Introducing Kerio Control 7.3

Got bugs?

Catch something we didn't? Send your comments and bug reports to wrbeta@kerio.com or via the "report problem" button in the beta.
The wrbeta@kerio.com address is NOT a technical support contact, we don't provide any technical support of beta/RC versions. wrbeta@kerio.com

We look forward to hearing your feedback on this release and we thank you for your continued support in the development of our products.

Thanks,
The Kerio Control Team

 


Kerio Control 7.3.0 Release Candidate 1 — January 24, 2012

This version is intended for testing purposes only.

Downloads

Documentation

Release Notes (PDF) 40 KB VIEW

Kerio Control

Kerio Control for Windows (32-bit) 79 MB DOWNLOAD
Kerio Control for Windows (64-bit) 79 MB DOWNLOAD
Kerio Control Software Appliance (ISO image) 122 MB DOWNLOAD
Kerio Control VMware Virtual Appliance (VMX) 170 MB DOWNLOAD
Kerio Control VMware Virtual Appliance (OVF)
Copy the OVF file link location to clipboard and paste it into the Virtual Appliance Import Wizard in your VMware hypervisor.
165 MB LINK
Kerio Control Virtual Appliance for Parallels 178 MB DOWNLOAD
Kerio Control Upgrade Image 160 MB DOWNLOAD

Kerio VPN Client

Windows
Kerio VPN Client for Windows (32-bit) 8 MB DOWNLOAD
Kerio VPN Client for Windows (64-bit) 8 MB DOWNLOAD
Debian and Ubuntu Linux  Installation instructions
Kerio VPN Client for Linux - daemon (32-bit) 3 MB DOWNLOAD
Mac OS X
Kerio VPN Client for Mac (Intel) 18 MB DOWNLOAD

System Requirements

Kerio Control (Server)

Windows Software Appliance VMware Virtual Appliance Virtual Appliance for Parallels
CPU: 1 GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Hard drive: 8 GB HDD space for product, logs, and StaR data
Network interface: 1 Ethernet (10/100/1000 Mbit) network interface supported by the OS

Operating systems:
Windows 7 (all editions)
Windows XP (all editions)
Windows Vista (all editions)
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows Server 2008 (all editions except Core)
Windows Server 2008 R2 (all editions except Core)
Windows Server 2003 (all editions)
Windows Server 2003 R2 (all editions)
Windows Server 2000 (all editions)
*Latest service pack and up to date security patches are required unless otherwise stated.

CPU: 500 MHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Hard drive: 8 GB HDD space for OS, product, logs, and StaR data
Network interface:: 1 Ethernet (10/100/1000 Mbit) network interface supported by the vanilla Linux kernel 2.6.30
(Majority of current NICs supported.)
CPU: 2 GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM assigned to the virtual machine
Hard drive: 8 GB assigned HDD space for OS, product, logs, and StaR data
Network interface: 1 assigned virtual network adapter

VMware hypervisor:
Workstation 6.5 or 7.0
Server 1.0 or 2.0
Fusion 2.0 or 3.0
Player 2.5 or 3.0
ESX 3.5 or 4.0
ESXi 3.5 or 4.0
CPU: 2 GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM assigned to the virtual machine
Hard drive: 8 GB assigned HDD space for OS, product, logs, and StaR data
Network interface: 1 assigned virtual network adapter

Parallels hypervisor:
Parallels Desktop 4 or 5 for Mac
Parallels Server for Mac 3.0 or 4.0

Kerio VPN Client

Windows Mac OS X Linux
Operating systems:
Windows 7 (all editions)
Windows XP (all editions)
Windows Vista (all editions)
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows Server 2008 (all editions except Core)
Windows Server 2008 R2 (all editions except Core)
Windows Server 2003 (all editions)
Windows Server 2003 R2 (all editions)
Windows Server 2000 (all editions)
*Latest service pack and up to date security patches are required unless otherwise stated.

Only Intel based Macs are supported.

Operating systems:
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
Only 32-bit distributions are supported.

Operating Systems:
Debian 5.0
Ubuntu 8.04 to 11.10

Client Web Browsers

Web Browsers
Basic Login/Logout
All HTTP(S)-compliant web browsers including mobile browsers are supported.

Kerio Control Administration, StaR and SSL-VPN
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 to 9
Firefox 3.5 and newer
Safari 4 and 5
Google Chrome 8 and newer

Version History

Legend:
+ Added feature
* Improved/changed feature
- Bug fixed
! Known issue / missing feature


Version 7.3.0 RC 1 - January 24, 2012

* HTTP keywords filtering performance significantly improved
- Fixed: Dial-in adapter does not work
- Fixed: IPv6 fragmented packets are not handled correctly and are dropped
- Fixed: outgoing IPv6 packets were not accounted into statistics
- Fixed: it was not possible to uninstall Linux VPN Client
- Fixed: valid ICMPv6 Packet Too Big packet was dropped under certain circumstances

Version 7.3.0 beta 1 - December 20, 2011

+ StaR email reports
+ Basic IPv6 support
+ Daily IPS Blacklists updates
* Speed and stability of Kerio Control Administration has been improved with smart caching of data and resources
+ Possibility to Suggest Idea to Kerio from the product
+ Voluntary usage statistics gathering
* Appliance Edition: Improved hardware support
+ Appliance Edition: Added possibility to manually specify DNS and gateway for DHCP configured interfaces
+ Web Filter categories can be reviewed in list of URL Rules in Kerio Control Administration
+ Yandex added to list of search engines (StaR and HTTP policy)
+ CIDR notation can be used to specify network mask in Kerio Control Administration
* Kerio Control Administration suggests optimum values for some items, e.g. network masks
* Comma and space are converted to a delimiter while entered in field for IP address or mask in Kerio Control Administration
* Appliance Edition: PPPoE interface is hung up and redialed when administrator changes interface MTU
+ Kerio Control Administration displays warning if Kerio Control runs on a computer with RAM size not meeting system requirements
+ Connection log used to display DNS names if available IP addresses otherwise. Now the IP address is always displayed (together with the DNS name)
- Fixed: Several minor bugs in Microsoft Active Directory integration
- Fixed: Link Load Balancing can cause long HTTP session to expire
- Fixed: Antivirus scanning rules ignores URLs which begin with "ftp://"
- Fixed: Server defined as IP:port was not handled properly in HTTP policy
- Fixed: Unable to login to Kerio Control Administration when primary domain is inaccessible and user account "Admin" is missing in local user database
- Fixed: Unable to start Web administration from Kerio Control Monitor on Windows x64 platforms under certain circumstances
- Fixed: User name containing special characters is not displayed correctly in StaR
- Fixed: Deleted files are kept in the list of files until screen is refreshed in Clientless SSL-VPN
- Fixed: Direct SIP calls between two clients in Local network are reported as SIP VoIP in StaR
- Fixed: VPN Client: It was not possible to connect to VPN server defined by name with an underscore
- Fixed: Uninstallation could leave some files (upgrade backups) on disk
- Fixed: Error "(99) Socket error: Unable to bind socket for service" sometimes logged on firewall startup
- Fixed: Appliance Edition: Admin account remained disabled when importing configuration from Windows with disabled Admin account
- Fixed: Appliance Edition: Restart after configuration import sometimes freezed the appliance
- Fixed: Appliance Edition: Low free space alert was not sent for depleted temporary storage
- Fixed: Windows Firewall was not sometimes correctly stopped on Kerio Control engine startup
- Fixed: HTTP Protocol Inspector unnecessarily closed keepalive connection after HTTP 304 response had been received
* FTP over HTTP proxy: improved upload speed on high speed lines with high latency
* Improved error handling in configuration export/import
* Appliance Edition: Improved stability of KRB5 authentication
* Serial port removed from Parallels Virtual Appliance