Kerio Control — Release History

(formerly Kerio WinRoute Firewall)

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Version 7.3.1 - April 24, 2012

+ VPN Client can now use VPN as a default route (based on VPN Server configuration, both VPN Client and VPN Server must run version 7.3.1 or newer)
* Computer connected through Kerio VPN now prefers DNS server accessible through the VPN instead of the local one.
+ Appliance Edition: Ethernet cable status change is detected
+ Appliance Edition can now be installed using USB installation disk
* IPv6 connection logging can now be enabled/disabled in Security Settings
- Fixed: Routing problems with VPN (both clients and tunnels) when multiple Internet connections are used
- Fixed: Connection going through NAT could be dropped under certain circumstances
- Fixed: Configuring autologin from Firewall for one user can lead to autologin configuration reset for another user (if Address Group was used)
- Fixed: Fixed: Administration Console: some DHCP options (option 21, option 33) were not saved
- Fixed: Dial-up/Hang-up RAS scripts were not executed
- Fixed: Policy routing did not work for Firewall host
- Fixed: IGMP multicasts were dropped and reported as Malformed packets
- Fixed: Bandwidth Management default rule matched IPv6 traffic
- Fixed: Several minor design issues in StaR email reports
- Fixed: Kerio Control Administration: custom route description was mandatory
- Fixed: Support incident cannot be opened for registered trial
- Fixed: Kerio Control Administration: auto refresh did not work in Active Hosts -> Connections
- Fixed: Administration Console: several minor bugs

Version 7.3.0 patch 2 - March 19, 2012

- Fixed: Appliance Edition: Broadcom (R) NetXtreme II NIC was not recognized by the system

Version 7.3.0 patch 1 - March 1, 2012

- Fixed: Appliance Edition: old StaR data can get lost

Version 7.3.0 - February 28, 2012

+ StaR email reports
+ Basic IPv6 support
+ Daily IPS Blacklists updates
* Speed and stability of Kerio Control Administration has been improved with smart caching of data and resources
+ Possibility to Suggest Idea to Kerio from the product
+ Voluntary usage statistics gathering
* Appliance Edition: Improved hardware support
+ Appliance Edition: Added possibility to manually specify DNS and gateway for DHCP configured interfaces
+ Web Filter categories can be reviewed in list of URL Rules in Kerio Control Administration
+ Yandex added to list of search engines (StaR and HTTP policy)
+ CIDR notation can be used to specify network mask in Kerio Control Administration
* Kerio Control Administration suggests optimum values for some items, e.g. network masks
* Comma and space are converted to a delimiter while entered in field for IP address or mask in Kerio Control Administration
* Appliance Edition: PPPoE interface is hung up and redialed when administrator changes interface MTU
+ Kerio Control Administration displays warning if Kerio Control runs on a computer with RAM size not meeting system requirements
+ Connection log used to display DNS names if available IP addresses otherwise. Now the IP address is always displayed (together with the DNS name)
* Kerio Web Filter server address changed
* HTTP keywords filtering performance significantly improved
- Fixed: Appliance Edition: StaR database engine could crash
- Fixed: Several minor bugs in Microsoft Active Directory integration
- Fixed: Link Load Balancing can cause long HTTP session to expire
- Fixed: Antivirus scanning rules ignores URLs which begin with 'ftp://'
- Fixed: Server defined as IP:port was not handled properly in HTTP policy
- Fixed: Unable to login to Kerio Control Administration when primary domain is inaccessible and user account "Admin" is missing in local user database
- Fixed: Unable to start Web administration from Kerio Control Monitor on Windows x64 platforms under certain circumstances
- Fixed: User name containing special characters is not displayed correctly in StaR
- Fixed: Deleted files are kept in the list of files until screen is refreshed in Clientless SSL-VPN
- Fixed: Direct SIP calls between two clients in Local network are reported as SIP VoIP in StaR
- Fixed: VPN Client: It was not possible to connect to VPN server defined by name with an underscore
- Fixed: Uninstallation could leave some files (upgrade backups) on disk
- Fixed: Error "(99) Socket error: Unable to bind socket for service" sometimes logged on firewall startup
- Fixed: Appliance Edition: Admin account remained disabled when importing configuration from Windows with disabled Admin account
- Fixed: Appliance Edition: Restart after configuration import sometimes freezed the appliance
- Fixed: Appliance Edition: Low free space alert was not sent for depleted temporary storage
- Fixed: Windows Firewall was not sometimes correctly stopped on Kerio Control engine startup
- Fixed: HTTP Protocol Inspector unnecessarily closed keepalive connection after HTTP 304 response had been received
* FTP over HTTP proxy: improved upload speed on high speed lines with high latency
* Improved error handling in configuration export/import
* Appliance Edition: Improved stability of KRB5 authentication
* Serial port removed from Parallels Virtual Appliance

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"Kerio Winroute Firewall is far more flexible than using a SOHO hardware router and allows for much finer control of inbound and outbound Internet access. Many of my clients use Kerio WinRoute Firewall not only to properly secure their network, but also to restrict their employee's web browsing."

Brian Westfall
Westfall Computing Solutions