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title: "Early Explorer release notes"
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## Explorer release notes prior to 1.7.9

Starting with version 1.7.9 all release notes have been [consolidated](release-notes.md) into one page.


###  v1.7.8
`2020-05-23`

* Fingerprint updates.

###  v1.7.7
`2020-05-22`

* Fingerprint updates.

###  v1.7.6
`2020-05-14`

* Corrects inconsistent use of the new service attributes when processing the dynamic MAC address filter.

###  v1.7.5
`2020-05-14`

* Asset and Service attributes have been normalized. All keys are now camelCase and most service attributes are now prefixed by the protocol name.

###  v1.7.4
`2020-05-13`

* Support has been improved for the following database protocols: Memcached (TCP), CouchDB, Cassandra, Redis, ElasticSearch, Riak (TCP/HTTP), MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MSSQL, and Oracle.

###  v1.7.3
`2020-05-07`

* Cisco HSRP MAC addresses are now ignored for the purposes of asset correlation.
* Updated Ethernet fingerprints.


###  v1.7.2
`2020-05-06`

* A bug in the mDNS probe that could lead to a hung scan on certain platforms has been resolved.

###  v1.7.1
`2020-05-06`

* Diagnostic information is now returned in the "systeminfo" response.
* Updated Ethernet fingerprints.


###  v1.7.0
`2020-05-04`

* The bundled `npcap` driver has been upgraded to version 0.9991.

* The TLS probe now reports `tls.notBeforeTS` and `tls.notAfterTS` fields as unix timestamps.

* Updated Ethernet fingerprints.

###  v1.6.10
`2020-05-03`

* Updated Ethernet fingerprints.

###  v1.6.9
`2020-05-01`

* The runZero Agent will verify its own binary and exit on startup if corrupted.
* Updated Ethernet fingerprints.

###  v1.6.8
`2020-04-23`

* Updated Ethernet fingerprints.


###  v1.6.7
`2020-04-23`

* The scan engine can now identify TCP services on the scanning system across all platforms.

###  v1.6.6
`2020-04-22`

* An issue that could lead to the scan engine hanging with misbehaving HTTP services has been resolved.

###  v1.6.5
`2020-04-22`

* Updated Ethernet and BACnet fingerprints.

###  v1.6.4
`2020-04-17`

* Devices that relay mDNS from other networks (ex: Ubiquiti USG) are no longer associated with the relayed asset information.

* Additional Google Chrome paths are considered for screenshot collection. Snap packages of Chromium are no longer used.

###  v1.6.3
`2020-04-14`

* An issue that could lead to scans hanging while processing HTTP services has been resolved.

###  v1.6.2
`2020-04-13`

* The Linux agent now restarts properly on Ubuntu 14.04, CentOS 6.10, and other Upstart-based platforms.
* Fingerprint updates for Crestron, ELAN, MAC addresses, and BACnet.

###  v1.6.1
`2020-04-08`

* The Windows agent will now try harder to work around temporary issues while installing an update.
* The Windows agent will now clear any stale chrome.exe processes running as LocalSystem during the update process.


###  v1.6.0
`2020-04-06`

* Screenshots will now limit the number of concurrent Chrome processes based on core count, available RAM, and architecture.
* The bundled npcap build has been updated to version 0.9990.

###  v1.5.6
`2020-04-04`

* The RDP probe now collects the full NTLMSSP response for more platforms.
* The HTTP probe now collects information about web forms and their inputs.


###  v1.5.5
`2020-03-27`

* The SNMP probe no longer reports invalid MAC addresses found in ARP caches or MAC tables.

###  v1.5.4
`2020-03-26`

* The TCP probe now handles a wider variety of RDP responses.

###  v1.5.3
`2020-03-26`

* The SMB probe now reports subprotocols (smb1, smb2, and smb3) consistently.
* The SMB probe now collects hashing, encryption, and compression methods from SMBv3 servers.
* The SMB probe now reports the server-allocated Session ID for smb2 and smb3.
* The TCP probe now collects NTLM information from Remote Desktop endpoints and reports the protocol as rdp.
* The HTTP probe now collects additional information from VMware SOAP endpoints.

###  v1.5.2
`2020-03-20`

* A bug that could lead to the HTTP/2 probe stalling during TLS negotiation has been resolved.

###  v1.5.1
`2020-03-14`

* A full system disk no longer results in a deadlocked scan.
* Fingerprints have been updated for Ethernet MAC addresses, BACnet vendors, and Enterprise IDs.
* HTTP/1 probes now explicitly disable HTTP/2 upgrades even when advertised. HTTP/2 is handled separately.
* Generic protocol negotiation is no longer attempted on NDMP ports (10,000/30,000). A future release will support improved NDMP detection and negotiation.
* A potential deadlock in the runtime library has been resolved by reverting to an older runtime version.

###  v1.5.0
`2020-03-04`

* A NTP probe has been added that reports the clock skew compared to the scanning instance.
* A TFTP discovery probe has been added that requests a non-existent file and stores the response. The TFTP probe supports port ranges.
* An OpenVPN probe has been added that can detect remote instances across multiple ports.
* A dTLS discovery probe has been added that handles both bare dTLS and CAPWAP-encoded variants.
* Microsoft Remote Desktop Gateway instances are now fingerprinted through dTLS and HTTP, reporting the `rdg.Transport` service key.
* The protocol handlers for NATPMP, WS-Discovery, and UPnP Device XML now parse out specific subfields for easier matches and future fingerprinting efforts. 
* The UPnP Device XML parser now triggers a request to download and report the device icon.
* The SYN scanner has been updated to improve reliability and report more accurate progress.
* The HTTP probe now identifies and reports web site icons as base64-encoded images along with their MD5 hashes.    
* The HTTP probe now extracts the generator meta tag from HTML responses.
* The HTTP probe now extracts splunkd versions from HTML responses.
* The RPCBind probe now sends a null call to every UDP service and probes the NFS daemon directly.
* VMware ESXi detection has improved and will be used as a fallback in more cases.
* TCP protocol fingerprinting will retry more often on temporary network errors.
* Empty fields in the `result` structure within the JSON output are now omitted.
* Linux on ARM 64-bit (aarch64) is now a supported platform.
* Improved detection and early rejection of invalid CIDRs.

###  v1.4.5
`2020-02-19`

* The SMB probe now records the NTLMSSP response from a wider range of operating systems.
* The HTTP probe now stores the response to `GET /` and the response after any redirects are followed. Key names for the redirect responses are prefixed by `last`, such as `last.http.code`.
* The HTTP probe now handles compression and chunked transfer encoding properly, storing the normalized HTTP body.
* The HTTP probe now reports a banner consisting of the raw HTTP response.
* The HTTP probe now supports collecting environment data from LANDesk Management Agents.
* HTTP screenshots are now only collected when a 2XX HTTP response code is seen.
* HTTP screenshot processing is now more reliable.

###  v1.4.4
`2020-02-16`

* The SMB Server GUID attribute is now used to correlate results to assets.
* The SNMP sysName and sysObjectID attributes are now used to unmatch assets that have changed IPs or were mistakenly matched through another attribute (shared bogus MAC addresses or similar).
* Interfaces with no global unicast addresses (including RFC1918) are no longer considered by the ARP and SYN scanners.
* VLAN-tagged frames are now ignored by the SYN scanner resolving an issue where packets could be sent on the wrong interface by mistake. 
* SYN scans now have a mandatory delay between retry attempts, which improves reliability and decreases change churn when small network ranges are scanned.

###  v1.4.3
`2020-02-13`

* Concurrent scans now use less resources and provide more accurate results.
* A bug that caused some HTTP requests to be sent with an empty Host header has been fixed.
* Version 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 were internal test releases and not deployed.

###  v1.4.0
`2020-02-04`

* Version 1.4.0 is a rollup of post-1.3.0 point release work.

###  v1.3.2
`2020-02-02`

* Agents now support concurrent scans, configured via the cloud console.
* Agents now write log files and rotate these log files automatically.
* Agents now scan faster on local segments within AWS VPCs.
* Agents now support SNMP v3 Context values in the scan configuration.
* Agents now try harder to recover from error cases during installation.

###  v1.3.1
`2020-01-26`

* A race condition was resolved that could leave abandoned chrome.exe processes after a scan.

###  v1.3.0
`2020-01-07`

* Version 1.3.0 is a rollup of post-1.2.0 point release work.

###  v1.2.3
`2019-12-19`

* The agent now tracks virtual hosts better for reported HTTP and TLS services.

###  v1.2.2
`2019-12-19`

* Support for the BACnet protocol has been added.

###  v1.2.1
`2019-12-13`

* The protocol detection engine has received a number of small improvements (mongod recognition among others).

###  v1.2.0
`2019-12-01`

* Version 1.2.0 is a rollup of post-1.1.0 point release work.

###  v1.1.15
`2019-12-01`

* Improved normalization of wireless network fields for the wlan-list probe.

###  v1.1.14
`2019-11-27`

* Additional bug fixes for SNMP processing.
* Initial support for the wlan-list probe module.

###  v1.1.13
`2019-11-26`

* Better support for truncated HTTP responses.

###  v1.1.12
`2019-11-24`

* Invalid SNMP responses are now handled more efficiently.


###  v1.1.11
`2019-11-24`

* A bug that could lead to memory exhaustion when Max Group Size was set to zero has been resolved.


###  v1.1.10
`2019-11-23`

* A bug in the SNMP probe that could result in the scan missing the last round of enumeration results has been fixed.
* Scans that result in excessive memory usage will now automatically upload a heap profile to enable support diagnostics.

###  v1.1.9
`2019-11-22`

* Improved error handling and logging, minor performance increase.

###  v1.1.8
`2019-11-22`

* Reduced memory usage on scan reply deduplication.

###  v1.1.7
`2019-11-19`

* Cisco-specific MIBs are now enumerated for CAM/MAC table enumeration.
* SNMP v2 is now queried two ways by the SNMP probe to improve device compatibility.
* SNMP v3 authenticated enumeration is now available.

###  v1.1.6
`2019-11-19`

* A number of small bugs in the SNMP probe have been resolved.

###  v1.1.5
`2019-11-18`

* The SNMP probe will now try to obtain the full interface and MAC address list from each asset.

###  v1.1.4
`2019-11-14`

* Miscellaneous fingerprinting improvements.

###  v1.1.3
`2019-11-07`

* Improved protocol detection for the Click Modular Router daemon.


###  v1.1.2
`2019-11-05`

* A bug that could lead to a agent being stuck in "stopping" status when a scan is stopped has been resolved.

###  v1.0.15
`2019-11-04`

* Scans now support the `Max Group Size` option to limit the number of concurrent scan targets.
* The MAC address prefix database and various other dependencies and fingerprints were updated.

###  v1.0.9
`2019-10-24`

* The SYN probe now sends retries using the same source port and sequence number to minimize duplicate responses. MAC address fingerprints have been updated.

###  v1.0.8
`2019-10-23`

* The SYN probe now retries twice if no RST is received. This improves reliability at the cost of a small increase in scan times. This can be changed by the `syn-max-retries` parameter in the console.

###  v1.0.7
`2019-10-21`

* Scanner performance is no longer reduced when the ARP probe is enabled for non-local scan targets.

###  v1.0.3
`2019-10-06`

* The macOS agent now supports additional interface types (loopback and tunnel adapters).

###  v1.0.2
`2019-10-02`

 * A race condition was fixed that could cause an agent to crash mid-scan. Affected scans would have an error status of `task lost to agent restart`.

###  v1.0.1
`2019-10-01`

 * Rumble Network Discovery is [out of Beta with version 1.0.0](https://www.runzero.com/blog/announcing-rumble-1/)!
