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
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Ability to require a password when creating Accounts enabled through new email sending options
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Viewing Report data can now optionally require WebAdmin authentication
Policy Management
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WebAdmin Advanced Search Filtering functionality implemented for all tables that support searching
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New Simple Account Create interface removes many of the Advanced options
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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
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nMonitor logging data has been added for the First Name, Last Name, and Email Address
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Image quality settings for nMonitor/OnGuard and the nMonitor List settings have been added to the WebAdmin Config
Additional
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iDP initiated SAML login support has been added for Netsweeper 8.1.
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New WebAdmin Setting allows whether Report should be sent as the email body or attached file or as URLs of the Reports
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For improved performance, systemstatus APIs can now make use of the cached data rather than doing real-time checks
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Directory Sync updates the First Name, Last Name, or Email when changed in the directory and updated on a Complete Sync
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New 'Client Filter Exception List' remote admin command exports Client Filters Brand Exception List to format used by Client Filter
See also:
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 |
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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. |