Tenable Agent 2024 Release Notes

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Tenable Agent 10.8.1 (2024-11-26)

Caution: This version of Tenable Agent is no longer supported due to a known bug. You must upgrade to 10.8.2 or downgrade to 10.7.3.

Bug Fix Defect ID
Fixed a race condition issue that caused some Windows agents to hang. 02145873
Fixed an issue that caused some agents to hang on startup and go offline. 02147456, 02146323, 02150129, 02149295, 02148701
Fixed an issue that caused some agents to not fully update to the latest plugins. 02145943 and others
  • You can upgrade to the latest version of Tenable Agent from any previously supported version.
  • If your upgrade path skips versions of the Tenable Agent, Tenable recommends reviewing the release notes for all skipped versions to learn about new features and bug fixes.

  • If you are connecting to Tenable Vulnerability Management through Tenable Nessus scanners, Tenable Agents, Tenable Web App Scanning scanners, or Tenable Network Monitors (NNM) located in mainland China, you must connect through sensor.cloud.tenablecloud.cn instead of sensor.cloud.tenable.com.

Tenable Agent 10.8.0 (2024-11-12)

Caution: This version of Tenable Agent is no longer supported due to a known bug. You must upgrade to 10.8.2 or downgrade to 10.7.3.

The following are new features included in Tenable Agent 10.8.0:

  • Continuous assessment scanning for Linux.

    • Agents that are installed on Linux hosts and linked to Tenable Vulnerability Management now support the continuous assessment scanning feature. Continuous assessment scanning enables continuous software inventory monitoring on the host and is configurable via agent profiles in the Tenable Vulnerability Management user interface.

      Continuous assessment scanning is not compatible with agents on which NIAP mode is enforced.

      For more information, see Agent Continuous Assessment Scanning in the Tenable Vulnerability Management User Guide.

The following enhancements are included in Tenable Agent 10.8.0:

  • Improved debug output by capturing software library details.

  • Improved logging for nessus-service.exe on Windows.

  • Improved performance of plugin compilation.

  • Agents no longer support TLS versions 1.1 and earlier.

Bug Fix Defect ID
Fixed an issue that caused some agents to create orphaned processes when stopping or pausing a scan. 02063481
Fixed SSL errors that occurred when using the nessuscli command line flag --reset-all to create a fresh agent image. 02054662
Removed support for nessusd command line option for setting a master password (-K). 02034977
Updated the Plugin Disk Usage health alert threshold to a more appropriate value. 02090915, 02088697, 02089271, 02104953
Fixed an issue that prevented some agents from being stopped or restarted after an upgrade. 01715462, 01786230, 01921503
Fixed an issue that caused agents to crash on x86/x86_64 hardware that lacked the x86 crc32 instruction (for example, very old AMD processors). 02097974

The following are supported platform updates made in Tenable Agent 10.8.0:

  • Added support for the following platforms:

    • Fedora 40

    • Windows Server 2025

  • You can upgrade to the latest version of Tenable Agent from any previously supported version.
  • If your upgrade path skips versions of the Tenable Agent, Tenable recommends reviewing the release notes for all skipped versions to learn about new features and bug fixes.

  • If you are connecting to Tenable Vulnerability Management through Tenable Nessus scanners, Tenable Agents, Tenable Web App Scanning scanners, or Tenable Network Monitors (NNM) located in mainland China, you must connect through sensor.cloud.tenablecloud.cn instead of sensor.cloud.tenable.com.

Tenable Agent 10.7.3 (2024-09-11)

The following are security updates included in Tenable Agent 10.7.3:

  • You can upgrade to the latest version of Tenable Agent from any previously supported version.
  • If your upgrade path skips versions of the Tenable Agent, Tenable recommends reviewing the release notes for all skipped versions to learn about new features and bug fixes.

  • If you are connecting to Tenable Vulnerability Management through Tenable Nessus scanners, Tenable Agents, Tenable Web App Scanning scanners, or Tenable Network Monitors (NNM) located in mainland China, you must connect through sensor.cloud.tenablecloud.cn instead of sensor.cloud.tenable.com.

Tenable Agent 10.7.2 (2024-07-25)

The following enhancements are included in Tenable Agent 10.7.2:

  • The time elapsed since scan execution completed when uploading a triggered scan result is now provided to the user.

Bug Fix Defect ID
Reduced physical memory usage (RSS) at the time of plugin set updates. 02011617
  • You can upgrade to the latest version of Tenable Agent from any previously supported version.
  • If your upgrade path skips versions of the Tenable Agent, Tenable recommends reviewing the release notes for all skipped versions to learn about new features and bug fixes.

  • If you are connecting to Tenable Vulnerability Management through Tenable Nessus scanners, Tenable Agents, Tenable Web App Scanning scanners, or Tenable Network Monitors (NNM) located in mainland China, you must connect through sensor.cloud.tenablecloud.cn instead of sensor.cloud.tenable.com.

Tenable Agent 10.7.1 (2024-07-02)

Bug Fix Defect ID
Tenable Agent no longer uses Transparent Huge Pages on Linux systems by default. 02011617
  • You can upgrade to the latest version of Tenable Agent from any previously supported version.
  • If your upgrade path skips versions of the Tenable Agent, Tenable recommends reviewing the release notes for all skipped versions to learn about new features and bug fixes.

  • If you are connecting to Tenable Vulnerability Management through Tenable Nessus scanners, Tenable Agents, Tenable Web App Scanning scanners, or Tenable Network Monitors (NNM) located in mainland China, you must connect through sensor.cloud.tenablecloud.cn instead of sensor.cloud.tenable.com.

Tenable Agent 10.7.0 (2024-06-27)

The following are new features included in Tenable Agent 10.7.0:

  • Added backend support for declarative plugin updates for agents linked to Tenable Vulnerability Management.

  • Added backend support for Tenable Sensor Proxy fallback. The fallback feature is scheduled for release later in 2024.

The following enhancements are included in Tenable Agent 10.7.0:

  • Improved handling of reports larger than 2 GB.

Bug Fix Defect ID
Fixed an issue that caused some relinked agents to be added to groups they had been removed from. 01755129, 01796781
Fixed an issue where the nessusagent.service file was installed with incorrect permissions. 01763994
Fixed an issue where the agent TLS configuration could be overridden unintentionally by another system configuration. 02013996, 01812309, 01873286, 01873286, 02004363

Added fallback upgrade logic so that unresponsive WMI environments no longer block Windows upgrades.

 01919946

The following are supported platform updates made in Tenable Agent 10.7.0:

  • Removed support for the following platforms:

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

    • Debian 10

    • Ubuntu 14.04

  • You can upgrade to the latest version of Tenable Agent from any previously supported version.
  • If your upgrade path skips versions of the Tenable Agent, Tenable recommends reviewing the release notes for all skipped versions to learn about new features and bug fixes.

  • If you are connecting to Tenable Vulnerability Management through Tenable Nessus scanners, Tenable Agents, Tenable Web App Scanning scanners, or Tenable Network Monitors (NNM) located in mainland China, you must connect through sensor.cloud.tenablecloud.cn instead of sensor.cloud.tenable.com.