Release history

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• Version 6.5.0 - September 9, 2008
  New Features:
  + Link Load Balancing
  + Added languages: German, Italian, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, Polish, Hungarian, Croatian, Japanese, Chinese
  + Improved UPnP support, now compliant with Microsoft Internet Connectivity Evaluation Tool:
  http://www.microsoft.com/windows/using/tools/igd/default.mspx
  + Web-based dial-up management (readded feature, removed in version 6.3)
  + Nesting of URL groups is now allowed
  + Kernel drivers are now WHQL-certified and digitally signed by Microsoft (no more warnings during installation)
  + AVG 8 Anti-virus support added
  
  Changes since 6.5.0 Release Candidate 1:
  - fixed non-working VPN server on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008
  - fixed routing problems combining link-load balancing and VPN tunnels
  - fixed proper gateway autodetection when changing from manual configuration

• Version 6.4.2 - January 24, 2008
  + Added support for Windows Server 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit)(February 13, 2008)
  * New McAfee anti-virus engine version 5200. All users are encouraged to upgrade. From February 1, 2008 onwards, there will be no further Anti-Virus definition files (DAT files) quality testing with the older engine.
  - Live.com was not recognized properly as a search engine
  - Fixed occasional false positive P2P detection on legitimate DNS traffic
  - Fixed Active Directory mapping timeouts causing delays in user-related operations, authentication, etc...
  - Fixed traffic policy rules with unresolvable host names causing blocking of valid DHCP service requests

• Version 6.4.1 - December 13, 2007
  * Connection limit now applied on incoming and outgoing connections separately
  - Fixed bug in POP3 inspector causing certain emails being blocked
  - Fixed engined crash in on-demand dialing if a certain configuration was imported from KWF 6.3
  - Fixed proxy server sometimes not requiring authentication for HTTPS pages
  - Fixed engine was not started automatically after clean installation on Windows Vista
  - Fixed inability to login to the web interface for users without the 'view statistics' right
  - Fixed firewall traffic sometimes being accounted to random hosts
  - Fixed broken configuration of automatic hangup after inactivity (please check your settings after upgrade to 6.4.1)
  - Fixed displaying of national characters in alerts
  - Fixed eTrust plug-in

• Version 6.4.0 - September 17, 2007
  + User activity logs in StaR
  + Printer ready version of StaR
  + Improved overall throughput performance
  + NAT was made more traversal friendly for VoIP applications
  + Added support for popular dynamic DNS services
  + Added URL based web exclusions from StaR
  + Added support for weekly quotas
  + Added possibility to select users' preferred language

• Version 6.3.1 - May 30, 2007
  * link to Login Page re-added to Deny Page
  * Application Layer Gateway is now detected as conflicting service (it caused FTP connections to fail)
  * 'Valid On' Traffic Rule setting now always affect all existing connections
  * improvements in Web Interface layout in Safari
  - VPN traffic may be dropped by Anti-spoofing on server operating systems
  - fragmented packets were not handled correctly under certain
  circumstances (some connections were blocked)
  - antivirus process sometimes refused to use correctly licensed Avast
  - antivirus process could crash with NOD32
  - fixed crash caused by malformed StaR database file
  - RFC non-compliant e-mail could become corrupted by SMTP inspector
  - fixed accounting of FTP traffic through proxy server
  - traffic histograms were missing in Administration Console
  - redirect to website after successful login sometimes failed
  - stability of the Administration Console was improved
  - it was not possible to enable Clientless SSL-VPN user right in Administration Console without Kerio VPN installed

• Version 6.3.0 - March 29, 2007
  Major new features:
  + Statistics and reporting (StaR)
  * Improved overall performance
  + Support for 64 bit systems
  + Support for Windows Vista
  * Improved P2P Eliminator

• Version 6.2.3 - October 12, 2006
  + added support for Internet Explorer 7 to Kerio Clientless SSL-VPN
  - fixed corruption of configuration file when incorrect MAC address was entered in DHCP server configuration
    (This caused further changes to configuration to be mysteriously lost after reboot.)
  - fixed crash when a malformed DNS response is received
  - fixed crash when more than 3 custom forward DNS servers were specified
  - McAfee now works even if its subscription is expired (without updates though)
  - further fixes to video streaming (Amazon Music Sampler)
  - fixed malformed reverse DNS queries being incorrectly resolved to valid names
  - fixed missing error messages on unresponsive WWW sites
  - fixed "user transfer quota exceeded" alert being sent too often
  - fixed NOD32 plugin not working for SSL-VPN file transfers

• Version 6.2.2 - August 7, 2006
  + added TCP MSS altering to work around nonworking PMTU discovery due to blocked ICMP
  (this typically fixes nonworking HTTPS pages on PPPoE connections)
  * Administration Console now remembers last view in IP Address Groups, DHCP Scopes and Leases, HTTP URL Groups, Time Ranges screens
  * cache memory size configuration value has been removed (the best value is now auto-detected)
  * the timeout for half-open TCP connections has been decreased
  - fixed deadlock in UPnP service if an interface goes up or down
  - in SSL-VPN downloaded files are now forced to be saved to disk instead of opened in IE
  - fixed creating of huge antivirus temporary files even though size limit was configured
  - fixed occasional WinRoute service crashes during system shutdown
  - fixed crashing when loading user configuration where no user has administrative rights
  - fixed opened Administration Console aborting normal system shutdown
  - fixed problem with temporary files occasionally remained on disk after the antivirus scanning
  - fixed a potential bug that antivirus process(es) won't start during WinRoute initialization
  - fixed national characters handling in the administrative password dialog in the installation wizard
  - fixed loading of web pages on nonstandard TCP ports when going through multiple proxies
  - fixed nonworking CNN pipeline stream videos
  - fixed possibility to remove some interface statistics for some interfaces
  - fixed IP addresses for hostnames in the traffic policy not being updated often enough
  - fixed old half-closed FTP connections through the firewall sometimes remaining open for very long times
  - antivirus scanning failures are now logged into security log
  - fixed client FTP connections not being correctly reset if virus was found during the transfer.
  - fixed FTP inspector could parse certain (illegal) responses incorrectly causing the affected connection to hang
  - fixed bandwidth limiter behaving incorrectly if the IP address group selected there was deleted
  - fixed inability to send mail through certain rare servers if TLS transfers are denied by WinRoute
  - fixed possible file corruption during antivirus scanning on chunked HTTP connections
  - fixed nonworking quarantine storage of infected files found in FTP transfers
  - fixed changes to the default SSL web interface TCP port of 4081 not being applied until restart of WinRoute
  - user manually imported from AD now have their email addresses imported (affects only newly imported users)
  - fixed file and folder icons failures to load when browsing FTP via the HTTP proxy server
  
  Kerio VPN Client 1.2.2
  - fixed route to remote network being added to system even if it already exists
  
  

• Kerio VPN Client 1.2.1 - May 4, 2006
  - fixed conflict with MS Firewall Client that caused OS crash
  
  

• Version 6.2.1 - May 3, 2006
  - fixed service crash in email protocol inspectors
  - fixed occasional high CPU usage of the service
  - fixed handling of HTTP/0.9 responses
  (this caused false positives of binary characters in HTTP headers)
  - fixed ignoring traffic policy rules when host names were used
  - fixed nonworking Windows Update via proxy server
  - fixed monthly rotation of logs
  * denial pages no longer use SSL
  (this caused unexpected SSL certificate warnings in browsers)
  * improved handling of ICMP destination unreachable messages
  (this sometimes caused VPN tunnels to stop working)
  + added ability to select custom port for SMTP relay server
  
  

• Version 6.2.0 Patch 1 - April 10, 2006
  - fixed service stability issue
  
  

• Version 6.2.0 - March 23, 2006
  + Bandwidth Limiter
  + Dual anti-virus
  + Product registration from the administration console
  + VPN Client now supports 64bit Windows
  
  

• Version 6.1.4 Patch 2 - January 19, 2006
  - fixed possible hang and 100% CPU consumption while browsing the web
  
  

• Version 6.1.4 Patch 1 - January 5, 2006
  + added protection against the recent Windows metafiles vulnerability
  * updated antivirus plugin for Eset NOD32
  - fixed DoS caused by improper data handling in HTML content filtering
  - fixed DoS when too long strings are fetched from Active Directory
  - fixed engine's inability to start due to improper loading of statistics
  - fixed HTML content filtering was sometimes incorrectly activated even if disabled
  - fixed application of antivirus scanning rules to certain file names
  - improved RTSP protocol inspector compatibility with certain servers
  - fixed removal of custom service could sometimes disable related traffic policy rules
  
  

• Version 6.1.4 - January 5, 2006
  + TCP sequence numbers awareness
  * ICSA certificate renewed
  
  

• Version 6.1.3 Patch 1 - November 16, 2005
  - fixed serious bug in authentication of Active Directory users
  
  

• Version 6.1.3 - November 10, 2005
  - fixed possible crash when trying to receive streams from certain RTSP servers
  - fixed possible hang when querying AD in some circumstances
  - fixed memory leak in Active Directory mapping
  - fixed filter errors in Active Directory queries
  - fixed possibile successful authentication of users with disabled accounts
  - fixed local database users with "@" character in their login name were not able to login
  - fixed detection of RRAS demand-dial interfaces
  - fixed statistics sometimes showing negative/incorrect values
  - bookmarks on the SSL-VPN page are now correctly sorted
  - NTLM is now disabled for Opera browser
  * the MAC address/vendor database has been updated to be more accurate
  * Windows Firewall service is now disabled during the installation due to persisting conflicts
  
  

• Version 6.1.2 - September 7, 2005
  + Russian translation of all user interfaces excluding Administration Console
  + Admin console now warns if a new traffic policy could disconnect it
  + All domain controllers may now be detected automatically
  * Windows Update HTTP rule was changed to work with current Windows Update
  - Wrong HTTP rules were sometimes applied immediatelly after user login
  - Possible crash after deleting user's statistics
  - Possible crash when in lack of system resources
  - Certain combination of routes to VPN tunnels could cause 100% CPU
  - Changing 'VPN Tunnel' to 'VPN Clients' in Traffic Policy could corrupt configuration
  - Scripts/ActiveX filtering often corrupted pages
  - Newly created group could be assigned wrong rights
  - Nested AD groups didn't work properly for primary groups
  - Account used to access AD database did not suppor non-ASCII characters
  - Quota counter was is not reset at the end of its time interval
  - Quota was not applied immediatelly when reached, only after several seconds
  - Mail temporary files were sometimes left on disk
  - Cannot open folder in SSL-VPN if its name contained an ampersand (&)
  - Admin console runtime error when deleting address group
  - "Error: function called with invalid parameters" when killing connections
  - Changes in configuration of users were not logged into config log
  - HTTP log did not log username for all requests
  - P2P alert message sometimes showed incorrect ports
  - Gzip encoding for HTTP servers in LAN was always turned off
  - Parent proxy password was unencrypted in configuration
  - VPN was not able to deliver very small fragmented UDP packets
  - Hibernation was not allowed even if VPN is not installed
  - Sometimes connection failover alert might not be sent
  - Alert messages in Spanish and Slovak were displayed as plain text only
  - Update checker didn't indicate failures
  
  Changes in Kerio VPN Client:
  + Russian translation
  - Autoconnect only works for the first server in advanced mode
  - Taskbar notification area messages were incorrectly formatted
  
  

• Version 6.1.1 - July 14, 2005
  - fixed possible hang when hostnames are used in policies
  - fixed possible crash when changing interface name
  - fixed traffic policy corruption with certain interface names
  - fixed possible temporary hang while sending messages to users
  - fixed authentication of users when installed on a domain controller
  - fixed Active Directory mapping problems with nested groups
  - fixed Active Directory mapping problems with cross-domain group memership
  - fixed authentication of users that are members of groups with national characters in names
  
  

• Version 6.1.0 - June 23, 2005
  Major new features:
  + Transparent user mapping in Active Directory domains
  + Support for multiple Active Directory domains
  + Kerio Clientless SSL-VPN
  (web-based secure access to network shares in LAN)
  + Customizable routing configuration for VPN tunnels
  + Spanish localization
  
  

• Version 6.0.11 - April 7, 2005
  - fixed possible crash in RTSP protocol inspector
  - fixed possible crash on systems with more than 64 network interfaces
  - fixed several bugs in statistics calcullation
  - fixed incorrect logging of broadcast packets in anti-spoofing
  - fixed several issues in the remote administration protocol
  
  

• Version 6.0.10 - March 22, 2005
  - fixed possible crash when establishing / closing VPN connection (error 10038)
  - fixed possible hang of WinRoute service when changing SSL certificate for VPN server
  - fixed minor bugs in VPN server
  - fixed resource leak in SMTP protocol inspector with unconfigured relay (error 10035)
  - fixed collision with running ICF service on Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
  - fixed problem with setting user rights for installation directory on startup
  - fixed problem with DNS names in traffic rules and address groups
  - fixed crash caused by Avast module if it was simultaneusly used in both KWF and KMS
  - several minor improvements / bug fixes in SMTP protocol inspector
  - several minor bug fixes in Administration Console
  + protection of firewall host against Land attack packets
  * improved antivirus scanning of files being download using download managers
  
  

• Version 6.0.9 - December 9, 2004
  - fixed posibility to poison DNS cache
  - fixed possible CPU/memory DoS in SMTP inspector
  - reduced access rights to WinRoute's directory
  - fixed handling of HEAD method in HTTP proxy server
  - fixed bad date in file names quarantine directory
  - blocking and logging of P2P traffic is now more accurate
  - invalid domain name in NT import no longer display local users
  - administration console now checks passwords for maximum length
  - administration console now behaves correctly if connection to the engine is lost
  - fixed up&down arrow buttons in Antivirus/HTTP scanning rules
  - transferred data for multimedia streams are now displayed correctly
  * improved logging of ISS orange filter categorization failures
  * removed SMTP NOTIFY extension from alert emails
  + SCCP (Cisco Skinny) protocol inspector now correctly handles conferrence calls
  + added ability to highlight certain lines of logs
  + support for hibernation (if VPN is not installed)
  
  

• Version 6.0.8 - November 4, 2004
  - fixed nonfunctional user accounts that were imported from WinRoute Pro 4.x in the past
  
  

• Version 6.0.7 - November 4, 2004
  * passwords for local users are now stored using stronger encryption
  * workaround for strange behavior of IE back button when dropping HTTP
    requests (e.g. ad-blocking HTTP rule is enabled)
  - fixed some HTTP and FTP rules not working randlomly
  - fixed non-working HTTP and Web log in upgraded installations
  - fixed FTP handling when configured to use parent proxy
  - VPN routes marked as 'unknown' no longer remain in the routing table
  - fixed possibility to edit int16 type options in DHCP server
  - fixed support for more than 255 routes in VPN
  - fixed crash of administration console in Status/Interfaces screen
  - actual traffic is now displayed correctly in statistics
  - fixed character coding in slovak version of web interface
  
  

• Version 6.0.6 - October 5, 2004
  + HTTP, FTP, SMTP and POP3 insplectors now check JPEG files against the recent GDIPLUS.DLL vulnerability
  * Cobion OrangeFilter has been renamed to "ISS OrangeWeb Filter", functionality remains the same
  - fixed hanging of WinRoute service in DNS resolver
  - zero quotas are no longer ignored
  - fixed editing of inbound policy in the traffic wizard
  - alert whan hanging up failover RAS line now displays line name correctly
  - fixed blocked communication after boot if Windows Firewall is detected on Windows XP SP2
  - fixed handling of messages in SIP protocol inspection
  
  

• Version 6.0.5 - September 22, 2004
  + VPN clients can now be configured with custom IP routes
  + VPN clients can now be assigned fixed IP addresses
  + resizeable traffic histograms
  * improved routing table screen in administration console
  - fixed conflict with 3rd party applications that install custom layered service providers
  - fixed boot problem on Windows 2000
  - fixed handling of emails sent as attachment
  - fixed transfer rate bug in traffic histograms
  - fixed automatic login for IP address groups
  - denying of unscannable or corrupted files now works correctly
  - fixed blinking of text in logs
  - SSL certificates with national characters are now displayed correctly
  - fixed false installer complaint about WinRoute Pro being installed
  
  

• Version 6.0.4 - August 19, 2004
  - fixed dropping of NAT connections when user logs in or out
  
  

• Version 6.0.3 - August 17, 2004
  + support for Windows Security Center in Windows XP SP2
  - fixed incorrect handling of TLS-secured POP3 and SMTP
  - dates in alert emails are now properly formated
  - traffic rules with interface source no longer permit packets from firewall
  - fixed file name matching in ftp policy when using MS IE as client
  - "Error: function called with invalid parameters" no longer appears when clearing a log
  
  

• Version 6.0.2 - August 10, 2004
  + possibility to specify file size limit for antivirus
  + possibility to duplicate rule in HTTP/FTP policy
  + firewall can be excluded from quota actions
  * address group can be used for user automatic login
  * several minor improvements in administration console
  - fixed several bugs in SMTP protocol inspector and antivirus
  - fixed memory leak if DNS forwarder was disabled
  - fixed non working proxy if DNS forwarder was not configured
  - fixed crash when removing DHCP scope exclusion
  - fixed bug in SIP inspector
  - fixed minor bug in IRC protocol inspector
  - installer sometimes failed to update Kerio VPN Adapter driver and returned error 0x80070103 - fixed
  - Kerio VPN adapter sometimes lost it's primary IP address - fixed
  - authentication method for user imported manually from NT domain is now correctly set
  - fixed non working automatic login from firewall host
  
  Changes in Kerio VPN Client since 1.0.0:
  - configuration was not saved sometimes - fixed
  - "SSL error 0/5" during connection establishment replaced with more specific message
  
  

• Version 6.0.1 - June 23, 2004
  - fixed 100% CPU ussage on Windows servers with DNS system service enabled
  - fixed DNS forwarder on Windows Server 2003 (error 4507:10013)
  - fixed handling of STLS command in POP3 protocol inspector
  - proxy server now works if DNS forwarder is disabled
  - proxy server now does not always require NTLM authentication
  - authenticating via proxy server no longer sometimes ends with a blank page
  - VPN server no longer stops working when the system is under heavy load
  - deleting interface no longer changes traffic rules which refer it to 'any'
  - fixed crash of administration console in interface statistics
  - fixed ability to edit network interfaces when VPN is not installed
  - fixed disappearing of settings in the AD/NT authentication screen
  - fixed wrong sorting of antivirus rules for HTTP/FTP
  - log rotation is no longer grayed out when set to keep 0 files
  - the number of consumed licenses is now displayed also for trial license
  
  

• Version 6.0.0 - June 7, 2004
  + Integrated client/server and server-to-server VPN solution
  + Alerts and notifications
  + Antivirus protection for emails (POP3 and SMTP)
  + Improved realtime user monitoring and traffic statistics
  + P2P Eliminator - universal P2P blocking
  + Support for VisNetic Antivirus Plug-in 4