PSB portal change log

Hi,
We are now-a-days upgrading the PSB reseller portals to new release almost every second week. And as most of the features are seen in the new PSB portal with same pace by everyone, we have been asked to provide some sort of change log for each release. So as a starting point, we will announce each new release in this thread with change log for it.
All portals update with bit different schedules, so here are the links to verify which version of the new UI your portal is running:
- https://emea.psb.f-secure.com/version.json
- https://amer.psb.f-secure.com/version.json
- https://apac.psb.f-secure.com/version.json
- https://emea2.psb.f-secure.com/version.json
We'll refer those version numbers in the change logs. First part of the version string matches with the "date" -field and the latter part after '-' the "revision" -field. Not yet really user friendly, but we'll improve it later.
Petri & rest of the fellows behind the new PSB portal.
PS. Main changes compared to old portal are:
- Everything is HTML5 based - also the profile editor. So no need for Java anymore.
- New company scope selector, more company focused model and better task flows.
- More intuitive security management like handling of the profiles, polices and software patches.
- Support the new PSB Workstation Security 12.00 features like Web content control and Connection control.
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fedool Posts: 149 F-Secure Employee
@etomcat wrote:Dear Mr. Petri Kuikka,
- Please also introduce remote file sample submission, as I have great difficulty reporting false malware alarms in FSAV PSB, owing to the difficulty of collecting binary samples within such a dispersed computer population. I'm afraid that feature wish, while already registered, may remain in the developer's limbo list forever.
We are going to introduce remote quarantine management feature fairly soon and sample submission feature may be possible to implement in that scope. I will check if that's possible.
Woudn't that be nice if you could submit false positive from portal from the "Infections" list?
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Release 201603231049-1bdd4dc
General changes:
New profile editor changes:
Petri
Release 201604040305-7398791
General changes:
New profile editor changes:
So far we have added following settings from old full mode profile editor to new profile editor:
Petri
The new software updates pie is a nice addition.
One thing that I think could be improved with this is the fact that currently, any clients that have the Software Updates feature disabled are classed as "Up-To Date". I think this is a little dangerous. In my opinion, if the machine hasn't been scanned and confirmed up-to date, then I should assume that it is not up-to date.
For machines that have this feature disabled in the profile, I would prefer to see them reported as not up-to date, or have them excluded from the data.
Release 201604181330-58840f0
General changes:
New profile editor changes:
So far we have added following settings from old full mode profile editor to new profile editor:
Petri
PS. @NickJ - we are thinking on more improvements on how to handle the computers with disabled software updater. No promises yet on how we will do it.
PS.. Reset password emails did not work properly from old portal in previous releases. They are now fixed to work correctly again.
PS... Almost half of all profiles in PSB reseller portals have been already migrated to use the profile editor in new portal. So if you are just using the simple profile editor, no need to wait anymore for confirmation that new profile editor works correct - it does! So go and migrate your profiles now.
Release 201605040306-1c52686
General changes:
New profile editor changes:
So far we have added following settings from old full mode profile editor to new profile editor:
Petri
Release 201605140306-c4943a7
General changes:
New profile editor changes:
So far we have added following settings from old full mode profile editor to new profile editor:
Petri
PS. We will not get the next release in 2 weeks as we just failed to get it working in current iteration. So next new features are coming in ~4 weeks time. Sorry for this
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Release 20160615163209_5a401eb
After 5 weeks we finally released new version with few big changes inside.
Please go try out this new search, as it is quite huge internal change and one thing that is really hard to test fully - people just come up in so many ways to search items that we cannot simulate all of them. Any feedback is welcome.
Totally new way of filtering devices from the devices list view. This will help you to perform the operations on the desired set of devices. User can apply up to three filters. Filtering is done in key value pair. For the first release, the filtering includes only seven filtering keypoints. In coming months more columns would be added. You can open filters with button
located before search field. See the picture to get more detailed idea about this feature.

Valera on behalf of PSB team.
Release 20160628030412_b2c44f7
General changes:
Valera on behalf of PSB team.
Release 201607081204-7610348
General changes
Petri
PS. We have now added all settings from old full mode profile editor to new profile editor, which were asked from us in the initial feedback for profile migrations:
So there should not be any blockers for stopping the use of Java applets and migrate to new profile editor for anyone.
General changes:
Also a lot of small issues fixed and improved.
PSB team.
Release 201608251235-b13e1d6
First of all, sorry for breaking all the trend reports and subscription usage reports with previous release. These have been fixed to work on all portals yesterday and new reports are available for today. But unfortunately we cannot generate back those missing caps for 1-2 weeks.
This release has 2 quite big changes and then lot of smaller fixes and improvements.
1. PSB management API release
2. Software Updater value report
Other changes
Removed features:
PSB team
Release 201609070307-db6a156
Changes:
PSB team
Hello Petri,
The software updater value report sounds very interesting. I would really like to see it, but it is not currently available in my portal (emea.psb.f-secure.com)
When is the new version going to be applied to each portal? Or has it already done and I am looking in the wrong place?
Thanks,
Nick
Hi Nick,
Here is an example picture how the report looks like:
PSB4/EMEA2 portal is the only one that has it at the moment and as we never do upgrades on Friday to reduce the risk of having problems during weekend, rest of the portals will be upgraded next week. First post in this thread explains how you can check which version is your portal running.
Petri
Release 201609200307-689712c
Quite small release with just couple of bug fixes:
While testing this release we also noticed one quite annoying bug in session handling of the new portal: all users get logged out always after 30 minutes, as the authentication token refreshing is not working properly. This got broken couple of releases back when we added more security checks to the system. Due to having incorrectly a different configuration in our testing environment compared to production environments this problem never showed up in our internal testing. This environment difference has been now fixed and next release will bring fix to this problem.
PSB team
Release 201610030306-301c5e9
Again a small release and we did not get the automatic 30 minute logout bug fixed. It turned out to be bit bigger problem with handling simultaneous calls. But it should get fixed with the next release.
Changes in this release
PSB team.
Release 201610150307-b15ad76
First of this release fixes one very nasty bug, that got introduced in previous release: Infection alert emails are not being sent for all accounts. So please check from the portal infections page, that you haven't missed some infection information.
This 30 minute automatic logout turned out be lot more complex than we originally thought and it is still not fixed. Some customers will notice already improvement with this release, but bug is not yet fixed fully.
Then to some positive changes: PSB Portal user interface is clearly snappier now. We did a bit of backend magic and we've measured the change. The roundtrip times of 340-360ms calls between the Management REST API and the PSB backend are down to 200-220ms. This is just enough for a sharp eye to to notice the difference on PSB portal UI and to appreaciate the increase of quality.
Rest of the changes in this release:
We are also starting the process of shutting down the old portal on 14th of Dec 2016. As a first step we updated text in old portal login page specifying the portal shutdown information.
PSB team.
Release 201610311021-a6347e5
PSB Team.
Warning about the new CO-branding feature: we found out today, that if you use this customization functionality, it will actually make it impossible to log in to the old portal using your solution provider credentials. New portal works perfectly fine, but old one doesn't.
We are working on fix to this currently and will have it in the next release soon.
PSB team.
Release 201611111324-c6a5450
As some of you noticed the new CO-branding feature did not work on all servers immediately after the update. We had forgotten couple of critical configuration changes from the production system configs that caused this. All of the systems have been now fixed to work.
One warning - once you upload a new logo to the portal it can sometimes take really long before it shows up. We have seen even times like 1 hour for a changed logo to show up due to content delivery update network delays.
Then to the actual changes in this release:
PSB team
This is the last release for year 2016 with following changes:
PSB team.
PS. Next release is going to happen most likely somewhere in mid January 2017, so bit of X-mas and new years break from the normal 2 weeks cycle.
Hi,
we have just now published the first real batch of F-Secure Help content into PSB production portals. For now, for all users, we have the following walkthroughs and tips in our production servers (available in all languages):
PSB team.
Happy new year - we are back in business of releasing.
Sorry for the X-mas break taking over 3 months instead of the planned month. This new feature with all the architectural changes just turned out to be 3 times more complicated that we originally thought.
6 month reporting
Summary report can be emailed to the account that is logged in.
This report has the data of the current security status, list of incidents over the reporting period, and actions that have been taken to maintain the security level.
Service Partners can now start using the public REST API. They can now get their own API Key from the portal and use that for integrations.
Other smaller improvements and fixes:
PSB team.
PS. Currently this new release is deployed to emea2 and emea3 portals and it will be updated to rest of the portals during next week.
Hi,
a new release is being rolled out with following changes:
PSB team
Hi,
a new release is being rolled out with following changes:
PSB team
Hi,
a new release with lot of internal changes preparing for the upcoming Computer Protection client is being rolled out. For current users there is only following change:
PSB team.
PS. There seems to be sometimes problem that after the session expiration, you do not get automatically logged out, but instead page loading just gives errors. Refreshing the page or pressing logout and re-login will fix the problem.
Hi,
> PS. There seems to be sometimes problem that after the session expiration, you do
> not get automatically logged out
we rolled out a fix for this problem this morning and you should not anymore see problems with session expiring not logging you out automatically.
PSB Team.
Hi,
one more small release with lot of internal changes before we start opening the Computer Protection for everyone. This release has following improvement:
PSB team.
Hi,
a new release is now being rolled out with two major changes.
First of all, we are now enabling the new Computer Protection client to be available for all Solution Provider accounts. Solution providers can then decide, if they want to enable it also for the companies under them.
Computer Protection is a totally new Windows client based on newer technologies tested in our consumer product F-Secure Safe. Here are the main new features in Computer Protection.
More details about the Computer Protection are available in this community post.
Installer can be download from downloads page, once you have logged in. It is not yet available from public downloads page.
Secondly this release brings in the support for new Computer Protection for Mac client. This new Mac version is starting to build the base for a remote managed Mac client. In the first phase it is starting to send the infection alerts to PSB portal same way as the Windows client has been doing.
PSB Team
PS. There is very annoying bug with the handling of "blacklisted" Computer Protection devices in this release: if you delete a computer with Computer Protection from portal and then go clear the subscription, this computer will return to portal, but it is never able to fetch new profiles. So only way recover from this is to uninstall the Computer Protection and then make a new installation. We are working on a fix for this.
Hi,
a new release with critical fix for Computer Protection profile assignments and remote actions not working in reliable manner especially on EMEA/PSB1 portal has been released and already deployed last night to EMEA/PSB1 portal. We will deploy this to rest of the systems in beginning of next week.
Other main changes in this release were:
PSB Team