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Windows Roaming Client
Web App
Introducing more compatibility with VPN software for the Windows Roaming Client.
DNSFilter's Windows Roaming Client operates well with most VPN applications. If you experience connectivity issues while your VPN is active, a new toggle is available in your site settings to disable the Roaming Client under these conditions.
We will continue to work on VPN improvements in the future with the goal of full compatibility with all VPN agents.
new
Windows Roaming Client
Added FIPS compliance to the Windows Roaming Client.
The FIPS standard is published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST. This setting in Windows complies with the US government FIPS 140 standard. When it’s enabled, it forces Windows to only use FIPS-validated encryption schemes and advises applications to do so, as well.
new
Windows Roaming Client
Action Required: Update Windows Roaming Client
What is changing?
As part of good security practice, DNSFilter rotates our “certificate of authenticity” for our Windows applications every three years. This certificate gives you validation that no tampering has taken place in the code, and you can safely install them on your systems.
Because the old certificate expires on March 15th, 2021 at 2pm EDT, it is important that you are running the newest version of these tools to maintain continuity.
It is imperative that you utilize the latest version of the Roaming Client so that Windows continues to recognize them as trusted applications.
What do I need to do?
The Windows Roaming Client is set to update automatically by default.
If auto-update is enabled for your account, you do not need to take any action
. You can click here to verify your auto-update setting (Or navigate in the dashboard to Deployments > Roaming Clients > Settings).However,
if you have disabled auto-update
, you must either turn auto-update ON by March 11th for your organization(s), or download Windows Roaming Client v1.6 and install it.Thank you for keeping your organization secure, and partnering with us to make the internet a safer place for your users.
new
Active Directory Sync Tool
Action Required: Update Active Directory Sync Tool
What is changing?
As part of good security practice, DNSFilter rotates our “certificate of authenticity” for our Windows applications every three years. This certificate gives you validation that no tampering has taken place in the code, and you can safely install them on your systems.
Because the old certificate expires on March 15th, 2021 at 2pm EDT, it is important that you are running the newest version of these tools to maintain continuity.
It is imperative that you utilize the latest version of the Active Directory Sync Tool so that Windows continues to recognize them as trusted applications.
What do I need to do?
The AD sync tool is set to update automatically by default.
If auto-update is enabled for your account, you do not need to take any action
. You can click here to verify your auto-update setting (Or navigate in the dashboard to Deployments > Sync Tools > Settings).However,
if you have disabled auto-update
, you must either turn auto-update ON by March 11th for your organization(s), or download AD Sync Tool v2.1 and install it.Thank you for keeping your organization secure, and partnering with us to make the internet a safer place for your users.
new
improved
fixed
Web App
- Feature: Global Block Page feature
- Feature: display subscription alerts for MSPs
- Improvement: new columns for Username and Hostname on Users list
- Improvement: added pagination in Deployments\Users list
- Improvement: added search by name on Deployments\Users
- Improvement: allow/block list csv import only new values
- Bug Fix: Education Plan billing 250 license minimum corrected
- Bug Fix: managed collections crashing browser
- Bug Fix: redirect MSP user to the MSP dashboard after successful login
- Bug Fix: sub org user with edit_policy_only role permissions fix
- Bug Fix: create your first filtering schedule link broken
- Bug Fix: page title does not update on app navigation
new
improved
fixed
API
- Feature: Insights Reporting - all organizations endpoint
- Feature: Insights Reporting - sites reports endpoints
- Feature: Global Block Pages for MSPs endpoints
- Feature: add pagination and search to agent_local_users endpoint (Deployments\Users listing)
- Feature: add support for “parent collection/group” from Active Directory
- Improvement: improve performance of the Active Directory sync endpoint
- Improvement: only sync changes (differential sync) from Active Directory Sync Tool
- Improvement: sync managed users on background job to improve performance
- Improvement: streamline user creation when using MFA
- Bug Fix: removed subscription warning for legacy education plan
improved
fixed
API
Active Directory Sync Tool
- Performance improvement for user syncing
- Refactors to speed up the use of database indexes
Performance Improvements
- Network subnet creation/update performance improvement
- Daily traffic task performance improvements
- Traffic first sent task performance improvements
Bug Fixes
- Fixed policy only user permission bug
- Fixed payment bug for pending invoices
- Fixed blocked page email notification when applied to Roaming Client, User, or Collections
improved
Web App
- Ability to link an allowed domain and add it to the system
- Remove duplicated call on policy update
new
Chrome Extension
While still considered a beta release, this latest release of the Chrome Extension is ready for general use. Improvements include:
- Prevent duplicate registrations
- Implement caching
- Performance improvements (DNS over https)
- Implement auto-update process
- Support custom blocked pages
- Implement Yandex safe search
- Implement debug mode
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