Firewall: unable to change some app settings

[moiraine_sedai]

Since the release candidate came out, I upgraded to Sequoia yesterday (15.0 (24A335)). One issue I found is that in the Firewall > options..., some apps are stuck and I'm unable to change their settings to allow/block, or delete the entries. the command line `/usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw` also does not work on these apps, see the screen shot, apps like zoom, and Things do not have the ↕️ next to allow/block, and for them the delete - and right click also does not work.

The release notes said that the firewall has some deprecation changes and the settings are no longer in the alf plist, where are they now so I can reset the settings? Thanks!

 

[proalorrs]

Same here ... updated yesterday and Zoom did not work anymore. Found out that build in firewall rules are not editable so only workaround solution was to turn off mac firewall

 

[Baggy Spandex]

Same issue here

 

[Doug_in_the_UK]

Same problem here after upgrading to Sequoia. The only solution (for me) was to turn off the Mac firewall.

 

[manofthematch]

This is a serious bug. I hope there will be a quick fix soon.

 

[Kompost]

Unfortunately, I also have this problem.

In addition, there is another problem with the MacOS firewall: When MacOS automatically adds an app with the permission “Allow incoming connections” confirmed by the user (me), all incoming connections for this app are still blocked. With “block incoming connections” of course also. Also, a change is not registered with the automatically generated entries.
If the entry is created manually via the “plus”, an entry works as desired.

 

[proalorrs]

if i add an entry oder delete one manually, the next time i go into firewall settings -> all manually added entries are gone

 

[manofthematch]

If the entry is created manually via the “plus”, an entry works as desired.

... until you close/reopen settings. Then it is gone again.

My rules list additionally features apps which I uninstalled long ago and I cannot delete these entries.

Come on, Apple. Who has forgotten to test this?