Changelog

• 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)

• Live 1 second streaming
• Live has been moved out of the dashboard and into it's own section

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

• Sinefa Public Probes - Test Network Quality Score(NQS) to different public cloud locations

22 December 2015: 15.12

• Add or register Probes using their serial number on app.sinefa.com eliminating the need for console access
• Support for distributed Active Directory (AD) 
• Ability to reboot Probes from app.sinefa.com
• Ability to turn off automatic updates for Probes
• Notifications when new Probe software is available and if reboots are required
• Alert integration with PagerDuty

26 November 2015: 15.11(.1)

• New and improved timeranges
• Auto-login - use your API key to automatically log into Sinefa App using credetials in the URL
• Auto-refresh Sinefa App pages
• Hide menus in UI (useful for when using within iframe)
• Partner Portal - (for Sinefa Partners only)

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

• Linux RPM Instance - Deploy Sinefa Instances on Linux servers
• Google Maps - Migrated UI mapping to Google Maps for improved aesthetics and performance
• System Alerts - Added Instance offline alert and Netflow configuration problem alerts
• SPAN Port Monitoring - Added improved support for SPAN port monitoring
• NAT Improvements - Added improved support for running Quality and Capacity tests in NAT environments
• Numerous bug fixes and other minor improvements

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

• Flow Aggregation
• Improved UI for configuring Flow Segmentation and Aggregation
• Numerous bug fixes and other minor improvements

22 Apr 2013: 13.04

• Flow Segmentation
• Customer Portal for MSPs
• Quality Overview Report
• Product Feedback directly from the UI
• Numerous bug fixes and other minor improvements

20 Mar 2013: 13.03(.1)

• Added Alerting capabilities
• Numerous bug fixes and other minor improvements

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