What's new in WinGate VPN 2.6.4 Build 1338
Oct 27, 2009
- Fixed an issue with the DHCP server where if an old lease referred to a scope that had been deleted, WinGate would not make an offer.
- Signed the Wgengmon and wgvpnmon applications so they can be loaded in 2k8 server without disabling UAC.
- Added full minidump capability for troubleshooting
New in WinGate VPN 2.6.3 Build 1321 (Oct 27, 2009)
- Fixed an issue relating to SSL connections where a buffer was improperly deleted.
- Fixed a handle leak in sockets class.
- Fixed several buffer overwrites in SSL certificate generation code.
- Fixed a potential buffer issue in the DHCP server.
- Updated WinGate Advanced options applet to handle watchdog thread
New in WinGate VPN 2.6.2 Build 1315 (Oct 27, 2009)
- Added filtered packet capturing facility. Captures packets in pcap format on all interfaces.
- Fixed problem with saving VPN settings which caused a VPN only install to no longer be a VPN only install.
- Added code to cycle DNS resolver socket to satisfy some misguided DNS servers that start ignoring requests otherwise.
- Fixed a problem with the installer on Vista, where the driver was not being properly updated.
New in WinGate VPN 2.6.1 Build 1278 (Oct 27, 2009)
- Fixed an ARP problem introduced in 2.6.0 which prevented some gateway routers from communicating with WinGate.
New in WinGate VPN 2.6.0 Build 1277 (Oct 27, 2009)
- Fixed an issue relating to FIN/RST handling and timeout behaviour in Extended networking.
- Resolved dialup issues on 2k3 server.
- Fixed a problem with ARP cache timeouts and refreshing.
- Reworked the VPN control connection mechanism to harden it against attack.
- Added tunnel keep-alive packets to keep tunnels active through NAT devices.
- Fixed a problem with editing schedule item actions.
- Fixed a problem editing access rights on hosted VPNs from a remote GateKeeper.
- Added schedule option to resynch NT user database
New in WinGate VPN 2.5.2 Build 1217 (Oct 27, 2009)
- Added support for Vista 64 bit.
- Added support for Windows Server 2008 (32 and 64 bit).
- Fixed a problem with the dialer on Vista.
- Performance improvement for DNS traffic to servers on the WinGate computer
- Changed the target IP for tracert-style gateway monitoring. Now checks against a.gtld-servers.net instead of 1.2.3.4 (which is blocked by some routers)
- Fixed a problem with multiple concurrent SSL connections which could cause WinGate to become unresponsive.
New in WinGate VPN 2.5.1 Build 1203 (Dec 22, 2008)
- Added support for Windows Vista 32 bit
- Added support for Windows XP 64 bit edition
- Added diagnostic watchdog thread.
- Dropped support for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Millenium Edition (ME), and Windows NT 4.
- Changed type for DHCP time offset option from unsigned to signed integer to allow for negative time offsets.
- Fixed recursion depth issue in DNS resolver which would fail DNS requests returning alias chains longer than 5 levels of indirection (affected download.microsoft.com).
- Fixed an issue in the DHCP server that was causing lease information to be incorrectly stored. This caused clients to be forced to obtain new IP addresses if the WinGate server was rebooted.
- Fixed issue where a system message on startup could create deadlock when starting up with large NT User database.
- Fixed locking and memory leak issue in RIP manager.
- Fixed protocol error in GateKeeper which could cause GateKeeper to stop displaying updates
- Fixed slow memory leak in Nat control which could occur under high load on multi-CPU machines
- Fixed race condition in the ENS driver which could result in empty messages being sent to the Nat control (results in Error log in WinGate NAT log).
- Fixed problem with DNS service socket becoming unavailable under heavy load