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Mac Client 6.4.7 – More Malware, FileVault failures, CCC fixes

Features

  • Scans for more malware
  • Improves detection of cases when FileVault cannot complete encryption in over 48 hours.

Changes

  • Clarifies output when batteries report a capacity which is greater than design spec
  • SMART Diagnostics report on each bad block as they are found, until 10 errors or block are found, after which the disk is treated as failed.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixes CCC reporting in some cases where new job completion wasn’t logged.
  • Attempts to prevent false positives when Crashplan configuration files are unreadable during our hourly run.

This release is largely a maintenance release. Features, Changes, and Bug Fixes deployments happen faster due to reports from subscribers via our Support Team.

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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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