These are the release notes for Sophos Anti-Virus for macOS (Sophos Central edition).
Introduced support for a new updating mechanism that should result in reduced bandwidth consumption for downloads
Threat detection engine: 3.87.0
Data engine: 5.98
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| Sophos Anti-Virus | 10.4.13 May 2023 |
10.4.7 February 2023 |
10.4.1 October 2022 |
10.4.0 September 2022 |
10.3.10 August 2022 |
10.3.7 June 2022 |
10.3.4 April 2022 |
10.3.3 February 2022 |
10.3.1 November 2021 |
10.2.2 September 2021 |
10.1.4 July 2021 |
10.1.3 July 2021 |
10.0.4 February 2021 |
10.0.1 October 2020 |
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Added support for ransomware exclusions.
Added support for device isolation.
Performance and security enhancements.
Threat detection engine: 3.87.0
Data engine: 5.98
Added support for macOS Ventura.
The threat detection engine is 3.86.1.
The threat detection engine is version 3.85.1.
No new features.
No updated components.
No new features.
OSQuery is updated to version 5.2.3.
The threat detection engine is version 3.85.1.
No new features.
OSQuery is updated to version 5.2.2.
The threat detection engine is version 3.84.0.
No new features.
The threat detection engine is version 3.84.0.
No new features.
The threat detection engine is version 3.83.1.
Sophos Data Lake: support for runtime Indicator of Compromise (IoC) detection and threat hunting.
Support for macOS 12 Monterey.
The threat detection engine is updated to version 3.83.1.
Native support for Apple M1 chips (excluding Central Device Encryption and Sophos Managed Threat Response).
The threat detection engine is updated to version 3.82.2.
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. |
See Known Issues list for a full list of known issues with Central Endpoint - Mac.
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