Version 5.4.0

5.4.0 MetaDefender Email Gateway Security release
July 5th, 2021MetaDefender Email Gateway Security 5.4.0 is a feature release. The most important news is MetaDefender Cloud integration.
New & improved
MetaDefender Cloud integration (beta)Email Gateway Security now can be integrated to MetaDefender Cloud for anti-malware scanning and content disarm and reconstruction tasks. MetaDefender Cloud is treated as yet another server specification in the server profile. For details see Configuration/Server profiles.
Digitally signing notificationsTo trust notification, alert and report emails sent by the product, Email Gateway Security can be configured to digitally sign these emails using S/MIME. For details see Configuration/Alert, notification and quarantine report emails.
Upgraded 3rd party libraries

3rd party libraries built into Email Gateway Security are upgraded to their latest version. To mention the most important, security critical ones:

  • OpenSSL: 1.1.1k
  • Qt: 6.1
  • NGINX: 1.21.0
Added support for TLS 1.3Given by the updated 3rd party libraries, Email Gateway Security now supports TLS 1.3 on HTTPS connections. For details see Configuration/Transport Layer Security.
Changed
Ceased to support SSL 3.0Email Gateway Security ceased supporting SSL 3.0 on HTTPS and SMTPS connections.
Sender of notifications & alertsConfiguration of the sender of all notification, report and alert emails is now merged to a single configuration entry under Settings > Alerts & Reports / Sender email address. Previously all notifications, reports and alerts had their own entry to configure the sender.
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