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Secure your business network and Internet access using proxy servers
Aug 11, 2020
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Jul 7, 2018
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Nov 29, 2017
Sep 29, 2015
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Jul 18, 2015
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Mar 7, 2015
Apr 29, 2014
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Mar 3, 2014
Aug 13, 2013
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Mar 7, 2013
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May 4, 2012
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Feb 28, 2012
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Jun 9, 2011
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May 28, 2009
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Jul 27, 2008
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What's new

v9.4.0.5993
- Fix: HTTP Caching: Fixed creation of temp folders in the case where the parent folder didn't exist.
- Fix: DNS: fixed crash on creation of over-sized response packets.
- Fix: Flow-chart Policy: Fixed scrolling issue on log entry item log content field.
- Fix: SSL Inspection: Fixed control updated when enabling / disabling items.
- Fix: Flow-chart policy: Fixed vertical offset issue for output label.
- Fix: SSL: Fixed blocking of SSL client-initiated renegotiation.
- New: HTTP Divert: added support for temp vs permanent redirect for divert results in HTTP policy events.

v9.2.0 [Jul 7, 2018]
- Fix: Policy: Property dialogs for some types of item would open non-modally
- Fix: Timeline: Fix divide-by-zero problem if the pane size reduced to 0 width.
- Fix: Logging: fixed auto-reported crash relating to searching in log files
- Fix: WinGate Management: Fix auto-reported crash relating to initialisation of User Interface Framework.
- Fix: Data Lists: Fix auto-reported crash relating to access safety issue around refreshing contents of file-based lists.
- Fix: User Database: Fixed auto-repoorted crash relating to safety checking of user object handles in WinGate users and groups.
- Fix: Uninstall: Fixed issue with missing lua script file on uninstall
- Fix: WinGate NAT: Fix auto-reported crash caused by race-condition on shutdown
- Fix: Email Panel: Fix auto-reported crash relating to tooltips when attaching users to mailboxes.
- Fix: Jscript: Fix auto-reported crash with string length attribute when used with string literals.
- New: Server Core: Now supports Windows Server Core, you must install and run WinGate Management on another computer- WinGate makes the Remote Control Service available from install.
- New: Firewall: Added default options to port security, so you can specify whether to log, use SYN cookies, or cloak connection failures on a per-table basis.
- New: DNS client: Published schema member functions for the DNSClient global object: EnableServer, DisableServer, and IsServerEnabled - to allow script to enable or disable DNS servers used by the DNS client
- New: WWW proxy: Added support to specify the SNI option used by the reverse proxy when connecting to a back end server with https.
- New: TCP Mapping: Added new event PreConnect to enable policy to dictate the destination of the upstream connection- Enterprise license required.
- New: Activity: Added option to discard credentials from machine record, to enable changes to credential rules to be more easily applied.
- New: Schema: Published schema to make several more member values accessible from event handling- ClientSNIValue, ServerName.
- New: Mail list: Added some additional list-related headers, and now rewrite From: header in order to satisfy DMARC-checking receivers.
- New: Uninstall: Added uninstall survey.

v8.4.2.4814 [Jul 18, 2015]
Version 8.4.0 (Build 4807) Released 15 July 2015
1. Fix: Credential Rules: Problem looking up rules if there were mixed rules in the set (match on IP vs Computername etc) meant some rules would stop working
2. Fix: Certificates: Problem importing certificates from pfx or PEM which contain a certificate chain.
3. Fix: Certificates: Problem with certificate generation (lack of keyUsage attribute) preventing recent versions of Firefox from accepting signer certificate in HTTPS inspection
4. Fix: Installer: Set permissions on program data folder to allow non-elevated users of WinGate Management to synchronise modules with a remote WinGate engine
5. Fix: TLS/SSL: Enforce timeouts during TLS negotiation.
6. Fix: HTTP Caching: Fix logging
7. Fix: Config utility: manifest application to require elevation so it can write to necessary registry locations.
8. Fix: IMAP server: improper quoting in mailbox name in untagged STATUS response caused some mail clients to view some folders as empty
9. Fix: IMAP server: was incorrectly setting \Seen flag on a message when UID FETCH also asked for UID in response data.
10. Fix: IMAP server: incorrect handling of nested OR search specifications which didn't use parentheses
11. Fix: IMAP server: RENAME on folder which has child folders was not adjusting path of child folders or their subscriptions
12. Fix: Licensing: Crash bug activating a license for a product that was not loaded / installed.
13. Add: WinGate Login: Now deploy WinGate Login client (QbikAuth.exe) to utilities folder, can use this to log into WinGate Remote Control Service.
14. Add: Remote Control: Added feature for what to do to credentials upon WinGate Login client disconnecting.
15. Add: WinGate Updates: Added minidump generation to WinGateUpdates.exe to generate debug information if it crashes.
16. Add: IMAP server: Added support for SORT and ESORT extensions (including DisplayFrom and DisplayTo sort extensions)
17. Add: IMAP server: Added support for XLIST extension
18. Add: IMAP server: Added support for METADATA extension including /private/specialuse to set special use attributes on a folder
19. Add: IMAP server: Added support for CREATE-SPECIAL-USE extension to enable setting of folder use on creation as per RFC 6154
20. Add: IMAP Server: report folder special use on LIST command response as per RFC 6154
21. Change: Remote Control: added support to distinguish WinGate Management from WinGate Login client.
22. Change: Socket notifications: Internal change to improve performance of notifications on socket connections
23. Change: WWW Proxy: Add support for pass-through authentication to upstream proxy
24. Change: OpenSSL: update OpenSSL library to latest version (1.0.2a)
25. Change: SSL/TLS: support session resumption for client peers with TLS tickets (TLS-based services only)
26. Change: ZLib: update ZLib library to latest version (1.2.8)
27. Change: SDK: several changes to WinGate SDK/API
28. Change: Licensing: Added support for SDK licensing.
29. Change: Activity: Changed layout of machine properties dialog to allow copy to clipboard.
30. Change: Certificates: changes to certification generation wizard, can now set basicConstraints, and keyUsage attributes on generation. Encryption of private key now mandatory.
31. Change: IMAP Server: now automatically subscribe to new folders. This allows folders created by clients which do not use subscriptions to be visible to clients that do.

v8.2.5.4733 [Apr 29, 2014]
Version 8.2.1 (Build 4711) Released 28 April 2014
1. Fix: Logging: crash when logging some strings containing mixed ANSI and unicode strings, e.g. embedded Japanese.
2. Fix: Logging: fix timer-based flushing of outstanding buffered log data.
3. Fix: FTP proxy: FTP commands are now treated correctly as case-insensitive.
Version 8.2.0 (Build 4707) Released 23 April 2014
1. Fix: WinGate Management: crash when closing WinGate management during failed connection attempt
2. Change: Web Access Rules: can now drag / drop to re-order web access rules
3. Change: Web Access Rules: can now specify a block page per rule
4. Change: Web Access Rules: block pages now stored under AppData folder instead of under Program Files
5. Change: Web Access Rules: now uses combo box to choose between All, All below, or all except below in each of "Who", "where" and "What" tabs
6. Change: Web Access Rules: "where" and "what" can now check against global data lists
7. Change: DNS: new strategy when dealing with SRVFAIL results from DNS servers. Now tries one other server if there is one.
8. Change: Mail delivery: new special case handling for SRVFAIL responses to MX lookups, now fails over to A record processing.
9. Change: Logging: Major performance improvements to logging, including reduction in data conversion, double-buffering, and file IO.
10. Change: Logging: Added feature to allow buffering of log data before writing it to disk to further reduce file IO. Greatly improves performance of logging to a SAN
11. Change: Logging: Added data counters to track lines logged and bytes logged.
12. Change: Module loading: changed package manager logging to log module load failures
13. Change: Module loading: explicitly report version problems with packages in UI
14. Change: Module loading: overhauled synching dialog. Now wraps text, shows errors more clearly.
15. Change: BGP Service: Added BGP server. This should be considered experimental.
16. Change: Framework: updated to Codejock v 16.3.1 UI framework

v8.0.5.4634 [Aug 13, 2013]
1. Fix: HTTP proxy: malformed request reported when POST request challenged for authentication.
2. Fix: DNS client: crash relating to timing out delegated requests
3. Fix: Timeline: was not showing all activity blocks in some cases.

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