Changelog

8 July 2019: 27.0.0

• [NEW] Enhanced support for Experience Scoring. Default response time thresholds used to calculate the Experience Score are now populated from crowd-sourced data. There is no need to manually configure response time thresholds for each application. Experience Scores will be calculated automatically for predefined applications.
• [NEW] Added support for VXLAN interfaces. VXLAN interfaces can be added to the probe using the CLI and once configured, will monitor and report on any packets received on these interfaces. This is particularly useful for encapsulated port mirroring in cloud environments (e.g. receiving packets from Azure vTap).
• [NEW] Shaping can now be configured in routed deployments. If Sinefa probes are configured to route traffic between their interfaces (as opposed to bridging, which is the default) traffic shaping can now be configured and applied.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Layer 7 DPI classification updates and improvements including the addition of new video/music streaming applications.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Added some default Network Objects commonly used for network quality testing endpoints.

3 June 2019: 26.6.0

• [NEW] Added support for an Azure cloud-native probe image. The new Azure image will be identical to the image used in our hardware and other virtual probes. The new probe image is available on the Azure Marketplace.
• [NEW] Added initial support for Experience Scoring. Based on application response times, experience scores can be calculated for any application. Thresholds can be set under Settings -> Applications for each application. These thresholds will be automatically populated form crowd sourced data very soon.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Show current username/IP mappings from AD integration on the UI. This is available under Settings -> Users -> Active Directory Users.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Layer 7 DPI classification updates.
• [FIX] Some Alert Actions were not correctly saved.

21 May 2019: 26.5.0

• [IMPROVEMENT] Probes are now collecting additional performance metrics that will be added to the UI in the coming weeks.
• [FIX] The Application Utilization chart incorrectly showed an "Other" series when not specifically filtered by a source.
• [FIX] The 'Probe Offline' alert was still active even when disabled.

15 May 2019: 26.4.0

• [IMPROVEMENT] Added Sinefa CLI to CentOS/RPM based probe deployments so that common configurations (such as probe registration, which interfaces to monitor, etc) can be completed without running scripts.
• Minor fixes and performance improvements.

1 May 2019: 26.3.0 

• [NEW] Add probe tools to the UI (under Settings -> Probes). You can now run speed tests, pings, trace routes and DNS lookups on remote probes directly from the UI.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Add the ability to create alerts using thresholds based on the new application performance metrics.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Add an "Ignore WAN traffic" shaping mode that ignores all private/WAN traffic so only Internet traffic is shaped.
• [IMPROVEMENT] Add an option to enable/disable flow VLAN indexing. The same flows on different VLANs can either be aggregated or treated separately.
• [FIX] Some scheduled PDF reports were not automatically emailed. 

16 April 2019: 26.2.0

• [NEW] Add support for replacing the version of firmware stored in the probe's recovery partition (using CLI 'system.recovery' commands). Add support for automatically recovering to the version of firmware stored in the recovery partition while preserving the existing configuration. This will allow rolling back to older versions.
• [NEW] Add an option to use LDAP rather than LDAPS (e.g. disable SSL) when querying AD servers for group information. Also allow NTLMv2 to be enabled when querying AD servers for user details.
• [NEW] Add a new Internet shaping mode called 'Backhaul'. This mode differentiates between traffic from remote subnets 'to local subnets' (shaped as WAN) and traffic from remote subnets 'to not local subnets' (shape as INTERNET).
• [NEW] Add a per interface identification CLI command ('interface. identify [duration] [cancel]'). This command will flash the link lights on the specified interface for the specified amount of time. This can be used to help physically identify the port (only supported for ports on network expansion cards).
• [IMPROVEMENT] Apply performance optimizations to all 10G NEMs ports (not just the first 4 ports that are present).
• [IMPROVEMENT] Disable flow to CPU map caching in the 10G NEMs. This was causing a drop in performance on bridges once the number of flows being processed exceeded the cache size (this caching is intended for local processes and is not required for bridging).
• [FIX] Fix issues with monitoring when updates have been applied since late 2018 without any of the required reboots taking place.
• [FIX] Fix unbalanced traffic distribution resulting in one CPU core not being utilised for traffic processing.
• [FIX] After shaping was disabled, live would still show the policies that had originally applied. Policy information is now cleared when shaping is disabled.

4 April 2019: 26.1.3

• [FIX] Live displaying incorrect shaping rules under some circumstances.
• [FIX] Stop probes that haven't rebooted since v24.0.0 from generating excessive logs. 

1 April 2019: 26.1.0

• [NEW] Added 'pre' and 'post' shaping monitoring options. Prior to this update, probes monitored network traffic after shaping has taken effect. It’s now possible to select either pre-shaping (to monitor traffic before shaping), post-shaping (the current default) or both. Note: A probe reboot is required to use this feature.
• [NEW] Improved the geo-map widget. Reports using the geo-map widget (currently Live and Application Performance) can now zoom further into the map. The map view will automatically switch to Google maps when zoomed in.
• [NEW] Added source capacity line to Network Utilization reports. Any Network Utilization report filtered by a single source will include a line on the charts indicating the bandwidth capacity of that source.
• [NEW] Improved the default Live view. Suppressed primary sources are hidden and secondary sources are displayed by default.
• [NEW] Added probe manage dialog. This new dialog can be used to bulk reboot, upgrade and switch the monitoring mode of one or more probes at a time.
• [FIX] Shaping policies sometimes reported as 'Unknown' in the Live view.

Note: A probe reboot will be required for some new features to work correctly.

15 March 2019: 26.0.0

• [NEW] New UI now generally available for all users at https://ui.sinefa.com - the new UI is modern, faster, responsive and has more reports and widgets. All new UI features and functionally moving forward will occur on the new UI, however, the existing UI will still be available for a while. More information about the new UI can be found in this blog post.
• [NEW] Added 3rd party alert notification actions. Alerts generated by the Sinefa platform can be now be sent to 3rd party services such as Slack, ServiceNow, Zendesk, JIRA, AWS and xMatters.
• [NEW] Shaping policies can have a 'Name' field for easier identification.
• [NEW] Improved the probe settings dialog. The probe settings dialog has been redesigned and now shows more information from the probe such as interface/bridge details, CPU usage, memory and uptime.
• [NEW] Support for additional Intel and Mellanox virtual network interfaces.
• [FIX] Bridges on virtual probes can have a name independent of the underlying bridged interfaces. Previously bridges needed to be named based on the names of the interfaces been bridged.
• [FIX] Resolved an issue where probe registration sometimes fails with the error message 'destination unreachable'.

31 January 2019: 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 2019: 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 2019: 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][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

• [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

• 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

• 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

• 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