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Netsweeper 8.1.2 EA Release (Oct. 4, 2022)

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Netsweeper 8.1.2 EA is now available for early adopters that have already migrated to the EL8 based Netsweeper installation. Netsweeper 8 will only be available on EL8 and customers are expected to migrate to the EL8 base in the 7.2 release before planning the upgrade to Netsweeper 8 or above. All customers Who want the features and improvements in the 8.1.2 should upgrade their test environments and start providing feedback as we move forward with the amazing Netsweeper 8.1 release!

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

New Features

Security

  • Ability to require a password when creating Accounts enabled through new email sending options

  • Viewing Report data can now optionally require WebAdmin authentication

Policy Management

  • WebAdmin Advanced Search Filtering functionality implemented for all tables that support searching

  • New Simple Account Create interface removes many of the Advanced options

  • Can now set a date for a Group to expire so the Clients in the Group no longer belong to the specific Group

nMonitor/onGuard

  • nMonitor logging data has been added for the First Name, Last Name, and Email Address

  • Image quality settings for nMonitor/OnGuard and the nMonitor List settings have been added to the WebAdmin Config

Additional

  • iDP initiated SAML login support has been added for Netsweeper 8.1.

  • New WebAdmin Setting allows whether Report should be sent as the email body or attached file or as URLs of the Reports

  • For improved performance, systemstatus APIs can now make use of the cached data rather than doing real-time checks

  • Directory Sync updates the First Name, Last Name, or Email when changed in the directory and updated on a Complete Sync

  • New 'Client Filter Exception List' remote admin command exports Client Filters Brand Exception List to format used by Client Filter

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Downloads

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

https://repo.netsweeper.com/netsweeper-el8-x86_64-8.1.2-1.iso(md5)(sha256)

Change Log 8.1.2

Issue Type

Ticket

Summary

Bug

NS-105

Request Logs fields sometimes did not show data depending on the table field order.

Bug

NS-111

Sorting the Account Manager by the Owner would break the export by Filter or Current Page.

Improvement

NS-112

An 'Expiry' column has been added to Export/Import via csv to URL List.

Bug

NS-113

The SysOp classification of Accounts would get permissions denied when using Tools > Deny Pages > Create Content and pressing the Create button in 7.2.

Improvement

NS-115

iDP initiated SAML login support has been added for Netsweeper 8.1.

Improvement

NS-116

There is now the ability to require a password for an Account to be created. This is enabled in WebAdmin Settings with Account Create Password Email Enabled and the modification of the email sending options.

Improvement

NS-117

There is a new Simple Account Create interface that removes many of the Advanced options.

New Feature

NS-118

There is now the ability to set a date for a Group to expire so the Clients in the Group no longer belong to the specific Group.

Improvement

NS-119

Viewing Report data can now optionally require WebAdmin authentication. This will redirect the user to the WebAdmin for authentication to be performed before they are allowed to view the Report instance data.

Improvement

NS-123

The Account Export would not export the hashed password for every Account by default.

Improvement

NS-124

The WebAdmin Advanced Search Filtering functionality has been implemented for all tables that support searching.

Improvement

NS-125

A new WebAdmin Setting: 'Allow Reporter to email Report data' has been added that allows you to select if the Report should be sent as the email body or attached file or as URLs of the Reports in the WebAdmin.

Bug

NS-128

The Reporter Quick Search tool added the Date filter twice.

Improvement

NS-136

To improve performance, the systemstatus APIs can now make use of the cached data rather than doing real-time checks. A new 'Online' parameter has been added.

Improvement

NS-138

The EL8 coredump has been improved and is using the EL8 coredumpctl and systemd.

Bug

NS-140

The nslog did not print source and destination port numbers correctly.

Improvement

NS-144

nMonitor logging data has been added for the First Name, Last Name, and Email Address for the Client lookedup from the nMonitor Client Event.

Improvement

NS-147

Polaris Synopsys security scans have been completed for 10.10 and 8.1.2.

Bug

NS-148

The list_entries_metadata_field_add API did not set the History flag when it created the field.

Improvement

NS-149

The Services > Quick Status tab now only shows Services that have corresponding Server Type.

Bug

NS-150

The domain user group liger event for the thin client did not log the proper Group name.

Bug

NS-152

The 8.1.1 release did not properly validate the IPv6 address with the source port.

Improvement

NS-153

The mysql -u command has been replaced with a new nsmysql command that abstracts the username and password from the root user only.

Bug

NS-154

WebAdmin managed iptables and ip6tables configuration and file permissions have been fixed on install only in El 8.

Bug

NS-155

Group Delete and Clone Group would load all Clients into memory causing memory failure when there were were many Clients.

Bug

NS-156

Directory Sync required more stack space to complete a sync for extremely large directory trees.

Bug

NS-157

The List Manager History did not display logged images in metadata fields but would show the current image instead.

Bug

NS-158

The System Wide Search Keyword List, when it is over the max keyword limit, could only add an entry as a URL type and not Whole Word.

Improvement

NS-160

NSProxy should not have the write callback set when the watermark is not hit and it should only set the write callback when waiting for the OS to clear the buffer.

Bug

NS-161

The 8.1.1 release broke the ability to upgrade to the latest EA Release if upgrading to or from 8.1.1.

Bug

NS-165

The policy server 7.2 and above would segfault on shutdown and would terminate with an invalid config.

Improvement

NS-168

The default RSS settings have been configured for i40e driver in EL8.

Improvement

NS-169

The 'Email Sending Settings' option has been removed from the Services > Reporter section. WebAdmin Settings now defines this for all servers.

Bug

NS-171

The WebAdmin Client view did not properly escape the First Name and Last Name fields and the single quote did not show when editing a Client with a single quote in the Last or First name.

Improvement

NS-172

Directory Sync did not update the First Name, Last Name, or Email when changed in the directory and updated on a Complete Sync.

Improvement

NS-175

Adding new WebAdmin settings with default values in settings_release.php will not be displayed in the GUI unless they are added to the database.

Bug

NS-177

NSProxy stopped processing response data when the max_response_line_size was reached and would stop passing data and error out.

Improvement

NS-178

There is a new remote admin command 'Client Filter Exception List' (400) that exports the Client Filters Brand Exception List to the format used by the Client Filter.

Improvement

NS-179

Image quality settings for nMonitor/OnGuard and the nMonitor List settings have been added to the WebAdmin Config.

Bug

NS-183

The authentication module 'authdirsync' did not work due to an encrypted password feature.

Bug

NS-192

The scheme for the invalid URL did not terminate properly.

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