FS Protection for macOS 19.7 releases

ArthurVal
ArthurVal Posts: 262 F-Secure Product Expert
edited August 28 in Home Security Beta Programs

FS Protection for macOS 19.7 releases will be posted under this thread.

Best regards, Arthur

F-Secure Technology, Mac Team

Answers

  • ArthurVal
    ArthurVal Posts: 262 F-Secure Product Expert

    Release 19.7 beta 1

    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:

    • Secure Browsing feature switched to use new F-Secure URL reputation backend service
    • Product deep link handling moved from main user interface application to menubar app to allow opening settings without causing main user interface to launch
    • Crash report collection fixed to use an ID unique to each report instead of the machine

    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 

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

    Best regards, Arthur

    F-Secure Technology, Mac Team

  • Kingston1
    Kingston1 Posts: 26 F-Secure Employee

    Release 19.7 beta 2

    Highlight of this release:

    • Fixed a bug where Vault and People and Devices features were missing or wrong.
    • Fixed bug related to single feature product variant upgrades
    • Various Vault UX additions and fixes.

    Best regards, Mikko

    Mac R&D Team

  • ArthurVal
    ArthurVal Posts: 262 F-Secure Product Expert

    Release 19.7 beta 3

    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:

    • Safari extension install action fixed on the smart task shown in the product main UI
    • Fixed a timing issue which could resulted in Safari extension "Allow on every website" smart task not shown in the product main UI
    • Optimized load on file reputation backend by placing per hour quota
    • Fixed file reputation statistics telemetry sent periodically
    • Fixed a crash reported in product telemetry caused by improper casting of contextual error metadata

    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 

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

    Best regards, Arthur

    F-Secure Technology, Mac Team

  • ArthurVal
    ArthurVal Posts: 262 F-Secure Product Expert
    edited May 27

    Release 19.7 beta 4

    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 stability of the native messaging host used by Secure Browsing extensions by fixing a timing issue with access to shared state
    • Improved state management of the product update service by scheduling a deferred termination in case connection towards the update download service is lost
    • Restored system proxy support for the product update download service. The product will respect the proxy set up in System Settings app

    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 

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

    Best regards, Arthur

    F-Secure Technology, Mac Team

  • ArthurVal
    ArthurVal Posts: 262 F-Secure Product Expert

    Release 19.7 beta 5

    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 Password Vault stability for users using certain locales (French, French-Canadian). Some users were not able to unlock the vault.
    • Removed work-in-progress views and improved UI state management in the Password Vault UI related to ongoing refactoring.

    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 

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

    Best regards, Arthur

    F-Secure Technology, Mac Team

  • ArthurVal
    ArthurVal Posts: 262 F-Secure Product Expert

    Hello!

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

    19.8 beta program will start later in a separate thread.

    Best regards, Arthur

    F-Secure Technology, Mac Team

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