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Patch Manager Plus Cloud Agent Upgrade

This document explains the process of Patch Manager Plus Cloud Agent upgrade.

What happens during an Agent upgrade?

  • During an Agent upgrade, agent and DS binaries with the latest fixes or enhancements are pushed to the Patch Manager Plus server.
  • Roaming agents will contact the server every 90 minutes to check for updates.
  • In the case of a Distribution Server, the Patch Manager Plus server will be contacted based on the replication policy configured.
  • Agents under Distribution Server will contact the Distribution Server every 90 minutes to check for updates.
  • If there is a new agent or Distribution Server version available, roaming agents and Distribution Server will download the new agent and Distribution Server binaries respectively, directly from the Zoho CDN.
  • Agents under Distribution Server will download the binaries from the Distribution Server.
  • Agent binaries will approximately be, 21 to 25 MB in size and Distribution Server binaries will approximately be, 15 to 20 MB in size.
  • If there is an unexpected failure during the upgrade, the scheduler in your agent machine will run every 60 minutes to complete the upgrade.
  • Users are requested to whitelist the domains given in this list for an issue free agent upgrade

How do you check if an upgrade is completed?

  • The current version of the agent is available on the SoM summary page. Navigate to Agent > Summary > Agent Version.
  • The version can also be checked manually from the SoM computers page.
  • You can additionally also view the "Agent upgraded" message in the Event Log Viewer.

Fix in the latest Agent upgrade - Windows 10.0.685.W

Bug Fix:

  1. Issue in on-demand deployments under specific cases has been fixed.

Fix in the latest Agent upgrade - Distribution Server Version 10.0.671

Bug Fix:

  1. A minor issue in excluding target during certain deployments has been fixed.

Enhancement in the latest Agent upgrade - Mac 10.0.677.M

Enhancement

  1. Patch Manager Plus now supports macOS Ventura.

Fix in the latest Agent upgrade - Mac 10.0.676.M

Bug Fixes:

  1. Issue in executing Mac configurations under specific cases has been fixed.

Fix in the latest Agent upgrade - Mac 10.0.674.M | Linux 10.0.669.L 

Fix:

  1. Issue in executing on-demand tasks for Mac and Linux agents under specific cases has been fixed.

Fix in the latest Agent upgrade - Distribution Server Version 10.0.670

Fix:

  1. Minor issue fixes in processing the On Demand operations using Distribution Server.

Enhancement in the latest Agent upgrade - Windows 10.0.679.W

Enhancement:

  1. Issue in updating the deployment status under specific cases has been fixed.

Fixes in the latest Agent upgrade - Windows 10.0.677.W

Fixes:

  1. Scan issues for Surface Pro machines have been fixed.
  2. Issues in DB sync scan have been fixed.

Enhancement in the latest Agent upgrade - Windows 10.0.672.W | Mac 10.0.671.M | Linux 10.0.668.L | Distribution Server Version 10.0.668

Enhancement:

  1. Endpoint Central rebranding specific updates have been made.

Enhancement & Fix in the latest Agent upgrade - Windows 10.0.671.W | Mac 10.0.670.M

Enhancement:

  1. Optimized bandwidth usage for faster deployment.

Fix:

  1. Patch Scan and Config Crash while processing declined patches in Mac has been fixed.

Fixes in the latest Agent upgrade - Windows 10.0.670.W | Mac 10.0.669.M

Fixes:

  1. Notify scan issue has been fixed.
  2. Mac agent upgrade issue has been fixed.

Fixes in the latest Agent upgrade - Windows 10.0.668.W | Mac 10.0.667.M | Distribution Server Version 10.0.666

Fixes:

  1. File request load from the agent has been optimized.
  2. Auto reboot issue in Mac computers has been fixed.
  3. Issue in fetching the user details for macOS 12.3 has been fixed.

Enhancements in Server - 2.4.53

Enhancements:

  1. Apache version upgraded from 2.4.52 to 2.4.53

Feature & Enhancements in the latest Agent upgrade - Linux 10.0.667.L

Enhancements:

  1. Issue with Linux custom scripts has been fixed.

Feature & Enhancements in the latest Agent upgrade - Windows 10.0.667.W | Mac 10.0.666.M | Linux 10.0.666.L

Features:

  1. The ability to create Custom Groups containing computers/users from multiple domains has now been introduced.
  2. Localization is now available for Korean language.
  3. A user with write access to at least one module can now create Static and Dynamic computer custom groups.
  4. Introducing Network Access Control for managed endpoints. For more details regarding this module, reach out to Support.

Enhancements:

  1. DesktopCentral.exe has been renamed to UEMS.exe and will be reflected in the trayicon.exe and the shortcut icon.
  2. The product has been enhanced to display local time according to the logged-on user account settings.
  3. Option to force uninstall an existing agent and install a new one during manual installation for Linux OS has been introduced.
  4. Machine IP address is added as a new criteria for creating dynamic custom groups.
  5. A check for dpkg - already in use has been introduced.
  6. Admin users can choose to share access to custom groups based on users, computers or both under the custom group settings.
  7. Workgroup and Active Directory domain name can now be discovered for macOS machines automatically.
  8. Struts framework dependency has been removed for Schedule Reports and Query Reports.
  9. The API versions 1.0 and 1.1 are no longer supported.
  10. Struts framework dependency has been removed for Dashboard, Deployment, Settings in Patch Management.

Enhancements & Fixes in the latest Agent upgrade - Windows 10.0.504.W | Distribution Server Version 10.0.498

Enhancements:

  1. Issue in executing the installation commands from agent and distribution server exe has been fixed.
  2. The issue in calling applications in the agent folder without quoted paths has been fixed.

Enhancement in Server - 2.4.52

Enhancements:

  1. Apache version upgraded from 2.4.51 to 2.4.52

Enhancements & Fixes in the latest Agent upgrade - Linux 10.0.482.L

Enhancements:

  1. Upgraded Apache version from 2.4.48 to 2.4.51.

Bug Fixes:

  1. To optimize parsed command outputs, the environment language has been set to English.
  2. Agents connect to the vendor sites using proxy.
  3. Issues with Debian 11 repository change is now fixed.

Enhancements & Fixes in the latest Agent upgrade - Windows 10.0.497.W | Mac 10.0.485.M | Linux 10.0.479.L

Enhancements:

  1. Patch Manager Plus will now support Windows 11, Windows Server 2022 and macOS Monterey.

Security Fixes:

  1. SSL validation in Notification Server has been enforced.
  2. Security-related data will no longer be stored in the log folder of the agent.

Enhancements & Fixes in the latest Agent upgrade - Windows 10.0.495.W | Mac 10.0.484.M | Linux 10.0.478.L

Enhancements:

  1. CDN-based file distribution for agent binaries and other static files has been introduced.
  2. Rosetta 2 installation for M1 Mac machines has been automated.

Security Fixes:

  1. 7zip has been upgraded from version 17.0.1 to 19.0.0

Bug Fixes:

  1. Stability fixes are added in agent upgradation, agent-server authentication, and tray icon.
  2. Issue with special character parsing in Agent/Distribution Server exe installation has been fixed.
  3. Reconnection timeout duration in Notification Server(DMS) has been decreased.

Enhancements & Fixes in the latest Agent upgrade - Windows 10.0.502.W | Linux 10.0.481.L

Security Fixes:

  1. In Patch Manager Plus Cloud, the skipping of server certificate verification in some cases has been fixed.

Bug Fixes:

  1. Logging sensitive data in log files has been restricted.

Enhancements & Fixes in the latest Agent upgrade - Windows 10.0.503.W

Bug Fixes:

  1. Issue in auto-updating root certificate while establishing secure communication with Notification Server has been fixed.