These are the release notes for Sophos Anti-Virus for macOS Preview.
You may find that you can't yet download and use the latest version on the list below. This is because Sophos releases the software over a number of days, but publishes the release notes on the first day.
No new features.
The threat detection engine is version 3.84.0.
| Sophos Anti-Virus | 9.13.0 May 2022 |
9.12.0 November 2021 |
9.11.0 July 2021 |
9.10.3 March 2021 |
9.10.2 February 2021 |
9.10.1 December 2020 |
9.10.0 November 2020 |
9.9.8 April 2020 |
9.9.7 January 2020 |
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Support for macOS 12 Monterey.
The threat detection engine is updated to 3.83.1.
Native support for Apple M1 chips
The threat detection engine is updated to 3.82.2.
The threat detection engine is 3.80.1
Resolved an issue with the status of on-access scanning in Sophos Enterprise Console.
Support for macOS 11 Big Sur.
The threat detection engine is 3.80.1
Security improvements.
This release contains early access to a version of the endpoint software that supports macOS 11 Big Sur.
The threat detection engine has been updated to 3.80.1.
The threat detection engine has been updated to 3.79.0
| Issue ID | Description |
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| MACEP-5389 | Resolved an issue with tabs opening slowly in Google Chrome. |
| Issue ID | Description |
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| MACEP-4973 | Resolved blank captive portal. |
| Issue ID | Description |
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| MACEP-4657 | Improved device control support for large capacity removable storage devices to ensure that they are blocked after restart. |
| Issue ID | Description |
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| MACEP-1054 | Issues when Web Protection is used in conjunction with Apple Parental Controls on macOS El Capitan (10.11).
On macOS El Capitan (10.11), when Web Protection is active, sites that are correctly blocked by Apple Parental Controls display a blank page, rather than the expected Parental Control block page. |
| The installer will download a full version of macOS when it performs its first auto-update. | |
| DEF89762 | The Scan now with Sophos Anti-Virus item in the Finder contextual menu may sometimes not be displayed correctly. |
| 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. |
| Certain configuration changes do not trigger alerts in Sophos Enterprise Console. | If you make any of the following configuration changes in the Sophos Anti-Virus updating preferences pages, they do not trigger a differs from policy alert in Sophos Enterprise Console:
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