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Version 1.22 of ufdbGuard has various fixes and a few new features.
The bug fixes for ufdbGuard are:

• very large configuration files caused random error messages
• on some systems ufdbguardd is aborted by glibc due to a double free in the OpenSSL library
• ufdbguardd crashed when a URL database table could not be read due to a file permission
• -N option was not recognised by ufdbguardd
• compilation fails on systems where byacc is installed

• the SafeSearch option can also be used on a per-ACL basis
• ufdbConvertDB is a new utility to convert a flat file URL database to ufdbGuard file format
• ufdbAnalyse does a sanity check for the email address
• the maximum number of threads of ufdbguardd is increased to 128
• the configuration is included in the log file

Version 1.21 of ufdbGuard has fixes and new functionality for verifying HTTPS/SSL sites.  ufdbGuard now correctly verifies SSL certificates of certificate chains and extended validation certificates of HTTPS sites, has a new option to block the unsafe SSLv2 protocol and more capacity to verify HTTPS sites faster.

Version 1.21 also adds yauba.com to the list of sites where SafeSearch can be enforced.
 

Version 1.20 of ufdbGuard is available (April 20, 2010)

Version 1.20 of ufdbGuard has 3 enhancements and 5 fixes.
The enhancements include much faster logging, new sites added to the list of SafeSearch search engines and a clear error message for a corrupted configuration file.

The fixes are:

• correct HTTPS probing of certificates and proxies (bug was introduced in v1.19)
• SSL certificate verification may fail when websites use intermediate certificates
• SafeSearch for bing stopped working and is fixed
• setting path parameters failed in webmin GUI
• ufdbhttpd did not interpret characters escaped with '%'

The installation procedure of ufdbGuard v1.20 automatically converts existing configuration files.  New URL categories are added and references to www.urlfilterdb.com/cgi-bin/URLblocked.cgi are converted to cgibin.urlfilterdb.com/cgi-bin/URLblocked.cgi to offload the load on www.urlfilterdb.com.
 

URLfilterDB releases the P2P URL category (April 19, 2010)

The URL database contains a new URL category for peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic. Peer-to-peer sites and networks are used to share files, often anonymously.  The shared files are mostly movies, adult material and even sometimes illegal material.  Previously, peer-to-peer sites were part of the URL categories proxies, warez, entertainment, adult and audiovideo.  All clients of URLfilterDB are notified by email and encouraged to use the new P2P category.  The installation procedure of ufdbGuard v1.20 automatically converts existing configuration files for the use of this new URL category.
 

New website design for www.urlfilterdb.com (March 10, 2010)

The website of www.urlfilterdb.com has been redesigned and was live on March 10, 2010.
 

Version 1.19 of ufdbGuard is available (December 9, 2009)

Version 1.19 of the URL filter has 5 minor bugfixes and 1 major bugfix, and 8 enhancements.
The enhancements include new Swedish error messages, IPv6 addresses in URLs, SafeSearch support for more URLs, faster HTTPS site verification.

The bug fixes for ufdbGuard are:

• prevent crash for users of the API v 1.18
• prevent crash in API when empty table is used
• ufdbGenTable fails silently when the input files are generated on Windows/DOS
• creation of a new URL category failed in webmin GUI
• setting path parameters failed in webmin GUI
• SSL certificate verification may fail when websites use intermediate certificates
• ufdbhttpd does not interpret characters escaped with '%'

Version 1.18 of ufdbGuard is available (July 14, 2009)

Version 1.18 of the URL filter has 2 minor bugfixes and 1 major and 5 minor enhancements.

The major enhancement is the use of a new database format.  Version 1.18 supports both the old and new database formats and daily updates are downloaded in the new database format.  The main benefit of the new database format is a reduced number of memory allocations that ufdbGuard does and the effect of this depends much on the used platform.  The biggest increase in database load time is seen on Solaris with the libumem library.

The minor enhancements are:

• block proxies based on webtunnel
• bing.com, forestle.org, foozir.com, muuler.com, ripple.org, zombol.com, easysearch.org.uk and zoower.com are added to the list of SafeSearch search engines
• improved readability of the log file
• ufdbGenTable has a new option (-s) to apply sanity checks on URLs
• issue a warning when ufdbGenTable is required to run (i.e. domains is newer than domains.ufdb)

• The SafeSearch for Google images is fixed due to a changed URL of Google
• compliation of ufdbgclient is fixed on Solaris

Version 1.17 of ufdbGuard is available (April 22, 2009)

Version 1.17 of the URL filter has 2 minor bugfixes and 1 enhancement.
The enhancement is that yauba.co.in is added to the list of SafeSearch search engines.

The 2 minor fixes are:

• fix for a core dump which happened in case that multiple invalid URL tables existed
• a debug print statement introduced in version 1.16 caused excessive logging. The debug output is removed and the log file will be much smaller

Version 1.16 of ufdbGuard is available (March 16, 2009)

Version 1.16 of the URL filter has 2 minor bugfixes and 1 enhancement.
The enhancement is that blinkx.com and webpile.it are added to the list of SafeSearch search engines.

The 2 minor fixes are:

• ufdbguardd and API crashed on very old tables
• prevent double checks with HTTPS certificate checking