New Feature
New Feature
New Feature
New FeatureVersion: 4.2 Beta - January 2001
| Component | Type | Description |
| Engine |
New Feature |
A new policy has been added to control who can logon to WinGate from more than one client computer at a time. This is useful to prevent user sharing their account details with others. |
| Engine |
New Feature |
WinGate Engine can now automatically detect when a new dial-up connection has been added to your services. If this new connection is not configured for use with WinGate Dialer Profile, WinGate offers to guide users through this process. |
| GateKeeper |
New Feature |
This option has been added to GateKeeper's advanced option to allow easy back up of Registry. |
| GateKeeper |
New Feature |
A Configuration Report option has been added to GateKeeper's advanced options. It displays troubleshooting information by producing a text report of the current WinGate configuration. The information can be saved to a text file. |
| Engine | Improvement | The adding of user and service names has been modified so trialing or leading blanks are removed, preventing spurious near-duplicates. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Changing from Wingate users to NT authentication and back to WinGate no longer removes any WinGate users who did not have an NT account. |
| ENS | Bug-Fix | If ENS is not installed, the NAT directory and ENS log are no longer created. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Cancelling "Confirm WinGate password" dialog now returns to User properties dialog. |
| Engine | Improvement | Adding new service with same port number as one that is already running generates a warning/error. |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | The options/confirmation menu item and syslog options have been moved to GateKeeper Options/Advanced drop-down menu box. |
| WGIC | Improvement | A warning now appears when WGIC puts an application in local-mode as a result of attempting to listen on a reserved port. |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | A help button has been added on system policies, assumedusers, edit/new users, edit/new groups. |
| Engine | Improvement | WinGate now creates a default administrator account if it does not find one in NT Authentication. |
| GateKeeper | Bug-Fix | Scheduler has been fixed so that it will not disable NT user database accounts. |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | Activities can now be displayed either by service (eg POP3, FTP, HTTP etc.) or by computer in GateKeeper's Activity Pane. |
| GateKeeper | Bug-Fix | When under heavy load, repaints used to be so fast that GateKeeper became unusable, and could jam or leak memory. This has been fixed. |
| Installer | Bug-Fix | WinGate now installs on a Clean WinME Build. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | When doing an UDP ASSOCIATE request, 0.0.0.0 was getting used and this was not handled correctly by the Proxy.The SOCKS proxy has been changed so that if no port number is initially provided, it uses the port number of the first outgoing UDP packet the client sends. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Sending Null byte file to server port 2080 no longer causes 99% CPU and memory consumption issues. |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | Users are now warned not to disable the guest account. |
| Engine | Improvement | Improved AOL Support. |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | After a computer name change, Wingate now updates its DNS entry. |
| GateKeeper | Bug-Fix | WRP history entries for http requests no longer have corrupt description. |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | Warning Message boxes now have a disable option. |
| Installer | Improvement | A new menu item has been added to the WinGate Internet Client option that allows one to toggle the client on and off more easily. |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | GateKeeper Activity pane functionality has been improved to allow users to more easily ban websites, disable users etc. |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | The activity pane can be paused and the information can be viewed either by Service or User. |
| Engine | Improvement | Made serialization locking uniform throughout WinGate, and changed to a faster locking mechanism. |
Version: 4.1.1 - December 2000
| Component | Type | Description |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | A mechanism employed to make more efficient use of system resources made it possible (although unlikely) for parts of WinGate to hang. This mechanism has been changed to ensure that this can't happen anymore. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | On NT systems, the WinGate service was installed so to be able to interact with the user Desktop (in order that those using InterQuick could see its system-tray icon). Unfortunately, this means that users logging in and out of Windows can disrupt WinGate, in some circumstances causing it to hang. The WinGate Service has now this setting switched off by default. |
Version: 4.1 - October 2000
| Component | Type | Description |
| Engine |
New Feature |
User management and authentication with NT / 2000. |
| Engine |
New Feature |
Ability to import users from NT / 2000 and text files (tab delimited format) |
| Engine |
New Feature |
New SMTP Proxy to provide Spam protection functions |
| Engine |
New Feature |
Support for cable modems & direct router connections (ability to define any interface as public or private). |
| Engine |
New Feature |
Universal WinGate Engine executable file (no longer separate file for NT and 9x systems) |
| GateKeeper |
New Feature |
Autosave option added to allow configuration changes to be saved without manually clicking the "Save" button in GateKeeper. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | The task scheduler will execute any tasks rounded to the nearest minute eg if you scheduled a task for 5:30:58 then it will fire at 5:31:00 (this applies for rounding both up and down). In previous versions seconds were ignored. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | The WWW cache tended to leave some cache files behind sometimes. These files did not have entries in the cache index and were therefore useless. Any file in the cache directory without an index entry is now deleted during a purge. |
| Engine | Improvement | Logging is now done under a sub directory with the name of the service/user. When logging is rolled over, the old files are renamed to a date:timestamp |
| Logging COM Object | Improvement | You can now change the path of the history database for both logging and viewing. Changing this path to a root directory is not permitted. |
| ENS / GateKeeper | Improvement | When a WinGate Service is bound to an external interface, GateKeeper will prompt the user to open a "hole" in the ENS Firewall (corresponding to the same port bound to by the service). Any "holes" opened automatically will assume default properties, and will close when that service is deleted, stopped or unbound. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | When user accounting information is changed, the change is now broadcast to GateKeeper immediately. |
| WinGate Dialup Monitor | Bug-Fix | Addressed bug where sometimes this would not close once all Internet applications had been closed on the client computer. |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | WinGate now retains the administrator password after a trial license key has expired. |
| Engine & GateKeeper | Improvement | Improved memory management (large reduction in number of handles used). |
| Engine | Improvement | No longer get a range of system log messages after the engine starts for the first time (following an installation on an NT/2000 system). |
| WGIC | Improvement | WGIC reports "owner" application in most message boxes (so if the server is not responding you at least know what app keeps triggering the report) |
| ENS | Improvement | ENS icon/menu hidden for users that are not members of the administrator group. |
| Engine | Improvement | TCP proxy
services used to be vulnerable to self-looping eg POP3. This stops (a) inadvertent loop creation, eg proxy 1 listens on port 2000, redirects to 2001, proxy 2 listens on 2001, redirects to 2000, (b) malicious DoS attacks, eg sending "bob@127.0.0.1@127.0.0.1@127.0.0.1@127.0.0.1" to POP3. |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | Context menus will be available when a user or group is selected and the user right-clicks the mouse (on the User tab of the GateKeeper control panel). |
| Engine | Improvement | A user "right" has been added to policies - "power user" (granted to administrator group by default). Allows a user to access advanced GateKeeper options (these options are not significant enough to be a separate right by themselves). |
| Engine | Improvement | New scheduler task been added - the ability to enable or disable a user account. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | WinGate scheduler properly implements the default log rollovers (configured by the installer) |
| Engine | Improvement | WinGate Engine can use a domain controller for the NT user database & base authentication upon domain credentials. Find out more about this feature here. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Net bios network broadcasts are made differently in Windows ME than previous 9x platforms. This change caused the dialer to go online unnecessarily when the WinGate Internet Client was installed. |
| Engine** | Bug-Fix | When logged-in to Windows ME and running the WinGate Internet Client, there was a problem with passing the current login credentials for automatic authentication. This has been resolved. |
| Engine** | Bug-Fix | NT authentication was not working with an NT4 Server (WinGate) and Windows 2000 Professional (Client) setup. The problem occurred when passing the users current login credentials |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | When using NT accounts with WinGate, GateKeeper will not allow a WinGate administrator to add, remove or edit user/group details (except for password). |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | FTP would fail under sometimes when using ENS. This only occurred when using the FTP PORT command repeatedly and resulted in failure of the subsequent data transfer. |
| WinGate Internet Client | Bug-Fix | Fixed handling for some IPPROTO socket options (EverQuest now works properly when using the client) |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Changes made to ensure that only a single log file will be created and updated for each service in a 24-hour period (rollover occurs at midnight). |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | "Start Menu\Program\WinGate\Start WinGate Engine" link now works as expected. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Log File Service no longer vulnerable to serving restricted data when a user requested another root. This vulnerability was most dangerous when the service was bound to an external interface (by default it is not). |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | WRP service no longer vulnerable to a buffer overrun when receiving a malformed URL (containing escape characters). |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Improved memory management in the WWW Proxy cache has decreased overall memory usage and increased speed. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Improved general memory management for WinGate services. This has fixed memory leaks that could occur with service logging and session termination. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Set the RAS Manager Service to start automatically on Windows2000 (by default it does not). This fixed the problem where the WinGate Engine could stall on initial startup for up to a minute (while the RAS Manager Service was starting up). |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Scheduler was rolling over service logs every hour when they are supposed to rollover daily (at midnight). Bug only present in Home and Standard licenses. |
| Installer | Improvement | Installer now checks for the presence of WinSock2 (a standard API for TCP/IP) for both WinGate Server and Internet Client installs. |
| InterQuick Installer | Bug-Fix | InterQuick installer is fully-functional for 4.1 installations. |
| Help System | Improvement | Help system updated to cover all new 4.1 features and additions. Popup help has been implemented for screenshots. Several broken links addressed (eg "banning"). |
Version: 4.0.1 Released: 6 June 2000
| Component | Type | Description |
| Engine |
New Feature |
Extended Networking Support (ENS) offers three new options for WinGate. A firewall to secure the WinGate server, NAT to make internet sharing even easier, and Bridging to allow users to share drives. Learn more about this new feature in the help file. |
| Engine |
New Feature |
Supports InterQuick Plug-in for WinGate - InterQuick combines the best features of web accelerators, content filters, advertisement blockers and scheduling, resulting in increased Internet performance and control from any Internet connection. Learn more about this new feature in the help file. |
| Engine |
New
Feature |
Updated logging support provides users with greater monitoring and control. User can now filter data displayed in the history view. |
| GateKeeper |
New Feature |
Ability to clone the properties of existing WinGate Users and Services though a context-sensitive right click menu in GateKeeper. Improves efficiency. |
| Qbik Company Web Site |
New Feature |
Qbik has a new company web site viewable at http://www.qbik.com. |
| Changes History |
New Feature |
New HTML interface for improved clarity and detail. |
| WinGate Help |
New Feature |
New topics on all new features; New topic on how to authenticate WinGate users; New topic on configuring system vs service policies; New "look and feel" plus greatly improved keyword indexing of help topics. |
| WinGate Server |
New Feature |
Option added in installer to obtain/purchase key online through Web browser. |
| GateKeeper |
New Feature |
ENS system service allows you to set Firewall security. |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | Support for persistent system log messages added. |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | Behavior of Up/Down buttons in IP assumption list window changed so that the selection now remains on the same item. |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | Time online is updated at the end of the session if no session with longer duration exists (improves accuracy). |
| GateKeeper | Improvement |
General improvements to time-based policies: a.
Invalid time values can not be entered; |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | Politer handling for invalid license key entry. |
| GateKeeper | New Feature | Added option for version checking from server using Web browser. |
| GateKeeper | Bug-Fix | Peculiar Characters no longer appearing on User Names in Win2K. |
| Internet Client | Improvement | UDP Mapping issue resolved - Starcraft no longer fails with Client on UDP. |
| Internet Client | Improvement | WinGate Client(WGIC) will now run on the WinGate Server. |
| Internet Client | Improvement | Internal changes to LSP have fixed problems with CE Services, MDConfig and FTP uploads. |
| Internet Client | Improvement | Option added to WinGate Internet Client to provide for "non-standard" connect modes (this option is available under the Applications Mode dialog and is provided for a small number of applications that have been found to be using non-standard calls to Winsock - see WGIC help for further detail). |
| Internet Client | Improvement | Start Menu Shortcut added for the WinGate Internet Client applet. |
| Internet Client | Bug-Fix | Problem where if no servers found LSP not disabled properly fixed (useful for mobile users). |
| Internet Client | Bug-Fix | Problem where programs launched with RUNDLL32.EXE with some command line options not recognized fixed. |
| Internet Client | Bug-Fix | Repaired problems with using Netscape to access yahoo mail with the WinGate Internet Client. |
| Internet Client | Bug-Fix | Repaired infrequently observed problems accessing certain sites using Internet Explorer 4.0 and 5.0. |
| Internet Client | Bug-Fix | Client shows dialer information on Windows 2000. |
| Engine and Internet Client | Improvement | Better approach to synchronizing port numbers between Client and Engine. This was causing trouble for some Java applets. |
| Engine | Improvement | Automated restart of engine on key change. |
| Engine | Improvement | Added F1 Help support for new features. |
| Engine | Improvement | ISDN Multilink Support Completed. |
| Engine | Improvement | Network configuration change message will now not detect false changes with some RAS Dialups. |
| Engine | Improvement | Added SQUID proxy support. |
| Engine | Improvement | Support now provided for Wireless LANs. |
| Engine | Improvement | SNMP now used to check for dialer activity. Dialer now only hangs up on total modem inactivity rather than WinGate Activity. Prevents clients being hung up. |
| Engine | Improvement | Added option to dialer config to disable remote disconnect of dialer from client. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Svchost.exe no longer takes up 100% of CPU. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Help Button added to all service dialogs. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | WinGate DHCP now reads all DHCP option fields supported by Mac. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Bad password problem fixed in WinGate Home. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Engine startup no longer hangs on invalid license. It simply politely exits. |
| Installer | Bug-Fix | 2 Engine Monitors no longer appear at end of Upgrade. |
| Installer | Bug-Fix | Service Properties/Bindings changes no longer lost on an upgrade. |
| Installer | Improvement | Detection of ICS (Microsoft Internet Connection Sharing) during ENS install implemented. |
| Installer | Improvement | Installer now checks to ensure Winsock 2 (required for both client and server with ENS) is installed on each machine. |
| Dialer Monitor | Bug-Fix | Dialer monitoring changed to prevent excessive CPU usage. |
| Dialup Monitor | Bug-Fix | Problem where disconnect button only works after first server update if server is NT fixed. |
| WinGate Server | Improvement | Improved advance proxy installation by graying out server entry until checkbox checked in Installer. |
| WinGate Server | Improvement | Added a reboot on the install if WinGate had been Installed, then uninstalled with no reboot after the uninstall. |
| WinGate Server | Bug-Fix | Failure to properly migrate settings when upgrading from WinGate 2 to later version (ie 3.04/5) corrected. |
| WinGate Server | Bug-Fix | Icons for installed components fixed up. |
| NAT Driver | Bug-Fix | Supports USB hardware with Windows 98. |
| WinGate Java Applet | Bug-Fix | Improved applet problems on Mac. |
Version: 3.0.5 Released: 2 September 1999
|
Component |
Type |
Description |
|---|---|---|
| WinGate Help | New Topic | New topic added "How to use WinGate help effectively" |
| WinGate Help | New Topic | New topic added "How to Setup Server Applications Behind WinGate" (eg Web and FTP servers) |
| GateKeeper | Bug-Fix | Deleting an existing scope (ie the default one created for the subnet) caused GateKeeper to crash and exit with an unknown exception error. |
| GateKeeper | Bug-Fix | DHCP reservations could not be saved. They would disappear when GateKeeper was reopened and would never come into effect. |
| GateKeeper | Bug-Fix | On some screens more than one radio button in a group could be selected at a time (eg DHCP mode) |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Broken UDP mappings were repaired (these were caused by an internal change to the Wingate engine in 3.04) |
| Internet Client | Bug-Fix | Wingate Internet Client no longer permits the user to enter a blank application under the applications tab. |
| Internet Client | Bug-Fix | CE Services 2.0 now operates correctly on client machine running the Wingate Internet Client (set to local mode for 98) |
| Dialer | Bug-Fix | When multiple connections were configured, the WinGate Dialer would sometimes trigger both simultaneously. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | SOCKS address order corrected. IP addresses were being returned in reverse order. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Disabling the guest user account no longer breaks DHCP |
Version: 3.0.4 Released: 11 August 1999
|
Component |
Type |
Description |
|---|---|---|
| GateKeeper |
New
Feature |
Administrator System Log added to View Menu |
| WinGate Server |
New
Feature |
30 day expiring trial license now included in installer. Users no longer required to apply for trial key. |
| Engine | Improvement | TCP Mapped link extended to display further session info |
| Engine & GateKeeper | Bug-Fix | Changed GateKeeper protocol to asynchronous - prevents Comms errors |
| GateKeeper | Bug-Fix | Fixed GateKeeper random exit |
| Dialup Monitor | Bug-Fix | Fixed WGDM to prevent constant warning messages |
| Internet Client | New Feature | Client licensing added |
| Engine | Improvement | Engine will start without license (reverts to local mode only) |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Rapid repeat requests won't break DHCP Service |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Minor DHCP problem fixed in WinGate Home |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Fixed FTP uploads via WGIC. May have affected other apps as well, such as Web servers, peer-peer apps |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | FTP now works in normal (non-passive) mode. |
Version: 3.0.2 Released: 2 June 1999
|
Component |
Type |
Description |
|---|---|---|
| 18 June 1999 | ||
| Internet Client | Bug-Fix | LSP now works on non-Administrator accounts |
| 2 June 1999 | ||
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Dialer disconnect problem fixed with IdleTrafficLevel setting |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | Languages now supported in external dlls |
| Engine | Improvement | Potential security hole in WWW server eliminated |
| Internet Client | Bug-Fix | LSP no longer causes RPCSS.exe to use excessive CPU |
| WinGate Server | Bug-Fix | 2.1 settings migration failure on upgrade corrected |
| WinGate Server | New File | SNMP.dll included as part of installation |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | The registry entry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Qbik Software\Settings\Language then governs the language used: Fra, Deu, Esp, Enu (Settings Locale key no longer used) |
Version: 2.1 Released: 19 February 1998
|
Component |
Type |
Description |
|---|---|---|
| GateKeeper |
New
Feature |
Now have more control over how service specific and global policies are combined (series or parallel) |
| GateKeeper |
New
Feature |
Recipients now have ban lists, this makes it much easier to ban sites and URLs globally and per service/per user |
| GateKeeper |
New
Feature |
Added rule criterion "server IP address" |
| Engine |
New
Feature |
WWW Proxy now uses Host: tag instead of IP for SOCKS handover sessions. Means more efficient caching of HTTP for SOCKS clients. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Occasional WinGate Engine lockup, and unresponsiveness. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Occasional WinGate crash. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | WinGate crash on log entries over 2kb |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Problems with cascaded HTTP proxy requests handed over from SOCKS. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | problem with FTP through HTTP giving bad relative URLs for some servers. |
| WinGate Server |
New
Feature |
Added option for installing log file server |
| GateKeeper | Bug-Fix | Problem in ordering of dialogs where user must change password. |
Version: 2.1d Released: 19 February 1998
|
Component |
Type |
Description |
|---|---|---|
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Calculation of next disallowed time by rule was wrong, effectively breaking time based rule session timeouts. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Java client HTML page had wrong CODEBASE URL when Java Client served as a result of a SOCKS handover to the WWW Proxy. Result was "No response On Port" error in the Java Client. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Can now disable the Guest account without denying access to services that have authentication capabilities. |
| Engine | Improvement | Changed the way Authentication works for the Java Client. the Java client is now only sent if the policies require the user to be assumed or better (authenticated). This means that users can specify which users will need to use the Java client. the option in the WWW Proxy now simply enables the use of the client. Whether or not it is used is then entirely dependent on the policies applicable to the WWW Proxy. |
| Engine | Improvement | In line with the new operation of the Java client, the SOCKS server's use of RFC1929 authentication is now only dependent on the required authentication level set in the policies applicable to the SOCKS server. Moreover, the use of RFC1929 by a client results in the user being assumed (rather than simply guest), based on the username and password. This means that activities will be logged against the username (in WinGate) of the SOCKS client. |
| Engine | Improvement | Also in line with the changes above, the Telnet Service now has a login option. |
| Engine | Improvement | When enumerating interfaces WinGate now determines whether interfaces are statically assigned or dynamically assigned. The DHCP service cannot be bound to dynamically assigned interfaces or localhost. |
| Engine | Improvement | The DNS service cannot be bound to localhost (127.0.0.1) as this makes no sense. |
| Engine | Improvement | When enumerating interfaces WinGate now determines whether an interface is external or internal to the LAN. |
| Engine | Improvement | Invalid bindings for a service are removed at startup. |
| Engine | Improvement | Configurable prompt for telnet added. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Changed the way services are uploaded to GateKeeper - fixes problems of GateKeeper hanging with many services on Win95. |
| GateKeeper | Bug-Fix | Fixed display problem in GateKeeper when creating UDP services - they actually start when created but are shown as stopped. |
| Engine | Improvement | New option in DHCP server. "Allow allocation of non-private IP addresses". This defaults to "not allowed", and should save some Cable modem customers from losing their Internet service because of DHCP allocation to other cable modem customers. This means however that if you are not using private ip addresses on your LAN, the DHCP service will stop working for you until you change this option. |
| GateKeeper | Bug-Fix | Lost setting for particular HTTP proxy to hand over to, if you simply double-clicked the SOCKS server, and then hit OK. |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | Warnings on exit if unsaved changes. |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | Confirmation dialog added for deleting users, groups or services |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | Warnings given if user attempts to bind a service to an external interface |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | No longer see System Info (license) dialog unless user has rights to change license. |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | Small UI change to WWW Proxy - clearer explanation of Java Authentication |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | More error checking against setting up WinGate incorrectly - warnings on invalid bindings for services. |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | Lost setting for particular HTTP proxy to hand over to, if you simply double clicked the SOCKS server, and then hit OK. |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | Confirmation options dialog for setting preferences for confirmation of variouos activities. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Intermittent crash problem fixed |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Obscure crash problem with SOCKS handovers and timing issues with timeout checking |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | No dial on demand for UDP associate. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | FTP through HTTP broken in 2.1b for some servers (changed absolute to relative paths) now fixed again. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Engine not saving changes properly when deleting multiple services. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Wrong protocol version number returned for RFC1929 authentication in SOCKS5 (was breaking ICQ) |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Problem with DHCP options that took string data - no terminating NULL appended. |
| GateKeeper | Bug-Fix | Problem in GateKeeper if you deleted the GateKeeper login session, you got a communications failure after a while and lost response. |
Version: 2.1b Released: 6 March 1998
|
Component |
Type |
Description |
|---|---|---|
| Engine | Bug-Fix | refusing to dial or intermittent refusal to dial |
| GateKeeper | Bug-Fix | GateKeeper DLL problem |
| GateKeeper | Bug-Fix | GateKeeper not running on NT3.51 |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Problems with UDP services. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Problems with some HTTP servers (i.e Hotbot.com) |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | FTP through HTTP with username:password@site format was not copying username and password into subsequent links. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | FTP home directory was not honoured with username:password@ftpsite method of FTP through HTTP. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Found a couple more spots where thrown exceptions could possibly crash engine. |
Version: 2.1a Released: 19 February 1998
|
Component |
Type |
Description |
|---|---|---|
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Problem with WinGate not dialing, unless DNS already available. |
Version: 2.0 Released: 6 March 1997
|
Component |
Type |
Description |
|---|---|---|
| Engine |
New
Feature |
Licence key system introduced |
| Engine |
New
Feature |
Lite and Pro licence distinction |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | FTP in WWW Proxy fixed |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | WWW FTP Resource icons included |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Minor bugs fixed in several proxies |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | Configurable Error messages |
| WinGate Server |
New
Feature |
Install Upgrade option |
| Help System |
New
Feature |
Will now run Gatekeeper from Toolbar |
| Help System | Improvement | Extended Glossary section |
| Help System | Improvement | Better explanation of caching |
| Help System | Improvement | Extendend sections on Mapped links/Encryption |
Version: 2.0e Released: 3 June 1997
|
Component |
Type |
Description |
|---|---|---|
| Engine | Bug-Fix | GateKeeper login hangs on systems without RAS installed. |
Version: 2.0d Released: 30 May 1997
|
Component |
Type |
Description |
|---|---|---|
| Engine | Bug-Fix | In WWW Proxy Service FTP file size was reported as the ASCII size not image size (corrected) |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | FTP file downloads through WWW Proxy prepend CRLF to downloaded file if FTP server supports SIZE command |
Version: 2.0c Released: 29 May 1997
|
Component |
Type |
Description |
|---|---|---|
| Engine | Bug-Fix | In WWW Proxy problem with large POST data, or POST through MSIE not responding. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | In WWW Proxy problem with HTTP PUT method (used for publishing pages in FrontPage) |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Problem with cascaded WWW Proxy -> WWW Proxy for SSL tunnelling requests. |
| Dialer | Bug-Fix | Should no longer lose responsiveness on some systems after about a day |
| Dialer | Bug-Fix | Crash in RNAAPP believed fixed (good reports from testers) |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Error 2186 in Control Panel:Services fixed - this was caused by an incomplete installation (normally due to being logged in under the wrong account) |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Error 1075 in Control Panel:Services fixed. |
| Engine | Improvement | User database changes saved immediately - only traffic data now updated every 2 minutes. |
| Engine | Improvement | Changes to DNS service - should be more stable. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | UDP Mapping proxy resource leak and lockup fixed (where rules were not met) |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | Cosmetic changes to most dialogs (icons) |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | brings up login box on startup |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | brings up change password dialog as required |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | Now does some simple sanity checking when entering recipients |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | Checks for WinGate Engine running when logging into localhost |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | Checks validity of username when logging into localhost |
| GateKeeper | Bug-Fix | Proper handling of cancel button in Cache filters, and Policies dialogs |
| GateKeeper | Bug-Fix | license details reported incorrectly in Win95 - fixed, changed wording. |
| WinGate Server |
New
Feature
|
Completely new - now uninstalls properly, and installs over previous versions to upgrade. |
| WinGate Server | Improvement | Improved handling for setting up services. |
Version: 2.0b Released: 11 April 1997
|
Component |
Type |
Description |
|---|---|---|
| Engine | Bug-Fix | FTP proxy - could not handle servers sending multi-line greetings. |
| Dialer | Bug-Fix | Not hanging up connections properly on some systems. |
Version: 2.0a
|
Component |
Type |
Description |
|---|---|---|
| Engine | Improvement | Ignores localhost connections for Licence count - you can now proxy the WinGate machine as well using localhost as the proxy server. |
| Engine | Improvement | NT engine now uses event messages properly in event viewer |
| Engine | Improvement | Robust UDP support in Real Audio Proxy, also now supports RealVideo |
| Dialer | Bug-Fix | Dialer timeout for SOCKS BIND sessions |
| Engine | Improvement | WinGate Engine for NT will uninstall the service for previous beta versions if they are installed. |
| Engine | Improvement | Engine in Windows95 will now display a version dialog if run with the command line parameter -v. |
| Dialer | Improvement | Debug logging and dial/hangup logging on the dialer. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Fixed Pointcast problems |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | Fixed problems with IIS server and Netscape client causing wrong content-type |
| Engine | Improvement | Revised caching algorithm, should be more efficient on bandwidth. |
| Engine | Improvement | Support for FTP file uploads in the HTTP proxy (so now File Upload in Netscape will work through the HTTP proxy as well as through SOCKS). This should also fix the MS FrontPage file publishing problem. |
| Engine | Improvement | FTP proxy no longer uses RecvLine function, so should be a lot more robust. |
| Engine | Bug-Fix | There are also reports that the problem of WinGate going into 100% kernel usage no longer occur. |
| GateKeeper | Improvement | GateKeeper will now warn if there are unsaved changes. |
| Dialer | Improvement | New dialer options for specifying update interval.Since the RAS subsystem does not offer any notification of events to the
status of connections (thanks a lot MS) it is necessary to poll the status
of the link at regular intervals to make sure it is still on line. The default interval for this polling is 2 seconds. On some systems, it may be
necessary to lengthen this interval to avoid causing undue load on the RAS
subsystem, which may cause problems such as: 1. Loss of operation of RAS dial-in server 2. crashes in RASAPI32.EXE or RNAAPP.EXE 3. general lock-up of the RAS subsystem. |