I wanted to share an update about the release of a new Apple OSX client. We are just wrapping up testing for this new release and expect it to post over the next twenty four hours or so.
Although we have upped the major rev version of this client from six (6) to seven (7) much of the change is actually beneath the hood and involves work we are doing to streamline the delivery of our clients across multiple segments. More on this in a future post.
Meanwhile there are a few new visible features that I wanted to point out.
Notification Center Integration. Notifications from Norton that previously used to use a proprietary Norton ‘toaster’ mechanism have been migrated to leverage the OSX native Notification Center. This will enable you to see all of your current and historical notifications at a glance. It will also give you more control over what appears on your desktop and in what form.
Menu bar icon status. We’ve made some changes to the Norton icon in the desktop status bar to reflect the current status of Norton. If all is well you’ll see the regular check mark but if there’s a problem you’ll see an ‘X’ overlaid on top of the checkmark. This largely mirrors a feature we recently rolled out to our Windows client.
Safe Web Support for Chrome. Over the last couple of months the Norton team has been busy redesigning the Safe Web plugin for OSX. What does this mean for you? Well the biggest immediate benefit is that Safe Web is now available on Chrome! This means that Safe Web supports the three major browsers on OS X; Safari, Firefox, and Chrome. We have also updated user flows and updates have been made to fully take advantage of HTML 5. Finally we have added additional security updates to help ensure a truly safe experience.
Bugs Fixed. As always, we fixed a bunch of bugs.
Issue ID Description
3416133 Safari is allowed to access internet even a customer choose to block
3575970 [Persistent] Navlibx 12.1 creates resource spin
3586110 Logging and Notification Settings for Zones in Connection Blocking (Settings is not saving)
3778711 Kernel panic reported with NIS 6.1.3
3612646 [Install] Improve Error message displayed on launching the another instance of the same installer
3746513 [IPS] NFM App hangs and no notification during IPS perl script test
3751823 SymDaemon crash due to firewall when running perl script test
Availability
The new client is will be initially made available via the Norton product portal where you can download it from http://www.norton.com/setup
As with previous releases we will follow in the days and weeks ahead with automatic update capabilities to deliver the new automatically client to all Norton customers.
More news to follow when the client posts later this week.