Reporter for Sophos Web Appliance Release Notes
Reporter for Sophos Web Appliance 2.0.1.41 (2020-08-07)
  • Filtering reports by Filename Extension no longer requires the extension to be entered in UPPERCASE.
  • Fixed an issue where strange Search Terms such as “56,148,835,15” were being extracted from YouTube.
  • Fixed issue preventing picklists from being presented when filtering by certain fields such as Event/Message Types.

Reporter for Sophos Web Appliance 2.0.1.40 (2020-06-25)
  • Reports can now be filtered by ‘Manager’. For example, select Manager ‘Equal to’ Bob to filter a report by all of Bob’s employees/subordinates as defined in Active Directory. You can of course schedule this report to send to Bob every day, week or month.

Reporter for Sophos Web Appliance 2.0.1.39 (2020-06-10)
  • Changes to default Alerts:
    • Added Drug Searches alert.
    • Removed Site Resource criteria from existing Search Term alerts as this is now handled in the Search Term extraction.
    • Changed Downloads > 100 MB to Downloads > 1 GB and decreased its priority to Medium.
    • The Unproductive Browsing alert now triggers when over 1 hour of unproductive browsing occurs within four hours.

    Note: If upgrading, you will not see the new Alerts automatically. Please see our article on Updating Alerts to the latest version while keeping any custom alerts.


Reporter for Sophos Web Appliance 2.0.1.38 (2020-05-12)
  • Fixed issue where the Schedule Report button would not work (issue was introduced in build (2.0.1.35)
  • Fixed issue where links to Private Reports would no longer work once the Fastvue Reporter service is restarted.
  • Fixed URL parsing issue where URLs shorter than 15 characters with no scheme (e.g. http or https) appeared as an invalid URL.
  • Viewers of Private Reports can now export the report to PDF or CSV.

Reporter for Sophos Web Appliance 2.0.1.37 (2020-04-23)
  • Fixed issue where launching reports from an existing report (via hover-over) includes an extra date in the date range, and shows an incorrect date range in the report title.

Reporter for Sophos Web Appliance 2.0.1.36 (2020-04-14)
  • Fixed issue where a CSV report is always attached when a report is shared via email or scheduled on the Reports tab with all attachment formats unchecked.

Reporter for Sophos Web Appliance 2.0.1.35 (2020-03-30)
  • Fixed issue preventing new reports from being launched within Private Reports.

Reporter for Sophos Web Appliance 2.0.1.34 (2020-03-18)
  • Simplified the Action field to show just Blocked, Allowed, Warned. The description of why the resource was allowed or blocked etc is now shown in the Action Reason field.


Reporter for Sophos Web Appliance 2.0.1.33 (2020-03-11)
  • No change. Fixes for Fastvue Reporter fo FortiGate caused a Fastvue Reporter platform version number increment.

Reporter for Sophos Web Appliance 2.0.1.32 (2020-03-11)
  • Fixed an issue that may prevent Search Term Alerts from working after the alerts are edited. If you’re experiencing this issue, edit your Search Term alert, and make sure the filter for Site Resource with the values /s and /su are set to ‘Not equal to’. There was an issue where this portion of the filter would be set to ‘Equal to’ if the alert was edited and saved, preventing the alert from working correctly.
  • Fixed issue that may result in out of memory issues after startup when the data retention policy attempts to calculate the size of old /closed indexes.
  • Elasticsearch no longer writes out enormous heap dump files when it runs out of memory. Any existing heap dump files will be deleted when disk space gets low.
  • Installation now cleans up Elasticsearch package extraction temporary files even if the extract fails.
  • Fixed issue in Alert Settings where the Alert Evidence Config Table sets example data to ‘User’ after the table is loaded.