Release Notes Archive

This section lists the features, enhancements, bug fixes, and components available in the past versions of the Banyan Platform

  • Updated on Nov 08, 2023

Refer to the current release notes here for the latest Banyan Product features, enhancements, and bug fixes.

Generally Available Features

Enhancements & Updates

  • Refreshed TrustScoring on reawakening devices:

    • Trust Levels are now refreshed when devices reawaken from sleep.
    • Trust factors are sent as soon as the device reawakens.

Early Preview Features

  • Chrome Version Trust Factor (for Banyan Chrome Extension):

    • Banyan’s Chrome Version Trust Factor is designed to help admins keep their end users’ devices on the latest Chrome browser versions, to reduce security risk and protect resources.
    • This Trust Factor assesses whether the device’s Chrome version is equal to the admin-configured version.

Enhancements & Updates

  • Trust Scoring and Internet Threat Protection (ITP) without the desktop app running:

  • Authorized Connection events were removed from hosted web services in Netagent.

  • Support for non-standard websockets (like socket.io), enabled through a new API option:

    • Set enable_websocket_duplex to true via Access Tier’s local config API call (PUT).

Bug Fixes

  • [Resolved] End users were receiving a ‘Could not fetch devices’ error when switching networks on the desktop app.
  • [Resolved] Access Tiers were collecting stale certificates from outdated services.
  • [Resolved] Admins were unable to view or access select policies.
  • [Resolved] Command Center does not show API key (mdm_config) after using patch API (/v2/orgs/{id}/mdm_config) to update fields.

Generally Available Features

  • Netagent Health Check:

    • New health check endpoint that provides a real time indicator for the status for the Netagent and preliminary stats that can be used to evaluate performance.

Enhancements & Updates

  • Session Expiration Timer

    • Renew your session early to avoid losing work due to expiration.
  • Added Trust Factor information in Log Events

    • View passed and failed trust factors in each Trust scoring log event

Generally Available Features

Early Preview Features

  • Clientless Chrome Browser Extension:

    • The Banyan Chrome Extension is a lightweight browser extension that offers users access to internal websites and provides Device Trust Verification (DTV).

Bug Fixes

  • [Resolved] Enabling ITP was misrouting DNS in Ubuntu.
  • [Resolved] Error when attempting to pull user details in the Command Center.
  • [Resolved] The WireGuard config file was rendered unreadable due to a recurring error.

2023-06-14 Release Highlights

Generally Available Features

  • New Trust Factor: Enhanced OS Version

    • OS Versions can now be configured by the “Last x version(s)”. This frees admins from having to update the Trust Factor configuration with every new OS version release. Previously, admins had to configure and continually update specific OS version numbers.
  • New Trust Factor: CrowdStrike Registered With

    • The Registered With factor validates that the device at hand is registered with the CrowdStrike environment. Registered With is derived from a CrowdStrike API endpoint.
  • Branding Customization

    • Admins can now use customized branding for any Banyan browser error and success pages with their organization’s own logo and brand colors.

Enhancements and Updates

  • Event Log Viewer for Service Tunnel Activity:

    • Admins can now find Service Tunnel activity under the Service filter in the Event Log Viewer in the Command Center.
  • Lookup Domain:

    • Admins can use the Lookup Domain to view which Content Category or Threat Category a given domain falls under.
  • Service Tunnel Access Logs - blocked access attempts:

    • Admins can view blocked Service Tunnel access attempts (traffic rejected by Banyan L4 Policies). These can be viewed on the Access Tier.
  • DNS filter in Captive Portal environments:

    • The Banyan client will use the host DNS server for any DNS requests until captive portal authentication is complete and internet access is available.
    • The Banyan client will periodically probe for well-known URLs to detect internet access. On detecting reachability to those URLs, it will start forwarding DNS requests to the DNS filter server for DNS filtering.

Bug Fixes

  • [Resolved] Edit Access Tier parameters was removing Service Tunnel logging parameter (i.e., EnableServiceTunnelLog).

2023-05-25 Release Highlights

Generally Available Features

  • Mobile Tunnel:

  • Enhanced Roles UI:

Enhancements and Updates

  • Internet Threat Protection – Policy Sync Status:

    • Banyan’s sync status indicates whether the ITP policies page in the Command Center is up-to-date or syncing is in progress.
    • If a sync is in progress, then an ETA will also be available, so that admins can expect when ITP policy updates will be reflected in the console.

Bug Fixes

  • [Resolved] Launching the desktop app (from the Windows start menu) when the app was already running was causing the tunnel to disconnect.

2023-04-12 Release Highlights

Generally Available Features

  • Self-Service Hosted Websites:

    • Simplified UI flow for registering a hosted website in Banyan.
    • Domains can be registered directly within the hosted web service registration flow.

Enhancements and Updates

  • StatsD support for monitoring Service Tunnels:

    • Admins can now monitor the number of active clients, Tx rate, and Rx rate per Service Tunnel.

Bug Fixes

  • [Resolved] Banyan app has migrated commands to PowerShell; the app no longer uses wmic commands.
  • [Resolved] “User not found” error when adding a new local user in the console.

2023-03-08 Release Highlights

Important Notice: Banyan is releasing Access Tier v2, which features a guided installation flow and architectural updates. See Important Notices to learn more about the upgrade path from v1 to v2.

Generally Available Features

  • New Registry Key Check Trust Factor:

    • Admins can use this new Trust Factor to establish a list of keys with corresponding values required on devices in their organization.
    • This Trust Factor supports Windows devices only.
  • Admin-Enabled Autorun:

    • Admins can now enable Autorun in Service Tunnel and infrastructure service specifications during service registration in the Cloud Command Center.
    • If enabled, end users no longer need to manually enable Autorun from their desktop app.

Early Preview Features

Enhancements and Updates

  • Time-Based One Time Passcode for Local Admins:

    • A new Time-based One Time Passcode (TOTP) setting has been added to Admin Sign-on Settings (i.e., Enable TOTP). Please contact Banyan to enable this feature.
    • If enabled, all local admins that log into the Cloud Command Center will be required to set up and validate with TOTP.

2023-02-08 Release Highlights

Important Notice: Banyan is releasing Access Tier v2, which features a guided installation flow and architectural updates. See Important Notices to learn more about the upgrade path from v1 to v2.

Generally Available Features

  • New Get Started guide in Banyan’s Command Center:

    • Banyan’s Command Center now offers a Get Started section, which contains guides related to onboarding and helps admins discover and enable new Banyan functionalities in their orgs.
  • Self-Service Connector Installation flow:

    • Banyan is introducing a new guided Connector installation flow in the Command Center.
    • Connector installation can now be completed almost entirely through the Command Center UI, similar to our simplified Access Tier installation.

Enhancements and Updates

  • Service Tunnel Access Logs:

    • Banyan can now collect all traffic events from end users through Service Tunnels, providing comprehensive logging.

2023-01-11 Release Highlights

Important Notice: Banyan is releasing Access Tier v2, which features a guided installation flow and architectural updates. See Important Notices to learn more about the upgrade path from v1 to v2.

Generally Available Features

  • New Trust Factor – Property List Check:

    • Property List Check evaluates whether property list (plist) files’ keys match their defined values (on macOS devices).

Enhancements and Updates

  • Refreshed Devices Page:

    • Updated UI and enhanced performance.
  • Terraform Provider v1.1:

    • Now supports importing existing Banyan services, roles, and policies.

Bug Fixes

  • [Resolved] Private domains (ipv6) were not resolving over Service Tunnel.

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