FS Protection macOS releases

Kingston1

We are trying something new. Instead of creating a new thread for every version, we will keep posting all beta releases for macOS under this thread as a continuous thread.

Mikko

F-Secure R&D, Desktop products

Kingston1

Release 19.8 beta 1

Highlight of this release:

• Duplicate network requests to certain backends optimized away
• Added support for url rating submission feature
• Various NextGen Vault UX additions and fixes
• Scanning platform NextGen support

If you experience any issues, please report them in this forum. Please run "Support Tool" when the issue happens and be prepared to provide the resulting file if we requested. 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 

Mikko

F-Secure R&D, Desktop products

Kingston1

Release 19.8 beta 2

Highlight of this release:

• Numerous bug fixes around product logout and login
• Nextgen vault large amounts of UX improvements
• All around minor bug fixes and improvement across the product

Mikko

F-Secure R&D, Desktop products

pajp

Release 19.8 beta 4 (build 63042)

Highlight of this release:

• Many UI improvements
• New Scam Protection feature: cookie blocker 🍪
• DeepGuard default behaviour change: in simple mode, DeepGuard will automatically block unknown software from modifying user data, instead of prompting the user. If you still wish to be prompted by DeepGuard, enable Advanced Mode in DeepGuard settings
• Improved Events subview, including new features "Show all events" and "Clear all events"

Note: an issue in the previous beta release may prevent automatic upgrade. If your FS Protection installation has not automatically updated to build 63042 within 48 hours, you can download and install a hotfix from the link below:

https://download.sp.f-secure.com/macos/hotfixes/699/ChannelUpgradeVPNCheckHotfix.pkg

After installing the hotfix, click "Check for updates" in the menubar menu to trigger a product upgrade. If the upgrade still doesn't work, please do let us know here in the forum!

If you experience any issues, please report them in this forum. Please run "Support Tool" when the issue happens and be prepared to provide the resulting file if we requested. 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/support/submit-a-sample

Rasmus

F-Secure R&D, Desktop products

ArthurVal

Release 19.8 beta 5 (build 63146)

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

Highlight of this release:

• Improved telemetry reporting: We noticed a drop in number of reported events by the product and discovered a regression related to the ongoing work on backend load optimization. The issue is now fixed and is expected to recover for this release.
• Improved storage consumption in case of failure in anti-virus database update processes.
• Optimized DeepGuard rule loading routine to decrease the time needed during startup and rule reload.
• Localization updates.

If you experience any issues, please report them in this forum. Please run "Support Tool" when the issue happens and be prepared to provide the resulting file if we requested. 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/support/submit-a-sample .

As always, we welcome any feedback via the community pages! https://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/submit-a-sample#sample-url

pajp

Release 19.8 beta 6 (build 63265)

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

Highlight of this release:

• Fixed an issue where DeepGuard would incorrectly block some software if the internet connection was down or if the software was rare
• New statistics in UI

If you experience any issues, please report them in this forum. Please run "Support Tool" when the issue happens and be prepared to provide the resulting file if we requested. 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/support/submit-a-sample

As always, we welcome any feedback via the https://community.f-secure.com/en/categories/Windows-Technology-Preview community pages!

ArthurVal

Release 19.8 beta 7 (build 63329)

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

Highlight of this release:

• Main UI application improvements to cooldown while waiting for license information to update
• Using appropriate name feature on the welcome view based on license information ("Safe Browsing" vs. "Scam Protection")
• Optimizing AV engine update process to avoid duplicate update start requests
• Adding missing localizations.

If you experience any issues, please report them in this forum. Please run "Support Tool" when the issue happens and be prepared to provide the resulting file if we requested. 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/support/submit-a-sample

As always, we welcome any feedback via the community pages! https://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/submit-a-sample#sample-url

ArthurVal

Release 19.8 beta 8 (build 63352)

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

Highlight of this release:

• Improved state management of smart tasks in product main UI
• Improved browser extensions status reporting in product main UI

If you experience any issues, please report them in this forum. Please run "Support Tool" when the issue happens and be prepared to provide the resulting file if we requested. 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/support/submit-a-sample .

As always, we welcome any feedback via the community pages! https://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/submit-a-sample#sample-url .

ArthurVal

Hello!

19.8 beta program had ended. The version has reached general availability in production. Thanks everyone for participating!

We will continue updating this thread with the next beta version releases.

Stay tuned!

66f2e490

@ArthurVal

Hi Arthur,

After upgrading to build 63352 I kept receiving this block event, even though I've already added it to the allow list. Can you please have a look? thanks.

======================================================

I might find the cause of this issue. I've set deny rules for certain apps to stop them from changing my files. The rule is structured like this: Team ID identifies the blocked app.

Now DeepGuard ignores the team ID in deny rules and refuses to allow any apps to write to "~/Music/Music".

But using Team ID in allow rules still works as expected. That's weird.

deny prefix "~/Music/Music/" "/ via any" w "" "TEAM_ID_HERE" "0"

ArthurVal

https://community.f-secure.com/en/discussion/comment/138571#Comment_138571

Hi, @66f2e490!

Thanks for the report. Yes, I also recall quite complex logic on DeepGuard side when it comes to matching deny & allow decisions in overlapping policies/rules.

Could I please ask you to enable debug logging and if possible to trigger the behavior to happen again afterwards so that our Support Tool captures it? I would appreciate if you could share the resulted fsdiag archive with me. Best if you send it to me in a private chat to avoid sharing it in public here. You can click on my name in the post title and select "Message".

ArthurVal

Release 19.8 Maintenance Release 1 beta 1 (build 63381)

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

Highlight of this release:

• Improved logic for suppressing smart tasks for features not included in the license

If you experience any issues, please report them in this forum. Please run "Support Tool" when the issue happens and be prepared to provide the resulting file if we requested. 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/support/submit-a-sample

As always, we welcome any feedback via the community pages! https://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/submit-a-sample#sample-url