Sophos Home Big Sur

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Version 9.10.2

New features

As part of the District’s Sophos purchase, all current students, faculty, and staff may use Sophos Home Commercial Edition on up to 10 personally-owned devices for free. Sophos Home Commercial Edition is sophisticated antivirus protection software. The product includes the same award-winning features found in the commercial version used by top Fortune 500 companies. Does l2tp with Sophos XG work? Upon upgrade to Big Sur, I can no longer connect to work VPN that uses l2tp via Sophos XG. From research Apple seems to say: From Apple to the feedback. The message is below: Hello. We have upgraded the proposed ciphers in L2TP IPsec VPN to also propose SHA-256 for the Child SA in IPsec.

Support for macOS 11 Big Sur.

Updated components

The threat detection engine is 3.80.1

Resolved issues

Security improvements.

Sophos Home Big Sur

Version 9.10.1

New features

This release contains early access to a version of the endpoint software that supports macOS 11 Big Sur.

Updated components

The threat detection engine has been updated to 3.80.1.

Version 9.10.0

Updated components

The threat detection engine has been updated to 3.79.0

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-5389Resolved an issue with tabs opening slowly in Google Chrome.

Version 9.9.8

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-4973Resolved blank captive portal.

Version 9.9.7

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-4657Improved device control support for large capacity removable storage devices to ensure that they are blocked after restart.

Version 9.9.6

This release contains performance improvements.

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-4493Resolved an intermittent issue where web pages may fail to load.
MACEP-4600Improved memory usage when Threat Case creation is enabled.
MACEP-4602Resolved an issue with modified permissions on the man8 directory when using disk encryption.
MACEP-4606Improved support for macOS 10.15 Catalina when using MDM profiles.

Version 9.9.5

New features

Sophos Home Big Sur

  • This release contains improved support for macOS 10.15 Catalina.

Version 9.9.4 Updated

New features

  • This release contains support for macOS 10.15 Catalina.
  • This release contains security and performance improvements.

Updated components

The threat detection engine version is 3.77.1. For information about the threat detection engine, see the Sophos Threat Detection Engine release notes.

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-4414Resolved an intermittent issue on macOS 10.14 Mojave where the Captive Network Assistant page could fail to load.
MACEP-4410Addressed CVE-2020-10947.

Version 9.8.5

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-4314Resolved an issue in which Sophos Anti-Virus may incorrectly report successful updates as failures.

Version 9.8.4

Updated components

The threat detection engine has been updated to 3.76.0. For information about the changes to the threat detection engine, see the Sophos Threat Detection Engine release notes.

Resolved issues

Sophos Big Sur Time Machine

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-3604Resolved an issue on macOS 10.14 Mojave that prevented some customers from connecting to Wi-Fi networks that require a captive portal.

Sophos Big Sur Beta

Version 9.8.2

Updated components

The threat detection engine has been updated to 3.75.0. For information about the changes to the threat detection engine, see the Sophos Threat Detection Engine release notes.

Sophos Home Mac Big Sur

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-3668Resolved a rare kernel panic that can be caused when reading extended file attributes on APFS.
MACEP-3722Installer now provides links to online EULA and Privacy Policy.

Version 9.7.7

This release contains compatibility improvements.

Updated components

Sophos Home Big Sur Mac

The threat detection engine has been updated to 3.74.0.

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-3454Resolved an issue where some systems may hang on boot with certain USB-C devices.




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