The VMware Carbon Black team is pleased to announce the general availability of the 8.7.12 Carbon Black App Control Linux Agent.

Important:

2 February, 2023 Update:

An OS compatibility issue has been discovered in the App Control 8.7.12 Linux Agent. This issue may prevent users from deploying the Agent successfully on RHEL 8.7 (4.18.0-425.3.1+).

We are working on a resolution to this issue and will update this post when we have more information available.

VMware encourages customers to always update to the latest versions of VMware software to benefit from security and stability improvements.

The Carbon Black App Control v8.7.12 Linux Agent is a maintenance release.

  • The App Control Linux Agent now supports RHEL 9.1 and RHEL 8.7.
    Note: The CentOS Stream is not supported.
  • The App Control 8.7.12 Linux Agent resolves abnormally high CPU consumption issues found in the previous App Control 8.7.10 Linux Agent release.

For more details, see the 8.7.12 Linux Agent Release Notes.

Download Links for 8.7.12 App Control Linux Agent

Below are the download links for the App Control Linux Agent host package installer for version 8.7.12.5.524.

Important: Before using the download link, make sure you have logged into the Carbon Black User Exchange (UEX)

The Host Package Installer allows this agent to be installed on Carbon Black App Control 8.1.4+ servers.