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What's new in SysWard

Agent releases, feature updates, fixes, and platform improvements.

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new - a new feature has been released

fix - a bug fix has been released

improvement - an existing feature has been improved

platform - applies to the online SaaS version of SysWard

appliance - applies to the self hosted version of SysWard

agent - applies to the agent

2026-07-07

platform appliance fix improvement

History now shows who did what. The User column in the dashboard’s Latest History, agent history, and group history views now correctly shows the person who performed each action — for example, who upgraded a package.

  • Actions you and your team take are attributed to the user who performed them, instead of showing a blank cell.
  • Automatic, agent-reported activity (routine package check-ins and job completions) is now labeled System so the column is never mysteriously empty.

Easier to tell instances and hosts apart.

  • The browser tab now shows your organization name, so multiple SysWard tabs or instances are easy to distinguish at a glance.
  • Agent details now show the full operating system name and version (e.g. “Ubuntu 22.04 LTS”) instead of just the name.

2026-07-05

platform appliance fix improvement

Package upgrades now work for every package. Fixed an issue where clicking Upgrade in the Packages view did nothing for certain packages — most often third-party ones like cloudflared and tailscale.

  • The Upgrade button now schedules an upgrade for all packages, and confirms when it does (or shows a clear message if something goes wrong).
  • Canceling a scheduled upgrade for those packages works again too.

Faster and more reliable, especially for large fleets. SysWard now uses significantly less memory and stays responsive under heavy load.

  • The Packages and Agents views load faster for organizations with many hosts.
  • Improved stability when loading large organizations.
  • Self-hosted appliances run comfortably in a smaller memory footprint.

2026-07-04

platform appliance new improvement

A redesigned SysWard, built for everyone. A top-to-bottom refresh of the web app — cleaner layouts, clearer typography, and a consistent, modern interface across the dashboard, agents, groups, packages, CVEs, and settings.

  • Make SysWard yours — pick from four themes: Beacon, Daylight Ops, Midnight, and Sentinel (a high-contrast option), across light and dark. SysWard remembers your choice and can follow your system’s light/dark setting automatically.
  • Accessibility, first-class — the entire app now works with screen readers and full keyboard navigation: labelled controls and forms, a skip-to-content link, focus that follows you between pages, and live announcements when tables sort or data updates. Charts include an equivalent data table for screen-reader users.
  • Comfort & vision options — color-vision-friendly modes, a reduced-motion setting, and adjustable text size and density, on top of the Sentinel high-contrast theme.
  • Refreshed filters, dropdowns, paginators, and table controls so everything feels consistent across the app.
  • Fixed button colors so destructive actions like “Delete” clearly stand out from primary ones.

2026-07-03

platform appliance improvement new fix

  • The CVE Alerts page is now paginated and stays fast on large fleets — it no longer times out when you have a lot of alerts
  • Click any CVE to instantly narrow the list to every host it affects
  • New “Patch all affected hosts” action queues an upgrade across every host affected by a CVE in a single click

2026-05-15

platform fix

  • Fixed signup incorrectly rejecting some valid email addresses (including Outlook.com and Yahoo)

2026-04-06

platform agent fix

  • Fixed an issue where some agent check-ins and CVE scan results could be silently dropped instead of retried, keeping fleet and vulnerability data reliable

2026-01-23

platform agent new

  • Beta: an iOS app and Windows host support are now available in beta

2026-01-07

platform appliance improvement

  • Much faster CVE lookups — vulnerability scans no longer slow down on hosts with large package lists

2025-12-30

platform appliance improvement

  • Rebuilt the CVE scanning engine with vulnerability data refreshed daily

2024-08-16

platform appliance agent

  • Bug fix on the server for the reboot required flag not showing properly
  • Bug fix on the agent for the reboot required flag not being detected properly on Ubuntu 22

2024-08-04

platform appliance

  • Bug fix for the -group flag not being set correctly when doing an installation

2024-07-03

platform appliance

  • Remove vagrant script from the appliance installer

2024-05-31

appliance

  • Add support for Ubuntu 24 and Postgres 15

2024-03-15

platform

  • Billing bug fixes that sometimes caused the purchases agents to not set properly on the subscription

2024-02-13

platform new agent

  • Support for ARM64, ARMv6 and ARMv7 architectures has been added to the agent
  • Appliance installer bug fix to support ARM agents now works as well

2024-01-15

platform new agent

  • Webhooks now support both Discord and Slack webhook URLs
  • Agent version 202401157533677477 now has support for Amazon Linux 2 & Amazon Linux 2023

2023-09-29

agent

  • ArchLinux and Manjaro Arch Linux support added to the agent

2023-09-24

agent

  • Enhancements and fixes in agent 202309246293136200
    • Agent no longer requires python to be installed
    • Fixed various issues with OS support for the following systems:
      • Debian 10, 11, 12
      • OpenSUSE TumbleWeed and Leap 15
      • CentOS Stream
      • Rocky Linux 8 and 9
      • Oracle Enterprise Linux 9
      • Ubuntu 20 and 22
    • Added support for: Alma Linux 9, VzLinux 8 and 9

2023-09-20

platform improvement appliance agent

  • Various bug fixes in agent version 202309216257047550 to support Debian 10, 11, 12 and Ubuntu 20 and 22

2023-04-09

platform improvement appliance

  • Various bug fixes and performance improvements for both the SaaS and appliance versions.
  • Improved upgrade script for appliance.

2023-04-04

platform improvement appliance

  • More fixes around CVE counts and properly displaying the amount per agent.

2023-04-04

platform improvement appliance

  • A bug has been fixed causing agents to show up dead.
  • A new release of the appliance is out, removing the need for kubernetes.

2022-03-29

platform improvement appliance agent

  • A bug has been fixed which incorrectly showed agents as dead, despite them recently checking in.
  • Version 202203292061557601 of the agent now includes support for Rocky Linux 8, CentOS 8, and RHEL 8.

2022-03-28

appliance fix - a bug fix has been released

  • Version 2022.03.21.2014077176 of the appliance has been released addressing an issue with one of the helm charts in the installer that was causing failures.

2022-03-16

platform improvement agent

  • Version 202203151984465400 of the agent has been released, addressing Ubuntu 21 and Debian 11 compatability issues
  • Improvements to agent updates have been released and now default to using HTTPS when auto-upgrading

2021-11-28

platform improvement agent

  • Support for Ubuntu 20 and 21 has been added - the agent should no longer error out when installing onto these versions

2021-10-11

platform

  • Fix for agent histories causing an error on the dashboard if they were deleted

2021-05-30

platform

  • Fix where dashboard count cards weren’t showing up if there were 0 security or regular updates pending
  • Fix bug where dashboard wouldn’t load if agent histories were orphaned from an agent
  • Billing page improvements so setInterval isn’t causing a browser hang / loop and crash

2021-05-30

appliance

  • Appliance re-released with new frontend and backend to match cloud version

2021-01-05

platform

  • Fix a bug where new users were unable to install the agent

2020-12-20

platform

  • Cards on the dashboard are now clickable to filter on the status shown (dead, pending, security, job failures)
  • Angular build improvements for the frontend

2020-12-13

platform

  • Various improvements to billing integrations

2020-12-05

platform

  • Bug fix on installer page, spelling error
  • Various minor bug fixes
  • Checkbox styling fixed so its not transparent
  • Frontend upgraded from Angular 7 to 11

2020-11-26

platform

  • Major re-design and revamp of both the backend and frontend; migration from Ruby on Rails to Go + Angular
  • New dark theme layout for the application
  • Performance improvements across the board
    • 20% improvement on dashboard load time
    • 1800% improvement on packages load time
    • 700% improvement on agent page load time
  • Improved subscription management page with better integration with Chargebee
  • Better support portal integration with our Jira Helpdesk portal

2018-05-21

platform appliance

  • Initial backend re-write started

2018-05-21

platform appliance

  • Bug fix on applying group updates page

2018-05-13

platform appliance

  • Fedora 27 and 28 support added
  • Oracle Linux 6 and 7 support added
  • Amazon Linux 2 support added

2018-05-13

agent

  • Agents will now randomly sleep for a few seconds before checking in to improve performance.

2018-05-13

platform appliance

  • Performance improvements for dashboard page
  • Performance improvements for agents getting jobs on checkin

2018-04-29

platform appliance

  • Add table sorting for all pages that have information

2018-04-22

platform appliance

  • Various fixes around agent history showing up occasionally as JSON instead of a message

2018-03-27

platform appliance

  • Various package management bug fixes

2018-03-19

platform appliance

  • New 2FA method rolled out

2018-03-10

platform appliance

  • Added the ability to schedule jobs

2018-03-09

platform appliance

  • Added the ability to see when a reboot is required on a host in the agent listing

agent

  • Added reboot detection if packages / new kernels are installed that require a restart

2018-03-08

agent

  • Upgraded build pipeline to use new the new golang dep tool for dependency management
  • Bug fix for systems that had mis-behaving syslog daemons where a nil pointer would be returned when trying to log messages

2018-03-06

platform appliance

  • Add CVE counts to dashboards
  • Bug fix for ‘Apply All’ updates
  • Added the ability to upgrade CVEs from groups page

2017-11-27

platform appliance

  • Organizations can not customize the dead timeout for agents

2017-08-31

appliance

  • Initial appliance release and announcement made, contact [email protected] if you would like to trial the appliance.

2017-08-02

platform

  • Checkin API performance improvements to fix sporratic 500 errors

2017-07-30

platform

  • Add the ability to upgrade CVE & Security patches

2017-07-29

platform

  • Added an upgrade button to apply CVE patches

2017-07-19

platform

  • Updated support and contact forms to use new Zendesk and Zoho forms

2017-07-10

platform

  • Performance and detail enhancement to CVEs

2017-07-06

platform

  • Updated CVE listing pages
  • Added CVE counts to agent listing page to provide more detail on inspanidual agents
  • Added CVE tab to agents detail page

2017-05-14

agent

  • Add the ability to unregister the agent from the command line -unregister

2017-05-07

agent

  • Fix CentOS and Debian version information reported by agent

2017-05-06

agent

  • Convert agent builds to use Glide instead of Godep
  • Update to Go 1.8

2017-05-05

platform

  • Updated CVE details pages
  • Improved performance on CVE detection

2017-04-09

platform

  • Update supported OSs on main website

2016-06-19

platform

  • Users can now disable or enable email alerts (enabled by default)

2016-04-06

platform

  • Users can now sort by package name and priority under pending updates

2016-03-12

platform

  • Fixed a bug on the held/installed packages page where holding/unholding wouldn’t work in certain browsers
  • Sub pages inside the agent view are now directly linkable

2016-02-22

platform

  • Ability to select inspanidual packages for installation/upgrade

2016-02-07

platform

  • Add support for custom hostname being filtered on

agent

  • Fix a bug with Ubuntu agent not detecting certain distro names properly
  • Add -hostname and -custom-hostname flags to set them in the dashboard

2015-12-17

platform

  • Fix security and update counts

2015-12-12

Agent Updates

  • Add the ability to tag an agent at runtime with -group flag

2015-12-01

agent

  • Fix a bug with Debian based systems and counting security related packages

2015-11-07

platform

  • New feature: CVE alerts now show in the dashboard when vulnerable software is detected by SysWard

2015-09-27

platform

  • Performance improvements on agent checkin (before: 150ms average, after: 5ms)

agent

  • Bug fix that was causing agent to hang on spotty connections and never finish running
  • OpenSUSE and SUSE are now supported operating systems

2015-09-10

platform

  • SUSE and OpenSUSE support added

2015-05-17

platform

  • New design released with UI and overview improvements
  • Custom hostnames can now be set for display within the UI
  • User auditing to track who has done what in the control panel

agent

2015-05-07

platform

  • Fix small spelling error
  • Add loading indicator to packages page

2015-04-22

platform

  • New feature: User auditing released

2015-03-30

platform

  • Improvements to auditing to log when packages are held

2015-03-29

platform

  • Add support for group, os, and checkin sorting
  • Custom hostnames can now be set by just clicking on the agent hostname

2015-03-20

agent

  • Agent now supports HTTPS proxying

2015-03-18

platform

  • Fix UI bug where scrollbar would show up when no content was scrollable
  • Adjust ‘dead agent’ timeout to 10 minutes
  • Agent history is now searchable

2015-03-17

platform

  • UI improvements and better failed jobs page
  • Preserve ordering and sorting when upgrading a package

2015-02-26

platform

  • New feature: Packages page gives package overview for all systems

2015-02-09

platform

  • Fix display issues with Ubuntu/CentOS icons on dashboard
  • Fix ordering on pricing page

2015-01-24

platform

  • PayPal is now a supported payment method

2014-12-23

platform

  • Performance improvements to the agent API
  • Performance improvements to the dashboard

2014-10-24

platform

  • Users can now set their timezone
  • Agent list can now be exported as a CSV
  • Added sorting to security/regular update counts on agent list
  • CentOS/RHEL are now both supported

agent

  • CentOS/RHEL are now both supported

2014-10-23

platform

  • Various performance improvements

2014-10-18

agent

  • Apt will now choose to keep the old config instead of dpkg’s

2014-10-09

platform

  • Organization owners can now remove users from their org

2014-09-29

platform

  • Jobs can now be cancelled before they run

2014-09-28

platform

  • Agent list can be filtered using hostname and group filters

2014-09-26

platform

  • New feature called Organizations allow you to invite multiple people to your account under a organization name.
  • Cleanedup display of IPv4/IPv6 on agent lists

2014-08-09

platform

  • Improvements to the package view page for agents/servers
  • Fix small grouping issue on packages

2014-07-23

platform

  • Display manually upgraded packages (user logged into server and upgraded something)
  • Better failure reporting - email alerts on job failures

2014-07-20

platform

  • Fix sorting of agents on list page

2014-07-14

platform

  • Ability to only apply security updates
  • Various backend enhancements

2014-07-11

platform

  • Added ability to setup 2 Factor Auth for all users
  • Fix pending update counts

2014-06-12

platform

  • Ability to hold and unhold packages
  • UI improvements