ICS V8.63 announced

[Angus Robertson 577]

ICS V8.63 has been released at:

http://wiki.overbyte.eu/wiki/index.php/ICS_Download

ICS is a free internet component library for Delphi 7, 2006 to 2010, XE to XE8, 10 Seattle, 10.1 Berlin, 10.2 Tokyo and 10.3 Rio, and C++Builder 2006 to XE3, 10.2 Tokyo and 10.3 Rio. ICS supports VCL and FMX, Win32, Win64 and MacOS targets.

The distribution zip includes the latest OpenSSL 1.1.1d win32, with other versions of OpenSSL being available from the download page.

 

1 - IcsHosts is now supported in all the main ICS server components, TWSocketServer, TSslHttpServer, TSslHttpAppSrv, TIcsProxy, TIcsHttpProxy, TIcsIpStrmLog and TSslFtpServer.  This simplifies server applications which do not need to setup an SSL context, can easily support multiple listeners and hosts, and can automatically order and install SSL/TLS certificates from Let's Encrypt and commercial suppliers.

2 - There are several changes relating to automatic certificate ordering, mostly cosmetic based on experience adding the feature into more applications with a few issues fixed during testing with better logging.

3 - Made improvements to handle the OAuth2 version used by Google Accounts, allowing the REST component to access Google APIs such as Gmail.

4 - Did a major refresh of the three SSL/TLS trusted root certificate bundles included with ICS, to add new roots from Amazon and others, and remove untrusted certificates.

5 - There are improvements in TFtpCli to access FTP servers behind NAT routers where the internal and external IP addresses are different and not correctly handled by the FTP server.

6 - The TSslFtpServer component now uses the IcsHosts concept added to the web and proxy servers two years ago, see above. There is a new IcsHosts property which allows multiple hosts to be specified. Also fixed
ftpsNoPasvIpAddrInLan and ftpsNoPasvIpAddrSameSubnet options to work correctly to present local passive IP address on LANs.

7 - The TIcsIpStrmLog component will now start despite non-fatal SSL/TLS certificate warnings, and may be used with self signed certificates. The OverbyteIcsIpStmLogTst sample shows how to restart the TCP server after the first SSL/TLS certificate is automatically installed.

 

More detailed release notes are at: http://wiki.overbyte.eu/wiki/index.php/ICS_V8.63
 

Angus

[Angus Robertson 577]

V8.63 was tested yesterday on RAD Studio 10.3 Rio Release 3 (aka 10.3.3) without any problems.

 

Angus