NEW Avast Version 22.1 (January 2022)

Hi, all. Please welcome the newest version of Avast AV: 22.1 (22.1.2504)

Notable improvements in the release:

  • Wi-Fi Inspector Password Hints - Wi-Fi Inspector can now recommend more secure passwords for your home network
  • Firewall improvements in the UI - We’ve re-ordered the Firewall Tabs inside the interface
  • Boot Time Scan Results - You’ll notice how from now on you get actual results from scans even after reboots

Some bugfixes we worked on:

  • Rootkit driver BSOD was fixed
  • User Interface password now works fine, doesn’t get removed after update
  • And many more…

The first release of the year! Thank you to our team for the great effort!
How to install:

  1. Update from your existing Avast version via Settings → Update → Update program
  2. Or you can download and install files:
    Online installers (recommended):

Offline installers:

(In case the hyperlink here wouldn’t work in your browser, just paste and copy the URL to the browser address bar)

Appreciate mentioning me in the changelog for firewall. I didn’t expect that to happen yet my name was there. :slight_smile: I also appreciate devs still care about user input. Still a very rare trait in the software industry, especially from very big companies.

Thanks, spreading the news… 8)

Thanks for the new release :slight_smile:

Just checking, version number is “lower” (21.10.2504) than the 21.11 release (21.11.2500) ?

Update

Looks like the “version” should be Avast AV: 22.1 (22.1.6921).

-dwh

Avast shows enlightened self-interest and respect by taking note of the obervations of users. Not to do so shows contempt for users. To ignore users’ views is tantamount to cutting off their own noses to spite their faces. I wander off the Avast path from time to time. The experience of that makes me respect Avast all the more. The little popups are a price well worth paying.

The free version doesn’t have a firewall does it?

https://blog.avast.com/windows-firewall-avast

On Avast Free Antivirus (not Avast One Essentials), No it isn’t, the two products are different.
Don’t I recall you trying Avast One and going back ?

There’s Avast Free and then there is
Avast One Essential
Both a free but different products.

Hi, it does (since a few months).

It isn’t installed by default, but can be downloaded from the UI (I’m still on version 21.11.xxxx).

Though I guess from a clean install it would be unless you didn’t opt for a custom install.

It’s an option that needs to be selected in a custom install
as explained here: https://youtu.be/IxozZFC9XRk
You can also select it later by using the option in
troubleshooting to modify what you’ve installed.

Unable to create rescuedisk with this new 22.1 version. See: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=317747.0

@RejZoR, where did you find the changelog?

On our (two) systems, this version (22.1) was automatically installed, while our ‘Update’ setting is ‘Remind me when an update is available’ (not ‘Automatically update my appllcation’ [sic]).

Any idea why that is?

N.B. The installed versions were rather old (because of the Web Shield hanging (in Chrome) bug (https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=246736.0)).

  1. Is it possible that a notice did appear but doesn’t stay on the screen until you it one way or another. EDIT: Though I would expect that it shouldn’t update unless you initiated the update.

  2. If I were in your position with an old version (and not wanting it updated), I would have placed the Program Updates to Manual.

  3. In that old topic an Avast Team member requested logs to try and pin down the problem.

  4. There was also a suggestions to switch of the QUIC/HTTP2 setting in avast.
    Did you do either of these two ?

Also

Starting a new topic as suggested would keep it out of a topic likely to have multiple threads and not your specific issue.

Hi, it’s in the splash screen that shows up after the update.