Release Day 

Explore the innovative new features now available within 
the latest versions of the solutions you rely on.

2024.3 Release Day Highlights

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CLOUD EMAIL PROTECTION

M365 hosted customers now have search capability for messages containing active content and OCR analysis and extraction of images and QR codes.

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TERRANOVA SECURITY

This latest release features an enhanced notification center, refined Security Awareness Index, expanded reporting API, and new dashboard features.

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DIGITAL GUARDIAN

Users of Digital Guardian's Network DLP agent now have the flexibility to continue using the product on a supported operating system.

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COBALT STRIKE

This new release introduces BeaconGate, the Postex Kit, and Sleepmask-VS, giving operators unprecedented control and flexibility.

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OUTFLANK

Users now have the capability to attack EntraID device code flow and to generate initial access payloads in different formats optimized for OPSEC.

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GOANYWHERE

Microsoft OAuth 2.0 support was added to Global SMTP configuration for more modern, secure authentication and access, plus many more updates.  

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Fortra (Platform) Update

Fortra is an innovative cybersecurity solution that leverages cloud technology and defends against multiple attack vectors. Tailored for the ever-evolving threat environment, Fortra enhances your team's effectiveness while establishing the groundwork for integrating our comprehensive solutions. We proactively predict attacks, fortify organizations, and build resilience. 

Featured Fortra technologies in the platform: 

 

 

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Fortra Cloud Email Protection

Advanced threat protection from an integrated cloud email security platform 

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Fortra Vulnerability Management

Proactive, accurate, and easy-to-use SaaS vulnerability management 

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Fortra Extended Detection and Response

Comprehensive visibility and coverage across endpoints, network, and hybrid environments 

The general availability (GA) of Endpoint Manager and the Fortra Agent marks a significant milestone, introducing a comprehensive platform for managing and securing endpoints with the endpoint detection and response (EDR) capability as its inaugural offering.
 
This release enables organizations to deploy the Endpoint Manager across their networks, providing robust security through advanced threat detection, continuous monitoring, and automated response actions. The EDR capability empowers users to swiftly identify and mitigate cyber threats, ensuring the protection of critical assets and data. With this launch, Endpoint Manager sets the stage for an evolving suite of capabilities designed to enhance endpoint security and operational efficiency.
 
This release marks another significant milestone as it integrates seamlessly into our comprehensive Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solution, now available to our customers. As part of our new XDR suite, this offering represents a robust, unified approach to cybersecurity, enabling organizations to protect their endpoints and data with greater efficiency and effectiveness.
 

Cybersecurity Updates

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Data Protection

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Fortra's Data Classification is synonymous with world-class data classification and our solutions are key components of Fortra's robust data security portfolio. Its solutions are trusted by millions of users around the world, including top military, government, and Fortune 100 organizations. With the addition of data identification and advanced machine learning technologies, Data Classification has evolved into a global leader in enterprise-grade data protection solutions. 

Release Highlights

This quarter, our already-powerful Cloud version of DCS has been enhanced to include streamlined importing and exporting of configurations, labeling support in New Outlook for both Mac and Windows, and extended support of our AI component. 

Now, professional services and support staff can directly share configurations with customers to ease configuration maintenance, and those running DCS on the New Outlook app will have the same friendly user experience as those using Outlook in a browser. Moreover, those in Turkey and the Middle East will now have support for national identifiers and will experience improved data detection capabilities.

Data Classification Suite Release Notes  Data Classifer Release Notes

 

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Fortra’s Digital Guardian starts up quickly and gives organizations immediate visibility into their data security, making it easier to see and block all threats to sensitive information. Available as a SaaS or managed service deployment, our Data Protection Platform performs across the corporate network, endpoints, and cloud applications to stop data theft. 

Release Highlights

Fortra's Digital Guardian Data Loss Prevention (DLP) customers now have the flexibility to continue using the product on a supported operating system. Enhancements to Digital Guardian’s Network DLP agent (nDLP 12.0) updated the operating system used for nDLP from CentOS to Rocky Linux as CentOS reached end of life (EOL) on June 30, 2024. Updates to Digital Guardian’s Endpoint DLP (eDLP) agent included a number of maintenance releases to address outstanding customer issues and concerns.
 

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Fortra's Digital Guardian Secure Collaboration (formerly Vera) allows users to automatically secure sensitive data as it is shared internally and externally, track every successful and unsuccessful access to sensitive data, mitigate compliance risk with a full audit trail, and revoke access to sensitive data kept by departing employees or third-party partners. 

Release Highlights

This quarter's updates to Digital Guardian Secure Collaboration (v3.23.8) provide customers with support for a customer request: the ability to safely encrypt data that’s copied and pasted between secure and unsecure versions of PowerPoint in multi-monitor desktop configurations. Users should have peace of mind that data remains secure and encrypted, even in special situations.
 

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Email Security & Digital Risk Protection

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Fortra’s Cloud Email Protection is an integrated cloud email security platform that protects against advanced email threats that bypass traditional security controls through a combination of data science to identify unknown threats, global inbox intelligence to counter emerging threats, and automated remediation that purges detected threats across the email environment.

Release Highlights

This quarter's product enhancements to Cloud Email Protection improve Microsoft 365 hosted customers' capabilities for the detection of malicious emails, making their email environments safer. This includes new functionality that leverages deep content inspection to search for messages containing active content by analyzing body content and attachments for the presence of executable code and sets appropriate policies, as well as an OCR analysis upgrade that can search for images and QR codes to analyze them for malicious URLs and extract them. 

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Fortra's Agari protects brands and people from devastating phishing and socially engineered attacks. Using applied data science, global inbox threat intelligence, email threat operations and more, Agari protects the workforce from inbound business email compromise, supply chain fraud, spear phishing, and account takeover-based attacks, and prevents spoofing of outbound email from the enterprise to customers, thereby increasing deliverability rates and preserving brand integrity. 

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In today’s challenging cybersecurity landscape, IT teams need trusted solutions to defend against inbound cyberattacks and outbound data loss. Clearswift’s email security products provide complete and consistent protection across email and the web, allowing for the detection, inspection, and security against inbound cyberattacks and email data loss with flexible policy enforcement. 

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Fortra’s PhishLabs delivers comprehensive collection, expert curation, and complete mitigation of digital risks. Through services like domain monitoring, brand protection, and social media protection, organizations can focus on real threats and safeguard their digital assets.

Release Highlights

Phishlabs releases provide clients with new API endpoints that permit incident details to be returned for multiple incidents and to populate incidents with files. This allows clients to process these requests via API without having to manually visit the Phishlabs Web App.

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Fortra's Terranova Security awareness training programs help organizations worldwide reduce the human risk factor and change unsafe online behaviors that can lead to data breaches. The Security Awareness Platform offers clients continual improvements to ensure they attain their cyber security goals and build a security-aware organizational culture. 

Release Highlights

Customers can now explore the new notification center and interactive demos highlighting key platform features. The Security Awareness Index now excludes inactive users, anonymous quizzes, and phishing simulations from the global calculation. We've also expanded our reporting API, allowing partners to access clients' license information with a single, bearer-token, authenticated API call. 

Additionally, we've added a dashboard displaying SMTP statuses for phishing simulation emails and enhanced the campaign manager tool with new functions for better efficiency. Additionally, we have resolved issues related to reporting, dashboards, phishing simulations, and manager escalation emails.

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Offensive Security

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Fortra's Core Security provides offensive security and identity governance solutions and services that use proactive security assessments and access management to help organizations reduce risk, streamline operations, and reduce costs.

Release Highlights

The Core Impact 21.6 release includes the introduction of the Connection Store, new reporting features, a newer UI for the entities Quick Information panel, a series of quality-of-life changes and more. 

Identity governance release information can be found here.

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Cobalt Strike is a benchmark red teaming tool ideal for adversary simulations, particularly those with a focus on post-exploitation exercises. With its highly flexible C2 framework, security professionals can tailor their engagements to effectively replicate the tactics, techniques, and procedures of real-world attackers for accurate assessments of organizational defenses.

Release Highlights

Version 4.10 introduces BeaconGate, the Postex Kit, and Sleepmask-VS. In addition, we have overhauled the Sleepmask API, refreshed the Jobs UI, added new BOF APIs, added support for hot swapping C2 hosts, and more. This has been a longer release cycle than in previous releases to allow us to make underlying architectural changes to support our longer-term ambitions. 

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Fortra's Outflank Security Tooling (OST) is a broad set of evasive tools crafted for advanced red teams in order to simplify complex tasks for every step in the attacker kill chain. OST has a high pace of development in order to keep in step with and ahead of advancements being made by adversarial groups and advanced cybercriminals, with swift updates made possible by the cloud-based delivery mode (SaaS). 

Release Highlights

New tool releases include PhisherPrice, which adds capabilities for attacking EntraID device code flow and In-Phase Builder, a tool for generating initial access payloads in different formats optimized for OPSEC.
 
Additionally, OST’s commercial C2 framework is being rebranded from Stage1 to Outflank C2 to reflect its continued growth and functionality, including native implant support for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Other releases include four new EDR presets, a new BOF for creating/stopping/deleting services, and other various updates.
 
To get more details on all of the new tools and updates for OST, check out the release timeline.  
 

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Secure File Transfer

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Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT secures, automates, and simplifies how business-critical file transfers are managed, boosting the cybersecurity stance for organizations large and small throughout their cybersecurity journey. 

Release Highlights

This quarter’s GoAnywhere release of v7.6 addresses support for Microsoft OAuth 2.0 authentication, the more modern, secure authentication process for SMTP. Customers benefit from this modern authentication and will also see enhanced security throughout the solution with new SSH ciphers and algorithms, alongside performance and scalability for Agents, and added security through library upgrades.  

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Fortra’s Globalscape EFT™ (Enhanced File Transfer) offers an advanced, powerful managed file transfer (MFT) solution designed for Windows-centric organizations. With robust, secure Globalscape in place, enterprises can replace insecure legacy FTP servers and inflexible and haphazard homegrown file transfer systems while keeping data security top of mind.

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Fortra’s FileCatalyst is an Emmy® award-winning leader of file transfer acceleration solutions designed to accelerate and optimize file transfers across global networks. Being immune to packet loss and latency, FileCatalyst can send files hundreds of times faster than methods such as FTP, SFTP or HTTP. As part of Fortra’s Secure File Transfer Suite, this file acceleration solution also keeps data security top of mind.

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Vulnerability Management

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Fortra's Digital Defense Frontline Vulnerability Manager (Frontline VM) has now become Fortra Vulnerability Management (Fortra VM). Though the name is changing slightly, the UI and functionality you’ve come to rely on in Frontline will remain and continue to be updated.  

Release Highlights

Fortra VM Release 7.0.3.0 introduces a new Standard Scan feature. This Standard Scan option is preset with the most utilized VM scan settings. Standard mode allows users to run a scan quickly and easily with these simplified, widely used, predetermined settings.
 
Advanced mode has customizable, in-depth scanning options for organizations with more complex security scans that use custom report auto-generation, business groups, and multiple scanner profiles. Users can toggle between these settings in the user preferences interface.
 

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Fortra's Beyond Security is a global leader in automated vulnerability assessment and compliance solutions, enabling businesses and governments to accurately assess and manage security weaknesses in their networks, applications, industrial systems, and networked software. 

Release Highlights

The main additions for beSTORM 13.3.0 are new protocols supported (PTPv2 (1588-2008) Client and PTPv2 (1588-2008) Server) and updated ARP protocol. This release also fixed several issues related to the estimated number of combinations a module test will perform and the estimated time it will take to complete the module test. This fix allows users to accurately plan for a protocol/module test.

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For more than 25 years, Fortra's Tripwire has protected the world’s leading organizations against the most damaging cyberattacks, keeping pace with rapidly changing tech complexities to defend against ever-evolving threats. We're here to help organizations build strong foundations for security, compliance, and operational excellence.

Release Highlights

The Tripwire Enterprise 9.1.1 release provides a critical security update to its SAML integration, which is strongly recommended for all users who have deployed Tripwire Enterprise 9.1. This update enables you to safely and securely utilize SAML as your preferred IDP to reduce administrative overhead. The SAML integration minimizes human error with auto-created users, groups, and roles for secure and efficient access management. 

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Managed Security Services

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Fortra’s Alert Logic provides unrivaled security for cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. Our purpose-built technology and team of experts works with customers to improve their security posture with our extended detection and response (XDR), managed detection and response (MDR) and managed web application firewall (WAF) solutions.

Release Highlights

This quarter’s Alert Logic product releases offer enhanced vulnerability snapshot reporting and improvements to the vulnerability library, simplifying the investigation of specific exposures. The updates include a direct link to affected assets with a count of open instances, as well as improved visibility into when vulnerabilities were published and whether there are known active exploitations.
 
Several Fortra Managed WAF releases deliver enhanced client-side protection controls, helping to meet and exceed PCI DSS 4.0 requirements for cross-site scripting (XSS). These updates practically eliminate the risk of reflected and inline XSS attacks. Additionally, all Alert Logic customers are now eligible to complete the Fortra Identify Provider credentials registration process, enabling them to use their Fortra single login credentials for seamless access to the Alert Logic console, Fortra VM, and Fortra XDR.
 

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Intelligence & Automation Updates

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Automate is an easy-to-use robotic process automation software solution that boosts productivity by transforming virtually any business or IT process. With scalable automation capabilities — whether you need a solution for one department, a small business, or an enterprise-wide Center of Excellence (CoE) initiative —Automate is built and priced right for employee-driven automation. 

Release Highlights

Automate version 24.2.0 includes new features and enhancements that bring added options for alerting, expanded automation capabilities, additional RESTful API support, as well as a number of general fixes.
 
This includes added agent notifications to bring more awareness to when agents are offline. We've also made updates to our Microsoft Dynamics 365 action to automate an even larger variety of D365 actions. And we've extended functionality to the variable expression to evaluate an Automate variable from external sources. Plus, we've enhanced the web browser action to further automate interactive web automations.
 

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Fortra's JAMS centralizes batch processes and workloads that are critical to the modern enterprise. Our streamlined solutions consolidate job scheduling into a single command center – one with a wealth of automation features to execute jobs reliably and securely. The cross-platform capabilities of JAMS enable organizations to extract maximum value from IT investments in platforms and applications, both on premise and in the cloud.

Release Highlights

JAMS Version 7.7.1 includes general enhancements to agents, workflows, the installer, the PowerShell Execution Method, and the JAMS Scheduler. These updates deliver agent stability and reporting improvements, schedule priority control at the workflow level, core component updates, support for PowerShell version 5.1, and failover improvements. This release also includes fixes that may have caused a stalled job to hang, sequences to proceed with execution, as well as other general fixes.

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IBM i & Additional Updates

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IBM i

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Fortra's Robot product line is designed and developed with operators in mind. Our modern interfaces and enterprise-class functionality make it possible for even novice IBM i teams to manage the system by exception, freeing up time to focus on IT initiatives that add value and impact the bottom line.  

Release Highlights

This quarter’s Robot product releases highlight our continued focus on providing integrated, automated, and secure solutions for IBM i. Robot Schedule has made it easier to recover from job failures by starting a command job at a specified sequence. Robot Monitor has improved its ease of deployment with the addition of a new authorization list and firewall configuration instructions. Robot Monitor also improved its integration with Robot Alert and added multiple Queue Managers with Websphere MQ monitoring.
 
Robot Console added monitoring for ASP usage and availability and Websphere MQ monitoring in IASP environments, improving integration in environments with an IASP, such as those with PowerHA. Overall, the Robot product releases offer a more seamless experience for users of multiple Robot products and improved ease of use within individual solutions as well.
 

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Fortra's Powertech is your security partner in managing evolving data privacy threats with automated solutions. Our solutions are designed to help you simplify security, so you can easily meet auditor demands and harden your system to protect your organization’s most valuable asset: your business-critical data.  

Release Highlights

This quarter’s Powertech product releases highlight Fortra’s commitment to enhanced control, security, and monitoring capabilities. Improved integration among Powertech Antivirus and the Antivirus Server provides customers with a more efficient and convenient experience when performing configuration changes and other critical security functions. Other improvements, such as those made to Powertech Antivirus’ Trellix 6600 scan engine and availability of support for European languages, make Powertech Antivirus more powerful and personalized for customers around the world.
 
A new Field Encryption audit has been added to Powertech Encryption for IBM i that allows users to find all library/file fields on a system that contain the Encryption field procedure and validate those to the field encryption registry, enabling the easy detection of mismatches in the registry.
 

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Fortra's Sequel and Showcase deliver affordable IBM i business intelligence to IT, business users, and executives alike. Today, thousands of customers worldwide count on Sequel and Showcase for access to the data they need, when they need it. 

Release Highlights

Our latest Sequel releases emphasize the optimization of business intelligence projects and the IT processes they impact. Viewpoint Administrator has been modified to improve performance when working with Advanced Database Security while the Viewpoint install process has been modified to install several required ActiveX Control files locally (for Viewpoint-only use) rather than globally on the PC. This will ensure the versions of these files cannot conflict with other software on the system.

Sequel Release Notes  Showcase Release Notes

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Our team at Fortra works alongside IBM in developing solutions offered directly to IBM customers. The products that Fortra contributes to primarily assist customers with achieving business continuity and preventing downtime in the event of a disaster or planned maintenance. Users of the products produced by our partnership with IBM can expect continuous application availability and a reliable, streamlined system for performing backups and recovery.  

Release Highlights

Our business continuity solutions developed in partnership with IBM, including BRMS and PowerHA, continued to focus on enhancing and providing new SQL services as the strategic method for retrieving information in new ways. In addition, BRMS 5770-BR2 introduced a modern web interface that provides the ability to remotely view BRMS information. Meanwhile, PowerHA has added the ability to perform management operations from within its web interface.
 
Rational Developer for i continues to provide enhancements around improved developer productivity while also continuing to add support for the latest enhancements in the RPG language. The latest releases for products produced in partnership with IBM emphasize improving flexibility in viewing and managing the solutions as well as creating more avenues for improving productivity.
 

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The Document Management product line provides forms and document management solutions for the cloud, Windows, and IBM iSeries systems. With document management software, you can electronically capture, manage, and distribute all of your documents and data. 

Release Highlights

The latest Webdocs release enhances both administrative control and user experience. The introduction of a unified administrator screen for managing route step memberships and notifications streamlines administrative tasks. Processes for managing and customizing notifications, out of office message forwarding, and other settings have been improved, leading to more responsive and tailored system behavior.
 
Issues with sorting and pagination in various interfaces have been resolved to ensure a smoother and more reliable user experience. The addition of new REST events enables more detailed tracking and automation of document-related actions. Overall, this release provides customers with a more intuitive and productive document management system.
 

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Fortra's Halcyon’s multi-platform solutions reduce the complexity of managing critical IT systems, core applications, and business processes running on IBM Power Systems hardware. Our mobile apps have been designed for IT support staff to remotely manage their vital IT systems. They provide a dashboard of alerts in a single view, so issues can be quickly resolved via smartphone or tablet.  

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Fortra’s Core Security Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) solutions provide increased visibility into the access privileges of users, so you can better manage who has access to what systems, and when. Our solutions help simplify access management, access certification, password management, and privileged access management (PAM).  

Release Highlights

This quarter's identity and access management releases included a number of updates to BoKS for improved security and user experience. Users can now choose the sudo execution environment and the latest version includes a security fix for a vulnerability with OpenSSH.

BoKS Release Notes   Visual Identity Suite Release Notes  

Access Assurance Suite Release Notes

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Fortra's Intermapper is an enterprise monitoring, mapping, and alerting tool that helps network administrators maintain healthy IT environments. Intermapper's live view of your network enables planning of hardware, software, and bandwidth requirements to maximize uptime with minimal resources. 

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Fortra's Vityl is a a powerful solution that ensures IT meets your business needs by monitoring key systems and meeting capacity needs. With Vityl, you can leverage dynamic dashboards and monitoring to pinpoint issues and analyze resource requirements. The solutions allows you to minimize the risk of downtime while simultaneously making the most of your resources.  

Release Highlights

The latest Vityl release focuses on enhancing stability, addressing minor issues, and improving the overall performance of the product. Updated components such as Node.js and Java are instrumental in ensuring that Vityl remains a key contributor among modern organizations’ technology stack. Combined with important fixes and security improvements, the latest version of Vityl makes for a more refined user experience. 

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