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Providing Watchman Monitoring to the Macintosh Community, and working to keep it the monitoring product on the market.

Mac Client 7.1.4.101 Support for Carbon Copy Cloner v7

Watchman Monitoring is happy to announce the release of agent 7.1.4.101 for macOS. This release includes support for Carbon Copy Cloner version 7 and improvements when reporting information regarding M3 based hardware. Features Support for Carbon Copy Cloner version 7 Changes Adds RAM Speed for more computers with M3 chips. About the Update Process This

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Mac Client 7.0.2 – Root Capacity Plugin, Python Framework, and Time Machine fixes

Watchman Monitoring is proud to announce the latest version of its agent for macOS, 7.0.2  This version includes all the highlights from version 7.0.1 and delivers a root capacity plugin rewrite in preparation for better handling of purgeable space alerting. Updates to the Python framework, and fixes to Time Machine reporting. Feature Better handling for

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Mac Client – 7.0.0 – Support for macOS 12.3, and Universal2, too

Watchman Monitoring is proud to announce the latest version of its agent for macOS, 7.0.  This version delivers support for the upcoming macOS 12.3 and supports OS X 10.11 and newer. This new version is also the first to natively-support Apple Silicon. Features Full support for OS X 10.11 through macOS 12.3. The Monitoring Client

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Mac Client – 6.8.2 – Product Description on Apple silicon, improved SMART reporting

Features Automatic determination of Apple’s Product Description Additional support for new malware Changes No longer reporting POST information on Apple silicon, as the information is not available. Bug Fixes Improvements to the SMART plugin to find additional cases of failing boot volumes. Fix stale network information Fixes issues related to volumes not showing in the

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Windows Client 1.6.1.1 – Support for TLS 1.2

Features Added support for communicating using TLS 1.2. Changes Added additional blacklist items “Fax” and “OneNote” to the Printer plugin Removed installer support for Windows XP and Vista as these OS are no longer supported This also removes support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 This will be released December 15, 2021 The auto-update process

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Mac Client 6.8.1 – Updated volume usage info

Features New Root capacity reporting tool Notification of macOS 12 Monterey download. New diagnostics file gathering tool Change Improvements in gathering of FileWave version. Bug Fixes Fixed issue which would cause –disable –plugin to not work properly This release brings the parity between what Apple’s Finder says, and what our system reports. Historically, we’ve reported

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TLS 1.0 & 1.1 disablement Jan 2, 2022 – Deprecation of OS support

In recent Mac and Windows agent release notes, we’ve indicated that support for older OS is ending. This is in large part due to the following upcoming change: As of January 2, 2022, Watchman Monitoring will only support Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 and newer. For most subscribers, this change will have little consequence. To see

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Mac Client – 6.8.0.125 – New System Requirements

NOTICE Watchman Monitoring is disabling TLS 1.0 and 1.1 at the start of 2022. Starting January 2022, connections from agents, browsers, API, etc will require TLS 1.2 or greater in order to communicate with Watchman Monitoring. This Mac release, version 6.8.0.125, requires OS X 10.11 or better. Computers running older versions of Mac OS X

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