Download DansGuardian 2.8 stable

DansGuardian is not, as the name suggests, a program to improve your dance steps, but a web content filtering proxy. Several methods are used for filtering. For example, there is URL and domain filtering, content phrase filtering, PICSfiltering, MIME filtering, file extension filtering, and POST limiting. More information can here are being found. After more than fifteen months of hard work, a version of DansGuardian is once again available that is suitable for production machines. The following information can be found in the release notes:

DansGuardian 2.8 has many massive improvements over version 2.6, the last stable release. Just *some* of those new features include:

• A changed process model from fork-on-connect to fork-pool. This dramatically improves the performance and allows it to scale to many more concurrent users.
• Improved internationalization language file support.
• Image replacement for advertisement removal.
• Added support for HP/UX.
• Added support for fully qualified addresses in banned and exception IP lists.
• Improved run time options.
• Improved logging.
• Added URL Greylists.
• Added filter group support so different filtering settings can be used for different groups of users.
• Added a ‘-g’ gentle restart that does not kill current connections but filter group config is re-read.
• Added intelligent list managing so that if different filter groups use the same file they will share one copy of it. It also means it does not need to read in two copies. The list managing also caches the lists between restarts thus reducing restart speed dramatically.
• Ident now uses X-Forwarded-For when DansGuardian is configured to use it.
• Added a temporal denied page bypass facility.
• Added feature where when a user is not found the IP is checked for in the filter group list.
• Added support for unescaping HTML content.
• It is no longer needed to run as root to bind to a low port. [break] click for a larger version