Arc v2.3.0

The release notes for Arc version v2.3.0.

New features

A list of new features that have been introduced in this release.

  • Arc-1112: Arc can now use EaseFilter for faster and more reliable retrieval of I/O disk events.
  • Arc-1114: Offline data archive names can now be configured to contain additional information like IP and host.
  • Arc-1132: Introduced Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) support for Linux machines.
  • Arc-1133: Applied wording refinements in the Arc local user interface (UI).
  • Arc-1134: Linux support has been extended to Alma distribution.
  • Arc-1137:
    • Smart Polling:
      • The simple network management protocol (SNMP) strategy now gets more data about the switches physical connections through community strings that are specific to self-configured virtual local area network (VLAN)s
      • The SNMP strategy now organizes information about switch ports more accurately within the hardware components tree
      • Addressed an issue that was causing error messages in the log about the use of closed network connection
      • Improved the robustness of the Modbus strategy to better parse responses that do not follow the expected structure
      • Introduced these new strategies:
        • Owl OPDS SSH
        • Phoenix Contact FL SWITCH TSN 2000 Series HTTP(S)
    • Discovery: Now confirms the media access control (MAC) addresses of the discovered nodes if the sensor's address resolution protocol (ARP) table contains the corresponding entries
  • Arc-1139: Arc now also supports custom Structured Threat Information Expression (STIX) rules, which are defined upstream.

Resolved issues

A list of the bugs and defects that have been addressed in this release.

  • Arc-1145: Fixed an issue that caused Arc to report an incorrect Product name for Windows machines.
  • Arc-1151: Resolved an incompatibility between the libmelco.so library and installations based on Debian Buster.