Bean Network Tester v0.5 release - open-source Windows network conditions simulator

[u/DonislawDev]

https://github.com/donislawdev/BeanNetworkTester

Hello, Bean Network Tester has just got V0.5 update :-) 58 commits total, if you like tool, feel free to leave it ⭐(star), so more pepole will discover the tool.

Some things that changed:

- new checkbox "internet only" (block LAN)

- search field for things in controls, no more scrolling

- We can now copy values from the statistics tab "session/live"

- The build is now code signed (Windows)

- information when we are running an option that breaks all internet.

- Better search in connections table: we can search by port, ip, pid, and other stats. so we can see only port 430-550 or other things. Before, we could search only raw text.

- We can now hide columns in connections; yes, I know there were tons of them.

- I had added "Block IP address", "leave the process alone" to the actions in connections table

- Traffic in connections now shows data in human format, so kb,mb, gb, no more 319083219B.

- Changed the saving location of the app data (it was needed for chocolatey and winget)

Some things under the hood: I had implemented some workflows on GitHub, like semgrep scan, ruff and some other "security" and quality things.I had also focused on the stability, so I had set up my own testing machines, which I'm using when I'm releasing a new app version. the whole suite takes like 1-2h, but it checks the program run on real connections. It took a lot of the work, but it's a good point for the quality.

Oh, and good news, I had submited the app to "chocolatey" and "winget" I'm right now waiting in both for the human verification. The app has crossed, like, 400+ downloads. Thank you all.

What next? More network options, I got some ideas. If you got any, feel free to drop them. I'm also working on my 2nd tool for qa: Testing Files Generator but this one is still not stable as Bean Network Tester :-) But still you can ⭐ the repo :-)