Runecast Analyzer Release Updates
We deliver fresh definition updates every week for your Runecast platform, so that you can proactively detect all potential issues, incompatibilities and vulnerabilities in your environment. We are continuously improving Runecast with new capabilities to stabilize and fine-tune your AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, VMware SDDC and Windows/Linux environments.
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Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 6.5.4.0
Released
April 18, 2023
- Exploit Information for Vulnerabilities - Vulnerability view is now enhanced with additional metadata indicating whether any exploit information is available for a given CVE. This introduces another layer to risk prioritization based on severity levels.
- Additional Result Statuses - Not Applicable and Not Relevant statuses have been added to make the analysis results even more transparent and easy to consume.
- Enhanced Inventory View - The Inventory view page has been redesigned to offer cohesive data and interactions across the board. This page displays the same issue grid, filters, and metadata as in other views, so you can quickly gain insights when checking the overall status of your infrastructure.
- New Compliance Profile: TISAX - The Trusted Information Security Assessment Exchange (TISAX) standard helps to ensure information security in the automotive industry and is now available in the knowledge profiles list.
- Updated OS Analysis Agent (Action Required) - New version of the OS agent is available. Update of the target systems is required to take advantage of new improvements.
- Standard update and maintenance of knowledge rules, HCL records and system packages

Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 6.5.4.0
Released
April 18, 2023
- Exploit Information for Vulnerabilities - Vulnerability view is now enhanced with additional metadata indicating whether any exploit information is available for a given CVE. This introduces another layer to risk prioritization based on severity levels.
- Additional Result Statuses - Not Applicable and Not Relevant statuses have been added to make the analysis results even more transparent and easy to consume.
- Enhanced Inventory View - The Inventory view page has been redesigned to offer cohesive data and interactions across the board. This page displays the same issue grid, filters, and metadata as in other views, so you can quickly gain insights when checking the overall status of your infrastructure.
- New Compliance Profile: TISAX - The Trusted Information Security Assessment Exchange (TISAX) standard helps to ensure information security in the automotive industry and is now available in the knowledge profiles list.
- Updated OS Analysis Agent (Action Required) - New version of the OS agent is available. Update of the target systems is required to take advantage of new improvements.
- Standard update and maintenance of knowledge rules, HCL records and system packages

Major Release
Runecast Analyzer 6.5.0.0
Released
February 9, 2023
- Full Objects View in Issue Detail - analysis findings now include all relevant objects that took part in the issue evaluation with their respective status: Failed, Passed, and Filtered out.
- New User Interface - introducing brand new dashboards and redesign of the Settings menu to bring more insights, streamlined interactions and better control.
- Filters in the URL - enables to quickly re-apply desired filter selection on any issue view by storing or sharing the URL.

Major Release
Runecast Analyzer 6.5.0.0
Released
February 9, 2023
- Full Objects View in Issue Detail - analysis findings now include all relevant objects that took part in the issue evaluation with their respective status: Failed, Passed, and Filtered out.
- New User Interface - introducing brand new dashboards and redesign of the Settings menu to bring more insights, streamlined interactions and better control.
- Filters in the URL - enables to quickly re-apply desired filter selection on any issue view by storing or sharing the URL.

Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 6.2.6.0
Released
November 22, 2022
- Tasks in Configuration Vault - performed tasks on ESXi hosts and VMs are now available in Configuration Vault. This allows easy correlation between configuration changes and performed tasks for enhanced audit tracking
- Brand new analyses comparison - provides deep insights into what has changed between two analyses - on issue and object level. Helps to track progress towards risk-free IT infrastructure
- More security profiles -Runecast now covers BSI for Kubernetes and KVKK for vSphere
- Standard update and maintenance of knowledge rules, HCL records and system packages
Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 6.2.6.0
Released
November 22, 2022
- Tasks in Configuration Vault - performed tasks on ESXi hosts and VMs are now available in Configuration Vault. This allows easy correlation between configuration changes and performed tasks for enhanced audit tracking
- Brand new analyses comparison - provides deep insights into what has changed between two analyses - on issue and object level. Helps to track progress towards risk-free IT infrastructure
- More security profiles -Runecast now covers BSI for Kubernetes and KVKK for vSphere
- Standard update and maintenance of knowledge rules, HCL records and system packages
Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 6.2.4.0
Released
October 13, 2022
- NIST coverage for Windows Server OS
- Increased count of automated DISA STIG rules for Windows Server
- Improved performance and stability
- Faster update of manual answers
- Addressed an issue with the vSphere WebClient plugin
- OS analysis agent update to resolve missing collection data
- Minor usability improvements of the Image Scanning view
- An ESXi 8.0 coverage in the HW compatibility checks.
- NIST coverage for Linux RHEL
- New coverage of Microsoft Vulnerabilities added (published by Microsoft this month).
- Standard update and maintenance of knowledge rules, HCL records and system packages
Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 6.2.4.0
Released
October 13, 2022
- NIST coverage for Windows Server OS
- Increased count of automated DISA STIG rules for Windows Server
- Improved performance and stability
- Faster update of manual answers
- Addressed an issue with the vSphere WebClient plugin
- OS analysis agent update to resolve missing collection data
- Minor usability improvements of the Image Scanning view
- An ESXi 8.0 coverage in the HW compatibility checks.
- NIST coverage for Linux RHEL
- New coverage of Microsoft Vulnerabilities added (published by Microsoft this month).
- Standard update and maintenance of knowledge rules, HCL records and system packages
Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 6.2.2.0
Released
August 26, 2022
- Extended coverage of DISA STIG for vSphere 7 (vCenter VAMI and RhttpProxy)
- Updated OS agent to allow auto-evaluation of more OS related rules
- Addressed minor usability bugs
- Standard update and maintenance of knowledge rules, HCL records and system packages
Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 6.2.2.0
Released
August 26, 2022
- Extended coverage of DISA STIG for vSphere 7 (vCenter VAMI and RhttpProxy)
- Updated OS agent to allow auto-evaluation of more OS related rules
- Addressed minor usability bugs
- Standard update and maintenance of knowledge rules, HCL records and system packages
Major Release
Runecast Analyzer 6.2.0.0
Released
July 14, 2022
- New Container image scanning - Integrate with K8s admission controller to secure your deployment processes or run image scans manually from Runecast Analyzer
- Introducing GCP support - Best practices, CIS compliance and configuration tracking for your GCP environment
- OpenID Connect - You can now login to Runecast Analyzer using your OIDC identity provider
- More security profiles - Added support for DISA STIG for RHEL8 and CIS GCP Foundations
- Performance and usability improvements - Working with filters is now faster and you can notice other UI enhancements
- Standard update and maintenance of knowledge rules, HCL records and system packages

Major Release
Runecast Analyzer 6.2.0.0
Released
July 14, 2022
- New Container image scanning - Integrate with K8s admission controller to secure your deployment processes or run image scans manually from Runecast Analyzer
- Introducing GCP support - Best practices, CIS compliance and configuration tracking for your GCP environment
- OpenID Connect - You can now login to Runecast Analyzer using your OIDC identity provider
- More security profiles - Added support for DISA STIG for RHEL8 and CIS GCP Foundations
- Performance and usability improvements - Working with filters is now faster and you can notice other UI enhancements
- Standard update and maintenance of knowledge rules, HCL records and system packages

Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 6.1.1.0
Released
May 3, 2022
- Communication of “Not Analyzed” issue state – brings attention to new rule definitions that were not analyzed yet
- Added integration to Jira
- Extended vSphere collection – tags for objects are now included in Configuration Vault
- Improvements to the OS Analysis – simpler agent installation and better communication of errors during analysis
- Standard update and maintenance of knowledge rules and Hardware Compatibility List records
Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 6.1.1.0
Released
May 3, 2022
- Communication of “Not Analyzed” issue state – brings attention to new rule definitions that were not analyzed yet
- Added integration to Jira
- Extended vSphere collection – tags for objects are now included in Configuration Vault
- Improvements to the OS Analysis – simpler agent installation and better communication of errors during analysis
- Standard update and maintenance of knowledge rules and Hardware Compatibility List records
Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 6.1.0.0
Released
March 9, 2022
- Introducing Organizations - group connections into different logical units to replicate your company structure and allow only required teams to view or manage the systems they are responsible for
- Correlation with Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog helps you prioritize remediation actions for any discovered vulnerabilities
- More security profiles - OS support is extended with coverage of DISA STIG profile. vSphere can be evaluated against GDPR
- All new issue lists unlock new powerful ways of how to observe, filter, inspect and resolve all the reported issues
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Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 6.1.0.0
Released
March 9, 2022
- Introducing Organizations - group connections into different logical units to replicate your company structure and allow only required teams to view or manage the systems they are responsible for
- Correlation with Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog helps you prioritize remediation actions for any discovered vulnerabilities
- More security profiles - OS support is extended with coverage of DISA STIG profile. vSphere can be evaluated against GDPR
- All new issue lists unlock new powerful ways of how to observe, filter, inspect and resolve all the reported issues
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Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 6.0.4/6.0.4.1
Released
December 21, 2021
- Added a rule detecting a newly published log4j2 vulnerability (CVE-2021-45105)
- Updated log4j to version 2.17 to address CVE-2021-45105
- Updated ElasticSearch and Logstash to 6.8.22 which contain the latest log4j 2.17
- Fixed the OS agents installation script to work with localized Windows versions
- Updated the VMSA-2021-0028 body in the UI according to the latest VMware updates
- Updated the VMware Horizon log4j analysis rule as now there is a patch released, based on VMSA-2021-0028
- Adjusted the Apache Log4j2 Security Update CVE-2021-45046 severity to Critical

Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 6.0.4/6.0.4.1
Released
December 21, 2021
- Added a rule detecting a newly published log4j2 vulnerability (CVE-2021-45105)
- Updated log4j to version 2.17 to address CVE-2021-45105
- Updated ElasticSearch and Logstash to 6.8.22 which contain the latest log4j 2.17
- Fixed the OS agents installation script to work with localized Windows versions
- Updated the VMSA-2021-0028 body in the UI according to the latest VMware updates
- Updated the VMware Horizon log4j analysis rule as now there is a patch released, based on VMSA-2021-0028
- Adjusted the Apache Log4j2 Security Update CVE-2021-45046 severity to Critical

Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 6.0.3.0
Released
December 17, 2021
- Runecast Analyzer and all components are fully patched to address CVE-2021-44228 and 2021-45046
- Updated detection of Apache Log4j Java library vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) on Windows and Linux which improves the results accuracy and makes the results more explanatory
- Detection on Windows, Linux, and VMware of newly added Apache Log4j Java library vulnerability (CVE-2021-45046)
- Updated Elasticsearch and Logstash components to version 6.8.21 to address CVE-2021-44228 and 2021-45046
- New Windows 2016 Domain Controller CIS profile added that extends the compliance capabilities on Microsoft platform
- Improved detection of CVE-2021-44228 reducing false positives
Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 6.0.3.0
Released
December 17, 2021
- Runecast Analyzer and all components are fully patched to address CVE-2021-44228 and 2021-45046
- Updated detection of Apache Log4j Java library vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) on Windows and Linux which improves the results accuracy and makes the results more explanatory
- Detection on Windows, Linux, and VMware of newly added Apache Log4j Java library vulnerability (CVE-2021-45046)
- Updated Elasticsearch and Logstash components to version 6.8.21 to address CVE-2021-44228 and 2021-45046
- New Windows 2016 Domain Controller CIS profile added that extends the compliance capabilities on Microsoft platform
- Improved detection of CVE-2021-44228 reducing false positives
Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 6.0.2.0
Released
December 15, 2021
- Detection of Apache Log4j Java library vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) on Windows and Linux
- Applied Log4j vulnerability workaround on Elasticsearch components
- Log4j library used in Runecast Analyzer updated to latest recommended version - 2.16.0
- Updated evaluation of VMSA-2021-0028 to include the newly added NSX-V

Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 6.0.2.0
Released
December 15, 2021
- Detection of Apache Log4j Java library vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) on Windows and Linux
- Applied Log4j vulnerability workaround on Elasticsearch components
- Log4j library used in Runecast Analyzer updated to latest recommended version - 2.16.0
- Updated evaluation of VMSA-2021-0028 to include the newly added NSX-V

Major Release
Runecast Analyzer 6.0.0.0
Released
December 9, 2021
- All new Windows and Linux OS configuration & security management. Stay on top of known vulnerabilities, be audit-ready and follow the configuration changes in your environment – starting with CIS Benchmarks.
- More security profiles for your public and private cloud. BSI and GDPR security profiles now covers Microsoft Azure. DISA STIG profile now supports vSphere 6.7
- Additional Configuration Vault data for ESXi hosts and vSphere VMs
- UI refresh with cleaner views that keep your focus on the important findings and data
- Security updates and additional improvements to make your life easier

Major Release
Runecast Analyzer 6.0.0.0
Released
December 9, 2021
- All new Windows and Linux OS configuration & security management. Stay on top of known vulnerabilities, be audit-ready and follow the configuration changes in your environment – starting with CIS Benchmarks.
- More security profiles for your public and private cloud. BSI and GDPR security profiles now covers Microsoft Azure. DISA STIG profile now supports vSphere 6.7
- Additional Configuration Vault data for ESXi hosts and vSphere VMs
- UI refresh with cleaner views that keep your focus on the important findings and data
- Security updates and additional improvements to make your life easier

Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 5.1.2.0
Released
October 7, 2021
- Support for LDAP as an Identity Source. You can now use local user management, Active Directory or LDAP/LDAPS groups to allow access to Runecast
- Significant Remediation improvements – additional remediation rules for AWS, doubling the amount of remediable issues and the ability to add parameterized remediable content (such as timeout values, etc.)
- New Configuration Vault views – for Kubernetes and NSX-V
- vSphere7 Update 3 checks against VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)
Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 5.1.2.0
Released
October 7, 2021
- Support for LDAP as an Identity Source. You can now use local user management, Active Directory or LDAP/LDAPS groups to allow access to Runecast
- Significant Remediation improvements – additional remediation rules for AWS, doubling the amount of remediable issues and the ability to add parameterized remediable content (such as timeout values, etc.)
- New Configuration Vault views – for Kubernetes and NSX-V
- vSphere7 Update 3 checks against VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)
Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 5.1.1.0
Released
August 24, 2021
- Configuration Vault: Introducing a new summary widget to spot changes or deviations easily.
- Configuration Vault: added ability to apply the same baseline on multiple systems
- Configuration Vault: added AWS insights with multiple additional views
- Added Remediation functionality for AWS environments.
Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 5.1.1.0
Released
August 24, 2021
- Configuration Vault: Introducing a new summary widget to spot changes or deviations easily.
- Configuration Vault: added ability to apply the same baseline on multiple systems
- Configuration Vault: added AWS insights with multiple additional views
- Added Remediation functionality for AWS environments.
Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 5.0.2.0
Released
April 30, 2021
- Runecast Analyzer can be deployed natively on Azure from Azure Marketplace
- Added Vulnerability Management
- User Guide is now additionally embedded into the appliance for offline usage
- VMware Hardware Compatibility widget added to the main dashboard
- Added standard port groups to the list of reportable objects for vSphere environments
- Knowledge definition update

Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 5.0.2.0
Released
April 30, 2021
- Runecast Analyzer can be deployed natively on Azure from Azure Marketplace
- Added Vulnerability Management
- User Guide is now additionally embedded into the appliance for offline usage
- VMware Hardware Compatibility widget added to the main dashboard
- Added standard port groups to the list of reportable objects for vSphere environments
- Knowledge definition update

Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 4.7.4.0
Released
December 22, 2020
- New onboarding wizard guiding the initial setup of your vCenter, AWS and Kubernetes environment in Runecast
- AWS dashboard improvements (new widgets for severity, profiles and history)
- Full Public API coverage for NSX-T, Kubernetes, AWS, VMware Cloud Director
- User interface of the Runecast definition database view enhanced
- Knowledge definition updates
Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 4.7.4.0
Released
December 22, 2020
- New onboarding wizard guiding the initial setup of your vCenter, AWS and Kubernetes environment in Runecast
- AWS dashboard improvements (new widgets for severity, profiles and history)
- Full Public API coverage for NSX-T, Kubernetes, AWS, VMware Cloud Director
- User interface of the Runecast definition database view enhanced
- Knowledge definition updates
Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 4.4.0.0
Released
July 10, 2020
- VMware Hardware Compatibility: New override functionality enables that particular hardware can be marked manually as compatible, and the information will be applicable in all areas of Runecast Analyzer.
- UI redesign of the Hardware Compatibility feature for increased usability, readability, and accessibility.
- Knowledge definition update.

Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 4.4.0.0
Released
July 10, 2020
- VMware Hardware Compatibility: New override functionality enables that particular hardware can be marked manually as compatible, and the information will be applicable in all areas of Runecast Analyzer.
- UI redesign of the Hardware Compatibility feature for increased usability, readability, and accessibility.
- Knowledge definition update.

Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 4.3.3.0
Released
June 3, 2020
- HW Compatibility: Added smarter evaluation of socket configurations for servers.
- Enterprise Console: Added new public API endpoint for group management. Added search/filter functionality for connected systems. Increased loading speed of local systems by 70%.
- Knowledge definition update.
Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 4.3.3.0
Released
June 3, 2020
- HW Compatibility: Added smarter evaluation of socket configurations for servers.
- Enterprise Console: Added new public API endpoint for group management. Added search/filter functionality for connected systems. Increased loading speed of local systems by 70%.
- Knowledge definition update.
Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 4.2.0.0
Released
April 15, 2020
- Best Practices for SAP HANA deployments on VMware.
- NIST (VMware) compliance profile to support federal agencies.
- Added the ability to use custom repositories to update your appliances and deliver knowledge updates.
- Added the ability to include/hide healthy inventory objects (hosts, devices, etc...) from the inventory view.
- Improvements to the user interface and handling for better usability and consistency.

Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 4.2.0.0
Released
April 15, 2020
- Best Practices for SAP HANA deployments on VMware.
- NIST (VMware) compliance profile to support federal agencies.
- Added the ability to use custom repositories to update your appliances and deliver knowledge updates.
- Added the ability to include/hide healthy inventory objects (hosts, devices, etc...) from the inventory view.
- Improvements to the user interface and handling for better usability and consistency.

Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 4.1.0.0
Released
January 31, 2020
- New Security Hardening profile - CIS (Center for Internet Security) for VMware environments.
- Update of DISA STIG profile for vSphere 6.5 ESXi and Virtual Machine.
- Inventory view enhanced with total issue count for each object and all its descendants.

Minor Release
Runecast Analyzer 4.1.0.0
Released
January 31, 2020
- New Security Hardening profile - CIS (Center for Internet Security) for VMware environments.
- Update of DISA STIG profile for vSphere 6.5 ESXi and Virtual Machine.
- Inventory view enhanced with total issue count for each object and all its descendants.

Major Release
Runecast Analyzer 3.0.0.0
Released
August 21, 2019
- New Hardware compatibility list (HCL) analytics for VMware vSAN.
- Customized PCI-DSS checks to align with your specific environment.
- Enhanced predictive analysis with expanded HCL upgrade simulations.
- Increased visibility & transparency of how your environment is set up.
- New Web Client plug-in.

Major Release
Runecast Analyzer 3.0.0.0
Released
August 21, 2019
- New Hardware compatibility list (HCL) analytics for VMware vSAN.
- Customized PCI-DSS checks to align with your specific environment.
- Enhanced predictive analysis with expanded HCL upgrade simulations.
- Increased visibility & transparency of how your environment is set up.
- New Web Client plug-in.
