“All restricted features have been made completely free in this version. No updates will be released for the program either. No new version of Sandboxie will be released from Sophos, but the latest version remains available on a dedicated website, with support for Windows 7, 8.1 and 10. The company also says that it is engaging with members of the community who could take over the project and make the Sandboxie source code available through an open source project to the community. The open-source availability of Sandboxie is expected to “spawn a fresh wave of ideas and use cases,” Sophos says. “Sophos is proud to announce the release of the Sandboxie source code to the community, meaning we are finally an open source tool! We’re excited to give the code to the community,” the company announced on its forums. The company never considered Sandboxie as an important component of its business and even considered completely discontinuing it. In September last year, Sophos made Sandboxie free, while also announcing that it was transitioning the tool to open source. The sandbox-based isolation program became part of Sophos’ portfolio in 2017, after the cybersecurity solutions provider acquired Invincea.

Sandboxie was initially developed by Ronen Tzur, who sold it to Invincea in 2013. Sophos this week announced that the source code of isolation tool Sandboxie is now publicly available.

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