These are the release notes for Sophos Anti-Virus for macOS (Sophos Central edition).
Native support for Apple M1 chips.
The threat detection engine is updated to version 3.82.2.
| Sophos Anti-Virus | 10.1.4 July 2021 |
10.1.3 July 2021 |
10.0.4 February 2021 |
10.0.1 October 2020 |
10.0.0 August 2020 |
9.9.8 April 2020 |
9.9.6 November 2019 |
9.9.5 November 2019 |
9.9.4 September 2019 |
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Native support for Apple M1 chips.
The threat detection engine is updated to version 3.82.1.
Support for macOS 11 Big Sur.
The threat detection engine version is 3.80.1.
Security improvements.
You must review the information in knowledge base article KB-000039014 as it contains important information about this release.
The notification "Full disk access required" that asks the user to grant Sophos processes full disk access may be re-triggered.
The threat detection engine version is 3.79.0.
| Issue ID | Description |
|---|---|
| MACEP-5389 | Resolved an issue with tabs opening slowly in Google Chrome. |
This release supports the EDR 3 capabilities in Sophos Central (to be rolled out for Macs by September). Live Discover allows admins to use osquery to search the device data across their estate to answer almost any question they can think of. Live Response allows admins to start an interactive session to a remote device.
This version supports macOS 10.13 and later.
The threat detection engine version is 3.79.0.
| Issue ID | Description |
|---|---|
| MACEP-4232 | Improved battery life when performing on-demand scans. |
| MACEP-5178 | Resolved an issue when connecting devices lacking vendor, product or serial information. |
| Issue ID | Description |
|---|---|
| MACEP-4973 | Resolved blank captive portal. |
This release contains performance improvements.
| Issue ID | Description |
|---|---|
| MACEP-4600 | Improved memory usage when Threat Case creation is enabled. |
| MACEP-4602 | Resolved an issue with modified permissions on the man8 directory when using disk encryption. |
| MACEP-4493 | Resolved an intermittent failure where web pages may fail to load. |
| MACEP-4606 | Improved support for macOS 10.15 Catalina when using MDM profiles. |
| Issue ID | Description |
|---|---|
| MACEP-4456 | Users can now copy paths from the Events panel. |
The threat detection engine version is 3.77.1.
| Issue ID | Description |
|---|---|
| MACEP-4414 | Resolved an intermittent issue on macOS 10.14 Mojave where the Captive Network Assistant page could fail to load. |
| MACEP-4410 | Addressed CVE-2020-10947. |
| Issue | Description |
|---|---|
| Issues with copying infected files to a quarantine folder. | If the immediate scanner moves or copies an infected file to a quarantine folder, the action is intercepted by the on-access scanner. This is because Spotlight indexes the quarantine folder when a file is quarantined
there.
To work around this, in the Spotlight preferences, put the quarantine folder into the list of excluded folders. |
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