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What's New with Barracuda Firewall Version 6.1.7.003
- This firmware version is a maintenance release only. No new functionality has been added.
Firmware Improvements
Barracuda OS
Updated OpenSSL to fix a potential Man-in-the-middle attack for SSL/TLS clients and servers. (CVE-2014-0224, BNSEC-4402, BNF-3715)
What's New with Barracuda Firewall Version 6.1.6
- This firmware version is a maintenance release only. No new functionality has been added.
Firmware Improvements
Barracuda OS
The default certificates have been re-keyed and re-issued. Old certificates are being revoked. After updating your Barracuda Firewall, all services using the unit's default certificates, will automatically use the re-issued certificates. (BNF-3480)
Network
DynDNS over HTTPS now works as expected. (BNF-3525)
What's New with Barracuda Firewall Version 6.1.5.005
This firmware version is a maintenance release only. No new functionality has been added.
Firmware Improvements
Barracuda OS
- Update of OpenSSL to version 1.0.1g to fix the OpenSSL heartbleed bug. (CVE-2014-0160)
Firewall
- Fixed access to expert settings. (BNF-3452)
- Stability improvement that prevents possible appliance reboots. (BNF-2925)
VPN
- Updated Java archive manifest information of SSL VPN applets. (BNF-3376)
- The VPN service with Local Address set to dynamic will now listen on every IP address. (BNF-3402)
What's New with Barracuda Firewall Version 6.1.5.004
- This firmware version is a maintenance release only. No new functionality has been added.
Firmware Improvements
VPN
- The VPN service with Local Address set to dynamic will now listen on every IP address. (BNF-3402)
Web Interface
- Fixed access to expert settings. (BNF-3452)
What's New with Barracuda Firewall Version 6.1.5.002
- This firmware version is a maintenance release only. No new functionality has been added.
Firmware Improvements
Firewall
- Stability improvement that prevents possible appliance reboots. (BNF-2925)
VPN
- Updated Java archive manifest information of SSL VPN applets. (BNF-3376)
What's New with Barracuda Firewall Version 6.1.4.008
- This firmware version is a maintenance release only. No new functionality has been added.
Firmware Improvements
Web Interface
- Adding source or destination networks, with netmasks higher than /24, to firewall rules now works as expected. (BNF-2869)
- The smart pre-submission input validation now also works correctly with DNAT firewall rules.
- It is now possible to access release notes for the latest general and early release through the ADVANCED > Firmware Updates page. (BNF-2790)
- Configuration wizards now successfully finish, even if the Barracuda Firewall receives wrong time information from an NTP server. (BNF-2777)
- Viewing product documentation within the user interface, now also works correctly when switching to a different language. (BNF-2672)
- Adding Group Filter Patterns in USERS > External Authentication now works as expected. (BNF-3178)
VPN
- It is now possible to add IPsec VPN tunnel remote IP addresses containing .255 octets. (BNF-2913)
- The SSL VPN Java security warning no longer occurs after an update to Java 7 version 54 or higher. (BNF-3049)
Firewall
- The SIP proxy now works as expected with SIP providers outside of internal network segments. (BNF-2859, BNF-2879, BNF-2691)
- Fixed a display issue in the Basic > Active Connections screen. (BNF-2887)
Networking
- Dynamic interface control commands in Network > IP Configuration now work as expected with multiple configured dynamic network interfaces. (BNF-2886)
High Availability
- Static network interfaces introduced by a wizard are now correctly synchronized to the secondary Barracuda Firewall. (BNF-2797, BNF-2796)
- When enabling an HA cluster, the firmware now performs a validity check to ensure that the units' Management IP addresses reside within the same network and subnet.
Administration & Reporting
- The SNMP service now works as expected and occasional crashes no longer occur. (BNF-2775)
Known Issues and Limitations
- When utilizing all three possible Wi-Fi Access Points, the Barracuda Firewall models X101 and X201 may freeze and/or crash under certain circumstances.
Security
- A potential internal resource exhaustion issue was fixed. (BNSEC-3144)
- A potential nginx request line parsing vulnerability was fixed. (BNSEC-2865 / CVE-2013-4547)
What's New with Barracuda Firewall Version 6.1.3.003
Web Interface
- The Barracuda Firewall User Interface is now fully Japanese localized. Note that entering multi-byte characters is not yet supported.
- Guest networks for Wi-Fi networks can now only be configured in USERS > Guest Access. (BNF-2650)
Barracuda Firewall OS
- Improved stability due to kernel upgrade and various improvements: Updated underlying Linux kernel to 2.6.28.
- Time zone upgrades for South Africa and Israel per new 2013 DST settings.
Firmware Improvements
Web Interface
- The configuration progress spinner animation now loads correctly while saving configuration changes. (BNF-2350)
High Availability
- Secondary Barracuda Firewall units now correctly synchronize configuration data after an outage. (BNF-2746)
- Barracuda Firewalls with configured dynamic WAN interfaces can now be deployed in HA clusters as expected. (BNF-2685)
- Various stability related firmware improvements. (BNF-2742, BNF-2740, BNF-2738, BNF-2703, BNF-2686)
VPN
- A certificate upload issue in VPN > Certificates was fixed. (BNF-2699, BNSEC-2398)
- The Barracuda Firewall now accepts all ASCII characters, except #, as Site-to-Site IPsec pre shared key. (BNF-2648)
- SSL-VPN now also supports RDP for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 editions and higher. (BNF-2731)
Firewall
- Manually overriding bandwidth policies is Basic > Active Connections is now correctly disabled, if QoS is disabled in the respective firewall rule. (BNF-2443)
- Enabling or disabling PAT in Connection Objects now works as expected. (BNF-2668)
- The configured name of dynamic network interfaces is now correctly displayed in NETWORK > Routing. (BNF-2713)
Authentication Services
- Received login information from the Barracuda DC Agent now expire after a certain period of time. (BNF-2434)
Known Issues and Limitations
- When utilizing all three possible Wi-Fi Access Points, the Barracuda Firewall models X101 and X201 may freeze and/or crash under certain circumstances.