Web Safety 8.2 is now Release Candidate

[rafael....@diladele.com]

Hello everyone,

The next version of Web Safety 8.2 is now in Release Candidate stage. The following changes are included into this build:

• C++ web filtering core moved to boost 1.80, added support for OpenSSL 3.0
• Added ability to override various API keys and port settings to ease deployments in Docker and Kubernetes.
• Added GEO IP blocking module to limit connections to IP addresses by country name.
• Updated Kerberos integration guide, it is now recommended to use the AES256-SHA1 crypto settings when generating keytab for proxy authentication.
• Fixed errors in reporting module that sometimes resulted into the high CPU usage on large proxy deployments.
• Added protection from parallel runs on reporting module on large proxy deployments where next day instance of reporting was started before the previous was fully completed.
• Admin UI now requires at least Django 4.
• Admin UI upgraded to run on latest version of jQuery.
• Fixed error with wpad/proxy pac file not available via plain HTTP.
• Missing certificates for HTTPS intermediates are now downloaded automatically.
• Breaking change - added support for RHEL 9 and discontinued RHEL 8 at the same time.
  

The virtual appliance images can be downloaded from here:

• for VMware ESXi/vSphere
• for Microsoft Hyper-V (being uploaded now)
  

We are now continuing work on getting everything properly tested and published on Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS. The final release is planned for October 2022.

Upgrade steps required are described in the Admin Guide. Note we are still leaving 7.6 as Old Stable as it was based on Squid 4 which some of you might prefer.

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.

Best regards,
Dev Team

The same version will now be used in fully managed Web Safety instances in the Cloud Proxy Project. Check it out if you need to decrease your IT administrative efforts for your clients and do not want to invest your time into low level management of proxy hardware and software.

[rafael....@diladele.com]

Released today. No changes from the RC build.