Web Safety 8.7 is now Release Candidate

[rafael....@diladele.com]

Hello everyone,
 
The next version of Web Safety 8.7 is now in Release Candidate stage. We are actively using the version internally and plan to finally release it in December of 2023.
 
The following changes are included into this version:

• Added support for management of SNMP configuration, it is now quite easy to monitor the Squid SNMP values using, for example, Zabbix.
• Added Advanced ACLs filtering rule, it is now possible to use various acls to create complex combined web filtering expressions.
• Added support for enforcing Microsoft Tenant Restrictions V1 and V2.
• Improved matching of Active Directory security groups as members of web filtering policies. It is now possible to select groups by primaryGroupID user attribute, thus selecting, for example, Domain Users in the web filtering policies will now work as expected.
• Performance improvements in Web Filtering and Traffic Reporting modules.

The virtual appliance images can be downloaded from here:

• for VMware ESXi/vSphere
• for Microsoft Hyper-V

Upgrade steps required are described in the Admin Guide. As always list of open issues is available on GitHub. Please do not hesitate to add more if something is missing or needs to be improved.
 
Most probably the next Web Safety will be version 9.0, will run only on Ubuntu 22.04 by default and will be based on Squid version 6.
 
Best regards,
Rafael