FileWave Release History
FileWave issues major releases on a roughly quarterly basis. You'll find the history of features in previous releases shown below.
FileWave 14.9.x (November 2022)
FileWave 14.9.x (November 2022) Release Notes
FileWave 14.8.x (July 2022)
FileWave 14.8.x (July 2022) Release Notes
FileWave Management Suite
User preferences in main views will be stored on the user account (Web Console):
- Pinned columns
- Width of the columns
- Visibility of the columns
- Order of the columns
User preferences in main views will be stored in the active session (Web Console):
- Filters
- Quick filters
- Search
- Applied sorting on a column
Profiles section error handling improvements (Web Console):
- Error handling in the profiles is more user friendly and the mandatory fields are better highlighted
Apple
Apple Silicon Support
Client and Booster components are now fully Universal - run natively on mac with Intel or Apple Silicon chips.
The server component is mostly Universal (Dashboard using Grafana still requires Rosetta)
Apple Spring 2022 Release support
- Profile changes:
- New macOS restriction to disable AirPlay Receiver
- New macOS firewall options (finer settings to allow application connectivity and logging options)
- New tvOS restriction to disable automatic screen saver
VPP changes
- When adding a VPP token, FileWave will now check if already imported tokens are not from the same location to prevent adding the same location twice.
- When renewing a VPP token, FileWave will now check that the new token has been generated from the same location as the one it replaces.
Windows
Wipe
- Windows devices can be wiped from the Web Console
Software update view improvements
- Apple and Microsoft patches have separate sections now
- The list can be sorted by the assigned subtype (e.g. successful, remaining, warning, error)
- Visual improvements in the software update section
Software updates MDM profile
- Different software updates settings can be applied to the Windows devices via MDM
- Deadlines, grace period, automatic update behavior, restart check, option to pause updates, option to check for updates
Automatic MDM certificate renewal
- Windows devices will get the MDM certificate automatically renewed before they expire
Imaging (IVS)
- FileWave Networking Imaging 14.8.x brings compatibility with FileWave 14.8.x.
- PXE Kernel: 5.17.1
- Grub: 2.06
Deprecated Features
The following features are deprecated in FileWave 14.8.0 and will be removed in a future version:
- Apple profile management is deprecated in the Native Admin Console.
- DEP profile addition and creation are deprecated in the Native Admin Console.
Decommissioned Features
The following features have been removed from FileWave 14.8.0:
- Clever is not available as an SIS source anymore.
- Engage is not supported anymore.
- Observe Client functionality has been replaced by the TeamViewer integration