Release Notes
Latest Release Notes
Ekran System® v. 7.0.46 (Build: 7.0.855)
Improvements:
• [Ekran System UI:] Ekran System now has a new logo, which is displayed in the Management Tool, as well as other Ekran System components, etc.
• [Alert Management:] The Description field while adding a new alert (or editing an existing alert) now allows up to 500 characters to be entered (instead of 200 previously).
Issues Fixed:
• [Management Tool Localizations:] Various translation issues for Spanish and Japanese localizations – fixed.
• [Windows Clients:] Issue with Clients going offline in certain cases in Protected Mode – fixed.
• [Windows Clients:] Issue with recording Client sessions in certain cases on Terminal Servers – fixed.
Previous Release Notes
Ekran System® v. 7.0.40 (Build: 7.0.785)
Improvements:
• [Licensing:] After activating a Subscription serial key, it is now possible to replace it with a different key (the Deactivate Selected, Activate Product Online, and Activate Product Offline buttons remain displayed).
• [USB Monitoring:] When defining USB rule exceptions, wildcards (using a single "*" character) can now be entered (which can also be used instead of any special characters contained in the Device Hardware ID which are not accepted by the system, e.g. "?").
Issues Fixed:
• [Password Management:] The password could not be remotely rotated for Unix account (SSH) secrets on Linux Client computers in language localizations other than English – fixed.
• [Two-Factor Authentication:] The system prompted the user to enter the RDP credentials twice in certain cases when Mass 2FA was enabled – fixed.
Ekran System® v. 7.0.30 (Build: 7.0.683)
New Features:
• [macOS Clients]: File Upload operations performed by users on macOS Client computers can now be monitored (in the similar way as for Windows Clients), along with associated alerts.
Ekran System® v. 7.0.20 (Build: 7.0.611)
New Features:
• [Management Tool]: To enhance security (e.g. to prevent brute-force attacks), user accounts can now be temporarily locked automatically after incorrect login credentials are entered multiple times.
Locked accounts can be unlocked at any time by an administrator on the User Management page.
Improvements:
• [Ekran System Encryption]: SHA-1 has now been updated to SHA-2 in the Ekran System Master Certificate (EkranMasterCertificate) – for both new installations by default, and for existing installations after reissuing the Master Certificate.
• [Linux Clients]: Permissions for log files are now set to a minimum by default.
• [Third-Party Products]: Several components and libraries have been updated to improve security.
Issues Fixed:
• [Viewing Monitoring Results]: The sessions of some Clients had an incorrect timestamp due to different time zones – fixed.
• [Database Management]: Some sessions were archived despite no archive & cleanup rules being configured – fixed.
• [One-Time Passwords]: In certain cases, approvers did not receive access requests by email – fixed.
Ekran System® v. 7.0.0 (Build: 7.0.358)
New Features:
• [Anonymizer]: Enables compliance with data protection and privacy laws, standards and regulations (e.g. GDPR) by anonymizing personally identifiable information (e.g. User Name, Client Name, and Remote Host Name values are randomized) to protect it from being viewed, unless a request to expose a specific user's data is first approved.
• [macOS Clients]: Clipboard Copy/Cut operations performed by users on macOS Client computers can now be monitored (+ alerts configured), in the similar way as for Windows Clients.
• [Viewing Client Sessions]: New column was added to display the Time Zone (in UTC) of the Client computer (for Windows and Linux Client sessions).
Improvements:
• [Management Tool]: New improved UI design – please be aware of some changes in the layout, e.g. the Configuration (and Serial Key Management) pages have been moved, and now instead open from the 
Configuration icon (at the top of all pages).
• [Two-Factor Authentication]: Option added to disable the automatic Mass 2FA feature for a Client (or Client group).
• [macOS Clients]: macOS Ventura is now supported for remote mass deployment (using VMware Workspace ONE UEM).
• [Database]: The structure has been optimized. Please note that after updating Ekran System, the data migration process will begin as soon as the Application Server starts up. Migration takes place in the background, which may take some time to complete and affect system performance while in progress. Recommendations for updating Ekran System can be found on the Updating the System (Checklist & Best Practices) page.
Issues Fixed:
• [Hardware Security Module]: Various issues with HSM key rotation – fixed.
• [Tray Notifications application]: Various issues – fixed.
Ekran System® v. 6.63.1 (Build: 6.63.729)
New Features:
• [Password Management (PAM)]: The new Password Checkout functionality allows security to be enhanced in various ways, but primarily by preventing more than one user from using any specific secret at any one time.
Improvements:
• [Viewing Monitoring Results]: Various improvements have been made to the functionality and UI of this page, and the performance has been optimized.
• [Database]: The new Data Migration Progress Bar is now displayed (at the top of all Management Tool pages) after updating the system until data migration has completed if the database structure has been optimized (i.e. modified) since the previous installed version.
• [Database]: The structure has been optimized. Please note that after updating Ekran System, the data migration process will begin as soon as the Application Server starts up. Migration takes place in the background, which may take some time to complete and affect system performance while in progress. Recommendations for updating Ekran System can be found on the Updating the System (Checklist & Best Practice) page.
• [Windows Clients]: Various improvements have been made concerning restarting sessions (at midnight).
• [Windows Clients]: Custom credentials providers are now supported for user authentication (e.g. pGina and smartcard logins).
Issues Fixed:
• [Playing Client Sessions]: An issue with screen capture recording on multiple monitors in certain cases (when a monitor is connected/disconnected during a session) – fixed.
• [Playing Client Sessions]: An issue in certain cases with storing paths to folders containing screen captures recorded – fixed.
• [Scheduled Reports]: An issue in certain cases when adding scheduled report rules to Сlient groups and user groups – fixed.
• [PostgreSQL Database]: The Application Server would not start in certain cases involving creating PostgreSQL databases manually – fixed.
Ekran System® Data Connector v. 1.2 (Build: 1.0.107)
Improvements:
• [API endpoints]: A new endpoint has been added to the requests list to get alerts data (e.g. for use with Power BI).
Ekran System® v. 6.62.2 (Build: 6.62.872)
New Features:
• [Secondary User Authentication]: Now also works when the Client computer is offline (for users who have previously logged in to the Client computer using secondary user authentication when online).
• [Monitoring Linux Clients]: Deduplication of commands and parameters is now implemented to allow the amount of monitoring data generated to be reduced, where the time interval between which duplicate commands-parameter pairs are not recorded is specified in the server config file (in the LinuxDeduplicationPeriod value (in ms), which by default is "1500", where "3000" is the max. value, and "0" is disabled).
Improvements:
• [Viewing Client sessions]: Additional information about Alerts (Alert Name, Risk Level, What, and When) is now displayed in the Details area of the Session Viewer.
• [User Management]: The logic for User-to-User access (on the User Access tab) has been improved, which is used for restricting which endpoint users Management Tool users can view the sessions of, and includes a new "Sync Active Directory User Groups" button to allow user groups (in LDAP target domains) to be updated manually.
• [Database]: The structure has been optimized. Please note that after updating Ekran System, the data migration process will begin as soon as the Application Server starts up. Migration takes place in the background, and may take considerable time to complete, and affect system performance while in progress. Recommendations for updating Ekran System can be found on the Updating the System (Checklist & Best Practice) page.
Issues Fixed:
• [Configuration]: There was an issue with the use of a custom certificate when setting up Single Sign-On (SSO) – fixed.
• [Configuration]: Multiple Administrator Email addresses could not be specified (separated by semicolons) in the Email Sending Settings – fixed.
• [Viewing Monitoring Results]: Some sessions displayed were much longer than 24 hours and could not be viewed in the Session Player – fixed.
Ekran System® v. 6.62.1 (Build: 6.62.800)
New Features:
• [Installing macOS Clients]: Can now be performed by way of generating an INI file to define the settings (e.g. the Client Group that the Client will be installed in), including for remote mass deployment.
• [Client Group Management]: Client groups can now be cloned, to enable a new Client group to be created with the same settings (but with a different name) as an existing one.
• [Disaster Recovery for mac OS Clients]: New logic has been implemented whereby multiple Application Server IP addresses / hostnames can now be defined in the Client settings (for the Client to switch between Application Servers automatically if there is no response).
• [Viewing macOS Clients]: The serial number of macOS Client computers can now be displayed in a new column.
Improvements:
• [Updating macOS Clients]: Can now be performed either manually or automatically (i.e. the same as for Windows and Linux Clients).
• [Cluster Settings]: The logs from individual nodes in a cluster can now be downloaded.
• [Health Monitoring]: Users can now manage warnings about running out of free space by using a new setting ("DatabaseStorageSizePerClientWarning") in the "EkranServer.settings.config" file.
• [Alert Management]: Global Alert Settings can now be defined differently for every tenant.
• [Alert Management]: The functionality for importing alerts has now been made more user-friendly.
Issues Fixed:
• [The Tasks List]: In certain cases, tasks could not be cancelled – fixed.
• [Forensic Export]: In certain cases, Client sessions export tasks got stuck (and could not be cancelled) – fixed.
• [Viewing Archived Client Sessions]: A user with the appropriate permissions could not view archived sessions from other computers – fixed.
• [Installing Windows Clients]: There was an issue when installing Clients on Citrix – fixed.
• [Application Server Configuration]: There was an issue with authentication when using an AD global catalog – fixed.
Ekran System® v. 6.61.6 (Build: 6.61.402)
Improvements:
• [Reports]: A column has been added to now display Remote Public IPv4 values in those report types which also display Remote IPv4 values.
Issues Fixed:
• [Reports]: In certain cases, some statistics were displayed incorrectly in User Productivity reports and Activity Summary reports – fixed.
Ekran System® v. 6.61.5 (Build: 6.61.342)
Improvements:
• [User Behavior Analysis (UEBA)]: Performance optimized for environments that do not have UEBA configured (with the Risk Score now calculated only when UEBA rules are enabled).
• [Linux Clients]: CPU usage by Ekran System offline pool manager – optimized.
Issues Fixed:
• [User and User Group Management]: In certain cases, some users were not able to generate reports, etc. – fixed.
• [Viewing Monitoring Results]: In certain cases, not all information was recorded (e.g. screen captures showed only partially rendered windows, etc.) – fixed.
Ekran System® v. 6.61.2 (Build: 6.61.224)
New Features:
• [Session Viewer]: Various UX improvements, including the left and right arrow keys can now be used to navigate between alerts triggered in the session (which switches between videos in the Session Player) – added.
Improvements:
• [Health Monitoring Transaction log]: Identical event records are now grouped into a single entry, with the number of identical events that have occurred displayed in the new Count column - added.
• [Management Tool]: Various aesthetic improvements to some UI pages – have been made.
• [Database]: The structure – has been optimized. Please note that after updating Ekran System, the data migration process will begin as soon as the Application Server starts up. Migration takes place in the background, and may take some time and affect system performance while in progress. Recommendations for updating Ekran System can be found on the Updating the System (Checklist & Best Practice) page.
Ekran System® v. 6.60.1 (Build: 6.60.62)
Improvements:
• Fingerprint authorization [Windows Clients]: in combination with 2FA, OTP, and secondary user authentication – now supported.
• Alerts tab [Monitoring Results]: Performance – optimized.
• Localizations [Management Tool]: Japanese translation – updated.
• Additional third-party system libraries and components – updated.
• Database structure – optimized. Please note that after updating Ekran System, the data migration process will begin as soon as the Application Server starts up. Migration takes place in the background, and may take some time and affect system performance while in progress. Recommendations for updating Ekran System can be found on the Updating the System (Checklist & Best Practice) page.
Ekran System® v. 6.59.1 (Build: 6.59.213)
New Features:
• Apple M1 devices [macOS Clients]: are now supported, so these machines can also be monitored.
Improvements:
• Viewing Clients [Client Management]: The Last User column can now be searched, filtered and sorted.
• Golden images [Client Management]: Duplicate Clients can now be avoided (so duplicates are no longer displayed on the Client Management page).
• Third-party system components and libraries: Various updates have been made.
Issues Fixed:
• Keystroke logging [Monitoring Results]: Certain keystrokes entered in the Polish language could not be detected – fixed.
Ekran System® v. 6.58.1 (Build: 6.58.141)
New Features:
• Alerts tab [Monitoring Results]: This new tab has been added to make all information about all alert events more easily accessible, and viewable in one place.
• Ekran System Data Connector: Microsoft Power BI templates can now be used to generate various custom reports using Ekran System data imported via its API.
Improvements:
• Viewing Linux Clients [Client Management]: New icon added to show Linux Clients installed with the X11 parameter.
• Alert Viewer: This feature has now been deprecated (and all links to open it on various pages have instead been removed / redirected to the new Alerts tab, since the same information is now available in a more convenient way by using this new feature – see above).
• macOS Clients: New logic for connecting to the Application Server has been implemented to optimize the process.
• Database structure: has been optimized. Please note that after updating Ekran System, the data migration process will begin as soon as the Application Server starts up. Migration takes place in the background, and may take some time and affect system performance while in progress. Recommendations for updating Ekran System can be found on the Updating the System (Checklist & Best Practice) page.
Issues Fixed:
• Viewing macOS Clients [Client Management]: Showed the user's local IP address (instead of the IP address of the VPN) when connected to a VPN – fixed.
• Health Monitoring: The error "Unable to connect to Ekran System website to get current version number." was displayed in the transaction log when the system is used in offline mode – fixed.
Previous Release Notes
Ekran System® v. 6.57.1 (Build: 6.57.176)
New Features:
• Mass Two-Factor Authentication [Access Management] using (Microsoft or Google) authenticator apps: 2FA can now be enabled for all users of all the Client computers in a Client Group at once.
Improvements:
• Reports: New capability added to allow the users to be specified who can download and view all reports generated.
• Scheduled Reports: The "Generate" (
) button (which is used to manually generate a report from a scheduled report rule at any time) has been moved to the grid to improve the user experience.
Ekran System® v. 6.56.1 (Build: 6.56.105)
New Features:
• X-Forwarded sessions [Linux Clients]: are now supported for monitoring.
• Playing Client sessions [Monitoring Results]: A session can now be opened by:
- clicking the new Play button added.
- double-clicking (instead of previously single-clicking) on a session.
Improvements:
• The total number of clients [Client Management]: is now displayed.
• Remote installation of Windows Clients: The overall stability of the process has been improved.
• Database structure: has been optimized. Please note that after updating Ekran System, the data migration process will begin as soon as the Application Server starts up. Migration takes place in the background, and may take some time and affect system performance while in progress. Recommendations for updating Ekran System can be found on the Updating the System (Checklist & Best Practice) page.
Issues Fixed:
• Email notifications [Alert Management]: Multiple alert events were sent in one email in certain cases when configured to send separate emails for each alert event – fixed.
• Scheduled Archiving & Cleanup [Client Management]: Some sessions were not archived in certain cases (involving scheduling Archive & Cleanup for both a Client and its Client group separately) – fixed.
Ekran System® v. 6.53.1 (Build: 6.53.127)
Improvements:
• Database Management Archive Parameters [Configuration]: New option added for configuring the credentials of a user for a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) system.
• Localizations [Management Tool]: Translations added for extra pages/tabs for Japanese, German, Polish, and Spanish languages.
• Application Server: Storage of settings moved from system registry to config file.
Issues Fixed:
• Viewing Client sessions [Monitoring Results]: Session could remain in Live status (and be duplicated) after user logout in certain cases – fixed.
• High Availability mode [Application Server]: Isolation mode could not be enabled for an Application Server in a failover cluster – fixed.
Ekran System® v. 6.52.1 (Build: 6.52.114)
New Features:
• SIEM integration [Configuration]: can now be used with a secure TLS connection.
• Hardware Security Module (HSM) integration [Database Parameters]: new functionality added to allow the use of an existing private key when moving the Master Certificate to an HSM storage device.
Improvements:
• Cleanup of the sessions of deleted Clients [Database Parameters]: various improvements made.
• Playing Linux SSH sessions [Session Player]: performance improved.
• Report generation speed [Reports]: has been significantly improved for some reports.
Issues Fixed:
• Sessions Archiving & Cleanup tasks [Health Monitoring]: the statuses of tasks on the Tasks List were not shown correctly in certain cases – fixed.
• Alert email notifications [Alert Management]: were not sent to all users specified in the alert in certain cases – fixed.
• Dashboards customization: in some cases dashboards could not be resized correctly – fixed.
• Updating Windows Clients: stability improved.
• Updating the Application Server: an issue in cases where the database uses case-sensitive collation – fixed.
Ekran System® v. 6.51.1 (Build: 6.51.91)
Improvements:
• HSM integration (for storage of the Ekran System Master Certificate on Thales Hardware Security Module to enhance security):
- The frequency of requests for a key sent to SafeNet KeySecure – optimized.
- Support for Windows Core systems – added.
• Screen capture compression [Windows Client Management]: New option added to manage the compression level of screen captures from 1-9 (where the default value of 9 is the highest compression level which uses the least disk space, but with higher CPU consumption on the Client machine).
• Client Version column [Client Management]: Can now be sorted (first by the icon showing whether the Client is up-to-date, and then by the Client Version number).
• Windows Clients: Clients that are not up-to-date still monitor user activity, but they can now also send the data to the Application Server.
• Health Monitoring log records: Optimized to reduce the size of the database transaction log.
• Memory usage [Windows Client and Application Server sides]: Various optimizations implemented.
Ekran System® v. 6.50.1 (Build: 6.50.35)
New Features:
• New "Client Version" column [Client Management]: Added to display the current version of each Client (and whether it is up-to-date).
Improvements:
• Cleanup [Client Management]: No longer scheduled by default for new installations.
NOTE: Existing deployments are not affected in any way when updated, with Cleanup remaining scheduled every 30 days by default.
• Authentication Options [Client Management]: If the Enable the displaying of additional message option is enabled, in the custom notification pop-up window displayed on login, for the convenience users, the Continue button is now selected by default (instead of the Cancel button).
• Archive & Cleanup [Client Management]: Retry Policy updated to improve stability in cases when attempting to copy the screenshot files to the archive folder multiple times.
Issues Fixed:
• Health Monitoring Notifications [Configuration]: Multiple email addresses could not be added – fixed.
• Monitoring Time Filtering [Monitoring Results]: Session status remained displayed as Live after monitoring of the Client finished at the end of the time period defined in the Monitor only during defined hours option – fixed.
• File Upload [Windows Clients]: Alert rules were not triggered in certain cases if the display language was not set to English – fixed.
• Scheduled Reports [Reports]: Generation failed in certain cases involving duplicate file names – fixed.
• Client uninstallation [macOS Clients]: Could not be carried out remotely by way of the Management Tool in certain cases – fixed.
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) v.15 [Linux Clients]: Issues when installing and rebooting – fixed.
Ekran System® v. 6.48.1 (Build: 6.48.33)
Improvements:
• Management Tool localizations – Spanish [ES] and Polish [PL] versions are now available.
Issues Fixed:
• Ekran System Master Certificate – in certain cases the certificate could not be moved to HSM external storage on the second node in a cluster – fixed.
• Application Server installation – in certain cases database installation failed when updating from very old versions after moving the Application Server to a different machine – fixed.
Notes:
• Windows Server 2022 – is supported for all Ekran System components.
Ekran System® v. 6.47.1 (Build: 6.47.38)
New Features:
• User Management – a new User Access tab has been added to allow Management Tool users to be restricted to only be able to view the monitored sessions of specific endpoint users.
NOTE: The neighboring Client Access tab (previously called the Client Permissions tab) has also been renamed.
• Client Management – a new Last User column has been added to display the name (i.e. first name and last name) of the endpoint user who last logged in to each Client computer.
Improvements:
• Session Player – the Full Screen mode interface has been enhanced to provide a better user experience (now similar to that of YouTube), including hotkeys (F - enter full screen, Esc - exit full screen, Space - play/pause, Right arrow - next, Left arrow - previous).
• Application Server installation – a warning notification has been implemented to inform the user that installation cannot be performed if multiple Master Certificates (called EkranMasterCertificate) are detected in the certificate store.
• Password Management (PAM) secrets – a watchdog has been implemented for Ekran System Connection Manager to detect and recover from failure automatically.
• Multi-Tenant mode – different internal users in different tenants can now be given the same username.
• Database structure optimization. Please note that after an update of Ekran System, the data migration process begins as soon as the Application Server starts up. Migration takes place in the background, and may take some time and affect system performance while in progress.
NOTE: Recommendations for best practice can be found on the Updating the System (Checklist & Best Practice) page.
Issues Fixed:
• Alerts – the sending of email notifications was delayed in certain cases – fixed.
• One-Time Passwords (OTPs) – user requests for OTPs would not be sent in certain cases when configured for a Client group – fixed.
• macOS Clients – after being offline, the sending of data to the Application Sever was delayed when the connection was restored in certain cases – fixed.
Ekran System® v. 6.45.1 (Build: 6.45.34)
New Features:
• AD Global Catalog integration – is now supported, which allows Management Tool users to be added from any domain within an Active Directory forest using a single global catalog LDAP target.
NOTE: See also Release Notes 6.44.1
Improvements:
• Linux Red Hat (RHEL) 8.4 Clients – are now supported for monitoring.
Issues Fixed:
• Archive & Cleanup would not switch from Scheduled to Never in certain cases – fixed.
Ekran System® v. 6.44.1 (Build: 6.44.28)
Improvements:
• Adding AD users (User Management) – Users / user groups from all domains are now added in the User / User group field. This change will support the upcoming integration with AD Global Catalog.
• Health Monitoring notifications – The severity levels of some event notifications have been changed.
• Database structure optimization. Please note that after an update of Ekran System, the data migration process begins as soon as the Application Server starts up. Migration takes place in the background and may take some time.
Issues Fixed:
• Forensic Export in certain cases contained fewer screenshots than when viewing sessions on the Monitoring Results page – fixed.
• Generated Reports could not be downloaded by users not belonging to the Administrators user group in certain cases – fixed.
Ekran System® v. 6.42.1 (Build: 6.42.46)
New Features:
• Alerts [on macOS Clients] – are now supported as for Windows Clients, with unique alert IDs, keywords, etc.
• Master Panel (v. 1.1) – Single-Sign On (SSO) is now also implemented for this stand-alone component of Ekran System for large organizations with multiple distributed Application Server instances. The Master Panel allows users to view all user sessions from all Management Tools in a single interface, and can be downloaded from our website: https://www.ekransystem.com/sites/default/files/ekransystem/EkranSystem_MasterPanel-en.zip
Improvements:
• Amazon Linux 2 Clients – UI sessions can now be monitored.
• AD users [on Linux Clients] – sessions can now be monitored.
• Ekran System Connection Manager (PAM) – installation is no longer supported on old Windows desktop computers.
• Audit log – now includes a full set of all actions performed with secrets in the Management Tool.
Issues Fixed:
• macOS Clients did not stop monitoring when free space on the computer was less than 500 MB – fixed.
• One-time passwords (on the Access Management page) could not be generated for AD users – fixed.
• Client Management yellow exclamation mark would not disappear from the Management Tool in certain cases – fixed.
• Windows Clients did not detect the active windows title in certain cases – fixed.
• On a system with two NICs, Clients could go offline in certain cases – fixed.
Ekran System® v. 6.41.1 (Build: 6.41.46)
New Features:
• HSM integration – Ekran System is now integrated with the Thales SafeNet KeySecure hardware security module, thereby offering the capability to store the Master Certificate more securely in external storage.
• Application Credentials Broker (PAM) – This new stand-alone component of Ekran System is a REST API integration tool designed to allow customers to securely (with access token rotation) get PAM secrets data for applications, without needing to log in to the Management Tool, in order to use for their own business purposes.
Improvements:
• Name of the organization – is now displayed on the Management Tool Home page, based on the license information.
• Client Uninstallation key (in Multi-Tenant mode) – can now be different for different tenants.
Issues Fixed:
• Automatically send one-time passwords to Active Directory users feature did not allow user requests for a password in certain cases – fixed.
Ekran System® v. 6.40.1 (Build: 6.40.29)
Improvements:
• Administrators user group – the default administrator of the Management Tool can no longer be removed from this default user group.
• Multi-Tenant mode – the option to block users is now implemented for users of non-default tenants.
Issues Fixed:
• Solaris Clients going into Rescue mode in certain cases– fixed.
• Clients dashboard was showing an incorrect warning message about Clients not being licensed – fixed.
• Alert notifications were received in one email instead of separate emails for each alert, in certain cases - fixed.
Ekran System® v. 6.39.1 (Build: 6.39.51)
Improvements:
• Forensic export – additional validations added.
Issues Fixed:
• Non-persistent VDI master image host was reporting in console multiple times in certain cases – fixed.
Ekran System® v. 6.38.1 (Build: 6.38.19)
Improvements:
• Forensic Export History page – in the case of failure of any Forensic Export tasks, these tasks can now be deleted.
Issues Fixed:
• Activity Summary Grid Report issues with the time shown – fixed.
• Client Uninstallation key was reset to the default after updating the system – fixed.
Ekran System® v. 6.37.1 (Build: 6.37.13)
Improvements:
• Single Sign-On (SSO) and Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) – can now function together.
• Reissuing the Master Certificate – now also supported on Windows Server 2019 Core.
• User Administrative Permissions – a user is forcibly logged out from the Management Tool whenever their permissions are changed. The user then has the updated set of administrative permissions after re-logging in.
• Reports – new validation added.
• Embedded API Session Viewer – updated.
Issues Fixed:
• Remote Host IP Filtering – the Exclude local sessions option has been optimized.
• Audit log filters – fixed.
• Dashboard resizing – fixed.
• Export Filtered Clients feature (from the Client Management page) – fixed.
Ekran System® v. 6.35.1 (Build: 6.35.353)
New Features:
• New “Tasks List” tab on the Health Monitoring page – This new feature and interface is for providing transparency about what is happening on the server side. It shows various types of task queues, so users can check the progress of specific tasks, as well as cancel the tasks. This feature also includes:
- New “Generated Reports” tab on Reports interfaces added – so now users can download previously generated reports at any time.
- Load balancing – if used with multiple Application Server instances, the processing of tasks can now be divided between all the Application Server nodes.
NOTE: If a scheduled report contains multiple report types, each type of report is sent in a separate email.
• Reissuing the Master Certificate – new functionality added to allow the Master Certificate to be reissued in case it expires.
• Detect Idle Events (on macOS Clients) feature, which is also used in some reports (for calculating user activity time, user productivity time, etc.) – added.
Improvements:
• Windows XP OS – no longer supported on Client machines (although previously installed Clients of this type will still function correctly).
• Option to specify network interface (on Windows Clients) – a specific network can now be selected on the Client machine for the connection between the Client and the Application Server if 2+ networks are available.
• Protected mode feature – now only supported on Client machines running Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016/2019.
• Performance of Reports and of Ekran System Data Connector – optimized significantly for processing of new sessions.
• Database structure optimization. Please note that after an update of Ekran System, the data migration process begins as soon as the Application Server starts up. Migration takes place in the background and may take some time.
Issues Fixed:
• Rescue mode (on Linux Clients) – this feature will now be automatically applied to stop monitoring whenever the critical free space threshold is reached on Client machines – fixed.
• Secrets (PAM) were not shown for users with certain domain settings – fixed.
Ekran System® v. 6.34.5 (Build: 6.34.126)
Issues Fixed:
• The Ekran System Connection Manager (PAM) could not connect when retrieving the list of secrets – fixed.
Ekran System® v. 6.34.3 (Build: 6.34.75)
Improvements:
• Alerts (on Windows Clients) – now include a unique Alert ID, and the specific keyword that has triggered the alert, in both email notifications and the Alert Viewer.
Ekran System® v. 6.34.2 (Build: 6.34.57)
Issues Fixed:
• Sorting and filtering of monitoring results by duration issue – fixed.
Ekran System® v. 6.34.1 (Build: 6.34.53)
New Features:
• Secondary user authentication (on Linux Clients) – capability to exclude individual users from checking secondary user authentication added.
• Password rotation for secrets (PAM):
- SSH key rotation for SSH secrets – added.
- Password rotation for all secrets –stability improved with transactional integrity check during rotation added.
• Alerts (on macOS Clients) – can now be shown to endpoint users (a warning message appears on the Client when an alert is triggered).
Improvements:
• Offline Client cache (on Linux and macOS Clients) – stability improved.
• Ekran System Connection Manager (PAM) – fixed for use on low resolution screens.
Ekran System® v. 6.33.2 (Build: 6.33.122)
Improvements:
• Application Server – can now be started by a non-admin user.
• Password Management page – improved search functionality.
• Database cleanup – stability improved (for cases when binaries are in folders).
Ekran System® v. 6.33.1 (Build: 6.33.92)
New Features:
• Ekran System Data Connector v.1.0 – new component released. This stand-alone component of Ekran System is used for integrating a customer’s IT system via the Ekran System API (downloadable from:
https://www.ekransystem.com/sites/default/files/ekransystem/EkranSystem-DataConnector.zip).
• Remote Host IP Filtering – new capability not to record local sessions added.
Improvements:
• Single-Sign On (SSO) – HTTPS requests added.
• Audio recording – stability improved.
• Cleanup for screen captures in shared folders – stability improved.
• Audit Log (previously known as the Management Tool Log) – renamed.
• Database structure optimization. Please note that after an update of Ekran System, the data migration process begins as soon as the Application Server starts up. Migration takes place in the background and may take some time.
Ekran System® v. 6.32.1 (Build: 6.32.34)
New Features:
• macOS Clients URL Monitoring – alerts added.
Improvements:
• Session Player Metadata grid – UI simplified (dates removed from Activity Time column).
• Viewing Monitoring Results permission– archived sessions are now also included in this permission.
Ekran System® v. 6.31.2 (Build: 6.31.60)
Improvements:
• Remote Mass Deployment on macOS Clients. Mobileconfig files to support VMware Workspace ONE – added.
Ekran System® v. 6.31.1 (Build: 6.31.28)
New Features:
• macOS Clients URL Monitoring – added (Chrome and Safari browsers).
Improvements:
• Client Management user interface, including:
- Bulk action for more than 1,000 Clients – can now be applied.
- Filters and displaying number of Client groups – optimized.
• SIEM Integration. User’s comment on session in CEF and LEEF logs – added.
• Scheduled Reports. “Last day of the month” option for scheduling – added.
• Health Monitoring. “Send emails only to a specific domain” option – added.
• Password Management. Sorting of columns – added.
Issues Fixed:
• Customized logo was not applied (in certain cases) – fixed.
• Scheduled Reports tab search – fixed.
Ekran System® v. 6.30.2 (Build: 6.30.51)
Issues Fixed:
• Assigning kernel-level USB monitoring rules. USB blocking rules (temporarily) could not be assigned on Windows 10 Clients version 1909 or higher – fixed.
Ekran System® v. 6.30.1 (Build: 6.30.42)
Improvements:
• Access requests for secrets (PAM). A new capability to grant access for a specific period of time – has now been added to this feature.
• Client Management page. A re-designed, more user-friendly interface, with some new functionality added:
- Improved performance.
- Bulk action for working with Clients – added.
- The last activity time for Clients – is now displayed.
- The number of Client groups to which the Client belongs – is now displayed.
- Navigation to Client sessions in one click – added.
• Two-Factor Authentication tab. Sorting of rules – added.
Issues Fixed:
• The additional message modal window was not included in session recording (in certain cases) – fixed.
• SIEM Logs were not deleted according to a schedule (in certain cases) – fixed.
• Secrets in the Ekran System Connection Manager (PAM) were displayed only after clicking the Refresh button (in certain cases) – fixed.
Ekran System® v. 6.29.1 (Build: 6.29.58)
Improvements:
• Workstation licenses for Linux Clients. If you only need to monitor Linux GUI (X11) sessions on Linux Clients, you can now assign licenses of the Workstation type to them. All Workstations (Linux GUI, macOS and Windows) can now work from the same license pool. Note: only one Linux GUI session can be monitored at one time, and SSH sessions cannot be monitored.
• Load balancing. The following modifications have been made to facilitate the use of third-party load balancing software with Ekran System which is coming soon:
- The Application Server Installer. The installer has been modified to allow the adding of multiple Application Server instances to your deployment.
- License storage. Ekran System can now operate with a single common pool of activated serial keys for use with multiple Application Server instances.
• Database structure optimization. Please note that after an update of Ekran System, the data migration process begins as soon as the Application Server starts up. Migration takes place in the background and may take some time.
Known Issues:
• Assigning kernel-level USB monitoring rules. USB blocking rules (temporarily) cannot be assigned on Windows 10 Clients version 1909 or higher.
Ekran System® v. 6.28.1 (Build: 6.28.84)
Ekran System® Standard and Enterprise Editions now offer the following new features and improvements:
• Access requests for secrets (PAM) – new functionality added to this feature. The options on the new Restriction Types tab now allow administrators to choose a type of access (always allow, always require approval, or allow only during work hours defined).
• Multi-tenant mode for macOS Clients – added.
• ServiceNow integration – improved:
- Users can now decide what ServiceNow table to search for an incident in.
- A ticket number can now be more that 11 characters.
• Management Tool translation into Japanese – updated.
• Archive and Cleanup functionality – performance improved.
• Remote mass deployment on macOS Clients – support for installing on macOS Big Sur now added.
• Database structure – optimized. Please note that after an update of Ekran System, the data migration process begins as soon as the Application Server starts up. Migration takes place in the background and may take some time.
Ekran System® v. 6.27.6 (Build: 6.27.221)
Ekran System® Standard and Enterprise Editions now offer the following new features and improvements:
• Linux Client cleanup – performance improved.
• Master Panel – new component added. This major new functionality allows large organizations with multiple isolated Ekran System deployments to view all user sessions from all Management Tools in a single interface.
Ekran System® v. 6.27.5 (Build: 6.27.197)
Ekran System® Standard and Enterprise Editions now offer the following improvement:
• Network consumption – optimized.
Previous Release Notes Prior to 2021
To see older Ekran System Release Notes (for releases prior to 1 January 2021), please download the following file: