Software Update: Kerio Control 7.0.0

Kerio Technologies has released an update to its Firewall Control, this time with 7.0.0 as the version designation. Kerio Control is the new name of Kerio WinRoute Firewall and can secure a network by providing a firewall with antivirus and IDS/IPS capabilities. The latter is based on the well-known Snort. For more information, we refer you to this page. The list of changes for release 7.0.0 looks like this:

Version 7.0.0:

• New Intrusion Prevention System (IPS/IDS)
• Added MAC Filter
• Multiple IP addresses on an adapter
• License counting and policy changed
• Rebranding
• DHCP scopes autoconfiguration (only available in the Kerio Control Administration web interface)
• McAfee Antivirus engine replaced by the new Sophos engine
• VMware Virtual Appliance available in OVF format
• Kerio Control Software Appliance: Added SCSI HDD drivers
• Kerio Control Software Appliance: Added E100 network drivers
• Kerio Control Software Appliance: Fixed ‘winroute blocked for more than 120 seconds’ error
• Kerio Control Administration web interface: DHCP screen added
• Kerio Control Administration web interface: Advanced Options screen added
• Kerio Control Administration web interface: Logs viewer added
• Kerio Control Administration web interface: Fixed: Cannot set 0 MB/s as link bandwidth
• Kerio Control Administration web interface: Various design improvements and minor bug fixes
• Kerio Administration Console: added link to WebFilter recategorization page
• Fixed: DNS forwarder does not work when WAN IP has been changed
• VPN Client for Mac: Fixed DNS problems on Snow Leopard
• VPN Client for Mac: Fixed: It was not possible to use some strong passwords
• Slovak localization was removed from administration interfaces
• Syslog: User cannot change Facility and Severity. These values ​​are reset to Kerio defaults on upgrade. Check warning log after upgrade
• User cannot change paths to Control internal directories. These values ​​are reset to Kerio defaults on upgrade. Check warning log after upgrade
• User cannot change paths to RAS before/after dial scripts. Kerio defined script names are used. Check warning log after upgrade
• Software Appliance: Fixed: Ctrl-C in Kerio Console can terminate Kerio Control
• Administration Console: Fixed: VPN IP Pool Dump crashes engine
• StaR: Fixed: Activity log was off by several hours in some time zones
• Fixed: Kerio Web Filter sometimes failed to categorize long URLs
• Fixed: NTLM authentication does not work if user name contains national characters
• Fixed: Random crash in login to Kerio Control Administration
• Added workaround in HTTP inspector for HTTP servers violating RFC by terminating headers with ‘0a 0a’ (https://www.katasterportal.sk)
• Fixed potential crash in communication with Domain Controller over LDAP
• Fixed potential memory corruption in HTTP protocol inspector
• Fixed: Kerio Control Software Appliance can crash if a lot of (20) IP addresses are configured on an interface
• Fixed: Kerio Control Software Appliance can crash if Safari browser authenticates using NTLM