Messaging Gateway 10.9 release notes and late breaking news
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Messaging Gateway 10.9 release notes and late breaking news

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Issue/Introduction

Release notes and late breaking information for Symantec Messaging Gateway (SMG) 10.9

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System Status and Outage Information

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Release Notes

Late Breaking News

2025-08-28 - SMG 10.9.2 released

Emerging Issues

10.9.2

What's new in 10.9.2

Key Features

  • DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) - DANE is an Internet standard for enhancing the security
    of online communications with a DNS-based certificate-authentication protocol that is used for validating server
    certificates in TLS sessions.
  • MTA Strict Transport Security (MTA-STS) - Support for MTA Strict Trasport Security allows mail service providers
    to declare their ability to receive Transport Layer Security (TLS) secure SMTP connections and to specify whether
    sending SMTP servers should refuse to deliver to MX hosts that do not offer TLS with a trusted server certificate.

Issues addressed with the 10.9.2 release

Patch 10.9.2-299

Issues addressed with patch 10.9.2-299

  • Backup Now button no longer works on subsequent attempts after error.
  • Backup over FTP and SCP from the Control Center does not work in case when '@' is used in username.
  • "license-control -l"  CLI command results in "ERROR: Certificate file is not valid"
  •  Adding a scheduled backup with SCPRSA protocol fails.

Patch 10.9.1-297

Issues addressed with patch 10.9.1-297

  • Users on some virtual KVM platforms do not have a valid network configuration.
  • Users on VMware and some other platforms are unable to use the second NIC.
  • Notifications for user's quarantined messages are not delivering.
  • International characters become garbled after upgrading to 10.9.1.
  • CLI help/man pages display raw terminal escape sequences.

Patch 10.9.1-296

Patch 10.9.1-296 Released for Messaging Gateway

Issues addressed with patch 10.9.1-296

  • Users on some virtual KVM platforms do not have a valid network configuration.
  • Users on VMware and some other platforms are unable to use the second NIC
  • Notifications for user's quarantined messages are not being delivered

10.9.1

What's new in 10.9.1

Key Features

  • Full update of underlying operating system
  • Improved efficacy, reducing the number of false positives
  • Added support for TLS 1.3
  • Increased visibility of licensing status
  • Added a new alert for the percentage of maximum queue size
  • All DSNs generated by SMG now consistent and configurable
  • Security Updates
  • Network issues for KVM installs addressed
  • log4j removed from Control Center web application

Issues addressed with the 10.9.1 release

Outstanding Issues

 

Patch 10.9.0-295

Issues addressed with patch 10.9.0-295

  • Users are unable to log into Quarantine if remote syslog is enabled.
  • OpenID Connect configuration is not backed up or restored, unless a full backup was used.
  • Administration policies are not correctly backed up or restored, unless a full backup was used.
  • In some circumstances, an application error will occur when attempting to view Host Status.
  • In some circumstances, an application error will occur when attempting to import or upload a file to the Control Center or Quarantine.

10.9.0

What's new in 10.9.0

Key Features

  • OIDC Support - Support Single-Sign-On authentication for administrators and Quarantine users.
  • REST API Support - Support for REST API access to query and monitor the email processing events reported to the
    Message Audit Log as well as host and mail queue status for SMG via your preferred REST tool.

Feature changes and updates

  • The ability to set the ciphers used for secure control center connections.
  • The ability to set a policy condition to act on file encryption status.
  • The ability to collect diagnostics data that includes end user preferences.
  • The ability to import DKIM certificate files that include CRLF at the end of any lines in the certificate file.
  • Spam quarantine summary now includes both friendly and unfriendly addresses together.
  • SMG now provides the ability to delete all stats files with the CLI command, delete statsdata.

Issues addressed with the 10.9.0 release

Outstanding Issues

 

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