<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"> </div> <div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 9:33 AM Rafael Akchurin <<a href="mailto:rafael.akchurin@diladele.com">rafael.akchurin@diladele.com</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg1730605961355625606"> <div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"> <div class="m_1730605961355625606WordSection1"> Good morning everyone, <a href="https://www.diladele.com/websafety/index.html" target="_blank">Web Safety 9.7</a> – ICAP web filter and Admin UI for Squid is now released. The following changes are included into this version: <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal">The virtual appliance includes latest version of Squid 7.2 with <a href="https://github.com/diladele/repo-squid-7_2_2-ubuntu-24_04" target="_blank">repository hosted on GitHub</a>.</li><li class="MsoNormal">Site <a href="https://github.com/diladele/categories-db" target="_blank">categorization database</a> is now hosted on GitHub.</li><li class="MsoNormal">Site categorization module is rewritten to include some more categories. Several categories are consolidated and partially retired.</li><li class="MsoNormal">IWF categorization database is now hosted on GitHub.</li><li class="MsoNormal">It is now possible to quickly disable all web filtering in a given policy without disabling each rule. This setting can be adjusted in the Advanced section of a web filtering policy.</li><li class="MsoNormal">Fixed lack of traffic records in Traffic Monitor/ Realtime activity which occurred after midnight in any UTC minus time zone.</li><li class="MsoNormal">It is now possible to block domains by their IP address/range and subnet in the web filtering policies.</li></ul> The virtual appliance images can be downloaded from here: • for <a href="https://packages.diladele.com/websafety-va/9.7/websafety.zip" target="_blank">VMware ESXi/vSphere</a> • for <a href="https://packages.diladele.com/websafety-va/9.7/websafety-hyperv.zip" target="_blank"> Microsoft Hyper-V</a> • for <a href="https://packages.diladele.com/websafety-va/9.7/websafety-proxmox.zip" target="_blank"> Proxmox VE</a> Upgrade steps required are described in the <a href="https://www.diladele.com/websafety/docs/install/upgrade/" target="_blank">Admin Guide</a>, but ideally you would just deploy a new virtual appliance and import settings from the old one. As always <a href="https://github.com/diladele/websafety/milestones" target="_blank"> list of open issues</a> is available on GitHub. Please do not hesitate to add more if something is missing or needs to be improved. Also note, you can now use Web Safety for your home experiments completely free, the license key <a href="https://www.diladele.com/websafety/licensing.html" target="_blank">can be downloaded from here</a>. Hope you will find this useful. Best regards, Rafael</div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>I installed the Proxmox VM version in my Home Lab, and so far so good.</div><div> </div><div>Thank you.</div></div><div> </div>-- <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223</div><div> In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-)</div><div>[How to ask smart questions: <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html" target="_blank">http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html</a>]</div></div></div></div></div>