Release Notes (Version 7.2.314.3019)

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Tanium Server v7.2.314.3019

General Availability Release Date: February 2018

Major Features

• Configurable, native encryption capabilities for network communications and sensitive files on disk
• Tanium configuration command line interface (CLI)
• Tanium objects Export/ Import API

Improvements

• Database pruning of old Question, Action and Temporary Sensor data
• Tanium Client v7.2 environment variables
• Server SSL-certificate Registration
• Offer a richer environment to Sensors running internally within the Tanium Client

Bug Fixes

• Added support for boolean logic to SOAP Cache Filters, as a performance improvement and future means for UI enhancements.
• Implemented single use authentication tokens to make large downloads more efficient at the browser using HTML href elements.
• The Tanium Server installer will now download the necessary binaries for TLS v1.2 against Microsoft SQL Server.
• Fixed an issue where the command-line registration of a Tanium Module Server against a newly started Tanium Server would fail with a HTTP 403 Forbidden error.
• Implemented returning additional user information on multiple SOAP API requests, to support enhanced UI display information.
• Fixed a problem in updating Saved Questions which would change their public_flag and affect their visibility in modules like Trends.
• Changed the Plugin Server behavior to return HTTP 404 for any and all unknown URLs, which would trigger alerts in Qualys.
• Changed a parser bug where =< (less than or equal) is properly recognized, but then changed to > (greater than) when composing a Question.
• Modified the Tanium Server to return HTTP 503 to SOAP requests made when database caches are not yet loaded.
• Fixed the duplication of Sensor text in the display of drill-down Questions.
• Fixed the replacement of %VARREPLACE_PRODUCT_VERSION%% by the Linux installer into the version_history table in the database.
• Changed the Forcing registration message to a higher log to reduce clutter in the client logs.
• Changed the canonical text for Questions with Sensor column comparisons to read sensorName:columnName .
• Improved safety of log objects to avoid observed crashes associated with non existent references.
• Fixed some marginal memory leakage in the use of OpenSSL.
• Changed the Tanium Server's default to be LogVerbosityLevel=1 to allow for error logging even when a configured value is not avaliable.
• Fixed a problem in the export/ import API for ImportObject of Sensors with more than 4KB of code.
• Fixed the addition of an extra space to Linux-platform Sensor names when loaded using the export/ import API ImportObject call.
• Fixed an issue with the export/ import API ImportObject call which failed to generate correct MULTI queries for Linux Sensors.
• Fixed an export/ import API problem where ImportObject failed to put Saved Questions in Dashboards, and Dashboards in the correct Dashboard Groups.
• Fixed the export/ import API ImportObject call to handle hidden Sensors ( hidden_flag=1 ) properly.
• Added starting with and ending with as acceptable Question Parser input.
• Improved the canonical parser to handle difficult misspelled cases, where an AND filtering condition would be changed to OR .
• Fixed a problem with the Natural Language Parser which would change starts with to matches .
• Removed an unnecessary lock contention in synchronizing Tanium Client message processing which could generate performance degradation under high load.
• Changed the export/ import API to return Sensor query code in a predictable and repeatable ordering.
• Fixed the export/ import API so ImportObject will not change reserved Sensors in the system.
• Fixed a condition in the export/ import API where exporting all Packages could return: PackageNotFound .
• Fixed a database interaction which over time would generate an Arithmetic overflow error converting IDENTITY on the content_set_role_privilege database table.
• Added support for Sensor statistic visuals in the Interact UI.
• Fixed an issue in the User Preferences dialog where negative values for Console suspension would cause display issues.
• Fixed an issue where Computer Groups selected in Question Builder would appear correctly, but then be missing from the actual question asked.
• Fixed the selection of Computer Groups as filters in Question Builder.
• Fixed an XML import issue on the Console which would fail with the error: SensorInsertFailed .
• Fixed an RBAC permissions problem where users with ReadComputerGroup and WriteComputerGroup privileges could not delete Computer Groups or create Manual Computer Groups.
• Fixed a problem that would break the Question Builder UI when alternating between Sensor filters and Computer Group filters.

Known Issues and Workarounds

• The installer creates an invalid trusted-module-servers.crt file, which produce SSL errors: SSLReadWriteError, SSLHandshakeFailed
  Workaround: Always choose the installer's Module Server registration option during the upgrade.
• Computer Group filtering in the Question Builder still presents some challenges when crafting complex nested conditions.
  Workaround: N/A

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