Sophos Linux Protection

These are the release notes for Sophos Linux Protection, managed by Sophos Central.

The features mentioned in these release notes are only available if you have the appropriate license.

You may find that you can't yet download and use the latest version. This is because Sophos releases the software over a number of days, but publishes the release notes on the first day.

View the product documentation at Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux.

Version 1.1.4 New

Updated components

Sophos Linux Base has been updated to 1.1.4.
Sophos Live Discover plugin has been been updated to 1.1.0.
Sophos Linux Live Response has been updated to 1.2.1.

Components Updated

Components and their version numbers by release. The second column contains the latest release.
Sophos Linux Protection	1.1.4 December 2020	1.1.3 August 2020	1.1.1 June 2020
Sophos Linux Base	1.1.4	1.1.3	1.1.1
Sophos Live Discover plugin	1.1.0	1.0.2	1.0.1
Sophos Linux Live Response	1.2.1	1.2.0

Version 1.1.3

New features

This version of the Sophos Linux Protection supports the EDR 3 capabilities in Sophos Central. Live Response allows admins to remotely connect to devices and get access to a command-line interface. This allows them to perform detailed investigations or to take prompt action to contain or remediate a threat.

Version 1.1.1

New features

This version of Sophos Linux Protection supports the EDR 3 capabilities in Sophos Central. Live Discover allows admins to use osquery to search the device data across their estate to answer almost any question they can think of.

System requirements

Free disk space: 1 GB
Memory: 2 GB
System type: x64
Systemd supported and running
Kernel that supports glibc 2.17 or later
Bash is installed

Supported platforms

The following platforms and point releases have been tested:

Amazon Linux 2
CentOS 7
CentOS 8
CentOS Minimal
RHEL 7
RHEL 8
Ubuntu 18.04 (LTS)
Ubuntu 20.04 (LTS)
Ubuntu Minimal

Support

You can find technical support for Sophos products in any of these ways:

Visit Sophos Community at Sophos community and search for other users who are experiencing the same problem.
Visit Sophos support at Sophos support.
Find how-to, configuration and troubleshooting videos at Sophos Techvids video hub.

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