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Release Notes Patch (Version 3.1)

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Tanium Patch 3.1.96.0000

Release Date: 2 February 2021

Resolved Issues

  • Fixed an issue that could prevent some configurations such as maintenance windows and block lists from being applied on some endpoints.

Prerequisites

  • Red Hat and CentOS endpoints require a minimum YUM version of yum-3.2.29-22.el6 to engage in Tanium Patch.
  • Windows endpoints require a minimum operating system version of Windows 7 SP1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.

Supported Tanium Platforms

Tanium Server 7.3.314.4250+, 7.4+

Tanium Patch 3.1.95.0000

Release Date: 12 January 2021

Improvements

  • Added an intelligent sync capability for Tanium Scan for Windows that runs soon after Microsoft releases many patches (for example, Patch Tuesday) if “Enable Schedule Synchronization" is enabled.

Resolved Issues

  • Fixed an issue that could prevent environments with many Patch configuration items from applying all configurations before reaching a timeout.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause deployments to wait for maintenance windows or block list enforcements to be applied, even if those enforcements were not configured.

Prerequisites

  • Red Hat and CentOS endpoints require a minimum YUM version of yum-3.2.29-22.el6 to engage in Tanium Patch.
  • Windows endpoints require a minimum operating system version of Windows 7 SP1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.

Supported Tanium Platforms

Tanium Server 7.3.314.4250+, 7.4+

Tanium Patch 3.1.91.0000

Release Date: 22 December 2020

Improvements

  • Changed MakeCache Fast to True for Linux patch scans.
  • Added a link back to the Patches grid from the Patch Detail page.
  • Added a tooltip to explain the Unique URLs column in Yum Repositories
  • Added an informative error message when Repository Snapshots cannot be deleted because they are in use.
  • Changed the Scan Configuration page to always sort by priority.
  • Improved Deployment Preview text for "All Updates" and "All Security Updates" Linux deployments.

Resolved Issues

  • Fixed a configuration issue that prevented Patch from enforcing configuration items that included non-ASCII characters.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Tanium Patch Overview charts from loading in some cases.
  • Fixed a configuration issue that prevented Patch from functioning as expected on endpoints in certain cases due to duplicate configuration items.
  • Fixed an issue that caused all Patch download URLs from Tanium Scan for Windows to point to the configured WSUS server on some endpoints.
  • Fixed an issue that caused links to patch details from Quick Links in Tanium Interact and Tanium Comply vulnerability results to fail.
  • Fixed an issue that caused Patch Deployments to show a status of "Initializing" for Patch Read Only Users.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Patch Coverage chart and sensor to return “[no results]” for Linux endpoints.
  • Fixed an issue that caused Out of Memory Windows Update errors.
  • Fixed an issue that caused WU_E_INVALID_CRITERIA Windows Update errors.
  • Fixed an issue that caused Windows endpoints to return errors for the Patch - Deployment Results sensor.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause Initialize Endpoints to fail with PackageNameNotUnique or PackageNotFound errors.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause repository snapshots to display a Revised Date of January 1970.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause special characters to display incorrectly in certain error/warning messages.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause Windows patch scans to fail on some non-English language endpoints.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented sorting on the Endpoint count column in the Activities section of the Patch Overview page.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the deletion of Yum repositories that were previously used in scan configurations.
  • Fixed the “Last Checked” CAB link on the Patch Overview page.

Prerequisites

  • Red Hat and CentOS endpoints require a minimum YUM version of yum-3.2.29-22.el6 to engage in Tanium Patch.
  • Windows endpoints require a minimum operating system version of Windows 7 SP1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.

Supported Tanium Platforms

Tanium Server 7.3.314.4250+, 7.4+

Tanium Patch 3.1.66.0000

Release Date: 24 November 2020

New Features

  • Added a quick flyout panel for patch details to improve usability and reduce the need to open new pages. A new icon that opens this panel is included for each patch in all patch grids in the Patch workbench.
  • Alerts added to the Yum Repositories page to highlight repositories without gpgcheck enabled.

Improvements

  • Improved the display of RBAC controlled buttons and menus in the workbench to also appear disabled when RBAC would prevent their use.
  • Changing the Patch Action Group automatically updates the Patch Overview charts to only report on the membership of the new Action Group.
  • Improved workbench functionality in Firefox.
  • Added additional useful columns and filters to index pages and provided more useful default sorting.
  • Removed the use of “--skip-broken” in Linux Patch Deployments.
  • Improved performance deployment sensors.
  • Allow manual targeting of computers with underscores in the hostname.

Resolved Issues

  • Fixed numerous user interface issues in the workbench.
  • Fixed a user interface issue that could cause Patch Overview charts to not populate.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause maintenance windows to not properly enforce on some endpoints.
  • Fixed a user interface issue that prevented Linux patch deployments for "All Updates" and "All Security Updates".
  • Fixed a bug that prevented CAB scans on Simplified Chinese Language operating systems.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause some operating systems in certain patch states to return “Out Of Memory” scan errors.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause Deployment Status to return “Not Applicable” when patches were actually successfully installed.

Prerequisites

  • Red Hat and CentOS endpoints require a minimum YUM version of yum-3.2.29-22.el6 to engage in Tanium Patch.
  • Windows endpoints require a minimum operating system version of Windows 7 SP1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.

Supported Tanium Platforms

Tanium Server 7.3.314.4250+, 7.4+

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