FS Protection macOS releases (2026)
Beta releases for macOS during 2026 will be posted under this continuous thread.
Threads for older releases:
- 2025:
- 2024:
Best regards, Arthur
F-Secure Technology, Mac Team
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Release 26.1 beta 1 (build 67550)
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:
- Updated illustrations in product main and settings UI apps
- Improved license state management for "Log out" and "Log in" button in the UI
- Improved handling of license termination. UI properly transitions into unactivated state to allow for re-activation.
- Improved handling of automatic activation flow with attribution ID token embedded to the Installer mpkg file to better handle a case of multiple users begin logged in at the same time.
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!
Best regards, Arthur
F-Secure Technology, Mac Team
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Release 26.1 beta 2 (build 67619)
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:
- Updated localizations
- Improved onboarding experience for ID Monitoring feature to handle cases of user previously setting up the feature on another device
- Fixed behavior of "Manage" button on "People & Devices" feature card to ope open the feature subview instead of triggering the flow of adding a new device.
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!
Best regards, Arthur
F-Secure Technology, Mac Team
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Release 26.1 beta 3 (build 67683)
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:
- Addressed an issue that causes welcome view to be shown unexpectedly after upgrade
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!
Best regards, Arthur
F-Secure Technology, Mac Team
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Release 26.2 beta 1 (build 67940)
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 handling of feature set changes in the usr license. Welcome view is only shown for features that were not previously accessible to the user instead of showing it on any change.
- Clean up of product installation script from user defaults migration needed for pre Total Mac 18.0 versions.
- Improved hotfix daemon launch interval to be "every 6 hours" instead of "every day".
- Changed the behavior of "Scam Protection" feature telemetry. Previously, the entire event was dropped if user consent is missing. Now the event is always sent but the it is missing user confidential information (URL blocked by the feature) if consent is not granted in product settings.
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!
Best regards, Arthur
F-Secure Technology, Mac Team
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Release 26.2 beta 2 (build 67996)
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 handling of credentials invalidation when the subscription owner removes sub-users or devices. The update invalidates only affected credentials instead of all credentials.
- Fixed visibility of "Powered by F-Secure" trademark in the product account menu when the option is enabled in the product configuration.
- Updated localizations in several languages.
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!
Best regards, Arthur
F-Secure Technology, Mac Team