Version: 4.1.1 (build 10) - December 5th, 2020
Update Rollups:

• 4.1.1 UR1 (build 14) - December 14th, 2020
• 4.1.1 UR2 (build 30) - January 5th, 2021
• 4.1.1 UR3 (build 39) - January 18th, 2021
• 4.1.1 UR4 (build 43) - February 2nd, 2021
• 4.1.1 UR5 (build 49) - February 9th, 2021
• 4.1.1 UR6 (build 59) - February 18th, 2021
• 4.1.1 UR7 (build 64) - March 22th, 2021
• 4.1.1 UR8 (build 65) - April 7th, 2021

Video Walkthrough

What's New? 

Extended Platforms Support

• New Platforms for Patch Management Module
  • Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty)*
  • Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial)*
  • Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic)*
  • Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal)*
  • CentOS 8

*Beta Support - More information can be found in What does it mean "Beta Support" for Ubuntu?

Note - Includes support for Endpoint Readiness

• New Platforms for Agent Management Module 
  • Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic)
  • Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal)

More information can be found in JetPatch Supported Platforms

Predictive Patching

• Collect Patches Operations Details - JetPatch will gather predictive patching data and save it locally on the JetPatch Manager server or send it to a remote dedicated service.
  Note - The data is technical only information without any plaintext identification.

More information can be found in Predictive Patching Data Collection.

Support the Business Process

• Support advanced Maintenance Schedules - Configure advanced and flexible maintenance schedule entries to support many types of downtime windows repetitions, such as:
  • Weekly basis on a specific day of the week (Every Sunday at 09:00)
  • All Time
  • Monthly basis 3 days after the second Tuesday

More information can be found in Maintenance Schedules

Improved Automation Capabilities

• Connector MSI Installation - supporting a manual installation of The JetPatch Agent (Connector) with automatic configuration of the Windows endpoint. More information can be found in Adding Non-Discoverable Endpoints

• Windows Enduser Reboot Notification - A new built-in task to make an Interactive Reboot on Windows endpoints, involving the connected user to postponed the reboot for a better time. More information can be found in What is Interactive Reboot?
  

   

• Bulk Installation of Patches - Patch installations on CentOS and SLES can now be executed in the same command instead of running one after the other. More information can be found in How to configure Linux patches bulk install.

• Pending Reboot Suspension - JetPatch will suspend the endpoint in-case a reboot activity has been executed on the endpoint but it didn’t reboot yet. An endpoint will be suspended from any new patching activity, till a reboot happen. Users can define that a task is executing a reboot procedure in task configuration.
  More information can be found in Tasks, Management, and Endpoint Exemptions and Warnings

• Multiple Certificates Support - Having the ability to support multiple certificates for secured communication among Connectors, JetPatch, and JetProxys located in different locations.  More information can be found in the TLS Securing JetPatch Server and Endpoint Communications

Others

• Endpoint Readiness

  • The default for “Endpoint Communication with WSUS” has been increased to 24 hours.

  • Adding a refresh button. Endpoint Readiness Settings

  • Windows Endpoints - Connector will check for existing of Powershell and provide a proper error if it does not.

  • Minimum PowerShell version changed to version 2 (UR6)
  • Handle Readiness information with non JSON text in the Readiness data (UR7)

• Built-in Scripts

  • Optimize the built-in scripts that JetPatch is using for Patch Management for Linux endpoints, including disabling the YUM cache for the patch installation action, if needed.

  • Enable CentOS 6 Vault Repository (UR1) - Due to CentOS EOL, the builtin script will add the CentOS 6 vault repository (6.10) to yum configuration to continue support CentOS 6 patches.

  • Disable IPv6 - A new built-in script to disable IPv6 configuration for the endpoint.

  • System Status Linux - Saving endpoint information locally or to a remote location.

  • Some built-in scripts will have an additional field in the output, showing the actual command output with other troubleshooting information.

  • Collect Endpoint Updates:
    • (UR1) Add the ability to clear and not use cache in all script operations.
    • (UR2) Changing the default value of the collecting updates cronjob to every day at 04:00 AM.
  • General Powershell Version 2 support (UR6): Supporting PowerShell version 2 in the relevant Endpoint built-in scripts

• ITSM Integration -

  • Added a flag representing if a Remediation Plan is an emergency was added to the request for creating a new change request. ITSM Integration Setup

  • Added a property describing the "correlation_id" table named for the "upload table", separately from the "Change Request" table. (Service Now) (UR3)

• Vulnerability Scanner Integration - Adding the ability to choose the mapping keys between the vulnerable endpoint to JetPatch endpoint. Vulnerability Scanners Integration

• Endpoints Merge - JetPatch will merge endpoints based on IP & Hostname or Hostname only. See article

• Endpoints Communication - JetPatch can be configured to prioritize communication to endpoint Hostname instead of IP. See article

• Managed Service Aggregate Memory Consumption - The memory consumption component is now accepting values between 256MB to 4096MB

• Tasks and Scripts Tables - Task/Script description was added to the table.

• Run Schedule Task - Improve UX when trying to run the task in the past.

• SLA Summary Report - Added explanation and Knowledge Center link when showing the report menu

• Platform Configuration - User will be redirected to the “Servers” tab when switching to the “Platform” configuration view

• Prepare Log Service - The archived logs will also include the intigua.properties file.

• Management Table -

  • Show endpoints without exemption following the “No Exemption” new option in the “Exemptions” filter.

  • Endpoint Groups are now clickable.

• Remediation Plan Board - Patches actions and total devices are not clickable for New and Pending Remediation Plans and redirected to the appropriate tables.

• Maintenance Schedule - Enhance the UI/UX if creating a new Maintenance Schedule without entries and assigning it to an endpoint.

• UI/UX Improvements - Minor UI/UX enhancement for tables, text, and pop-up messages.
• General Communication (UR5) - Add Proxy authentication (user-pass).
• AD integration as Discovery Source (UR8) - Support escaping for based DN and set the search root to DC chain.
• Connector Deployment Enahcnemnts (UR5) - Add the ability to test the footprint of an endpoint before Connector deployment by all criteria (IP + MAC + Hostname) or by property pairs. Dynamic IP causing installation of the connector on the wrong endpoint

Bug Fixes

• Windows 10 in Operating System list - Fixed an issue where Windows 10 did not appear in some Operating System lists.

• WSUS Discovery Sources -

  • Fixed an issue when a user could add multiple WSUS Discovery Sources.

  • Fixed an issue when Discovery Source activities kept running after Discovery Source removal.

• vSphere Discovery Source (UR2) - Fixed an issue when sometimes the vCenter declaring "Windows 9" OS for Windows 10 server.

• Activities Table - Fixed an issue when filtering on endpoint group only shows patching activities without user activities.

• Remediation Plan Execution - Fixed an issue when an endpoint is removed from inventory between activation and execution, RP does not execute.

• Scripts - Fixed an issue when a user can’t change the parameter type.

• Linux Patch Removal Process - Fixed an issue when sometimes the removal of patches won’t work due to missing transaction ID.

• ServiceNow Maintenance Schedule - Fixed an issue when sometimes the maintenance schedule created in JetPatch based on ServiceNow was in the wrong timeframe.

• Communication Prioritization (UR2) - Fixed an issue when the communication prioritization feature didn't work on EPs with a single IP.
• SLES Patching (UR4) -
  • Fixed an issue of multiple entries for the same patch if they are coming from several resources
  • Fixed some issues related to patching using Spacewalk as the patches repository
• Linux Scan Updates Operation (UR5) - Fixed some issues related to parsing updates from Linux endpoints.

Known issues

• Windows Desktop 20H2 Upgrade - In some cases, the upgrade of any Windows Desktop to Windows Desktop 20H2 won’t work. JetPatch will release an update rollup to fix this issue.

• Interactive Reboot - Failures in running the Interactive Reboot activity will not have an exit code.

• Endpoint Suspensions -

  • Only one suspension can exist at any given time. If the endpoint is already suspended and the user running a reboot task, JetPatch won't indicate the new "Reboot Pending Suspension".

  • When a user wants to remove an endpoint suspension and choose the “Remove suspension” option in the suspension popup window - the button name still shows “SET SUSPENSION” (no functional limitation, text-only).