November 10, 2021
New Features / Updates
Notifications and Alerts allows admins of organizations to get notified via email or in app for.
users added to the organization
users removed from the organization
user role changes
access attempts outside the IP allowlist
when certain % thresholds of daily API limits are reached
Bugs / Fixes
The rescan API has been disabled
The limits/status endpoint now returns organization level limits (instead of account level limits) for those who are part of an organization
Updates to our licensing table
Fixed scan history pages (before only would show one page even if there were multiple)
Fixed username dropdown menu on metadefender.opswat.com
October 19, 2021
Bugs / Fixes
Resolved issue with main header when scrolling
Fixed issue with Mitre Att&ck UI in dynamic analysis
September 16, 2021
New Features / Updates
Improved scan times for commercial and enterprise customers
Bugs / Fixes
Resolved issue with v4/apikey/limits endpoint not updating correctly
Updated number of commercial engines on licensing page to reflect current agreements
August 17, 2021
New Features / Updates
Dashboard and Statistics pages on MD Cloud UI which allows users to visually track...
Allowed and blocked files
Deep CDR of files
Vulnerabilities
Bugs / Fixes
Fixed issue with organization level limits
Improved translations on Japanese version of MD Cloud site
July 16, 2021
New Features / Updates
Increased number of files in archive to 1000
mTLS authentication for enterprise customers
Bugs / Fixes
v4/status/engines-cloud endpoint updated to reflect current engines
multiscanning enabled by default
Jun 30, 2021
New features / update:
Added support for organization account
Added support for IP allowlisting
Added support for BYOI (bring your own identity) (applicable to Enterprise licensing)
Added support for Mutual TLS authentication (applicable to Enterprise licensing)
Increased maximum number of files per archive (applicable to Commercial licensing)
May 19, 2021
New features / update:
Added Avira engine to commercial licensing
Apr 14, 2021
Fixed Issues:
Token mismatch error on newly created API key
Safe redirect error with anonymous user
Outdated Leaderboard
Mar 4, 2021
New features / update:
Anonymous users now have smaller limits:
Prevention API 3 (previous 40)
Reputation API 500 (previous 4000)
Registered users still have the same limits as before
Introduced shared rate-limiting for organizations
Introduced support for the following file types in Deep CDR: OTT, ODS, OTS, ODP, OTP
Decoupled CDR from multiscanning: now users are able to sanitize a file without performing multiscanning
The “rule: sanitize” header has been deprecated in favor of “rule: cdr”. When rule is used with “cdr”, it will not also perform multiscanning unless requested, whereas “sanitize” will automatically perform multiscanning as well
Fixed Issues:
Fixed an error with webhooks crashing when using private processing
Improved rendering of long names for mobile displays
Improved response format when multiscanning is disabled
Feb 5, 2021
New features / update:
The uploaded archives now consume limits based on files inside the archive
Fixed Issues:
Removed unnecessary fields when multiscanning is not performed
The “file_info.upload_timestamp” was not showing the exact time when the file was uploaded
The cache was not cleared after private files were deleted
Throw an error when uploading archives with sandbox header
Newly uploaded files were showing a message saying “we have a newer analysis for this file”
Fixed several page crashes issues
Jan 20, 2021
New features / update:
The Sandbox results now display separate tabs for each OS version along with a detailed summary:
Decoupled multiscanning from sandbox: now sandbox analysis can be performed without static analysis
Fixed Issues:
The Filename is now trimmed when longer than 256 characters in multipart uploads
X-Content-Type-Options set to 'nosniff'
Improved browser caching mechanism using the Cache-control header
Allow access to the billing portal for paid users who don’t have an active subscription
Improved error messaging when users run out of limits to specify which limit was exceeded on error
Dec 22, 2020
New features / update:
Added URL classification:
Added Mitre att&ck UI for dynamic analysis:
Added a banner on the frontend announcing a pricing increase
Added a new endpoint to delete the sanitized version of files from our servers on request [MetaDefender Cloud API v4](/v-4/metadefender-cloud-api-v4/ref#Delete the sanitized version of the file)
Fixed Issues:
Hide scan history page if no data is available in the UI
Enhanced error detection in safe redirect
Fixed certain cases when EXIF metadata was not generated when uploading images
Dec 8, 2020
New features / update:
Released a new customer portal integrated with Stripe: now it is possible to update payment information and billing details. Canceling subscriptions and billing details have also moved to the Stripe portal.
Added imphash on the scan results overview page
Fixed Issues:
Added the OS on which the dynamic analysis was performed to the results JSON
Fixed an issue with bulk hash lookups returning duplicate entries
Improved priority for commercial sandbox users
Nov 24, 2020
New features / update:
We have introduced a progress percentage for Sandbox scanning in the UI and API
Improved Deep CDR report filter dropdown usability
Fixed Issues
Added sanitized file report link to the summary page since there was no way to navigate to that report in the UI
Improved error messaging
Improved integration with OPSWAT SSO
Oct 21, 2020
Fixed Issues:
Enhanced network connectivity for dynamic analysis & improved timeout
Enhanced peinfo error handling
Safe redirect apikey was sometimes not created
Fixed some cases when the Deep CDR option was not available for rescan in the UI
Added scan time to dynamic analysis report
Oct 14, 2020
New features / update:
Added new options for sandbox processing: now users have the ability to select the browser and timeout
The UI now accepts archive passwords for scanning archives
Fixed Issues:
On the first visit, reports are cached for 15 minutes
Homepage design updates
Archive parent link on the scan results page now points to extracted files
Added Open graph image tag to improve the Facebook sharing experience
Sandbox empty sections are now filtered out
Added new failed to scan status for IP/Domain
Sep 2, 2020
Fixed Issues:
Extended website support for older browsers
Updates NPS banner display and positioning
UX updates for “Analyze again” buttons and Dynamic Analysis edge cases
Aug 13, 2020
New Features:
Added a new engine to Multiscanning: Webroot
Added “Analysis API” to our online store and increased price for higher tiers of “Prevention API”
Dynamic Analysis summary page UI updates
Added an NPS banner for logged in users
Add community forum link in the footer and dropdown menu
Added additional background images to the homepage
Fixed Issues:
Fixed a Deep CDR page crash
Added a graceful fail for invalid data on the Sandbox card
Fixed extracted files results status when failing
Fixed history graph display issue
Added shim for requestAnimationFrame to enable mobile users with opera mini to view the homepage without an error.
Jul 24, 2020
New Features:
Sandbox dynamic analysis has now exited the beta state. It’s API is stable, the infrastructure is scalable and highly available, and is commercially available
Fixed Issues
Updated ToS URL
UI polishing
Fixed issues with invalid apikeys after logout
Improved Safe URL redirect URL handling
Updated license processing for apikeys expiring the current day
Fixed an issue with online store emails ignoring discount codes
Jul 9, 2020
New Features:
UI updates:
Unify homepages by removing Deep Blue and Show themes, and updating the City theme
Updated cookie banner design
Enhanced notifications system
Update drop file banner design
Enhanced menu
Update scan component advanced options design
Added better visual for the community page when a file has no votes
Fixed Issues
Updated page titles and descriptions for better SEO ranking
Fix manifest file image path
Fix Package Efficacy image logos
Added a scan history badge on the scan results menu
Update Licensing page FAQ
Improve the translations process by implementing a key scanner.
June 25, 2020
New Features:
Added sandbox support for multiple files, including full support for Microsoft Office suite, python scripts and windows executables
Added a new endpoint for retrieving the full list of engines: [MetaDefender Cloud API v4](/v-4/metadefender-cloud-api-v4/ref#Engine definitions)
Fixed Issues:
Improved notification messaging on the UI:
Info note to a user when uploading an infected file eligible for gamification points
Info message for clean archives with infected files inside
Banner informing the user that a newer result exists
Integrated a service for application monitoring and error tracking in the frontend
Updated File Overview to show the data as soon as it’s available
Added Beta tag to the Dynamic Analysis page menu entry
Added a general error handler at the app root to fail gracefully
Updated EXIF table responsive design
Fixed status page notification to show only Metadefender Cloud issues
Fixed CDR report links to “before CDR” results
Added Rate limit error message for guests users when the limit is reached
Updated clickable area for headers in the Dynamic Analysis page
Improved status description for dynamic analysis
Added link to the chrome extension page in the footer
Fixed manifest file URL.
Fixed homepage background zoom issue on mobile
June 11, 2020
New Features:
New UI/UX for the IP-Domain scan results pages:
New UI/UX for the dynamic analysis page:
Fixed Issues:
Improved the online store UI to reflect the current subscription if present
Updates to forms displayed on the market share report
May 27, 2020
New Features:
New UI/UX scan results pages
Data sanitization shows actions performed
The rescan button now allows specifying what operations to perform on the file
New API endpoint for retrieving file scan history for an apikey:
[MetaDefender Cloud API v4](/v-4/metadefender-cloud-api-v4/ref#Apikey scan history)
Fixed Issues:
Fixed filetype detection for adobe illustrator files and PDF
Improved analyze again validation
Deprecate threat intelligence top hashes feed
Enhances to automatic payment workflow on our online store
Version 4.8.0
Release date: Dec 24th, 2019
New features:
Bitdefender joins Commercial Cloud!
New UI for leaderboard and licensing page
Added new scan result [Public APIs](/integrations/public-apis#Description on scan result codes): PUA (22) and unsupported application (23)
Fixed issues:
added a default filename with correct extension to the sanitized version of files uploaded without a filename
"Microsoft Defender ATP" engine was renamed to "Windows Defender"
Fixed infinite scroll on the account page
Version 4.7.0
Release date: Dec 5th, 2019
New features:
McAfee joins Commercial Cloud! The well-known engine is now part of our commercial engines offering for paid customers.
New account page: we are continuing our website update process with an update to the UI and UX of the account page. We additionally added more usage charts for Sandbox analysis, Domains and URL lookups, as well as merging the coupon page into the account page.
Fixed issues:
Enhanced file type extension detection
Fixes for use cases where files never finish scanning
Optimizations for autoscaling capacity based on traffic
Localization updates
UI polishing
Version 4.6.5
Release date: 14 November 2019
Fixed Issues:
Fixed rescanning for files sent with invalid scan rules
Enhanced scanning to reduce the number of timeouts for files
Improved error messages
UI fixes
Version 4.6.0
Release date: 23 October 2019
New Features:
Threat intelligence feed allowlist: a new addition to our Threat Intelligence family of feeds, the "Latest Allowlist Feed". Gain instant access to the latest hashes detected as clean by our multiscanning engines and add them to your organization's allowlist. The feed can be queried up to 1 year in the past, and filtered based on file category. Read more here: [MetaDefender Cloud API v4](/v-4/metadefender-cloud-api-v4/ref#Latest clean hashes).
Fixed Issues:
Lots of fixes to our new homepages
Fixed several backward compatibilities redirect issues
Improvements for scan performance
Version 4.5.0
Release date: 30 September 2019
New features:
OPSWAT Threat Name: to make it easier for users to understand the nature of threats without having to evaluate dozens of different threat names generated by anti-malware engines, each with its unique format, OPSWAT has introduced a general "threat_name" field. This field can be seen:
in the latest infected hashes ([MetaDefender Cloud API v4](/v-4/metadefender-cloud-api-v4/ref#Latest Infected Hashes)) all the infected hashes from the feed will have an associated threat name
when doing lookups by hash ([MetaDefender Cloud API v4](/v-4/metadefender-cloud-api-v4/ref#Hash lookup)) or by data ID ([MetaDefender Cloud API v4](/v-4/metadefender-cloud-api-v4/ref#Fetch analysis result)) all the new file scans will have this property from now on. It is also visible in the UI under the SHA256 property
Free user limit increase: because of popular demand we are increasing the limit of Prevention API for our free users from 40 to 100 requests per day. This allows our community to submit more files to be analyzed and sanitized, or request rescanning of files. Happy scanning!
Version 4.4.6
Release date: 5 September 2019
Fixed issues:
Fixed file sanitization download issues
Updates to malware sharing partner program
Performance improvements
Version 4.4.3
Release date: 13 August 2019
Fixed issues:
Added a new "In queue" status to better reflect file processing
Fixed issues when sanitized filename wasn't always correct
Improved IP/URL reputation sources
Outbreak report now includes a dropdown to review previous reports
Version 4.4.0
Release date: 24 July 2019
New features:
Introducing a new feed for reading the latest infected hashes ([MetaDefender Cloud API v4](/v-4/metadefender-cloud-api-v4/ref#Latest Infected Hashes)). Exposing infections in real-time as they are scanned, this new feed offers different options for filtering hashes based on the file type and date scanned. The free version of the feed offers access to the first 1000 hashes each day.
Fixed issues:
Added sha1 to the file upload response for checking if the file upload was done correctly
Fixed issues when the scan results progress percentage was 100% but the scan result code was 255
Added the option to undo a vote on a hash
Removed unnecessary fields from file upload response
Version 4.3.0
Release date: 19 June 2019
New Features:
Safe URL redirect: Browsing the web has just become safer with our new safe URL redirect feature. Your product can now replace all URLs with MetaDefender Cloud safe URLs for a fast and safe web browsing experience. Start preventing browser-based attacks today! See our documentation for more details.
Fixed issues:
The threat intelligence feed can now be queried based on categories
The month dropdown from the market share report and the leaderboards now changes the URL
Enhanced file type extension detection
Fixes to scan results information
Version 4.2.0
Release date: 30 May 2019
New Features:
Multi-region cloud: starting this version, our cloud is hosted in an additional region besides North America: Europe central. This means not only that the speed of the API requests will improve for our users in Europe, but also that their data will not leave the continent (files will be uploaded, hosted and scanned within the European continent). This feature is enabled by default via DNS geo-load balancing.
We have added a navigation dropdown to our leaderboards. Now users can view previous versions of leaderboards and compare rankings.
Fixed issues:
Fixed spacing and alignment issues generated by Japanese translations.
File uploads now also return the sha256 checksum (helpful for verifying that the file was uploaded correctly)
Enhanced code snippets
Version 4.1.0
Release date: 8 May 2019
New Features:
Multi-language support: this release of MetaDefender Cloud brings support for multiple languages, the first language added is Japanese. More languages will be added in the future.
New leaderboard: users with the most votes will now be part of our new Top Voters leaderboard.
Fixed Issues:
Enhanced sanitization error: all files which have failed to sanitize will have additional information displayed in the UI
Updated all code snippets to v4 API
Added extra descriptions for multiple sections in the website
Fixed reputation points notifications not being displayed
Package efficacy report form was not loading
Version 4.0.0
Release date: 10 Apr 2019
New Features:
Callback URL: With this version, there is an alternate way of scanning files besides long polling by data_id. Users can now send a "callbackurl" webhook where we will POST the results once scanning is finished, making reading the scan results more lightweight on the client side. Please see the documentation: [MetaDefender Cloud API v4](/v-4/metadefender-cloud-api-v4/ref#Analyze file).
Market Share Report navigation: navigating through our different Market Share Reports can now be done using the dropdown menu:
Official switch to V4: we have recently announced the release of our V4 API. Now we are officially changing the API version to 4.0.0 to reflect the API change. Checking the API version can be done via the version endpoint (see here for more: [MetaDefender Cloud API v4](/v-4/metadefender-cloud-api-v4/ref#API version)).
We have increased the sandbox limit for registered users: non-registered users continue to have a limit of 1 dynamic analysis per day, while registered users will be able to perform 5 dynamic analysis per day for free.
Fixed issues:
Improved error handling for limit reached
The leaderboard has been updated to only show 1 point for each submission instead of 5 points
Better handling of file scans sent by URL ("downloadfrom" header)
Version 3.77.0
Release date: 8 Mar 2019
New Features:
Android Info: APK files uploaded are now analyzed and the Manifest metadata is now stored and displayed in the UI. This is info is also available via the API ([MetaDefender Cloud API v4](/v-4/metadefender-cloud-api-v4/ref#APK manifest lookup)).
V4 API: The latest version of our API, designed with modularity in mind, and compatible with MetaDefender API. See 6. V4 API for details.
Fixed issues:
User activity history was missing frontend activity
Version 3.76.0
Release date: 22 Feb 2019
New Features:
The first beta release of Dynamic Analysis:
Fixed issues:
Removed duplicates in file scan history
Performance improvements for hash lookup
In certain cases, the throttling message was not displayed
Version 3.75.0
Release date: 18 Jan 2019
New features:
We added 2 new engines to our free offering: Baidu and Jiangmin, reaching a total of 37 engines.
File Exif and Portable Executable information (peinfo) have been moved to the "File information" tab
We simplified our vulnerability submission process, to make it easier to report vulnerabilities:
Fixed issues:
Rescanning of older files is now working
Improved error handling on the frontend
Updated leaderboard generation
Removed old threat intelligence page in favor of https://www.opswat.com/developers/threat-intelligence-feed
Removed old IP documentation page in favor of Analyzing IPs with MetaDefender Cloud
Version 3.74.0
Release date: 27 Dec 2018
New features:
URL scanning ([MetaDefender Cloud API v4](/v-4/metadefender-cloud-api-v4/ref#URL lookup)) and Domain scanning ([MetaDefender Cloud API v4](/v-4/metadefender-cloud-api-v4/ref#Domain lookup))were released, and added as search options in our multi search bar
Repository scanning ([MetaDefender Cloud API v4](/v-4/metadefender-cloud-api-v4/ref#Scanning a repository)): a single API call scan a git repository from one of the supported vendors: Github, Bitbucket or Gitlab.
File badge ([MetaDefender Cloud API v4](/v-4/metadefender-cloud-api-v4/ref#File badge)): display a badge showing the scan results of a hash on any website
Popup to remind the users to update their automatically generated nicknames
We created a Leaderboard to promote our monthly most active malware contributors.
Fixed issues:
Default nickname format update
Market Share Report data is now loading from CDN
Improved the display of scan results for clean archives with infected files attached
Added throttling for URL and domain bulk lookups