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WibuKey 6.52

Release Date

2019-Oct-15

Operating Systems

macOS

Info

The installation programs were adapted for macOS 10.15 (Catalina).

WibuKey 6.51

Release Date

2019-Apr-05

Operating Systems

Windows, macOS, Linux

Info

• Discontinuation Java 6 + 7.
WibuKey supports Java only from version 8 on (FB61426).

Bugfixes:

FB61400: WibuKey Runtime: On Linux when calling 'WkbListPort()' errors occurred.

FB61672: WibuKey Runtime: Standard API Interface: On invalid input in function

'WkxGetLastErrorText()' eventually a crash occurred.
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WibuKey 6.50b

Release Date

2019-Jan-31

Operating Systems

Windows, macOS, Linux

Bugfixes:

FB61133: WibuKey Runtime: When using a network server, error 36 occurred in some
cases (invalid address). This occurs especially when using the COM control on the client.

FB61229: WibuKey Runtime: Server: Errors occurred when using HLM files in extended
memory under macOS and Linux.

WibuKey 6.50a

Release Date

2019-Jan-18

Operating Systems

Windows, macOS, Linux

Bugfixes:

FB60403: WibuKey Runtime: The function 'WkbGetVersion3()' is now downward

compatible. Applications protected with AxProtector versions lower than 9.0 will no longer
return the wrong WibuKey driver version.

FB60427: WibuKey Runtime: When using WibuBox/P on the LPT port eventually errors
occurred.

FB60975: WibuKey Runtime: Under macOS 64-bit and Linux 64-bit a valid 'port name' is
now returned.
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WibuKey 6.50

Release Date

2018-Dec-19

Operating Systems

Windows, macOS, Linux

Important note!
Please note that under Windows compatibility with old applications protected with
AxProtector is ensured, provided that at least AxProtector Version 9.0 of September 2013
was used for protection.

Information
Fix of reported vulnerabilities according to CVE standard (Common Vulnerabilities and
Exposures)
o Vulnerability allowed unauthorized reading of kernel memory information on the
local system (CVE-2018-3989) (FB58592).
o Vulnerability allowed a potential unauthorized privilege escalation on the local
system (CVE-2018-3990) (FB58593).
o Vulnerability allowed potential execution of code on accessible WibuKey network
servers (CVE-2018-3991) (FB58594).

Support Systemd services for WibuKey (FB58737)

o The property 'StartDaemon' in the 'Server.ini' file is no longer evaluated, instead the
usual mechanisms should be used to (de)activate the services.
o The service remains deactivated for new installations.
• When installing through the Windows Runtime Installer, already installed, newer files
are skipped without comment (FB51021).
• The WibuKey server service no longer sets the interactive flag "Allow service to
interact with desktop" on Windows (FB59208).
• The 'libwkextmac.dylib' supports 32-bit systems as well as 64-bit systems (FB49409).

Features:

FB25073: Windows: The log files of the server are now stored in the directory
'%ProgramData%\WibuKey'.

Bugfixes:

FB60080: WibuKey Runtime Installer: The uninstall path was not entered correctly in the
registry.

FB48073: WibuKey Runtime: Setup: macOS: WkUninstall did not delete all installed files.
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FB59334: WibuKey Runtime: macOS: Improved stability under macOS.

FB57007: WibuKey Runtime: Linux: When terminating an application, there were sporadic
crashes when network licenses were still in use.

FB48748: WibuKey Runtime: Linux: On Linux, access to serial ports is now disabled by
default because of frequent problems with non-WibuBox serial devices.

FB59970: WibuKey Runtime: COM Control: The crash of a WibuKey-protected application

on exit was fixed.

FB50979: WibuKey Runtime: The 'WkbQueryEntry(WKB_QE_OPEN)' function returned an

incorrect port name in the UNICODE variant under Windows.

FB56978: WibuKey Runtime: Control Panel: The server access settings were not saved
correctly.

WibuKey 6.40

Release Date

2016-Dec-22

Operating Systems

Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

Information
WHQL Test successfully passed
WibuKey core driver 'wibukey(64).sys' and 'wibukey2(_64).sys' have been revised,
retested for Windows 8 (includes Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7) and Windows 10 using
the Windows Hardware Compatibility Kit, and signed by Microsoft (FB40460).

Bugfixes:

FB41283: WibuKey Runtime: Frequent plug-out and replug of a WibuBox/U or /RU

eventually resulted in a blue screen.

FB45877: WibuKey Runtime: Control Panel/WkList crashed on 64-bit Windows, if the

context help displayed.

FB43576: WibuKey Runtime: WibuKey Server for Mac OS X now runs as

"LaunchDaemon".

FB30294: WibuKey Runtime: Control Panel/WkList did not start using the Windows search.
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FB46076: WibuKey Runtime: wku: On calling "wku32 help" the error message Error WB1
falsely displayed.

FB41251: WibuKey Runtime: In the WibuKey core driver (wibukey(64).sys) it was possible
to create a buffer overflow and to obtain privileged rights. This security leak is now closed.

FB42966: WibuKey Runtime: WibuKey Server: Mac OS X: the log files are now saved to
the directory "/Library/Logs/WIBUKEY/".

FB37790: WibuKey Runtime: WibuKey Server: In the server control an error in the
manifest was remedied.

WibuKey 6.32

Release Date

2015-July-22

Operating Systems

Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

Features:

FB31997: WibuKey Runtime: Control Panel/WkList: In the tree view now the serial number
can be copied to the Windows clipboard using the secondary menu.

FB33632: WibuKey Runtime: Linux: Occasionally on Linux the error

WKB_ERROR_OPTION_NOT_SUPPORTED (11) occurred. Now the communication
between software and hardware has been changed preventing this error.

FB33566: WibuKey Runtime: Windows Installer: The WibuKey Runtime Installer now
displays the correct operation system version Windows 10.

Bugfixes:

FB30257: WibuKey Runtime: The WKBSYSTEM (cMaxUser /cFreeUser) structure was not
correctly completed on 'WkbQuerySystem2()', if a Win64 process was involved.

FB31909: WibuKey Runtime: The return value of 'WkbEnumServers2()' is now correctly

set in the case of an empty list.

FB34122: WibuKey Runtime: Linux: Mac OS: In the case of the 'libwklin.so' now the
WibuKey network sockets are also correctly closed on calling 'exec()'.

FB36527: WibuKey Runtime: Setup: The installer for Mac OS X 10.11 has been adapted.
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FB27633: WibuKey Runtime: Mac OS X: The behavior was improved, if two or more
applications simultaneously loaded the WibuKey driver. Here eventually a deadlock
occurred.

FB31088: WibuKey Runtime: WibuKeyNet: Miscellaneous corrections on using the .NET

API on 64 bit.

WibuKey 6.30b

Release Date

2014-Nov-04

Operating Systems

Windows, Mac

Bugfixes:

FB31723: WibuKey Installer: Mac: The uninstallation program WibuKey Uninstall did not
start on Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite).

FB31628: WibuKey Runtime: WkConfig: Mac: Despite installed Java on Mac OS X 10.9
(Mavericks) and Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) WkConfig did not start.

WibuKey 6.30a

Release Date

2014-Sep-24

Operating Systems

Windows

Features:

FB30588: WibuKey Runtime Installer: Windows: The execution of the Windows program
'diskpart' on running the Runtime Installer now can be activated or deactivated in the
'setup.ini' file.

FB30545: WibuKey Runtime Installer: The console windows does no longer display during
the installation.
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Bugfixes:

FB30544: WibuKey Runtime Installer: An error during the driver installation and a
subsequent restart was remedied.

WibuKey 6.30

Release Date

2014-July-25

Operating Systems

Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

Information

WibuBox detection
Following an installation or an update of the WibuKey driver in future already connected
WibuBoxes are immediately detected (FB30244).
Plug and Play driver
The WibuKey Plug and Play driver has been certified for Windows 8.1 WHQL (FB28823).

Features

FB28602: WibuKey Runtime: In future, the 'wkext32/64.dll' library is able to handle

Unicode paths. This requires to set the flags 'WKB_STDCTRL' or 'WKB_UNICODE'.
FB27833: WibuKey Runtime: Mac OS/Linux: The WibuKey user help was revised.

Bugfixes

FB28647: WibuKey Driver: Eventually WibuBoxes with the serial numbers 10/11-xxxx did
not work properly with USB 3.0 and WibuBoxes did not respond. The revised driver
'wibukey2(_64).sys' solves this issue.
FB29596: WibuKey Runtime: COM Control: If in the server search list a DNS name was
specified instead of an IP address and the network connection was interrupted, then the
access to WK API did not work although the connection was reestablished.
FB29252: WibuKey Runtime: Linux: On heavy load eventually the communication between
WibuKey driver and WibuBox did not work.
FB29119: WibuKey Runtime: WibuKey Control Panel: On exiting WibuKey Control Panel
eventual crashes occurred.
FB29583: WibuKey Runtime: WibuKey Server: Eventually reserved slots were not
released.
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FB28007: WibuKey Runtime: WibuKey Server: For long-term operating Windows Server
2008 systems in rare cases the exceptional error "0xc00000fd" occurred.
FB26846: WibuKey Runtime: WibuKey Server: On Windows eventually display errors in
the log file occurred.

WibuKey 6.20

Release Date

2013-Dec-20

Operating Systems

Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

Information

Windows 8 and 8.1 Logo Test

The WibuKey driver (wibukey.sys and wibukey64.sys) passed the WHQL/HCH test of
Microsoft. Consequently, the WibuKey Runtime Kit complies to the Windows Logo tests for
Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 (FB21290).

Features

FB25297: Installation: Mac OS X: Uninstalling on Mac OS X now considers the new

location of installing receipts.

Bugfixes

FB22886: WibuKey Runtime: The Unicode support in the driver has been improved,
especially with 'WkbEnumServers2()'.
FB25878: WibuKey Runtime: The 'WibuKey.sys' driver (Win32/x86) now also has a
WinTrust signature.
FB24180: WibuKey Runtime: Eventually WibuKey error texts were not returned unicode
coded and umlauts and special characters did not display correctly.
FB24324: WibuKey Runtime: Mac OS X: Eventually WibuBox entries were not correctly
detected.
FB20565: WibuKey Runtime: WkConfig: In tab 'Client' the display field for the IP port was
too small.
FB24007: WibuKey Runtime: COM Control: On querying error texts double error codes
from the 'wkext32/64.dll' are now correctly solved.
FB26766: WibuKey Server: Mac OS X: On Mac OS X 10.9 WkSvMacX stopped
unexpectedly.
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WibuKey 6.11

Release Date

2013-Mar-01

Operating Systems

Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

Information

• With version 6.11 WibuKey supports only Mac OS X operating system versions equal
to or newer than 10.6.
• The link to Remote Context files (*.rtc) using the shell extension will not work any
longer since conflicts with Windows Live Meeting occurred (FB19759).

Bugfixes

FB22582, 22583: WibuKey Runtime: If the buffer size of 'wkxcontext.mpvDest' with

function 'WkxGetRemoteContext2()' was chosen too small, the system crashed.
FB22076: WibuKey Runtime: WibuKey Control Panel: The writing of Extended Memory
(User Data only) did not work.

WibuKey 6.10a

Release Date

2012-Dec-21

Operating Systems

Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

Bugfixes

FB21485: WibuKey Server: Network monitor function did not transfer user, cluster, and
computer name information (loated at the end of the memory array) to the client.
FB21734: Mac OS X: WibuKey Server: WibuKeyServer terminated unexpectedly, if a
license was not found.
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WibuKey 6.10

Release Date

2012-Nov-16

Operating Systems

Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

Information
Support of Operating Systems
Starting with this version Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 are supported. The
minimum operating system version on Windows is Windows XP. Files of older operating
systems have been cleaned up. The contained executable files are signed.
The minimum version of Mac OS X is 10.5.

Features

FB18441: Windows: Within USB driver the interrupts IRP_MJ_PNP /

IRP_MN_REMOVE_DEVICE are now handled in a different way to avoid conflicts with
third party drivers.
FB17173: Windows XP: WibuKey Server Monitor is now also installed on Windows XP
since the user interface of WibuKey Server has been removed.
FB20139: Mac OS X: The installation program has been revised. It now supports
installation on 10.8 (Mountain Lion) including digital signatures.

Bugfixes

FB1291: If a server name is available in server search list, a direct TCP/IP call is done
without a UDP broadcast. This now behaves identically to an IP-address in server search
list.
FB19768: Windows: Installation: The handling of files without version information has been
improved on update installations. Due to time changes there have been unnecessary
overwrite requests.
FB6534: Windows: Installation: WibuKey Server Manager is automatically stopped during
uninstall procedure to avoid warnings and user interaction.
FB6673: Windows: Installation: On systems with CodeMeter Runtime installed, an uninstall
of WibuKey Runtime removed the file WibuXpm4J32/64.dll which is also part of
CodeMeter Runtime.
FB7060, FB15955: Windows: Control Panel: Creating a WibuKey Report causes a crash if
some files could not be found.
FB6600: WibuKey Server returns now error 500 (internal server error) if web monitor file is
corrupt.
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FB12776: WibuKey Server checks access rights during logon.

FB8683: WibuKey Server created wrong logging output if the set IP port was too large.
FB21172: Windows: WibuKey Server returns error 501 on any http request.
FB19087: Mac OS X, Linux: WkConfig: Messages on applying updates by Remote Update
File have been improved.

WibuKey 6.00g

Release Date

2012-May-31

Operating Systems

Linux

Bugfixes

FB19037: Linux: WibuKey Runtime: The dependencies section iin the installer for
OpenSuSE 12.x has been adapted.
FB11979: Linux: WibuKey Runtime: For newer distributions, such as Ubuntu 12.04, the
Hotplug rules have been adapted. Now WibuBoxes are also detected without root
privileges on those distributions.

WibuKey 6.00f

Release Date

2012-Jan-27

Operating Systems

Windows

Bugfixes

FB6881, FB17342: Windows: A memory leak in the shell extension has been fixed and is
updated in the installer.
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WibuKey 6.00e

Release Date

2011-Dec-22

Operating Systems

Mac OS X

Bugfixes

FB16514 Mac OS: On MacOS 10.7.x eventually a WibuBox was not found or error 8 was
issued. The error occurred only ocassionally related to specific license entries.

FB15303 Mac OS: If several applications were simultaneously to perform an encryption

using a connected WibuBox errors could occur.

WibuKey 6.00d

Release Date

2011-Sep-28

Operating Systems

Windows

Bugfixes

FB15066: Windows: Using the API calls WkbOpen2() with flag WKB_OPEN_MULTIFIND
and WkbQueryEntry2() with WKB_QE_MULTIFIND did not cleanup all previously allocated
kernel memory in wibukey[64].sys.

WibuKey 6.00c

Release Date

2011-Jun-14

No effects on the WibuKey Runtime.

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WibuKey 6.00b

Release Date

2011-Feb-02

Operating Systems

Windows

Bugfixes

FB8338: Windows: When installing the WibuKey Runtime Kit uncompressed from a CD
the installing file Setup32/64.exe did not delete the temporary files. This prevented a later
uninstalling or update installations.
FB10375: Windows: Installing the WibuKey Runtime Kit on unicode-based 64 bit systems
did not work, e.g. Japanese or Chinese Windows 7 x64.
FB10376: Windows: The Japanese localization of the WibuKey Server did not display
correctly on Windows XP.
FB12000: Windows: The WibuKey Server Manager did not load the Japanese language
files.

WibuKey 6.00a

Release Date

2009-Dec-07

Operating Systems

Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

Bugfixes

FB6851: A Remote Update file (.rtu) could not be imported.

FB6974: In the case the server search list had an entry, on 64 bit Windows systems an
application could crash.
FB6659: The WibuKey Control Panel crashed on specifying an empty file name when
creating a context file.
FB7036: The WebMonitor (Mac, Linux) displayed mix-uped IP addresses.
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WibuKey 6.00

Release Date

2009-Nov-06

Operating Systems

Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

New Features

FB5490: Windows: With the WkRuntime.exe there exist an additional combined installation
package which holds the runtime components for 32 bit and 64 bit Windows.
FB6320: Windows: The WibuKey Server Manager now is multi-lingual. Currently, a
German and Chinese localization is available.
FB5814: Mac OS X, Linux : The WibuKey Network Server now is multi-lingual.
FB4242: Mac OS X: The installer now can also be used for Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6).
FB5537: Linux: The WibuKey components no longer depend on the libstdc++ . The 64 bit
installer now include the installation of the 32 bit components. They are then located at
/usr/lib32.
FB6163: Linux: Under 64 bit the RPM Installer now contain the links for the installed
libraries from/to /usr/lib or /usr/lib64. This features higher compatibility especially on
dynamic loading of the libraries.

Bugfixes

FB1598: On creating a rtc file of a WibuBox with Extended Memory involving large data
volumes errors occurred.
FB1899: The stability of the WibuKey Servers has been improved in the case of repeating
rescan an replug events.
FB1925: Windows: At times it happened that entries in the WkLAN server search list were
not considered in the search.
FB1762: Windows: When the Limit Counter was changed in WkList32, and by accident the
button "Apply" was clicked twice in quick succession, an error message displayed.
FB6114: Windows: On starting and stopping the server using the WibuKey Server
Manager the user account management window under Windows Vista and Windows 7
opened minimized.
FB6310: Windows: The WibuKey uninstalling program deleted the ShellExtension of
CodeMeter.
FB6327: Windows: Opening the WibuKey Network Monitor or the WibuKey Settings in the
system control under Windows Vista and Windows 7 at times failed due to privilege
problems.
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FB2025: Windows: In WibuKey Server Manager the logging status is displayed even in the
case that the server does not run..
FB122: Windows: The WibuKey Runtime Setup is executed only when no newer version
has been installed on the system.
FB6620: Windows: The status window of the WibuKey Server Managers under Windows
Vista and Windows 7 now displays larger and thus displays more events.
FB6456: Windows: The WibuKey Server Manager can only be one-time started for each
user.
FB2178: Windows: During the WibuKey Runtime Setup the operating systems Windows
Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 were not properly displayed.
FB5567: Windows: All defined settings from the WibuKey.ini file set by the WibuKey
Runtime Installation program are now transferred into the HKLM-WibuKey branch. This
makes them at first available for all users of the operating system.
FB4865: Windows: A conflict referring to the *.rtc file extension using Windows Live
Meeting has been fixed.
FB1508, FB6324: Windows: The installation of the signed drivers under Windows Vista
and Windows 7 is now able using the installation programs.
FB6121: Windows: The WibuKey system control could not create a report under 64 bit
systems.
FB2015: Windows: The WibuKey Server Manager installs the WibuKey Server by start
type "automatic".
FB2090, FB6615: Windows: The report function now lists all relevant files.
FB5584: Windows: The uninstalling of the Runtime Installers was not executed in the
system language specified.
FB1729: Windows: On using the IP binding in WibuKey Server Monitor now the correct IP
address is displayed.
FB1877: Windows: When the WibuKey Runtime installation was aborted, the status was
not correctly rewritten into the registry.
FB5779, FB5914, FB5915: Mac OS X: In the case on OS X 10.6 the WibuKey Server was
started but no network existed, on starting and stop the server needed considerable long
time. Moreover, the PC name was handled as incorrect IPv6 address.
FB5949: Mac OS X: For Mac OS X 10.4 even in this installer support for CFM9/Classic
applications is included. This requires a partition with Classic environment and a PPC
processor. Only the subsystem WkLAN is supported.
FB5705: Mac OS X: Problems on starting of WkConfig were fixed.
FB5716: Mac OS X: The WkMacXLib Framework now no longer refers to the Carbon
Framework.
FB1534: Mac OS X, Linux: The search for servers in the network using the server search
list now also works in the case that the PCs to be searched for are not part of the same
subnet, or are not addressable via UDP.
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FB5925: Mac OS X, Linux: On specifying invalid values in WkConfig the error messages
have been improved.
FB3520: Linux: When WkConfig is started but Java VM is used instead of gcj, now
message dialog is displayed suggesting that the use of Sun Java is required.
FB2401: Linux: Under 64 bit after 163334 cyclical license requests, no additional license
could be allocated although it existed.