6.4.3 EA Release

Netsweeper is pleased to announce the Netsweeper 6.4.3 EA release. This is the third release in the 6.4 release cycle.

Features in 6.4.3 EA include:

  • The Category Definitions page has been moved from the ‘Category Management’ menu to a tab in the ‘URL Lookup’ window.
  • When a user does not have the “URL Lookup” permission, Category Definitions will also be unavailable.

Authentication Redirect

  • Two global Authentication Redirect settings have been added to Authentication Redirect per Group Settings: Show Remember Me Checkbox and Expire Time for Remember Me Cookie (seconds).
  • You can now customize the authentication redirect portal page. This allows you to customize the look and feel using similar functionality to the Deny Page Editor.
  • New Authentication Redirection settings have been added for per group customization: Remember Me and Remember Me Expiry time have been added for per group customization.
  • The Authentication Redirect per Group Settings is now split into three tabs: Redirect from Group. Move to Group, and a new Portal Page tab that lets you assign a Deny Page.

List Management

  • The List Service screenshot feature adds a random delay for a small period after taking a website screenshot.
  • The List Entry ‘ID’ has been added to the List Entry tables.

Logging and Monitoring

  • Advanced Filters have been added to the WebAdmin Log.
  • New LogMod5 disk queue SNMP statistics have been added for monitoring purposes.

APIs

  • APIs have been added to create, modify and delete global and Group Deny pages: denypage_create, denypage_delete, denypage_rule_create, denypage_rule_delete, denypage_rule_update, denypage_update, group_denypage_create, and group_denypage_update.
  • A new systemfiles_backup_download.php Direct API is available to download the latest database backup. This should only be performed out of hours as it will lock all database operations.

Permissions

  • The Account Manager will now remove the Groups tab when the Account has no Groups and will hide the IP Ranges tab when the Account can’t add or removed IP or Subnet based Clients.
  • We now do not show the Change Paper Size option if the user does not have access to Reports.
  • There is a new SysOp permission called ‘URL Lookup’ that gives a SysOp full access to the URL Lookup Tool.
  • There is a new SysOp permission called ‘Trace URL Request’ that gives a SysOp full access to the Trace URL Tool.

If you have any questions or concerns about planning an upgrade to this release, please contact Netsweeper Technical Support support@netsweeper.com.

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Download

To download the latest release, please use the following links:

http://repo.netsweeper.com/netsweeper-el6-x86_64-6.4.3-1.iso (md5) (sha256)

Change Log 6.4.3

Ticket Description
19735 FEATURE: A new systemfiles_backup_download.php Direct API is available to download the latest database backup. This should only be performed out of hours as it will lock all database operations.
22164 BUG: The API group_add_from_template was not assigning Shared Lists when using the Host Method.
22249 FEATURE: The auth portal can now use the Deny Page Framework and/or make the Deny Page framework support the auth portal. There are 3 new arguments for the auth portal returned from policy server: dpid is the deny page id that points to a customizable deny page; rememberme is the option of the group that has been enabled to run authentication redirect; and rememberme_expire is the expire time of the group after the user is authenticated and redirected. See ticket 22461
22461 FEATURE: Two global Authentication Redirect settings have been added to Authentication Redirect per Group Settings: Show Remember Me Checkbox and Expire Time for Remember Me Cookie (seconds).  The page is now split into three tabs: Redirect from Group. Move to Group, and a new Portal Page tab that lets you assign a Deny Page.  See also ticket 22249.
22548 FEATURE: The List Service screenshot feature that adds a random delay for a small period after taking a website screenshot. The modules_screenshot_download_delay can be set to the number of seconds to delay in order to avoid captchas.  Delays are not done when the website is not downloaded.
22550 FEATURE: The List Entry ‘ID’ has been added to the List Entry tables.
22552 BUG: The List Search > Local tab now does not display if the user does not have access to the Group Manager or the Policy Manager.
22559 BUG: The Reporter would occasionally delete newly created Report Instances.
22560 UPDATE: The port number is now removed from ‘Host of URI’ and ‘Domain of URI’ report fields.
22562 BUG: The client_move_ip and move_ip APIs would not always move the IP into the proper filtering Group.
22563 UPDATE: TTL Arguments have been updated with better documentation.
22564 Bug: Scheduled Reports showed the current date and not the date the Report is for.
22575 BUG: The client_delete_all API was allowing access to all Client Types regardless of SysOp permissions. You now need access to all Client Types to run delete_all.
22578 UPDATE: A wiki page has been created for the System Engineers for the export API.
22579 BUG: A log entry was not being created when exporting data from the Export API.
22580 FEATURE: Advanced Filters have been added to the WebAdmin Log.
22582 BUG: SysOp Accounts limited to creating a single type of SysOp would receive an error: ‘The provided classification is invalid’ and would be unable to create new Accounts.
22590 BUG: The export API did not process the filter and search flag properly.
22596 BUG: The page and per_page settings were not being used with the export API.
22597 BUG: The error message has been improved for export API when passing invalid column names.
22600 FEATURE: APIs have been added to create, modify and delete global and Group Deny pages: denypage_create, denypage_delete, denypage_rule_create, denypage_rule_delete, denypage_rule_update, denypage_update, group_denypage_create, and group_denypage_update.
22603 FEATURE: The Account Manager will now remove the Groups tab when the Account has no Groups and will hide the IP Ranges tab when the Account can’t add or removed IP or Subnet based Clients.
22606 FEATURE: We now do not show the Change Paper Size option if the user does not have access to Reports.
22607 FEATURE: There is a new SysOp permission called ‘URL Lookup’ that gives a Sysop full access to the URL Lookup Tool.
22608 FEATURE: There is a new SysOp permission called ‘Trace URL Request’ that gives a Sysop full access to the Trace URL Tool.
22609 FEATURE: The Category Definitions page has been moved from the ‘Category Management’ menu to a tab in the ‘URL Lookup’ window.
22616 BUG: Assume Identify did not work when the Account Manage Organization permission was checked for Group Manage Organization and not Account.
22617 FEATURE: New diskqueue SNMP statistics have been added for monitoring purposes.
22621 BUG: The List Service did not properly load and use the download_period which minimizes the screenshots based on the last download time.
22627 BUG: Reports can still run into memory limits when parsing the JSON output causing empty reports to be viewed and emailed. Memory limits have been lowered by 20Mbyte for JSON processing.
22634 BUG: The client_move_ip API would not update the groupname if the client with the IP already existed.  The client_move_ip did not check the subnet properly when updating the client.
22637 BUG: Downloading large databases would not work from System Backups > Archive.