# 🚀 **Release 2.4.11 — Masquerade Status, Flexible Sub Paths & Enhanced Password Security**

*Released: 2025-12-07*

### 🎭 **Masquerade Enhancements**

* 🔧 Added **masquerade controls** & real-time **status indicator** to the Hysteria settings page
* 🔄 Updated API endpoints with improved masquerade handling
* ⚙️ Added a new **core status check** for masquerade
* 🧹 Refactored masquerade logic to **string-based mode**

### 🔗 **Flexible Subscription Paths**

* 🌐 Implemented **path-based normalsub URLs**, enabling more flexible subscription structures
* ♻️ Added **automatic backward compatibility migration** for old paths

### 🔐 **Password Security Improvements** *(Thanks to @YerdosNar 🙌)*

* 🔁 Added password confirmation loop for safety
* 🕶️ Enabled **masked input** during password entry
* ✔️ General improvements to password validation flow

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## 🛠️ **Fixes & Cleanup**

* 🧹 Removed outdated comment blocks
* 🔇 Commented out old debug print statements

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## 📦 **Dependency Updates**

* ⬆️ fastapi → **0.123.9**
* ⬆️ pymongo → **4.15.5**
* ⬆️ certbot → **5.2.1**