Changelogs for ESET products
This page displays changelog information and release notes for recent ESET product releases (listed by the most recent version to earlier versions and are only available in English). Click the product name to display the changelog. Each product shows up to the last ten changelogs. Release cycle exceptions may apply to specific regions/countries.
Recent changelogs for ESET PROTECT Virtual Appliance
- FIXED: Issues with ESET Management Agent connecting to ESET PROTECT On-Prem Server
- FIXED: Ability to enable VA/PM through solution details
- FIXED: Other minor fixes and improvements
- Added: Network isolation for macOS
- Added: Additional filtering options, including logical operators
- Added: ESET LiveGrid reputation and feedback system configuration for macOS and Linux
- Added: Windows Authentication for connection to SQL Server
- Added: Server installation support for Rocky Linux 9 and Debian 11
- Improved: Report printer technology
- Improved: Console login process, suppressing performance issues
- Improved: Automatic removal of expired triggers
- Improved: Stricter Transport Security for Web Console landing page
- Changed: Product renaming
- Fixed: Lost selected customer when editing a scheduled task
- Fixed: Product About page was taking too long to load
- Fixed: Product not installed status was displaying inaccurately for the Common features policy
- Fixed: AIO installer not responding and consuming excessive amount of RAM
- Fixed: Remote agent deployment failing when using a deployment script with Kerberos authentication enabled
- Fixed: SNI in TLS handshake causing SMTP sending failure in a multi-home mail environment
- Removed: MDM component fully removed
- Removed: ESET PROTECT On-Prem server installation support of CentOS7, RHEL 7 and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Fixed: Server crash during periods of high load, related to a memory crash in the MySQL ODBC
- Fixed: Issues with upgrading ESET PROTECT On-Prem Virtual Appliance caused by SELinux rules
- New: Virtual appliance available on new operating system Rocky Linux 9
- Removed: MDM component not available for installation (does not affect existing MDM installations)
- Fixed: Other minor bug fixes and improvements
- Added: Ability to download ESET LiveGuard Advanced behavioral reports
- Added: Time rules in Dynamic Groups
- Added: Client task-Check for product update (requires ESET Endpoint Antivirus/Security for Windows version 10.1 and above)
- Added: Windows Server Core 2022 support
- Added: In-product communication regarding MDM reaching EOL
- Added: In-product communication regarding CentOS 7 reaching EOL
- Improved: Agent deployment using a server task
- Improved: Server certificate notifications in Status Overview
- Improved: OpenSSL 3.0 support
- Changed: Product renaming
- Fixed: Incorrect Dynamic Groups evaluation behavior on Agent startup
- Fixed: Ability to postpone EFDE update not functional
- Removed: Windows 7/8/8.1 support
- Removed: Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft SBS 2011 support
- Removed: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS support
- Removed: macOS Sierra (10.12), High Sierra (10.13) and Mojave (10.14) support
- Removed: Legacy ESET product support for V4 & V5 on all platforms
- Other minor improvements and bug fixes
- Improved: Additional log data available in report templates—Mail quarantine release log
- Fixed: Agents lost connection after migration, followed by an upgrade
- Fixed: Agent service fails to stop in time, or system restart takes longer than expected
- Fixed: Main search feature in ESET PROTECT (Virtual Appliance) does not work properly
- Fixed: Agent for macOS is not correctly reporting the system build number in specific cases
- Fixed: Additional minor and localization fixes
- Added: Detections grouped by common attributes
- Added: An MDR Report Template for offices and partners delivering ESET Services
- Added: Data filter per customer for MSP administrators in the Dashboard section
- Added: New section for MSP administrators, “Managed Customers,” offering an overview of all managed customers
- Added: MSP administrators can filter report templates per customer when creating scheduled reports
- Added: Ability to add columns FQDN and Serial Number in the Computers section
- Added: Syslog includes a computer’s operating system, and a static group’s full hierarchy and description
- Added: New branding visuals within the console
- Added: Ability to combine Computer name, Database version and Last connection in one report
- Improved: Sending documents to ESET LiveGuard is now ON by default for new customers
- Improved: Easier search within the console with no need to first choose a category
- Improved: Filter policies by name
- Improved: Information about installer creation and downloads added to the Audit Log
- Improved: MSP customers ready for a set up distinguished by an icon
- Improved: New version of the AV Remover and Log Collector in the Management Agent
- Improved: Size values in Submitted Files
- Improved: Promoting ESET Bridge as a replacement for the discontinued support of Apache HTTP proxy
- Changed: The “Auto-updates” policy will become a part of the “Common features” policy when the new Configuration module is released (planned for July)
- Fixed: Inability to resolve/unresolve detections when the parent group is selected in the tree
- Fixed: Wrong ESET LiveGuard license was shown while editing the existing software install task
- Fixed: Incorrect filter behavior when multiple license statuses are selected
- Fixed: Issues with displaying the Product Tour in the Safari browser
- Fixed: Creating a dynamic group template based on a value “LiveGuard is not working due to a license problem” not functioning properly
- Fixed: Dynamic group template based on a value “macOS is preventing the ESET security product from accessing some folders” not working properly
- Other minor improvements and bug fixes
- Added: Dark theme
- Added: CEF format for Syslog
- Added: Reporting of absolute and relative free space for hard drives in HW inventory
- Added: Log out action in the Computer context menu (under Power)
- Added: Log out Client Task
- Added: Ability to filter Computers by FQDN
- Added: Ability to filter Computers by Serial Number
- Added: Last boot time in computer details
- Added: Ability to switch between Absolute and Relative time in tables
- Added: Ability to add column Hash in Detections section
- Added: Ability to search by Hash in the Detections section
- Added: Ability to search by Object in the Detections section
- Added: Ability to distinguish if BitLocker is activated on a specific machine
- Added: Filtering options in Computer details - Installed Applications screen
- Added: Ability to deploy LiveGuard on all devices in a static group via context menu action
- Added: Ability to reset default filters
- Added: Computer preview - ability to reset displayed sections to the default
- Added: Ability to modify Computer name and Description directly from the Computer preview panel
- Added: Ability to mute/unmute Computer directly from the Computer preview panel
- Added: Static Group name in Syslog events
- Added: Ability to see the progress of removing client tasks
- Added: Ability to filter unassigned policies in the Policies section
- Added: Ability to sort policies in the "Last Modified By" column
- Added: Support for time-elapsed (duration) filters in Dynamic Groups
- Added: Section name as a prefix in the browser tab title
- Added: Comma separator for thousands place in table numbers
- Improved: VDI support (mostly improvements around instant clones)
- Improved: Table numbers are now aligned right
- Improved: Filter Advisor remembers item sorting
- Improved: Network Adapters (part of Computer details - Details - Hardware) are more readable in IPv4/IPv6
- Improved: Multiplatform support when deploying or enabling features via Solutions in the Computer context menu
- Improved: Information in the Detection type column is split into two separate columns: Detection Category and Type
- Improved: Selecting a product from the repository in the Software Install task
- Improved: Inspect button display is now dependent on the permission set in "Access to ESET Inspect"
- Improved: Filtering by Detection Type
- Improved: New version of Log Collector (version 4.6.0.0) in Management Agent
- Improved: Creation of New Report Template for newly created Report category
- Improved: Example section in the "Select time interval" filter
- Changed: Limit from 100 to 1000 when opening selected objects
- Changed: Disabled optional use OPAL in built-in encryption policy "Encrypt all disks - Recommended"
- Changed: "Outdated Components" renamed to "Server components"
- Changed: Minimal throttling for Client Tasks and Server Tasks was changed from 15 minutes to 1 minute
- Fixed: Save filter set is not working correctly in all sections
- Fixed: Specific scenario causes license sync breakage (if static group below company has the same name as a site that is created in EBA)
- Fixed: When you load a saved filter set, it is not applied unless you edit it (various sections)
- Fixed: Filter "≤ # OF ALERTS" is not working correctly (Computers section)
- Fixed: AD Synchronization server task fails if the target group is "All" and groups are being removed
- Fixed: "Log Into Domain" login screen check box selection is not remembered after logout
- Fixed: License for AIO installer is mandatory
- Fixed: The license list occasionally disappears when scrolling through a long License Management list
- Fixed: The date/time filter does not work correctly on the localized web console
- Fixed: All policies are hidden except auto-update when logging in to the console for the first time
- Fixed: Info message about default value for time-based criteria in Notifications is shown when it is not mandatory
- Fixed: Network adapter(s) screen informs that the latest version of an agent is required, even though the latest version is installed
- Fixed: Default presets for Computers/Detections sections are overwritten in a special scenario
- Fixed: Inaccurate problem count in License Management badge in specific scenarios
- Fixed: Missing limit for quarantine management actions, which causes an error message in some cases
- Fixed: HW inventory reports the TPM manufacturer version instead of the specification version
- Various other minor improvements and bug fixes
- Fixed: Apache HTTP Proxy (v 2.4.54.0) replaced with the latest version (v 2.4.54.25) due to discovered vulnerabilities in the earlier version
- Fixed: ESET Management Agent not using SNI extension when communicating with ESET PROTECT
- Fixed: Upgrade of ESET PROTECT using All-in-one package fails in case there is a more recent version of the SQL Server 2019 or when a SQL Server 2014 is installed
- Added: Advanced Filters in the Computers section
- Added: New product tour
- Added: List of outdated components
- Added: Support for third-party 2FA
- Added: Native ARM64 support for ESET Management Agent for macOS
- Added: "Waiting" state in the Component version status section on Status Overview for better communication of auto-updates (available from Windows Endpoint version 9.1)
- Added: Site structure from ESET Business Account synchronizes in the static group tree
- Added: New rebooting option—administrator can set up reboots in a way that the end-users can postpone them (available from Windows Endpoint version 9.1)
- Added: MDM web control (We are now bringing web control over from Cloud MDM to on-premises MDM)
- Added: Support for deployment of the latest version in the software installation task (the latest version at the moment of task execution, it is not necessary to select a specific version anymore)
- Added: Ability to create an installer with a full set of modules (Windows Endpoint 9.1 package only contains essential modules, and others are downloaded later)
- Added: All Audit Log events forwarded to Syslog
- Added: ESET Product Navigator to the header
- Added: New context menu action "Deploy security product" (in Computers section)
- Added: Creation Time and Modification Time columns in the Installers section
- Added: Reset functionality for columns in tables
- Added: Warning to Audit log access right
- Added: Ability to select multiple monitored static groups in a single notification
- Added: OS version collected from macOS and Windows is displayed in human-readable form in the OS Service Pack column in the Computers section
- Added: Agents tile in the Status Overview section for better identification of unmanaged computers
- Added: Possibility to add Group Name column in the Detections section (not displayed by default)
- Added: New buttons under the table in the Computers section and Detection section
- Added: Right-click tables to open the context menu
- Added: Built-in policies for V7 product for macOS and HTTP proxy
- Added: Hide and Show action for ESET LiveGuard Dashboard
- Improved: Installer creation Wizard
- Improved: Reboot and shut down experience on macOS (user is notified about restart and can cancel it in 60 seconds)
- Improved: Console users receive a notification about multiple detections occurring on managed computers aggregated in one email message
- Improved: The latest versions of each product are prioritized in the product selection section of the software installation task
- Improved: Context menu in Computers section
- Improved: ESET LiveGuard status (enabled/disabled) is reported properly to the console (requires Endpoint version 9.1 and above) and leveraged in various sections (for example, action Enable is not offered for endpoint where the feature is already enabled)
- Improved: Tasks planned ASAP are executed in the order in which they were created in the console
- Improved: Every ASAP trigger created by the user in the console must have an expiration set (less than six months)
- Improved: HIPS detections now contain user and hash
- Improved: UI elements in tables
- Improved: New version of AVRemover and LogCollector in the Management Agent
- Improved: Computer name and IP is now in separate columns in the Detection section
- Improved: Computer with IP column was divided into two columns in Submitted Files
- Improved: Computer description can be multiline
- Improved: User can define more than one naming pattern for VDI master image
- Changed: ESET Dynamic Threat Defense to ESET LiveGuard in management consoles
- Changed: ESET Enterprise Inspector to ESET Inspect in management consoles
- Changed: Default message contents (Computer first connected, Computer identity recovered, Computer cloning question created)
- Changed: Remove tags icon in the Tags panel
- Fixed: Several Functionality problems are missing in the selection while creating a dynamic group template
- Fixed: Scheduled client tasks without pre-selected "Invoke ASAP If Event Missed" may be executed with the wrong timing if the computer woke up from sleep or hibernation
- Fixed: Tags assigned to a "Client Task" are automatically assigned also to computers where the task has been executed or assigned
- Fixed: Unavailable EDR element in the Component version status section on the Status Overview Dashboard
- Fixed: Trigger for scheduled Reports cannot be edited
- Fixed: Exclusions table shows the "Occurred" column, but it is labeled as "Created on"
- Fixed: Trigger via CRON shows different time after opening details of a specific trigger
- Fixed: "Export table as" now exports all data, not just data on the page
- Fixed: Last scan time in computer details
- Fixed: When "Module update failed" occurs, the computer is not moved to the related Dynamic Group, if the Dynamic Group was created
- Fixed: Policies under "Manage policies" over a group do not display for users with an administrator permission set
- Fixed: "Restart required" and "Inbound Communication" columns in the Detections list display incorrect values
- Fixed: Unable to log in to ESET PROTECT via SSO from ESET Inspect
- Fixed: MSP Customer Setup fails if a user has no access to user management but does not request user creation
- Fixed: Static group synchronization via LDAPS prefers the LDAP port
- Fixed: Multiple sorting does not work as expected when the top priority is assigned to the Alerts column
- Fixed: The overall status of the license might not be shown correctly in specific cases
- Removed: "Auto-loading" option in the Clients and Detections screen paging menu
- Removed: Flags in the language selector on the login screen
- Various other minor improvements and bug fixes
- Fixed: Specific tasks are re-triggered after an upgrade to the latest version of ESET PROTECT
- Added: Support for Automatic Product Updates (available in Windows Endpoint version 9.0)
- Added: New ESET Dynamic Threat Defense dashboard
- Added: Computer preview - by clicking on computer name will be displayed side panel with the most important computer details
- Added: Detections preview - by clicking on detection type will be displayed side panel with the most important detection details
- Added: Management for brute-force attack protection (available in Windows Endpoint version 9.0)
- Added: Indicator of last connection status of managed computer (connected in last replication interval)
- Added: New column Logged users in Computers table
- Added: System updates management for Android
- Added: Ability to create a new trigger in client task details
- Added: Windows OS build number is reported as a separate symbol (can use it in Dynamic groups)
- Added: List of submitted files (EDTD) in Computer details, Detection and Quarantine section
- Added: New product categories in Product version status section on Status Overview
- Added: Full path to a computer in received notifications
- Added: Possibility disable the triggering of notifications for muted computers
- Added: Support for Java 17
- Added: EEI-specific "Remote Shell Access" permission
- Changed: Existing ESET Dynamic Threat Defense dashboard name change
- Changed: Reducing and re-organizing columns in the Computers section
- Changed: Triggers for server tasks and client tasks with frequencies less than 15 minutes will not be allowed
- Changed: More granular communication of managed applications versions
- Improved: ESET Dynamic Threat Defense perception (added information of what was originally detected by EDTD)
- Improved: Operating system update - allowing the user to postpone the required reboot
- Improved: Operating system update task accessible not only from context menu over a group but also over a single device
- Improved: Proactive communication of 2FA mechanisms in ESET PROTECT and its usability improvements
- Improved: Can remember a device when 2FA is enabled (the second factor is not required on the remembered device)
- Improved: Can visually distinguish locked policies in policies and computer details screens (padlock icon)
- Improved: When users create new permission sets, checkboxes become unavailable based on their permission (users cannot give higher permissions than they have)
- Improved: Automatically selected newly created permission set when creating a new user
- Improved: Basic support of installer file caching in script-based Agent Live Installers
- Improved: Date and Time displayed in format according to language
- Improved: Updated cipher suite configuration for Tomcat
- Improved: Faster displaying of the planned flag on client tasks also after assigning to the significant amount of targets
- Improved: The enrollment URL link is visible below the QR code, and the user can copy it in the enrollment wizard
- Improved: New version of LogCollector in Management Agent
- Improved: A user or a computer can only be assigned to 200 users or computers in one operation to retain adequate service responsiveness
- Fixed: Actions in the context menu for devices were disabled incorrectly (Enable ESET Dynamic Threat Defense, Network Isolation)
- Fixed: Licenses without an expiration date (for example, subscription licenses) were counted as expired in the Status Overview
- Fixed: "Title" in the properties of the exported PDF report
- Fixed: Triggers - infinite loading in some cases when the user changes trigger type
- Fixed: Unwanted machines moved during computers import
- Fixed: Missing notification about scheduled restart (macOS - osascript)
- Fixed: Server Settings: ADD FILTER button is not working in the pop-up
- Fixed: Custom headers of scheduled reports are not applied
- Fixed: MSP customer setup fails if CA cert is not accessible and the user has no RW access on certificates
- Fixed: Licenses without expiration date are counted as expired
- Fixed: In case the generated PDF report contains a double-byte character in the name, the Title property might be garbled
- Fixed: License is randomly changed when the software install task is edited
- Fixed: Notifications - Message preview is not displaying properly
- Fixed: Email sender is leaking ntlm_auth zombie processes upon each NTLM authentication attempt
- Fixed: macOS Big Sur, specific protections statuses are missing in dynamic groups and report templates
- Fixed: Multiple sorting does not sort correctly
- Fixed: Performance issue when deleting a large number of exclusions
- Fixed: Various other bug fixes, security, and performance improvements
- Removed: Technical support for old products (ERA Proxy, ESLC, VAH, EVSA, NSX)
- Added: Automatic upgrade of the ESET Management Agent to the latest compatible version
- Added: Native ARM64 support for the ESET Management Agent for Windows
- Added: Support for VMware Instant Clones
- Added: Ability to look up a specific computer based on the last logged user parameter
- Added: New audit information on the policy screen (Modification time, Last modified by, and Creation time)
- Added: New ESET Enterprise Inspector (EEI) permissions
- Added: Possibility to create new notifications based on the severity score (determined by EEI rule severity) and the computer severity score that comes from EEI
- Added: Possibility to create an All-in-one installer that also includes the EEI agent
- Added: Possibility to deploy the EEI Agent to managed devices using one-click wizards
- Added: Upgrade outdated products in a computer group
- Added: Upgrade outdated operating systems in a computer group
- Added: Ability to copy a license Public ID to the clipboard via a context menu in License Management
- Added: Ability to filter licenses on the license management screen based on the Public ID
- Added: Automatic resolution of HIPS logs
- Added: Computer description as a new attribute in Device Identifiers under computer details
- Added: Default filter on the Detections screen (unresolved detections first)
- Added: Ability to use a second license to activate ESET Dynamic Threat Defense in a software installation task when an eligible endpoint product is selected
- Added: Expiration time for client task triggers (Triggers tab)
- Added: New report: Computer Hardware Overview
- Added: Information when less secure certificates (SHA-1) are used
- Added: An option to keep system applications installed in Device owner enrollment (Mobile Device Management)
- Added: An option to remove mapped domain users
- Added: Support for the migration and backup of ESET Full Disk Encryption (EFDE) recovery data
- Added: A new client task: "Generate new FDE Recovery password" (available from EFDE client version 1.3 (EFDE - purchased separately))
- Added: Ability to retry encryption from the console if encryption fails (available from EFDE client version 1.3 (EFDE - purchased separately))
- Improved: ESET Full Disk Encryption status now provides more details and is more interactive
- Improved: Pause a task for ESET Full Disk Encryption (capability to select an exact date and time)
- Improved: Extended Hardware inventory details for a device with encryption-related fields
- Improved: Extended information in detection details
- Improved: The Syslog export is extended with "Action" and "Handled" flags for various detection logs
- Improved: A recommendation message is displayed when the administrator tries to run a client task on more than 1,000 individual devices (using a group is recommended)
- Improved: A recommendation message is displayed when the administrator tries to assign a policy to more than 200 individual devices (using a group is recommended)
- Improved: Upgraded the MySQL server to version 8.0 in the ESET PROTECT appliance
- Improved: Upgraded the Webmin interface in the ESET PROTECT appliance
- Improved: An explanation message to the user when inserting a bundle license containing EDTD to ESET PROTECT stating that it must be linked via ESET Business Account (EBA)
- Improved: Various UI and UX improvements
- Changed: The CRON trigger can be planned for LOCAL or UTC time only
- Changed: The Wipe task has been dropped because it does not work properly in newer Android versions. The Factory Reset task remains the only task for both Apple and Android devices.
- Changed: Adjustments related to managed products name changes
- Fixed: Disk encryption managed by EFDE is not detected by dynamic groups
- Fixed: The Management Agent for macOS was failing to reboot a device after a successful software installation task
- Fixed: Mobile device management allows the manual selection of a suitable platform in case of unrecognized mobile devices
- Fixed: The License Owner name was not updated in License Management after changing it in EBA
- Fixed: The client task could not be scheduled for managed computer local time (only for browser time)
- Fixed: The installation failed when the parent group was set up (Live installer/All-in-one installer)
- Fixed: The Management Agent reports internal Apple network private interfaces on M1 chip machines
- Fixed: The version check for Mobile Device Management (MDM) devices (Android) did not work
- Fixed: Device filters on Dashboards displayed different values than in tables
- Fixed: In some cases, the "Planned" flag in a client task remained active after a task was executed
- Fixed: The license usage number did not display the correct number when a license was overused
- Fixed: Product deactivation failed with a timeout (in certain cases) when invoked from a "Delete Not Connecting Computers" server task
- Fixed: Subunits were not used by percentage usage enumeration for mail security products
- Fixed: License synchronization failed after an upgrade to ESET PROTECT 8.0 when multiple EBA/EMA accounts containing the same license were linked into ESET PROTECT
- Fixed: In some cases, Detail in the "Audit Log" overlapped other lines
- Fixed: Users could not delete objects in some cases even with correct access rights
- Fixed: The operating system name (Big Sur) for macOS 11.1 and 11.2 was missing
- Fixed: Various other bug fixes and security and performance improvements
- Removed: Peer reports ("Network peers" and "Network peers with problems") from reports and dashboards