4.2 Changelog

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Look & Feel

  • The interface has been cleaned up significantly.
  • A new "application wizard" has been added to help users choose which products the wish to use.
  • The save/refresh model has been changed to a save/cancel model.
  • Buttons now have colored icons
  • 'admin' is now automatically filled into the login text box
  • The 'status' column is now represented as row color.
  • Extra unnecessary columns have been removed.
  • Columns that aren't editable no longer appear to be editable. (ie date)
  • The '# of events' slider in eventlogs has been removed (hard coded to max)
  • The 'spread settings' button has been removed
  • Increased support for keyboard navigation through forms, tables, wizards, etc.

Contextual Help

  • Help buttons have been added through the user interface.
  • Help buttons open a web browser to wiki.untangle.com and show you the page related to your current location.

Online Store

  • The online store/toolbox model has been cleaned up significantly.
  • Products now go directly from the store to the rack and turn on automatically where appropriate.
  • The toolbox has been rename 'My Apps' and is much less visible.

Web Content Control

  • The database has been restructured to save memory for lower memory systems
  • Disabled the ability to add "https" sites to the passlist and blocklist, since Untangle Server cannot affect https traffic due to encryption.

SpamGuard

  • Spam scanning has been made more efficient
  • "Tarpit" implementation has changed to just block all sessions from servers on the RBL lists.

Identity Theft Blocker

  • Now website are scanned and visits to phishing websites are blocked.
  • This functionality can now be turned on/off in a new tab in settings panel.
  • The list of websites is updated hourly.

24-hour Replacement

  • 24-hour replacement now immediately backs up on install

OpenVPN

  • The 'site name' can now be configure so users with many sites can have different names

Intrusion Prevention

  • A cover page with basic statistics has now been added.
  • The cover page has a 'no tuning required' message.

Active Directory

Infrastructure

  • The bootup time is now faster.
  • A key is no longer required during the Setup Wizard - one is acquired automatically.
  • Many database improvements help reporting time and logging efficiency
  • More complex FTP configurations are now supported when NATing.
  • Reduced memory footprint for many server components for smaller memory configurations.

Remote Support

  • This has been changed where customers now longer need to add a port forward if the server does not have a public IP
  • The server can phone home to our support system if the 'secure remote support' setting is enabled.

Bugfixes

  • Fixed a bug that caused crashes when rapidly turning on and off Intrusion Prevention.
  • Losing of the 'hostname resolves publicly' setting should now be fixed
  • The screensaver now works on more hardware configurations.
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