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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

Changelog

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 help@sysward.com 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 Upates

  • 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
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