Version 2021.7
New Features
- Support for Broadcom NICs in sniffing appliances
SUPPORT FOR BROADCOM NICS IN SNIFFING APPLIANCES
This release adds official support to Broadcom NIC cards based on the bnxt_en driver. While sniffing appliances using such NICs were supported in standard "compatibility mode" with reduced performance, starting with this release sniffing appliances will be able to leverage hardware acceleration to achieve better throughputs.
This new feature was tracked internally as FEAT-7205
Detection Improvements
- LLAM-8033 - Improved detection of CVE-2021-40444.
- LLAM-8037 - Reduced false positives on documents analysis.
Bug Fixes and Improvements
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SENT-3296 - Fix to an issue where a sniffing appliance with a large number of CPU threads or a large number of sniffing interfaces would stop reporting statistics on the sniffing performance. This bug did not affect the actual security effectiveness, it exclusively caused some of the graphs in the UI to appear empty.
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USER-5573 - This fixes the alignment of add license sensor group button.
Deprecation of API Methods
The Lastline API documentation includes a deprecation schedule for deprecated Portal API methods, as well as information on how to replace usage of these deprecated methods with supported methods.
Released Appliance Versions
As part of this release, we are making available the following versions of Lastline appliances for use with Lastline Defender Hosted:
- Lastline Sensor version 1300