Tanium Cloud Release Notes Direct Connect

Tanium Cloud Release Date: June 23, 2026

Improvements

• Registers additional routes and functionality with Tanium Atlas.
• Fixes for 3rd party dependency security updates.

Tanium Cloud Release Date: March 18, 2026

New Features

• Outgoing Direct Connect connections now use the Tanium Protocol instead of HTTPS over port 17486. This feature requires Tanium Client 7.6.4 or higher and DEC-CX 3.0 or higher.

Improvements

• Direct Connect certificates are regenerated to include a Common Name (CN) and Subject Alternative Name (SAN). Installing Direct Connect automatically regenerates the certificate and deploys it to endpoints.
• Adopted new System User Service (SUS) service account model.
• Implemented fixes for third-party dependency security updates.

Fixes

• Fixed a race condition that occurred when initializing the Direct Connect Action Group during Direct Connect installation.
• Fixed an issue where a dropdown list obscured the "Continue" button during satellite creation.

Tanium Cloud Release Date: February, 2026

Fixes

• Fixes endpoint search to be compatible with new TDS behaviors.
• Fixes for 3rd party dependency security updates.

Tanium Cloud Release Date: December 2, 2025

Fixes

• Fix an issue that could cause connections to drop unexpectedly.
• Fixes for 3rd party dependency security updates.

Tanium Cloud Release Date: October 22, 2025

Fixes

• Fix issue that could prevent additional connections during high usage.

Tanium Cloud Release Date: October 8, 2025

Fixes

• Disable keep-alive for call-home sessions.

Tanium Cloud Release Date: September 30, 2025

Improvements

• Fixes for 3rd party dependency security updates.

Fixes

• Fixes an issue with call-home sessions being held open beyond their allowed timeout

Tanium Cloud Release Date: May 6, 2025

Fixes

• Fixes issue preventing ScreenMeet provisioning.

Tanium Cloud Release Date: April 23, 2025

Fixes

• Fixes issues with establishing a connection in some network environments.

Tanium Cloud Release Date: April 17, 2025

Improvements

• Direct Connect now allows for more efficient interactions over APIs with satellites by recording additional information at satellite enrollment time.
• Fixes for 3rd party dependency security updates.

Fixes

• Fixes incorrect link to Direct Connect Data Sheet.
• Fixes an issue where some endpoints would show as offline even if there are online.
• Fixes connection keep-alive times by extending times for certain connection types.
• Fixes the remediation stale connections in some infrastructure types.

Tanium Cloud Release Date: February 12, 2025

Improvements

• Fixes for 3rd party dependency security updates.

Fixes

• Fixes a memory leak issue with the DEC service.
• Fixes an issue that can occur if a satellite's EID remapped to a previous value, causing the inability to connect to that satellite.
• Fixes an issue with the UX where the user is unable to disconnect from an connected client.

Tanium Cloud Release Date: February 4, 2025

Improvements

• Fixes for 3rd party dependency security updates.

Tanium Cloud Release Date: October 31, 2024

Improvements

• Added RBAC privileges for use by use by Tanium Investigate.
• Fixes for 3rd party dependency security updates.

Note

• Tool Versions will no longer be reported from this point, as the tools have been moved to the Toolset Solution.

Tanium Cloud Release Date: October 15, 2024

Improvements

• Fixes for 3rd party dependency security updates.
• Add terminate process access control privilege.

Tools Versions

• Direct Connect 2.9.101
• Dec-cx 2.7.1130

Tanium Cloud Release Date: April 2, 2024

Improvements

• Allow for download of files larger than 4GBs

Tools Versions

• Direct Connect 2.9.95
• Dec-cx 2.7.1130

Tanium Cloud Release Date: February 20, 2024

Improvements

• Fixes for 3rd party dependency security updates.

Tools Versions

• Direct Connect 2.9.88
• Dec-cx 2.7.1129

Tanium Cloud Release Date: November 27, 2023

Improvements

• Fixes for 3rd party dependency security updates.
• Fixes an issue where a short-lived DEC connection could prevent additional connections for a short period.

Tools Versions

• Direct Connect 2.9.75
• Dec-cx 2.7.1129

Tanium Cloud Release Date: September 29, 2023

Improvements

• Fixes an issue where a failed DEC connection can cause other Client Extensions to stop responding.

Tools Versions

• Direct Connect 2.8.42
• Dec-cx 2.5.984

Tanium Cloud Release Date: August 21, 2023

Improvements

• Improved performance and stability

Tools Versions

• Direct Connect 2.8.37
• Dec-cx 2.5.975

Tanium Cloud Release Date: August 4, 2023

Improvements

• Improved performance and stability

Tools Versions

• Direct Connect 2.8.36
• Dec-cx 2.5.975

Tanium Cloud Release Date: July 18, 2023

Tools Versions

• Direct Connect 2.8.35
• Dec-cx 2.5.975

Improvements

• This version enhances the support framework for Tanium Cloud environments.

Tanium Cloud Release Date: June 26, 2023

Tools Versions

• Direct Connect 2.8.34
• Dec-cx 2.5.975

Improvements

• Includes user experience improvements for Screen Sharing support.

Fixes

• Fixes an issue where a short-lived connection with Direct Connect may block other connections for 15 minutes.

Tanium Cloud Release Date: May 10, 2023

Tools Versions

• Direct Connect 2.8.31
• Dec-cx 2.5.975

Improvements

• Includes user experience improvements for Screen Sharing support.

Fixes

• Improved performance and stability.

Tanium Cloud Release Date: April 3, 2023

Tools Versions

• Direct Connect 2.7.54
• Dec-cx 2.5.975

Improvements

• Added operator licensing (user-based-licensing) support for Screen Sharing.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where endpoints that are not part of the Tanium - Screen Sharing action group were incorrectly listed as available for starting a screen share.
• Enabled the UI to display an option to start session recording when the global setting was set to “Allow Agent to decide.”

Tanium Cloud Release Date: March 9, 2023

Tools Versions

• Direct Connect 2.7.51
• Dec-cx 2.5.975

Fixes

• Fixes an issue with a UI element used for Screen Sharing.

Tanium Cloud Release Date: February 1, 2023

Tools Versions

• Direct Connect 2.7.49
• Dec-cx 2.5.975

Improvements

• Improved the performance of connecting to an existing Screen Sharing session.

Fixes

• Fixes an issue where the Tanium Connect source for Tanium Direct Connect is missing.
• Fixes an issue where Screen Sharing sessions were unable to be rejoined.
• Fixed an issue when ending a Screen Sharing session, the start button was stuck in the connecting state.
• Fixed an issue in Tanium Cloud environments where the ScreenMeet console link was not visible in Direct Connect.

Tanium Cloud Release Date: January 18, 2023

Improvements

• Added support for Screen Sharing registration for on-premise instances of Tanium.

Fixes

• Resolves an issue where modules would become unable to register with Direct Connect
• Resolves an issue where a user with the Screen Sharing Admin role was unable to view the audit log in Direct Connect.

Known Issues

• On a new installation of Direct Connect (DEC), the Connect source for DEC is missing.

Tanium Cloud Release Date: December 15, 2022

Improvements

• Improved help text for Screen Sharing users that do not have permission for unattended sessions.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue that could cause timeout errors for Directory Query on a Tanium Satellite.
• Fixed an issue with incorrect control channel shutdown

Known Issues

• On a new installation of Direct Connect (DEC), the Connect source for DEC is missing.

Tanium Cloud Release Date: December 6, 2022

Fixes

• Added a warning message when a Screen Sharing connection attempt timed out.
• Added help text to indicate when a Screen Sharing user does not have permission to perform unattended connections.
• Fixes an issue when making an unattended Screen Sharing connection where the console incorrectly indicated that the endpoint user must approve the Screen Share session.

Known Issues

• On a new installation of Direct Connect (DEC), the Connect source for DEC is missing.

Tanium Cloud Release Date: November 3, 2022

Fixes

• Endpoint search bar loses focus as soon as a result is returned.

Known Issues

• On a new installation of Direct Connect (DEC), the Connect source for DEC is missing.

Tanium Cloud Release Date: October 18, 2022

Improvements

• Support for [Tanium Screen Sharing]
• Support for capturing files from mounted ISOs in Threat Response

Fixes

• Improved service stability during upgrades
• Disconnecting a session no longer causes an error to be logged on the endpoint
• Improved DEC session state control

Known Issues

• On a new installation of Direct Connect (DEC), the Connect source for DEC is missing.

Tanium Cloud Release Date: October 12, 2022

Fixes

• Improved upgrade reliability

Known Issues

• On a new installation of Direct Connect (DEC), the Connect source for DEC is missing.

Tanium Cloud Release Date: October 3, 2022

Improvements

• DEC now uses the RDB Service
• Added internal metrics

Known Issues

• On a new installation of Direct Connect (DEC), the Connect source for DEC is missing.

Tanium Cloud Release Date: August 17, 2022

Fixes

• changes to internal dependency on System User Service

Known Issues

• On a new installation of Direct Connect (DEC), the Connect source for DEC is missing.

Tanium Cloud Release Date: August 9, 2022

Fixes

• Threat Response use of Direct Connect timing out inappropriately

TaaS Release Date: August 4 2022

Fixes

• Fixed database migration failure on Windows installs
• Resolved an unexpected end of JSON input error

TaaS Release Date: July 20 2022

Improvements

• Improved performance of opening and verifying status of connections
• Increased logging of file management events

Fixes

• Direct Connect roles and privileges are now restricted to "data collection registration read" instead of "data collection operator".
• Direct Connect - Open Session action could return an inaccurate exit code after successful connection
• Corrected Mac script type of the Direct Connect - Connection Status package
• Direct Connect - Endpoint UUID (Linux) sensor could become stuck in a loop

Security Updates

• This release includes security updates. Details of the issues, including affected versions and mitigation information, can be obtained within Tanium's Support Portal or by contacting your TAM.

TaaS Release Date: April 7, 2022

Improvements

• Dependency on Core Python removed
• Unmanaged Zone Proxies should be allowed to have ports below 1024
• Adds support for Amazon Linux 2 on Arm64 images and MacOS on ARM-based Macs

Fixes

• Satellites section is not shown when user rights are not met
• Connect audit connect no longer times out
• File Browse listing from a Mac is not displayed in alphabetical order

TaaS Release Date: March 24, 2022

Fixes

• Resolved an issue with resource leaking between the Direct Connect Service and the Direct Connect Zone Proxy

TaaS Release Date: January 21, 2022

Fixes

• Null Entity ID's could cause errors

TaaS Release Date: January 10, 2022

Fixes

• Un-verified Satellites could cause expansion errors

TaaS Release Date: December 17, 2021

Fixes

• UTF-8 Characters are now shown correctly in Threat Response
• entity mapping improvements related to Satellite

TaaS Release Date: November 08, 2021

Fixes

• Addresses a security issue

Taas Release Date: October 26, 2021

Enhancements

• New features for Satellite configuration. Manage designated endpoints that are used to run targeted, secure workloads.
• Multiple names or IPs can now be used per interface for the Module Server
• Multiple names or IPs can now be used per interface for the Zone Proxy Server
• A Direct Connect connection source is now available in Connect, which lets you export a Direct Connect audit log to a Connect destination.

TaaS Release Date: Sept 20, 2021

Fixes

• Migrate Direct Connect settings on Windows.
• Allow Performance User ability to find and connect to endpoints.

TaaS Release Date: Aug 31, 2021

Fixes

• Migrate DEC 1.x import status to DEC 2.0
• Direct Connect User and Operator roles have insufficient RBAC Permissions

TaaS Release Date: Aug 11, 2021

Fixes

• Improved connection reliability.
• Introduced a more robust connection keep-alive mechanism.
• Fixed a regression in role based authentication that may have prevented a user from starting a connection.

TaaS Release Date: Jul 23, 2021

Fixes

• Enables FIPS compliant encryption
• Action approval always bypassed for DEC

TaaS Release Date: Jul 1, 2021

Fixes

• Addresses a security issue. For details, including affected versions and mitigation information, see the Tanium Support Portal, or contact your TAM.

TaaS Release Date: May 10, 2021

Fixes

• Addresses a security issue
• Accessibility enhancements

TaaS Release Date: April 2, 2021

Fixes

• Fix incorrect connection targeting from the Direct Connect workbench test page
• Endpoints can now be found more quickly after initial installation

TaaS Release Date: March 10, 2021

Improvements

• Improve endpoint logging for failed connection attempts
• Obtain EID when Direct Connecting to collect evidence
• Use TDS for targeting endpoints when available
• Remove Python 2.7 requirements for Tanium 7.4 clients

Fixes

• Endpoint Configuration fixes
• Non-admin users could get errors searching for endpoints
• Problem with listing mapped drives
• Stale endpoints shown on advanced search

Security Update

• This release includes security updates. For details, including affected versions and mitigation information, see the Tanium Support Portal, or contact your TAM.

TaaS Release Date: January 8, 2021

Fixes

• Addresses a security issue

TaaS Release Date: December 21, 2020

Fixes

• Fixes Memory & CPU leak on module server
• Endpoint configuration fixes when approvals are enabled
• Fixes issue connecting to Mac endpoints

TaaS Release Date: November 20, 2020

Fixes

• Endpoint configuration fixes
• More robust server selection strategy on endpoint
• Fix issue where incorrect time setting on endpoints would cause disconnect
• File transfer fixes
• Reduce endpoint logging noise
• More responsive endpoint search in Direct Connect workbench

TaaS Release Date: October 16, 2020

Fixes

• Fixed issue with console performance during connection attempts
• Renamed “Proxy” to “Direct Connect Proxy Server” on Active Connections page
• Improved Zone Proxy configuration form
• Connection stability improvements

TaaS Release Date: October 13, 2020

Fixes

• This release includes a new endpoint configuration framework, replacing the actions and packages formerly used to configure endpoint tooling.
• General connection stability improvements.
• Improve stability of file transfers.
• Incorrect endpoint time would lead to early connection termination.
• Slow or saturated network would lead to early connection termination.
• Fix issue where removing a zone proxy configuration would require reinstallation of the zone proxy.
• Fix workbench to be more responsive and use less memory.

TaaS Release Date: September 17, 2020

Fixes

• Fix issue where the certificates tab would not display in Firefox or Chrome 85.

TaaS Release Date: September 1, 2020

Fixes

• Allow connecting to endpoints that have special characters in the computer name

TaaS Release Date: August 19, 2020

Enhancements

• Support HTTP proxy between client and Zone Proxy or Tanium Server

TaaS Release Date: August 4, 2020

Fixes

• Address issue where tools may use excessive disk space on endpoint.
• Manually configured environments will now distribute tools over a 20 minute period.
• When using the kill process feature of the Performance module, Direct Connect will block the termination of csrss.exe on Windows endpoints to avoid causing system crashes.