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Release Notes McAfee Database Security 4.6.3 Contents
About this release New features Resolved issues Installation instructions Known issues Find product documentation
About this release This document contains important information about the current release. We strongly recommend that you read the entire document. Important
We do not support the automatic upgrade of a pre-release software version. To upgrade to a production release of the software, you must first uninstall the existing version.
Release build – 4.6.3 Package date – June 11, 2017 Purpose This release provides new features, including support for additional databases and resolves several reported issues. Rating High Priority – McAfee rates this release as a high priority for all environments to avoid a potential business impact. This update should be applied as soon as possible. For more information about patch ratings, refer to McAfee Knowledgebase article KB51560.
New features This release of the product includes these new features.
Amazon RDS support (RTW) This release supports AWS RDS for MySQL and MariaDB – more details in PD27125
Mongo DB support (RTW) This release fully supports MongoDB 3.0.x, 3.2.x and 3.4
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Support for additional database platforms In this release, the sensor supports these additional database versions:
Oracle 12c release 2 (12.2.0.1) * Highly requested
DB2 11.1.0.10
DB2 10.1.0.6
Postgres 9.6
Sybase 15.7 EBF 25748 SMP SP136 HF1
Sybase 15 SP138
Sybase 16 PL05 HF1
SQL Server 2012 SP3 CU8 (11.00.6594)
SQL Server 2012 SP3 CU9 (11.00.6598) X64
SQL Server 2014 SP1 CU11 (12.00.4502) X64
SQL Server 2014 SP1 CU12 (12.00.4511) X64
SQL Server 2014 SP2 CU4 (12.00.5540) X64
SQL Server 2014 SP2 CU5 (12.00.5546) X64
SQL Server 2016 SP1 CU2 (13.0.4422.0) X64
SQL Server 2016 SP1 CU3 (13.0.4435) X64
SQL Server 2016 CU5 (13.0.2197.0) X64
SQL Server 2016 CU6 (13.0.2204) X64
SQL Server 2017 CTP2.0 (14.0.500.272) (WIN64)
Teradata 16 * Highly requested
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For information regarding AWS RDS (MySQL and MariaDB support) or specific supported platform versions, please contact your support or sales engineer
Better Protection - Sensor Monitoring Enhanced Redo Buffer monitoring technology of Oracle DBMSs. Easier Administration – Access warning added Preventative workflow added: User alert in console upon trigger installation or termination failure Easier Administration – SAP Hana Added Support for end user information entry Easier Administration – XML API Enhancements XML API now supports creating and updating custom rules and dynamic rule objects Functional Enhancement – Reporting of the connection type (Oracle) Added capability to write rules for Oracle connection type evaluation based upon the [connection_type] keyword. The [connection_type] now contains a full description of the connection type [BEQ/TCP and Encryption mode] used by the session
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Resolved issues These issues are resolved in this release of the product. For a list of issues fixed in earlier releases, see the release notes for the specific release. Reference
Issue description
1165767
Improved network monitoring in MSSQL with NTLM authentication
1193928
Improved performance in MySQL Monitoring
1193936
Resolved an issue in DVM where fast scans would run multiple times
1183230
Resolved an issue with how the length keyword was evaluated (longer by 1)
1178794
Resolved an issue with monitoring Oracle read only databases
1173945
Improvements to the password masking mechanism
1166043
Improved database detection in cases that the Oracle binary has been renamed
1193392
Improvements in Oracle for data validation when detecting new sessions
1120186
Improvements in MSSQL for IP and host resolving
1181282
[MSSQL] VCRedist for Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 Leaves Files in Root
1182140
Duplicate alerts are not updated in BE DB in some cases
1184590
OS tests fail on DB error when DB is not/misconfigured
Installation instructions For information about installing or upgrading this software, see the McAfee Database Security Installation Guide.
Known issues For a list of known issues in this product release, refer to McAfee KnowledgeBase article KB87367.
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