For Sophos Central customers
These are the release notes for Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux versions for 32-bit computers managed by Sophos Central.
Version 9.16.2 New
Updated components
- The threat detection engine has been updated from 3.77.1 to 3.79.0.
Components Updated
| Sophos Anti-Virus | 9.16.2 June 2020 |
9.16.0 September 2019 |
9.15.1 November 2018 |
9.15.0 July 2018 |
9.14.2 January 2018 |
9.14.0 July 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Threat detection engine | 3.79.0 | 3.77.1 | 3.74.2 | 3.72.1 | 3.70.2 | 3.69.2 |
Version 9.16.0
Updated components
- The threat detection engine has been updated from 3.74.2 to 3.77.1. For information about the changes to the threat detection engine, see the Sophos Threat Detection Engine release notes.
- We have updated curl to 7.64.0.
- We have updated Python to 2.7.16.
- We have updated OpenSSL to 1.1.1c.
- We have updated Samba to 4.9.5.
- We have updated ACE-TAO-CIAO to 6.5.0.
Version 9.15.1
Updated components
- The threat detection engine has been updated from 3.72.1 to 3.74.2. For information about the changes to the threat detection engine, see the Sophos Threat Detection Engine release notes.
- We have updated Python to version 2.7.15.
- We have updated OpenSSL to 1.0.2p.
Version 9.15.0
Updated components
- The threat detection engine has been updated from 3.70.2 to 3.72.1. For information about the changes to the threat detection engine, see the Sophos Threat Detection Engine release notes.
- We have updated curl to version 7.59.0.
- We have updated Python to version 2.7.14.
- We have updated libexpat to 2.2.5.
- We have updated OpenSSL to 1.0.2n.
- We have updated Boost to 1.66.0.
- We have updated Samba to 4.8.0.
Version 9.14.2
Updated components
- The threat detection engine has been updated from 3.69.2 to 3.70.2. For information about the changes to the threat detection engine, see the Sophos Threat Detection Engine release notes.
- We have updated curl to version 7.56.0.
- We have updated Python to version 2.7.13.
- We have updated Boost to version 1.65.1.
- We have updated libexpat to 2.2.3.
- We have updated Samba to 4.6.6.
- We have updated OpenSSL to 1.0.2m.
Version 9.14.0
New features
- We have added support for SUL/Safeside updating.
Updated components
- The threat detection engine has been updated from 3.68.2 to 3.69.2. For information about the changes to the threat detection engine, see the Sophos Threat Detection Engine release notes.
- We have updated curl to version 7.54.0.
- We have updated zlib to version 1.2.11.
- We have updated python-cryptography to version 1.8.1.
- We have updated TALPA to version 1.23.1.
- We have updated Boost to version 1.59.0.
- We have updated libexpat to 2.2.1.
- We have updated pycrypto to 2.6.1.
Known issues and limitations
| Issue ID | Description |
|---|---|
| LINUXEP-897 | On some Japanese systems, characters in desktop alerts are corrupted.
On the Japanese version of RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux 7, desktop alerts may include corrupted characters. You should install the xorg-x11-fonts-misc fonts. |
| WKI67300 | On Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6 or version 5 64-bit, desktop pop-up alerts are not displayed.
To fix this problem, install the latest libXpm from the appropriate package on the Red Hat installation DVD. This package is needed by desktop pop-up alerts but is not installed by default by Red Hat. |
Sophos Anti-Virus and PureMessage for UNIX
If you install Sophos Anti-Virus on a mail server that is running Sophos PureMessage for UNIX, you must make sure that scanning of MIME files is disabled in Sophos Anti-Virus. This is because scanning MIME files with Sophos Anti-Virus might prevent PureMessage from accessing files that contain viruses. By default, MIME scanning is disabled.
Installation in non-UTF-8 and non-ASCII encoded locations
You can't install Sophos Anti-Virus in a location that is specified by a non-UTF-8 and non-ASCII path.
On a computer that is using non-UTF-8 and non-ASCII encoding, to install from the deployment package that is created by mkinstpkg.sh, run the installation script as follows:
LANG=C ./sophos-av/install.sh
Japanese language support
Sophos Anti-Virus can be installed on computers that are using ja_JP.eucJP and ja_JP.UTF8. Installation on computers with ja_JP.sjis locale (Japanese with Shift-JIS encoding) is not supported.
Sophos Remote Management System doesn't start if Sophos Anti-Virus has been installed from NFS filesystem
If you install Sophos Anti-Virus from an NFS filesystem, Sophos Remote Management System won't start. To work around this, use an alternative installation source instead, for example a Samba share.
Support
You can find technical support for Sophos products in any of these ways:
- Visit the Sophos Community at community.sophos.com/ and search for other users who are experiencing the same problem.
- Visit the Sophos support knowledge base at www.sophos.com/en-us/support.aspx.
- Download the product documentation at www.sophos.com/en-us/support/documentation.aspx.
- Open a ticket with our support team at https://secure2.sophos.com/support/contact-support/support-query.aspx.
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