, but there will still be an option to allow the loading. [1]
What happens in the unlikely case that no updated version of Little Snitch is available at that time?
Antarestech auto tune evo. We do our best to have an updated version available right in time. But if you’re still concerned – keep in mind that there will be an option in macOS to allow running Little Snitch 4.
If I buy Little Snitch 4 now, will I get the update for free?
Yes. All licenses sold now include a free upgrade to Little Snitch 5. In addition, customers who purchased Little Snitch 4 within a one-year period prior to the final release of Little Snitch 5 (about this fall) will also get a free upgrade. And if you purchased Little Snitch 4 before that period, we will offer you an upgrade at a reduced price.
When will Little Snitch be updated to the new APIs?
The replacement APIs that are currently available (NetworkExtension framework on macOS 10.15.4) are not yet completely sufficient to implement the full functionality of Little Snitch. But we are working closely with Apple to fill the remaining gaps and we expect that a beta of the next major macOS version (most likely available at the next WWDC) or even an upcoming version of 10.15 will provide what is missing. As soon as the APIs allow us, we will complete the transition of Little Snitch to the new NetworkExtension API. It’s our goal to provide a public beta in June 2020 and a stable version in October.
- The relevant sentence in Apple’s statement to developers is: “Future OS releases will no longer load kernel extensions that use deprecated KPIs by default.” ↩︎
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Filtering out the bad guys
https://heavycal.weebly.com/galaxy-steinway-vst-download.html. Two months ago, we published Everything you need to know about IPv6, telling you the following about firewalling IPv6 in relationship to the Network Address Translation that is common in today's IPv4 home routers:
If you have a router or home gateway that supports IPv6, make sure that it, too, filters IPv6. A stateful filter that allows outgoing connections and return traffic, but not incoming connections is closest to the IPv4 NAT filtering functionality.
This is in line with the recommendations in a document that the Internet Engineering Task Force's IPv6 Operations (v6ops) working group is developing:
To implement simple security for IPv6 in, for example, a DSL- or Cable Modem-connected home network, the broadband gateway/router should be equipped with stateful firewall capabilities. These should provide a default configuration where incoming traffic is limited to return traffic resulting from outgoing packets (sometimes known as reflective session state). There should also be an easy interface which allows users to create inbound 'pinholes' for specific purposes such as online-gaming.
Sound advice, right? Maybe.
About firewalls
First, let's review the purpose of firewalls. Although anyone who uses a computer in this day and age has some concept of what a firewall is, there are usually a lot of assumptions involved. That's a good thing, because if we were all talking about the same thing, we'd miss out on all those entertaining 'which OS is more secure' discussions in the OpenForum.
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The simplest form of a firewall is a packet filter. A packet filter looks at packets coming by and allows them through or not based on the content of fields in the packet headers, most notably the 'protocol' field, which can be TCP, UDP, ICMP, or a lesser-known protocol.
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TCP and UDP each have a source and a destination port number, and ICMP has a type and a code, allowing for finer-grained filtering. TCP also has a number of status bits that make it easy to allow only TCP sessions that are set up from the inside to the outside and not the other way around. Packet filters are useful if you know exactly what you want to let through. For instance, if you run a big DNS server, you can filter out everything except DNS-related packets.
Both routers and general purpose operating systems have implemented packet filters for some time. To accomplish more advanced filtering, routers and special-purpose firewall devices gained the capability to keep track of communication sessions started from the inside so they could allow the associated return packets through but reject everything else. These types of filters or firewalls are called stateful. Stateful filtering works much better than simply rejecting TCP packets that try to create new sessions.
On computers themselves, firewalls also became stateful, and PC-based firewalls take that notion a step further: they gained the ability to keep track of which application is trying to do what exactly over the network. Products like ZoneAlarm or Little Snitch are often called personal firewalls, and they protect as much against malicious programs on the inside that are trying to phone home as against evil packets coming in from the outside.
However, the kind of 'firewall' present in most home routers doesn't fall into any of those categories. Since ISPs almost always only give their customers a single IP address, and home routers allow connecting multiple computers to the Internet, those home routers share the IP address that they obtain from the ISP with the computers on the local network using NAT. For example, the router gets address 82.192.90.30 and a computer on the local network has 10.0.0.2. When the computer requests a web page from a server, the packets will have source address 10.0.0.2, but the router translates this into 82.192.90.30. The return packets from the server go to the 82 address, but the router again translates the addresses so the packets end up at the computer holding address 10.0.0.2. But if a packet comes in addressed to the 82 address without an earlier outgoing packet, the home router doesn't know which of the internal computers should receive the packet, so none of them get it. This means that the functionality similar to a stateful firewall is a side effect of NAT.
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With IPv6, things change..