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Security Server Multi-Platform

This section contains the release notes for Security Server Multi-Platform. For the Security Appliance Sandbox release notes, refer to this section.Security Appliance Sandbox

For Security Server Multi-Platform release notes from 2019-2020, refer to this document.

Version 6.2.14.11938

Release date:

  • Fast ring: 2023.03.08

  • Slow ring: 2023.03.09

Resolved issues

Product

  • Fixed an issue where the Security Server was not automatically updated when the root password expired.

Version 6.2.14.11914

Release date:

  • Fast ring: 2023.02.28

  • Slow ring: 2023.03.02

New features and improvements

Product

  • Added support for Open SSL version 1.1.1t.

Resolved issues

Product

  • Fixed an issue that caused the Internet Content Adaptation Protocol (ICAP) to disconnect due to the limited number of connections to the Security Server. The limit has been increased.

  • Improved resource usage on the Security Server when network connectivity problems occurred on Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tools while running Central Scan.

  • The JSON parsing issues during UTF-16 encodings have been fixed.

Version 6.2.13.11842

Release date:

  • Fast ring: 2022.12.07

  • Slow ring: 2022.12.12

New features and improvements

Product

  • The password security requirement has been increased. It must contain at least 8 characters, one digit, at least one upper case character, at least one lower case character, one special character and must be changed every 3 months.

  • GravityZone version 6.30.1-1 or higher is now required for optimum functionality.

  • The thick provisioning pre-allocation storage for Security Server Multi-Platform has been set to 40 GB.

  • You can now download the Microsoft Hyper-V Gen 2 Security Server image from GravityZone.

  • The number of concurrent connections per client IP has been limited to reduce denial-of-service and distributed denial-of-service attacks.

Resolved issues

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the OS Upgrade Task status from being updated in GravityZone.

  • Fixed an issue that caused floppy disk kernel errors to be displayed in System logs.

Version 6.2.12.11679

Release date:

  • Fast ring: 2022.09.20

  • Slow ring: 2022.09.22

Resolved issues

Product

  • Fixed a proxy configuration issue in the setup interface.

Version 6.2.12.11661

Release date:

  • Fast ring: 2022.09.19

  • Slow ring: -

Resolved issues

Product

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the Communication Server from being configured.

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the GravityZone loopback IP address from being displayed correctly for the Security Server role.

Version 6.2.11.11638

Release date:

  • Fast ring: 2022.08.29

  • Slow ring: 2022.08.31

Resolved issues

General

  • Security fixes.

Version 6.2.10.11582

Release date:

  • Fast ring: 2022.07.04

  • Slow ring: 2022.07.05

New features and improvements

General

Note

GravityZone On-premises users are not affected by these changes.

Version 6.2.9.11558

Release date:

  • Fast ring: 2022.06.14

  • Slow ring: 2022.06.16

New features and improvements

Product

  • Added an additional local interface in the the Security Server console. You can use this interface to view more information about the Security Server, as well as configuring it without using the sva-setup command.

Resolved issues

General

  • Fixed an issue that prevented DNS entries from remaining saved after a reboot.

Version 6.2.8.11464

Release date: 2022.05.19

Resolved issues

General

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the applied HVI policy from being displayed.

  • Fixed an issue that caused the ubuntu user to be overwritten during a manual installation.

  • Fixed an issue that caused DNS entries to change after a Security Server reboot.

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the Security Server role from being installed on GravityZone, when it was deployed on Amazon AWS or Azure.

New features and improvements

Product

  • The Communication Server configuration options have been renamed to better reflect the used Cloud instances, based on your browser's URL:

    • For cloudgz.gravityzone.bitdefender.com: GravityZone Cloud Instance 1

    • For cloud.gravityzone.bitdefender.com: GravityZone Cloud Instance 2

Version 6.2.7.11403

Release date:

  • Fast ring: 2022.04.12

  • Slow ring: 2022.04.14

New features and improvements

Product

  • When you configure the Communication Server parameters on the Security Server for GravityZone Cloud, you can select your cloud region from a drop-down menu.

Known issues

  • Some Security Server have lost their static DNS configuration. If you have encountered this issue, use the sva-setup command to manually correct them.

Version 6.2.6.11319

Release date:

  • Fast ring: 2022.03.01

  • Slow ring: 2022.03.03

New features and improvements

Product

  • Security hardenings for Security Server have been implemented according to CIS Benchmarks and CIS-CAT scan, achieving a score of 85%.

  • Improved the proxy settings for the Support Tool.

  • Events are now sent hourly to the syslog server. In addition, the syslog file maximum size is now 2 GB.

  • Security Server now stores the command history in the [bitdefender_directory]/var/log/history.log file for previous Terminal sessions.

Version 6.2.5.11201

Release date:

  • Fast ring: 2021.12.16

  • Slow ring: 2021.12.20

Improvements

General

  • The Security Server now retries failed updates.

  • Implemented a cleanup mechanism to remove unnecessary files.

Version 6.2.4.11063

Release date: 2021.10.21

Improvements

General

  • All connections to Bitdefender servers are now performed via HTTPS.

Version 6.2.4.11021

Release date: 2021.09.30

Resolved issues

General

  • Security fixes.

  • The Security Server embedded into GravityZone virtual appliance is no longer incorrectly displaying the 127.0.0.1 IP address.

Version 6.2.3.10978

Release date:

  • Fast ring: 2021.09.02

  • Slow ring: 2021.09.02

Resolved issues

General

Security Server was seen as Relay after the update to version 6.2.3.10956.

Version 6.2.3.10956

Release date:

  • Fast ring: 2021.08.30

  • Slow ring: 2021.09.01

Improvements

General

  • Updated the library for the communication with GravityZone Control Center.

Versions 6.2.2.10607 and 6.2.2.10609

Release date:

  • Fast ring: 2021.04.16

  • Slow ring: 2021.04.19

Improvements

Product

  • Bitdefender upgrades the operating system of the Security Server to Ubuntu 20.04. You can perform the OS update through the Update Security Server task from Control Center. For detailed information, best practices and upgrade steps, refer to Update the operating system of the Security Server to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

    Warning

    Before proceeding with the update, we strongly advise you to take snapshots of the Security Server appliances.

Note

You may notice one of these Security Server versions in Control Center:

  • 6.2.2.10607 - when updating from an older version based on Ubuntu 16.04

  • 6.2.2.10609 - when deploying a new image

Final version that will appear in Control Center after the update is 6.2.2.10608.

Version 6.2.1.10665

Release date:

  • Fast ring: 2021.05.13

  • Slow ring: 2021.05.13

Resolved issues

Product

  • An incompatibility of the Citrix hypervisors prevented the Security Server OS upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04. Citrix has solved the issue and released the Citrix XS71ECU2060 hotfix for Citrix XenServer 7.1 LTSR.

    LTSR and Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 LTSR. For detailed information, best practices and upgrade steps, refer to Update the operating system of the Security Server to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

    Warning

    Before proceeding with the update, we strongly advise you to take snapshots of the Security Server appliances.

    Note

    Final version that will appear in Control Center after the update is 6.2.2.10608.

Version 6.1.79.10425

Release date:

  • Fast ring: 2021.03.16

  • Slow ring: 2021.03.16

Resolved issues

Antimalware

  • Resolved an issue with scheduled security content updates.

  • Resolved an issue with security content update through proxy.

Version 6.1.79.10417

Release date:

  • Fast ring: 2021.03.15

  • Slow ring: 2021.03.15

Resolved issues

Product

  • Policy was pending after installing the Security Server from an OVA. The issue occurred when the Security Server was connected to a GravityZone cloud console.

Version 6.1.79.10397

Release date:

  • Fast ring: 2021.03.11

  • Slow ring: 2021.03.11

Important

This version includes all improvements and fixes delivered with version 6.1.79.10377, released only on fast ring.

Resolved issues

HVI

  • Resolved a critical issue that occurred after updating from the previous version.

Version 6.1.79.10377

Release date:

  • Fast ring: 2021.03.04

  • Slow ring: -

Improvements

Security for Storage

  • Improved the prefiltering technologies for automatic file submission to Sandbox Analyzer. As a result, file selection is more rigorous.

  • Added support for automatic malware submission to Sandbox Analyzer.

    Note

    Files detected as malware may be sent for a deeper analysis in Sandbox Analyzer after the GravityZone release scheduled in April.

HVI

  • Added support for the following operating systems:

    • Ubuntu 20.04

    • Oracle Linux 8 UEK

    • Oracle Linux 8.2

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2