Version 15.4.2 Release

FileWave’s Version 15.4.2 update enhances its multi-platform Endpoint Management solution with key security and bug fixes, making device management easier for IT admins.

Hosted customers will be notified about scheduled upgrades.

🚩 FileWave Updater for Windows

We are thrilled to announce significant enhancements to the FileWave Client updater for Windows, ensuring more reliable upgrades even when Windows WMI is not functioning correctly. Key updates include the rewriting of several calls using PowerShell for improved reliability.

We strongly recommend that customers thoroughly test the new update Fileset before wide deployment to identify any potential edge cases. That said, client upgrades in production environments have already proven to work much more reliably with this updated Fileset!

(Also, please verify that your Antivirus software does not trigger alerts due to the change to PowerShell.)

🌟 Special Content for Windows Admins! 

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And, while we are on the topic of Windows, we’d like to take this opportunity to announce a new Content Pack published in our KB! The Windows Client Health Content Pack includes custom fields, reports and a great dashboard that will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about your Windows clients!  All you need to do is import it into your system from the link above to start getting all of this great reporting for your environment.  

Really, truly, you want to check this one out!

What’s New?

Apache 2.4.62 and other 3rd party libraries have been updated for bug fixes, security fixes, or new features. Full list of library versions is available here:

🐞 Bug fixes

• FWRD-13639 — Problem with opening another Flutter application when starting FileWaveKiosk.exe
• FWRD-13664 — Fileset status not being properly updated after upgrading to 15.4
• FWRD-13680 — DEP sync potentially lasting indefinitely if Apple service does not respond to FileWave requests
• FWRD-13722 — Upgrading clients from pre-15.4 versions may require a reboot
• FWRD-13732 — Clients upgraded to 15.4 might not receive an updated security certificate during the upgrade

Anything else?

💡 The kernel for Windows Imaging has been upgraded to provide better support for Intel Ultra devices.

🪦 This release follows the end-of-life (EOL) of CentOS, and as previously communicated, we will not be developing future versions of FileWave for CentOS.