Sophos Antivirus For The Mac



Version 9.9.8

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-4973Resolved blank captive portal.

To install Sophos Anti-Virus so that it is managed by Enterprise Console, see the startup guides on the Enterprise Consolepage. Look at Sophos Central Endpoint: How to deploy Sophos on a Mac via the command line for instructions. Managed by Enterprise Console Copy the Sophos Installer.app installer and the Sophos Installer Components directory to a preferred location, for example, the Desktop. Open Terminal and change the directory to the one containing the installer.

Version 9.9.7

Resolved issues

Sophos Antivirus For The Mac
Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-4657Improved device control support for large capacity removable storage devices to ensure that they are blocked after restart.

Version 9.9.6

This release contains performance improvements.

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-4493Resolved an intermittent issue where web pages may fail to load.
MACEP-4600Improved memory usage when Threat Case creation is enabled.
MACEP-4602Resolved an issue with modified permissions on the man8 directory when using disk encryption.
MACEP-4606Improved support for macOS 10.15 Catalina when using MDM profiles.

Version 9.9.5

New features

  • This release contains improved support for macOS 10.15 Catalina.

Version 9.9.4 Updated

New features

  • This release contains support for macOS 10.15 Catalina.
  • This release contains security and performance improvements.

Updated components

The threat detection engine version is 3.77.1. For information about the threat detection engine, see the Sophos Threat Detection Engine release notes.

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-4414Resolved an intermittent issue on macOS 10.14 Mojave where the Captive Network Assistant page could fail to load.
MACEP-4410Addressed CVE-2020-10947.

Version 9.8.5

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-4314Resolved an issue in which Sophos Anti-Virus may incorrectly report successful updates as failures.

Version 9.8.4

Updated components

The threat detection engine has been updated to 3.76.0. For information about the changes to the threat detection engine, see the Sophos Threat Detection Engine release notes.

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-3604Resolved an issue on macOS 10.14 Mojave that prevented some customers from connecting to Wi-Fi networks that require a captive portal.

Version 9.8.2

Updated components

The threat detection engine has been updated to 3.75.0. For information about the changes to the threat detection engine, see the Sophos Threat Detection Engine release notes.

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-3668Resolved a rare kernel panic that can be caused when reading extended file attributes on APFS.
MACEP-3722Installer now provides links to online EULA and Privacy Policy.

Version 9.7.7

This release contains compatibility improvements.

Updated components

The threat detection engine has been updated to 3.74.0.

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-3454Resolved an issue where some systems may hang on boot with certain USB-C devices.

Version 9.9.7

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-4657Improved device control support for large capacity removable storage devices to ensure that they are blocked after restart.

Version 9.9.5

New features

  • This release contains improved support for macOS 10.15 Catalina.

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-4314Resolved an issue in which Sophos Anti-Virus may incorrectly report successful updates as failures.

Version 9.8.5

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-4314Resolved an issue in which Sophos Anti-Virus may incorrectly report successful updates as failures.

Version 9.8.4

Updated components

The threat detection engine has been updated to 3.76.0.

Sophos Antivirus For The Mac Catalina

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-3604Resolved an issue on macOS 10.14 Mojave that prevented some customers from connecting to Wi-Fi networks that require a captive portal.

Version 9.7.9

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-3991Sophos Enterprise Console Admin is now notified of insecure permissions noted in knowledge base article 131959.

Version 9.7.8

Resolved issues

Resolved issues for this release.
Issue IDDescription
MACEP-3668Resolved a rare kernel panic that can be caused when reading extended file attributes on APFS.

Version 9.7.7

This release contains compatibility improvements.

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Updated components

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The threat detection engine has been updated to 3.74.0.