BlockScript Release Notes
BlockScript (including all embedded blacklists) is updated regularly. The following notes detail releases in which more than the blacklists are updated.
Version 2.1295
- Change: Improved validation of facebook bot.
Version 2.1294
- News: Now blocking over 299 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- New Feature: Default screen in the control panel now highlights when Additional IP Lookups are needed.
- New Feature: Automatic selection of countries sanctioned by various government offices (OFAC, BIS, SPI, OFSI, GAC, DFAT, JMOF, SECO, MFAT, MFA, HKMA, MOFA) and international bodies (UNSC, CFSP, PSC).
- Bug Fix: Fixed intermittent problem with the captcha system.
- Change: Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
Version 2.1293
- News: Now blocking over 295 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug which could cause the control panel to display a 500 error on PHP 8.1 and 8.2.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug in the automated installer.
- Change: The developer APIs XML output now includes new parametric fields ("<queries_used>" and "<queries_remaining>") for certain actions ("test_ipv4", "test_ipv6", "queries").
- Change: Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
Version 2.1292
- News: Now blocking over 289 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 2.1291
- News: BlockScript will run on nearly any system that has PHP (versions 5.x, 7.x, 8.1.x, 8.2.x) and the ionCube Loader.
- News: For every version of BlockScript, we produce 83 variants targeted and optimized for different server configurations.
- News: Now blocking over 287 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 11 nonillion "bad bot" IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1289
- News: Now blocking over 283 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 1 decillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1288
- News: Now blocking over 282 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 2.1287
- News: Now blocking over 281 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 243 million "bad bot" IPv4 addresses from filtering companies, monitoring companies, and more.
- News: Now blocking over 939 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1286
- News: Now blocking over 280 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 918 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1285
- News: Now blocking over 273 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 913 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1282
- News: BlockScript will run on nearly any system that has PHP (versions 4.x, 5.x, 7.x, 8.1) and the ionCube Loader.
- News: For every version of BlockScript, we produce 64 variants targeted and optimized for different server configurations.
- News: Now blocking over 261 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 907 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 10 nonillion "bad bot" IPv6 addresses.
- Change: API queries to "Lookup an IP Address" are now logged if the IP is blocked and logging is enabled in the control panel.
Version 2.1279
- News: Now blocking over 256 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 907 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1272
- News: BlockScript is compatible with all current versions of PHP from 4 through PHP 7.4.
- News: For every version of BlockScript, we produce 47 variants targeted and optimized for different server configurations.
- News: Now blocking over 234 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 904 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1270
- News: Now blocking over 232 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 903 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1269
- News: Now blocking over 231 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 900 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1268
- News: Now blocking over 230 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 2.1266
- News: Now blocking over 227 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 242 million "bad bot" IPv4 addresses from filtering companies, monitoring companies, and more.
- News: Now blocking over 897 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 9 nonillion "bad bot" IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1264
- News: Now blocking over 226 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 2.1262
- News: Now blocking over 225 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 2.1261
- News: Now blocking over 224 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 896 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1258
- News: Now blocking over 895 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1253
- News: Now blocking over 223 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 2.1252
- News: Now blocking over 222 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 894 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1251
- News: Now blocking over 221 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 893 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1247
- News: Now blocking over 220 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 2.1246
- News: Now blocking over 219 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- Change: Improved automatic update process.
Version 2.1245
- News: Now blocking over 892 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1244
- News: Now blocking over 16 million "bad bot" IPv4 addresses from filtering companies, monitoring companies, and more.
Version 2.1242
- News: Now blocking over 218 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 2.1240
- News: Now blocking over 215 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 879 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1238
- News: Now blocking over 214 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 876 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1236
- Change: Removed ability to block access by user language.
Version 2.1235
- Change: Improved support for PHP 7.2+.
Version 2.1234
- News: Now blocking over 213 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 875 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1233
- News: Now blocking over 212 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 874 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1227
- News: Now blocking over 210 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 2.1226
- News: Now blocking over 871 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1225
- News: Now blocking over 197 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 861 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1224
- News: Now blocking over 859 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1220
- News: Now blocking over 196 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 856 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1219
- News: Now blocking over 855 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
- Change: Free trial period extended to two weeks.
Version 2.1214
- News: Now blocking over 194 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 844 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1211
- News: Now blocking over 193 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 843 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1210
- News: Now blocking over 808 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1209
- News: Now blocking over 191 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 801 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1205
- News: Now blocking over 189 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 797 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1204
- News: Now blocking over 186 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 2.1200
- News: Now blocking over 796 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
- Change: Improved handling of IPv6 addresses using IPv4 compatibility mode.
Version 2.1199
- News: Now blocking over 184 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 2.1198
- News: Now blocking over 787 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1197
- News: Now blocking over 786 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1193
- News: Now blocking over 8 nonillion "bad bot" IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1192
- News: Now blocking over 183 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 784 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1191
- News: Now blocking over 783 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 7 nonillion "bad bot" IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1189
- News: Now blocking over 182 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 778 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1186
- News: Now blocking over 774 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1185
- News: Now blocking over 179 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 772 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1184
- News: Now blocking over 765 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1183
- News: Now blocking over 178 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 763 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1181
- News: Now blocking over 762 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1177
- News: Now blocking over 177 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 760 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
- News: Now tracking over 21 million IPv4 addresses used by search engines.
- News: Now tracking over 1 nonillion IPv6 addresses used by search engines.
Version 2.1176
- News: Now blocking over 758 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1175
- News: Now blocking over 176 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 747 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1173
- News: Now blocking over 166 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 743 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1171
- News: Now blocking over 741 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1170
- News: Now blocking over 161 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 740 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1167
- News: Now blocking over 737 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1166
- News: Now blocking over 735 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1165
- News: Now blocking over 726 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1164
- News: Now blocking over 725 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1163
- News: Now blocking over 160 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 710 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1161
- News: Now blocking over 156 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 709 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1159
- News: Now blocking over 154 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 706 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1158
- News: Now blocking over 153 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 624 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1155
- News: Now blocking over 622 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1154
- News: Now blocking over 148 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 2.1153
- News: Now blocking over 621 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1150
- News: Now blocking over 147 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 613 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1147
- News: Now blocking over 146 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 608 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1145
- News: Now blocking over 144 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 606 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1141
- News: Now blocking over 143 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 600 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1139
- News: Now blocking over 596 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1135
- News: Now blocking over 142 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 589 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 6 nonillion "bad bot" IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1130
- News: Now blocking over 139 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 584 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1128
- News: Now blocking over 138 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 578 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
- New Feature: Added support for geolocation headers from Sucuri.
- New Feature: Added support for geolocation headers from CloudFront.
- Change: Updated list of countries.
- Change: Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
Version 2.1125
- Bug Fix: Fixed a display bug which could cause the IP Lookups quota to appear incorrect in the control panel.
Version 2.1122
- Change: Added native support for WP Engine GeoIP.
Version 2.1121
- News: Now blocking over 127 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 569 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1120
- Change: Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
Version 2.1119
- Change: Improved IPv6 support.
Version 2.1116
- News: BlockScript is compatible with all current versions of PHP from 4 through PHP 7.2.
- News: BlockScript now natively supports both 32 bit and 64 bit capable systems.
- News: Now blocking over 567 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
- Change: Improved support for running under the FastCGI PHP handler.
- Change: Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
Version 2.1113
- News: Now blocking over 123 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 566 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1112
- News: BlockScript is compatible with all current versions of PHP from 4 through PHP 7.1.
- News: Now blocking over 120 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 526 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1110
- News: Now blocking over 525 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1109
- News: BlockScript is compatible with all current versions of PHP from 4 through PHP 7.0.
- News: Now blocking over 116 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 504 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1106
- News: Now blocking over 503 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1105
- News: Now blocking over 115 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 500 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1104
- News: Now blocking over 113 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 499 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1103
- News: Now blocking over 111 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 2.1102
- News: Now blocking over 109 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 489 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
- Change: Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
Version 2.1101
- News: Now blocking over 108 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 485 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
- Change: Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
Version 2.1097
- Change: Now logs API requests that result in a block.
- Change: Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
Version 2.1095
- News: Now blocking over 105 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 478 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
- New Feature: Geolocation for IPv6 addresses.
- New Feature: Control panel now displays number of IP Lookups used per day.
- Change: Improved support for transparent proxies.
- Change: Improved validation of facebook bot.
- Change: Miscellaneous improvements.
Version 2.1093
- News: Now blocking over 98 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 2.1091
- News: Now blocking over 97 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 470 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1088
- News: Now blocking over 91 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 143 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1087
- News: Now blocking over 90 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 92 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1086
- News: Now blocking over 89 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 91 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
Version 2.1085
- News: Now blocking over 88 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 88 nonillion proxy and hosting provider IPv6 addresses.
- News: Now tracking over 19 million IPv4 addresses used by search engines.
Version 2.1084
- News: Now blocking over 86 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now tracking over 21 million IPv4 addresses used by search engines.
Version 2.1082
- News: Now blocking over 83 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- New Feature: Added support for Sucuri CloudProxy reverse proxies.
- Change: Improved support for transparent proxies.
Version 2.1077
- News: BlockScript is compatible with all current versions of PHP from 4 through PHP 5.6.
- News: For every version of BlockScript, we produce 32 variants targeted and optimized for different server configurations.
- News: Now blocking over 82 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 2.1066
- Change: Automatically disables Zend OpCache if enabled.
Version 2.1065
- Change: Improved support for the "Check Proxy Ports" feature.
Version 2.1061
- News: Now blocking over 81 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 2.1060
- Change: Improved support for installations of BlockScript on subdomains.
Version 2.1055
- News: Now blocking over 80 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now tracking over 4 million IPv4 addresses used by search engines.
- New Feature: BlockScript now automatically "peers through" transparent proxies operated by popular content delivery services (Amazon CloudFront, EdgeCast, CloudFlare), filtering companies (Blue Coat, McAfee, Symantec, Websense), mobile phone networks (Nokia, Opera Mini, Puffin, UC Browser), and more.
- Change: Removed options "Amazon CloudFront Compatibility", "Cloudflare Compatibility", "EdgeCast Compatibility", and "Block Opera Proxies" because more sophisticated versions of these features are already incorporated into the software.
Version 2.1051
- News: Now blocking over 79 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- Change: Updated list of CloudFlare's reverse proxies.
Version 2.1050
- News: Now blocking over 15 million "bad bot" IPv4 addresses from filtering companies, monitoring companies, and more.
Version 2.1049
- Change: Added support for servers with PECL GeoIP.
Version 2.1045
- News: Now blocking over 78 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 2.1044
- Bug Fix: Fixed a display bug with the optional "scan_ports" option in the API.
Version 2.1043
- Bug Fix: Fixed a display bug which could cause the number of IP Lookups remaining to appear incorrect in the control panel.
Version 2.1042
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug in the API which could cause the options bitfield to alter base settings under certain conditions.
- Change: The number of IP Lookups remaining is now displayed in the "API Access" section of the "Licensing" tab in the control panel.
- Change: Links to the Developer API page from within the control panel now populate the hostname and API key into the API instructions.
Version 2.1041
- Change: Improved demos of the control panel: both licensed and unlicensed.
- Change: Free trial users can now purchase additional IP Lookups through the control panel.
Version 2.1040
- Change: The options bitfield now provides a mechanism to locally override the list of ports used by the "Check Proxy Ports" setting.
Version 2.1039
- Change: Improved support for Puffin web browser proxies.
Version 2.1035
- Change: Improved support for Websense transparent proxies.
Version 2.1034
- News: Now blocking over 72 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 2.1031
- Change: Improved support for CloudFlare reverse proxies.
Version 2.1029
- News: Now blocking over 71 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 2.1028
- News: BlockScript is now compatible with all current versions of PHP 4 and PHP 5, including PHP 5.6.
- News: Now blocking over 70 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 2.1027
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug in the API which could cause the <country> field to not be set incorrectly.
Version 2.1022
- News: Now protects against the Shellshock Bash vulnerability (CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169) by automatically deleting HTTP request environment variables containing the Shellshock exploit.
Version 2.1020
- News: Now blocking over 68 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- Change: Improved blocking of language translation services.
Version 2.1016
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug introduced in 2.1015 that could negatively affect websites behind reverse proxies under certain conditions.
Version 2.1013
- News: Now blocking over 67 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 2.1012
- News: Improved bot detection.
Version 2.1011
- News: We have released several new APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), including the "Lookup an IP Address" API and the "Show Queries Remaining" API.
- News: Each Blocked license receives a base level of daily IP Lookups (100 per day for Domain Name licenses and 2,000 per day for Enterprise licenses). Additional IP Lookups can be purchased through the control panel.
Version 2.1009
- News: BlockScript is now compatible with all current versions of PHP 4 and PHP 5, including PHP 5.5.
- News: Now blocking over 66 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 13 million "bad bot" IPv4 addresses from filtering companies, monitoring companies, and more.
- Change: Increased run-time performance.
- Change: All 1.x licenses holders will receive a free upgrade to the 2.x series of BlockScript.
- Change: The download package now includes an automated installer.
Version 1.5531
- News: After three and a half years of active and continuous development of BlockScript, version 1.5531 will be the final release in the 1.x series. Work on the 2.x series is underway with significant improvements to the software and related services. All 1.x license holders will be provided access to the 2.x series of the software. We look forward to sharing more information about these exciting developments soon.
Version 1.5527
- News: Now blocking over 57 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 1.5526
- News: Now blocking over 54 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 1.5521
- News: Now blocking over 52 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 1.5518
- News: Support for the "Lookup an IP Address" API has been discontinued. We have planned for a gradual reduction in total number of queries available per day to allow for current users of this API enough time to make any necessary adjustments. The API will remain available through the end of 2013 pursuant to the following schedule:
Sep 2013 - 40,000 queries per day.
Oct 2013 - 30,000 queries per day.
Nov 2013 - 20,000 queries per day.
Dec 2013 - 10,000 queries per day.
Please note that Enterprise License holders will receive 10 times as many queries during this time.
Version 1.5515
- News: Now blocking over 50 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 1.5505
- News: BlockScript.com has moved to Blocked.com.
- News: Now blocking over 48 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 1.5503
- News: Now blocking over 47 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 1.5499
- News: Now blocking over 46 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 1.5496
- News: Now blocking over 45 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- News: Now blocking over 7 million "bad bot" IPv4 addresses from filtering companies, monitoring companies, and more.
Version 1.5494
- New Feature: "Block Suspects" - blocks access from IPv4 addresses that are suspected to be associated with spam or other malicious activity.
- Change: Removed option to perform lookups against RBLs (DNS realtime blacklists). We have found RBLs to be slow, unreliable, and inaccurate. The new Block Suspects option performs a similar function and does it better.
Version 1.5493
- News: Now blocking over 44 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- Change: Improved spam post detection and blocking.
Version 1.5492
- Change: VPNGate.net relay servers are now included in the open proxies blacklist.
Version 1.5491
- Change: Reduced false positives with the "Check Proxy Ports" option.
Version 1.5487
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug which prevented selection of "Satellite ISPs" from the list of Countries to Block.
Version 1.5486
- News: Now blocking over 43 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 1.5482
- New Feature: "Reverse Proxy Compatibility" - allows access from most other reverse proxy systems and populates the Remote-Addr environment variable with the user's originating IP address from the X-Forwarded-For header.
Version 1.5481
- New Feature: "EdgeCast Compatibility" - allows access from IP address networks used by EdgeCast's content delivery service and populates the Remote-Addr environment variable with the user's originating IP address from the X-Forwarded-For header.
Version 1.5478
- News: Now blocking over 42 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 1.5474
- News: Now tracking over 3 million IPv4 addresses used by search engines.
- Change: Updated list of CloudFlare's reverse proxies.
Version 1.5470
- News: Now blocking over 41 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 1.5967
- News: The plugin for WHMCS is compatible with WHMCS 5.x.
- New Feature: BlockScript can now process SSI (Server Side Includes) when integrated into a website with the .htaccess rules. The following SSI directives are supported: echo, include (file and virtual), exec (cgi and cmd). Please note that flow control elements are not currently supported.
- New Feature: "Amazon CloudFront Compatibility" - allows access from IP address networks used by Amazon's CloudFront content delivery service and populates the Remote-Addr environment variable with the user's originating IP address from the X-Real-IP header.
- New Feature: Publishing an up to date list of Pingdom probe servers for use with the Custom IP Whitelist.
Version 1.5463
Version 1.5462
- News: Now blocking over 40 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 1.5458
- New Feature: Ability to disable BlockScript's cookie based caching mechanism.
Version 1.5454
- Change: API requests can now trigger timed automatic updates.
Version 1.5452
- New Feature: BlockScript now includes a proprietary blacklist of highly suspicious IPv4 addresses. This blacklist is generated from analysis of reports communicated to us by BlockScript installations that participate in our reporting system. This blacklist is updated periodically throughout the day.
Version 1.5451
- Change: The current admin password is no longer displayed in the control panel.
Version 1.5450
- New Feature: "Cloudflare Compatibility" - allows access from IP address networks used by CloudFlare's reverse proxies and populates the Remote-Addr environment variable with the user's originating IP address from the CF-Connecting-IP header.
Version 1.5449
- Change: Improved spam post detection and blocking.
Version 1.5448
- Bug Fix: Fixed broken links in the "Plugins For Third Party Systems" section of the control panel.
- Bug Fix: Fixed bug preventing timed automatic updates from performing.
Version 1.5447
- New Feature: Automatic updates of selected blacklist data: Tor proxy, Planetlab, and open proxy servers.
- Change: Updates are now checked for and performed every two hours as available.
Version 1.5439
- Change: Changed format of dates displayed in the "Blocked Requests By Day" graph.
- Change: Added port 43 and 1723 to the "Check Proxy Ports" option.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug which could cause the $_SERVER['blockscript_country'] variable to not be set.
Version 1.5436
- New Feature: Charts and graphs in the "Logs/Stats" section of the control panel.
Version 1.5434
- New Feature: Ability to suppress the "X-Powered-By: BlockScript" header which is normally set by the BlockScript software.
Version 1.5430
- Change: Reduced peak memory usage.
Version 1.5425
- News: Now blocking over 38 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 1.5424
- News: Now blocking over 37 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 1.5422
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug which could cause the control panel to display improperly on certain versions of PHP 4.
Version 1.5415
- News: Now blocking over 36 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 1.5409
- New Feature: Ability to choose which ports (if any) should be scanned in conjunction with the Check Proxy Ports option.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug which could reset the Countries to Block, Languages to Block, and Error Message options to default values.
- Change: Additional interface improvements in the control panel.
Version 1.5408
- New Feature: Publishing selected extra lists for use with the Custom IP Blacklist.
- New Feature: The options bitfield provides a mechanism to locally override the global settings. It can be used in conjunction with the API or with the "PHP includes" integration method.
- Change: Beautiful new interface for the control panel. The control panel is now better organized and allows more information to be displayed in less space.
- Change: Improved error messages.
- Change: Added option to block the Tor proxy network. This feature was previously not configurable.
- Change: Added option to block the Planetlab proxy network. This feature was previously not configurable.
- Change: Added option to block open proxy servers. This feature was previously not configurable.
Version 1.5407
- Change: The Block Satellite ISPs option has been merged into the Countries to Block option.
- Change: Minor interface improvements in the control panel.
Version 1.5406
- News: BlockScript now offers a plugin for Drupal, a content management platform powering millions of websites and applications.
Version 1.5402
- News: BlockScript license holders are now entitled to purchase additional Domain Licenses for a low onetime fee.
- News: A BlockScript Enterprise License can now protect an unlimited number of domains owned by an organization.
- Change: Minor interface improvements in the control panel.
Version 1.5400
- Change: Improved support for static files.
- Change: Updated integration instructions for static files.
Version 1.5397
- New Feature: Ability to enter HTML in a custom error message.
- New Feature: Admin password is now stored in an encrypted form in the config file.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a problem caused by using certain characters in passwords.
- Change: IonCube loaders are no longer included in the application package.
- Change: Miscellaneous improvements.
Version 1.5395
- New Feature: BlockScript can now protect static files, including image files, movie files, audio files, archives, and non-dynamic webpages. Please see the integration instructions for more information.
Version 1.5393
Version 1.5392
- New Feature: BlockScript now sanitizes the "X-Powered-By" header to hide the names and version numbers of your server software.
Version 1.5388
- News: Now blocking over 35 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 1.5383
- Change: Dramatically improved memory usage.
Version 1.5380
- New Feature: Ability to grant BlockScript support staff access to your control panel. This can be useful when submitting a support request. This option defaults to off and can be enabled/disabled whenever you like.
Version 1.5374
- Change: Removed option to block Akamai servers. We will supply this list to any customers with a Domain license or greater through December 2011.
- Change: Removed option to block OFAC sanctioned countries. Countries can be blocked using the country blocking feature.
Version 1.5371
- New Feature: Ability to exclude language translation and similar services operated by search engines from the "Block Bot Useragents" feature.
- Change: Performance enhancement.
Version 1.5370
- New Feature: Ability to enter comments in the custom IP whitelists and blacklists. The API also supports comments.
- New Feature: New API to display the total number of queries allowed by your license key and the total number of queries remaining in the current 24 hour period.
- Change: Major performance enhancement. BlockScript can now lookup IPv4 addresses 100x faster.
- Change: More verbose logs.
- Change: Miscellaneous improvements.
Version 1.5367
Version 1.5364
- New Feature: Request header analyzer can now present suspicious users with a captcha.
- New Feature: Ability to check a UserAgent and IP address simultaneously with the APIs. A Domain license or greater is required to access this feature.
- Change: Updated Example IP Lookup Script for PHP to support UserAgent checks.
- Change: Improved efficiency of both disk-based and cookie caching systems.
Version 1.5363
- News: Now blocking over 34 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- Change: Removed option to "Block All Proxy Headers" because a more sophisticated version of this functionality is already incorporated into the software.
Version 1.5362
- New Feature: Ability to block access by user language. BlockScript is aware of 180 different languages.
- New Feature: Ability to disable automatic updates triggered by logging into the control panel.
- New Feature: Ability to disable timed automatic updates.
- Change: Improved reliability of automatic update process.
- Change: Miscellaneous improvements.
Version 1.5357
- News: Now blocking over 33 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 1.5352
- News: Now blocking over 32 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 1.5344
- News: We now offer access to our raw blacklist data in the Data Feed.
Version 1.5343
- News: We now offer a generous discount for not-for-profit organizations. Please contact us for details.
Version 1.5333
- News: BlockScript is exhibiting at PubCon 2011 in Las Vegas. Come meet us.
Version 1.5331
- News: We have published a customer list showing a small sample of the organizations currently using BlockScript.
Version 1.5294
- News: Now blocking over 30 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- Change: Miscellaneous improvements.
Version 1.5285
Version 1.5268
Version 1.5239
- News: Now blocking over 29 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 1.5225
- Change: Improved interface in the control panel.
- Change: BlockScript will automatically check for updates and update itself daily and each time you login to your control panel.
Version 1.5221
- News: BlockScript software and blacklists are now updated daily.
- Change: Implemented new version numbering system.
Version 1.5160
- News: Now blocking over 28 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 1.5140
- News: We now offer discounts for orders of five or more licenses.
- News: Now tracking over 2 million IPv4 addresses used by search engines.
Version 1.5100
- News: Now blocking over 1 million "bad bot" IPv4 addresses from filtering companies, monitoring companies, and more.
Version 1.5900
- News: BlockScript now offers a plugin for WHMCS, a popular billing and support system for online businesses.
Version 1.5400
- News: Now blocking over 27 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 1.5300
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug that would cause to the bot blacklist and Akamai blacklist to sometimes fail to load.
Version 1.5200
- Change: Improved reverse DNS checking. Software will now use the "REMOTE_HOST" environmental variable when available.
- Change: Improved request header analyzer.
- Change: Miscellaneous improvements.
Version 1.5000
- New Feature: Ability to block access from networks operated by Akamai, a network of more than 85,000 servers in 70 countries around the world.
- News: Now blocking 3.6 million Akamai IPv4 addresses.
- Change: Improved request header analyzer.
Version 1.4270
- News: Now blocking over 26 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- New Feature: - Enterprise License holders can now see the netblock owner of banned ranges in API responses and logfiles.
- Change: Miscellaneous improvements and performance enhancements.
Version 1.4260
- Change: Improved speed and efficiency of the IP address matching system.
Version 1.4250
- Change: Improved efficiency and effectiveness of rate limiting system.
Version 1.4230
- News: Now blocking over 25 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- New Feature: BlockScript will automatically check for updates and update itself approximately every three days and each time you login to your control panel.
- New Feature: BlockScript will securely send reports about suspect traffic to BlockScript.com to help us improve our blacklist data. This option will not impact the performance of your website and you can opt-out at any time.
- Change: Improved interface in control panel.
Version 1.4100
- News: Now blocking over 24 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- Change: Dramatically improved accuracy and efficiency of disk-based caching system.
- Change: Improved support for both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems.
Version 1.4900
- Bug Fix: A small percentage of requests would be retested after an incorrect cache miss.
Version 1.4800
- Change: Improved efficiency of disk-based caching system.
Version 1.4700
- Bug Fix: Certain requests from an iPhone could trigger a false positive in the header analyzer.
- Change: Logfiles now display the UserAgent when a bad UserAgent is blocked.
Version 1.4000
- New Feature: Now detects and blocks accesses from testbed systems such as PlanetLab, EmanicsLab, and ETOMIC.
- Change: Greatly improved DNS based blocking system and related blacklists.
Version 1.3280
- News: Now blocking over 22 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
Version 1.3270
- Change: New files written to the tmp directory inherit permissions from the tmp directory.
Version 1.3260
- Change: Improved support for web servers that are behind reverse proxies (such as mod_proxy, Squid, and Nginx).
Version 1.3190
- New Feature: Ability to block users with IPv4 addresses that cannot be geolocated.
- Change: Improved validation of CIDR netblocks.
Version 1.3180
- Change: Reduced memory use when searching logs.
Version 1.3160
- Bug Fix: Custom IP blacklisting could malfunction in certain installations.
- Change: Improved API Key validation.
Version 1.3150
- News: Now tracking over 1.6 million IPv4 addresses used by search engines.
- Change: Automatic update process now preserves file permissions on existing files.
- Change: Improved efficiency of caching and logging systems.
Version 1.3700
- Change: Miscellaneous improvements and performance enhancements.
Version 1.3600
- Change: Dramatically enhanced performance of internal blacklist lookups.
Version 1.3400
- Change: Ability to unselect all countries from the "Countries to block" feature.
- Change: Logfiles now use the 24-hour format of an hour in dates.
Version 1.3300
- New Feature: Ability to choose the number of days for which logfiles will be retained.
- Bug Fix: The Transparent Mode API sometimes generated false positives.
- Change: Improved interface in control panel.
- Change: Miscellaneous improvements.
Version 1.3200
- Change: Miscellaneous improvements.
Version 1.3100
- News: BlockScript now has an Affiliate Program.
- News: BlockScript now offers plugins which enable easy integration with many popular software packages (like vBulletin, WordPress, and MyBB).
Version 1.3000
- News: BlockScript provides free access to core features, including custom IP whitelisting and blacklisting, country blocking, logging, and limited access to the APIs. Purchase of a license key unlocks all features.
- News: Now blocking over 20 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- Change: Improved interface in control panel.
Version 1.2130
- Change: Miscellaneous improvements.
Version 1.2120
- Bug Fix: Certain cellphones were generating false positives.
Version 1.2900
- Change: Greatly improved accuracy and efficiency of disk-based caching system.
Version 1.2600
- Change: Improved automatic update process.
- Change: After manual installation, software will automatically update itself with optimized binary version.
- Change: Improved license process. After purchase, software will automatically license itself.
Version 1.2500
- New Feature: Powerful new APIs for developers.
- Change: Improved integration with third party systems.
Version 1.2400
- New Feature: Ability to block access from proxies operated by Opera Mini, a web browser designed primarily for mobile phones and mobile devices. BlockScript will also "peer through" transparent proxies like Opera Mini to see the end user's IP address and perform all necessary checks.
- Change: Integration instructions now displayed in control panel.
Version 1.2300
- Change: Improved interface in control panel. Changed many controls from select menus to radio buttons.
Version 1.2200
- Bug Fix: Miscellaneous bug fixes.
Version 1.2100
- Change: Improved blocking of proxy server testing bots.
- Change: Miscellaneous improvements.
Version 1.2000
- News: Now blocking over 18 million proxy and hosting provider IPv4 addresses.
- Change: Improved request header analyzer.
- Change: Improved reverse DNS checking.
Version 1.1100
- Change: Improved accuracy and efficiency of caching system.
- Change: Cache file is now reset after an automatic update is successfully completed.
- Change: Miscellaneous improvements.
Version 1.1900
- Change: Miscellaneous improvements.
Version 1.1800
- Change: Improved Web vulnerability scanner detection.
- Change: Improved request header analyzer.
Version 1.1700
- Change: Miscellaneous improvements.
Version 1.1600
- News: Major improvements to the BlockScript.com website.
- Bug Fix: DNS realtime blacklist lookups functioning properly again.
- Change: Error message previews are now accessible only to administrators.
Version 1.1500
- Bug Fix: Geolocation functioning properly again.
Version 1.1400
- New Feature: Ability to manually logout of the control panel ahead of automatic session expiration.
- Bug Fix: Miscellaneous bug fixes.
Version 1.1300
- Change: Enhanced performance.
- Change: The password field in the login form is now rendered as a password.
Version 1.1200
- New Feature: Improved statistics with ability to "drill down" through the logs by option name.
- Bug Fix: Requests that are blocked by the "Block All Proxy Headers" option are now properly recorded in the logs.
- Bug Fix: Miscellaneous bug fixes.
Version 1.1100
- New Feature: Ability to specify a URL to redirect users who have been blocked instead of displaying an error message.
- New Feature: Blocks link prefetching.
- New Feature: Blocks attempts to scan your website for open proxy services to exploit.
- New Feature: Blocks suspicious form submissions containing links in HTML or BBCode.
Version 1.1000
- New Feature: Control panel now displays statistics generated from logfiles.
- New Feature: Ability to specify IP address ranges to whitelist/blacklist in a variety of formats ("127.0.0.1", "127.0.0.0-127.0.0.15", "127.0.0.0/255.255.255.254", "127.0.0.0/23").
- Bug Fix: Miscellaneous bug fixes.
- Change: Reordered options in the control panel.
- Change: Logging now on by default.
Version 1.0120
- New Feature: Control panel now displays list of logfiles by date, number of entries, and file size.
- New Feature: Logfiles older than 7 days are now automatically purged when the control panel is accessed.
- New Feature: Ability to delete selected logfiles.
- New Feature: Ability to set new administrator password in the control panel.
- Change: Greatly expanded open proxy server blacklist.
Version 1.0110
- New Feature: Added link for end users to report potential false positives directly to BlockScript.
- Bug Fix: Miscellaneous bug fixes.
Version 1.0100
- Bug Fix: Improved availability of the BlockScript update server.
- Change: Improved reverse DNS checking.
- Change: Improved automatic update process. Software is downloaded only if an update is needed.
- Change: Improved error messages.
Version 1.0900
- New Feature: Greater compatibility. No longer requires PHP mbstring extension.
- Bug Fix: "Countries to block" option is now saved properly.
Version 1.0700
- New Feature: Now detects and blocks CoDeen Proxies provided by PlanetLab.
Version 1.0600
- Bug Fix: Improved automatic update process. Software is now validated before the update is committed to install.
Version 1.0500
- New Feature: Improved security of control panel. Failed attempts to login are rate limited. Rate limit exceeders are automatically blocked from both the control panel and the frontend website.
- Change: Improved error messages.
Version 1.0300
- New Feature: Now detects and blocks Tor exit nodes.
- New Feature: Now detects and blocks open proxy servers.
Version 1.0000
- News: Initial release. This completes a four month long beta testing period in which every aspect of the software was tested extensively on busy websites.
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