A Features and Enhancements in Previous Oracle iPlanet Web Proxy Server 4.0 Releases

This appendix lists the following important features and enhancements provided in Oracle iPlanet Web Proxy Server release 4.0.14 and later releases. It contains the following sections:

Features and Enhancements in 4.0.27
Features and Enhancements in 4.0.26
Features and Enhancements in 4.0.25
Features and Enhancements in 4.0.24
Features and Enhancements in 4.0.23
Features and Enhancements in 4.0.22
Features and Enhancements in 4.0.21
Features and Enhancements in 4.0.20
Features and Enhancements in 4.0.19
Features and Enhancements in 4.0.18
Features and Enhancements in 4.0.17
Features and Enhancements in 4.0.16
Features and Enhancements in 4.0.15
Features and Enhancements in 4.0.14

The features and enhancements in Oracle iPlanet Web Proxy Server 4.0 releases prior to 4.0.14 are described in the individual Release Notes documents specific to those releases, which are available at:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19438-01/legacy.html

A.1 Features and Enhancements in 4.0.27

There are no new features and enhancements in Oracle iPlanet Web Proxy Server 4.0.27.

A.2 Features and Enhancements in 4.0.26

There are no new features and enhancements in Oracle iPlanet Web Proxy Server 4.0.26.

A.3 Features and Enhancements in 4.0.25

Oracle iPlanet Web Proxy Server 4.0.25 provides support for additional Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols. In addition to TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 are now supported. SSL3 has been disabled by default.

A.4 Features and Enhancements in 4.0.24

There are no new features and enhancements in Oracle iPlanet Web Proxy Server 4.0.24.

A.5 Features and Enhancements in 4.0.23

There are no new features and enhancements in Oracle iPlanet Web Proxy Server 4.0.23.

A.6 Features and Enhancements in 4.0.22

4.0.22 includes the following new features and enhancements:

This release introduces a new SAF keep-alive-timeout-absolute, which allows absolute KA timeout for pooled backend connections. For more information, see Section 3.2.36.
This release supports JRE7.

A.7 Features and Enhancements in 4.0.21

4.0.21 includes the following new features and enhancements:

The following new buttons have been introduced in the Administration Server interface:
- The button Undo Unsaved Changes is displayed along with the existing buttons (Restart Proxy, Restart Socks, Load Configuration Files) when clicking the Restart Required link. This button can be used to undo any unsaved changes made through the Administration Server interface. When you click this button, the administration or working copies of all configuration files (the files under config directory) are returned to their last backup versions.
- The button Undo Manual Changes can be used to undo any manual edits done to the server configuration files. When you click this button, the server copies of all configuration files (the files under config) are returned to their last backup versions. The last backup versions are also stored in the config directory, and maintained by the Administration server.
A new parameter enable-ipv6 has been introduced for internal dns-lookup. For more information, see Section 3.2.30.
A parameter search-in has been introduced for internal dns-lookup to handle non-FQDN lookups. The dns-lookup SAF fails unless the target hostname is an FQDN. The parameter search-in specifies a comma-separated list of domain names.

Example: DNS fn="dns-lookup" server="..." search-in="in.example.com, us.example.com"
A new dbswitch parameter referrals has been introduced that optionally disables referrals during LDAP search. This parameter is on by default. According to your requirement, you may turn the referral off by setting the default value as false.

Example:

directory default ldap:// ... default:referrals false
In this release, um-define-junction takes a new boolean parameter secure-cookie. For more information, see Section 3.2.5.
This release introduces a new SAF host-dns-cache-config to control DNS caching behavior. For more information, see Section 3.2.31.

A.8 Features and Enhancements in 4.0.20

4.0.20 includes the following new features and enhancements:

Oracle iPlanet Web Proxy Server 4.0.20 supports the following platforms:
- Solaris 11 Express
- Oracle Enterprise Linux 6
  
  For information about other supported platforms, see Section 1.4.1
This release introduces a new timeout property for LDAP configurations in dbswitch.conf. For more information, see Section 3.2.27.
A new boolean parameter blockingaccept has been introduced to the <LS> element in server.xml. For more information, see Section 3.2.26.
Oracle iPlanet Web Proxy Server 4.0.20 supports the magnus.conf parameter NetWriteTimeout that will enable timeout on write operations to clients. The NetWriteTimeout parameter takes an integer value which specifies the client write timeout in seconds, and is disabled by default.

A.9 Features and Enhancements in 4.0.19

4.0.19 includes the following new features and enhancements:

Oracle iPlanet Web Proxy Server 4.0.19 is certified on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 1. For information about other supported platforms, see Section 1.4.1.
This release introduces a new property usersearchfilter for the dbswitch.conf file. You can use the usersearchfilter property to specify an alternative attribute name (in place of uid) as a user search filter for LDAP operations, as shown in the following example:
```
default:usersearchfilter sAMAccountName
```
For information about the other dbswitch.conf properties, see the Oracle iPlanet Web Proxy Server 4.0.14 Configuration File Reference.

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E2169201/821-1883/aebnk/index.html

Oracle iPlanet Web Proxy Server can now parse multipart responses.
A new SAF forward-auth-user has been introduced to forward an authenticated user name to the server in the back end. For more information, see Section 3.2.24.
New attributes have been introduced for the FILECACHE element in the server.xml configuration file to specify a limit for the size of the file cache's temporary directory and to enable removal of the directory when the server is shut down. For more information, see Section 3.2.25.

A.10 Features and Enhancements in 4.0.18

A new parameter called maxrequestsperconnection is introduced for the LS element in the server.xml file.

A.11 Features and Enhancements in 4.0.17

4.0.17 includes the following features and enhancements:

Oracle iPlanet Web Proxy Server 4.0.17 is certified on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 3.

The JRE 6 version is being bundled with 4.0.17. For more information, see Section 3.2.1.

A.12 Features and Enhancements in 4.0.16

The um-define-junction SAF accepts several new parameters to configure cookie rewriting. For more information about this enhancement, see Section 3.2.5.

A.13 Features and Enhancements in 4.0.15

4.0.15 includes the following features and enhancements:

Date and time parameters have been added to the <Client> tag to enable use of time intervals to limit execution of directives on requests received from specific clients. For more information, see Section 3.2.9.
The disable-javascript-rewrite parameter has been added to the um-define-junction SAF to suppress JavaScript variable rewriting for specific JavaScript variables. For more information, see Section 3.2.5.
The <Include> tag has been added to the obj.conf file syntax to support the inclusion of other files in obj.conf. For more information, see Section 3.2.11.
The lookup-ipv6-first parameter has been added to the dns-config SAF to control whether IPv6 or IPv4 addresses are looked up first. For more information, see Section 3.2.12.
The status-code and status-desc parameters have been added to the send-error SAF. For more information, see Section 3.2.14.
The RouteOfflineCheckInterval directive has been added to the magnus.conf file to configure the frequency at which Oracle iPlanet Web Proxy Server checks the health of gateways marked as offline. For more information, see Section 3.2.15.
The NSS version supported by Oracle iPlanet Web Proxy Server has been updated to 3.12.6, and the NSPR version has been updated to 4.8.4.
The "Enter ACL List Cache Size" field has been added to the Admin GUI to support specification of this value interactively.
The "Reset Status" button has been added to the Admin GUI Proxy-instance> Server Status> Monitor Current Activity page to reset the monitored values without restarting Oracle iPlanet Web Proxy Server.

This release addresses the following documentation issues:

Issue ID	Description
6294290	Proxy 4: `admin.conf` has no documentation. See Section 3.2.8.
6962675	Proxy 4 doc RFE - need some descriptions for regexp-redirect function in WPS docs/manual. See Section 3.2.13.
6965246	DOCS: WPS4.0.14 introduces new parameter to the http-client-config function. See Section 3.2.10.

A.14 Features and Enhancements in 4.0.14

4.0.14 includes the following features and enhancements:

The ChannelPoolValidate directive has been added to the magnus.conf file. It controls whether the channel pool is actively checked for stale or closed connections.
The ChannelPoolMonitorInterval directive has been added to the magnus.conf file. It specifies how frequently the channel pool is to be checked for stale or closed connections.
The ChannelReuseValidate directive has been added to the magnus.conf file. It controls whether persistent connections are validated before they are reused.
The always-retry-stale-keep-alive parameter has been added to the http-client-config SAF. It controls whether the HTTP client retries a failed request even when the number of retries is set to zero, provided that the request failure was due to a stale persistent connection.