On-Premise Appliance Newport Release Notes

Newport-9

Release Date: 26 August 2026

• Introduced High Availability (HA) support, adding Heartbeat monitoring, node status reporting, and improved failover handling.

• Added DHCP Server support, along with improved reliability for DHCP and DNS and Maiden-to-Newport migration handling.

• Patched security vulnerabilities and updated software dependencies across Debian packages.

• Fixed critical boot and service startup failures affecting SSH, HTTPS certificate checking, Nagios, and login prompt.

• Fixed an issue where Squid blocked Guardian traffic on port 3128.

• Restored backup and auto-backup functionality, including file transfers over SSH.

• Fixed UI issues affecting policy drag-and-drop reordering, template translations, cache clearing, and firewall rule header positioning.

Newport-8

Release Date: 6 July 2026

• Removed the Reverse proxy config options from the Logs and Services UI.

• Removed the RSS button from the Reports Summary page.

• Fixed the Block page formatting and information display.

• Fixed the bandwidth usage display and reporting for PPoE connections. 

• Fixed the placement of the Add rule button for the Firewall and Access rules options. 

• Fixed the duplicate filters in the Reports > Logs > Firewall reports. 

• Fixed the User Activity page selection button to show the correct number of user activities per page.

• Fixed the Diagnostic Test page loading issue.

• Fixed the YouTube search results to block unsafe content.

• Fixed the Realtime log viewer to display large file numbers in the system.

• Fixed the issue with adding DHCP subnets.

Newport-7

Release date: 06 May 2026

• Improved Telemetry for expired Cloud reporting credentials and expired tokens.

• Improved security for user access on the Administrator web UI.

• Notification banners no longer appear when certificates are renewed.

Newport-6

Release date: 20 April 2026

Improvements

• IPSec VPN support, allowing traffic to pass securely between tunnels. Find out more about IPSec VPN here.

• Improved the Link Load Balancing configuration, resulting in more reliable traffic.

• Closed unnecessary additional LAN ports for better overall security.

• All applicable changes from recent Maiden updates have been ported over to Newport.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused passwords with special characters to be rejected.

• Fixed an issue that blocked the appliance from sending some emails.

Newport-5

Release date: 20 January 2026

• SSL VPN is now supported.

• Patched the Redis vulnerability CVE-2025-49844.

• Fixed issues where the Reports > Realtime and Logs > Web Filter pages didn’t automatically display data, and you couldn’t resize columns, edit the date or easily see Safeguarding Alerts.