FS Protection for Mac 19.0 releases

Kingston1
Kingston1 Posts: 21 F-Secure Employee
edited February 2023 in Home Security Beta Programs

FS Protection for Mac 19.0 releases will be posted under this thread.

Best regards, Mikko

Mac R&D Team

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  • Kingston1
    Kingston1 Posts: 21 F-Secure Employee
    edited November 2022

    Release 19.0 beta 1 (build 47277)

    We are pleased to announce the availability of a new release of FS Protection for Mac. This update is available for download from My FS Protection and delivery to existing installations will be started shortly.

    Highlights of this release:

    • VPN with limited company internal participation.
    • FATE support: the ability to turn product features on and off from the backend.

    Known issues:

    • Product uninstall on Ventura will kill network access. Please reboot after uninstall on Ventura.
    • On-access scanner cannot be disabled from settings.
    • VPN on Catalina may not work for all users.
    • VPN settings are visible but not yet usable.

    If you experience any issues, please run the "Support Tool" in the Applications -> "fs protection" folder and submit a bug report with the file created to allow us to investigate the issue. For issues related to Browsing protection and Parental control, remember to include any URLs that reproduce the problem in your bug report. You may also submit false positives and uncategorized web pages directly to F-Secure Labs using https://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/submit-a-sample#sample-url

    As always, we welcome any feedback via the community pages, and reports of any issues found via https://beta.f-secure.com

    Best regards, Mikko

    Mac R&D Team

  • ArthurVal
    ArthurVal Posts: 233 F-Secure Employee
    edited December 2022

    Release 19.0 beta 2 (build 47664)

    We are pleased to announce the availability of a new release of FS Protection for Mac. This update is available for download from My FS Protection and delivery to existing installations will be started shortly.

    Highlights of this release:

    VPN stability improvements

    • Crash fixes
    • notification logic stabilised
    • fixes for VPN settings controls
    • product uninstallation should not cause the machine to lose network connection anymore
    • VPN service login items are now displayed as coming from "fs protection" on macOS Ventura

    Other changes:

    • improved AV databases version reporting in UI

    Known issues:

    • VPN on Catalina may not work for all users.

    If you experience any issues, please run the "Support Tool" in the Applications -> "fs protection" folder and submit a bug report with the file created to allow us to investigate the issue. For issues related to Browsing protection and Parental control, remember to include any URLs that reproduce the problem in your bug report. You may also submit false positives and uncategorized web pages directly to F-Secure Labs using https://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/submit-a-sample#sample-url

    As always, we welcome any feedback via the community pages, and reports of any issues found via https://beta.f-secure.com

    Best regards, Arthur

    Mac R&D Team

  • pajp
    pajp Posts: 107 F-Secure Employee
    edited January 2023

    Release 19.0 beta 3 (build 48514)

    We are pleased to announce the availability of a new release of FS Protection for Mac. This update is available for download from My FS Protection and delivery to existing installations will be started shortly.

    Highlights of this release:

    • VPN stability and performance improvements
    • VPN IKEv2 protocol support
    • Fixes an issue where Security Cloud could malfunction after reboot or upgrade
    • Improved anti-virus database update logic
    • DeepGuard behaviour changed to not persist "deny" decision if it was due to user not responding in time
    • Fixes a memory leak in DeepGuard (fscxfenced)
    • General performance and stability improvements

    ⚠️ Change in supported macOS versions: starting with this release, macOS 10.15 Catalina is no longer supported and will not receive any further software updates. macOS 11, 12 and 13 are fully supported. All users are encouraged to upgrade to a supported macOS version to ensure they will keep receiving product updates.

    If you experience any issues, please run the "Support Tool" in the Applications -> "fs protection" folder and submit a bug report with the file created to allow us to investigate the issue. For issues related to Browsing protection and Parental control, remember to include any URLs that reproduce the problem in your bug report. You may also submit false positives and uncategorized web pages directly to F-Secure Labs using https://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/submit-a-sample#sample-url

    As always, we welcome any feedback via the community pages, and reports of any issues found via https://beta.f-secure.com

    Rasmus Sten

    F-Secure Technology, Mac Team

  • Kingston1
    Kingston1 Posts: 21 F-Secure Employee

    Release 19.0 release candidate 1 (build 48950)

    We are pleased to announce the availability of a new release of FS Protection for Mac. This update is available for download from My FS Protection and delivery to existing installations will be started shortly.

    Highlights of this release:

    • VPN stability improvements and UI tune up and smart tasks
    • Browser extension fixes
    • Deepguard config app and scan window fixes

    If you experience any issues, please run the "Support Tool" in the Applications -> "fs protection" folder and submit a bug report with the file created to allow us to investigate the issue. For issues related to Browsing protection and Parental control, remember to include any URLs that reproduce the problem in your bug report. You may also submit false positives and uncategorized web pages directly to F-Secure Labs using https://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/submit-a-sample#sample-url

    As always, we welcome any feedback via the community pages, and reports of any issues found via https://beta.f-secure.com

  • Kingston1
    Kingston1 Posts: 21 F-Secure Employee

    Release 19.0 release candidate 2 (build 48998)

    We are pleased to announce the availability of a new release of FS Protection for Mac. This update is available for download from My FS Protection and delivery to existing installations will be started shortly.

    Highlights of this release:

    • VPN introduction task fixes