Release notes

New Features, Improvements and Enhancements

Offline License Activation

Offline license activation of MetaDefender Core instances within the cluster is supported for air-gapped environment.

Offline Engine Package Upload

In offline environment, administrators can manually upload engine packages to MetaDefender Distributed Cluster Control Center.

Centralized Online Engine Package Update

At update time, engine packages are obtained once from the cloud and shared with all MetaDefender Core instances within the cluster to retrieve, install, or update.

System and Instance Activities

System Activity page allows administrators to track the total processing objects, average CPU usage of the entire system, processed objects and other resources consumed by individual MetaDefender Core instances, all in one place.

High Availability support for PostgreSQL Data Lake

Administrators can add multiple PostgreSQL instances to ensure high availability for Data Lake.

Cancellation of Remote Support Package Gathering

Administrators have the option to cancel the gathering of Remote Support Package from the MetaDefender Distributed Cluster console at any point. The cancellation is carried out at the earliest opportunity.

Support Package Gathering within a specified timeframe

MetaDefender Distributed Cluster enables administrators to define a time period for gathering support packages.

RESTful API

• Introduce a new API endpoint in MetaDefender Distributed Cluster API Gateway to fetch information on the longest expiry active license GET /admin/license.
• Introduce a new field, filetype_wait_time, in the response of GET /file/{data_id} API requested from MetaDefender Distributed Cluster API Gateway.

Security Enhancements

Upgraded libraries for vulnerability fixes:

• 7zip 25.01
• Nginx 1.28.0
• PostgreSQL 14.19

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused the MetaDefender Distributed Cluster Control Center to occasionally crash upon stopping.
• Fixed an issue that caused session timeouts to exceed the configured duration.

Known Limitations