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Version 1.8.0 now released - Please see the changelog and release notes
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**Changelog**:

08/02/2021 - Welcome to release 1.8.0. The slim, busybox-based version is now the focus of this project, as it is smaller, faster, and behaves more consistently than the previous "Main" version. Many improvements have been made regarding efficiency of the scripts, along with updates to the Windows ports of GNU/Linux utilities. As per usual, you may check [the commit logs](https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/commits/master) for more detailed info. The previous "Main" version will eventually disappear from this repository, though I will likely leave its directory in place for a couple of months, and perform maintenance updates to its scripts and binaries, for those who have not yet moved over to this release.

The new release can be downloaded from here:
[CWP-Utilities-Stable-1.8.0.exe](https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/raw/master/Releases/CWP-Utilities-Stable-1.8.0.exe)

Enjoy!

**I suggest doing a clean install of CWP Utilities when upgrading to this release**, due to the busybox-based version having become the main focus of this project. This should be the last upgrade where uninstalling the previous version is recommended, as the project has become much more consolidated.

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01/25/2021 - We are now at release 1.7.9. All of the work over the past several months was incorporated into this release. This includes numerous improvements in the parsing routines for all the utilities, a more comprehensive whitelist for the Hosts and PAC updaters, up-to-date versions of the underlying GNU and BusyBox Windows ports, and more. As per usual, you may check [the commit logs](https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/commits/master) for more detailed info.

The new Main release can be downloaded from here: [CWP-Utilities-Stable-1.7.9.exe](https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/raw/master/Releases/CWP-Utilities-Stable-1.7.9.exe)
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# [Combined Windows Privacy Utilities](https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/raw/master/Releases/CWP-Utilities-Stable-1.7.9.exe)
# [Combined Windows Privacy Utilities](https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/raw/master/Releases/CWP-Utilities-Stable-1.8.0.exe)
Are you tired of ads and trackers affecting your web browsing and eating up bandwidth? Do you want to use file sharing applications in a safer way, with less risk of being snooped on? Do you want to take preemptive measures against spyware? Or, would you simply like to have an easier way of keeping your hosts file and torrent client block lists thorough and up-to-date on Windows? You've come to the right place if you answered yes to any of those questions.
<p align="center"><img src="https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/raw/master/Screenshots/systray-active.png" alt="Active SysTray"></p>

Combined Windows Privacy Utilities (or CWP Utilities) is a free and open source suite of integrated tools for Windows users, to help them guard their privacy and security. It does this through drastically simplifying the work of parsing and structuring data from a number of different trustworthy block lists, then combining them into single, usable files, and putting them in their proper locations. [A simple installer is provided](https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/raw/master/Releases/CWP-Utilities-Stable-1.7.9.exe), to make everything easily accessible. The program can be installed anywhere on any device that runs Windows, along with USB drives, as all of the utilities dynamically recognize system paths. It creates no registry entries, cleans up after itself, and if one chooses to uninstall it, no files are left behind. Please consider [donating to the project](https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/blob/master/DONATE.md) if you find it useful. It is also **highly recommended** to use the "Update Scripts" feature after installing, as this will ensure the utilities are in sync with the current versions present in this repository.
Combined Windows Privacy Utilities (or CWP Utilities) is a free and open source suite of integrated tools for Windows users, to help them guard their privacy and security. It does this through drastically simplifying the work of parsing and structuring data from a number of different trustworthy block lists, then combining them into single, usable files, and putting them in their proper locations. [A simple installer is provided](https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/raw/master/Releases/CWP-Utilities-Stable-1.8.0.exe), to make everything easily accessible. The program can be installed anywhere on any device that runs Windows, along with USB drives, as all of the utilities dynamically recognize system paths. It creates no registry entries, cleans up after itself, and if one chooses to uninstall it, no files are left behind. Please consider [donating to the project](https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/blob/master/DONATE.md) if you find it useful. It is also **highly recommended** to use the "Update Scripts" feature after installing, as this will ensure the utilities are in sync with the current versions present in this repository.

CWP Utilities automates the process of maintaining an up-to-date and comprehensive hosts file, in order to block a variety of trackers, advertisements, and malware, on a system-wide level. It also enables the average user to easily keep the block lists for their file sharing applications up-to-date and thorough, along with facilitating the easy utilization of a Proxy Auto-Configuration (or PAC) file, for ad and tracker-blocking on devices that are less configurable (e.g. non-rooted phones). Think of it as a more capable replacement for HostsMan, even though it's not as pretty. It can also fetch hosts lists from servers HostsMan cannot, thanks to an up-to-date build of wget for Windows.
![Main Interface](/Screenshots/screen05-new.png)
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This directory will always contain the most recent installers:
1. Stable / Main Edition: https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/raw/master/Releases/CWP-Utilities-Stable-1.7.9.exe
2. SlimBB / BusyBox Edition: https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/raw/master/Releases/CWP-Utilities-SlimBB-1.7.9.exe
This directory will always contain the most recent installer:
https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/raw/master/Releases/CWP-Utilities-Stable-1.8.0.exe

*You should also ALWAYS execute option number 15 in the console interface (or the Update Scripts function of the tray icon) after installing, to ensure that the CWPU scripts are synced with the latest versions in this repository. For good measure, this function should be executed once every week or two as well.*
*You should ALWAYS execute option number 15 in the console interface (or the Update Scripts function of the tray icon) after installing, to ensure that the CWPU scripts are synced with the latest versions in this repository. For good measure, this function should be executed once every week or two as well.*

It will also contain zip files of each edition for those who prefer not to use an installer (CWP Utilities is portable):
1. https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/raw/master/Releases/CWPU-Stable.zip
2. https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/raw/master/Releases/CWPU-SlimBB.zip
It will also contain a zip file for those who prefer not to use an installer (CWP Utilities is portable):
https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/raw/master/Releases/CWPU-Stable.zip

*Without the installer, you won't have the benefit of a variety of handy shortcuts, but the program can still be launched via 'CWPU-Tray.exe' or 'LauncherLauncher.bat'.*

If you need to download an old one for some crazy reason, you may check here:
If you need to download an old release for some crazy reason, you may check here:
https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/tree/master/Backups/OldReleases
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