Monthly updates and upgrades
for 2025
November 2025
- Support Amazon Web Services new format metadata service, and new ssh key types
- BitDefender anti-malware and anti-spam engine license updates
- Redact passwords in logging debug traces for SASL authentication systems
- Improvements to reporting on InfectedLAN summary and detail
- Improvements for SOC engineering systems
October 2025
- Enhancements to SOC configuration systems
- Smarter service updates: configuration changes now require fewer service restarts, reducing downtime
- Expanded cloud compatibility: support added for the latest SSH key types in Amazon cloud virtual deployments
- Stronger access control with improved handling of SSH authorised public keys for more reliable authentication
September 2025
- Improve granularity of event logging timestamps to micro-second resolution
- Minor changes to configuration system startup speed
- Enhancements to high availability system response to configuration changes
- Improvements to package update procedures
- Fixes to network vpn startup sequence for wireguard and openvpn
- Enhancements to 4in4 tunnel configurations
- Improvements to GMS connection tracking sensor
August 2025
NBRS-5
NBRS-8
- Improvements to Office 365 entity synchronization (particularly in the event of poor network connectivity)
- Enhanced support for options in DNS server and root recursive resolver configurations
- Search enhancements to support upcoming improvements to Box Mail mobile App
- Support for S-80i box model in Admin Portal
- Improvements to handling of comments in firewall rules
- Fix to box model identification for VPN-5QB model
- Introduce configurable options concerning ‘tickling’ of traffic in network proxy
- General maintenance housekeeping regarding regional SOC IP addresses
- Implement system wide audit facility with fine-grained configurable control for improvements to host IDS
- Improvements to package update system
- Improvements to 'show network utilisation summary’ command output
- Improvements to 'show disk utilisation detail’ command output
- Improvements to ’show disk status’ command output, related to NVME drives
- Enhanced support for time based firewall rules, with local time zone support
- Add support for optional network interface module on M-298i and M-398i box models
- General improvements to firewall and system logging.
- Enhanced support for options in DNS server and root recursive resolver configurations
- Improvements to speed and reliability of device provisioning
- Add support for disk partition maintenance
- Improved support for Wireguard VPN logging
- Disable use of DHCP on un-configured network interfaces
- Improvements to Office 365 entity synchronization (particularly in the event of poor network connectivity)
- Introduction of device type fingerprinting, particularly for virtual devices
July 2025
- Fix to LCD memory display on M and E series models
- Improvements to database watchdog monitor
- Enhanced support for new AES-GCM ciphers in SSL-VPNs
- Enhancements to active-backup mode in network interface bonding
- Provide support for configurable system-wide cryptographic policies (legacy, FIPS, etc)
- Improved validation in syslog target configurations
- Minor fixes to SSL-VPN server scripting
June 2025
May 2025
- Performance enhancements on map display, and switch to new base map provider
- Improvements to layout of VPN Session report
- Improvements to IPSEC NAT-T stability
- Additional support for Server Side Events in HTTP proxies
- Enhanced support for AUTH SASL authentication in POP3 mail
- Fix to event correlation alert emails
April 2025
- The NBSIEM+ App v6.5 is on the way
- Enhanced Android 14 & 15 Support for large screen users
- Future-Ready Integration for NBSIEM+
March 2025
- Box Mail mobile app for both Android and iOS
February 2025
- Release of ‘Box Mail’ (our enhancements to Mail Portal), with further details provided in this February 2025 In the Boxing Ring newsletter article.
- Support for option switch between on-premises and cloud Box Mail / User Portal.
- Improvements to High Availability email notifications.
January 2025
- Minor fix to certificate authority error reporting
- Improvements to SOC systems for attribution of configuration change requests to matching tickets
- Improvements to Admin Portal Network interface Setup
- Updates to regional SOC IP address assignments
- Deprecate use of old networkbox@ email address
- Various improvements to SOC configuration and box maintenance systems
