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Release Notes
McAfee Database Security 4.4.3
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New features
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About this release
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Resolved issues
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About this release
This document contains important information about the current release. We strongly recommend that
you read the entire document.
Important
We do not support the automatic upgrade of a pre-release software version. To
upgrade to a production release of the software, you must first uninstall the
existing version.
New features
Here is a list of new and updated features included with this release of the product.
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Improvements to the McAfee Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) module include:
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Support for DB2 on iSeries (AS/400) via SIA Partner.
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Support for new session status alert, enabling rules to be defined based on the session status
when a schema is changes during the transaction.
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DB status has been enhanced to include DBMS run status, when the sensor is up and
reachable.
Improvements to the McAfee Vulnerability Manager for Databases (DVM) module include:
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Parameterized test functionality. For details, refer to the user manual.
Resolved issues
Here is a list of issues that are resolved in this release.
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DAM module – An issue that sometimes prevented sensor software updates from the server has
been resolved. (848541)
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DAM module – The size of the syslog message size is no longer limited to 32KB. (844619)
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DAM module – There is no longer a problem changing rule severity settings when sensitive data
masking is enabled. (850253)
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DAM module – An issue that prevented users from saving excluded databases in the signed script
settings has been resolved. (845843)
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DVM module – When archiving scan results with a status other than New and then reloading them,
the state no longer changes to New in error. (837718)
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DAM module – In exceptions management, removing the second item in the list no longer causes
the first item to revert. (838192)
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Integrity Monitoring – A reporting issue that sometimes prevented Integrity Monitoring users from
generating reports has been resolved. (849295)
Known issues
For a list of known issues specific to this release, refer to McAfee KnowledgeBase article KB77958.
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