Software and Database Releases
Version 1.30 of ufdbGuard is available (January 22, 2013)
Version 1.30 of ufdbGuard has been released.
This release has a focus on groups of users: a new feature 'execuserlist'
supports user groups that may change during the day without reloading
the whole configuration.
The internal administration of user groups also has been optimised resulting
in a faster load time.
This release fixes 4 issues and has new features for user groups,
logging URLs, and installation on Linux systems.
More information can be found here.
Version 1.29 of ufdbGuard is available (August 29, 2012) Version 1.29 of ufdbGuard has been released to fix 10 issues and to support use of the URL list of PhishTank, improve database reload times and has various other new features. With the release of v1.29 ufdbGuard supports new subcategories of the URL database. More information can be found here.
Version 1.28 of ufdbGuard is available (January 19, 2012) Version 1.28 of ufdbGuard has been released to fix 4 issues and to introduce the support for YouTube edufilter. More information can be found here.
Version 1.27 of ufdbGuard is available (November 3, 2011) Version 1.27 of ufdbGuard has been released to fix two minor issues and to introduce the dynamic detection of facebook chat and Tor proxies. More information can be found here.
Version 1.26 of ufdbGuard is available (June 24, 2011) Version 1.26 of ufdbGuard has been released to fix one particular issue with ufdbUpdate. More information can be found here.
A new URL category, Social Networks is released (June 9, 2011) Together with the release of version 1.25 of ufdbGuard a new URL category, Social Networks is introduced.
All users of our URL database should read important information here.
Version 1.25 of ufdbGuard is available (June 9, 2011) Version 1.25 of ufdbGuard has better support for the most popular chat sites and has various fixes for minor issues and minor enhancements.
More information can be found here.
Version 1.22 of ufdbGuard is end of life (June 9, 2011) With the release of version 1.25, version 1.22 of ufdbGuard and earlier versions are declared "end of life". The support desk can no longer provide support for the aformentioned versions of ufdbGuard and users who use one of these versions are recommended to upgrade.
Version 1.24 of ufdbGuard is available (February 15, 2011) Version 1.24 of ufdbGuard has 4 fixes for problems that rarely occur and new features.
The details of the fixes for ufdbGuard can be found in the CHANGELOG, part of the source distribution. The new features are:
The fix for ufdbGuard is for some platforms where ufdbguardd did not die gracefully when stopped with "/etc/init.d/ufdb stop". The new features are:
The bug fixes for ufdbGuard are:
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.
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 1.29 of ufdbGuard is available (August 29, 2012) Version 1.29 of ufdbGuard has been released to fix 10 issues and to support use of the URL list of PhishTank, improve database reload times and has various other new features. With the release of v1.29 ufdbGuard supports new subcategories of the URL database. More information can be found here.
Version 1.28 of ufdbGuard is available (January 19, 2012) Version 1.28 of ufdbGuard has been released to fix 4 issues and to introduce the support for YouTube edufilter. More information can be found here.
Version 1.27 of ufdbGuard is available (November 3, 2011) Version 1.27 of ufdbGuard has been released to fix two minor issues and to introduce the dynamic detection of facebook chat and Tor proxies. More information can be found here.
Version 1.26 of ufdbGuard is available (June 24, 2011) Version 1.26 of ufdbGuard has been released to fix one particular issue with ufdbUpdate. More information can be found here.
A new URL category, Social Networks is released (June 9, 2011) Together with the release of version 1.25 of ufdbGuard a new URL category, Social Networks is introduced.
All users of our URL database should read important information here.
Version 1.25 of ufdbGuard is available (June 9, 2011) Version 1.25 of ufdbGuard has better support for the most popular chat sites and has various fixes for minor issues and minor enhancements.
More information can be found here.
Version 1.22 of ufdbGuard is end of life (June 9, 2011) With the release of version 1.25, version 1.22 of ufdbGuard and earlier versions are declared "end of life". The support desk can no longer provide support for the aformentioned versions of ufdbGuard and users who use one of these versions are recommended to upgrade.
Version 1.24 of ufdbGuard is available (February 15, 2011) Version 1.24 of ufdbGuard has 4 fixes for problems that rarely occur and new features.
The details of the fixes for ufdbGuard can be found in the CHANGELOG, part of the source distribution. The new features are:
- support monitoring of ufdbguardd by email and by command execution
- ufdbUpdate and ufdbguardd report on expiration of license
- ufdbUpdate has a defined set of exit codes
- configurable behaviour of the URL filter when it cannot perform URL lookups: allow all (default) or deny all
- options for ufdbgclient to define redirection URL in case of a fatal error
- a new cacerts keyword allows the use of an alternate location of the file with trusted CA certificates
The fix for ufdbGuard is for some platforms where ufdbguardd did not die gracefully when stopped with "/etc/init.d/ufdb stop". The new features are:
- support time-based ACLs
- the Skype VOIP application can be detected and allowed without disabling HTTPS security features
- performance improvement of 20% to 96% depending on which categories are used
- reserved words can be used for categories and sources when quoted
- short man pages
- add the new Google API, duckduckgo.org, search-results.com and qbyrd.com to the list of SafeSearch search engines
- ufdbGenTable: strip starting and trailing spaces from URLs
- ufdbhttpd: give more details on the error page
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 1.20 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 '%'
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.