The VMware Carbon Black team is pleased to announce the general availability of the Carbon Black EDR Linux Sensor 7.1.0 for On-prem Carbon Black EDR customers. Carbon Black EDR Linux 7.1.0 will be released to Carbon Black Hosted EDR customers on 6 March 2022, packaged with the release of VMware Carbon Black EDR Server 7.6.2.
This is a feature release that delivers:
- Use of the CBC Linux Sensor kernel module
- CBdaemon is refactored to use the BPF event collector application used by the CBC Linux Sensor
- An increased level of detail is captured by sensor diagnostics to include PID smaps, iostat (CPU & I/O utilization), and network interface configuration, for the purposes of gaining additional problem-case insight in an ongoing effort to reduce memory and CPU utilization footprint
- Updated to use libcurl 7.78.0 for improved library security
- Improved memory and CPU performance
- A digital signature for the EDR Linux Binary and Installer
- RHEL 8.5 support
- Bug fixes
Refer to the VMware Carbon Black EDR Linux 7.1.0 Release Notes for more details.
For additional documentation, see VMware Carbon Black EDR Documentation.
Thanks,
The VMware Carbon Black EDR Team
