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31 January 2018: 25.2.0

  • [IMPROVEMENT][NEW UI ONLY] To be able to specify over-arching bandwidth for bridges has been added as a new feature in the new UI.
  • [FIX] Fragmented packets which were not monitored correctly for protocols such as UDP, ICMP has been fixed to ensure accurate calculation of traffic in and out.
  • [FIX] Resolved an issue where selecting an invoice would download the most recent one.
  • [FIX] Peak throughput calculations are improved to ensure accuracy on the utilization data and graphs.

23 January 2018: 25.1.1

  • [FIX] Some traffic incorrectly classified as Unclassified or SSL.
  • [FIX] Removing or deleting interfaces from bridges or groups not working correctly.
  • [FIX] Changes to probe bypass configuration not applied immediately at run-time.
  • [FIX] Fragmented packets not monitored correctly.
  • [FIX] Live (real-time) results being duplicated in some situations.
  • [FIX] NetFlow monitoring restarts when observing traffic from one source with different ids. 

10 January 2018: 25.0.1

  • [FIX] Links between application https and websites. 

20 December 2018: 25.0.0

  • [IMPROVEMENT] App performance enhancements. 

12 December 2018: 24.0.4 

  • [IMPROVEMENT] Add support for the latest SF950 hardware revision.

4 December 2018: 24.0.2 

  • [FIX] Don't allow an SSL classification to override a port-based application classification
  • [FIX] The SF801 and SF950 probes may not go into bypass mode correctly on shutdown/reboot
  • [FIX] The probe's admin console reports 'Unable to contact controld' when interface or bridge groups exist
  • [FIX] Enabling monitoring on a group containing bridges does not always disable monitoring on those bridges
  • [FIX] Incorrect order of parameters in the 'interface add' running config

26 November 2018: 24.0.1

Product Fixes

  • [FIX] The probe's bridges may drop some non-standard layer 2 frames (e.g. LACP) following a reboot into v24.0.0. This has been resolved in v24.0.1. Customers are encouraged to ensure v24.0.1 is installed prior to performing the required v24 reboot.

21 November 2018: 24.0.0

New product features and improvements
  • [NEW][probe] Added improved FTP & torrent classification support. This specifically helps track traffic like FTP and torrent
  • [NEW][web ui] Introduced support for wildcard matching in application URLs.This will allow the classification of subdomains of websites into a single application
  • [NEW][probe] Added support for monitoring over multiple span ports
  • [NEW][probe] First VLAN tag used to identify flows. This is a customer request fix that vastly improves monitoring and shaping in complex network environments
  • [NEW][probe] CLI support to check if a reboot is required. This will help in support and troubleshooting cases
 
Product fixes
  • [FIX][probe] Historical reporting now correctly reflects inbound shaped traffic. Previously historical reporting would show inbound traffic before it was shaped, this resulted in some confusion with end users thinking shaping was not working correctly
  • [FIX][probe] Classification fixes for FTPS and HTTPS traffic. Post the 23 release, FTPS and HTTPS were incorrectly coming up as SSL in historical and real-time.
  • [FIX][probe] Resolved issue between Sinefa and classification engine. The issue that was causing services to regularly restart on the probe for some customers
  • [FIX][probe] NQS testing to a public probe now works for multiple customer probes behind a NATed environment

4 November 2018: 23.0.5

[Probe only] No functional changes. This is a version bump to fix an issue upgrading from 22 and older appliances where they couldn't validate the package hash sum.

2 November 2018: 23.0.4

  • Improvement: [Probe] SSL changes for matching web traffic on common name and server name. 
  • Fix: [Probe] SCP traffic coming through as unclassified.

  • Fix: [Probe] FTP coming through as unclassified.

  • Fix [Cloud] System default application list updated to support missing config for common applications: Zoom, Intuit, concur, WordPress, Atlassian, ADP.

  • Fix: [Web UI] not getting probes version updated automaticity.

  • Fix: [Web UI] Downed PDF 100-row limit removed.

27 October 2018: 23.0.3

  • Fix: [Probe] Pending Probe issue resolved. 

26 October 2018: 23.0.2 

  • Fix: [Web UI] Dashboard utilisation spark charts showing incorrect data. 
  • Fix: [Web UI] Settings --> Probe sort order of shaping field not working. 
  • Fix: [Probe] For customer pending status issue in the Live/Real-time screen. 

19 October 2018: 23.0.1 

  • Fix: tiny proxy on probe - resolved issue where websites unavailable via a proxy server
  • Fix: nav probe - potential fix name 'pending' issue in live - note: there may be other root causes to this pending issue
  • Fix: nav cloud - changes to containers to start out of order, this change leads to better container scaling. 

12 October 2018: 23.0.0 

  • NEW: Upgraded DPI engine

  • FIX: [probe] Failed to upgrade packages during update process wizard mode

  • FIX: [probe] Lanner Gen.3 bypassed broken (sf801/sf950)

  • FIX: [controld] Dropping to the shell when trying to log in as admin

  • FIX: probed: Monitoring and shaping not working correctly when traffic is backhauled through the probe with a different VLAN

  • FIX: System upgrade is now done via the service and using async reporting of the results

  • IMP: [probe] Add versioning to the c++ shared libraries - This would then allow is to update one component, and its associated shared libraries, without having to update the entire system

  • FIX: RPM builds fixed

9 October 2018: 22.1.1-r14
  • Added a new Azure public probe in the South Central US region (Dallas, TX).
  • Added the ability for virtual bridges to filter traffic by subnets when VLAN tagged.
  • Improved bypass functionality on SF801 and SF950 hardware.
  • Improved the efficiency of classification of custom applications with large port range definitions.
  • Fixed an issue where quality test paths were not created.
  • Fixed an issue where traffic flowing flow the probe twice was not correctly classified.
  • Fixed an issue where shaping was not applied correctly to ICMP packets.
  • Fixed a Google Maps warning displayed on the Web UI. 
     
     
     
14 September 2018: 22.0.0
 
  • Shaping: Per host bandwidth allocation. Create shaping policies that define bandwidth limits for each host/user on the network.
  • Shaping: Add support for finer granularity when allocating bandwidth by percentage. Bandwidths can now be allocated in increments of 0.1%.
  • Shaping: Allow virtual bridges to filter by subnets in addition to VLANs.
  • Shaping: Allow overarching bridge bandwidth to be specified so that virtual bridges can be oversubscribed.
  • Ability to add custom app tags. Create your own groups of applications for use in reporting and shaping.
  • Ability to run tcpdump from the command line, list and transfer packet captures.
  • Improved cloud-init support - OpenStack style config drives can also be used to provide zero-day configuration.

 

2 August 2018: 21.1.2-r1
  • Fixed an issue where SF150 probes sometimes took a long time to apply configuration following a reboot.

 

24 July 2018: 21.1.0-r17
  • Automatically sync probe's time over the Sinefa cloud connection if NTP is unavailable
  • Support for hot-plugging NICs
  • Add an option to completely ignore specific subnets from monitoring

NOTE: A probe reboot is required following this release. The new NIC hot-plugging feature will not work until the probe has been rebooted. A reboot is not necessary otherwise.

 

10 July 2018: 21.0.1-r2
  • Fixed an issue where some accounts reported "No shaping rule" in Live shaping monitoring

 

09 July 2018: 21.0.0-r180
  • Display peak utilisation (in addition to average) on single time-series reports
  • Updated probe's internal configuration management allowing for remote config as well as cloud-based backup/restore in the future
  • Enhanced auto-provisioning of probes, providing:
    • Better for support zero-day configs of VNF deployments
    • Support for templated, mass probe configuration via USB to assist with large-scale deployments
  • Updated L7 application signatures and definitions

 

18 May 2018: 20.0-r164
  • Scheduled (time-based) shaping - enable/disable rules based on time of day and/or day of the week
  • Multiple shaping policy definitions
  • Specify shaping policies per probe, bridge, segment (VLAN group)
  • Updated L7 application signatures and definitions

The video below provides a brief overview of the changes. See our How to setup Traffic Shaping article for information on how to use these new features.

Please note: A probe reboot will be required following the installation of v20.0 before the new functionality included in this release can be used.

 

23 April 2018: 19.1-r2
  • Fixed an issue where live streaming would stop sending new samples from some probes
  • Fixed an issue where some flow samples could be counted twice

 

03 April 2018: 19.0-r162
  • Live now supports Secondary sources where the primary source belongs to a different account
  • Improved internal messaging allowing more flexible and reliable inter-probe, probe to cloud and cloud to probe communications. Features in upcoming releases will benefit from these changes
  • Updated L7 application signatures and definitions

 

13 February 2018: 18.0-r26
  • Live now supports Secondary sources (sources based on segments)
  • Improved sending results to cloud servers (less chance of gaps in reports during maintenance)
  • Improved performance when evaluating segments with thousands of IP addresses or subnet definitions
  • Updated L7 application signatures and definitions

 

 
12 October 2017: 17.04-r103
  • Shaping per Bridge - Bandwidth settings can now now be specified on a per-bridge basis (rather than as a global setting for all bridges on a probe)
  • SNMP - An SNMP agent can now be enabled on the probe for basic health monitoring by 3rd party SNMP tools
  • Netflow (v9) flow records can now be sent to Sinefa probes
  • Test AD Connectivity - there is now an option to test Active Directory connectivity on the UI to quickly verify if AD integration is corking correctly

 

21 August 2017: 17.03-r249
  • Sinefa cloud region now available in Australia. Data stored in-country for Australia customers.  Also available to APAC region
  • Software and cloud support for multiple regions. New regions planned for 2017 & 2018
  • Updated ASN database - Autonomous System Number used for Networks classification
  • App Tags now available on Data Explorer
  • Private Public Probe (PPP) - Perform quality testing to 3rd party probes.  These probes are typically hosted by CSPs and MSPs and provide network quality insights for key locations and network segments across multiple customers. PPPs can be shared between many customers

 

1 June 2017: 17.02-r166
  • All customer facing email communications from the system have been completely redesigned
  • The weekly summary report has also been completely redesigned and includes more insights - a preview of things to come
  • Over 300 new L7 signatures and app definitions - including individual Office 365 apps
  • The Safari browser is now supported. Also, IE and Edge no longer display the 'Unsupported Browser' message
  • Tcpdump is now available for admin users on the probe's shell
  • NTP time sync now operates more reliably
  • Long AD user and group names are now supported

 

12 April 2017: 17.01-r155
  • New Enterprise plan released
  • New Feature: Application Tag (groups) reporting
  • New Feature: Active Directory reporting and shaping - users and group (Enterprise plan)
  • New Feature: Network reporting and shaping - ASN number and Network Name (Enterprise plan)
  • New Feature: Operating Systems / BYOD reporting (Enterprise plan)
  • New accounts now Pause at end of trial - rather than automatically go active
  • Better support for Billing Contact changes

 

16 February 2017: 16.10-r62

  • Fix an issue with the Active Directory group monitoring
  • Fix an issue with the Shaping system alert

 

2 February 2017: 16.10-r61
  • Fix an issue with the Active Directory system alert

 

31 January 2017: 16.10-r60
  • Ability to create custom Application definitions by IP addresses and subnets
 
24 December 2016: 16.10-r55
  • Ability to create segments based on AD group
  • Shaping by AD group - use "user-group:xxxx” in the definition
  • Added option to disable shaping policies instead of deleting
  • Added 100+ new L7 applications including signature updates to existing applications
  • Improvements around external hosts sometimes showing up as internal hosts 
  • Improvements to tracking users using radius
  • Add support to SF950 for a 4x 1G expansion card with Ethernet bypass
  • Removed "network" filter from query box on UI
  • Inviting support provides read-only access
  • Log Probe registrations, subscriptions, deletions in the account change log
  • Click through to app report from network quality overview (app legend)

 

22 December 2016: 16.09-r55
  • Support for Sinefa SF950 platform
  • Subscription Report (available for Partners) - requires user to be Billing Contact or Administrator
  • Improved sign up page
  • Ignore Local to Local - for application visibility and shaping
  • Live data now shows up immediately (no longer need to wait up to 5 mins)
  • Added a network connectivity test to the probe console/ssh menu for troubleshooting during probe setup
  • Virtual NIC improvements while adding and removing NICs
  • Hyper-V para-virtual interfaces are now supported
  • KVM virtio devices now support multi-queue operation when available
  • Billing date for new accounts fixed to 1st of the month
  • Modified the "reboot required" alert to make it more reliable
2 November 2016: 16.08-r4
  • Probe base operating system upgraded
  • Additional public probes added at several global Azure (Microsoft) data centres
2 November 2016: 16.07-r108
  • Interim update to allow upgrading to 16.08. Once installed, the probe will need to be rebooted to upgrade to 16.08
22 August 2016: 16.07-r105
  • Improved boot options
11 August 2016: 16.07-r102
  • Improved classification of Youtube with QUIC protocol 
  • Handle AD usernames with spaces
  • Read Only users can access email report settings
  • Added support for in-app and email onboarding messages
  • Allow CC email address in the User Profile to be added for receiving invoices
  • Shaping - ignore remote endpoints with no local subnets defined
  • Shaping - mark is not applied to connection if classification happens on the first packet (e.g. ICMP traffic)
  • Shaping - better handling of large bandwidth values (or lots of bandwidth values) 
 28 July 2016: 16.07
  • Billing Contact is a new role that can be assigned per account. The Billing Contact is the person that is charged for subscriptions.  Only the current Billing Contacts can assign a new Billing Contact for an account.  The Billing Contact is suitable for centralised billing of multiple accounts.
  • Current Account Owners(no longer used) now have two roles: Administrator & Billing Contact.  These roles can be split between two users.
  • Administrator is a role assigned to users that can administer the account and subscribe new probes. 

21 June 2016: 16.06

  • Improved NIC and IP address probe configuration to support more flexible virtual, NFV, SDN inline and out-of-path deployment options
  • Improved Operating System detection
  • Added 150+ new L7 applications including signature updates to existing applications
  • Added support for 10G expansion cards in the SF801
  • Added support for the new SF150 probe
  • Active Directory support for users logged in with kerberos authentication
  • Fix: VLAN tags are now preserved during fragmentation

28 April 2016: 16.04-r7

  • Improved account switching and searching capabilities
  • Fix: When DHCP was enabled on a bridge with a VLAN ID attached, in some situations, the bridge would drop the interfaces for a short period
  • Fix: During Probe software upgrades, the network interfaces of Sinefa appliances would reset and cause a short outage. In HA environments this would force a switch to a backup network path

5 April 2016: 16.04

  • More efficient sharing of AD usernames between Probes.  Probes which are local to the AD server will share mappings with remote Probes securely and efficiently. 

17 March 2016: 16.03(.1)

  • Integrate better with APIv2


10 March 2016: 16.03

  • Usernames associated with Hosts are available in Live 1 second streaming
  • Tag based user permissions
  • Added 200+ new L7 applications including signature updates to existing applications
  • Billing enhancements including support for single credit card across multiple accounts

See more on What's New


25 February 2016: 16.02(.1)


10 February 2016: 16.02

  • Ability to set DSCP marks in traffic shaping rules
  • Improved Dashboard filtering capabilities
  • Fixed issue where in some situations, bandwidth was not correctly allocated to all remote locations in environments where shaping has been enabled for multiple locations

6 January 2016: 16.01

22 December 2015: 15.12

26 November 2015: 15.11(.1)

9 November 2015: 15.11

  • Report Scheduling 
  • Shaping by Username
  • Smart buffering - Probe buffers stats when disconnected from app
  • SSL Security enhancements
  • Numerous other bug fixes and minor improvements

NOTE: THIS UPDATE REQUIRES A PROBE RESTART BEFORE USERNAME SHAPING WILL WORK

1 October 2015: 15.09

  • TCP Health and Application RTT
  • Ethernet and Disk Alerts
  • Website (URL) Application definitions
  • Default Account Owner notifications
  • Weekly Report - new and improved
  • Restore Factory Defaults from Wizard
  • Fixed - Source Name changes with IP change
  • Fixed - 0.0.0.0 Source issue
  • Numerous other bug fixes and minor improvements

10 August 2015: 15.08

  • Added support for Radius Usernames and IP Address (DHCP) reporting
  • Added 'BLOCK' action to shaping rules
  • Added a badge on the main menu that shows the number of active alerts
  • Added support for the upcoming SF801 platform
  • Fixed NIC negotiation issues on restart when manual speed/duplex is defined
  • Fixed Wizard registration issue of wrongly reporting successful registration
  • Numerous other bug fixes and minor improvements
  • NOTE: THIS UPDATE REQUIRES A PROBE RESTART SINCE A NEW KERNEL IS INSTALLED ONTO THE PROBE

29 June 2015: 15.06

  • Automated Billing supporting online purchasing of subscriptions and probes
  • 100+ new or updated L7 applications
  • Added support for visibility within PPPoE encapsulated traffic

16 April 2015: 15.04

  • Added the ability to segment by VLAN tags and MPLS labels
  • Added AND/OR logic to segmentation definitions to allow for more fine-grained segmentation
  • Added 40+ new L7 applications plus classification updates to many other existing applications

27 February 2015: 15.01(.1)

  • Performance updated to analytics engine to improve UI speed
  • Migrated analytics engine to SSD-based storage tier

4 February 2015: 15.01

  • Added an Operating Systems report to provide greater visibility into the devices and operating systems in use on the network
  • Re-ordered the Utilization menu for improved usability
  • Added 50+ new L7 applications plus classification updates to many other existing applications
  • Numerous bug fixes and other minor improvements

6 January 2015: 14.12

  • Added a weekly summary report that automatically emails a utilization summary report once a week
  • Hover over application names in the utilization report to view a detailed description of that application
  • Redesigned login and signup forms
  • Numerous bug fixes and other minor improvements

4 December 2014: 14.11

  • Added 100+ new L7 applications plus classification updates to many other existing applications
  • Numerous bug fixes and other minor improvements

22 October 2014: 14.10

  • New 'Sinefa Live' feature provides 1 second resolution real time monitoring across your entire deployment
  • Numerous bug fixes and other minor improvements

8 September 2014: 14.09

  • Added support for URL visibility. Drill even deeper into real HTTP traffic by seeing URLs. Ability to see all URLs on the network are now part of the Sinefa's basic visibility offering
  • Added support for secure URL (HTTPS) visibility. Further to URL visibility, we now provide HTTPS/Secure HTTP visibility based on SSL common names
  • Added support for Active Directory(AD) username visibility. A username is in most cases is a real person using a device in the network. We have now made it possible to add username context to all reports
  • Numerous bug fixes and other minor improvements

28 July 2014: 14.07

  • Further improvements to L7 classification, more apps, more tags and faster detection
  • Numerous bug fixes and other minor improvements

17 June 2014: 14.05

  • New L7 classification engine. 5X the number of L7 applications and protocols, 10X improvements in performance, CPU and memory usage
  • Numerous bug fixes and other minor improvements

15 May 2014: 14.04

  • The new Alert Consolidation feature groups multiple alerts into single raise, acknowledge and clear notifications and also performs analysis on the alerts to help quickly narrow down the root cause
  • Added support suppressing alert acknowledgement and clear notifications
  • Numerous bug fixes and other minor improvements

11 Feb 2014: 14.01

  • Added support for Custom Dashboards
  • Added the ability to create quality and capacity alerts on individual links
  • Added SonicWALL IPFIX (Netflow) support

4 Dec 2013: 13.11

  • (5 Nov 2015 UPDATE - SUPPORT FOR RPI DISCONTINUED)Added support for running Sinefa Instances on a Raspberry Pi 
  • Included Flows per Minute (FPM) metrics on the Utilization reports
  • Numerous bug fixes and other minor improvements

31 Oct 2013: 13.10

  • Added support for running Sinefa Instances within Amazon AWS
  • Added Sinefa Instance software to the Amazon AWS Marketplace
  • Improved the Settings pages for easier configuration and management
  • Numerous bug fixes and other minor improvements

10 Oct 2013: 13.09

  • Quality Test Paths allow users to configure Quality and Capacity test between any instance (or group of instances) and any other instance (or group of instances). See this post for more information.
  • Improved Dashboard including tile-based widgets. Custom dashboards and layouts using the new style widgets coming soon
  • Improved Settings | Instances page for easier instance management and tagging
  • Numerous bug fixes and other minor improvements

30 Aug 2013: 13.08

28 Jun 2013: 13.06

  • PDF Reporting - Download and email all reports in PDF format
  • Report Sharing - Share report URLs and PDF reports with friends and colleagues
  • UI Improvements - Better navigation and styling
  • Numerous bug fixes and other minor improvements

23 May 2013: 13.05

22 Apr 2013: 13.04

20 Mar 2013: 13.03(.1)

06 Mar 2013: 13.03

  • Added User Management capabilities
  • Numerous bug fixes and other minor improvements

15 Feb 2013: 13.02

  • Numerous bug fixes and other improvements

08 Feb 2013: 13.02

  • Added Service Level management and reporting
  • Added drill-down capabilities for Applications, Hosts and Sources Utilization Reports
  • Added advanced filtering capabilities to the dashboard and all reports
  • Added Layer 7 support for Layer 7 capable NetFlow and IPFIX sources

02 Jan 2013: 13.01

  • Auto-registration for VMware-based Sinefa Instances (see this blog post for more information)
  • Added in-line monitoring capabilities with Layer 7 detection
  • Added IPFIX as a monitoring source

12 Nov 2012: 12.10(.1)

  • Added ability to view Sinefa Demo on-line demo account (see this blog post for more information)
  • Added Account Configuration

22 Oct 2012: 12.10

  • Added Applications, Hosts and Sources Utilization Reports
  • Added Netflow Source Configuration
  • Added Application Configuration
  • New and Improved Dashboard
  • New and Improved Menu

14 Aug 2012: 12.08

  • Improved performance (page load time, navigation speed) on the Controller
  • Improved communications between Instance and Controller
  • Improved future software update support on the Instance

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