Astaro announces End of Life for Astaro Security Linux V5 as of 1st October 2007.
Up2Date 7.005 released [Middle]
Up2Date 7.005 publishes the Backup Converter, Japanese and Chinese localization, WebAdmin Improvements, Performance Optimizations and of course some bug fixes… Main topics in 7.005 Backup Converter In order to migrate from existing V6 installations to V7 a Backup converter has been added. This converter will help by moving network and user definitions as well as a lot of other configuration options to V7.
Up2Date 7.004 released [Middle]
With 7.004 the HTTP Proxy performance for large downloads will be improved, several eDirectory issues fixed and some other smaller problems solved. Read on for a more detailed description. Main topics in 7.004 Several issues concerning Novells eDirectory authentication get addressed
Up2Date 7.003 released [Middle]
This Up2Date fixes several bugs: important, annoying and cosmetic, improves performance of V7 and introduces three new features: USB Stick as configuration storage, NAT support for multiple L2TP over IPSec connections and support for wildcards in exceptions. Performance Improvements The overall system performance has been vastly improved. Memory and disk usage have also been reduced in many areas, such as with packet forwarding, AV scanning, temporary http downloads, self-monitoring, IPS hardware acceleration and logging
Development Snapshot ASG 6.933
This development snapshot of upcoming ASG V7 shows the latest state of ASG V7 BETA. Besides a lot of fixes and beautification it includes also the promised Initial Install Wizard. The persistent feedback on our UBB and on V7Beta@astaro.com motivated us to release another snapshot of upcoming ASG V7: 6.933 Because of the amount of changes we are not able to provide a Firmware Up2Date package, but you can use your backup file from a previous ASG V7 BETA installation
Up2Date 6.834 for ASG V7 BETA
This is this second Up2Date for ASG V7 BETA. It is again very huge, because we include a new kernel, bug fixes and missing features, like the eDirectory Browser or the Packet Filter Livelog with rule number display: Please check out the Up2Date details: Basics First of all: thx for your feedback, suggestions, comments, feature requests, bug reports! We got continuously feedback on the UBB and v7@astaro.com and we appreciate everyone's! Also: there is an online Firmware Up2Date and a new ISO image (save your backup first!) the configuration will not be changed the device will reboot! Firmware Up2Date 6.834 is over 100MB big, please be patient with the download Please remember: its still an BETA version of ASG V7
Public ASG V7 BETA released
We released public ASG V7 ISO and VMWare images for everyone who is interested. The images will allow an installation of ASG V7 BETA on PC or VMware, all features and functions enabled. Please check out the huge list of new features: Active/Active Clustering, SSL VPN Ethernet Link Aggregation OSPF Routing TACACS+ authentication OpenPGP and S/MIME email encryption FTP Proxy IM/P2P Control Multi-admin support and tracking End-user self service portal Customizable system messages For a quick overview: there is a V7 BETA demo server at https://v7demo.astaro.com (This is a very long announcement..
ASG Up2Date 6.203 released [Middle]
Version 6.203 introduces two new features and a bunch of bug fixes. These new features are: support for USB sticks for backup-file installation during bootup and Port-80 support for the Surf Protection database connect. Check the details and also the list of 19 bug fixes
ASL V5.1 available
We are pleased to announce Astaro Security Linux V5.1! Updates/Bugfixes Upgrade to SpamAssassin 3.01 with the following powerful extensions: + Razor2 (online database spam check) + DCC (online database spam check) + SURBL (spam realtime blocklist) Backend bugfixes for backup converter/licensing/logging/reporting Overall system performance increase new kernel with bugfixed conntrack code New Features Additional features for better junk mail control: + Greylisting (Advanced spam blocking method) + BATV reverse path signing (Block virus and spam backscatter) + Checking SPF records (Joe-Job/Phishing protection) SNMP trap support Bandwidth monitoring capabilities with notifications if bandwidth usage exceeds/below defined percentage Improved Proxy Content Manager Daily proxy content manager digest sent by email for every user Backup files from ASL V5.027 will work on ASL V5.1, backup files from the public BETA will work on the final V5.1 too.
ASL V5.1 BETA available (named "ASL 5.050")
We are pleased to invite you to test the public BETA of Astaro Security Linux V5.1 For testing purpose we named the test image ASL 5.050, it includes the following: Updates/Bugfixes Upgrade to SpamAssassin 3.01 with the following powerful extensions: + Razor2 (online database spam check) + DCC (online database spam check) + SURBL (spam realtime blocklist) Backend bugfixes for backup converter/licensing/logging/reporting Overall system performance increase new kernel with bugfixed conntrack code New Features Additional features for better junk mail control: + Greylisting (Advanced spam blocking method) + BATV reverse path signing (Block virus and spam backscatter) + Checking SPF records (Joe-Job/Phishing protection) SNMP trap support Bandwidth monitoring capabilities with notifications if bandwidth usage exceeds/below defined percentage Improved Proxy Content Manager Daily proxy content manager digest sent by email for every user We do not recommend to use the BETA on larger production servers (even if we already use it to filter our own mail – and it works great) The public BETA ISO image carry the version number 5.050.