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Release Notes Tanium Client (Version 7.8.2.1198)
This Release Notes document lists changes to the Tanium Client v7.8.2.1198. The release notes for the previous Tanium Client version can be found here: Release Notes Tanium Client (Version 7.8.2.1170).
Tanium Client 7.8.2.1198
- Tanium Cloud availability: 2026-07-06.
- On-premises availability: 2026-07-06.
Special Notes
- None.
Security Updates
- None.
New Features
- None.
Improvements
- Tanium Platform components now ship with SQLite v3.53.2.
- Tanium Platform components now ship with OpenSSL v3.5.7.
- Tanium Platform components now ship with libexpat v2.8.0.
- Tanium Platform components now ship with v8.20 of
libcurl. - Tanium Platform components now ship with
protobufv3.25.5. - Tanium Platform components now ship with xz library v5.8.3 and had removed unnecessary dependencies on it.
- Updates the version of
python-sixshipped with Platform to v1.17.0. - Platform components now ship with pyasn1 v0.6.3.
- Updates Platform components to use the newer
xmltodictv1.0.4 Python library.
Bug Fixes
- Fixes a crash on AIX systems where a memory-alignment defect in the bundled protobuf library could cause a segmentation fault.
- Fixes a race condition in the Tanium Client download chunk cache where a cached file entry could be released without holding the cache lock, corrupting the internal age-list and crashing during cleanup.
- Fixes an issue in the Tanium Client where an inter-process communication socket file might be created outside the client's installation directory.
- Fixes an issue on Solaris systems where incorrect locale settings caused client extensions to fail.
Known Issues and Workarounds
- None.
Workaround: Not needed.