[squid-users] [ICAP] Web Safety 9.7 is released

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Hey Rafael,

I would like to try your product in my lab.
Are there any benefits for it compared to other products?

Thanks,
Eliezer
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 11:59 PM Washington Odhiambo <odhiambo at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 9:33 AM Rafael Akchurin <
> rafael.akchurin at diladele.com> wrote:
>
>> Good morning everyone,
>>
>>
>>
>> Web Safety 9.7 <https://www.diladele.com/websafety/index.html> – ICAP
>> web filter and Admin UI for Squid is now released. The following changes
>> are included into this version:
>>
>>
>>
>>    - The virtual appliance includes latest version of Squid 7.2 with repository
>>    hosted on GitHub
>>    <https://github.com/diladele/repo-squid-7_2_2-ubuntu-24_04>.
>>    - Site categorization database
>>    <https://github.com/diladele/categories-db> is now hosted on GitHub.
>>    - Site categorization module is rewritten to include some more
>>    categories. Several categories are consolidated and partially retired.
>>    - IWF categorization database is now hosted on GitHub.
>>    - 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.
>>    - Fixed lack of traffic records in Traffic Monitor/ Realtime activity
>>    which occurred after midnight in any UTC minus time zone.
>>    - It is now possible to block domains by their IP address/range and
>>    subnet in the web filtering policies.
>>
>>
>>
>> The virtual appliance images can be downloaded from here:
>> • for VMware ESXi/vSphere
>> <https://packages.diladele.com/websafety-va/9.7/websafety.zip>
>> • for Microsoft Hyper-V
>> <https://packages.diladele.com/websafety-va/9.7/websafety-hyperv.zip>
>> • for Proxmox VE
>> <https://packages.diladele.com/websafety-va/9.7/websafety-proxmox.zip>
>>
>>
>>
>> Upgrade steps required are described in the Admin Guide
>> <https://www.diladele.com/websafety/docs/install/upgrade/>, but ideally
>> you would just deploy a new virtual appliance and import settings from the
>> old one.
>>
>> As always list of open issues
>> <https://github.com/diladele/websafety/milestones> 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 can be downloaded from here
>> <https://www.diladele.com/websafety/licensing.html>.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hope you will find this useful.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Rafael
>>
>
> I installed the Proxmox VM version in my Home Lab, and so far so good.
>
> Thank you.
>
> --
> Best regards,
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