Sophos Catalina



Dec 11, 2019 Applies to the following Sophos products and versions Central Mac Device Encryption 1.5 Supported operating systems macOS Catalina 10.15 macOS Mojave 10.14 macOS High Sierra 10.13 What's new? Central Device Encryption version 1.5.2 for Mac Fixed items. The current test Sophos Endpoint 9.9 for MacOS Catalina (202105) from June 2020 of AV-TEST, the leading international and independent service provider for antivirus software and malware.

Install Sophos On Mac

Version 10.0.1

Important

You must review the information in knowledge base article KB-000039014 as it contains important information about this release.

Notes

The notification 'Full disk access required' that asks the user to grant Sophos processes full disk access may be re-triggered.

The threat detection engine version is 3.79.0.

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-5389Resolved an issue with tabs opening slowly in Google Chrome.

Version 10.0.0

New Features

This release supports the EDR 3 capabilities in Sophos Central (to be rolled out for Macs by September). Live Discover allows admins to use osquery to search the device data across their estate to answer almost any question they can think of. Live Response allows admins to start an interactive session to a remote device.

This version supports macOS 10.13 and later.

Updated Components

The threat detection engine version is 3.79.0.

Resolved issues

Catalina Sophos Home

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-4232Improved battery life when performing on-demand scans.
MACEP-5178Resolved an issue when connecting devices lacking vendor, product or serial information.
Sophos Catalina

Version 9.9.8

Resolved issues

Sophos Catalina Jamf

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-4973Resolved blank captive portal.

Version 9.9.6

This release contains performance improvements.

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-4600Improved memory usage when Threat Case creation is enabled.
MACEP-4602Resolved an issue with modified permissions on the man8 directory when using disk encryption.
MACEP-4493Resolved an intermittent failure where web pages may fail to load.
MACEP-4606Improved support for macOS 10.15 Catalina when using MDM profiles.

Version 9.9.5

New features

  • This release contains improved support for macOS 10.15 Catalina.
  • This release contains stability improvements.

Resolved issues

Sophos Home Security For Mac

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-4456Users can now copy paths from the Events panel.

Sophos Catalina Pppc

Version 9.9.4

New features

  • This release contains support for macOS 10.15 Catalina.
  • This release contains security and performance improvements.

Updated components

The threat detection engine version is 3.77.1.

Resolved issues

Sophos Catalina Full

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-4414Resolved an intermittent issue on macOS 10.14 Mojave where the Captive Network Assistant page could fail to load.
MACEP-4410Addressed CVE-2020-10947.