Messaging Gateway 10.8 release notes and late breaking news

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• Messaging Gateway
• Messaging Gateway Hardware
• Messaging Gateway for Service Providers

Issue/Introduction

Release notes and late breaking information for Symantec Messaging Gateway (SMG) 10.8

Resolution

System Status and Outage Information

Symantec Messaging Gateway Status

Release Notes

• Messaging Gateway 10.8.1 Release Notes
• Messaging Gateway 10.8.0 Release Notes

Late Breaking News

• DNSSEC configuration becomes disabled
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10.8.1

What's new in 10.8.1

•  Authenticated NTP
• Configurable SSH session timeout
• Additional optional filters to the Message Audit Logs search
• Ability to configure the text used in email delay and rejection notification messages
• Ability to require MTA client certificates on reception

Issues addressed with the 10.8.1 release

• Application error during login
• Scheduled reports generated and delivered in English rather than language of Favorite report
• Backups taken on one type of Control Center can be restored to a different type of Control Center
• URL modification fails and message stored in bad message queue
• License expiry alerts are generated every 21 minutes.
• Failure to boot after expanding virtual infrastructure disk file
• Content filtering does not match some file names with dictionary entries
• Messaging Gateway Alert - Scheduled backup failures after upgrade to 10.8.0
• DMARC failure report includes original virus, worm, and other malicious attachments.
• Some characters are not properly saved in SMG 10.7.5 annotations

Outstanding issues

• Quarantine and Report data expungers set to default schedule on update to 10.8.1
• Message Size Range optional filter results in Application Error for Message Audit Log search
• Azure installation of Messaging Gateway

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Patch 10.8.0-293

Issues addressed with patch 10.8.0-293

• Alerts are sent to the administrator daily regarding the 'tmagent' process.
• In some cases, after upgrading to 10.8.0, the quarantine present on the Control Center is marked as 'inactive'. 
• An error appears in the BrightmailLog.log any time the administrator adds a new quarantine folder. 
• In some cases, the administrator is unable to save changes to the customer-specific URL category settings.
• In some cases, the administrator is unable activate up policy sharing.
• If the online help is accessed more than once from a given screen of the Control Center, without reloading the Control Center, it will fail.

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10.8.0

Issues addressed with the 10.8.0 release

• TLS secured emails are delayed after upgrade to 10.7.3
• Content Filtering rules accept emojis in policy conditions but policy does not contain them
• IP Reputation "Request Removal" link points to insecure and invalid URL
• SQLDataException: Out of range value for column 'id' at row 1 in the Control Center log file
• ecelerity stack traces appear in maillog following upgrade to 10.7.4
• Messaging Gateway 10.7.5 sends "Bad Message" alerts when URL modification is enabled

Outstanding issues

• Saving changes to Customer-specific URL category settings generates an Application error
• Cannot update to SMG 10.8.1 on KVM platform
• Cannot change IP address in 10.8.0
• Unable to release messages from quarantine after upgrade to Messaging Gateway 10.8.0
• Unexpected email messages from Cron Daemon after upgrade to Messaging Gateway 10.8.0
• Messaging Gateway Alert - Scheduled tasks failures after upgrade to 10.8.0
• Some characters are not properly saved in SMG 10.7.5 annotations