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Release notes

The Versio.io SaaS platform is continuously updated. For each first of the month we summarize the results in a release note for a better overview. For all Versio.io Managed customers, the functionalities will be made available at the end of each month.

Version 2024-12

Core platform

  • Instance Modification is now available for ‘OS & hardware’ importer.
  • The environment name and ID are displayed in the browser tab.
  • Further product support for the lifecycle & vulnerability content database:
    • Kubeflow
    • Wireshark Apple
    • Corroventa SuperVision

OneImporter & OneGate

  • The OneImporter can now be installed directly under Apple MacOS. => thanks to lettow@ppi
  • The Versio.io importer for the inventory of installed software has been expanded to include MacOS software.
  • The Kubernetes importer ...
    • additionally inventories the quota. => thanks to robert@telekom
    • now enables whitelist and blacklist filter for namespaces to be inventoried. => thanks to robert@telekom

Version 2024-11

Core platform

  • The length of passwords when changing has been increased to a minimum length of 12 characters.
  • The AI content repository is updated without interruption as a hot update.
  • Events about the deletion of instances and entities are no longer deleted when the instances or entities are deleted.
  • Violation severity is dynamically increased for vulnerability if the CVE score is higher than the default severity.
  • Further product support for the lifecycle & vulnerability content database:
    • Wireshark
    • Netscaler
    • Curl
    • Irfanview
    • Greenshot
    • Newt
    • PowerShell
    • NCURSES
    • Nettle
    • BGInfo
    • Crystal Ball
    • ODBC Driver for SQL Server
    • Dynamics 365 On-Prem
    • Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable
    • wget
    • Groovy
    • Splunk Universal Forwarder
    • Vim

OneImporter & OneGate

  • New importers for HPE Aruba network devices (ArubaOS, ArubaOS-CX) are available.
  • The importer for installed host software now reduces the overview of all subsequently installed software packages for all Linux operating systems. The number of updates available for the operating system packages and how many of these are security-relevant is now displayed.

Version 2024-10

Free online training

  • Versio.io offers a recorded free online training on "IT Event Management & Alerting with Versio.io" from 26 September 2024 on our website: https://www.versio.io/event-20240922-it-event-management-and-alerting.html

Core platform

  • Reporting support an deep link attribute to the instance of the row for all entities.
  • Two new analysis components are now available in IT Event Management:
    • Event Insight Explorer: Execution of complex queries across all events and customised display of results.
    • Event Insight Dashboard: Predefined event analyses in the form of questions, recommended actions and results, even for beginners in the field of event analysis.
  • Further product support for the lifecycle & vulnerability content database:
    • Elastic Auditbeat
    • Elastic Heartbeat
    • Elastic Packetbeat
    • Apache HttpCore
    • Apache HttpClient
    • Adobe Acrobat Reader
    • Citrix Workspace
    • OpenText Universal Discovery Agent
    • Microsoft Skype
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Mobaxterm
  • Optimze lifecycle & vulnerability content database:
    • Troubleshooting for version detection for Windows Server 2016.
    • If no version data is supported for a product, the version is checked for known vulnerabilities.
  • The content of the e-mail alerting can now be adapted to customer-specific requirements for each alerting.
  • The violation view for the policy monitoring and product lifecycle and vulnerability solutions has been optimised:
    • New visualisation of the change history
    • New options for the management of violations are available:
      • Assignment of a responsible person, team or organization
      • Assignment of tags
      • Storage of a comment for documentation and teamwork
    • For changes to the violation results, corresponding "update" events are now generated in order to be able to use this alerting.
  • Violations can now be temporarily suppressed so that they can be filtered out. This is helpful if I only want to tackle a known violation after a defined time or resubmit it.

OneImporter & OneGate

  • The Juniper network device importer can now map firewall cluster on a dedicated basis.

Version 2024-09

Free online training

  • Versio.io offers a free training on ‘IT Event Management & Alerting with Versio.io’ on 26 September 2024 from 9-12 CET. All participants will receive a participant certificate! Registration and all information about the training can be found at:
    • Versio.io webseite: https://www.versio.io/event-20240922-it-event-management-and-alerting.html
    • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/events/7231288511771914241/

Announcement of termination

  • OneGate support for all Linux-based operating systems with GLIBC <= 2.28 will be discontinued as of September 30, 2024.
  • "Events & actions" and "Alerting" in the settings are now deprecated. It will be replaced by "Event processing" in Cloud & data centre control and "Alerings & actions" in the settings with version 2024.09 at the beginning of September 2024. There was no automatic migration of the alerting configurations!

Core platform

  • New dashboards are available:
    • Microsoft Active Directory
    • Hetzner cloud
    • UptimeRobot
  • The vulnerability content repository has been extended by:
    • Palo Alto Security Advisories
    • GitHub vulnerabilities with status 'unreviewed'
  • The vulnerability processing and quality status of the publishing organisation is displayed for all and each individual vulnerability.

OneImporter & OneGate

  • The Windows OneImporter/OneGate now has an alternative PowerShell-based installer.
  • The file importer has been completely reimplemented. More metadata is now recorded for a file and the content of the configuration file is processed better. The following file formats are supported:
    • Automatic mode, file format is recognised by the file extension
    • Raw format in a text field
    • Saving the file content line by line
    • Nginx configuration
    • JSON file
    • XML file
    • YAML / YML file
    • HTML file
    • ENV file (=)
    • Property file ([]; =, :, , )
  • Event management imporovements
    • Grouping of events with the same characteristic (e.g. trigger, severity, description) can now be grouped to reduce the number of events (especially event storm).
    • Versio.io internal events now reference the Versio.io violation (opened/closed).
    • Integration of additional event sources from third-party systems
      • Qualys => thanks to robert@telekom
      • Kubernetes
      • Proxmox
      • Hetzner Cloud
      • AVM Fritz!Box
    • Performance optimisations for the filters in the event dashboard.
    • The Subscription dashboard now also contains the number of events.
    • Subscription model (pricing) and deletion procedure for old events is available.
  • The host importer now also records ...
    • The main user of the host is determined from the Windows event log on the basis of successful logins in the last 7 days (Windows hosts only).
    • The IPV4 addresses are now charackterised with regard to public and private address ranges.
    • DNS and DHCP are recorded.
  • The Juniper network device importer can now map virtual chassis on a dedicated basis.

Version 2024-08

Announcement of termination

  • OneGate support for all Linux-based operating systems with GLIBC <= 2.28 will be discontinued as of September 30, 2024.
  • "Events & actions" and "Alerting" in the settings are now deprecated. It will be replaced by "Event processing" in Cloud & data centre control and "Alerings & actions" in the settings with version 2024.09 at the beginning of September 2024. There was no automatic migration of the alerting configurations!

Generally

  • Blog posts:
    • CrowdStrike BSOD and how Versio.io customers solve the IT outage caused by CrowdStrike more efficiently and promptly
    • GB vs. GiB Clarity in memory and disk size specifications in the IT environment and why Versio.io use GiB as default

Core platform

  • Event & log processing
    • Alerting & actions is now available for event processing with more detailed rules than in the old alerting.
    • Events can now be provided with comments on the event and executed "Alerting & actions" are displayed in the event details.
    • In addition to the previously supported alertings, the following additional actions are now available:
      • Auto Close: Events can be closed automatically in order to automatically filter out unimportant events. Event Reference: An event reference can be created from many events per trigger, which can map the status of all events. -> thanks to letz@telonic and dirk@telonic
    • Events are now deleted according to the historisation period:
      • Versio.io events are deleted after 180 days or after the maximum history period of the entities.
      • All other events are deleted after the time defined in the subscription (default is 7 days).
    • Performance improvements in the area of event acceptance through caching of inventory instance integration and protection requirements analyses. This is particularly important for event storms so that incoming events can be pre-processed promptly.
  • Incorrect calculations in the subscriptions usage dashboard have been corrected. -> thanks to robert@telekom
  • The new dashboard module aggregates and visualises information on a range of topics. The following dashboards are available:
    • Kubernetes
    • Proxmox
    • Network Management
    • Database Schema
    • VMware vSphere
  • Further product support for the lifecycle & vulnerability content database:
    • Beckhoff CX52 series
    • CrowdStrike Falcon Agent
    • Windows 11 IoT
  • With the Versio.io Alerting Bot, alerts can now be integrated into customised Telegram chats.
  • Refine term "Governance policy compliance" to "Policy monitoring"

OneImporter & OneGate

  • The following OneGate importers have been extended to enable the recording and saving of events in Versio.io:
    • Kubernetes
    • Proxmox
    • Hetzner
    • Fritz!Box

Version 2024-07

Generally

Core platform

  • Attention: From 1 July 2024, a subscription will be required for each Versio.io SaaS and Managed environment. Environments without a subscription will no longer be accessible via the web UI. All functions within the environment will continue without restrictions.
  • Announcement of termination
    • OneGate support for all Linux-based operating systems with GLIBC <= 2.28 will be discontinued as of September 30, 2024.
  • Integrate host installed software instances in the end-of-life and vulnerability assessment.
  • Event Processing
    • New event detail view including root cause analysis
    • Add a comment (Markdown) for each event
    • Functionality for closing events
    • Forward event details via email
    • Event REST API available for integration of third-party binder events
    • Configuration for severity and classification based on trap OID
  • Visualization of the structure of the rack based on the rack and slot instances: Data center rack & slot infrastructure documentation
  • Further product support for the lifecycle & vulnerability content database:
    • 7zip
    • Winscp
    • Git
    • Gimp
    • ScreenToGif
    • UniGetUI (WingetUI)
    • Putty
    • HeidiSQL
    • KeePass XC
    • Wireguard
    • OBS Studio
    • Checkmk
    • Apple Mac devices
    • Fortinet BIG-IP devices
    • Siemens Simatic
  • An offset can now be defined for each product for maintenance and support and taken into account in the lifecycle assessment (e.g. a warning should be issued 1 month before maintenance expires).
  • The instances of the installed host software are now included in the lifecycle & vulnerability assessment.
  • Elimination of 8x security vulnerabilities (most of them by updating the version and in the case of vm2 by replacement with isolated-vm).

OneImporter & OneGate

  • Consolidate base characteristics (CPU cores, RAM size etc.) of Windows Host importer for OS independend reporting.
  • The OPC UA importer to inventory OT and IoT devices is available.
  • In the host importer, the basic characteristics (CPU, RAM) have been consolidated across all operating systems (see Reporting).
  • The Syslog importer supports TCP too.
  • The Event Receiver importer supports Version 3 (V3) for SNMP Traps (authentification).

Version 2024-06

Core platform

  • Attention: From 1 July 2024, a subscription will be required for each Versio.io SaaS and Managed environment. Environments without a subscription will no longer be accessible via the web UI. All functions within the environment will continue without restrictions.
  • The new Event Processing (Early Adapter) solution is available and supports the following integrations:
    • SNMP Traps (V1/2)
    • Syslog
    • Event REST API
    • Versio.io internal events
  • Further product support for the lifecycle & vulnerability content database:
    • Microsoft Exchange
    • Microsoft IIS
    • Camunda BPM platform
    • Atlassian Crowd
    • Teamviewer
    • HSQLDB
    • isolated-v
    • Quest Software Change Audito
    • String Boot
    • JFrog Artefactor
    • SonarQub
    • Aruba ClearPass
    • Apache Freemake
    • Veritas Enterprise Vault
    • FusionAuth
    • HP Officejet

OneImporter & OneGate

  • ARM64 support for all Linux OneImporter & OneGate's.
  • The Aruba ClearPass importer is available.
  • The Host Installed Software Importer documents all installed software at operating system level (Linux & Windows) and its changes.

Version 2024-05

Core platform

  • Attention: From 1 July 2024, a subscription will be required for each Versio.io SaaS and Managed environment. Environments without a subscription will no longer be accessible via the web UI. All functions within the environment will continue without restrictions.
  • The Identity and access management of the Versio.io core platform has been completely renewed and now supports ...
    • External identity providers (Microsoft, Google, GitHub etc.) incl. single sign-on (SSO) and two-factor authentication (2FA)
    • Two-factor authentication (2FA)
  • Windows-based OneImporter and OneGate can now be updated remotely and automatically.
  • New dashboard inventory integrity check listing all relations to non-existent instances in the inventory. This can be used, for example, to identify instances of IT components that have not yet been fully inventoried or to identify inconsistencies in the inventoried data (quality management).

OneImporter & OneGate

  • The generic SNMP importer for the inventory of network devices is available.
  • The Extrem Networks importer for the inventory of network devices is available.
  • Update and auto-update of Windows based OneImporter and OneGates are available.

Version 2024-04

Generally

Core platform

  • Refine terms:
    • "Change management" to "Change monitoring"
    • "Governance, risk & compliance" to "Governance policy compliance"
    • "Service & experience management" to "Service monitoring" and is now a part of the "Cloud & data center control"
    • "Enterprise architecture" to "Cloud & data center control"
  • New entities for the manual creation and editing of assets & configuration items:
    • Incident management
      • Incident ticket
      • Incident user
      • Incident department
    • Mobiled device
  • The Cost allocation solution will no longer be available as of 31 May 2024.

OneImporter & OneGate

  • New network device importers are available in an early adapter version:
    • F5 Networks
    • HPE Aruba Networks
    • Belden Hirschmann
    • Check Point
    • Fortinet

Version 2024-03

Generally

Core platform

  • After updating the AIOps data in a Versio.io Managed instance, all relevant assets and configuration items in the governance solution are re-evaluated (reprocessed). This is necessary because the AIOps data can result in a different evaluation at this point in time.
  • Governance
    • The governance live dashboard runs all policy checks grouped by entity to improve the usability of the dashboard.
    • The configuration for editing manually recordable assets & configuration items has been extended (instance ID creation, markdown recognition, adding instance relations).

OneImporter & OneGate

  • Maintenance Nutanix importer.
  • Capture of further SSL/TLS attributes for the verification of TR-03116-4 of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).
  • Extension of the service-level objectives importer to include PING verifications:
    • Ping availability
    • Ping lantency
  • The file configuration importer now also records the owner, the group assignment and the access file authorisation for Linux-based systems.
  • Optimize the metadata of SSL/TLS certificate chain importer.

Version 2024-02

Generally

  • Recorded masterclass training from January 12, 2024 with with chapter markers set: Versio.io Masterclass Training.
  • The demo environment has been cleaned up and maintained.

Core platform

  • The topology services were implemented in a scalable manner using Versio.io Loom.
  • The partner portal is now available to all partners as an internal app on the Versio.io platform.
  • When reprocessing policy datasets, violations are now closed if they are no longer part of the reconfigured dataset-> thanks for reporting to reiner@aldi
  • Dedicated user interface specification of OneImporter and/or OneGate in the user interface.
  • Resource and performance optimisation of the Versio.io full-text search.
  • User can view the training certificates they have obtained in their user settings.
  • Policy templates set for the verification of SSL/TLS certificates and communication connections based on the technical guideline TR-03116-4 of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI, TLS-Checkliste).
  • Assets and configuration elements can be automatically enriched with individual tags (policy action). -> thanks for the idea to maik@dhl.

OneImporter & OneGate

  • Full-Stack OneImporter now supports the topological assignment of NGINX processes to applications. This was previously not possible due to the lack of support for environment variables by NGINX.
  • Extensive expansion of the inventory of SSL/TLS certificates and SSL/TLS communication connections of web-based applications as a prerequisite for the endpoint security check (e.g. BSI TR-03116-4).

Version 2024-01

Generally

Core platform

  • The Versio.io domain model is now configured centrally in the platform instance and can be customized in the environments. This applies to:
    • Enities
    • Data reporting attributes
    • Topology
  • Referenced but non-inventoried assets & configurations are now specially visualised in the topology -> thanks for the idea to robert@telekom.
  • For all Versio.io partners, the partner portal is now available directly in the Versio.io platform. You can find it in the user menu at the top right and then under "Partner portal".
  • Create new governance policy templates based on existing policies.
  • Topologies can be exported as PNG graphics.

OneImporter & OneGate

  • Nutanix importer (EA) available -> thanks for support to @iventure.
  • Serve-level objects supports now verification of SSH access.
  • CISCO network importer has been optimised and extended for the network plan -> thanks for the support to letz@telonic.

Version 2023-12

Generally

Core platform

  • With Loom, we have created a framework for the Versio.io platform that ensures the scalability of message processing depending on the message context. This allows us to identify security vulnerabilities and IT governance violations in business real time, regardless of the size of the IT landscape to be inventoried or the constantly growing customer base.
  • User can now customize the assessment strategies for product lifecycle and security dashboard.
  • Two-factor authentication (2FA) support per user.
  • Optimisation of naming in the Versio.io main menu.
  • UX improvements for violation analysis in following live dashboards:
    • Risk analysis
    • Lifecycle & security
    • Governance, risk & compliance
  • Governance, risk & compliance solution:
    • Renaming the term "rule" to "policy"
    • UX redesign to create custom policies for security, governance and other controls.
  • Document rack and slot configurations of data centres inclusive relation to auto detected instances like host etc. Read more in our blogpost Simplifying data centre documentation.

Version 2023-11

Generally

  • On 12 January 2024 we offer a Versio.io Masterclass Training . Participation is free for all customers and partners!
  • At the conference Observability Warsaw 2023 on 26 October 2023, Matthias Scholze and Fabian Klose gave a presentation entitled "Rachuba świata (measuring the world) - What IT can learn from naturalist Humboldt and mathematician Gauss!" .

Core platform

  • Manually create and edit assets & configurations for dedicated entities including schema verification.
  • New procedure to update a Versio.io Managed instance 100% automatically (update.sh).
  • OneImporter support:
    • Automatic update option per OneImporter instance when a new version is available.
    • Create a OneImporter event when a OneImporter instance is no longer available.
  • New context menu in instance viewer for creating change requests, execution monitoring and retrieving CURL commands for this instance.
  • Updating the libraries and frameworks used internally in the Versio.io platform for security and maintenance reason.
  • In reporting, the ID and the display name are now available for each entity by default.
  • In the EOL assessment, the "Maintenance" is now also included in the "Extende Maintenance" check.

OneImporter & OneGate

  • SSL certificate importer extended by certificate chains and their visualisation read more.
  • New application importer available.

Version 2023-10

Common

  • Updating inventory data and sample configurations in the public demo environment to reflect as many application areas as possible.

Core platform

  • Optimize meta data for service-level objectives (SLO) instances: read more.
  • Completing metadata for the subscription usage dashboard.
  • Deleted configuration items outside the historization period are now permanently deleted.
  • Product Lifecycle & Security contentr repositories
    • Extending the Product Lifecycle and Security Content Repositories to include new product versions.
    • Extemd CPE updates in CVEs in EOL & SEC datahub version 2.1.
    • Extending the Product Lifecycle and Security Dashboard to include product versions from package.json.
  • Performance optimization of topology processing improves response time to change.
  • A new health check dashboard is available to system administrators of Versio.io managed instances:
    • CPU and Memory Utilization
    • Fill level of the internal processing queues
    • Status of internal Versio.io services
  • With Versio.io Mission Control, we help customers operate and maintain Versio.io managed instances (optional):
    • Monitor the technical aspects of a Versio.io instance (see health check dashboard).
    • Digital exchange of subscriptions for Versio.io environments and monitoring of subscription usage
    • Notification of Versio.io software updates
    • Direct interaction with the Versio.io team
      • Optimization requests
      • Solution and feature suggestions
      • Incident requests
  • Redesign of the instance viewer with regard to user-friendliness and instance-specific data and analyses
  • Visual imagination of users in the operational workday, instance viewer now offers representation of images for real-world assets.
  • Common hardening, performance optimizing and error correction.

OneImporter & OneGate

  • New OneGate importer available for inventorying OVHcloud infrastructure landscapes*: read more.
  • Extension of the service-level objectives importer to include database verifications:
    • Database SQL-Statement Executability = Availability
    • Database SQL statement execution time = latency (performance)
    • Database-based content = business context (e.g. incident resolution time)
  • Hardening HTTP-Proxy support.
  • Extend file configuration imported to detect library, framework and product versions for package.json files (Node.js, Typescript and more).

Version 2023-09

Core platform

  • With the new available Protection Requirements Assessment (PRA) management, customers can now easily create, edit and relate PRAs to existing assets & configurations.
  • Service-level management (SLM = SLA + SLO):
    • SLA management
    • Dashboard visualize the current status and the change in status of SLOs over time
    • Governance rule template to detect SLO violation
  • Optimize the Inventory Model:
    • Topology relations for SSL certificates, port status, configuration files
    • Central entity group setting

OneImporter & OneGate

  • Service level objective (SLO) importer based on web request are available. Further SLO importers for database queries, operating system metrics, PING queries are planned.

Version 2023-08

Core platform

  • Webhook support available for event-based alerting integration of third-party systems. Based on HTTP-based REST/SOAP calls, customised third-party systems can be called (notification, incident attachment, change request attachment, etc.).
  • UX improvements for Business process & batch job monitoring.
  • Add new Node.js frameworks to Versio.io End-of-Life and Security content repository.

OneImporter & OneGate

  • Hardening and bug fixing of the Host importer.

Version 2023-07

Core platform

  • Risk management
    • Protection requirement based severity rating of detected breaches (governance, security, CIS antipattern etc.) into the risk matrix.
    • Risk matrix dashboard now supports Versio.io users in the order of processing open violation based on inherited protection needs.
  • Early adapter version of Juniper Security Advisories support to detect vulnerabilities at Juniper network devices.
  • TopDesk integration to create incident tickets based on Versio.io events (alerting).
  • Performance improvements for zero configuration dashboard Product lifecycle & security compliance dashboard.
  • Common UX improvements.
  • Updating deployed versions of products and frameworks within the framework of our internal security requirements.

OneImporter & OneGate

  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) support for adding credentials up to the full importer configuration on the OneImporter or OneGate host.

Version 2023-06

Core platform

  • Refactoring der full text search for better and faster search result.
  • Supoort started with the provision of the first CIS benchmark in Versio.io IT Governance.
  • Optimisation and hardening of the Versio.io SaaS instance to improve IT security and operations.
  • Common UX improvements.

OneImporter

  • Refactoring Cisco network importer importer for Versio.io standard representation.
  • Optimize pod and process identification for Kubernetes importer.

Others

Version 2023-05

Core platform

  • Kubernetes Full-Stack Importer available, which enables the inventory of pod content (processes, services, configurations, applications).
  • Common UX improvements.
  • Optimisation and hardening of the Versio.io SaaS instance to improve IT security and operations.

OneImporter & OneGate

  • Update Microsoft Azure importer.

Others

Version 2023-04

Core platform

  • Product lifecycle & security data hub version 2.0 available. Further increased detection quality of IT security vulnerabilities.
    • Available on Versio.io SaaS
    • Versio.io Managed daily update mechanism
  • Instances and their individual changes can now be provided with documentation (Markdown text) and with any number of tags (any number of values or key values).

OneImporter & OneGate

  • Hardening and optimizing of HTTP Proxy support.

Others

Version 2023-03

Core platform

  • Subscription usage dashboard available for subscription sizing and billing.
  • Versio.io Managed installation and update process improvements.
  • Historization service included.
  • Common system hardening & optimisation

OneImporter & OneGate

  • Windows OneImporter hardening and optimizing.
  • Kubernetes importer eraly adapter support available.

Conferences, events & more

  • Versio.io explained in a nutshell: Flyer

Version 2023-02

Core platform

  • UX optimization
    • User right groups
    • User friendly importer scheduling
    • Show only active modules per OneImporter or OneGate instance
    • Extend mouse over meta data for topology intances
  • Common system hardening & optimisation

OneImporter & OneGate

  • IBM Mainframe inventory importer via Z-Rays agent available.
  • Synology network attached storage inventory importer available.
  • Palo Alto inventory importer available.
  • Optimize Juniper network device inventory.

Version 2023-01

Core platform

  • Initiative to improve the user experience:
    • Planning of the importer's execution periods
    • OneImporter details shows only active modules
    • User and token access management
    • Coloring of the risk matrix
    • IT governance best practise filter capabilities
  • Common system hardening & optimisation

OneImporter & OneGate

  • QNAP network attached storage inventory importer available.
  • Apple macOS inventory importer available.
  • Optimize entity structure and ID formation of Juniper network device importer.

Conferences, events & more

Version 2022-12

Core platform

  • Installation wizards for OneImporter and OneGate in initial, empty environments. This helps customers and interested parties get started and produce results in minutes..
  • Expansion of the product and technology knowledge base. 400 products are now supported!
  • Common system hardening & optimisation

OneImporter

  • AVM Fritzbox inventory importer available. Early adopters are welcome to sample the breadth of AVM device models.
  • Start to implement Mainframe inventory importer via Z-rays mainframe agent. Early adopters are welcome starting January 2022!
  • Inventory and visualization of a physical network plan (topology) is now supported for Juniper network devices.

Conferences, events & more

Version 2022-11

Core platform

  • Time-based functions can now be used in governance rules (if date is greater than Today minus 2 days).
  • Improvements for Versio.io Managed (on-premise) installation procedure.
  • Common system hardening & optimisation

OneImporter

  • Extend instance modification to add new attributes.
  • Extend Juniper network inventory
  • Common OneImporter optimisation.

Add-ons

Conferences, events & more

Version 2022-10

Core platform

  • Governance, risk & compliance
    • Extend functions for governance rules verification functions (upperCase, lowerCase, diff pathes, timebased verification)
    • Extend governace best practice rule repository
    • Optimize visualization of governance results/violations
  • Addition of a new function for the comparison of changes.
    • Changes of an instance at different times
    • Changes of different instances at arbitrary times
  • Common system hardening and optimisation

OneImporter

  • Juniper network devices
    • Optimize configuration item (default values, value representation)
    • Network communication inventory (network plan)
  • Script based instance modification functionality

Add-ons

Version 2022-09

Core platform

  • Governance best practise knowledge base and live dashboard
  • Enterprise architecture management
    • Define your architectural targets and verify them with our new Technology radar
    • Get transparency about the technologies used with the Versio.io Technology overview
  • Optimize Versio.io Managed installation process (<30 minutes)
  • 330+ product and technology supported (version characteristic, lifecycle, security)
  • Redesign of the main menu

OneImporter

  • IBM AIX support for OneImporter remote host
  • HTTP and HTTPS proxy support based on environment variables (HTTP_PROXY, HTTP_PROXY, NO_PROXY)
  • File importer
    • Formating optimizations
    • Additional file configuration formats

Conferences, events & more

  • Meet us:
    • IT-GRC 2022 Kongress on 27 and 28 September 2022 in Mannheim at the Rosengarten see conference site
    • PITS 2022 (Deutschlands Kongress für IT- und Cyber-Sicherheit bei Staat und Verwaltung) on 4 and 5 October 2022 in Berlin at the hotel Adlon see conference site
  • Web session:
    • How to identify and manage manufacturer warranty with Versio.io?: see YouTube video
    • Your challenge and our offer - What substantial added value does Versio.io provide for your IT?: see videos

Version 2022-08

Core platform

  • Manuel start and stop buttons for change request executions.
  • Incident ticket soultions integration available for ...
    • ServiceNow
    • Atlassian Jira
    • GitHub
    • GitLab
  • Versio.io's product lifecycle & security API.
  • 300+ product and technology supported (version characteristic, lifecycle, security)

OneImporter

  • Agentless importer for Linux host infrastructure inventory (remote host).
  • Hardware warranty importer for following vendors:
    • Dell
    • Lenovo
    • Intel
  • Installed software importer available.

Events

  • Web session from june 14, 2022 about "How can I document IT landscapes, keep them up-to-date and detect changes?". Recorded web session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRDgSEGzpkI

Version 2022-07

Core platform

  • Product lifecycle & security management
    • Usability imporovements.
    • Customizable verification rules.
    • Automated change request creation.
    • Depth of detail extended to every single available version of the products.
    • Add new 22x products to the product lifecycle and security content database
  • Protection requirement based risk management.
  • Topology detection performance improvements.

OneImporter

  • Cisco network importer available.
  • Full-stack zero configuration OneImporter (host, process, service, file configuration, application).

Events

  • Business Resilience Conference of the IBCRM e.V. - 22.-23. June 2022 - Berlin: more
  • Online-WebSession - 14. June 2022 - WebSession: "How can I document IT landscapes, keep them up-to-date and detect changes?": more

Version 2022-06

Core platform

  • Product lifecycle & security management
  • Zero configuration dashboard to monitore the product lifecycle & security compliance state.
  • Product release & end-of-life content database
    • Depth of detail extended to every single available version of the products.
    • Scope of products in the content database extended by Traefik, IBM Java and Open LDAP

Events

  • Product release, patch & end-of-life compliance monitoring - May 24, 2022 - Online web Session: more

Events

  • Business Resilience Conference of the IBCRM e.V. - 22.-23. June 2022 - Berlin: more
  • Gesellschaft für Informatik - Fachgruppe IT-Controlling - 6. Mai 2022 - Vortragsthema "Kostenverrechnung von dynamisch genutzten Ressourcen automatisieren": more
  • Online-WebSession - 24.Mai 2022 - Vortrag: "Product release, patch & end-of-life compliance monitoring": more

Version 2022-05

Core platform

  • Change Request Management
  • General optimization of the user interface and functionality.
  • Possibility to generate a PDF report as an automated documentation of all incidents within the change request execution and final status.
  • Protection requirement assessments
    • Calculation of an index for protection requirement assessments and inherited protection requirements for better evaluability and optimizability.
  • Juniper network devices
    • Configuration recovery functionality for Juniper network devices.

Events

  • COMPLIANCEforBANKS - 10.-11. Mai 2022 - Köln: more
  • Gesellschaft für Informatik - Fachgruppe IT-Controlling - 6. Mai 2022 - Vortragsthema "Kostenverrechnung von dynamisch genutzten Ressourcen automatisieren": more
  • Online-WebSession - 24.Mai 2022 - Vortrag: "Product release, patch & end-of-life compliance monitoring": more

Version 2022-04

Core platform

  • Early asopter version for solution Change Request Management available.
  • Add Junos OS (Juniper) release, patch and & end-of-life data to product release & end-of-life content database.

OneImporter

  • Microsoft Active Directory importer available.
  • Host importer supports Clear Linux OS.
  • Early adopter version for Network devices importer (Juniper router and switches) available.
  • Optimizations for application and service detection for Datadog importer.

Events

  • Online-WebSession - 26.April 2022 - Vortrag: "Change Request Ausführung live überwachen & automatisiert dokumentieren": more

Version 2022-03

Core platform

  • Governance, Risk & Compliance standard reporting is available.
  • Option to send a test email for e-mail configuration (SMTP).
  • Process and service detection support SAP HANA.
  • Common vulnerabilities & exposures repository ist online: more

OneImporter

  • Windows desktop & server full-stack support for host, process, service and application available.
  • Google Cloud importer available.

Version 2022-02

Core platform

  • Protection requirement assessments functionality delivers:
    • Information basis for structural analysis
    • Change management of protection requirement assessments
    • Determination of the protection requirement
    • Compliance of protection requirement assessments
    • Determination of cost optimization by means of inherited protection requirements
    • See https://www.versio.io/blog-protection-requirement-assessment-aggregate-via-inherit.html
  • Changing governance, risk & compliance root cause results as well as the result resolving the GRC violation are now recorded.
  • Reworking of the business process & batch-job mining. Now, starting and ending process steps are combined into one process step (activity).
  • For the Dynatrace importer the audit log scope of configurations was completed. Furthermore, a recovery function was implemented, which allows restore a configuration status from Versio.io to Dynatrace.
  • The product release lifecycle database has been extended.
  • The login functionality has been optimized so that now only intentional logouts take place.

OneImporter

  • Datadog importer supports service and application detection based on Datadog tags.
  • Host importer supports Oracle Linux.

Version 2022-01

We wish you a happy, healthy and successful new year 2022.

Core platform

  • Extension of topology configuration to include grouping at attribute level.
  • Improved design for email notifications.
  • Automated derivation of configuration for entity data analysis.
  • Extension of the product release and end-of-life database.
  • Implementation of measures to improve IT security within the scope of a pentest

OneImporter

  • New OneImporter to detect
    • Microsoft 365 user identity and subscriptions.
    • web-based application front-end technologies.
    • application users and their activities and endpoint infrastructures.
    • host communication and derive IT application landscapes including their relationships.
  • Content improvements and enhancements:
    • Microsoft Azure importer.
    • Amazon Web Services importer.
    • Kubernetes importer.
    • Dynatrace importer.

Version 2021-12

General

  • Public overview of release and end-of-life product information supported by Versio.io: more

Core platform

  • Versio.io supports installation of Versio.io as a progressive web app (PWA).
  • Optimization usability for mobile devices.
  • Technology recognition enhancement.

OneImporter

  • OneImporter suppports communication via HTTP(S) proxy server.
  • Improvements for Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE) and Amazon Web Services importer.
  • Extend OneImporter with new importer for Kubernetes.
  • Early adopter version for application user inventory importer (infrastructure and behavior monitoring of users, bots and synthetic monitoring).

Version 2021-11

General

  • Overview of the technologies supported by Versio.io: more

Core platform

  • Extend end-of-life product management support for Datadog and Amazon Web Services.
  • Early adopter version for delta topology analyzer user interface.
  • Technology recognition enhancement.

OneImporter

  • Improve importer for Datadog and Amazon Web Services.
  • Extend OneImporter with new importer for UptimeRobot.
  • Extend and stabilization OneImporter core functionality.

Version 2021-10

Core platform

  • Optimization and stabilization of end-of-life product management functionality.
  • Extend product release & end-of-life mapping for Dynatrace and Proxmox Virtual Environment instances.
  • Early adopter version for delta topology analyzer.
  • Optimization of the box arrangement for the city map analysis.
  • Technology recognition enhancement.

OneImporter

  • Extend OneImporter with new importer for Proxmox Virtual Environment.
  • Extend and stabilization OneImporter core functionality.

Version 2021-09

Core platform

  • Optimization and stabilization of end-of-life product management functionality.
  • Extend end-of-life product database.

OneImporter

  • Auto update functionality for Linux and service based OneImporter.
  • Windows 11 host inventory support.
  • Extend and stabilization OneImporter core functionality.

Version 2021-08

Core platform

  • Early adaptor version of End-of-life product database.
    • Centralized and standardised product release and version information.
    • Generate governance and compliance rule set to monitore and verify custome product release strategies.
  • General UX improvements.
  • Bug fixing full text search.

OneImporter

  • Support for importing assets and configuration items from Amazon Web Service (AWS) based IT infrastructures into the Versio.io CMDB.
  • Term harmonization service for specific imported terms (OS and technology names).
  • Extend technology and version detection of Host Process importer.

Version 2021-07

Core platform

  • UX improvements Governance & compliance viewer.
  • Early adaptor version of 3D city map visualization.
  • Completion of the update mechanism for Versio.io managed instances.

OneImporter

  • Term harmonization service for specific imported terms (OS and technology names).
  • Extend technology and version detection of Host Process importer.

Version 2021-06

Core platform

  • UX improvements instancer history viewer.
  • Add mappings for Versio.io importer host and host process in CVE Browser (IT security).
  • Bug fixing for Versio.io database, Governance & Compliance processing and topology service.

OneImporter

  • On a Linux host, a service and a Docker-based OneImporter can now be run in simultaneously with different configurations.
  • If the time period for the execution of a OneImporter configuration is selected to be smaller than the required execution time, then a corresponding event is thrown in Event & Actions.
  • Optimize Host Process importer:
    • Extend the process detection templates list.
    • Extend software version detection.
    • Enrich full-stack topology with web server configurations.

Version 2021-05

Core platform

  • UX improvements instancer history viewer.
  • Bug fixing for Governance & Compliance processing, event management, topology service and full-text search.

OneImporter

  • Optimize Host Process importer:
    • Define custome specific process detection templates.
    • Open port detection.
    • Software version detection.
    • Enrich full-stack topology with web server configurations.

Version 2021-04

Core platform

  • Optimizing login and authorization functionility to easier switch between Versio.io environments and refresh login API key.
  • UX improvements at configuration area to to avoid misconfigurations.
  • Bug fixing for update CVE repository and full text search.
  • The new Versio.io update service automates all activities necessary to update the version of Versio.io instances. This allows Versio.io Managed customers to perform the server update 100% automated.

OneImporter

  • Host importer optimize detection of network interfaces and disk mounts.
  • New Host Process importer is available as a Early adopter version (EA).
    • Full-stack infrastructure and software application process detection:
      • Process attributes and process hierachy.
      • Process technology and its version.
      • Services provided by the processes (database, web service, message queue, etc.).
      • Topological relationship of processes and service to applications.
    • Support of container-based processes and services.

Version 2021-03

Core platform

  • Instance Viewer
    • Filter via full-text search.
    • Show active, deleted, total number of instances.
  • Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures (CVE) repository
    • Filtering by products included in the CVE.
    • Update function for Versio.io Managed instances extended by product mappings.
  • Web UI configurater for Generic Command Execution importer and instance modification.
  • Redesign and performance optimization of the Instance History Viewer.
  • Bug fixing for reprocess instances of an entity and entity display names.

OneImporter

  • Support of instance modification for all importer now available.
  • OneImporter is now also available for Windows-based desktop and server operating systems.
  • Installation wizard of OneImporter supports uninstall scripts too.
  • The stability of the port scan importer has been increased (increase timeout time and number of retries).
  • VMware vSphere importer is now general available version (GA).
  • New Generic Command Execution importer is available.

Version 2021-02

Versio.io SaaS

  • Support IPV6 access.
  • Environment for common vulnerabilities & exposures (CVE)
    • Daily update of NVD and Red Hat CVEs.
    • Change history for each CVE.
    • Analysing and reporting of CVE content.
    • Notification function for new and changed CVEs.

Core platform

  • Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures (CVE) repository
    • Integration Red Hat CVEs
    • Optimize uniform view for CVE details
    • View for impact rule visualization
    • View for CMDB mappings
    • View for use in Versio.io governance & compliance models
    • Separate filter value for a CVE ID.
    • Deep link suppport for single CVEs or other filter configurations.
    • Insert and update function for CVE of generated Governance & Compliance models.
    • Logical optimisation of the verification logic to reduce the verification CPU power and optimise the readability of the verification results.
    • Extend the mapping instance for vendor/product and Versio.io instances.
    • Extension of the CVE view to include the number of available mappings and CVE usage.
    • CVE update functionality for Versio.io Managed instances.
  • The installation wizard now also supports update commands for Docker and service-based OneImporters.
  • UX improvements:
    • Clearer design for the instance viewer view including instance metrics.
    • Restructure and redesign mainmenu.
  • Maintenance view in Versio.io web user interface for times when the Versio.io platform was shut down.
  • Minor bug fixes

OneImporter

  • The images of Docker-based OneImporters can now be obtained directly from the Versio.io server. This means that access to a Docker repository is no longer necessary for the installation.
  • The Host Importer always determines the number of CPUs, network interfaces and mounted disks. The determination of the detailed information can be activated for the host importer in the user interface as before.
  • The File Content Importer now imports the entire file content as an attribute value for unknown file types (file extension).
  • Optimisation of the logging format for all importers. Using the unique importer execution ID, the logging can now be filtered accordingly.

Version 2021-01

Core platform

  • Topology detection & research
    • Performance improvements for topology reprocessing.
    • Bug fixings topology detection.
  • Operation diary performance improvements for table view.
  • Breadcrump for a better user experience.
  • Separation of the configuration for topology detection from the entity settings.
  • In the server settings there is now an overview of the status of all services.
  • Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures (CVE) repository viewer and analyzer available.
  • Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures (CVE) supports NVD and Red Hat CVEs.

OneImporter

  • Bug fixes in the Dynatrace OneImporter.

Version 2020-12

Core platform

  • We are very proud that the new Topology Detection & Research service is available in version 1.0. All previous topology services are thus obsolete and are no longer supported. Customers should store appropriate topology configurations in Topology Services (e.g. based on Management Zones or applications from Dynatrace).
  • Data analysis supports the topology filter.
  • Display names of deleted instances are now shown again.
  • The logging file folder can be customized using the environment variable 'VERSIO_LOG_FOLDER'.
  • The Versio.io user interface displays the server and all OneImporter versions.
  • Business Process & Batch Job Monitoring models can be fully reprocessed (process mining) in case of configuration changes.
  • Business Process & Batch Job Monitoring for the process mining are now event driven (previously time driven). This means that the process model is updated by the process information immediately after a change is detected.
  • The cost allocation models can now be created and edited directly in the environment settings of the Versio.io user interface.
  • Usability and performance improvements and some minor bug fixes.

OneImporter

  • Optimization of the Dynatrace importer for the correct display of the temporal topology view:
    • Host and process instances are marked as deleted if the availability status is 'UNAVAILABLE', 'UNMONITORED' or 'UNKNOWN'.
    • Problems are marked as deleted after they reach the status 'CLOSED'.
  • The logging size of the OneImporter was locally limited to 1 GByte.

Version 2020-11

Core platform

  • In the Operation Diary, filtering by topology is now supported (e.g. application, management zone, etc.).
  • The full text search has been completely reimplemented as a separate microservice to ensure high-performance searches even with a rapidly increasing number of instances and changes in the Versio.io environments.
  • The time engine for data analysis over time has been graphically redesigned in the data and topology analysis to motivate user usage.
  • The instance and change viewer has been enhanced with the following functions:
    • Search for attribute names and values
    • Expand all inclusive list
    • Save the raw data in JSON format on the operating system clipboard.
  • The design of the email notification for Versio.io events has been optimised.
  • When querying records via API, the current server time is always returned in Unix format.
  • Governance & Compliance
  • The Governance & Compliance verification results now include a direct link to related events to map a consistent user flow.
  • The calculation for the processing time of Governance & Compliance verification has been corrected.

OneImporter

  • The OneImporter now has a unique version number. This can be displayed in the web interface under Environment settings -> OneImporter -> Instances -> Details.

Version 2020-10

Core platform

  • First basic version of the component for automated topology recognition is now introduced. ⇾ With this service we mark a new milestone for the Versio.io platform. Be curious!
  • Added topology filter functionality in instance viewer.
    • Dynatrace management-zone topology
    • Dynatrace application topology
    • Further application scenarios of the new topology recognition will follow in the next months.
  • Governance & compliance solution
    • Redesign of governance & compliance result view.
    • Add filter option for rules, category, severity and topology.
    • Extensive performance improvements for the rule checks of the governance & compliance solution.
  • Extend data analysis functionality:
    • Added CSV export functionality in data analysis.
    • Added beautifying functionality in data analysis.
  • The associated events are now displayed in the instance history.
  • Performance and stability improvements of operation diary.

OneImporter

  • The OneImporter can now run as a Linux service (systemd). So the OneImporter can start automatically after a reboot.
  • The File importer now supports property and configuration files (.properties, .config, .conf, .cfg, .cnf, .cf, .ini)
  • The following new importers are now available:
    • DataDog importer provides instances from a DataDog environment.
    • Instana importer provides instances from an Instana environment.
    • Microsoft Azure importer provides instances from a Microsoft Azure subscription.

Security

  • All node.js runtime environments (microservices and OneImporter) have been updated to version 12.18.4 for IT security reasons

Version 2020-09

Core platform

  • The dashboard now shows the total number of instances and changes.
  • In inventory analysis report configurations can now be saved and shared with other users.
  • The filter function in operation diary has been revised with regard to stability.
  • Events that have occurred are also displayed directly in the instance history viewer at the change.
  • The number of topology elements in the instance history viewer has been reduced to optimize usability and performance.
  • For each OneImporter, the overview now also shows the data of the OneImporter execution environment and the process ID for a better overview.

OneImporter

  • The OneImporter CPU and memory footprint have been drastically optimized so that a minimal impact is felt on the running computer (0.5% CPU usage, 200 MB RAM).
  • In the SSL certificate importer you can now specify time thresholds for the validity of the SSL certificate. The result is a boolean value. This simplifies rule-based verification.
  • The database schema importer now additionally supports the collection of views and indices.
  • The following new importers are now available:
    • Host importer provides information about CPUs, RAM, network devices, mounted disks, operating system and environment variables.
    • Folder importer provides information about folder structure and contained files.
    • Generic REST API importer provides instances from application with an open REST API. This means that it is not always necessary to implement a separate importer for each application itself.
  • The installation, start and stop commands for in the OneImporter Wizard have been optimized to reduce misuse by the end user.