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.
October-2023 Release Highlights
Generally Available Features
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Private Resource discovery:
- Admins can now view a comprehensive list of private resources (including domain name, IP address, and port) accessed via Service Tunnel by users in their orgs.
-
Zero Touch install for Chrome Browser Extension:
- Banyan now supports zero touch installation for the new Chrome Browser extension.
Enhancements & Updates
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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.
September-2023 Release Highlights
Early Preview Features
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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
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Trust Scoring and Internet Threat Protection (ITP) without the desktop app running:
- Banyan’s Trust Scoring and ITP policies now work without requiring end users to run their desktop apps.
-
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
totrue
via Access Tier’s local config API call (PUT
).
- Set
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- [Resolved] Access Tiers were collecting stale certificates from outdated services.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.
August-2023 Release Highlights
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
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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

July-2023 Release Highlights
Generally Available Features
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Service Tunnel Active Connections:
- Admins can view how many users are actively connected to a given Service Tunnel via the Command Center. Device details, including OS, Trust Level, associated Trust Profiles, and Last Login, are easily viewable.

-
Internet Threat Protection - Exclude Users:
- Admins can now exclude users from all ITP policies by applying specific roles to the default Excluded Devices policy.

Early Preview Features
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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.
June-2023 Releases
2023-06-14 Release Highlights
Generally Available Features
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.

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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.
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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).
May-2023 Releases
2023-05-25 Release Highlights
Generally Available Features
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Mobile Tunnel:
- Banyan’s mobile app now allows end users to connect to Service Tunnels in addition to hosted websites.
-
Enhanced Roles UI:
- Simplified UI flow for creating a Role in the Banyan Cloud Command Center.
- Roles can be configured based on Users, Devices, or Service Accounts.
- Roles now support adding serial numbers.

Enhancements and Updates
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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.
April-2023 Releases
2023-04-12 Release Highlights
Generally Available Features
-
- Simplified UI flow for registering a hosted website in Banyan.
- Domains can be registered directly within the hosted web service registration flow.

-
Service Tunnel - Exclude CIDRs:
- Admins can now configure the exclusion of CIDRs during Service Tunnel registration.

Enhancements and Updates
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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.
March-2023 Releases
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
-
Domain-Based Tunnel Policies:
- Admins can now use Service Tunnel policies to define which fully-qualified domain names (FQDN) users can access.
- This offers an alternative to defining access by IPs or CIDR ranges, which dynamically change.

-
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
-
Internet Threat Protection (DNS Filtering) Policies:
- Admins can now create Internet Threat Protection (ITP) Policies.
- These policies are designed to protect devices from accessing domains outside of acceptable use policies.

Enhancements and Updates
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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.
February-2023 Releases
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
-
- Banyan can now collect all traffic events from end users through Service Tunnels, providing comprehensive logging.
January-2023 Releases
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
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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
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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.
Release Notes From Previous Years
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