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ForestSafe Version History


+ Enhancement to the product
- A problem fix


Date Version Type Changes
10th April 2024 4.8.33 Enhancement + Web Logon to Databases
+ SMS Alert messagings
26th February 2024 4.8.32 Problem Fixes - Erroneous installer Admin group
- RT multi users give: No hosts found
- RT XRDP only res set to SSH res
- ForestSafe Local Admin XRDP controls
20th February 2024 4.8.31 Enhancement + Forestsafe Annual licensing support
+ Fedora Linux support
14th February 2024 4.8.30 Enhancement + LAPSafe Unix Linux Account elevation
+ Dashboard displays active connections
14th December 2023 4.8.29 Enhancement + Grant Access support for Temporary External user access
15th November 2023 4.8.28 Problem fixes - Web Logon client failed to keep sync with Chrome update
- Web Logon Report failed to close existing rows
- Remote Connection report erroneously display PENDING duration
7nd November 2023 4.8.27 Enhancement + ForestSafe Password free logon to AS/400 5250
+ Upgraded all installer to SQL 2022 C U 9
- Document password missing from Password Vault
2nd October 2023 4.8.26 Enhancement + ForestSafe Users Audit status report 2/2
+ Extend Maximum PW and RT to 4 weeks
+ Web.Config directory enumeration protection
+ Free Trusted SSL for internal networks
11th September 2023 4.8.25 Enhancement + Added ForestSafe Users Audit status report 1/2
21st August 2023 4.8.24 Enhancement + Install database to SQL 2022 Express CU 6
+ Add new platform devices
+ New Web Logon Client installer
13th July 2023 Guacamole ISO 1.2.5 Enhancement + Support for Ubuntu 22.04 SSH terminal
14th November 2022 4.8.23 Enhancement + Hide un-authenticated User helpdesk HTML
+ Added new EESM Agent/s
+ Enhanced XRDP session support
18th July 2022 4.8.22 Enhancement + Added MAC VNC and RDP Support
+ Added 3 x way control for Policy WARNING results
5th July 2022 4.8.21 Enhancement + Service start Database MULTI USER fix
+ Installers built on SQL 2019 Server Express
9th June 2022 4.8.20 Enhancement + Deprecated HTTP Web Site logon
18th May 2022 4.8.19 Enhancement + Enterprise Home User support
12th May 2022 4.8.18 Enhancement + Enterprise Windows Domain Proxy support
2nd May 2022 4.8.17 Enhancement + Proxy support for Account Monitor
14th March 2022 4.8.16 Enhancement + ForestSafe/SessionSafe Proxy 4.8 Upgrade
+ ForestSafe Domino Adapter 4.8 Upgrade
1st March 2022 4.8.15 Enhancement + ForestSafe/SessionSafe Domain Multi region support
14th February 2022 4.8.14 Enhancement + ForestSafe/SessionSafe Local Service logon as LOCAL SYSTEM
7th February 2022 4.8.13 Enhancement + Upgraded SMTP and POP3 libraries supporting latest protocols
24th January 2022 4.8.12 Enhancement + SessionSafe password free import of Workgroup, Unix and Network devices
18th January 2022 4.8.11 Enhancement + OCR Search marks found text with red rectangles
11th January 2022 4.8.10 Enhancement + Non Local Administrator Group Installation and Setup users
27th December 2021 4.8.9 Enhancement + OCR folder share deprecated
15th December 2021 4.8.8 Enhancement + User/Password OCR folder share
2nd December 2021 4.8.7 Enhancement + JQUERY 3.6.0
+ Soft font support
15th November 2021 4.8.6 Problem Fix + Empty permissions cache when corrupt AD record
8th November 2021 4.8.5 Enhacement + Export CEF,LEEF security logs for SIEM
+ EESM Splunk plug-in
28th October 2021 4.8.4 Enhacement + SQL Server database restore timeout setting
22nd October 2021 4.8.3 Enhacement + SSL and URL forwarding Wizard
18th October 2021 4.8.2 Problem fix - Incorrect DB SQL capacity calculation
- Video only available when OCR enabled.
8th October 2021 4.8.1 Enhancement + Variable OCR Sample rate support
4th October 2021 4.8.0 New Release + Update to .NET Framework 4.8
+ Real Time OCR Monitoring - Kill session
+ HA Support for Real Time OCR Monitoring
9th August 2021 4.5.136 Enhacement + New SessionSafe license policy
+ Approval Manage by Member/Owner
2nd August 2021 4.5.135 Enhacement + OCR Forensic Video Export
+ Upgraded SSH Libraries (TLS 1.3)
22nd July 2021 4.5.134 Problem fix - SessionSafe audit record protection
- Issue with End User reports
18th July 2021 4.5.133 Problem fix - Video duration fix
- Zombie End User reports fix
5th July 2021 4.5.132 Enhancement + Video PD download management
14th June 2021 4.5.131 Enhancement + RDP Session Bandwidth monitor
25th May 2021 4.5.130 Enhancement + Added more logging
18th May 2021 4.5.129 Enhancement + RDP Performance flags support
16th May 2021 4.5.128 Enhancement + Support for slow networks
4th May 2021 4.5.127 Enhancement + SAML Service Provider support
26th April 2021 4.5.126 Problem Fix - CISCO Line tty fix
- Missing Video files fix
19th April 2021 4.5.125 Enhancement + CISCO Line tty enhancement
12th April 2021 4.5.124 Enhancement + AD manager SSO Web Logon
22nd March 2021 4.5.123 Enhancement + Palo Alto networking support
+ Checkpoint networking support
+ AD manager 'admin' support
3rd March 2021 4.5.122 Enhancement + FORTIWEB support
+ Distributed Guacamole support
15th February 2021 4.5.121 Problem Fix - New SQL Server 2o17 install timeout 120 seconds
1st February 2021 4.5.120 Enhancement + Email Alerts available all End User reports
+ Full screen RDP support
27th January 2021 4.5.119 Enhancement + User Account Monitoring report
14th January 2021 4.5.118 Enhancement + Combined Auto Complete/Dropdown host name
6th January 2021 4.5.117 Maintenance + SessionSafe One Password feature
- Support for no DNS/NETBIOS hostname lookup
28th December 2020 4.5.116 Maintenance + Unlimited OCR Data storage
24th November 2020 4.5.115 Maintenance + Export Support logs update, faster
16th November 2020 4.5.114 Maintenance + Local Managing account rename support
+ Improved Web Application Logon times
6th November 2020 4.5.113 Maintenance + 2019 Server PDF Creation support
- Fixed audio track issue in OCR/VIDEO video creation
- Snapshot links missing in OCR report
- Logon user names containing '-' caused OCR Search failure
- Support for RT hostname:RDPPORT only IPAddress:RDPORT was supported
1st November 2020 4.5.112 Enhancement + SQL 2017 Express Update Wizard
+ XRDP Linux Remote Terminal support
+ Local account Logon user change expired password
22nd October 2020 4.5.111 Enhancement + SQL 2017 Express is now standard DB
- Resolved delays in logon/RT - demoted service
12th October 2020 4.5.110 Enhancement + New combined VIDEO/OCR server
- Improved reporting failed remote connections
24th September 2020 4.5.109 Enhancement + E-Mail no reply support
+ NETBIOS/FQDN difference support
21st September 2020 4.5.108 Enhancement + Domain User change expired password
+ Report Scheduler support working days of week
31st August 2020 4.5.107 Enhancement + Working hours improvement
+ Fix for Google 2FA QR though DMZ when no internet
25th August 2020 4.5.106 Enhancement + Copy/Paste disable
+ Faster startup
17th August 2020 4.5.105 Enhancement + WOL support
+ Report Query support
+ All OCR res supported
+ Between date's search
10th August 2020 4.5.104 Enhancement + Added LAPSafe PPM support
- Fixed SessionSafe OCR Share issue />
7th August 2020 4.5.103 Enhancement + Multi-tenant support
+ OCR upgrade
20th July 2020 4.5.102 Enhancement + Windows Account password monitoring
+ New Global Settings control
13th July 2020 4.5.101 Enhancement + Windows password monitor
+ 0 delay restart service
+ New feature ENABLESHUTDOWNSYNC
+ Auto restart Web App pool
29th June 2020 4.5.100 Enhancement + CIDR support in Containers
+ Nested Global group membership
+ Improved Multi-processor OCR performance
+ Set OCR sample rate per Administrator Group
15th June 2020 4.5.99 Enhancement + New network device support
+ Improved Shared Install OCR Server
1st June 2020 4.5.98 Enhancement + Standby OCR database BACKUP/RELEASE and HA support
18th May 2020 4.5.97 Enhancement + Support for 'ip addr' in scanner
+ Enhanced RDP Elevation controls
10th May 2020 4.5.96 Enhancement + Support for Load balanced Video servers
+ Support for overnight working hours
4th May 2020 4.5.95 Enhancement - Chinese OCR V21
+ Support for Trusted IIS Cert
20th April 2020 4.5.94 Enhancement + Added VIDEO Output quality HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW
15th April 2020 4.5.93 A problem fix - Service stopped if Guacamole server not available.
12th April 2020 4.5.92 Enhancement + Added support for extended video sessions.
2nd April 2020 4.5.91 Enhancement + Least Privilege SessionSafe.
24th March 2020 4.5.90 Enhancement + Added support for OFFLINE multiple concurrent VIDEO/OCR processing out of hours schedule.
21st March 2020 4.5.89 Enhancement + Added support for OFFLINE VIDEO/OCR
11th March 2020 4.5.88 Enhancement + Added support for HOME USERS
24th February 2020 4.5.87 Maintenance - Service install failed due to password length
+ Simplified Standby installation
18th February 2020 4.5.86 Maintenance + SessionSafe SSO support
12th February 2020 4.5.85 Maintenance - OCR share available and no OCR service caused wait for VIDEO. Resolved
21st January 2020 4.5.84 Enhancement + VIDEO and OCR now real-time only
19th December 2019 4.5.83 Enhancement + OCR Search returning 10000 rows only
+ Removed WMI dependency from workgroup computer import
24th November 2019 4.5.82 Enhancement + Added hostname entry by IP Address
11th November 2019 4.5.81 Enhancement + DMZ support for legacy Guacamole servers
2nd November 2019 4.5.80 Maintenance + Upgraded DMZ Security
20th October 2019 4.5.79 Maintenance + New DMZ Installer
- Complete all multiple account scramble fix
5th October 2019 4.5.78 Enhancement + Premium OCR Installer released
+ Modulus 10 support for OCR Regex search
29th August 2019 4.5.77 Maintenance - Fix for Unicode Default resolution error
+ Extended Premium OCR license
20th August 2019 4.5.76 Maintenance - Fix for DMZ application RT Approvals
- Improved Mobile Browser formatting
11th August 2019 4.5.75 Maintenance + Save unique OCR words feature
- Fix SQL Parameter timeout error on reports
6th August 2019 4.5.74 Enhancement - Fix Premium OCR Chinese
29th July 2019 4.5.73 Enhancement + Forwarded Event Reporting
21st July 2019 4.5.72 Enhancement + Premium OCR Intaller
7th July 2019 4.5.71 Maintenance + Moved Working hours to Administrator Roles
1st July 2019 4.5.70 Maintenance + New feature: Working hours
+ New feature: Approval by E-Mail reply
27th May 2019 4.5.69 Maintenance - Added support for MySQL 8
- Enhanced API Access Security
6th May 2019 4.5.68 Maintenance - Fix for Local Multi Group membership
- New settings for Remote Terminal expiry
3rd June 2019 4.5.67 Enhancement + New feature: Break Glass DR access
7th May 2019 4.5.66 Enhancement + Improved OCR accuracy
22nd April 2019 4.5.65 Enhancement + Moved OCR text onto new database
18th March 2019 4.5.64 Enhancement + Migrated OCR form app to Web Application
20th February 2019 4.5.63 Maintenance + Update to OCR Search application
7th February 2019 4.5.62 Maintenance + Update DMZ Web use single port
29th January 2019 4.5.61 Maintenance + Added BLOCK/UNBLOCK to long running synchronous Web UI res
+ New product SessionSafe Local is released
22nd January 2019 4.5.60 Maintenance + Update DMZ Web Services
+ Moved Binary Large Object storage to encrypted files
20th December 2018 4.5.59 Maintenance + Added support for SAP HANA
+ Added support for SAP DB
10th December 2018 4.5.58 Maintenance + Enhanced Remote Terminal
25th November 2018 4.5.57 Maintenance + Enhanced OCR Search Application.
27th September 2018 4.5.56 Maintenance + All media file are now AES 256 bit encrypted
20th August 2018 4.5.55 Maintenance + Added Template support for OCR
13th August 2018 4.5.54 Maintenance + Added IBM AS-400 account management
26th June 2018 4.5.53 Maintenance + Added OCR Support
- Distinguished Elevated DC RDP from members RDP
11th June 2018 4.5.52 Maintenance + Support for scheduled database backup and manual restore
- Improved support for UAC enabled environments
18th May 2018 4.5.51 Maintenance - Support for existing external SQL database Instances
15th May 2018 4.5.50 Maintenance + Support for External SQL 2016
+ Added ‘message’ to Session Management
8th May 2018 4.5.49 Maintenance + Added Japanese language support
10th April 2018 4.5.48 Maintenance - Fixed Juniper AS 2000 Account Management
- Low priority fix to Global Settings
17th March 2018 4.5.47 Maintenance + Added Dual Control of Remote terminal sessions
+ New ForestSafe Terminal Server release for Dual Control
5th March 2018 4.5.46 Maintenance - Fixed video playback problem on Standby Server
+ Added fast import from Active directory on initial system start up
26th February 2018 4.5.45 Maintenance - Fixed slow Guacamole response from Proxy
+ Simplified Proxy Install
13th February 2018 4.5.44 Maintenance + Added support for 2FA by RSA SecurID devices
6th February 2018 4.5.43 Maintenance + Upgraded Guacamole VM's to 0.9.14
+ Added support for multiple Guacamole Servers
31st January 2018 4.5.42 Maintenance + Added Remote Terminal management feature
6th January 2018 4.5.41 Maintenance + New Setting ENABLERDPRECONNECTIONS
+ Updated Service Demotion documentation
28th December 2017 4.5.40 Maintenance + Moved registry LDAP Group/Path to Database Global Settings
+ Implemented default HTTPS
8th December 2017 4.5.39 Maintenance - Fixed ForestSafe Local Approval issue
+ Documented Fix MAC viewstate error
25th November 2017 4.5.38 Maintenance - Fixed Garbled Chinese language in Web logon dropdown
+ Control panel "Export Logs" now includes Guacamole logs
16th November 2017 4.5.37 Maintenance + Support for Local Logon Disabled Policy
30th October 2017 4.5.36 Maintenance + Web Application HTTPS installed as default
23rd October 2017 4.5.35 Maintenance + HTTPS Terminal Server Support
14th October 2017 4.5.34 Maintenance + Allow 2FA EMAIL users to be pre-confirmed by ForestSafe Administrator
26th September 2017 4.5.33 Maintenance + Enable E-Mail ipaddress Hypertext Links
21st September 2017 4.5.32 Maintenance + Support non Unicode remote terminals
17th September 2017 4.5.31 Maintenance + Added Google Authenticator 2FA
25th August 2017 4.5.30 Maintenance + New Global Setting TWOFAGROUPEXCEPTIONS - group members excluded from 2FA
4th August 2017 4.5.29 Maintenance + New Global Setting DASHBOARDSHOWDOMCONT hide NEUTRAL DCs in dashboard
+ Support for tracking gucenc for faster video turnaround
26th July 2017 4.5.28 Maintenance + Support for Guacamole Copy/Paste
+ Support for Guacamole File Transfer
+ New Guacamole Server 0.9.12 installers
+ Simplified Service Account Demotion documentation
4th July 2017 4.5.27 Maintenance + Remote Terminal to Workgroup XP. Session names are now recorded
18th June 2017 4.5.26 Maintenance + Chinese error message fixed
14th June 2017 4.5.25 Maintenance + Added support for SSL to SMTP Server
+ Web Application Send Email Message calls made asynchronous
8th May 2017 4.5.24 Maintenance + Auto Logon for Elevated Accounts
+ Fast Group Memberships Control Panel on large data sets
17th April 2017 4.5.23 Maintenance + New Security Audit Sessions report
+ Guacamole Service support for Windows Server 2016
13th April 2017 4.5.22 Maintenance + Added LDAP Account Management
14th March 2017 4.5.20 Maintenance + Added Hotel Booking + Super Group
+ Added Container Computer list
- Removed ‘which’ AIX requirement
28th February 2017 4.5.19 Enhancement + Added Automatic RDP Disconnecting
+ Added UNC support for log files
+ Added High/Low capacity video Archiving
21st February 2017 4.5.18 Enhancement + Added forwarding Guacamole
+ Added Guacamole HA
+ New VIDEO Global settings
1st February 2017 4.5.16 Maintenance + Added Policy Failure Report
+ Added E-Mail on RT connection
+ Migrated Enterprise Scheduling
- Fixes to new End User reports
- New EO.PDF libraries
6th January 2017 4.5.15 Maintenance + HA fully automated database failover and failback
23rd December 2016 4.5.14 Maintenance + Video Recording Archiving
+ Long Video Support
14th November 2016 4.5.13 Maintenance + Support for Cisco RADIUS
- Scanner enhancements
+ Documentation update.
1st October 2016 4.5.12 Maintenance + Slow control Panel when large number AD groups
- Restart Service logon failed when enumerating
- Cisco accounts with ‘secret’ passwords logon.
31st August 2016 4.5.11 Enhancement + New DateTime picker in Web Application
- Validation fixes for new End User Reports
22nd August 2016 4.5.10 Maintenance - Update Fix. Missing User Reports table update.
+ Added Support For Windows 2012 Standard
+ Session command report now shows time command was run.
16th August 2016 4.5.9 Enhancement + PDF support
+ Automated E-Mail reporting
8th August 2016 4.5.8 Enhancement + New Automatic Management Reporting system
19th July 2016 4.5.7 Maintenance - Extended Trial licence extension past 30 days
+ Added Domain Accounts to User Addition report
+ Added Video capture for Windows
11th July 2016 4.5.6 Enhancement - Added Command script and Video capture for SSH/TELNET sessions new End user report.
8th June 2016 4.5.5 Maintenance - SAP removed redundant CCMS target
- Fix for occasionlal “View state Mac Error
- Simplified new Application Policy system selection
21st May 2016 4.5.4 Maintenance - New ForestSafe Guacamole custom logoff screen
- Removed SHA2 Digital Signing of installer CAB files (caused error on 2008 R2 server)
– Replaced USERDNSDOMAIN with USERDOMAIN in install scripts
5th May 2016 4.5.3 Enhancement - Added Application Policy
+ Added support for CHINESE SYBASE
+ Improved Guacamole Integration
19th April 2016 4.5.2 Enhancement - Removed JAVA/Active-X plugins for all browser compatibility
+ Added CISCO Telnet support and remote terminal
+Added VNC remote terminal
15th March 2016 4.5.1 Enhancement + Added Support for Local SAM user authentication
+ Added support for MySQL accounts
1st February 2016 4.5.0 Enhancement + Update to .NET Framework 4.5
+ Simplifed Licensing
2nd December 2015 4.4.8 Maintenance - Updated Eldos SSH Libraries to v14
25th November 2015 4.4.7 Maintenance - Solaris bug fix
19th November 2015 4.4.6 Enhancement + Sybase Account management
10th November 2015 4.4.5 Enhancement + Enumerating account report support for UNIX
+ Documentation updates
14th October 2015 4.4.4 Enhancement + Fixed Forms artefacts on Chinese language servers
+ Disabled fetching last Cisco logon time
12th October 2015 4.4.3 Enhancement + Support for OFF_LINE 2012 Server R2 Installations
8th October 2015 4.4.2 Maintenance - Catchup of outstanding issues
5th October 2015 4.4.1 Enhancement + Implemented E-Mail Report Scheduler
17th September 2015 4.4.0 New Release + Implemented Multi language support for Chinese language Operating systems
25th July 2015 4.3.9 Enhancement + Implemented HTTP SSL Password support
+ Implemented Password Free MS SQL Management support
15th June 2015 4.3.8 Enhancement + Implemented High Availability Express and Dual Approvers
1st March 2015 4.3.7 Maintenance + Upgraded OEM modules to .NET 4. Removed WMI requirement for WORKGROUP joins
15th August 2014 4.3.5 Maintenance + Display version on web page header
10th July 2014 4.3.4 Maintenance - UAC failures not reported properly
24th June 2014 4.3.3 Maintenance + Documentation update
10th June 2014 4.3.2 Enhancement + Enhanced reporting on unsupported installation platforms
16th March 2014 4.3.1 Maintenance + Auto Complete text box support added to Web Application host name controls
28th January 2014 4.3.0 New Release + Improved performance of ForestSafe Express Auto Discovery wizard
2nd January 2014 4.2.6 Maintenance + New service domain user group membership check on service startup
+ improved ssh key cache folder creation exception handling
26th November 2013 4.2.5 Maintenance + Added management for Sharepoint
+ Added managment for MAC OS-X
- Fixed logon issue switching administrator groups
6th July 2013 4.2.4 Enhancement + Added Custom Expiry time to Remote terminal
6th June 2013 4.2.3 Maintenance + New Licencing. Now based on HASH of SID and IP
+ New PRE-INSTALL folder contains PreReq setups applications.
27th May 2013 4.2.2 Maintenance + New Licencing now based on SID not MAC address (issue caused when changing network cards)
- Fixed issue with Account names appearing comma delimited in Combo Box on web application
- Fixed issue scrambling Shared AIX accounts
30th April 2013 4.2.1 Maintenance - Migrated Web Application installaton to "Advanced Installer" to fix Web access issue
21st April 2013 4.2.0 Maintenance + New PROCESSING status on Local Accounts Dashboard - showing active threads
+ New Administrator roles web page
+ Added support for custom SSH ports in scanning/imported computers file
+ Added support for management by SUDO
- FQDN identidy issue when scrambling windows service accounts fixed
26th March 2013 4.1.17 Maintenance - Overhaul of ForestSafe AIX templates, improved scanning import manager
+ Improved version report of both Encryption Library AND Windows Service
18th March 2013 4.1.16.1 Maintenance - AIX Operating System name showing only minor version number
4th March 2013 4.1.16 Maintenance - Scrambling Domain Accounts failing when Name and SamUserName were different
E.g 'ao' and 'account0' FAILURE 'acc2' and 'acc2' OKAY
- Failing to get the PATH loading SSH keys
+ Now Synchronising Admin Roles changes with cache in real time thru fork process
14th January 2013 4.1.5 Enhancement + New Global Setting - Ignore Missing Windows accounts when SCRAMBLING YES/NO (NO)
29th December 2012 4.1.14 Maintenance - Fixed ActiPro license expiry in the ForestSafe Setup Wizard.
9th December 2012 4.1.13 Maintenance - Allow muliple approval requests for same logon
- Using SID not MAC Address for workgroup computers
- Increased ns lookup calls to support DHCP more actively
4th December 2012 4.1.12 Maintenance - Fixed issue scanning computers with domain member remnant
13th November 2011 4.1.11 Maintenance - Web Application issue only seeing window computers in the scheduler
13th October 2013 4.1.10 Maintenance - Web Application issue only seeing window computers in the scheduler
10th October 2012 4.1.9 Enhancement + Support for Admin Role Switching
+ Version Table
27th September 2012 4.1.8 Maintenance + Catchup release
25th September 2012
4.1.7 Maintenance + Ignoring ACC_ONLY accounts when calculating license numbers
23rd September 2012 4.1.6 Maintenance + Put report name into filenames in Exported files
+ Passing ipaddess not hostname in TSWeb (caused RT error to workgroup machines)
+ Enhanced the logon, to call Cache Refresh, if user is authorised but has not been cached yet.
+ Completed Digital signing of all DLLs, EXEs and MSIs for accurate version control and security.
19th September 2012 4.1.4 Maintenance - Repairs to Host Containers
+ New Chart controls
5th June 2012 4.1 Maintenance + Catchup release
21st March 2012 4.0.2 Maintenance + Added SAP Password Management
+ Added support for SAP Taddm Adapters
2nd February 2012 4.0.1 Upgrade + Update to .NET Framework 4
+ Support for 64 bit
+ New Feature Binary Large Object management
- Fixed IIS Pool identity password management
- Fixed memory leak reading SSH Keys