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Enhancement 1. SafeSquid now handles content-encoding gzip and deflate in POST requests. 2. SafeSquid now analyzes and stores the mime-type of POST data, when it splits the multipart mime, preventing repeated call for mime-type checking. Bugfix 1. Vulnerability patched in Base64 decoding function t...

BugFix Prevent delays in waiting for peer response to "close notify" when SSL_shutdown is called. Users reported too many connections hanging in CLOSE_WAIT state. The problem was identified to SafeSquid waiting for peer response "close notify" when SSL_shutdown is called. This is a standard TLS pro...

BugFix Detection of client POST requests that timeout before sending POSTDATA. Users reported high CPU utilization in such events due to SafeSquid continuing to attempt getting reposnse from the web-server. SafeSquid now immediately terminates client connections that do not send POSTDATA within the...

Introduction 1. A new startup parameter SOCK_MEM has been introduced. This parameter will be the Upper limit Percentage of Memory for TCP Stack. Decrease this if system is memory starved. Default Value: 50. 2. A new startup parameter HEAP_MEM has been introduced. This parameter will be the Percenta...

Enhancement 1. Optimization of CTX pool for handling SSL clients, to reduce memory utlization and OpenSSL's mutex contentions. Bugfixes 1. Logical flaw was fixed which was causing abnormal behaviour on Ubuntu 18.04 while assigning threadid. 2. Browsing FTP sites was impacted as SafeSquid proceeded ...

HotFix 1. Detection of youtube-nocookies.com for categorization. 2. Acceptance of "-" in Youtube developer keys. New Users? Getting_Started Download SafeSquid ISO to create your appliance. Download safesquid-2019.1125.1346.3-swg-standard.tar.gz tarball for up-gradation or If you already have Linux ...

Enhancement 1. New startup parameter "FORCE_SNI" added in startup.ini file. 2. "PUSH" mechanism replaced by "PULL" to avoid lockup of SSL section which was occurring due to a large number of incoming connections at startup. 3. SafeSquid will now validate genuineness of the requested HTTPS website, ...

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Support for YouTube Category Control has been incorporated in safesquid-2019.0623.2332.3-swg-concept release. You can now allow/block YouTube videos on the basis of your own specified video category.

But we recommend you to download and use latest SafeSquid package for best results.

Hello, Problem of handling some Java applications which were depending on set-cookies values has been solved in safesquid-2016.1222.1807.3-swg-concept However some of the Java based websites and User agents doesn't support SSO authentication and SSL Inspection. In such cases you have identify those ...

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Problem of irregular authentication prompt on Users browser has been fixed in safesquid-2016.0824.1234.3-swg-concept release.