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Release notes · Mac Client · Release Notes

Mac Client 5.2.8 – SoftRAID 5, LightSpeed 2015, Shellshock Testing

Features

  • Confirmed operation with SoftRAID 5
  • Support for LightSpeed Pro 2015
  • Support for the Contact Menu
  • Tests for ShellShock Vulnerability
  • Carbon Copy Cloner 3 Registration checking

Bug Fixes

  • UPS Reporting

Changes

  • No longer reports many empty RAM slots in VMWare hosts
  • Kernel Panics are sent as one-off Alerts. Machines which have kernel panics present are display in Notice state on the dashboard
  • Support for the Contact Menu
  • New default white label brand for the agent
  • Support for Payload-Free packages

 

Known issues:

Carbon Copy Cloner v4 support is pending.

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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.

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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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