Fleet 4.18.0 | Better security and user messaging in Fleet Desktop

Fleet 4.18.0 is up and running. Check out the full changelog or continue reading to get the highlights.

For update instructions, see our upgrade guide in the Fleet docs.

Highlights

• Enjoy improved security for Fleet Desktop.
• Show your end users a call to action in Fleet desktop for failing policies.

Improved security for Fleet Desktop

Available in Fleet Free and Fleet Premium

Fleet Desktop uses a random UUID to authenticate to the Fleet server. While it's extremely unlikely to fall victim to a brute-force attack, it's always better to be safe than sorry. In order to combat that possibility, we've added rate limiting for all device authorized endpoints.

Show your end users a call to action in Fleet Desktop for failing policies

Available in Fleet Free & Fleet Premium

The main goal of Fleet Desktop is to empower end users to take charge of managing the security of their enrolled device. If a device is failing a policy check, Fleet Desktop will now show end users useful information for resolving the issue and make it easy to check if they've fixed it.

More new features, improvements, and bug fixes

In 4.18.0, we also:

• Improved styling for tooltips, dropdowns, copied text, checkboxes and buttons.

• Fixed a bug present when converting a user to SSO login.

• Fixed a bug causing the edit user modal to hang after editing one user.

• Fixed a bug in the FleetUI causing text to be truncated in tables.

• Fixed a bug affecting software vulnerabilities count in Host Details.

• Fixed Select Targets search box and updated to reflect currently supported search values: hostname, UUID, serial number, or IPv4.

• Improved disk space reporting in Host Details.

• Updated frequency formating for Packs to match Schedules.

• Fixed a bug causing only one line to be exported from live query results.

• Replaced hosts count with results count for live queries.

• Replaced "Uptime" with "Last restarted" column in Host Details.

• Removed vulnerabilities that do not correspond to a CVE in Fleet UI and API

• Added standard password requirements when users are created by an admin.

• Updated the regexp we use for detecting the major/minor version on OS platforms.

• Improved calculation of battery health based on cycle count. “Normal” corresponds to cycle count < 1000 and “Replacement recommended” corresponds to cycle count >= 1000.

• Fixed an issue with double quotes usage in SQL query, caused by enabling ANSI_QUOTES in MySQL.

Ready to update?

Visit our Update guide in the Fleet docs for instructions on updating to Fleet 4.18.0.