Reporter for Barracuda Release Notes
Reporter for Barracuda 2.0.1.26 (2019-10-28)
  • Fixed a major issue where data exceeding the retention policy was not removed if was older than 32 days.
  • Added 'Users' to the Network section in IT and Network Security.
  • Improved Search Terms field to remove values that are not actual searches.
  • Fixed issues preventing the ability to cancel in-progress Overview Reports.
  • Activity Reports now limit the individual URLs returned within each browsing session's inner table to 2000 rows, improving performance and general readability.
  • Added APIs for retrieving Elasticsearch index details (Database.ElasticIndexInfo) and requesting a reindex (Database.ElasticReindex(index)) in the case that its field mapping becomes invalid.
  • Improved diagnostic logging. Added metrics for System CPU, System RAM, and System Disk to show system-wide resource utilisation.

Reporter for Barracuda 2.0.1.25 (2019-10-08)
  • Excluding values from an Activity Report no longer adds the excluded field as a column.
  • Saving Productivity Settings with an active browser translation plugin no longer voids Productivity Settings.
  • Colours in the Pie and Line charts now match on the Overview Dashboard
  • Alert evidence sample data is now populated when adding a new evidence column.

Reporter for Barracuda 2.0.1.24 (2019-08-27)
  • Fixed minor UI display issues.

Reporter for Barracuda 2.0.1.23 (2019-08-06)
  • Fixed issue where Fastvue Reporter's data retention policy could prevent or slow the service from shutting down when it is deleting multiple indexes.
  • Fixed issue where the database status toggles between Operational/Failure status when running reports on a large number of old dates (older than 32 days).
  • IT Overview Widgets now show the 'number of blocks' for the top blocked site, top blocked category and top threat instead of size.
  • Fixed issues in URL parsing when the logged hostname also contains a port.
  • Changing data location via the UI or API now rejects the request if the path is the same, is a subfolder of the original path, or the new path cannot be written to.
  • Fixed areas of the user interface that were not working when installed on non-English variants of Windows Server. For example, viewing Import Issues was not working when installed on Turkish Windows. All ID-based lookups now use case-insensitive invariant culture string comparisons.
  • The installer now detects 32-bit operating systems and blocks installation.
  • Updated 3rd party libraries and licenses in Settings | About.

Reporter for Barracuda 2.0.1.22 (2019-07-09)
  • Elasticsearch's maximum and initial memory usage (appears as the Open JDK / Java process in Task Manager) can now be adjusted in Settings | Diagnostics | Database.
  • Fixed some stability issues where the Elasticsearch database would disconnect or change to the Preparing Elasticsearch status, preventing further queries until the database initialized.
  • The Service Not Responding dialog now disappears automatically once the Fastvue Reporter Service starts responding again.

Reporter for Barracuda 2.0.1.21 (2019-06-27)
  • Improved start up time. More specifically, improved the time it takes for Elasticsearch to initialize indexes.
  • Improved some stability issues between Fastvue Reporter and Elasticsearch. 
  • Fixed issue where Reports filtered by Security Group would not return any data.
  • Filtering by Department and Office is now case insensitive.
  • Fixed an issue where filtering on Productivity 'Equal to' Unassigned OR Uncertain would return categories that were in neither of those Productivity lists.
  • Changed the default ports used for Elasticsearch to 53865 and 53965 to help prevent port conflicts when installed alongside other applications that also use Elasticsearch, such as Acronis backup.
  • The ports used by Elasticsearch can now be customised using the DatabaseElasticPort and DatabaseElasticTransportTcpPort settings in Fastvue Reporter's Settings.xml. When these values are set to 0, the default ports will be used. Note, the Fastvue Reporter service must not be running when making changes to this file.
  • Pie charts on the Overview Dashboard now show the 'Other' series again.
  • Fixed issues with trial and registrations on systems using Hijri calendar.
  • Fixed issues with license keys entered in lowercase.
  • Added extra debugging information to the verbose diagnostic log to help troubleshoot email/smtp issues.
  • Search Terms and YouTube Video widgets are now populated when running in Demo Mode.

Reporter for Barracuda 2.0.1.20 (2019-06-11)
  • Fixed issue preventing Scheduled Reports from running.

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Reporter for Barracuda 2.0.1.19 (2019-06-10)
  • Fixed the 'Collection was modified' error that may display in Settings | Diagnostics.
  • LDAP import no longer fails when attributes are blank or absent.
  • Fixed the display of the Installer launcher on high DPI screens.
  • API errors are now logged into Fastvue Reporter's diagnostic log.

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Reporter for Barracuda 2.0.1.18 (2019-05-31)
  • Added a 'Safeguarding' section to Overview Reports and User Overview Reports. This section shows Suspicious Searches, All Searches, YouTube Video URLs, YouTube Searches, and both Allowed and Blocked Unacceptable Sites.
  • Searches on baidu.com are now extracted into the 'Search Terms' field.
  • Fixed issue where report widgets were in the incorrect order when exporting a report to CSV.
  • Fixed issue where some 'Size' columns were not exported when exporting to CSV. 
  • Export to CSV no longer contains 'Chart data' when the table data is also present.
  • Added User Domain field which is populated from the domain in the User Login Name field (if present).
  • Fixed issues when showing Browsing Time in Bar Charts.
  • Added a light line section separator between main sidebar sections in Overview Reports.

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Reporter for Barracuda 2.0.0.17 Beta (2019-05-20)
  • The Data Retention Size Policy is automatically increased when upgrading from Fastvue Reporter 3.0 to Fastvue Reporter 4.0 (with Elasticsearch). This is to avoid data loss during data migration, as the new database requires approximately twice the disk space. The size policy is doubled if the available disk space allows for it, but is capped at 90% of drive space.
  • A notification is displayed in the Application Header notifying that the Data Retention Size Policy has been automatically increased and to confirm the settings.
  • Data Retention Size Policy now defaults to 90% of drive space (total space on an existing install, available space on a new install) instead of 50 GB, allowing 20GB for OS if the data path is on the same drive as the OS.
  • Fixed issues that may occur during startup when recovering indexes.
  • Improved import and data migration performance.
  • Changing diagnostic log level now persists between service restarts.
  • Changes/Improvements to diagnostic logging.
  • Rotating diagnostic log archiver now chooses a new filename if the archive target filename already exists.
  • Fixed issues where illegal characters in the Filename field could stop data import.
  • Fixed issue filtering reports by the 'Unassigned' Productivity Group.
  • Added a box shadow animation to the Overview Widgets when their sidebar link is clicked, to draw attention to the relevant widget in the row.
  • A URL's scheme (e.g. http/https/ftp) is now derived from the destination port if the protocol is missing or omits both the protocol and '://' from the output URL.
  • Added a link to the release notes to the Settings | About page.
  • The Dashboard now always scrolls to correct page when URL hash is set.

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