Netsweeper is pleased to announce the Netsweeper 8.2.11 GA Release. This release focuses on further stability improvements in order to refine the Netsweeper 8.2 GA product. All customers are strongly encouraged to upgrade to the 8.2.11 GA release in their test environments and proceed to upgrading their production deployments. The 8.2.11 GA release only fixes critical variances found that impact customer production environments and only introduces new features or functionality if they are needed for stability..
Netsweeper will be continuing to focus on the 9.1 release cycle throughout 2025. The initial version Netsweeper 9.1.1 was released in February 2025 and our goal is to have the first 9.1 GA release happening before the end of the year with regular releases. For an ongoing list of the new features and improvements in the 9.1 release, please refer to our 9.1 New Features documentation.
If you have any questions or concerns about planning an upgrade to this release, please contact Netsweeper Technical Support (support@netsweeper.com).
See Also
8.2 New Features Combined and Summary of 8.2 New Features
Downloads
https://repo.netsweeper.com/releases/centos/iso/netsweeper-el8-x86_64-8.2.11-1.iso (8.2.11 md5 checksum) (8.2.11 sha256 signature)
Changelog 8.2.11
| Issue Type | Ticket | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Bug | NS-1762 | External Authentication was causing a database error when attempting to create the Account. |
| Bug | NS-1829 | The Policy Processor would treat a Continue Event as a Deny, causing some allowed protocols to have denied:// Events triggered. |
| Bug | NS-1837 | The Request Log files in the 8.2.10 release would not work for a sysop user that does not have access to all groups. |
| Bug | NS-1839 | The 'systemstatus_server_query_lists' API call would fail to read the entire response from remoteadmin command 210. |
| Bug | NS-1842 | The Request Logs could crash the Policy Server if the Account had over 1024 assigned Groups. |
| Bug | NS-1843 | The NSD could deadlock on shutdown if we were accepting a connection during the termination of the Policy Server. |
| Bug | NS-1844 | The WebAdmin help text was included prior to setting any Account or global language, causing it to always be in English. |
| Bug | NS-1845 | The debuginfo didn't include debugging for the Netsweeper library. |
| Bug | NS-1846 | The Client Filter decryption and encryption tools for the WebAdmin were limited to a 2k buffer, this has been expanded to 8k. |
| Improvement | NS-1847 | The Categorization List Processing step will now allow both 'No Action' and 'Proceed to List' results. |
| Bug | NS-1866 | Upgrading would continue to append configs to /usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service 'SSL modifications'. |
| Bug | NS-1867 | The Deny Pages window would take a long time to load for SysOps with a large amount of Deny Pages. |
| Bug | NS-1876 | When a Group is deleted we would remove any assigned Deny Pages that were not assigned to another Group or Policy, but we were not checking for and removing associated Lists or Portal Pages. |
| Improvement | NS-1877 | Improved database performance for the Directory Sync 'sync_clients' queries. |
| Bug | NS-1904 | Resolved an issue where a SysOp could import another SysOp Account with more permissions then they themselves have. |
| Bug | NS-1905 | A SysOp Account with the 'Modify Account Groups' permission would fail to assign Groups to Accounts. |
| Bug | NS-1906 | Cloning a Group would not include the Group's Shared Lists. |
| Bug | NS-1907 | The 'denypage_delete' API would fail to delete the Deny Pages if they were linked due to a lack of permissions. |
| Bug | NS-1910 | SysOp Accounts were able to import entries into Lists they did not have permission to access. |
| Bug | NS-1920 | The search function within a Group's 'Managers' tab would fail to return any results and generate a database error for Admin users. |
| Bug | NS-1924 | When injecting the Authentication Redirect Cookie we would fail to remove the extra arguments when decoding the Cookie for injection. |
| Bug | NS-1925 | The Request Processing framework in the Policy Service could free a connection in a thread that would then cause the main network processing thread to have memory and threading issues. Connections are now only freed in the network processing thread. |
| Improvement | NS-1926 | Added a new NSProxy feature to change the signature algorithms with the new configuration 'ssl_signature_algorithms', allowing NSProxy on EL8 to remove problematic ed25519 and ed448 in order to fix CloudFlare security issues. |
| Improvement | NS-1933 | Resolved an issue where we would fail to limit the sharing of Reports to the selected users. |
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