SG 5 Update #11
This update adds the following enhancements:
• Downstream login
• Credit Card Authentication – support for more payment gateways:
• Cybersource Unified Checkout
• Note: ASP 2.0.6 is required to support this.
• Bank of Maldives Connect API
• Note: ASP 2.0.3 is required.
• PMS Authentication – new support for Mews PMS
• Bigger fonts and clearer instructions to guide user to switch to Safari for social media login (Facebook, Google) on iOS devices
• Note: this Safari-switching feature has been available at the Admin GUI > Authentication > Settings
• Update ezxcess.antlabs.com SSL certificate – new expiry in February 2026
• New dashboard.now for downstream users to view the logged-in success page or the landing page before login
• PMS-related enhancements
• New diagnostics page for Shiji Cloud PMS
• Guest information check based on room code
• Posting
• With SkyTouch /CONNECT PMS (Events Webhook), the gateway’s web API shall accept any Content-Type header beginning with application/json
• Add Sync Now feature to Date & Time settings page to allow the admin user to have system time synced up with the NTP server immediately
• System Log enhancement
• Remote syslog enhancement
• New option to use TCP connection to the remote server
• New option to use RFC 3339 date/time format, e.g. 2025-12-31T23:59:59+02:00
• New option to customize the host name that shows in the log entries
• Support incoming SFTP-mode SCP operations
• CLI enhancements
• Support for | pipe operator to direct stdout of one program to stdin of another
• Hit Tab key for auto-complete of commands, folders and file names
• Many more commands
• New non-elevated mode commands to support troubleshooting
• New supervisor mode commands, including
• mgmt to display/change management port IP settings
• wan to display/change WAN IP settings
• Note: existing CLI sessions will not work properly after applying this update. Please logout of existing CLI sessions and login again to access the new CLI commands.
• Security enhancements:
• Allow Admin GUI’s Remote Access page to optionally configure Ciphers, Key Exchange Algorithms, Message Authentication Codes (MACs)
• Note: OpenSSH configuration format is required for the input. Multiple ciphers must be comma-separated.
• Resolve various SSH vulnerabilities – CVE-2023-48795, CVE-2023-51385, CVE-2024-6387
• Prevent after-login downstream web proxy access to management network
• Prevent management port IP from appearing in the output of a downstream traceroute to an upstream IP
• Web proxy (used by HTTPS domain walled garden) upgrade to include CVE-2023-25076 vulnerability fix
• Prevent revealing of web server version via a web-accessible file
• Performance enhancements:
• Upgrade web server and tune its per-client connection and request rate limits
• Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) stapling for custom SSL certificate so user checking the certificate’s validity gets a faster response
• Admin GUI enhancements:
• Display configured web-filter profile number when viewing plan via ASP page’s View Plans
• Remove checks that are not needed from Go-live System Checks
• Applying consistency across the various product models
• 15 plan-based relogin zones
• 30 event locations
• Other system component updates:
• Client manager update to stop performing legacy license check on startup
• New scan_data API to open camera to scan boarding pass or passport and scan_add to post up to ASP the data that has been scanned
• Note: ASP 2.0.6 is required to accept the data from scan_add and show in reports
• Update auth_logout API and login session manager module to support sending up the session termination cause to ASP
• auth_logout now supports a new optional termination_reason input that accepts any of the RFC 2866-defined Acct-Terminate-Cause code values
• account_add API to return a more informative error message when account already exists
• social_init API to return an error for Instagram. Instagram has deprecated its login API since December 2024 so the ANTlabs gateway can no longer support Instagram login as a downstream authentication method.
• Update NTP client to update hardware clock whenever date/time is set via NTP
*This update includes the following fixes:
• Downstream-related issues
• Multi-WAN load balancing-related issues
• Client manager issues
• ASP settings sync issues
• Admin GUI issues
• CLI fixes
• API fixes
• Fix report-related issues
• Lawful intercept fix
• Fix some gateways having wrong QoS setup
• Other system component fixes
*Note: You may check the full details of the updates in the Partner Portal under the Product Update & Patches tab, inside the SG 5 Patch Release/Technical Notes folder.
This update does not automatically reboot the gateway. The enhancements and fixes take effect upon applying the update. Admin GUI updates require relogin to the GUI to see the new changes.
Release Date: 17 March 2025
PackageName: 11.SG5000_base-sys-bulk05-20240910-01.pkg
MD5 Checksum: 7865661b1fea441adf3d7287a548bde8 (updated 19 Mar 2025)
File size: 115 MB