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Detailed Release Notes for 4.x.x and 5.x.x

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The following table provides details on version 4.x.x and 5.x.x release components:

Version
Release Status
Description
Other Links
4.0.1 12th August Factory Release - new units For Intel Architecture Products
See V4 How To docs
    New Firewall (major changes) V3 to V4 firewall changes presentation
    Connectors and Multiple Interface Support e.g. DMZ, Gigabit Ethernet Connectors table
    New Quick Configuration  
    New Firewall Logs  
    New Help Buttons  
    Support for new UTM "Total" and UTM "Email" licenses  
    Modifications to MMI for VPN profiles  
       
4.0.3 October Factory Release - new units For Intel Architecture Products
    Traffic Capping  
    Routable Connections  
    SmartFilter

N2H2 to SmartFilter migration and comparison
SmartFilter test tool

    "Ease of Use" enhancements to Firewall interface  
       
4.0.4 December Factory Release - new units For Intel Architecture Products
    Intrusion Detection System incorporated  
    OpenVPN - A further VPN protocol - using SSL encryption.  
    Configure licensed features. Page lets you turn on and off individual licence features (without removing the licence) and gives a link to the page to configure that feature.  
       
4.0.5 March Factory Release - new units For Intel Architecture Products
    New separate option on the user file-sharing page to explicitly choose the behaviour of replacing the user file-share with the logs directory.  
    OpenVPN - Ability to download OpenVPN config file from the VPN recommended settings page  
4.0.5 March Manual Release - for 4.0.0 to 4.0.4 installed units For Intel Architecture Products
4.0.5 June Auto Upgrade - for 4.0.0 to 4.0.4 installed units For Intel Architecture Products
       
4.0.8 July Manual Release - for 4.0.x to 4.0.8 installed units For Intel Architecture Products
    Prerequisite for upgrade to 4.1.4  
4.1.4 July Manual Release - for 4.0.8 to 4.1.4 installed units For Intel Architecture Products
    Dynamic DNS for ADSL WAN connections  
    Seamless Web Authentication and Windows AD member  
    Upgraded Spam Assassin  
    Point and Click Firewall Relationship creator  
    Upgraded IPSec  
4.1.4 November Auto Upgrade - for 4.0.x to 4.0.8 and 4.0.8 to 4.1.4 installed units For Intel Architecture Products
4.1.5 November Manual Release - for 4.1.4 to 4.1.5 installed units For Intel Architecture Products
    Additional licenced options  
4.1.5 March 2007 Auto Upgrade - for 4.1.4 to 4.1.5 installed units For Intel Architecture Products
4.1.8 June 2007 Manual Release - for 4.1.5 to 4.1.8 installed units For Intel Architecture Products
   

Build-in NetSweeper URL filtering categories
Central Control Management Client
Updated list of SmartFilter categories
New SpamAssasin
Scaled Bayes scores

 
4.1.8 September 2007 Auto Upgrade - for 4.1.5 to 4.1.8 installed units For Intel Architecture Products
4.2.2 September 2007 Manual Release - for 4.1.8 to 4.2.2 installed units For Intel Architecture Products
   

-New Guardian Web Content Filtering (licensed extra cost feature) Note will not work with Smartfilter/Brightfilter.
- New "Grey List" which allows access to the URL, but also modifies the URL or content of the
page if necessary to make it safe.
- N2H2 options removed completely
- Support for Moodle's SCORM handling
- Improved formatting of filter and top ten logs (Note: New log formatting not currently compatible with Sawmill)
- Groups rather than Users can now be used for AD integration

 
4.2.4 December 2007 Manual Release - for 4.2.2 to 4.2.4 installed units For Intel Architecture Products
   

- Anti-Spam update:
* Checks URLs in messages against blacklists:
spamhaus, surbl
* SPF
* Hashcash
-New SmartFilter URL filtering categories
-ADSL inside option

 
5.0.2 January 2008 Manual Release - for 4.2.4 to 5.0.2 installed units For Intel Architecture Products
   

-New interface

 
5.0.2 April 2008 Auto Upgrade - for 4.2.4 to 5.0.2 installed units For Intel Architecture Products
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