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Release notes · Mac Client · Release Notes

Mac Client 5.1.8

New Features / Enhancements

PreferencePane

  • PreferencePane settings now update in realtime

Monitoring Client

  • Improved SuperDuper! support to validate cron-based schedules and report unscheduled job configurations
  • Improved support for CrashPlan configured to run as the user
  • Added a one-time notification when BackBlaze is uninstalled
  • Updated support for TeamViewer 9 IDs
  • Improved disk error identification for boot volumes reporting with “” as the name

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed PreferencePane popup menu issue (10.5 and 10.6 only)
  • Reduced occurrence of lone, innocuous, disk I/O error reports
  • Fixed inaccurate Time Machine failure reports in cases where Time Machine was manually turned off
  • Improved support for incomplete Bomgar Jump pins
  • Improved support for serial number changes
  • Improved localization support for CrashPlan expiration status
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Linux Client

Linux Agent Now Available for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

The Watchman Monitoring Linux agent now installs on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Packages for both amd64 and arm64 are in our apt repository, using the same install command you already use for 22.04 and 24.04.

ChromeOS MonitoringDashboardLinux ClientMac ClientWindows Client

Monitoring Policies: Control Plugin Alerts Fleet-Wide

Today’s dashboard update adds Monitoring Policies: a named, reusable answer to the question “how should this plugin notify us?”, applied to as many computers as you like. No agent update is required. This is a server-side dashboard feature, and nothing changes until you apply a Policy. Every computer starts with no Policy, which behaves exactly…

Dashboard

Apple Business Manager Integration Improvements

Ten days ago we connected Watchman Monitoring to Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager. Today’s dashboard update is the follow-up pass: the lists now show you every Mac instead of a sample, and the tables sort. Both Mac lists are paginated instead of truncating The enriched list and the “no agent installed” list each showed…

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