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4.1. Supercharger Version History

(For upgrade instructions, see 5.27. How To Upgrade Supercharger)

Supercharger 24.4.1 (4/12/2024)

• Fixed infinite loop bug introduced in previous versions session timeout feature

Supercharger 24.3.1 (3/25/2024)

• Added override to enable a login session timeout
• On new installs, removed "User" permissions from the 'C:\Program Files\Supercharger\Manager\logs' folder
• Added additional details to the domains "Trust" tab for clarification
• Display deterministic criteria on the Subscription Status page
• Fixed bug related to email warnings enabled if no email address is specified and a license key is submitted
• Correct typo on coordinates page
• Display entire "Base DN" in the LDAP list
• Bug fix for errors displaying "Cannot insert duplicate key row"
• Added WarnOnRecurringCommandAlreadyRunning override
• Update .NET Hosting Bundle to version 6.0.24
• Ugraded SQL Server to SP3 for new installs
• Disable Group Policy checks by default

Supercharger 23.11.2 (11/14/2023)

• Fix UI freezing under Settings, when no "To" email addresses are specified in email settings
• Fix timeout errors related to SQL execution strategy

Supercharger 23.8.4 (8/22/2023)

• Upgraded .NET hosting bundle
• Fixed bug resulting in "same key has already been added" error message

Supercharger 23.4.4 (4/12/2023)

• Upgrade to .NET 6
• Enhancement to deletion of files in wecXml folder
• Purge now happens when service starts
• Hide "Copy to clipboard" if not browser supported
• Updated help links to new support/kb portal
• Require "Allowed Forwarders" when editing a subscription
• Fix to delete load balanced subscriptions if no controllers exist in domain
• Remediate KeyNotFoundException error
• Fix to limit subscription name lengths (197 characters)
• Fix to allow a deleted controller to be re-added if not decommissioned
• Fix to allow more characters in Managed Filters (increased from 32k to 64k characters)
• Fix graphs no displaying correctly for certain time formats in regional settings
• Bug fix of case sensitivity in override settings
• Highlight master server on Log page
• Display if Group Policy setting is enabled
• Allow sorting on various tables

Supercharger 22.8.9 (9/2/2022)

• Log page defaults to "All" if there are no Errors/Warnings to acknowledge
• Validate (and fix, if possible) values when adding or editing overrides
• Fix bug with upper/lowercase issue in target subscription manager url
• Fix bug where http://localhost//supercharger would give a 404 error
• Various code smells and security hotspots remediated

Supercharger 22.8.2 (8/26/2022)

• NEW FEATURE: Add Cross Domain Forwarding
• Upgrade .NET Core 
• Add additional trace logging
• Add and enabled DB compression for some tables in SQL
• Remove duplicate domain components from LDAP queries
• Bug fix addressing "Error uploading the controller setup to the database" error message
• Bug fix addressing "Cannot insert duplicate key row in object" error message
• Bug fix related to using SQL Server HADR
• Make licensing checks quicker

Supercharger 22.1.8 (1/13/2022)

• Fix for bulk updating of DB values
• Fix for tools tips stuck behind menus
• Update to purging of records
• Upgrade to .NET Core
• Update to table size reporting
• Add delay in subscription update to help preventing WEC service overload

Supercharger 21.11.10 (12/6/2021)

• Add feature to see which event logs are used on more than one load balanced subscription
• Increased timeout for controller setup installer to upload to DB
• Retry controller setup installer downloading if could not download latest version from DB
• Reset related subscriptions after automatic event log reset
• Add option to event logs to set threshold for low EPS
• Filter out outliers before standard deviation calculation for low EPS detection
• ​Bug fix to standard deviation formula
• Bug fix for newly created load balancers freezing GUI
• Bug fix to suppress noise message related to Load Balancers with no subscriptions in logs
• Bug fix for group not found during Load Balancer Maintenance
• Bug fix to certain filters in subscription editor
• Bug fix for to allow longer names to work with auditing
• Bug fix where performance charts displayed data from other collectors
• Add option to not warn if EPS is zero if expected
• Bug fix to new subscriptions using LDAP queries
• Add feature to display load balanced subscriptions on event log status pages
• Display full name of event log on its Status tab
• Move status of services to collector Status tab
• Redesign of internal log details
• Upgrade .NET Core

Supercharger 21.10.6 (10/6/2021)

• Add feature to rearrange domains on Explorer page
• Add more details for subscriptions related to current forwarders
• Add feature in Load Balancer editor to create missing event logs
• Enforce recovery options for controller services to restart on failure
• Include domain name in name of current forwarders exported CSV file
• Add option to filter list of managed filters
• Fix for log names that contain spaces in the name
• Bug fix for built-in event logs enabled flag reset issue
• Bug fix for scheduled time come up with the same time twice in a row
• Bug fix for migration issue with ErrorText
• Bug fix for registry error during collector analysis

Supercharger 21.9.5 (9/5/2021)

• Add filtering to Managed Filters list

Supercharger 21.8.4 (8/23/2021)

• NEW FEATURE - Stalled Subscription Watchdog
• NEW FEATURE - Stalled Event Log Watchdog
• Fixed bug that classified subscriptions with zero forwarders as unhealthy
• Fixed bug with incorrect event log health color
• Logic to make event log gray if not in use

Supercharger 21.7.12 (7/31/2021)

• Correct typo in EULA
• Fixed issue with crashing if a custom DB is being used and login coordinates need to be entered manually
• Fixed EPS standard deviation algorithm
• Added HTTPS protocol option to Subscription Policy settings
• Fixed informational message related to Jumbo History Tracking
• Fixed informational message related to Load Balancer Nodes
• Added logic to trim unwanted characters from Target Subscription Manager entries
• Added logic to ensure latest controller setup file is uploaded to the DB
• Fixed issue with SC not loading after install; installer now runs iisreset
• Added logic to prevent invalid characters from being used for subscription names in load balanced subscriptions
• Added feature to force reboot of a controller server if WEC or WinRM is unhealthy
• Added tooltip for load balanced subscription titles
• Fixed issue with SQL Server user account remnant left behind after a controller is decommissioned
• Upgraded .NET Core hosting bundle
• Fixed broken "Reboot" command 

Supercharger 21.6.6 (6/21/2021)

• Fixed issue with extending temporary license keys
• Added logic to prevent bad subscription names that use invalid characters
• Added screen splitter adjustment bar in GUI
• Added which domain Subscription Policies and Managed Filters are used in when viewing settings
• Added Subscription tab as the default tab when clicking back button in browser from Subscription settings
• Added name to tooltips for Event Logs and Subscriptions
• Bug fixes related to upgrading from 20.1.53 and older to current version

Supercharger 21.6.1 (6/1/2021)

• Split Custom Supercharger logs from Native windows logs during destination log selection
• Resize log selector dropdown
• Fix bug when decommissioning controller
• Fix bug when creating a new custom event log
• Fix bug with expand/collapse buttons in managed filters
• Fix bug for creating subscriptions with Free Version
• Improve user interface speed and responsiveness
• Add option to exclude non-Windows computers

Supercharger 21.4.3 (4/9/2021)

• Bug fix when editing subscriptions

Supercharger 21.3.16 (3/31/2021)

• DB retrieval optimization
• Add refresh count down
• Event log name comparisons case insensitive
• Add performance tab to Event Log
• Add Managed Filter Security Log Wizard
• Subscription Policy editor bug fix
• Add loader to license key submission
• Improved performance of license key submission
• Performance enhancement to Settings pages
• Purging refactored
• Enhancement to Group Policy collection process
• Optimized Refresh Collector, Collector Analysis and Forwarder Analysis command
• Enhancement to multiple pending commands 
• Redesign Command Engine Worker
• Refactor promotion auditing
• Tripwire event filtering
• Redesign Trace log page
• Update NLog
• Adding filtering nonactive controllers
• Internal Log grid improvements
  • Performance improvement 
  • Trimming data fields
  • Add Info Only filter
  • Improved export of log
  • GUI improvement
• Modification to forwarders grid filtering
• Add authorization requirement to all pages
• Add option to delete shard subscriptions
• Purge audits after one year
• Purge Volume Leveling Scorecards older than 30 days
• Add loader to Group and User searches
• Allow users to authenticate in a multi-domain environment
• Bug fix for DST time change
• Forwarder license count fix
• Bug fix in Group Policy Services
• Enhancement to update controllers from the DB, not through HTTP
• Bug fix - If email address field is blank send to all security users and groups 
• Bug fix for View Only users
• Bug fix to custom log name displaying in dropdown list
• Bug fix for an exception during scheduled task processor
• Bug fix for duplicate data in Forwarder Criteria table
• Enhancement to cache Health Statement List
• Bug fix for disposed repo
• Bug fix to internal log download directory access
• Bug fix to division by zero in Average Since Last Call
• Upgrade .NET Core hosting bundle to latest version

Supercharger 20.12.2 (12/2/2020)

• Fixed some issues with slow user interface

Supercharger 20.11.8 (11/28/2020)

• Added Jumbo balancing
• Added audit trail tied to every object in Supercharger
• Added group policy analysis to highlight possible problems with Target Subscription Manager entries, security log permissions etc.
• Added throttling to reduce repetitious warnings and errors and a clear criteria for what’s a warning vs error
• Added managed filters from Palantir
• Added feature to exclude small system drives from health check with an override
• Added links to KB articles
• Bug fix for naming custom event logs
• Bug fix to menu tooltips
• Updates to reporting charts
• Improvements to log downloads
• Performance tabs added to event logs
• Controller installer is now signed
• Many other enhancements

Supercharger 20.9.1 (9/3/2020)

• Load Balanced Subscription 2.0
• All new UI
• Performance Tracking
• much, much, more 

Supercharger 20.1.53 (2/10/2020)

• Add Trace Log Management from Web UI
• Make restart controller more reliable
• Improve Collector Analysis needlessly processing forwarders by using WecUtil
• ​Split Up Collector Analysis for better performance
• ​Fewer Restarts of the Controller Service on WEC errors
• Make WEC API access externalized to ScWecUtil
• Add automatic setting of URLACL fix (see KB article on All subscriptions have 0 active forwarders; System Event IDs 10128, 10129)
• ​Make SQL timeout and execution strategy parameters soft coded
• Enable easy copying logs to clipboard
• ​When creating Load Balanced Subscriptions, put SC logs at top of Destination Log Names dropdown
• Improve Internal Log search
• Fix slow UI when there are many distributed subscriptions
• ​Efficiently get Comprehensive Forwarder Details for large number of records
• Other small fixes and enhancements

Supercharger 19.10.35 (10/20/2019)

• Fix a bug related to registry access

Supercharger 19.10.34 (10/15/2019)

• Add report: Comprehensive Forwarder Details
• Add report: Collector History (CPU, EPS)
• Include the destination log in the Overview tab of subscriptions
• Add a maintenance button to individual subscriptions of a distributed subscription to run maintenance on-demand (normally run daily)
• Add ability to change SQL Server connection timeout values
• Retry running wecutil.exe commands if hung
• Validate group SID when trying to create or update a distributed subscription
• Improve saving distributed subscription groups, especially when many forwarders are added
• Improve the way changes are saved to AD
• Improve calling forwarder analysis after updating distributed subscriptions or LDAP filters
• Use the same DC as much as possible to avoid replication issues
• Fix bug related to recreating a custom event log with same name but different capitalization
• Handle "A recipient must be specified" error when sending emails
• Limit the number of AD items displayed in the search dialog (to avoid the search taking too long)
• Close subscription dialog after deleting subscription
• Fix bug where perfmon counters would get purged if licensed, but license was expired
• Fix bug where error was wrongly reported if the WEC status was Inactive and AD status was NotFound
• Fix bug in setting up Builtin managed filters, such as filter for Security log with noise suppression
• Fix some bugs that caused a SID mixup when going AD group search
• Fix a bug that made subscriptions stop working if the related managed filter was changed (this was related to setting the wrong value for PublisherName when the sub was updated)
• Fix the sidebar flickering on Chrome
• Remove Events Lost counter

Supercharger 19.7.3 (7/30/2019)

• During upgrades, does not overwrite service account if "Local Service" is changed to custom user

Supercharger 19.7.1 (7/17/2019)

• Revised and removed reporting on lost events
• Fix a bug when a subscription was deleted outside of Supercharger

Supercharger 19.5.3 (6/3/2019)

• Update SQL Server to SQL Server 2016 SP2 Express
• Change implementation of counting servers for licensing
• Update SQL version in the installer
• Servers with Ignore health status are no longer counted
• Fix bug related to denied subjects
• Add Exabeam UEBA filter
• Add partner licensing option
• Run forwarder analysis after updating managed filters
• Fix bug when unable to create managed filter if event log didn't exists on master
• Display buttons not after but before subscription and distributed subscription name
• Display short name instead of full name of event log name in details title
• Fix bug related to distributed subscriptions and LDAP filters
• Enable empty LDAP BaseDN
• Display DCs in UI for LDAP BaseDN
• Add button to display license info for easier license key request
• Fix bug when domain has no more controllers
• Add instructions to analysis takes too long warning message on how to override frequency of collector and forwarder analysis

Supercharger 19.1.4 (1/11/2019)

Supercharger 18.12.2 (12/5/2018)

Supercharger 17.6.19 (6/14/2017)

Supercharger 17.2.54 (2/17/2017)