Version:  5.2.2  -  December 2003

 

Component Type Description
Engine Bug-Fix "Fixed POP3 proxy. Recent changes to support scanning had introduced a problem where small messages (able to fit entirely into a single TCP packet) had been nagled to the POP3 server response. This would mainly affect users on slow links (i.e. dialups) downloading very small messages (less than 1400 bytes).
Engine Bug-Fix Fixed a bug introduced in 5.2 with "drip-feeding" clients where a client disconnects before the download completed. This would cause an engine hang.
Engine Bug-Fix Fixed the WWW proxy where downloads would occasionally be broken if scanning was disabled.
Driver Bug-Fix VPN fixes, now do not consider an ICMP redirect or ICMP-PMTU route to be valid when considering route clashes from remote VPN nodes. This would show up as route clashes on client nodes on a second and subsequent connection to the VPN server.
Driver Bug-Fix Fixed UDP relaying, where invalid port relay tables were being sent to the driver if certain ports existed in the UDP broadcast relay table, but were disabled. This fixes name resolution on the VPN.
Driver Bug-Fix Fixed relaying/NAT of fragmented UDP packets in the driver.
Engine Improvement Removed the distinction between plugins applied to sending vs receiving data (this was only usable for FTP). This improved the presentation of plugins within GateKeeper.
Engine Bug-Fix Fixed a bug with the update scheduling for plugins.

Version:  5.2  -  November 2003

 

Component Type Description
Driver Bug-Fix "Out Of Buffers" error fixed. This was due to a leak in the ENS of kernel memory, resulting in the OS running out of memory for new socket connections, with the error "out of buffers" being reported.
Engine Bug-Fix Fixed a memory leak with AV scanning.
Engine Improvement Improved SMTP's handling of mail delivery failures, where in some cases backup servers would not be used.
Engine Improvement Minor change to reception of email to solve message truncation or delivery timeouts where some messages included invalid (NULL) characters.
Engine Improvement Improved support for streaming media over HTTP where data scanning in use.
Driver Bug-Fix Added support to the driver for MMS (Microsoft Media Server protocol) which could have caused a potential BSOD if the far end media server was running on RTSP's port of 554.
Driver Improvement Support introduced for MSS reduction in the ENS driver. This setting (on by default) reduces the MSS value in TCP connections made through the ENS when the MTU of the next hop is smaller than the default value of 1500. This has significant implications for connections with reduced MTU (maximum packet size) such as PPTP connections, and PPPoE and PPPoA connections.
Driver Bug-Fix Fixed an issue where the 'Relay UDP broadcasts' option was not being adhered to correctly.
Driver Improvement Added support for SYN cookies. THese may be applied to redirected and allowed connections in the ENS, providing protection from SYN flood attacks.
Engine Improvement Several performance enhancements related to locking.
Engine Improvement Fixed a display problem on the main Plugin Dialog with relation to expired licences.
Engine Bug-Fix Fixed a problem with running GateKeeper over a remote link, where plugins were not accessible from the remote GateKeeper but the WinGate server had them available
GateKeeper Bug-Fix Improved handling of multiple content filtering products and their removal.
Engine Improvement Improved performance handling of scanning of large files, including better keep-alive mechanisms for email and web/FTP clients. In particular Outlook should not timeout whilst downloading and scanning large emails. Also WinGate's memory footprint greatly reduced for scanning large files.

Version:  5.1  -  November 2003

 

Component Type Description
Engine New Feature Two new plugins! PureSight for WinGate (a new content filtering plugin), and Kapersky Anti-Virus for WinGate (a new Anti-Virus solution).
Engine Improvement As a result of the above, added the ability to schedule, or manually run updates for plugin components. This is intended for any data files that a plugin requires, such as the AntiVirus databases.
Engine Bug-Fix Rolled back a change to DNS that was made in 5.0.8 (no. 14 below) so that DNS wont fail immediately if on dial up, but will instead wait until dialling has finished and will then retry the DNS request.
Driver Bug-Fix Fixed an issue in the driver which could cause the NAT to stop working if the Firewall was disabled.
Driver Bug-Fix Fix (again) for the XP dial up phantom adapter showing in the the route table. Also fixed up so that even if a phantom interface does appear NAT will continue to function through WinGate.
Driver Bug-Fix 6. Fixed a bug in the IP blackhole function, which would cause additional 'black holed' ip's to not get blocked.

Version:  5.0.10  -  October 2003

 

Component Type Description
Driver Bug-Fix Fixed a problem created in 5.0.9 related to the fix for "ghost adapters" which inadvertently broke the outbound filter for dialup adapters. this would have effectively broken VPN for dialup users.
Driver Bug-Fix Fixed a bluescreen related to UDP name lookup looping and ICMP errors.

Version:  5.0.9  -  October 2003

 

Component Type Description
Driver Bug-Fix Fixed an 'Out of buffers' problem which could crop up in the driver after extended use.
Driver Bug-Fix Fixed an issue whereby you could experience a system lock up if a TR'd ftp connection was unexpectedly terminated (present in some interim builds of 5.0.8 only).
Driver Improvement Fixed problem where driver became 'unhooked' when network media disconnected and reconnected, e.g. when a wireless card goes in and out of range, or an ethernet adapter is unplugged and plugged back in
Driver Improvement Fixed the dreaded "ghost adapter" issue with dialup on XP.
Engine Improvement Improved the way the DNS resolver handles available or unavailable DNS servers.
Engine Improvement Improved AV licence handling, to reflect a third partys current status more accurately.
Engine Improvement Fixed problem with route table sent to driver when dial-in connections are allocated addresses on the same subnet as an existing NIC.

Version:  5.0.8  -  October 2003

 

Component Type Description
Engine and Driver New Feature Added the ability to 'black hole' IP's thus offering better protection, and a greater level of control in the Firewall.
Engine Improvement The Firewall tab has been revamped to give more useful information about connection attempts, which now include details of allowed connections and redirections.
Engine Improvement Improved licence structure and handling of plugins
Engine Bug-Fix Fixed an issue which prevented GateKeeper from logging in when the NT database was selected for use with WinGate, and the OS was using Active Directory
Engine Improvement Simplified WinGate licencing so that there are now only 2 licence types; Standard (in 3 and 6 user options) and Pro ( 6 user ->)
Engine Bug-Fix Fixed a loop in email, that would try to process mail every 1 second. Now respects the user configured option.
Engine Bug-Fix Fixed an issue with email, so that 'Use Gateway for undeliverable mail' now functions correctly.
Driver Improvement Better handling for NICs that provide NDIS task offload (TCP checksum calculation) on behalf of the protocol. This has been disabled by the driver, as it breaks VPN tunnelled packets. Later versions will complete the TCP checksum on behalf of the protocol before packets are tunnelled.
Driver Improvement Added path MTU checking on packets outbound from the local stack. For VPN this is important, to allow network clients and servers to communicate over the VPN without causing the VPN packets to be fragmented.
Driver Improvement Fix for SendComplete notification in cases where the pended send completes immediately when presented to NdisSend. Also fixed the implementation of the completion, which will currently BSOD.
Driver Improvement Added path MTU checking for NAT sessions.
Driver Improvement Implemented path MTU handling for VPN tunnel packets. This is necessary to tunnel a VPN tunnel over another one, and flows back through to the OS as well for connections made over such a tunnel.
Driver New Feature Provisional support for the H.323 protocol, which is used by such applications as NetMeeting, has been intergrated into the driver (ENS).

Version:  5.0.7  -  July 2003

 

Component Type Description
Engine Improvement Allowed the use of earlier key versions in Version 5. The key version 5 feature that will be unavailable is WinGate Mail.
Engine Improvement WinGate Mail will reject a HELO command with an invalid client specified.

Version:  5.0.6  -  June 2003

 

Component Type Description
Engine Bug-Fix Fixed an issue with catch-all handling in the email server
Engine Bug-Fix Improved handling of MX Servers on e-mail delivery
Engine Bug-Fix Ensured that an email domain will be deemed acceptable if at least one of it's MX records are legitimate
Engine Bug-Fix Fixed a memory leak problem when no default route is available
Engine Bug-Fix Resolved a VisNetic AntiVirus incompatibility with Windows NT 4 (See Known Issues)

Version:  5.0.5  -  May 2003

 

Component Type Description
Engine Bug-Fix Fixed an issue in email security which could block plain text being used in a Pop server to Pop Proxy handover
Engine Improvement Improved the way licence expiry is handled.
Engine Bug-Fix Fixed a bug in the driver which could cause ENS level re-directs to not function correctly.
GateKeeper Improvement Machine names will now be displayed instead of IP address in the activity window , of machines we have discovered on the local network
Engine Improvement Relaxed email rules to accept mail if there are any acceptable MX records (or A records) for the remote domain.

Version:  5.0.4  -  May 2003

 

Component Type Description
Engine New Feature Allowed control over the broadcast relay of UDP traffic.
Engine Improvement Improved the handling of machines and sessions internally to reduce lock-up potential, improve speed and memory handling
Engine Bug-Fix Fixed an over resource utilisation problem with WGIC sessions that are being Transparently Redirected
Engine Bug-Fix Fixed a bug involving the custom overrides for AntiVirus responses.
Engine Bug-Fix Fixed a bug involving corruption on Windows XP with dial-up internet connections.
Engine Bug-Fix Fixed a bug with the VPN that would cause tunnel port-change messages to be repeated when the server was behind a NAT.
Engine Bug-Fix Fixed a BSOD on Windows XP when running the VPN over a dial-up internet connection.
Engine Bug-Fix Fixed a bug with the route tables when RRAS is started after WinGate.
Engine Bug-Fix WWW non-proxy redirects now work correctly, as does the 'Prepend resource with' option.
Engine New Feature Added Authenitcation for the Mail Server for POP and SMTP. These methods include, SASL (RFC2222), NTLM, CRAM-MD5, PLAIN, APOP.
Engine New Feature Added TLS / SSL support for POP and SMTP.
Engine Bug-Fix Fixed a bug with the WWW proxy when serving files (as a server) and client terminates connection would leave the file open.
Engine Improvement Added more error checking to logging procedures.
Engine Bug-Fix Fixed an issue on Windows 98 when a GPF would occur in USER.exe, if the ENS was installed.
Engine Improvement Further validation of sender domains, including poisoned-reverse-path detection
Engine Bug-Fix Fixed ban-list support
Engine Improvement Use of server licences. Now any connection from the local machine (even if on an interface other than localhost) will not use a server licence.
Engine Improvement DNS queries and Remote Control Sessions will no longer use a server licence.

Version:  5.0.2  -  February 2003

 

Component Type Description
Engine Improvement Improved handling of Dialer Local Sites.
Engine Improvement Better handling of SMTP Receipt to reduce retries by Spammers and specifically banned activity
Engine Improvement Improved handling of DNS in general, particularly on reverse lookups
Engine Bug-Fix The processing of multi-line responses for FTP has been fixed. This resolves an issue with WARFTP
Engine Bug-Fix RRAS on Windows 2000 would cause WinGate's route table information to be incorrect
Gatekeeper Improvement Installing on a 9x Dial-up system without the ENS could lead to incorrect information being displayed
Engine Improvement A general locking improvement has been made to the DNS subsystem
GateKeeper Improvement Re-established the ability to specify a particular dial up adapter in each Services 'Interfaces' tab
Engine Bug-Fix Fixed an issue whereby Netbios activity was causing spurious dialing on some platforms
Gatekeeper Improvement The Anti-Virus 'Last update' screen now updates without having to restart the engine
Driver Bug-Fix A BSOD which was occurring on XP with Transparent Redirection active has been resolved
GateFilterr Bug-Fix Fixed an issue with regard to entering an invalid licence in the GateFilter installer and then being unable to update the licence
Engine Improvement The detection of the plugins after upgrading and installing has been significantly improved
Installer Bug-Fix Uninstalling 5.0.2 will remove the QbikHk* files from 9x machines. This did not happen previously.
Engine Improvement A modification to Catch-all email addresses was made to bring it more inline with the industry standard
Anti-Virus New Feature Added the ability for user override of specific response codes within the Anti-Virus

Version:  5.0.1  -  December 2002

 

Component Type Description
Engine Improvement Improved ENS to handle ENS out of Buffers mode more gracefully. ENS functionality will be restored as soon as sufficient buffers have become available.
Engine Bug-Fix Fixed a potential memory leak under heavy load - this would result in threads and their associated memory being leaked
Engine Bug-Fix Fixed a problem with the display of accessible / inaccessible machines in the Network Window
Engine Bug-Fix Fixed a problem with the scanning for virusses in WWW traffic
Engine Bug-Fix Fixed a problem with the scanning for virusses in WWW traffic
Engine Improvement Cache handling for WWW improved to remove potential for a deadlock
Engine Improvement POP3 Server now supports handover to POP3 Proxy. POP3 Proxy now has a dedicated Non-Proxy mode for handing over to the POP3 server
Engine Improvement The Mail Server now allows the user to send all queued email immediately and to reset the retry counts for all domains. This is accessed by right-clicking on the email server
Engine Improvement DNS Cache now has the abilitiy to instigate a purge or a flush of the cache
Engine Improvement FTP Proxy has two options added to improve handling of retries and blocking of virus infected files
Engine Improvement Improved memory usage for the WWW cache
Engine Improvement Allowed user control over reporting of short lived UDP Sessions. Heavily loaded systems should see a significant memory usage improvement
GateKeeper Improvement Upgraded display of VPN tunnels while connected. Each node now displays it's view of the tunnel.

Version:  5.0  -  November 2002

 

Component Type Description
Engine New Feature "Email" - WinGate contains a full email server. This allows you to host your own email domains, send and receive email with out the need for an ISP email system. Internet standards POP3 and SMTP ensure compatibility with all email servers and clients. The Email server can easily be integrated with AntiVirus for WinGate for the best in virus protection.
Engine New Feature "Direct Play Support" - WinGate now supports Direct Play through ENS/NAT connections. WinGate will allow multiple connections to a game on the Internet.
Engine New Feature "Extensible design" - WinGate 5.0 can be extended with a variety of plugins. Examples of these include:
  • GateFilter

  • AntiVirus

  • VPN

  • ENS/NAT

  • Future plugins will be advertised on the WinGate web-site.
    Engine New Feature "Virtual Private Networking (VPN)" - The WinGate 5.0 VPN allows easy secure connection of multiple LAN’s over an untrusted public network such as the Internet. It uses industry standard SSL and related technologies to give you the best encryption and security possible. This feature is available for evaluation.
    Engine New Feature "AntiVirus" - AntiVirus is available for WinGate 5.0. It adds support for virus scanning to the WWW Proxy, FTP Proxy and E-mail. It allows infected items to be quarantined or deleted and supports file-system scanning as well. The AntiVirus Plugin requires the VisNetic AntiVirus Plugin. This feature is available for evaluation
    Engine New Feature "ENS/NAT" - It is now possible to specify a per security action timeout override. This makes it possible to customise the timeout on ENS/NAT sessions
    Engine New Feature "Quarantine" - Items deemed unsafe or unacceptable by any of the WinGate plugins will be safely stored in the WinGate Quarantine. Administrator can release or delete items from the quarantine. The size of the Quarantine can be set to limit disk space.
    GateKeeper New Feature "Network Window" - The network window in GateKeeper shows you an overview of your local area network. If you have the WinGate VPN installed as well it will reflect the workgroups and workstations from the remote networks as well. You can access properties for all the machines visible in the Network Window
    WGIC Improvement Major improvements in the handling of access mode handling per application. This shows as a major improvement for FTP, NTP, etc. handling
    Engine Bug-Fix The behavior of the DNS server under high load has been greatly improved. Fixed a problem which could occasionally stop the DNS service running.
    Engine Bug-Fix Memory leaks have been fixed. The key areas that were touched include:
  • GateKeeper

  • VisNetic AntiVirus Plugin

  • GateFilter - when co-existing with the AntiVirus Plugin

  • ENS - in the handling of local traffic
  • Engine Bug-Fix Actual and potential deadlocks have been fixed.
    Engine Bug-Fix Web-pages retrieved from the cache could sometimes be shown as a series of scrambled characters. This has been fixed.
    Engine Bug-Fix Improved ENS/NAT and fixed a few issues that could cause a BSOD

     

    Version:  4.4  -  June 2001

     

    Component Type Description
    GateKeeper New Feature Dialer Interface Changes - It is now possible to manually order your dial up connections, specifying the number of attempts to dial up each account, and how often to go through the complete list of dial up connections. Alongside this there have been other minor enhancements to the user interface such as the provision of a right click option to dial any individually highlighted connection.
    Engine New Feature Checks to see if you have the latest WinGate Version - fully customisable with paid licenses.
    Engine New Feature "WinGate Lite" - A Free License: this includes ENS (NAT) with a two user license for the WinGate server and one other machine.
    Engine New Feature Upgrading to Windows 2K - An Alert has been noted in the introduction pages to ensure that users who choose to upgrade to Window 2K also follow required processes to ensure the correct running of WinGate with and without ENS (NAT).
    Engine Improvement The wrong WinGate version number was being reported by the command line options dialog box
    GateKeeper Bug-Fix  When changing Interfaces and clicking ok it always said 'Configuration Change (failure)' in the activity window of Gatekeeper, although the changes have actually been accepted. This error no longer is displayed when it shouldn't.
    GateKeeper Improvement A right click "Copy to Clipboard" option has been added to the syslog context menu.
    GateKeeper Bug-Fix Issues surrounding remote logging on with GateKeeper have been fixed
    GateKeeper Bug-Fix Now correctly logs the IP and computer name of a machine trying to log in
    GateKeeper Improvement Various field validations fixed in GateKeeper
    GateKeeper Bug-Fix Various duplicate Quick-Keys fixed up
    GateKeeper Improvement Tab order tidied in several GateKeeper screens
    GateKeeper Improvement History log times are now reported correctly with GMT plus local offset
    GateKeeper Improvement You were allowed to un-enable the administrators account which caused some users problems. You are now warned if you try and do this.
    GateKeeper Improvement When you add a hole or a re-direct the Add dialogue that pops up has a 1 in the override port; once you've added this hole and clicked OK, if you edit it then the override resets to 0 even though it hasn't been selected, thus when you try to click OK again an error msg pops up saying that you need to enter an integar in the range of 1 - 65535. This has now been changed so that the override box always has a 1 in the port if it hasn't manually been selected.
    GateKeeper Improvement Not much time was given to enter password details in GateKeeper - this time has been extended
    GateKeeper Bug-Fix It was previously only possible to view logs with single word names i.e Dialer, System etc. You can now view logs with two words e.g. Wingate NAT.

      Version:  4.3  -  May 2001

     

    Component Type Description
    Engine New ENS The 4.3.0 ENS does not install additional interfaces in the network properties on the WinGate server, thus is far less likely to conflict with Virtual Adapters and VPN's. 
    Engine New ENS 4.3.0 ENS  Engine has no known hardware incompatibilities with it. While the 4.2 (and earlier) ENS engine would not work with some brands of network cards, the 4.3.0 ENS engine has no such issues known.
    Engine New ENS Supports all current Operating Systems and service packs. The 4.2 (and earlier) ENS will only work on Win 9X and NT4, SP 4 or 5 systems. The 4.3.0 ENS engine supports Win 2K as well as all 9X and NT4 SP4 or later platforms.
    Engine New ENS The 4.3.0 ENS Engine dynamically binds to network adapters so you can safely modify your TCP/IP network configurations without having to manually reconfigure WinGate's ENS service. (i.e. uninstall and reinstall ENS every time you modify your TCP/IP settings on the WinGate server.)
    Engine New ENS VPN - Point to Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) support. NOTE: VPN support with WinGate 4.3 Beta A is limited to PPTP out only and IPSEC is not supported. This means that a client behind a WinGate server has the ability to connect to an external VPN server using Microsoft's VPN, however WinGate clients cannot host a VPN server.

    Version:  4.2  -  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;
    b. Finish times must be later than start times;
    c. Improved general implementation of time filters.

    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.