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Secure Web Gateway 12.2.14 Release Notes

New Features in the 12.2.x Release    

Below is a consolidated list of new features available across the different 12.2.x releases. For issues resolved as part of this release please see the Resolved Issue section

For information about how to upgrade to this release, see Upgrading to a new version – Main Release.   

Rebranding to Account for Transition    

Names of products, components, and other items have been rebranded to account for the transition from McAfee to Secure Web Gateway.

Rebranded SNMP SMI and MIB file with updated Org OID for Skyhigh Security    

As part of the rebranding, a new Object Identifier (OID) has been introduced for Org Skyhigh Security. We are updating the SNMP OID from .1.3.6.1.4.1.1230* to .1.3.6.1.4.1.59732*. You'll need to update your management software accordingly if they are referring to these OID. For more details, see Configure event monitoring with SNMP.

Trellix VX Integration to SWG   

The SWG 12.2.0 supports integration with Trellix Virtual Execution (VX). For more details, see Trellix Virtual Execution Integration to SWG.

Detection of OneNote files  

New Mediatype detection has been added for OneNote files to detect .one and .onepkg files. 

InsecureNetlogon   

Insecure NETLOGON channel is blocked by default. To explicitly allow Insecure NETLOGON, a new checkbox is provided in Windows Join Domain Dialogue. For more details, see InsecureNetlogon 

TCP Health Check   

Prior to this features, SWG would send live traffic to Next Hop Proxies to determine its health which resulted in delayed response in case Next Hop Proxy is not healthy. With this feature, SWG will have knowledge of the health of the Next Hop Proxies beforehand. For more details, see TCP Health Check for Next Hop Proxy.

Server Chunk Encoding   

A new check box option is provided in proxy control event settings, which allows to enforce chunk encoding transfer on server requests from SWG. For more details, see Server Side Chunk Encoding

Connect Response Based on HTTP-Protocol  

Connection Established response message always shows HTTP1.0 even if the HTTP Protocol header of the request was HTTP1.1. Now you can configure this under Proxy Control Event, where we can select to send back the Connection Established Response text based on the HTTP Protocol version received.   For more details, see Configure Connection Established Response based on HTTP Protocol Version.

Support to pipelined application/HTTP  

A new media type has been added to media type filtering for detection and Openers for pipelined Application/HTTP. 

New Properties for Multiline Base64  

To support the multiline Base-64, new properties are added in SWG

Support for kdbx-kdb-Filetype  

A new media type has been added to media type filtering to detect files of the kdbx and kdb types.

Client certificate authentication for HTML UI  

Client certificate authentication is now added for the HTML UI, For more details, see Client Certificate Authentication for HTML UI.

Configurable size limit of single XML attributesEdit section 

The configurable size limit of single XML attributes has been increased to reduce errors on startup when having large inline lists.

Known Issues and Workaround 

For a list of issues that are currently known, see SWG 12.x.x Known Issues and Workaround.

Resolved Issues in the 12.2.14 Release     

NOTE:

  • Secure Web Gateway 12.2.14 is provided as a main release.    
  • If you have configured SWG in Transparent Router mode, ensure that your configuration follows the mandatory steps outlined in Skyhigh document before upgrading to SWG version 12.2.9 or later.

For information about how to upgrade to this release, see Upgrading to a new version – Main Release.   

The list of resolved issues is mentioned below.

JIRA issue numbers are provided in the reference columns.

Reference Description

WP-6380

The issue involves functional testing on 5x00-F models with the new BIOS 2.3, BMC 1.02.09, and CPLD F500D3, specifically related to the upgrade process, where the system does not allow continuation after an incomplete upgrade sequence.

WP-6491  Fixes curl leaks SIGPIPE and crashes the mwg-core.
WP-6497 NHP is marked as down upon receiving a non-2xx response to CONNECT.
WP-6506 Fixes listen port 9090 append to URL on WCCP configuration.

For resolved issues on the previous releases and other information, see Secure Web Gateway 12.2.x Release Notes