Proactive DLP release notes

v2.19.0

Release date: 04/11/2024

  • DLP now supports multi-frame GIF files with OCR

  • DLP now supports .loc files

  • DLP now supports FDF files

  • DLP now supports Acrobat Forms

  • DLP now supports recursive PDF processing (only embedded PDF)

  • Improved Office 2007 object processing, including linked objects, tracked changes, background images, Smart Art

  • Improved PDF stamp annotation and form processing

  • Watermark scan bugfix

v2.18.1

Release date: 02/15/2024

  • More sophisticated TSV file handling related to “custom regexes from file” feature

  • Refined detection of SWIFT codes, reducing both false positives and false negatives

  • Resolved interruption issues related to hit limits during embedded image processing

  • Removed duplicate results that occur when using the best quality OCR

  • Fixed independence of redact-settings from TSV file loading

  • Fixed memory leak

v2.18

Release date: 01/04/2024

  • Importing custom regular expressions from file is now supported

  • New predefined sensitive information types are supported for detection and redaction

    • ABA Routing Number

    • U.S. Bank Account

    • International Banking Account Number (IBAN)

    • International Securities Identification Number (ISIN)

    • SWIFT Code

  • OCR capabilities have been improved

  • SSE4.2 is now also accepted by DLP (besides SSE4.1) as required CPU instruction set for OCR

  • File metadata handling for scan requests have been improved

  • DLP’s UI workflow settings are now unified on every officially supported Core version

  • DLP’s UI workflow settings for detection have been redesigned for a more compact look

v2.17

Release date: 10/20/2023

  • Announcing Document Identification

  • Not Safe For Work (NSFW)

    • Detect "Not Safe For Work" content in text and images

    • Redact textual hits and blur images with NSFW content

  • Personal document classification

    • Detect personal ID on images

  • Detection of Generic Password and Generic API Key secrets have been improved

v2.16

Release date: 07/18/2023

  • Announcing DICOM Anonymization:

    • Anonymize patient information according to the Basic Attribute Confidentiality Profile

    • Remove sensitive burned-in annotations from DICOM images

  • Patterns for US SSN numbers have been updated

  • Fixed issue when DLP engine crashes when files are sent for scanning right after engine initialization

v2.15.1

Release date: 05/22/2023

  • Improved generic password and generic API token detection (secret detection)

  • Fixed issue when processing of large text files took very long time

  • Fixed issue when CCN hits contained extra character at the end

  • Fixed sensitive info substitution in hyperlinks

  • Fixed issue when PDLP was unable to detect certain software secrets in XML files

  • Allowlist and custom validators now properly working with XML files

v2.15

Release date: 03/31/2023

  • Support more secrets:

    • Generic passwords

    • Generic API tokens

    • PostgreSQL credentials

    • MYSQL credentials

  • DOCM and XLSM file types are now supported in scanning

  • Redact sensitive information in CSV and XML files

  • Text substitution can be configured instead of redaction in the following document types:

    • MS office documents (word, excel, slides)

    • PDF files

    • Text files

  • Fixed issue when valid hits can be invalidated due to a bug

  • Fixed issue with duplicate character validator that resulted in more false positive

v2.14

Release date: 12/19/2022

  • Support more secrets:

    • Private keys (PEM, PPK)

    • IBM Cloud key

    • IBM API Connect Credentials

    • IBM COS HMAC Credentials

  • Reorganize the workflow configurations

  • Improve MS Word processing to reduce false positive detection

  • Fixed issue when valid hits could be lost when other hits are redacted during PDF processing

  • Fixed log retention

v2.13.1

Release date: 11/2/2022

  • Allowlist feature has been added to all sensitive info types

  • Log retention period can now be configured from the engine configuration

  • Encoding detection can be configured in the Workflow rule setting instead of the engine configuration

  • Fixed issue where DLP engine updates were failing permanently due to unrecognized OS

  • Fixed issue when encoding detection settings were lost during configuration export and import

  • Fixed issue where an empty regular expression field in the workflow rule settings caused DLP engine update to fail permanently

v2.13

Release date: 9/31/2022

  • Secret detection in text files supporting AWS, Azure and GCP secrets

  • New optional validators for sensitive data

    • Exclude prefix

    • Exclude suffix

    • Exclude beginning characters

    • Exclude ending characters

    • Duplicate characters (only for custom regexes)

  • DLP log level is now selectable in the engine configuration

  • External dependencies are checked before engine initialization

  • Some descriptions have been streamlined in the workflow rule settings

  • Fixed issue when local scan fails on read-only PDF files

  • Fixed issue when SSN localization could be saved without value

v2.12

Release date: 7/5/2022

  • Improved PDF processing speed

  • General improvements in performance due to update from .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 6.

  • Improved OCR capabilities

  • Improved product logging to enhance product diagnostics

  • Fixed issue when the quality of jpeg images dropped after metadata removal

  • Fixed issue when DLP fails to process EMF images embedded in a document

  • Fixed issue when embedded files can't be opened during recursive PPT processing

  • Fixed issue when xls files could not be processed during MD Core local scan

v2.11.1

Release date: 5 /11/ 2022

  • A configuration to choose a default fallback encoding

  • Optimize system resource usage for PDF processing

  • PDF Watermark: Added line breaks to long texts

v2.11

Release date: 3/30/2022

  • Support watermark feature for MS Word

  • Allow the customers to set certainty for the regular expression

  • Support encoding detection (for Japanese, Hebrew and UTF8 encodings)

  • Processing all annotation object types in PDFs

  • Processing all stamp object types in PDFs

  • Keeping the original image quality for output files when removing Metadata

v2.10.1

Release date: 2/16/2022

  • Enhance PPT file processing

  • Improve metadata processing for image file types

  • Fix line break issue with DOC/DOCX when applying watermark

  • Fix metadata removal with TIFF file format

  • More plain text file support

  • Improved image processing (performance)

v2.10

Release date: 12/22/2021

  • Add more supported encodings (for Email Security Gateway use case)

  • A configuration to set limit file size per workflow

  • Scan and remove Metadata recursively

  • Support processing cropped images for XLS/XLSX/PPT/PPTX

  • Fixed memory leak issue

v2.9.1

Release date 12/1/2021

  • Detection Policy is available on MetaDefender Core v5 or newer

  • A configuration to allow a file if it is redacted (MetaDefender Core v5 or newer)

  • Optimize memory usage

  • Better encode handling between Email Security Gateway and Proactive DLP

v2.9

Release date 10/13/2021

  • Support watermark EMF/WMF/SVG

  • Detect and Redact sensitive info in several objects

    • MS Excel sheet name

    • Defined Name object in MS Excel

    • Image alternative text in MS Office

    • Comment Author in MS Word and Excel

    • Header and Footer in MS Word and Excel

    • Track changes in MS Word and Excel

    • Alternative images in PDF

    • Form fields in PDF

  • Improve recursive processing

    • Support RTF as an embedded file

    • More details about hit location

  • Upgraded Qt framework to version 5.15.2

v2.8.1

Release date: 8/18/2021

  • Improve performance for several file types (MS Excel, text, etc ...)

  • Fix MS Excel redaction failure in some cases

v2.8

Release date: 7/8/2021

  • A configuration to remove embed objects if recursive processing fails

  • Fixed FILE SIZE LIMIT configuration issue

  • Fixed embedded image OCR processing

  • Improve large plain text file processing

v2.7.1

Release date: 6/3/2021

  • Support unlimited depth and number objects in recursive document processing

  • Allow users to set a limit number of returned sensitive info

  • Added "," to the default delimiter list

  • Improve Excel processing

  • Fixed Chinese regular expression in text files (CSV, TXT, ...)

  • Fixed missing keyword configuration when upgrading to DLP 2.7

v2.7

Release date: 4/27/2021

  • Drop supporting MetaDefender Core older than 4.17.1

  • Recursive scan and redaction of embedded files in MS Office files

  • Localization support for Japanese SSN

  • Support watermark, metadata detection, OCR for BMP format

  • Support "Delimiter" as an optional validator

  • Context detection around hits in PDF files has been improved

  • Chart detection and redaction has been introduced in Excel

  • Improve OCR detection quality

  • Improve redaction function for MS Word files

v2.6.1

Release date: February 8, 2021

  • Fix detection issue when an empty cell has a comment (Excel)

  • Improve MS Office validation in some regular expression cases

v2.6.0

Release date: January 11, 2021

  • Process the hidden areas in a cropped image (DOCX, DOC)

  • Support OCR for standalone image file types (JPG, PNG, TIFF)

  • Support OCR for embedded images in DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX

  • Support remove metadata for document files (PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX)

  • Support redaction for RTF

v2.5.1

Release date: November 12, 2020

  • Improve Japanese string detection/redaction in PDF

  • Fix a detection issue when a regular expression contains a Hebrew string

  • Fix a crash issue when scanning DOC file on Linux

v2.5

Release date: October 1, 2020

  • Metadata removal, Watermark, OCR are available on Linux

  • Advanced watermark configurations: font size, text opacity, text position

  • New configurations

    • Stop the process if found enough sensitive info

    • Quality configurations for OCR (Normal, Best)

  • Support HTML and TXT redaction

  • 10x faster when processing text file

v2.4.1

Release date: August 8, 2020

  • Improved memory usage

  • Improved IPv4 and CIDR search

  • Added threaded comment search and redaction in Excel files

  • Up to 40% speedup when scanning Excel files

v2.4

Release date: July 7, 2020

  • Utilize column and row header to improve certainty level in Excel

  • Detect sensitive info in file properties with regular expressions

  • Custom keyword list for regular expression

  • Support redaction feature on Linux

  • Performance improvement: faster processing, less resource usage

  • New system requirements on Linux

  • End of support Centos 6, Debian 8

v2.3.2

Release date: May 20, 2020

  • Better context calculation for Excel and PDF

  • Improve IPv4 detection in TXT

  • Distinguish between "Failed to detect" and others

v2.3.1

Release date: April 21, 2020

  • Threaded comment redaction in Excel files.

  • Slightly increased PDF scan performance.

  • Improved certainty calculation for MS Office and PDF files.

  • Fixed wrong context when a single cell in an Excel file contained the same hit multiple times.

v2.3.0

Release date: April 7, 2020

  • Support Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for PDF (Windows only)

  • Redact sensitive information for Microsoft Office Excel (XLS/XLSX)

  • Better detection method, reduce false positive

v2.2.1

Release date: Feb 12, 2020

  • Improve IPv4/CIDR detection performance

  • Better handling temp files

  • Remove "Parse Binary" option

v2.2

Release date: Jan 6, 2020

  • Supports watermark addition for PDF

  • Redact sensitive information for Microsoft Office Word (DOC/DOCX)

  • Support DLP in Linux with limited functions (work with MetaDefender Core 4.17.1 or newer)

  • Redact sensitive information based on certainty level (work with MetaDefender Core 4.17.1 or newer)

  • Sample Regular expressions to detect Personally identifiable information (PII): email, address, full name, date of birth, driver license, phone number, bank account number

v2.1.2

Release date: November 27, 2019

  • Better error message when an input PDF file is corrupted

v2.1.1

Release date: October 31, 2019

  • Better displaying the words before and after a hit in PDF

v2.1

Release date: September 8, 2019

  • Supports IPv4, Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) detection

  • Supports remove metadata for TIFF, GIF file

  • Better CCN detection

v2.0.1

Release date: August 15, 2019

  • Better watermark and redaction handling when a system is under high load

  • Improve CCN detection

v2.0

Release date: June 28, 2019

  • Proactive DLP as new name

  • Certainty score for sensitive data detection

  • Redact sensitive information for text-based PDF file

  • Watermark addition for JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF

  • Supports remove metadata for JPG, PNG file

v1.0.3

Release date: February 18, 2019

  • Improve detection for Microsoft Access format

  • Improve context for hits

  • Improve processing speed (20%)


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