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Release Notes Patch (Version 3.16)
Tanium Patch 3.16.262
Release Date: 27 February 2024
Resolved Issues
- Fixed an issue which could cause the Patch process to fail on Windows endpoints for some system regional date formats.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the Patch process to not run on Linux endpoints after Patch Tools upgrade.
Tools Versions
- Patch: 3.16.262
- Tanium EUSS: 1.16.10
- TaniumFileInfo: 3.21.4
- TaniumExecWrapper: 3.21.4
- TaniumUpdateSearcher: 7.4.4.1059
- 7za: 23.01
- active-user-sessions: 1.0
- python38: 3.1.43
- swmgrcx: 2.7.138
Known Issues
- The Patch service and workbench show errors immediately after a Patch installation, until service startup completes.
- Tanium Scan For Windows still has some known synchronization issues with certain WSUS environments.
- You cannot upgrade directly to this version of Tanium Patch from Tanium Patch 3.7 or earlier. If you are upgrading from Tanium Patch 3.7 or earlier, upgrade to Tanium Patch 3.13 as an intermediate step. Contact Tanium Support or your TAM for details.
Tanium Patch 3.16.253
Release Date: 30 January 2024
Improvements
- Relative maintenance windows are now supported. Relative maintenance windows have a monthly recurrence, relative to another day.
- Tanium Endpoint Configuration 2.0 is now supported.
- Improved the performance of applicability evaluation in patch list previews.
- The Patch - Patch List Compliance sensor now has a step size of 1.
New Gateway Functionality
- The following new fields add new Gateway request functionality for Patch and are added at stability index
1.0 - Experimental (Early Development):- Patch requests
mutation.patchCreateDeployment- create a Linux, macOS, or Windows Patch install deployment or a Windows Patch uninstall deploymentmutation.patchStopDeployment- stop an in-progress Patch deployment by ID, or prevent a future-scheduled Patch deployment from starting by IDquery.patchDeployment- retrieve a Patch deployment by ID
- Patch requests
- For the best results, install API Gateway 1.9.73 or later. For more information, see
Resolved Issues
- Fixed an issue that caused the Patch process to fail when DNF is installed on RHEL 6 and 7 based operating systems.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Patch process to crash on Linux endpoints when the Patch cache contained invalid data.
- Fixed an issue that could cause Patch scans to fail on SLES endpoints.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent Linux endpoints from rebooting after installing kernel patches.
- Fixed an issue that could cause Patch sensors to return data in the wrong columns for Linux endpoints.
- Fixed an issue that caused scans to fail on Debian-based systems when Yum is installed.
- Fixed an issue that could caused the Patch - Deployment Results sensor to error when handling deployment results with NULL release dates.
- Fixed an issue on Linux endpoints that could cause the latest version of a package to get installed if a prior version was specified.
- Fixed an issue in which some Patch update attributes were mismatched on Debian-based systems.
- Fixed an issue on Linux endpoints that could cause Patch to fail to install Microsoft packages due to license acceptance requirements.
- The Patch - Patch List Compliance sensor now accounts for blocklisted patches on Linux endpoints.
- Fixed an issue that could cause Patch scans to consume excessive memory and CPU on Linux endpoints.
- Fixed an issue that could cause update details to be incorrect on Linux endpoints.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Patch process to crash on Amazon Linux 2023 endpoints.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Top Missing Critical/Important Patches graph to report the wrong version of Windows.
- Fixed an issue that could cause a deployment to be marked as Complete, Some Patches Applied when all patches have been installed.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the operator from adding targets to deployments using a list with pinned versions.
- Fixed an issue that could cause patch scans to fail on Linux endpoints.
- Fixed an issue that caused scan results for Debian 12 to be missing update details.
Tools Versions
- Patch: 3.16.253
- Tanium EUSS: 1.16.10
- TaniumFileInfo: 3.21.4
- TaniumExecWrapper: 3.21.4
- TaniumUpdateSearcher: 7.4.4.1059
- 7za: 23.01
- active-user-sessions: 1.0
- python38: 3.1.43
- swmgrcx: 2.7.138
Known Issues
- The Patch service and workbench show errors immediately after a Patch installation, until service startup completes.
- Tanium Scan For Windows still has some known synchronization issues with certain WSUS environments.
- You cannot upgrade directly to this version of Tanium Patch from Tanium Patch 3.7 or earlier. If you are upgrading from Tanium Patch 3.7 or earlier, upgrade to Tanium Patch 3.13 as an intermediate step. Contact Tanium Support or your TAM for details.