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8.1.9 GA Release (November 29, 2023)

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Netsweeper is pleased to announce our 8.1.9 GA release. This release adds stability and security fixes to the 8.1 product. Customers who have not yet migrated to the EL8 platform should consider upgrading to the 7.2 EL6 GA release and migrate to the 7.2 EL8 based product prior to upgrading to the 8.1 GA release. Netsweeper continues development of the 8.2 release series which will be introducing many new product features and improvements.

If you have any questions or concerns about planning an upgrade to this release, please contact Netsweeper Technical Support (support@netsweeper.com).

 

See also:

8.1 New Features Combined

8.1 New Features Summary

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To download the latest release, please use the following link:

https://repo.netsweeper.com/netsweeper-el8-x86_64-8.1.9-1.iso (md5) (sha256)

Changelog 8.1.9

Issue Type Ticket Summary

Bug

NS-483

The Delete button would still display even after deleting entries.

Bug

NS-490

There was a 'PHP Notice' warning message when viewing the 'Profiles' window.

Bug

NS-515

When NSProxy could not verify a certificate chain with intermediate certificates it would load the same AIA certificate in a loop.

Bug

NS-533

API list_entry_edit was not updating or modifying the URL/Keyword entries as expected.

Bug

NS-549

The 'Deny All Until' option would fail to override the Group's Policy Settings when selecting the 'Permanently' option in a Group's General > Settings page.

Bug

NS-573

Sorting by 'Status' in the Accounts window as a SysOp user and then exporting the Filtered Entries would cause a SQL error on export.

Bug

NS-575

SysOps were able to remove the 'Organization Name' when editing a Client, despite it being a required field.

Bug

NS-583

Create Report would apply the Email Address from the Delivery Options section as a Report Filter in the 7.2 release, causing the report to contain no data.

Improvement

NS-587

Increased verbosity of Directory Sync logging to include an entry for denoting what Group each Client was added to.

Bug

NS-588

SysOps without the 'Manage Group Name Organization' permission were able to rename Groups when using the Simple Group Manager.

Bug

NS-589

We would incorrectly append both the '@' symbol as well as the Organization name into a Group's name, when viewed by a SysOp without the 'Manage Policy Organization' permission.

Bug

NS-590

Disabling the 'Allow Reporter to email Report data' WebAdmin Setting would disable the 'Do not email the Report' Delivery Option for Empty Reports.

Bug

NS-591

SysOps with the 'Specify Deny or Portal Pages' permission as well as either the 'Edit Authentication Redirect Settings' or the 'Lists' permissions were able to view Authentication Portal or Group Deny Pages outside of their Managed Groups.

Bug

NS-601

Enabled multiple parents of membership for Directory Groups to sync all Clients that are direct or indirect members of the prefixed top Groups.

Improvement

NS-609

Google Directory Sync now allows for multi-domain synchronization where one Account manages multiple Google Admin domains.

Bug

NS-613

Profile Manager was unable to edit or delete the Local Allow/Deny List Entries.

Bug

NS-623

Adding a 'Proceed to List' Entry with a NULL argument would crash the Policy Service.

Bug

NS-626

List Manager Log maintenance routines can cause MySQL deadlocks in versions 7.2.13 and 8.1.8.

Bug

NS-627

Audited the WebAdmin to avoid DELETE statements with nested SELECT, when using IN operator.

Bug

NS-634

Improved the Account Group Restrictions SQL, allowing for improved performance.

Bug

NS-647

Updated the settings_override.php example to reflect the proper method to encrypt the password, along with the proper usage of APC cache, in order to override passwords that have already been set.

Improvement

NS-657

Clients added to the WebAdmin in the format of -@context or -@anything will not replace the Client Username provided by the request. This allows clients of any type to be created to create default groups.

Bug

NS-663

The Directory Sync Service no longer does SQL DELETE statements with nested SELECT statements to avoid MySQL/MariaDB issues when using IN operator.

Bug

NS-673

Having multiple List owners would only allow the first SysOp List owner the ability to edit/modify/delete, other SysOps would get read only when you had the 'View Organization Sysop Lists' or 'View Managed Sysop Lists, permissions.

Bug

NS-690

NSRoutes would try to resolve all hostnames during the load process, slow DNS and bad DNS queries could cause the download to timeout and corrupt the download, causing the configuration to fail to load.

Bug

NS-701

When importing Reports as a SysOp, the owner of the Report must be the SysOp or one of their managed accounts. If the Report owner is neither, ownership will now be applied to the importing SysOp upon completion.

Bug

NS-703

Policy Description and Policy Advanced Settings was not disabled for SysOps with no advanced policy permissions.

Bug

NS-705

Profile Manager: The description did not save properly when adding an entry to Local Lists.

Bug

NS-734

The Netsweeper Protocol Detection Engine would not parse the Server Name Information if the session extension occurred before the server name information extension.

Bug

NS-736

Invalid reporter IP address in the report definition would cause the Reporter to segfault.

Improvement

NS-738

Improved the verbosity of Policy Local and Shared List loading messages in the nsd_message.log to describe the specific parts of the Lists we are creating and loading.

Improvement

NS-739

We now allow the Policy Service WebDB download 'Real Time Callback' function to be enabled or disabled as a Policy Service configuration option.

Improvement

NS-742

Improved the performance of the 'policylistentries' and 'nsroutes' WebDB modules significantly.

Bug

NS-747

WebAdmin socket code no longer does a non-blocking connect, allowing for 'all server connections' to be created and then checked.

Bug

NS-754

File Extension List rules were not working for filenames with multiple instances of '.' in the filename.

Bug

NS-757

When a SysOp would modify a Policy's Category Action to 'Allow' the system would change the Action back to 'Block.'

Bug

NS-770

Resolved a rare case where the Policy server could fail to resolve the address of the upstream CNS server, causing the Policy server to be unable to connect to CNS.

Improvement

NS-775

The nsroutes service for el6 used the "nc" command, which could overload BGPD.

Bug

NS-780

NSProxy would not trigger decrypt:// events with the new protocol engine disabled.

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