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README.md

Halon MTA changelog

5.4 | 5.3 | 5.2


Halon is a fast, flexible and powerful MTA for demanding uses such as large-scale email services. New installations are deployed by downloading a disk image or virtual machine template. Existing systems can be easily updated, after having familiarised yourself with the release notes.

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5.4-p1

Released on 2020-08-14

  • Imp UUID version selector (time/v1 or random/v4)
  • Imp Integrated package is updated to FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p8
  • Bug Fix default enhanced status code in bounces for certain errors
  • Bug Added validation of certain CLI arguments to improve error reporting
  • Bug Fix web administration regression when adding servers and transports

5.4

Released on 2020-07-22, see the 5.4 release notes for notable changes

  • New CHUNKING/BDAT and the SIZE service extension
  • New Disconnect script hook
  • New yaml_decode() function and import loader (similar to JSON)
  • New Ability to export an File classes as a C++ std::istream
  • New Ability to export an X.509 resources as a OpenSSL pointer
  • New FFI callback function
  • New DSN options to Bounce() and Queue() that allows overriding content, headers, delay, etc
  • New Pre-defined variable of the DSN that is to be generated
  • New Default() function in post-delivery to terminate script based on delivery result and settings
  • New Settings for minimum amount of free inodes and bytes for receiving email
  • New Setting for fsync before 250 on DATA
  • New Settings for number of max hops (loop protection)
  • New Timeout settings for Sophos and ClamAV, with new defaults of 30 seconds
  • New Pre-defined variable for username when accepting email on local Unix socket
  • New http() callback function for POST data
  • New MailMessage queue() function
  • New MailMessage get/setPreamble() and get/setEpilogue() functions
  • New MailMessage modifyContent() function advanced, direct modification of email data
  • New Static File::read() function that returns all data from a file path
  • New LDAP class getoption() function
  • New Numeric separator
  • New Zero-fill right shift bitwise operator
  • Imp Ability to change import loader type
  • Imp Includes SIZE= in MAIL FROM if server announces SIZE service extension
  • Imp SMTP client always send EHLO first (and then try HELO)
  • Imp Do not include detail in local-part in license count (user+detail@domain)
  • Imp MIME queue() options for delay and hold
  • Imp Ability to override recipient domain for MX lookup in pre-delivery and all other places
  • Imp Access to the queued email data in pre/post-delivery as a File resource
  • Imp dns_query() option for extended results including TTL and type-specific fields
  • Imp Added reply code option to all Accept() functions
  • Imp Auto-Submitted header to bounces (rfc3834)
  • Imp Active queue policy, suspend and delivery configurations in web admin code editor
  • Imp Saving custom views on queue pages
  • Imp Custom metadata groupings and columns on queue pages
  • Imp Number compare for metadata filters on queue pages
  • Imp Partial and case sensitive matching of local parts on queue pages
  • Imp Real-time rates for counters on process statistics page
  • Imp Added process stat counter for finished script hooks
  • Imp Added multiple recipientdomain and remotemx option to if statements in delivery configuration
  • Imp Network matching in queue conditions for sender-, local- and *remoteip&
  • Imp The API output is always normalised as UTF-8
  • Imp The API supports comparing queue metadata as numbers
  • Imp The MIMEPart.setBody() and MailMessage.toString() limitation of 1 MiB is now removed
  • Imp Extended error reporting from Sophos AV
  • Imp Added -R to hsh to override scripting.rootpath
  • Imp Added --ffi to hsh to override scripting.ffi
  • Imp Added --binary flag to hsh
  • Imp Added support for FFI in hsl-lint
  • Imp Integrated package is based on FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p7 with quarterly packages
  • Imp Update to Sophos 3.2.07.379.0
  • Imp Protobuf schemas are now part of the Linux package
  • Imp Removed httprd from the Linux package
  • Imp Added queue load command to halonctl to import messages
  • Bug Resolved issue with SMTPUTF8 and connection pooling
  • Bug Wait for support processes like rated and dlpd
  • Bug Log thread creation errors in updateQueue
  • Bug Make the domain_includes() function non-case-sensitive
  • Bug Fixed an issue with multiple network interfaces using DHCP
  • Bug Fixed an issue with storage disk resizing
  • Bug Fixed an issue with history search filter matching and less- and greater-than
  • Bug Depend on uuidd runtime on Linux
  • Dep The Queue() function (overrides the built-in logic) may now exceed the transport's max retry count
  • Dep The SetDSN() function has been deprecated in favour of the "dsn" option to Bounce() and Queue()
  • Dep The inet_includes() function now return none on errors
  • Dep The LDAPResult.next() and File.readline() now return false on end-of-data instead of none
  • Dep The MIMEPart.setBody() limitation of 1 MiB is now removed
  • Dep The dns_query() function's ttl result property has been removed in favour of the extended_result option
  • Dep All messages in the active queue now have at least one localip (instead of showing an empty address)

5.3-p5

Released on 2020-06-10

  • Bug Fixed a stability issue with the connection pool

5.3-p4

Released on 2020-05-26

  • Bug Fixed issue with server connection concurrency limit
  • Bug Fixed tags (comments) for some types of manual active queue suspends
  • Bug Fixed issue with the proxy script hook
  • Bug Fixed web administration bug when adding active queue policy without concurrency value
  • Bug Fixed minor issue with integrated package's shell console interface
  • Bug Fixed locking issue with integrated package IDE's built-in run script window
  • Bug Increased the integrated package's max threads per process limit

5.3-p3

Released on 2020-05-04

  • Imp Removed unsupported ClamAV safebrowsing
  • Bug Fixed SpamAssassin SPF issue
  • Bug Fixed web administration issue on Safari
  • Bug Fixed IP address configuration regression in video console interface

5.3-p2

Released on 2020-03-10

  • Imp Support more charsets by inclusion of latest GNU iconv
  • Imp Changed log level of ldap_auth() function failures
  • Bug Fixed issue with active queue policy with certain groupings
  • Bug Fixed issue with decoding of RFC2231 parameters values
  • Bug Fixed regression with decoding of certain charsets
  • Bug Fixed regression with Mellanox (mlx5en) network adapters

5.3-p1

Released on 2020-02-24

  • Imp Added SMTP state information to delivery error logs
  • Imp Added port option to dns_query() function
  • Bug Fixed issue with duplicate messages API call
  • Bug Fixed "neq" condition (not equal) with "size" and "retry_count" fields
  • Bug Fixed issue with message size variable and per-recipient end-of-DATA script
  • Bug Web administration fixes
    • Re-add quarantine view selector on queued messages page
    • Re-add confirm dialog on all queue message actions
    • Fixed display of file name of attachment in preview
    • Fixed preview buttons of messages with invalid MIME formatting
    • Fixed issue with FN/FP reporting links
  • Bug Updated system packages
    • ClamAV 0.102.2

5.3

Released on 2020-02-11

  • New Queue features and API
  • New Command-line inteface tool halonctl
  • New SMTP server scripting features
    • Added timestamp, expiration and identity options to the signDKIM functions
    • Added signature_exclude option to ScanCLAM
  • Imp Script language improvements
    • New Iconv() class for internationalization conversion
    • Added array_every function to test all element against callback
    • Re-implemented barrier using shared memory functions
    • Added Base64 encoding option to the MIME set/addHeader functions
  • Imp Web administration queue improvements
    • Merged open connections with message queue for better overview
    • Powerful filter dialogue using the new queue conditions
    • Column selector and inline messages preview in message viewer
  • Imp Certificate can be in reloadable configuration even if private key is in startup
  • Imp Added graceful draining to the background http() process httprd
  • Imp Added idle timeout to virtual servers
  • Imp Updated system packages
  • Bug Patched Net-SNMP to fix memory leak
  • Dep Important changes
    • Removed SOAP API
    • Removed several REST API queue commands in favour for new queue API
    • Removed GetMailQueueMetrics() in favour for new queue_quota() function
    • Merged smtpd and queued processes which affects logging

5.2-p7

Released on 2020-05-26

  • Bug Fixed issue with server connection concurrency limit
  • Bug Fixed tags (comments) for some types of manual active queue suspends
  • Bug Fixed issue with the proxy script hook
  • Bug Fixed minor issue with integrated package's shell console interface
  • Bug Fixed locking issue with integrated package IDE's built-in run script window
  • Bug Increased the integrated package's max threads per process limit

5.2-p6

Released on 2020-05-04

  • Imp Changed log level of ldap_auth() function failures
  • Imp Removed unsupported ClamAV safebrowsing
  • Bug Fixed SpamAssassin SPF issue
  • Bug Fixed web administration issue on Safari
  • Bug Fixed IP address configuration regression in video console interface

5.2-p5

Released on 2020-02-03

  • Bug Fixed regression regarding interface order

5.2-p4

Released on 2020-01-29

  • Imp Option to use operating system's network interface order instead of by MAC/hardware address
  • Imp Added software update version selector to web administration (patch/major)
  • Imp Support DANE for non-MX destinations
  • Bug Fixed protocol violation with LMTP and STARTTLS
  • Bug Fixed issue with smtp_lookup_rcpt() function
  • Bug Fixed memory leak in TLSA DNS resolving

5.2-p3

Released on 2019-12-27

  • Bug Fixed issue with long-running script hooks which could cause internal congestions
  • Bug Fixed stability issue with newly implemented TLS 1.3

5.2-p2

Released on 2019-12-06

  • Imp Support overlapping active queue policy groupings by order of appreance
  • Imp Added environment.syslog.mask option to startup configurations
  • Bug Fixed regression which could cause DSNs to be sent too early
  • Bug Prevent adding multiple queue policy counters on same field in web administration

5.2-p1

Released on 2019-10-10

  • Imp Added timeout option to SMTP client delivery options
  • Bug Fixed issue with listen address when IPv6 is disabled
  • Bug Fixed issue when adding policy to suspend entire active queue

5.2

Released on 2019-09-25

  • New Queue subsystem features
    • Asynchronous SMTP and DNS connection processing
    • Concurrency and rate control in active queue
      • Custom counters with regex/wildcard matching for rollup
      • Job ID field for scriptable/custom match parameters
      • Dynamic control via script and API
    • Queuing to multiple source IP/HELO pairs with round-robin and exclusion via suspend
    • Transport group hierarchy with setting inheritance
    • Simplified pre- and post-delivery scripts with new Try(), Queue() and $message symbols
    • Added mx_include/exclude options to deliver functions to control MX resolution
    • Enabled forward-confirmed reverse DNS lookups (used in Received header) by default
  • New Script language features
    • Added FFI class for calling routines in external libraries
    • Added shared memory functions and API for counting and caching
    • Added csv_encode() function useful for CSV logging
    • Added redirects option to http()
  • Imp Web administration improvements
    • New queue distribution page which can group by age and next retry
    • New process statistics page that shows internal counters
  • Imp Updated system packages
    • FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p10
    • FreeBSD 12 quarterly packages
  • Dep Important changes
    • Removed the options for MX delivery (zone= and query=)
    • Removed the transport profile priority and pause setting in favour for virtual queues, hold and suspend

5.1-p3

Released on 2019-06-17

  • Bug Fallback to HELO if EHLO fail and we do not require TLS
  • Bug Reintroduce accept reason in delivery log
  • Bug Fixes Cyren issue with a cache purging command
  • Bug Web administration regressions
    • Fix clearing individual cache items
    • Fix multi-select on queue items
    • Fix issue with showing clustered graphs

5.1-p2

Released on 2019-05-15

  • Bug New $connection variable were populated incorrectly in regards to local/remote information.

5.1-p1

Released on 2019-05-08

  • Bug Resolve DANE-TA issue by switching from LDNS to OpenSSL's DANE implementation

5.1

Released on 2019-04-25

  • New SMTP server scripting features
    • New “proxy” script executed on every SMTP command
    • New $connection and $arguments arrays that contains all predefined input variables
    • New mail message queue(), in-line deliver() and toFile() functions
  • Imp SMTP server improvements
    • Support for PROXY protocol v2
    • Added wildcard matching in domain relay table
    • Added many options and flags to script functions
      • Added reason and reply_codes to Accept()
      • Added decode to mail message getBody()
      • Added type to MIME appendPart/prependPart()
      • Added various settings for DMARC and Cyren RPD
    • Compatibility mode for previous predefined variables and setter functions
  • Imp Script language improvements
  • Imp Updated system packages
    • FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p3
    • FreeBSD 12 quarterly packages
  • Bug Fixed issue with TLS certificates being read multiple times
  • Bug Fixed issue with paused transports creating unnecessary logs
  • Dep Important changes
    • The SMTP server reject/defer functions doesn’t prepend pre-defined messages
    • Underscores are now allowed in variable names
    • Removed "null" as literal null transport destination
    • Removed size limit from mail message getBody()

5.0-p2

Released on 2019-03-04

  • Bug Fix issues in web administration with new REST API
  • Bug Fix issue with license user count expiration
  • Bug Use true/false rather than 1/0 for all boolean types
    • rate() return type
    • smtp_lookup_rcpt() flag for TLS started
  • Bug Fix issues with firewall script
    • Include files in folders could not be used in firewall script
    • The built-in FTP server’s passive mode didn't work with a firewall script
  • Bug Fix memory leak in new LDAP class
  • Bug Suppress harmless warning in quarantine retention cleanup

5.0-p1

Released on 2019-02-20

  • Bug Properly detect the Amazon EC2 hypervisor
  • Bug Inline delivery wasn't logging sender information on errors
  • Bug Numerically named include files could not be checked for errors
  • Bug Fixed a rare crash that could occur during DKIM signing
  • Bug Fix regressions in web administration with new REST API

5.0

Released on 2019-01-24

  • New RESTful API with OpenAPI specification
  • New SMTP server scripting features
    • Added per-message end-of-DATA script
    • Added snapshot() and restore() to the end-of-DATA MIME() class
    • New $transaction variable with sender and recipients that's gradually populated
    • New senderlocalpart and recipientlocalpart variables in original format
    • New options in connect script's Accept() function
      • reason to set banner response
      • senderptr to set sender hostname printed in "Received" header
    • New options in RCPT TO Accept() function
      • recipient for overriding the default $recipient context variable
      • transportid for overriding the default $transportid context variable
    • New option from_name in pre/post-delivery SetDSN()
  • Imp SMTP server improvements
    • TLS 1.3 support
    • Wildcard matching in SNI
    • Sender information can be overridden per queued recipient
    • Added configuration options
      • Implicit TLS per virtual server listener
      • Verbose logging per virtual server
    • Bare LF is converted to CRLF
    • Disable client-initiated TLS renegotiation
  • Imp Script language improvements
    • Added spread operator to array type
    • Added wildcard function and variable import into a namespace
    • Added compile-time text, JSON and CSV import into a variable
    • Added csv_decode() function that parses a string according to a schema
    • Added inet_reverse() function that creates a reverse DNS for PTR or DNSxL lookups
    • Added array_find() function
    • New LDAP() class
    • Reworked standard library functions
      • length() function that supports multiple data types
      • array_join(), array_includes() and array_range()
      • str_find(), str_rfind(), str_lower(), str_upper(), str_slice() and str_strip()
      • random_number(), domain_includes(), inet_includes()
    • Added getPath() and readline() methods to File() class
    • New allow_comments option in json_decode()
    • New type option in dns()
    • New proxy option in http() to override the system default
  • Imp Web administration improvements
    • Script editor improvement
      • Custom input controllers for CSV files using schemas
      • CSV import using custom delimiter
      • Syntax highlighting for JSON files
      • Scratchpad for quickly writing and running code
    • History and queue search support >= and <= operators
    • Moved catch-all domain settings to virtual server configuration
    • Moved SSH, HTTPS and FTP TLS keys to host server configuration
  • Imp System distribution improvements
    • Ability to configure HTTP proxy, used by all HTTP clients throughout the system
    • Ability to clear individual entries from built-in DNS cache
    • DHCP support for DNS resolvers
    • Configuration now accepts / in IDs, used for folders in the script editor
  • Imp Updated system packages
  • Bug Fix issue with lagg network interfaces on boot
  • Dep Important changes
    • The is_number() function to no longer return true on boolean variables
    • Removed $tlsprotocol, $tlscipher and $tlskeysize variables from RCPT script
    • Removed calling a function as a string from cache
    • Removed Deliver() from post-delivery script
    • The Quarantine() function's option parameter must be an array
    • Removed system_default_transport
    • Renamed processes dlpd and queued

4.8-r1

Released on 2018-11-01

  • Imp Added a crypt() function
  • Imp Updated to Sophos 3.2.07.374.0

4.8-p1

Released on 2018-10-03

  • Bug Fix issue where ldap_bind() return error (-1) rather than failure (0) on a failed bind
  • Bug Patch libspf2 to completely deprecate the SPF record type in favor of TXT
  • Dep Show deprecation warning for transports without explicit bounce destination, and domain cluster overrides

4.8

Released on 2018-09-20

  • New SMTP server scripting features
    • Added SetHELO(), $saslauthed and $saslusername to HELO script
    • Added "changes" option to GetMailFile() to include message modifications
    • Support for meta-data queries in GetMailQueueMetric()
    • Preserve 7bit ASCII when the modifying messages with MIME.setBody if possible
  • Imp Script language improvements
  • Imp API improvements
    • Added API call mailQueueDownload to download a message (original or with modifications)
    • hslCacheClear, hslRateClear and statClear returns affected rows
    • mailQueueRetryBulk supports "retryts" (timestamp) and "retrydelay" (offset)
    • configImport support "revision" option for atomic imports
  • Imp Updated system packages
    • FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p3
    • FreeBSD 11 quarterly packages
  • Bug Debug points were removed when clearing debug results
  • Bug The video console interface could not run programs (like ping)
  • Dep Important changes
    • Replaced radius_authen(), new implementation using Socket()
    • Removed tacplus_authen() and tacplus_author() (TACACS+)
    • Removed system_disk_cache configuration key (ATA disk cache)

4.7-p1

Released on 2018-08-07

  • Bug Updated kernel to FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p1 (SA-18:08)

4.7

Released on 2018-07-09

  • New SMTP server scripting features
  • New SMTP server features
    • Support for multiple IPs and netmasks in live staging
    • Require HELO option
    • Support for PKCS#8 private keys
  • Imp Script language improvements
    • Reworked DKIMVerify() function
    • Added array slice assignments and unset slices
    • Only return one result per domain in DKIMSDID()
  • Imp SMTP server improvements
    • Change default TLS ciphers to HIGH:MEDIUM
    • Updated Cyren outbound configuration
  • Imp Web administration improvements
    • Option to automatically restart live staging on changes
    • Color picker for area and pie charts
    • Stacked percentage mode for area charts
    • HTTP redirect option, useful for HTTP-to-HTTPS
    • Enabled HSTS and denies frame embedding (X-Frame-Options)
    • Many other small improvements
  • Imp Updated system packages
    • FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p0
    • FreeBSD 11 quarterly packages
    • Unbound 1.7.0 which fixes one DNSSEC-related issue
    • Sophos 3.2.07.372.0
  • Bug Fix rated behaviour with IPv6, reloading and display on non-synchronised items
  • Bug Fix issue with DATA script scan functions caching and extended results
  • Bug Fix bug with negative indexes and append
  • Bug Deleting statistic values on graph page for all hosts didn't work
  • Dep Important changes
    • Switched to regular peer name checks in SetTLS
    • DNS functions no longer support hostnames as resolver server option
    • Renamed rate() option local to sync
    • Removed DKIMADSP()
    • Removed historic variables from connect script

4.6-p1

Released on 2018-05-03

  • Bug Fixed regression in SMTP server affecting implicit TLS on port 465
  • Bug Fixed issue with FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p8 (SA-18:03) affecting some CPUs
  • Bug Fixed TLSSocket.getpeercert() MD5 fingerprint option

4.6

Released on 2018-04-28

  • New Support for Cyren outbound anti-spam
  • New Support for SNI in smtp_lookup_*(), SetTLS() and SMTP server
  • New Script language features
    • for loops
    • static self-referencing support using the scope resolution operator (::)
    • Increase/decrease operator
  • Imp SMTP server scripting improvement
    • Added extended_result to ScanRPD(), ScanKAV, ScanCLAM, ScanDLP and ScanSA
    • Default DKIM canonicalization changed to relaxed
    • Added GetMetaData() to DATA context
  • Imp Script language improvement
    • Support for non-synchronized (local) counters in rate()
    • Support for Unicode surrogate pairs in json_*() to support plane 1 SMP
    • Scripting language optimizations (memory, comparisons, branching and loops)
    • Changed to libdouble-conversion from David M. Gay's dtoa
  • Imp SMTP server improvements
    • Asynchronous connection processing
    • Added millisecond precision to log files and remote syslog
    • Allow hyphen characters in metadata fields
  • Imp Script editor improvements
    • Completion items for built-in variables
    • Parameters, return type and description for completion items
    • Hover provider for built-in functions and variables
    • Added link provider for files
    • Code folding, tabs and minimap
  • Imp Web administration improvements
    • Halon script syntax highlight in plain-text configuration format
    • Added checkbox to disable a SMTP listener on the SMTP listeners page
  • Imp Support for ena network driver
  • Imp Changed to DHCP in default configuration
  • Imp Updated system packages
    • FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p4
    • FreeBSD 11 quarterly packages
    • Cyren ctasd 5.1.6.4 and ctipd 4.1.3.4
  • Bug Fixed issue with http() background requests connection errors
  • Bug The connect script was executed despite connections per IP limit
  • Bug The connect script replies didn't work with implicit TLS
  • Bug SMTP banner was sent despite connections per IP limit
  • Bug Fixed issue with client certificates
  • Bug Clearing chart data could cause it to be removed on another node
  • Bug Fixed issue with firewall script and passive FTP
  • Dep Important changes
    • Deprecated the ScanRPDAV() function

4.5-p2

Released on 2018-01-29

  • Bug Updated ClamAV to 0.99.3 (due to various CVE's)
  • Bug Regression in code editor where file comments could not be added

4.5-p1

Released on 2018-01-22

  • Reg Regression with AUTH LOGIN could cause $saslpassword to be incorrectly populated

4.5

Released on 2018-01-22

  • New Script language features
  • New Added GetTLS to AUTH, MAIL FROM, RCPT TO and DATA with STARTTLS info, tlsrpt and peer_cert
  • New AUTH script features
    • Support custom SASL mechanims
      • Added $saslmechanism, $saslstate and $saslresponse variables
      • Added Reply() function
    • Added ability to set username to Accept()
  • New Pre-delivery script features
  • New Post-delivery script features
  • Imp SMTP server improvements
    • Added support for client certificate requests in server HELO (per IP)
    • Added support for custom SASL methods
    • Set server preference for TLS ciphers
    • Explicitly handle NULL MX (rfc7505)
    • Removed line length limiting (8K SMTP, 256K (headerline), 512K header total)
  • Imp Web administration improvements
    • Redesigned script mappings page
    • Improved script errors in editor (with line decorations)
    • Search in code editor directly from top search
    • Faster loading in code editor
    • Redesigned forms with more client side input validation
    • Improved keyboard navigation
    • And a lot of overall improvements
  • Imp API changes
    • Added support for more fields in SOAP mailQueueUpdateBulk and also duplicate
    • Added support for program argument in SOAP hslCacheClear
  • Imp Improved Sophos antivirus detection by using CXmail
  • Imp DLP engine now supports regular expression modifiers
  • Imp Improved performance of libdkim++
  • Imp Allow "." delimiter in all ID fields
  • Bug Received header "with ...SMTP..." always adds E on AUTH and STARTTLS
  • Bug Improved DSN parsing in GetDSN() with multiline headers
  • Bug Bug with behaviour on Quarantine() reject => false followed by Quarantine reject => true
  • Bug Fix bug with DKIM delivery block in Web UI
  • Dep Important changes
    • Aliased error_code to extended_result in smtp_lookup_rcpt()
    • Aliased all ssl_ options to tls_ in http()
    • Removed object [] syntax (in favour of class syntax)
    • Default action is now to block on script errors in firewall script
    • Made $connection and $transaction read-only in smtpd's context
    • $tlsprotocol, $tlscipher, $tlskeysize in RCPT TO context in favor of GetTLS()
    • If using the RULE syntax to ScanDLP() with regular expresssions, you may need to add modifiers to keep compatibility (eg. //i for filenames).

4.4-p2

Released on 2017-12-04

  • Bug Fixed regression with $errormsg in Post-delivery
  • Bug Fixed regression with Deliver() in Post-delivery
  • Bug Fixed bug when importing some specific named keys
  • Bug Fixed bug when typing in script blocks using the simple flow editor

4.4-p1

Released on 2017-10-30

  • Bug Fixes regression in file() function

4.4

Released on 2017-10-26

  • Imp Script language features
  • Imp Connect flow changes
  • Imp DATA flow changes
  • Imp Pre-delivery script script
  • Imp Post-delivery script changes
    • Always runs the delivery script (even for DELETE and BOUNCE)
    • Added an $action variabel DELETE, BOUNCE, RETRY
    • Added a SetDSN() to change DSN settings
    • Added options to Retry() function
  • Imp Script editor improvements
    • Added support for save using Ctrl/Cmd+s in CSV editor
    • Warning if there are unsaved changes when starting live staging
  • Imp Web administration improvements
    • Refreshed interface, for example search field and login session expiration in menu bar
    • Fixed support for renamed HTTP certificates when starting clustering
    • Show diff between hosts’ configuration when clustering
    • Ability to cancel pending disk grow/format
    • SHA-256 is used in new certificate generation
    • Message preview retains header letter case
  • Imp Updated system packages
    • FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p2
    • New quarterly packages
  • Imp Ability to choose multiple addresses per SMTP listener
  • Imp Added a per-transport default bounce transport setting
  • Imp Added source metadata (_original_[message|queue|action]_id) to bounces
  • Imp Reworked SMTP errors
  • Imp LDAP profiles are migrated to use standard URIs, which allows for failover
  • Imp Firewall script now uses per-application filtering instead of ipfw divert sockets
  • Bug The "Line too long” error is now sent after END-OF-MESSAGE
  • Bug Fixed a missing SSL timeout in the SMTP client
  • Bug Fixed a syslog issue by properly using a blocking socket
  • Bug Fixed regression with system-storage- graphs and iostats command for some storage disks
  • Bug DSNs Arrival-Date wasn't properly set to the original message arrival date
  • Dep Important changes
    • Deprecated Deliver function in post-delivery script
    • Renamed GenerateDSN() to Bounce() in post-delivery script
    • Replaced DeliverWithDKIM() with DKIMSign() in simple flow compilations

4.3-p1

Released on 2017-09-06

  • Bug TLS certificate regression caused by change in OpenLDAP 2.4.45 (ITS#8529)

4.3

Released on 2017-08-08

  • New Script language features
  • Imp Added status and NDR code options to Reject(), Defer(), Deliver(), etc.
  • Imp Web administration improvements
    • Redesigned toolbar on many pages
    • Spinning icon when running a script in code editor
  • Imp Updated system packages
    • FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p0 with clang/LLVM 4.0.0
    • FreeBSD 11 quarterly packages
    • Sophos 3.2.7.369.2
  • Imp Detect Amazon Web Services' EC2
  • Imp Overall improvements and code modernization
  • Bug Failed to properly differentiate SASL failures in smtp_lookup_auth()
  • Dep The object cast operator

4.2

Released on 2017-06-22

  • New Script language features
    • Classes added with class keyword
    • Added is_object() function
    • Added static function Socket::AF() to Socket class
    • Added tls_verify_name option to SetTLS() and smtp_lookup_*
    • Added max_file_size option to http()
    • ScanDLP() function accepts rules as argument
  • New DLP engine now support file hashes of SHA2-256 and SHA2-512
  • Imp Script editor improvements
    • Sorting folders before files
    • Fixed header alignment of empty CSV files
  • Imp Web administration improvements
    • Show popover on ellipsis in email tracking
    • Fixed return to scroll position in on all pages
    • Simple flow editor styles are now flat
    • Simple flow editor comment is no longer a required field
    • Bulk update queued and quarantined messages
  • Imp Updated system packages
    • CYREN ctasd 5.1.1.1 and ctipd 4.1.1.1
    • Sophos 3.2.7.368.1
    • HTML Purifier 4.9.3
  • Imp Aquire serial number and license without Internet via licenseImport API call
  • Imp smtpd now has a less aggressive default timeout
  • Bug $x["x"] did not throw error (non-existing variable)
  • Bug Corrected default HELO message in smtp_lookup_* function
  • Bug DLP engine reported a recursion error (instead of generic errors) on bad archives
  • Bug CYREN ctasd did not restart after license expiration

4.1

Released on 2017-05-10

  • New Live staging in pre/post-delivery (queue)
  • New Purge cached items from API (and web admin)
  • New Script language features
    • Modules with import keyword
    • Added get/setBody() to DATA script's MIME class
    • Added tls_default_ca and tls_verify_host options to SetTLS() and smtp_lookup_*
    • Added the none keyword
    • Added strptime() and ord() functions
    • Reworked code validation to support more advanced coding patterns
    • Loosen up syntax with () and ->
    • Nested named functions are now function scoped
    • Supports referencing files without file: prefix
    • Added explicit warning about Unicode whitespace
    • More dead-code eliminations
  • Imp Script editor improvements
    • Return to cursor position on commit
    • Supports folders via a dot . ID hierarchy convention and renaming IDs
    • Auto-complete context-specific function names
    • Many improvements to CSV editor (shows position, fixed headers, etc)
    • Search options for regular expressions and case sensitiveness
    • Running code in sandbox uses local checkout, and has a host selector
    • New save indicator, "save all" button and keyboard shortcut
  • Imp Web administration improvements
    • Generate X.509, DKIM and DANE on PKI page
    • Support changing ID of listner, flows and scripts, etc
    • Cluster delete on statistic legends
    • Re-added quick access to RPD and SA results in tracking
    • Quick access to revision page diffs by URL hash
    • Delete domain and domain aliases on SMTP server delete
    • Defer color now shown as purple
    • Fixed regressions with IE/Edge, DLP page, revision page timezone, stats, duplicate domains, etc
  • Imp Updated system packages
    • FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p10
    • FreeBSD 11 quarterly packages
    • CYREN ctipd 4.1.0.1
    • Sophos 3.2.7.368
  • Imp Make searchlog use time hint for RSET message id
  • Bug Closure over function scope caused memory leak
  • Dep Removed dovecot_lookup_auth() and ident_lookup(), new implementations using Socket()
  • Dep Doesn't explicitly set $error in RCPT TO script any more

4.0-p1

Released on 2017-03-16

  • Bug Web administration fixes
    • Updated htmlpurifier to 4.9.2
    • NTP field on Date and time page didn't work with multiple servers
    • Some disks weren't selectable on the Disks page
    • Script errors in Simple flow editor page caused template engine error
    • Clearing critical log always cleared the local log
    • Added poll delay on Dashboard page's CPU to show usage more accurately
    • History and queue page
      • Don't show queue information for quarantine
      • Re-added info field in listing
      • Re-added active queue/quarantine selector
    • Comment field on SMTP servers appeared in two places
    • Minor redesign of the Configuration revisions page to mark special revisions
    • Hide cluster synchronisation on Users page if there's only one host
    • Added redirects for old web admin URLs for bookmarks
  • Bug HSL function strftime was incorrectly returning in local time
  • Bug consoleui couldn't add new IP's if all were removed

4.0

Released on 2017-03-06

  • New Live staging; running a parallell SMTP config version for some connections, based on conditions
  • New Redesigned web admin with checkout/commit and diff with expressive configuration syntax
  • New SMTPUTF8 support
  • New SMTP server scripting features
    • Pre-defined connection $context variable, shared between all SMTP scripts
    • MAIL FROM script
    • SetSender/Recipient() in MAIL FROM and RCPT TO scripts
    • Added SetSenderIP/SetSenderHELO() to DATA scripts
    • Accept(), Reject() and Defer() in connect script
    • Disconnect flag to all Reject/Defer and Deliver functions
    • The SMTP scripts exposes all available variables (as they become available)
    • GetMailFile() in DATA, pre- and postdelivery scripts.
  • New Scripting features
  • Imp Configuration format
    • Allow config keys to contain a-z, eg. include "file:api"
    • New file key types to differentiate plain text from scripts
    • New SMTP listener settings for TLS, HAproxy and concurrency
    • Allow mounting of storage disk/partition by UFS label
  • Imp SOAP API
    • configKeysImport atomic commit with "expected head" id field
    • configKeysCheck to verify non-running configuration
    • mailQueueInTransit information about mailqueued's delivery attempts
  • Imp Updated system packages
    • FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p0
    • FreeBSD 11 quarterly packages
    • CYREN ctasd 5.1.0.1 and ctipd 4.0.37.1
  • Imp Anti-spam/virus database information command
  • Imp Being a major release, it features a large numbers of fixes and improvements
  • Dep Changed LSI RAID driver from mfi to mrsas, will affect users mounting mfiX by device name
  • Dep Script include from /cfg partition
  • Dep Firewall script's Block() ignore response
  • Dep DATA script's WrapMessage()
  • Dep Removed rate limits from acl_flow (moved to SMTP listener)
  • Dep Some config keys, such as system_user, service_ssh_*, ntp and syslog are no longer synched between hosts
  • Dep Renamed some config keys, such as acl_flow and mail_flow
  • Dep When upgrading an existing host, a swap disk needs to be added (2-8 GiB) or RAM increased to at least 3 GiB (preferable before the update) since swap files no longer works in FreeBSD 11.0

3.5-r5p6

Released on 2017-01-10

  • Imp Added support for interfaces as gateway (route)
  • Bug Fix issue with smtpd and certain load balancers

3.5-r5p5

Released on 2016-12-07

  • Bug Fix issue with dnsCacheFlush
  • Bug SASL always failed in smtpd after an unsupported method was issued
  • Bug Shutdown SSL connections more gracefully in smtpd
  • Bug Bug with HSL code check and barriers
  • Bug snmpd could produce error message on the console

3.5-r5p4

Released on 2016-11-09

  • Imp Updated system packages
    • FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p11
    • FreeBSD 10 quarterly packages
    • CYREN ctipd 4.0.36.1 and ctasd 5.0.88.1
  • Bug HELO/EHLO hostname was not set for invalid domain names
  • Bug Recipient limit was decreased compared to previous releases
  • Bug License users export could fail

3.5-r5p3

Released on 2016-09-27

3.5-r5p2

Released on 2016-09-23

  • Sec Updated to FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p8 that fixes OpenSSL CVE-2016-6304 and others
  • Imp Setting for and changes in smtpd's log verbosity

3.5-r5p1

Released on 2016-09-08

  • Imp Enabled TCP_NODELAY on SMTP client socket
  • Imp More user friendly errors in mailQueueRetry, mailQueueDelete and mailQueueBounce API
  • Imp Updated to htmlpurifier 4.8.0
  • Bug Properly reload scripts with deleted include files when re-added
  • Bug Fixed regressions with XCLIENT, implicit TLS and IP flow statistics

3.5-r5

Released on 2016-09-05

  • New ident_lookup() function to lookup users over the ident protocol
  • New $senderport in IP, RCPT TO and DATA context
  • Imp Postfix is not longer the default MTA

3.5-r4

Released on 2016-08-29

  • Imp Improvements in the script editor
    • Added support for matching closing brackets
    • Variable highlighting in strings
  • Imp Updated system packages
    • CYREN ctipd 4.0.35.5
    • FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p7
  • Imp Improve detection of password protected ZIP files
  • Bug Fixes in REST API and SOAP proxy
    • hslRate() regression with affected rate pie charts
    • mailQueue() regression with affected email tracking metadata display
  • Bug Fix delivery to numeric MX with DANE

3.5-r3

Released on 2016-08-03

  • New Added an interface for editing CSV files to the script editor
  • New Added a revision-based diff utility to the script editor
  • Imp Switched to Monaco (MS VC code) and enabled autocompletion
  • Imp Added paging to the SOAP function configRevisionLog
  • Imp Added retry functionality to background http() requests
  • Imp Added extended_result option to the http() function
  • Imp HSL now supports keyed assignments when destructing arrays
  • Imp Updated system packages to the latest quarterly; such as
    • FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p6
    • PHP 7.0.9
    • ClamAV 0.99.2
    • PostgreSQL 9.3.13
    • nginx 1.10.1
  • Bug Failed http() requests always returns None on errors
  • Bug Always send an authentication header on "401" errors (fixes issue with some SOAP clients)
  • Bug Web admin interface fixes
    • Increase timeout to prevent "504" timeout errors
    • File viewer couldn't show files larger than 2 GiB
    • Fixed a rare crash which chould occur with certain setups
  • Dep Config key mail_transport's parameter sasluser/pass renamed to saslusername/password
  • Dep Config key mail_server's parameter sasl_tls renamed to sasltls
  • Dep Removed the GuessAttachmentType() function

3.5-r2

Released on 2016-05-26

  • Imp Switch to nginx and php-fpm (from Apache 2.4 and mod_php)
  • Bug Fixed issue with reloading some configurations
  • Bug Fixed regression in the new SOAP proxy which was introduced in 3.5-r1
    • getTime() had the wrong default UTC mode
    • It didn't handle 401 (Unauthorized) errors correctly
    • Cluster sync (clusterd) didn't work with pipes in configuration values
    • Cluster overrides couldn't be added

3.5-r1

Released on 2016-05-20

  • New Added SOAP function mailQueueUpdateBulk to set various fields (quarantine, transport, etc.)
  • New Added MIME.getHeaderNames() to the DATA MIME object
  • Imp Added an option array to MIME.get/set/delHeader() to address a specific header by index
  • Imp Replaced gSOAP with a REST/JSON API and a PHP SOAP proxy for compatibility
  • Bug Fix problem when clearing empty rate entries

3.5

Released on 2016-04-18

  • New New HSL scripting editor
  • New Added MIME.send() to builtin MIME object
  • New Added MIME.getBody() to builtin MIME object
  • New Added MIME.toString() to builtin MIME object
  • New Added ?? (null coalescing operator) to HSL
  • New Added include_once to HSL
  • New Added object and this to HSL
  • New Added destructuring assignment to HSL
  • New Added support for HAProxy's proxy protocol
  • Imp Based on FreeBSD 10.3
  • Imp Disabled SSLv3 for inbound SMTP connections
  • Imp Added support for sourceip as a netaddr:X in smtp_lookup_rcpt() and smtp_lookup_auth()
  • Imp Updated components
  • Imp Deliver() and Quarantine() now supports an option array
  • Bug Fix problem with partial updated Sophos databases
  • Bug Fix problem with where the flow wasn't reloaded if a include file was changed
  • Bug Fix problem with mail() where transportid wasn't used
  • Bug Fix problem with IE11 and placeholders in flows
  • Dep Undocumented CopyMail() and DirectDeliver() in favour of Deliver() arguments
  • Dep Deprecated GuessAttachmentType()
  • Dep Removed template support from the mail() function
  • Dep Removed the trigger URL configuration key from the quarantine
  • Dep Removed the Blacklist() function
  • Dep Removed the ScanBWList() function
  • Dep Removed the ScanSPF() function
  • Dep Removed the deliver_type and deliver_args arguments from DeliverWithDKIM()
  • Dep Removed support for switch with variable assignment
  • Dep Removed support for function without argument list
  • Dep HSL returns None (instead of an empty string) when dereferencing a non-existing elements in arrays

3.4-r4p2

Released on 2016-03-02

  • Sec Addresses the DROWN vulnerability (CVE-2016-0800)

3.4-r4p1

Released on 2016-02-20

  • Bug Fix regression in CYREN's ctipd 4.0.32 (included in 3.4-r4) by rolling back to 4.0.31

3.4-r4

Released on 2016-02-16

  • New DATA context MIME class for working with an email's body
  • New Standard library MIME class for creating MIME parts
  • New closures in addition to lambda functions
  • New dnscname() function to resolve CNAME records (RR)
  • New is_function() function to check if data is a function
  • New array_sort() function to sort arrays
  • New HSL cache statistics in SOAP and web admin
  • Imp The ScanDLP() function can return where matches were found with partid option
  • Imp Added RCPT TO context $tlsprotocol, $tlscipher and $tlskeysize variables
  • Imp Clear HSL rate()s based on a query (namespace and/or entry) over SOAP or web admin
  • Imp Updated components
    • CYREN IP reputation (ctipd) and RPD (ctasd) engines
    • FreeBSD 10 quarterly packages
    • FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p9 fixing CVE-2015-3197 (SSLv2 disabled by default)
  • Dep Removed the system_default_quarantine configuration key
  • Dep Removed the GetMailTransport() function
  • Dep Removed the DeliverAsSpam() function
  • Dep Deprecated the WrapMessage() function
  • Dep Renamed the domain type any (catch-all) to the literal * in the configuration (converted)
  • Dep Many default settings were moved to the user configuration (making them removable)

3.4-r3

Released on 2015-12-07

  • New Added anonymous functions and named function pointers
  • New Added array_filter(), array_map() and array_reduce() functions
  • Imp The in_file(), in_array() and pcre_replace() may take a function callback as argument
  • New Added csv_explode() function
  • New $serverip in AUTH, RCPT TO and DATA context
  • Imp Options tls_protocols and tls_ciphers added to SetTLS() and smtp_lookup_*
  • Imp Reconnect without TLS if STARTTLS fails for optional TLS connections
  • Imp SSLv3 disabled by default on outbound SMTP connections
  • Imp Renamed DKIM function to DKIMSign(), which may return signature as a string
  • New Added csv_explode() function
  • Imp Deny() in SOAP API may give a reason as faultstring
  • Imp Improve logging in mailqueued (with queueid)
  • Imp Setting syslog_use_fqdn which sends the FQDN in syslog messages
  • Imp Overall elegance, design and usability improved
  • Sec Updated FreeBSD to 10.2-RELEASE-p8 which fixes CVE-2015-3194 to 3196
  • Bug Improved DNS reloading in HSL; affected the spf() and ldap_*, tacplus_* and radius_* functions

3.4-r2

Released on 2015-11-04

  • New DANE support
  • Imp Added settings page for CYREN
  • Imp Added extended_result option to the dns*() functions
  • Imp Added pretty_print option to json_encode()
  • Imp Added $receivedtime to pre- and post-delivery contexts
  • Imp SOAP mailQueue*Bulk() functions returns number of affected messages
  • Imp The default configuration now contains only one HTTPS web admin interface
  • Imp Many small changes improving performance, stability, elegance, design and usability
  • Bug Regression in ScanRPD() with ctasd for "valid-bulk"

3.4-r1

Released on 2015-10-19

  • New Sophos anti-virus (savdid) engine
  • New Spam classification report buttons on email tracking page
  • Imp Added explode() limit argument
  • Imp Key size option when creating private keys on PKI page
  • Imp Many small changes improving performance, stability, elegance, design and usability
  • Bug Updated CYREN ctasd settings to better cope with connection errors
  • Bug Updated Net-SNMP to fix memory leak in snmpd

3.4

Released on 2015-09-23

  • New Based on FreeBSD 10.2
  • New SetTLS function to the pre-delivery context
  • New pie chart function q() to graph queue/quarantine searches
  • New Ability to disable services (such as. SNMP, FTP and SSH)
  • New RCPT flow block for DNSBL and IP reputation
  • Imp Zoomable graphs
  • Imp Save graph layouts per user
  • Imp Pie chart supports custom refresh intervals
  • Imp Updated components
    • CYREN IP reputation (ctipd) and RPD (ctasd) engines
    • Postfix 3, PostgreSQL 9.3.9 and ClamAV 0.98.7
  • Imp Scripting page may easily run scripts from the (virtual text) file store
  • Imp Optionally turn on totalhits in SOAP API
  • Imp Switch between HTML and plain view in message preview
  • Imp The AUTH rate limit flow block defer rather than reject when exceeded
  • Imp Replaced rpcmplexd with an async web admin implementation
  • Imp Overall performance, stability, elegance, design and usability improved
  • Dep Updated OpenSSL requires DH key size of more than 512
  • Dep Graphs now include "dots" in their names (previously replaced with a dash)
  • Dep SOAP API changes
    • mailQueue's totalHits renamed to totalhits (lowercase)
    • Replaced loginFullname() and loginRemoteHost() with login() return object
    • Removed loginCheckPermission()
  • Dep End user interface considerations
    • If you're using display-stats (graphs) you need to update the end user
    • Toggle preview on HTML/text message part is now supported

3.3-r6

Released on 2015-06-04

  • New Added an "update" function to the cache that can pick expired (but valid) items
  • New Added a background flag to the http function for async, non-response calls
  • New Added a hash function, useful together with http()'s background mode
  • Imp Added a syslog port settings
  • Imp Support implicit SSL (wrapper mode) by specifying "465" as the first listener port
  • Imp Raised the free disk requirement to 1 GiB in order to receive new messages
  • Bug Fix regression when enabling the DLP process maildlpd and viewing license users
  • Bug Fixed augmented assignment (+=) behavior with function calls when dereferencing arrays
  • Bug First run didn't add the second domain to the relay table
  • Enduser If you use end-user logging, you may want to employ the new http background feature

3.3-r5

Released on 2015-05-11

  • New Validate HSL scripts when saving a text file (in file store)
  • New Added a Defer() function to the AUTH flow
  • Imp Automatically detect and support all network interfaces supported by FreeBSD
  • Bug The backend could crash when using LDAP in the API (auth) script
  • Bug Regression in web admin causing some requests to fail due conservative settings
  • Bug Adding new cluster nodes could fail if remote systems were unsorted (by id)
  • Dep SOAP function configValidateArgument replaced with hslCheckScript

3.3-r4

Released on 2015-04-27

  • Imp return statement in HSL without a value
  • Bug ESC key in console may not work as expected if pressed twice rapidly
  • Bug Temp disk may become full

3.3-r3

Released on 2015-04-22

  • Imp Updated a lot of FreeBSD packages to quarterly
  • Imp Support for Intel(R) 10Gb (ix) network adapters
  • Bug SOAP request could be delayed with up to 1 second on idle systems
  • Bug Adding too large text files in the File store now returns an error
  • Dep switch statement in HSL with explicit variable storage

3.3-r2

Released on 2015-04-16

  • New dovecot_lookup_auth() to authenticate using Dovecot's authentication protocol
  • New Done() makes it easier to do advanced routing
  • New pcre_quote() makes it possible to use regex on user input
  • New Preview on PKI page
  • New Review & save in plain-text editor
  • Imp http() function may skip SSL/TLS verification with ssl_verify_peer = false
  • Imp Performance improvements in HSL's file handling
  • Imp Updated third-party libraries
  • Imp Easier to use CSV editor in web admin
  • Imp Add support for keep-alive and gzip/deflate encoding in SOAP API
  • Imp Support for QLogic NetXtreme II (bcm) network adapters
  • Imp Fixed bug in "release duplicate" regarding delta files
  • Imp Fixed bug with creating a cluster over HTTPS
  • Dep ScanSPF() in favor of spf()
  • Dep ScanSARules() in favor of ScanSA(["rules"=>true])
  • Dep Quarantine profile's trigger URL

3.3-r1

Released on 2015-03-02

  • New VHD image runs on Microsoft Azure
  • New DHCP addressing, default on Azure and GCE
  • Imp Support hardware-assisted software RAID for many vendors such as Intel
  • Imp Support for VirtIO (vtbd) and Xen (xbd) disks
  • Imp Support for Intel 10Gb (igb) network adapters
  • Imp Ctrl+A/E in web terminal
  • Bug Fixed regressions in web admin

3.3

Released on 2015-02-16

  • New Updated to FreeBSD 10.1
  • New Added transparent proxy features
  • New Added new features to the scripting language (HSL)
    • SetMetaData() and GetMetaData() to pass data between DATA and queue scripts
    • syslog() function
    • unset() statement
    • SetRecipient() in pre-delivery script
    • $senderhelo in pre-delivery script
    • $transfertime in post-delivery script
    • $saslusername in queue (pre- and post-delivery) script
    • Raw strings, like ''raw string''
    • Allow globalview() and dnsbl() to be executed from hsh
  • New Extended search filters (HQL) syntax
    • metadata.field= corresponding to SetMetaData()
    • size= (message body)
    • helo= (HELO/EHLO hostname)
  • Imp Web admin interface
    • Refreshed with many improvements (in layout and functionality)
    • The icons and images are vectorized (to support retina/HiDPI displays)
    • Button to reset (RRD) graphs
    • Custom score popup for Internet Explorer (which allows spam scores and refid to be copied)
  • Imp Added "msgsize" and "msghelo" to SOAP API
  • Imp SMTP balancing uses uniform distribution of traffic
  • Imp Support for QLogic 10Gb (bxe) network adapters
  • Imp Searching text logs is a lot faster
  • Imp mail_queue_threads may now be raised
  • Imp Updated 3rd-party components such as CYREN (8.0.110) and Kaspersky (3.8.0.4)
  • Dep Built-in batv_*() is removed, use the HSL implementation
  • Dep Renamed "gmt0" to "utc" in SOAP API
  • Dep $recipientdomains and $recipients in DATA context are now read-only
  • Dep http() return empty results on non 2** responses
  • Dep GetAddressList() returns empty list on parse errors instead of throwing an exception
  • Dep Web admin's flow block "Add header" appends a new header instead of using SetHeader()
  • Dep GetID() is now removed, was deprecated in 3.0
  • Dep $directprocessing is now removed, was deprecated in 3.2

3.2-r10p1

Released on 2014-12-23

  • Bug Stability fixes in mailscand
  • Bug Fixes regression that caused some admin and clusterd requests to fail

3.2-r10

Released on 2014-11-17

  • Imp SetSender() in pre-delivery (queue) script
  • Imp LSI MegaRAID tool (mfiutil) available
  • Imp hslCacheClear() SOAP API may clear a specific namespace/function
  • Imp Added SOAP API mailQueueRetryBulk() function
  • Imp Added 'duplicate' option to SOAP's queue function for cloning messages(s) from an archive
  • Imp Setting mail_log_size to zero will disable logging (even realtime)
  • Imp Disable SSLv2 and SSLv3 on administration UI (and SOAP)
  • Imp Add custom headers to HSL mail() created messages
  • Imp pcre_replace() HSL function
  • Imp Variable substitution with ${name}
  • Bug 'Next retry' could be presented with the wrong timezone (didn't affect delivery)
  • Bug Memory usage could show erroneous on 64 bit platforms
  • Dep SOAP API mailQueueRetryAll() removed (reimplemented with mailQueueRetryBulk)
  • Dep SOAP API devList() removed

3.2-r9

Released on 2014-10-01

  • New Added LMTP support, useful for more efficient Dovecot delivery
  • Imp retry=x in search filter, useful to show delayed messages
  • Imp Added "\r\n\t" syntax in HSL strings
  • Imp Added HSL http() max-time timeout, also renamed connect_timeout
  • Imp Added the SMTP ping command
  • Imp Decouple antivird and clamd for more efficient RAM utilisation
  • Imp New installations are 64-bit, with VMware "guest OS" set to "freebsd-64"
  • Imp Review before save on virtual text files and DLP pages
  • Imp New certificates are generated with SHA256
  • Imp Faster clearing of rate limits (may interrupt garbage collection)
  • Imp Faster connect() timeout in smtp_lookup_rcpt()
  • Imp Lower connect() timeout to 30s (like Postfix)
  • Bug Problem when searching rates in web user interface
  • Dep Undefined values in HSL was branched as true (not false)

3.2-r8

Released on 2014-09-11

  • Sec Updated to FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p8 which addresses new OpenSSL bugs
  • New Multiple "shadow" port support for mail listener, for better pool utilisation
  • New Added SetHELO() function and $sourceip to pre-delivery script
  • Imp Global HSL variables are committed when calling a second function
  • Imp New chart for swap operations, as complement to swap usage chart
  • Imp Updated Kaspersky anti-virus engine to 8.3
  • Imp Some search queries are maintained when browsing cluster nodes
  • Imp Many 64-bit fixes in preparation for upcoming 64-bit release
  • Imp Display Kaspersky virus base version in log on startup
  • Bug Rate limit page support any valid UTF8 as namespace and entry
  • Imp Overall improvements throughout the system
  • Bug Fixes NTP client regression
  • Bug Fixes VMware guest info regression
  • Bug Link aggregation fixes; omitted from cluster, and brings up all ports
  • Bug Fixed cluster system update page's node link
  • Bug Fixed cluster configuration override page with multiple fields per key
  • Dep Forbids ambiguous HSL concatenation of numbers

3.2-r7

Released on 2014-08-20

  • New Implemented a pre-delivery (queue) script for dynamic transport behaviour
  • New Added the log() function which can be used for things such as GeoIP lookup
  • New Added the timelocal() function to get time in local time
  • New Link aggregation support
  • Imp Support using system disk as storage on bare-metal installs, or if the virtual disk is grown
  • Imp The post-delivery (transport) script is unified for all transport, on the flow page
  • Imp The GetHeaders() function can be used to fetch all headers as a multidimensional array
  • Imp Allow multiple include of same file in HSL
  • Imp The post-delivery (transport) script executed for successful deliveries, useful for external logging
  • Imp Added $actionid variable to DATA, queue and transport flows, for tracking of recipients, etc between flows
  • Imp Loopback addresses configuration, useful for DSR load balancing
  • Imp Change VLAN and link aggr. settings from console
  • Imp Updated FreeBSD packages to latest quarterly
  • Imp Auto-configuration on Google Compute Engine
  • Imp Many minor improvements
  • Bug Changed SpamAssassin queue algorithm to decrease wait time
  • Bug Issue when searching logs larger than 2 GiB fixed
  • Bug Issue where Kaspersky wrote files to /tmp fixed
  • Dep Disabled Bayesian by default

3.2-r6p1

Released on 2014-06-18

  • Bug Resolved uncommon stability issue

3.2-r6

Released on 2014-06-10

  • Sec Fix OpenSSL CVE-2014-0195, 2014-0221, 2014-0224 and 2014-3470
  • New DiscardMailDataChanges() function, allowing different data changes for different CopyMail()s
  • New Support for variadic function syntax in HSL
  • New Added spread operator (argument unpacking) to HSL
  • Imp Added executable file (by file name, even in ZIP and other archives) blocking to antivirus block
  • Imp Performance improvements in ScanDLP for efficient file extension scanning
  • Imp Encode headers as quoted-printable instead of Base64 for readability
  • Imp View ScanRPDAV (VOD) results in web admin's message tracking
  • Imp Improved virtual text file editor, with HSL code support (great for includes)
  • Imp Removed deprecated browser-specific CSS3 options (Mozilla, Opera)
  • Imp Enable auto-scroll on keypress in web terminal
  • Imp Many minor improvements

3.2-r5

Released on 2014-05-23

  • New Added SetDelayedDeliver() function to HSL for extra queueing time before delivery
  • New Added builtin and global control structures to HSL functions
  • New Added json_encode() function to HSL
  • Imp Added max depth option HSL's ScanDLP(), useful for file extension matching in archives, eg.
  • Imp Added named match groups to HSL's PCRE functions
  • Imp Adding filtering on retry and sender field to HSL's GetMailQueueMetric function
  • Imp Updated SpamAssassin to 3.4.0
  • Imp Web terminal (command page) support pasting with Ctrl+V
  • Imp Always prefer IPv6 when clustering with hostnames
  • Imp Support RFC 2231 header parsing
  • Imp Various web admin enhancements, such as links from quarantine page to tracking
  • Imp Overall performance and reliability improved
  • Bug Resolved issue where adding and removing headers with zero offset conflicted

3.2-r4

Released on 2014-04-28

  • Dep Deprecated updateNetwork SOAP API function
  • Dep Deprecated HSL's null coalescing operator
  • New Added default function arguments in HSL
  • Imp HSL's header functions decode and refold by default
  • Imp Added msgqueueid to mailHistory API and historyid search filter
  • Imp Overall performance and stability improved
  • Bug HSL's per_message cache now works in functions
  • Bug Pressing back button in Firefox no longer reset forms

3.2-r3

Released on 2014-04-08

  • Sec Patched OpenSSL "heartbleed" vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160)
  • Dep Deprecated BATV functions in favor of HSL implementation
  • New Introduced array slicing to HSL
  • Imp HSL's DeliverWithDKIM() function can load private key from variable, such as http() request
  • Imp New HSL variable $tlsstarted in AUTH and RCPT flow
  • Imp New HSL variables $messageid and $queueid in transport flow
  • Imp Message queue IDs (exposed as $queueid or via SOAP API) upgraded to 64-bit integer
  • Imp Improved http()'s POST data serialisation and added "response_headers" option
  • Imp Added a gethostname() function to HSL
  • Imp Many performance optimisations in HSL
  • Bug Fixed Firefox quirk with forms resetting when going back on page
  • Bug HSL's dnstxt() concatenate multiple strings with space
  • Bug Clustered line charts now merge new legends from secondary results
  • Bug Display error message if unable to clear cluster's HSL cache

3.2-r2

Released on 2014-03-10

  • New Extended the HSL scripting language
    • GetMailQueueMetric() to implement usage quotas in queues
    • json_decode(), is_string() and is_number() for making API calls, etc
    • http() function now supports custom request method and headers
    • %= and **= operators
    • Switch statements validates that a switch is directly followed by a case or default label
  • Imp Updated SOAP API
    • configKeys() now takes "key" (filter) argument which is also exported in $soapargs[]
    • configKeySet() allows partial updates (not all parameters needs to be specified)
    • hslRate() and hslRateClear() exports "ns" and "entry" to $soapargs[]
    • hslRate() and statList() now implements pagination and backend-side search/filtering
    • mailQueue() and mailHistory() includes msgsasl for username and msgts0 for GMT timestamp
    • mailQueue() and mailHistory() supports filtering on sasl=
  • Imp SASL username can be viewed on tracking page
  • Imp DSN messages now include original header "Undeliverable: This was the original header"
  • Imp Support for Broadcom's bge NICs
  • Bug Web admin interface fixes
    • Netcat (nc) command with custom port was not correctly documented
    • Active HTTPS sessions may not be degraded to HTTP
    • The authentication script test sandbox could produce the wrong output
    • Some quarantine retention policies were kept for too long, affected users need to reselect their intended policy

3.2-p1

Released on 2014-02-12

  • Bug Xen PVHVM network driver "xn" was not detected properly
  • Bug The command API could return empty results under extremely rare circumstances
  • Bug The web admin's hardware page didn't list "ada" devices

3.2

Released on 2014-02-10

  • New Hyper-V para-virtualization; gigabit network, VLANs, SCSI disks, etc
  • New Virtio (KVM) para-virtualization; improved network and disk performance
  • New VMware VMXNET3 support
  • New Xen PVHVM support
  • New Line graphs showing disk IOPS and latency
  • New Show message modifications when browsing queued or quarantined messages
  • New The DATA flow registers $recipients and $recipentdomains
  • New New HSL function abs()
  • New Added tcpdump to API and web administration
  • Imp Based on FreeBSD 10 and compiled with clang
  • Imp LDNS and Unbound as replacement for BIND (as resolver and DNS cache)
  • Imp Automatically grow storage disk when resized in hypervisor
  • Imp Overall throughput increased by careful profiling
  • Imp Large number of HSL scripting language optimisations, such as
  • Imp More concise and helpful logging throughout the system
  • Imp Increased swap partition size to 2 GB
  • Imp Updated all 3rd-party components
  • Imp Show warnings if no storage disk is found or configured
  • Imp Rebrand Commtouch as CYREN
  • Imp Enable some SpamAssassin DNSBLs by default
  • Imp Cache DKIM signature for all recipients
  • Imp Overall improvements
  • Bug DKIM DNS generator lacked _domainkey part
  • Bug Under certain circumstances, the command API could fail
  • Bug Reload flows when file store objects are changed
  • Bug Fixed issue with pre-boot command line shutdown
  • Dep Deprecated the second argument to HSL's round() function
  • Dep Deprecated the DATA flow's $result and $directprocessing predefined variables
  • Dep New (S)ATA storage disks are identified as "ada" instead of "ad"
  • Dep At least one DNS server is necessary; unbound is not configured to traverse from the DNS root

3.1-r4p1

Released on 2014-01-16

3.1-r4

Released on 2013-12-20

  • Imp Refactoring for performance improvements
  • Imp Warn about 32-bit hosts as preparation for 64-bit releases
  • Imp Estimates the number of mail tracking search results
  • Imp Changed various settings from byte to megabyte
  • Imp Overall web administration improvements
  • Bug Unable to add cluster nodes with literal IPv6
  • Bug Regression on graph page's rate counter

3.1-p3

Released on 2013-11-21

  • New Clustered rated process for improved rate limiting
  • New GetAddressList() function in DATA flow
  • New is_subdomain() HSL function
  • Imp Support sub-domains i black/whitelists (.example.com)
  • Imp Search for transports on tracking page
  • Imp Web admin terminals now work in background tabs
  • Imp IPv6 cluster support
  • Imp Always give a authentication failure reason in mailpolicyd
  • Bug Catch exception in video console for systems without serial number
  • Bug Do not create sessions for unauthorized web admin clients

3.1-p2

Released on 2013-10-29

  • Imp Improved mail queue/quarantine delivery performance
  • Imp Significantly improved mail tracking performance
  • Imp Support for more than two NTP servers
  • Imp Returns to current page, when fixing TLS fingerprints
  • Imp Warns about Cisco SMTP fixup which is known to cause issues
  • Imp Shows inode usage on storage/hardware page
  • Imp Other minor improvements
  • Bug Detect scrolling more accurately when viewing logs
  • Bug Windows users couldn't type @ in the terminal

3.1-p1

Released on 2013-10-10

  • Imp Improved Bayesian performance using SDBM database
  • Imp Cluster overview page shows new software versions
  • Bug Regression causing issues for users with ATA write cache enabled

3.1

Released on 2013-10-09

  • New Based on FreeBSD 9.2
  • New Support for KVM VirtIO networking
  • New Create pie graph from rate() information with r()
  • New Buy licenses directly from within product
  • Imp Improved rate control page (with thresholds)
  • Imp DLP engine inspects more archive formats
  • Imp Download messages as ZIP instead of tar
  • Imp Restructured menu layout
  • Imp Script editor behaviour in Firefox and Internet Explorer
  • Imp Overall performance improvements

3.0-p9

Released on 2013-09-23

  • Imp Better user experience for Hyper-V deployments
  • Imp Pages loads faster thanks to GZIP compression
  • Imp Overall performance improvements
  • Bug Rebooting was required to effectuate some license changes

3.0-p8

Released on 2013-09-09

  • New DMARC flow block and ScanDMARC function
  • Imp Convert white/blacklist input to lower case
  • Imp Optimized history/mail API (database API)
  • Imp Optimized message logs extractions (from 4 minutes to ~0 seconds)
  • Imp Improved charset detection (ICU)
  • Imp Improved escape sequence in VMware terminal (detach keyboard)
  • Imp Search for scores and RPD ID in tracking
  • Imp Improved SPF caching
  • Imp Updated Ace editor and Kaspersky anti-virus engine
  • Bug IE9 had problems with search on tracking page
  • Bug Searchlog didn't always find message logs (if incomplete log)
  • Bug 7-zip couldn't open downloaded tar (message) archives
  • Bug Paging with a quarantine folder selected

3.0-p7

Released on 2013-08-12

  • Imp SMTP client prefers "strongest" SASL method announced by server
  • Bug Memory leak in the console UI

3.0-p6

Released on 2013-08-09

  • Bug Initial vApp configuration imported multiple times
  • Bug XML warning on non-VMware system's interface page

3.0-p5

Released on 2013-08-07

  • New Network setup guide in OVF (VMware vCenter)
  • Imp Create cluster with optional TLS
  • Imp Test end-user API with from scripting page
  • Imp Added an extra certificate (pki:2) for SMTP
  • Imp http() support HTTPS
  • Bug Clustering with SSL certificate chains

3.0-p4

Released on 2013-07-24

  • New Black/whitelist module for end-user interface
  • Imp Full-text search in subject lines
  • Imp Clear search query on tracking page
  • Imp Return to referring page when editing profiles, etc
  • Imp Export users per domain on license page
  • Imp Prefer outbound CRAM-MD5 authentication method if supported
  • Bug BATV interoperability improvements

3.0-p3

Released on 2013-07-05

  • Imp Search filters are now case-insensitive for from/to/ip
  • Imp Blacklist module in RCPT TO flow
  • Imp Dragging/selecting an interval in a graph opens tracking
  • Imp Various improvements to the DLP engine
  • Imp Filter commandRun and fileRead arguments in authentication script
  • Imp Compare IP addresses with in_network() in white/blacklists blocks
  • Imp Discard mailqueue's pre-fetched work queue when deleting messages

3.0-p2

Released on 2013-06-25

2.4.0.3

Released on 2013-02-21

  • Imp Microsoft Hyper-V legacy network driver support
  • Bug Some freshclam still couldn't download daily updates

2.4.0.2

Released on 2013-02-18

  • Bug ScanSA() could miscalculate the estimated queue wait time
  • Bug Workaround for freshclam failing to update since ClamAV didn't create a daily diff

2.4.0.1

Released on 2012-10-15

  • Imp Overall improvements
  • Bug Resolved bug in recipient flow's blacklist module's script generation
  • Bug Resolved statistics bug that could create spikes during database failures
  • Bug Resolved database issues generating warnings under rare circumstances
  • Bug Cluster overview's reporting could fail to load

2.4

Released on 2012-10-09

  • New Based on FreeBSD 9
  • New ScanSA() got fair queueing, time estimation, size limit, etc
  • New Boot-time management via bootsysmgr
  • New TTL argument to IP Policy's Allow() and Block()
  • Imp Improved performance
  • Imp Improved watchdog with better logging
  • Imp Save RAM by only starting maildlpd if ScanDLP() is used
  • Imp In case of storage disk problems, boot without storage
  • Imp Allow messages to be viewed instead of downloaded in quarantine
  • Imp GetDSN() and GetDSNHeader() to support text/rfc822-headers
  • Imp DNS shuffling based on MessageID (always the same per message)
  • Imp Reboot/shutdown is significantly faster
  • Bug Missing {FOOTER} replacement in WrapMessage
  • Dep The following SOAP API's has been removed:
    • System_Reboot_Hard
    • System_Shutdown_Hard
    • System_Online_Status
    • Management_SetStorageRecover
    • Management_StorageRecoverStatus
    • Management_SetStorageMigrate
    • Mail_Domain_Report
    • Config_Diff
    • System_GetKey("system_config_revision")
    • System_Command_Run_XXX (replaced with by System_Command_Run)
    • Management_GetArguments' filter parameter

2.3.6.3

Released on 2012-09-07

  • Bug Regression in backend's SOAP server

2.3.6.2

Released on 2012-09-04

  • New Deliver to an MX of a hostname using lookup-mx:hostname
  • Imp Configuration diff is coloured in red and green
  • Imp SPF module is moved to content flow in default configuration
  • Imp SOAP API's WSDL file moved to /remote/?wsdl
  • Imp SOAP API deprecated key system_config_revision, use GetHistoryEntries
  • Imp SOAP API deprecated Config_Diff
  • Imp SOAP API's gSOAP updated
  • Imp Disallow saving a configuration with no changes
  • Imp Web administration checkbox labels made clickable
  • Imp backend's watchdog report error codes
  • Bug SPF couldn't verify IPv6 senders
  • Bug The configuration partition wasn't checked properly
  • Bug Monotonic time was not used for all timers
  • Bug Visual bugs in web administration resolved

2.3.6.1

Released on 2012-07-18

  • Bug Fixes various spam assassin errors
  • Bug Fixes clustering page when clustering is not configured

2.3.6

Released on 2012-07-04

  • New Introduces pattern analysis rules from Halon
  • New Introduces valid bulk (RPD score 40) for non-spam
  • Imp Rate limits now summarized in cluster
  • Imp Display of rate limits and licensed users loads faster
  • Imp Table elements' full content shown on mouse over
  • Imp Improved cluster navigation behavior
  • Imp Updated 3rd-party libraries
  • Imp Faster spam-assassin updates
  • Imp Faster rendering of log files
  • Bug IP policy charts was not available on overview page
  • Bug Spam assassin error (introduces in previous release)
  • Bug Fixed MIME-decoding in quarantine

2.3.5

Released on 2012-06-08

  • New French translations
  • Imp Pattern analysis' (SA's) score values are reported in Tracking/History
  • Imp HSL's ScanSARules() can return score values
  • Imp HSL's Quarantine() has new reject and final action options
  • Bug Issue with HSL's Quarantine() $recipient resolved

2.3.4.1

Released on 2012-05-08

  • New Added tcpdump to CLI's Network > Diagnostic Tools (console/SSH)
  • Imp Commtouch reference IDs in web administration
  • Imp HSL's ScanRPD() can return reference ID
  • Imp Added server= and transport= to the Tracking's search filters
  • Imp HSL pcre_match improved, empty capture groups, etc.
  • Bug Web administration spelling

2.3.4

Released on 2012-03-22

  • New Mail tracking supports boolean search filters
  • New Mail tracking integrates history and queue
  • New HSL pcre_match functions
  • New HSL Mail Content GetHeaders function
  • Imp Cluster mail tracking displays scores, and more
  • Imp Jump between message tracking and logging seamlessly
  • Imp Jump between pages/tabs before loading completes
  • Bug Issue with DSNs/NDRs displaying in Microsoft OWA resolved
  • Bug Issue with UDP when ARP tables changes resolved
  • Bug Web administration diagnostics issue resolved

2.3.3

Released on 2012-02-23

  • Imp Multi-line reject/defer messages
  • Imp Updated 3d-party modules (ctipd, ctengine, postfix, clamav, openldap)
  • Imp Added user defined callback to cache[], using "ttl_function" argument
  • Imp Include SMTP transaction state in SMTP errors
  • Imp Support for CA in LDAPs
  • Bug Web admin could visually overflow if too many remote systems
  • Bug Resolved rare bug with anti-virus engine
  • Bug Fix TLS warning on startup
  • Bug Verify last fingerprint in SSL chain (consistently)
  • Bug Scripting console could not connect to SMTP servers over TLS
  • Bug Resolved issue with HSL construct barrier {}
  • Bug SMTP lookup recipient could cache entires for too long

2.3.2

Released on 2011-12-21

  • Imp Quarantining informs sender; rejects (550) instead of accepts (220)
  • Imp The SMTP recipient lookup forwards errors from the mail server
  • Imp Removed the incoming mail queue
  • Imp Show Script looks much better with colors and formatting
  • Imp The getting started has an option to trust server (use as smart host)
  • Imp Clustering operations are faster thanks to new rpcmplexd
  • Imp Option to export list of users per domain
  • Imp The reporting's pie charts reflects selected period (day/month)
  • Imp The console supports page up/down
  • Imp The log viewer (searchlog) is faster
  • Imp Korean language updated
  • Imp Support for Internet Explorer 10
  • Bug Issue with quarantine's history and domain administrators resolved
  • Bug Anonymous LDAP authentication issue resolved
  • Bug Issue with HSL's in_network() resolved

2.3.1

Released on 2011-10-04

  • New View and reset rate control (Diagnostics > Rate Control)
  • Imp Improved support for KVM virtualization platforms
  • Imp Disabled auto-scroll in logs on mouse scroll
  • Imp Improved graphs (bandwidth graphs and layout)
  • Imp HSL's GuessAttachmentType() is faster
  • Bug Resolved issues when upgrading 2.3-series on first boot

2.3.0.4

Released on 2011-09-22

  • Imp Quarantine automatically sanitizes input
  • Imp Pattern analysis' update is run every 6th hour
  • Bug Pattern analysis' update error reporting issue resolved

2.3.0.3

Released on 2011-09-14

  • Bug Serial console issue on SPG-150 resolved

2.3.0.2

Released on 2011-09-02

  • Bug LDAP synchronization issue resolved
  • Bug Pattern analysis' bayesian filter issue resolved

2.3.0.1

Released on 2011-08-17

  • Bug Updated list of time zones (some didn't exist)
  • Bug Guessing of character set issue resolved
  • Bug Pattern analysis (ScanSA) custom rules issue resolved

2.3

Released on 2011-08-02

  • New Based on FreeBSD 8.2
  • New Content Inspection (DLP), ScanDLP() function
  • New File store with CSV editor, deprecates FTP, in_file() function updated
  • New Support for VMware vmxnet adapters
  • New View history in Quarantine interface
  • New Show header modifications in Quarantine interface
  • Imp Quarantine interface is now fully clustered (user creation)
  • Imp Updated Commtouch RPD and GlobalView engines
  • Imp Updated Kaspersky anti-virus engine
  • Imp Option to reset SpamAssassin bayesian database
  • Imp The mail() function has a plain-text option
  • Imp Fullscreen editors has "import from file" functionality
  • Imp VMware/serial console auto-logout after 10 minutes
  • Imp Mail Gateway > Domain section tables show more information
  • Imp Many small improvements in functionality and stability
  • Bug Storage fallback to memory issue resolved
  • Bug Issues with static routes resolved

2.2.6.3

Released on 2011-05-11

  • Imp Web Administration improvements (translations, statistics)
  • Imp HSL functions floor() and ceil() added
  • Bug Fixed incorrect return type from round()
  • Bug Kaspersky anti-virus regression issue solved

2.2.6.2

Released on 2011-05-05

  • Imp Updated 3rd-party components (Commtouch, Kaspersky, etc.)
  • Imp Overall reliability and performance improved

2.2.6.1

Released on 2011-04-06

  • Bug Mitigating HSL data type issue

2.2.6

Released on 2011-03-31

  • New IPv6 support in IP Policy Flows (added $family variable)
  • New Automatic configuration truncation option (System > Configuration)
  • Imp dnsbl() function now queries for IPv6 according to RFC5782
  • Imp Improved the Web Administration with some new functionality
  • Imp Internet Explorer 9 support in Web Administration
  • Imp Improved phishing protection
  • Imp Improved SMTP IPv6 handling (prioritized)
  • Imp DSN messages now includes only message/rfc822-headers
  • Imp DKIMWithDeliver() now returns 500-error on un-signable messages
  • Imp Updated 3rd-party components (libc, postfix, htmlpurifier etc.)
  • Imp Overall performance improved
  • Bug Folders created on FTP did not appear until after a reboot
  • Bug IP Policy Flow's $serverport variable was not a number (string)
  • Bug dnsptr() now supports compressed IPv6 addresses
  • Bug Kaspersky's logfile not available on first run
  • Bug Web Administration over IPv6 was partly broken
  • Bug smtp_lookup_*() should not use transport fallbacks
  • Bug Quarantine() function did not honour SetMailTransport()

2.2.5.2

Released on 2011-02-10

  • New Prioritized queues (per mail transports)
  • New IO statistics tool in Web Admin (iostat)
  • Imp Updated 3rd-party components (clamav)
  • Imp Overall reliability and performance improved
  • Bug BATV format bug
  • Bug Deliver to A/AAAA records did not load balance properly

2.2.5.1

Released on 2011-01-24

  • New VMware Zimbra integration in quarantine
  • New Custom authentication with System Authentication Script
  • New RADIUS (rad_authen) function for System Authentication
  • New TACACS+ (tacplus_authen and tacplus_author) functions
  • New Context-aware help (links to the doc. wiki) in Web Admin.
  • Imp Updated 3rd-party components (ctipd, syslog, clamav, php)
  • Imp Include kernel debugging in logs
  • Imp Quarantine > Users, double-click users to 'sign as' as them
  • Imp Activity > Logging has time interval option for faster searching
  • Imp Some HSL functions are cached per default (per-message)
  • Imp Admins can change quarantine users' passwords
  • Imp Force web browsers to update cache on H/OS upgrades
  • Imp HSL arrays may be initiated with [ ] instead of array()
  • Imp LDAP debugging command hides passwords
  • Imp Sort user's joined accounts in quarantine
  • Imp Support for [IPv6 address]:port in network tools
  • Imp New strnatcmp JavaScript library for better natural ordering
  • Bug GlobalView, etc. stability improved with glibc patch
  • Bug Fixed host name length (was limited to 32)
  • Bug Fixed SMTP DNS lookup implementation misbehaviour
  • Bug Heartbeat probe for Spam Assassin to resolve locks
  • Bug Fixed missing SSL chain for certificates
  • Bug Fixed multiple pages bug in Activity section of Web Admin.
  • Dep Configuration key config_user renamed to to system_user
  • Dep Signed in account used to browse cluster in web admin
  • Dep Admin accounts must use @local for quarantine sign-in

2.2.4

Released on 2010-11-25

  • Imp Performance optimizations on message delivery
  • Imp Double-click on messages to display text log
  • Imp Version history information button on update section
  • Imp Option to enable ATA write-cache
  • Imp Non-blocking Kaspersky anti-virus database update
  • Imp Getting Started allows example.org and another domain
  • Imp Display newly added quarantine branding
  • Imp GlobalView is logged as ctipd instead of [ctipd]
  • Imp Unified authentication scheme
  • Imp Updated 3rd-party components
  • Imp Database errors are logged
  • Bug Memory usage was erroneously calculated
  • Bug Value rounding in reporting charts
  • Bug Forbid domains ending with a dot
  • Bug Flow selection race condition for first message resolved
  • Bug Memory leak in mailscand resolved
  • Bug Spelling corrected in web administration
  • Bug Overall reliability and performance improved

2.2.3

Released on 2010-10-25

  • New Storage disk migration section
  • New Unique self-signed certificate during install
  • New New DirectDeliver() function to deliver inline
  • New RPC log for SOAP API calls
  • New Puny-codes for domains and in calculator
  • Imp Much improved logging with session tracking
  • Imp Graphical fixes for iPhone/iPad
  • Imp Cluster administration performance improved
  • Imp Updated 3rd-party components
  • Imp User count for license in mailscand
  • Imp Option to skip Getting Started
  • Imp Russian language in quarantine
  • Imp Overall graphical improvements
  • Imp Improvements in flow presentation
  • Imp Forbid non-ascii e-mail addresses
  • Imp HSL function get_defined_functions()
  • Imp TLS settings in smtp_lookup_rcpt/auth
  • Imp Updated statistics to BIGINT
  • Bug ClamAV could be started twice
  • Bug LDAP search cached non-existent users for 24 hours
  • Bug SNMP could fail to get ippolicyd statistics
  • Bug Inventory keys denied for read-only users
  • Bug ippolicyd could report statistics inaccurately
  • Bug DNS failures (NXDOMAIN and NODATA) results in immediate bounce
  • Bug Overall performance and stability improved
  • Dep It's recommended to empty your browser cache before signing on to your updated system
  • Dep The log format is heavily changed; be aware if you rely on machine parsed logging

2.2.2.2

Released on 2010-09-02

  • Imp DNSSEC trusts newly signed root
  • Imp CPU indicator in clustering overview
  • Imp Simplified configuration management view
  • Imp Remote systems alphanumerically sorted
  • Imp Final actions terminate user defined functions
  • Imp 3rd-party modules updated
  • Imp Russian translations updated
  • Bug HSL isset() function now works on arrays
  • Bug IPv6 support in Syslog
  • Bug Detect primary domain from Active Directory
  • Bug Reporting tab timed out in large clusters
  • Bug Overall performance and stability improved

2.2.2.1

Released on 2010-07-29

  • New Novell GroupWise support in quarantine
  • Imp 3rd-party components updated
  • Bug Do not synchronize "fallback" configurations in cluster

2.2.2

Released on 2010-07-07

  • New Backscatter protection with BATV
  • New Comments (C++ style, //) in address lists in web administration
  • New Minger protocol recipient lookup function minger_lookup() in HSL
  • New SetRecipient() function in HSL's Content Flow
  • New HSL control structure "barrier" to do advanced synchronous scripting
  • New HSL isset() function, to check if a variable is defined or not
  • New Set listen addresses for SSH, FTP and SNMP services
  • New Prompted configuration download in web administration
  • New Show configuration changes between revisions
  • Imp Changed default IP to 169.254.1.1 (not to conflict with customer networks)
  • Bug Do not allow recipient with trailing "." in the domain name

2.2.1.1

Released on 2010-06-17

  • Bug A script validation error in Web Administration fixed
  • Bug Syslog could fail at boot on rare occasions

2.2.1

Released on 2010-06-14

  • Imp Show PKI information (X.509, private and public key)
  • Imp Require passwords to be typed twice
  • Imp Better TLS information in SMTP logs
  • Imp DNSSEC and DNS cache made private in cluster
  • Imp RPDAV icon changed to be distinguished from RPD
  • Imp Show full AV, AS, LDAP and boot logs
  • Imp Sort cluster nodes by name on Cluster > Overview
  • Imp Support TLS/SSL for LDAP servers (Quarantine and HSL)
  • Imp SMTP listener/transport support "internal-hostname" as hostname
  • Imp More restrictive read-only users (no ping, etc)
  • Imp Commands (ping, etc) in console are continuously updated
  • Imp More private keys (Send to Server, etc)
  • Imp 3rd-party components updated (ClamAV, etc)
  • Bug RPDAV could not set "delete" action
  • Bug View message button in outgoing queue fixed
  • Bug No script errors for action on empty message queues
  • Bug Graph X-axis could be a few seconds off in cluster
  • Bug Failed to save flows when custom functions were used
  • Bug Session timeout when saving services (SMTP, HTTP, etc)

2.2.0.1

Released on 2010-05-19

  • Bug syslog needs to be restarted in order for hostname to be applied
  • Bug If STARTTLS was announced but failed, optional TLS aborted
  • Bug LDAP queries failed in HSL

2.2

Released on 2010-05-17

  • New DNSSEC support and an internal DNS cache
  • New DKIM signing and validation in Content flow
  • New Reworked statistics with JavaScript graphs and a new layout
  • New Show Script button on flows, displaying generated HSL code
  • New Ability to write reject/defer messages in flow blocks
  • New HSL variables $service (IP) and $messageid (Content) added
  • New HSL functions file() and file_get_contents() added
  • New Defer(), SetMailTransport() and AddHeader() in Content flow
  • New Trusted (whitelist) block in Recipient flow
  • New Web Administration organization with flows in one section
  • New Unit identification used as internal hostname
  • New Button for jumping to flows and profiles
  • New Warning messages before discarding unsaved changes
  • New Bookmarks to sections and tabs in Web Administration
  • Imp Renamed processes to mailscand and mailqueued
  • Imp Major performance improvement in mailscand
  • Imp Overall performance from chunked statistic updates
  • Imp Free-text search in Activity > Logging
  • Imp Quarantine mail listing show scores and logging
  • Imp Clustering menu and timeouts improved
  • Imp E-mail file maintenance (lostfiles) added
  • Imp Outbreak (RPDAV) anti-virus accuracy improved
  • Imp Web Administration performance and caching improved
  • Imp Updated 3rd-party components
  • Imp Hop count in mailscand implemented
  • Imp Overall performance and stability improved
  • Bug SpamAssassin update bug resolved
  • Bug SNMP label swapping bug resolved
  • Bug Disabling of certain domains bug resolved
  • Bug Zero-bitmask error in in_network() function resolved
  • Bug IPv6 scope in network functions is now discarded
  • Bug GMT timezone confusion on System > Time clarified
  • Del Domain statistics reports removed
  • Del Deprecated recipient databases migrated into flows
  • Del Incoming listener (smtpd) doesn't listen to localhost
  • Del Removed Deliver() as error fallback action
  • Del Invalid PKI certificates no longer validates in config
  • Del Deprecated $spamscore and LDAPLookup() removed
  • Del Diagnostics > Troubleshooter tab removed

2.1.5

Released on 2010-03-01

  • New Clustering of multiple SPG/VSP units
  • New Graphical Console (replacing the CLI)
  • New mail() function in HSL
  • New GuessAttachmentType() in HSL
  • Imp 3rd-party components updated
  • Imp Quarantine reset password, does not send a new password, instead allows it to be changed
  • Imp Overall improvements in functionality and reliability
  • Imp HSL cache [] is not LRU per default (least recently used)
  • Bug Domains were not disabled properly (nor alias domains)
  • Bug IP Policy response were not always received
  • Bug GetAttachmentName() were not decoded properly
  • Bug Self-genrated messages had the wrong Content-Disposition
  • Bug Unable to bind in queueprocessor (when custom source-ip was used)
  • Bug Domain reports could take very long time to complete
  • Bug Statistics could be collected for recipient instead of sender
  • Bug Disk, CPU and Memory usage where 24 hours off in bar-indicator

2.1.4.4

Released on 2010-01-14

  • Bug Issue with domains without MX records resolved
  • Bug Internet Explorer 8 can now view message logs
  • Bug Exporting users can now handle invalid UTF-8 chars

2.1.4.3

Released on 2010-01-07

  • Imp Automatically format and use available disk (Xen and Hardware)
  • Bug Xen could not leave firmware OS
  • Bug Wrap-around long log lines in Web Administration
  • Bug Rate-control would cause random reboots
  • Bug GlobalView did not always start at boot
  • Bug Newly downloaded SpamAssassin rules were not applied until reboot

2.1.4.2

Released on 2009-12-22

  • New Console in Web Administration (Diagnostics > Local Console)
  • New Show licensed users in Web Administration and SOAP
  • New Access Quarantine from Web Administration
  • Imp 3rd-party components updated
  • Imp in_network() now supports IPv4 and IPv6
  • Imp dns() is now IPv6 ready, use dns4() or dns6() to choose
  • Imp Improved compatibility with "tag subject" and non UTF-8
  • Imp Colors in log search
  • Imp Fixed MX-shuffle (rare round-robin delivery problem)
  • Imp Delivery will only try the first three A/AAAA records
  • Imp Selecting text in Web Administration logs
  • Imp Many other improvements
  • Bug Next retry wasn't presented in the local timezone
  • Bug Rare bug while reverting between configurations
  • Bug Could not save whitelist in Internet Explorer 8
  • Bug Reload services when SSL certificate is updated
  • Bug Retention policy in Web Administration was restricted to 32-letter
  • Bug Adding one's own domains as domain alias confused quarantine
  • Bug Spelling corrections
  • Bug Overall stability fixes

2.1.4.1

Released on 2009-11-06

  • Bug Better handling of questionable SMTP responses.
  • Imp Russian and German in VSP's Getting Started.
  • Imp Spam Assassin size limited raised to 500KiB.
  • Imp Charset detection for Korean and other Asian languages.
  • Bug Scripting error for Anti-Virus block in Content Flow.
  • Bug Web Administration bug in Gettings Started for IE6/7.
  • Imp Flow blocks in IP Policy log their results.
  • Bug Japanese may now be default language in Quarantine.
  • Imp Statistic's performance is improvements.
  • Imp HSL does not resolve $var to the value of $var.
  • Imp HSL function eval() implemented.
  • Imp Overall improvements in functionality and reliability.

2.1.4

Released on 2009-10-21

  • Warning Storage disk must be at least 2GB for all units and configurations
  • Imp Automatic initialization of new Storage disks for VSP/SPG
  • Imp Firmware updates by self hosted Web Updates
  • Imp Getting Started -guide in Console and Web Administration
  • Imp IPv6 support in Web Administration
  • Imp Keep current search in History/Queues while browsing and performing actions
  • Imp IP-address whitelist in Content-Flow
  • Imp Quarantine action "Empty" only empties the selected folder
  • Imp Japanese language support in Quarantine
  • Bug If no MX is found, try to use the A/AAAA record
  • Bug SNMP and NTP problems with reconfiguration
  • Imp 3rd party components updated
  • Imp Overall improvements in functionality and reliability

2.1.3.1

Released on 2009-08-09

  • Imp Overall improvements in functionality and reliability

2.1.3.2

Released on 2009-08-09

  • Imp Overall improvements in functionality and reliability

2.1.3

Released on 2009-07-10

  • Imp Throughput vastly improved, read the guidelines
  • Imp Option to disable internal statistics and history
  • New New HSL functions
  • Imp Overall improvements in functionality and reliability

2.1.2

Released on 2009-06-25

  • New SNMP monitoring; custom MIB with statistics and information
  • Bug Fixed Kaspersky engine error
  • Imp Truncate configuration from CLI to save memory
  • Bug Cache timeout set at execution instead of completion
  • Imp IP Policy may also block UDP packets ($protocol)
  • Imp Removed start-up related warnings
  • Bug http() function can handle more than 10 parameters
  • Imp Exceptions in Recipient Flow are reported as Defer()
  • Imp Global quarantine admin users may blacklist globally
  • Imp Blacklist handles domains and wildcard (%@domain)
  • Imp Notify senders that they are blacklisted
  • Imp Re-arranged tabs into new system menu in Web Admin.
  • Bug Redirection bug when accessing a HTTPS interface using HTTP
  • Bug Configuration upgrade for remote systems could cause timeouts
  • Imp Better transport-lookup for messages generated internally
  • Imp Mail function GetRoute() in HSL improved
  • Imp Array function array_reverse() in HSL
  • Imp Rate control function rate() in HSL
  • Imp Rate control module in Recipient and Authentication Flows
  • Imp Default message rate for authenticated users is 100 msg/h
  • Imp HSL may cache results per message/session
  • Imp Overall improvements in functionality and reliability

2.1.1

Released on 2009-06-03

  • New Advanced options on Mail Content Flow with custom rules
  • Imp Larger history (100.000 msgs.) for small disks (4 GB)
  • Imp Anti-virus and Pattern Analysis (SA) results in history
  • Imp Quarantine allows users to download messages
  • Imp Quarantine web interface scales content to browser size
  • Imp Quarantine accepts LDAP sign-in using alias as username
  • Imp Quarantine has Korean translation
  • Imp Quarantine displays outgoing queue
  • Imp Quarantine displays folder's message count on mouse over
  • Imp SPF module has trusted forwarders white-list field
  • Imp Option to reject messages with virus
  • Imp Recipient Flows reports the reason for rejection to sender
  • Imp Overall performance and reliability improved
  • Bug Quarantine now shows attachments correctly
  • Bug Delivery forced default transport during certain circumstances
  • Bug Quarantine now honors the LDAP version setting
  • Bug It is now possible to mix recipient flows with "disabled"

2.1

Released on 2009-05-18

  • Imp New Quarantine with LDAP support and Clustering
  • Imp Administrator can access the Quarantine using their credentials
  • Imp Quarantine has administrator-only folders (invisible to users)
  • Imp Reporting > Real Time Log displays Anti-Virus, LDAP, etc.
  • Imp The console's startup screen displays IP address
  • Imp FTP access requires full permissions or the "f"-flag
  • Imp Administrators cannot change their own permissions
  • New Added "null" transport (discards messages)
  • Imp VMware ESXi users need to resize the disk during install
  • Imp Added "Per Domain" for the SMTP Recipient Flow lookup module
  • Bug Trace configuration revisions changes by administrator user
  • Imp Recipient Flows are per-domain instead of per-incoming.
  • Imp Improved queue/history management responsiveness
  • Imp Performance optimizations
  • Imp 3:rd Party Components Updated
  • Imp CLI command "version" displays appliance information
  • Imp Overall performance and reliability improved

2.0.9

Released on 2009-03-24

  • New Import Configuration from Clipboard
  • Bug Installer on Windows 2000
  • Bug Installer field validation
  • Imp Warning on VMware Configuration Import
  • Imp Repair License in Web Admin.
  • Bug History Page in Internet Explorer fixed
  • Imp Changes in terminology (Process Flow = Content Flow, etc)
  • Bug Long lines message bug fixed
  • New Implemented cache [] function();
  • Bug IP Policy cache is now cleared properly
  • Imp Web Admin. Script fields is monospace and support [tab]
  • New Added !~ (negated regular expression) matching
  • Imp Updates 3d-party libraries
  • New Caches the Incoming's smtp_rcpt_lookup
  • Imp Clear cache button (Mail Gateway -> Settings)
  • Bug Non-UTF-8 bug (Mail Gateway -> Activity)
  • Imp IP Policy performance improved
  • Bug HTTP re-configured during address change
  • Imp Removed reverse DNS lookups
  • Bug Memory storage capacity resolved
  • Bug Authentication and Recipient Flow re-configuration
  • Bug NTP producing false error messages
  • Imp Autodetect language in Web Admin.
  • Imp Mail Content Flow didn't virus-check spam messages
  • Imp Overall improvements and stability

2.0.8

Released on 2009-02-27

  • Imp Firmware Update with step-by-step guide
  • Imp VSP Installation with quick-start guide
  • Imp "Paging" in Mail Gateway Activity tabs
  • New dnstxt(), dnsmx() and implode() functions in HSL
  • Bug 500-errors handled correctly
  • New Support for alternative DNS in lookup-mx
  • Bug Handle UTF-8 in Tag Subject i Mail Flow
  • New More languages added
  • Imp Graph directions changed (left to right)
  • Imp More SMTP debugging
  • New Direct Processing gives reject function
  • New Reject() function in Mail Flow
  • Imp Set concurrent connections per Incoming (server)
  • Imp Function declaration and "include" support in HSL
  • Imp Full UTF-8 support
  • Imp Overall improvements and stability

2.0.7.1

Released on 2009-01-16

  • Imp SMTP/LDAP SMTP authentication support
  • Bug Disk Operation Stability
  • Imp Storage Management (backup and restore)
  • Imp Add multiple domains from Web Admin
  • Imp Authentication and Recipient Flows
  • Imp Many new functions added to HSL (see Wiki)
  • Imp Secure Disk Wipe from Recovery Console
  • Imp Send test mail to administrator from Web Admin
  • Imp Reset Statistics in Web Admin
  • Bug DNS/MX resolving
  • Imp Authentication in Outgoing Transports
  • Imp Preview mail in Quarantine
  • Bug Quarantine handles quoted-printable
  • Bug Quarantine reports handles quoted-printable
  • Imp Warn users when Quarantine getting full
  • Imp Script testing tool
  • Imp Searching logs indicates when showing realtime
  • Imp Custom icons for script blocks in Web Admin
  • Imp Improved anti-virus detection
  • Imp SOAP interface improvements
  • Imp Better Default Flows
  • Bug Resolved back-to-default-config bug

2.0.6.2

Released on 2008-11-25

  • Bug Quarantine templates

2.0.6.1

Released on 2008-11-20

  • Bug Quarantine templates

2.0.6

Released on 2008-11-12

  • Imp Send Domain Reports from Web Admin
  • Bug Domain Statistics reported correctly (lowercase)
  • Bug Overall Web Admin reliability
  • Imp LDAP debugging
  • Imp Mail throughput performance vastly improved
  • Imp SPF Query Tool in Web Admin
  • Imp in_network() now supports IP-ranges in HSL
  • Imp Block() may send reason for blocking in HSL
  • Imp dnsptr() to lookup PTR (ipv4 and ipv6) in HSL
  • Imp 5 s timeout for dns() request by default in HSL
  • Imp in_file() function (eg. black/white-lists) in HSL
  • Imp First comment in a Flow Script shown as title
  • Imp Customize generated e-mail
  • Imp Multiple LDAP servers on incoming listerners
  • Imp Default contact changed to "Postmaster"
  • Imp Multidimensional arrays in HSL
  • Bug Overall reliability and functionality
  • Imp Quarantine translated to Swedish and customizable
  • Imp Better default mail gateway Process Flow

2.0.5

Released on 2008-08-21

  • Imp Improved quarantine with reports
  • Imp Statistics in Web Administration
  • Imp Domain reports with additional statistics
  • Imp Logging is separated and improved
  • Imp Message tracking (Activity)
  • Imp Web Administration re-organization
  • Bug Storage recovery from power failures
  • Imp Certificate tunable "Optional but Verify"
  • Imp Error messages are displayed as dialogues
  • Imp Generate SSL certificates (Diagnostics section)
  • Imp Name (tag) configuration revisions
  • Imp SOAP configuration API (using WSDL file)
  • Imp NFS replaces SMB for network storage
  • Imp Graceful shutdown and restart
  • Imp Boot procedure with progress and log
  • Imp Multidimensional arrays in HSL
  • Imp Headers are UTF-8 decoded in HSL
  • Imp GetDSN(), GetRoute(), DeliverAsSpam() in HSL

2.0.4.1

Released on 2008-06-09

  • Bug Web Administration error on factory reset units
  • Imp Added German and Japanese language support
  • Imp HSL Scripting in Outgoing Queue
  • Imp Domain name variable in HSL
  • Imp WrapMessageAddHeader function added in HSL
  • Imp Revert to default config upon fatal errors
  • Imp Disable Incoming Listeners upon storage failure
  • Imp Regular Expression modifiers in HSL
  • Imp Initial Access Control Flow statistics
  • Imp Incoming Queue shows entire message
  • Imp http() and explode() functions added to HSL
  • Imp Pattern Analysis (spam assassin) module added
  • Imp LDAP testing on Diagnostics section
  • Bug Max Message Size can be increased
  • Bug Overall reliability and functionality

2.0.3

Released on 2008-05-15

  • Imp Added Italian, Spanish and Korean language support
  • Imp Overall reliability improved

2.0.2

Released on 2008-05-12

  • Bug SPF calculated $spamscore incorrectly
  • Imp Reboot to Update Firmware from Web Admin.
  • Bug Removed extra newline in messages
  • Bug Database conversions could fail
  • Imp Ability to disable ACL flow for services
  • Bug NTP synchronization problem solved
  • Imp Model-specific performance optimizations
  • Bug Recovery from power failure
  • Bug Windows (SMB) share no longer fails
  • Imp Added date/time functionality to HSL
  • Imp Overall reliability improved

2.0.1

Released on 2008-04-28

  • Bug Problems in the parser of the mail scanner are fixed
  • Bug Ajax problems in the mail processing flow are fixed
  • Imp New functions in HSL (Halon Scripting Language)
  • Imp UTF-8 support in HSL
  • Bug Internet Explorer and Opera support
  • Imp Overall reliability improved
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