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You state that "Localhost activity is controllable in full in Plus/Server Editions (for localhost traffic intercepting third parties “proxies”)"

Where is that?

I noticed that with this update what used to connect to a real destination port, now connects to localhost & LanOnly rule?

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>I noticed that with this update what used to connect to a real destination port, now connects to localhost & LanOnly rule?

Something about that.
Many very popular applications use localhost (127.0.0.1) activity for inter process communications, Firefox for instance. So the previous versions expected all the localhost related activities safe and did not even treat such activities as an entity to protect.
As appeared later there is another set of popular applications (antiviruses, ad blockers etc) which traps third party application traffic via localhost. I.e., with an AV online monitoring enabled, Firefox tries to connect to a real internet destination, AV traps the activity and redirects it via localhost to the AV related services, finally the activity appears issued in the name of AV service and Firefox (for instance) was not even detected by W7FC.
Now W7FC guards localhost related communications as well.