The Netsweeper 7.2.9 EA release is now ready for for all customers and all features and roadmap items have been completed. The final 7.2.10 release will only include stability fixes along with default configuration setting changes. The 7.2.10 release will be Generally Available (GA) and will be only fixing stability problems and bug reports. All customers should upgrade to the 7.2.9 release in their test environments and start planning their upgrade path to the 7.2 product. The 7.2.10 release is planned to be made available at the end of May 2022.
The Netsweeper 7.2 release is the last release available on both EL6 and EL8. Moving forward, Netsweeper will only be making new feature available on the EL8 platform. Customers are expected to transition from EL6 to EL8 using the Netsweeper 7.2 product. Netsweeper will continue to provide security fixes to the EL6 builds but will not provide new features to the EL6 based release.
New Features Summary
Client Filter
- Uninstall Key Generator option moved to 'Client Filter Settings' allowing per Brand key generation
- 'Mode' option has been added to the Uninstall Key Generator to Profile Manager and Roaming User Service mode as both can get an uninstall key generated
- Client Filter Settings order of precedence has been fixed in nsd.conf, default brand in WebAdmin, specific brand, and finally the specific brand with platform defined
Change Log 7.2.9
| Ticket | Type | Description |
| 22520 | BUG: | LogMod5 Remote Logging could stop records sending for a while and save them to the disk queue instead. |
| 25453 | BUG: | The Client Filter 'Forgot Password' key generator did not work in RUS mode. A 'Mode' option has been added to the Uninstall Key Generator. |
| 25823 | BUG: | Not all service were restarted when letsencrypt updated the SSL certificate. |
| 25837 | BUG: | If no expire time was specified, Client Import would fail. |
| 25842 | BUG: | The 'Assign List to Policies' option did not check permissions properly when selecting Policies. |
| 25852 | BUG: | The Up2Date service did not start on Rocky Linux with Service Type=OneShot. |
| 25857 | BUG: | The 7.2.8 release would close the connection on EOF causing no WebAdmin request logs or remote commands to work properly. |
| 25862 | SECURITY: | Authentication Redirect did not display an error when not enabled for the bounce.php. |
| 25864 | BUG: | Submitting the 'Bulk Client Cleanup' would sometimes display a server error. |
| 25869 | BUG: | nsupgrade did not work on Rocky Linux for the EL 8 release. |
| 25870 | BUG: | Categories Revisions Export did not export any data. |
| 25873 | FEATURE: | Added a column for the edit link in the Deny Page Rules table. This only display the warning for unsaved changes if changes have occurred when editing or creating a Deny Page Rule. |
| 25876 | BUG: | Non-csv files could be imported. This is now prevented. |
| 25877 | BUG: | The Group Deny Page did not display when switching to Monitor Only and then back to Show Deny Page. |
| 25878 | BUG: | Editing Portal Deny Pages did not maintain the portal flag. |
| 25879 | BUG: | When Client Filter brand settings all are set in the nsd.conf or the default BRAND, all other brands will load their local network detections into one local network detection list. |
| 25882 | BUG: | Setting the liger_webadmin_url to a different URL/scheme for a specific Brand did not work. |
| 25884 | FEATURE: | The Uninstall Key Generator has been moved to Client Filter Settings and now allows per Brand key generation. |
| 25891 | FEATURE: | request_max_connections has been removed from the policy service since new threaded network increases performance. Use firewall/load balancer to limit connections/second or max connections. |
| 25892 | BUG: | EL8 strips the debug symbols in the packages. We have added debuginfo RPMs to the release for debugging purposes. |
| 25893 | BUG: | The Policy Service could have many connections stuck in CLOSE_WAIT state in some of the 7.2 releases. |
| 25900 | BUG: | The 'Pre Auth Append Domain to Username' setting was not storing the entry. |
| 25902 | A new remoteadmin command (400) has been added to the policy service to get the Profile Manager or the RUS WebAdmin URL sent to the Client Filter in order to generate the uninstall key per brand. The option 'Get Liger WebAdmin URL' has been added to the WebAdmin Remote Admin window. | |
| 25903 | BUG: | The 7.1 to 7.2.8 releases did not safely lock and use the policy for brand lookups. This could cause policy service stability issues if the Client Filter brand settings were used. |
| 25904 | BUG: | The Policy Server was leaking memory in the localnetworkdetection_network IP list. |
| 25906 | BUG: | An empty Client Filter brand, with no settings, would not be loaded by the policy service. |
| 25908 | FEATURE: | Changing the Liger WebAdmin URL or Liger Login makes the Client Filter reload the configuration in 7.2.9 with a 9.x Client. |
| 25910 | BUG: | Remote logging did not work when CNS was disabled in the policy service. Libevent was not initialized early enough for remote logging in all cases. |
| 25913 | BUG: | Remote logging could stop with socket in CLOSE_WAIT state and the logger client would not reconnect. |
| 25914 | BUG: | A Memory leak was caused by invalid 'remoteadmin_allow' settings. |
| 25915 | BUG: | Profile Manager mode did not log the new workstation name sent by the DUG message. |
| 25918 | BUG: | The liger_login_tree was locked and not loading from the nsd during Brand loading. |
| 25919 | BUG: | The liger first time login mode for RUS did not get the response URL buffer passed. |
| 25920 | BUG: | The WebAdmin Client Filter Setting for 'Override Profile Manager Password' was not loaded in any Brand. |
| 25921 | FEATURE: | You can now disable the RUS Append for a specific Brand. |
| 25928 | BUG: | The RDNS cache would loop through allocated items and not the items in use. Optimization has been implemented. |
| 25929 | BUG: | The Policy Server didn't reload Brand Settings when the whole brand was renamed or deleted. |
| 25930 | BUG: | 'Deny All' option in Group General Settings did not work correctly. |
| 25934 | BUG: | Adding an Allow/Deny entry from the Groups page Advanced tab did not work when the tab was not clicked beforehand. |
| 25935 | BUG: | An undefined constant error while running APIs has been fixed. |