Symantec Messaging Gateway 10.8 release notification

28-11-2022 

To:         Symantec Messaging Gateway Customers

From:     The Broadcom Symantec Messaging Gateway Product Team

Subject:  General Availability Announcement for Symantec Messaging Gateway 10.8

 On behalf of Broadcom, we appreciate your business and the opportunity to provide you with high-quality, innovative software and services.  As part of our ongoing commitment to customer success, we regularly release updated versions of our products. Today, we are pleased to announce that Symantec Messaging Gateway10.8 is now available. 

 What's new in SMG 10.8.0 

• Azure Support - Support for the deployment of Symantec Messaging Gateway on the Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Platform. 
• Standalone Quarantine - Support for deploying SMG instances with the "role" of Quarantine. This permits you to segregate SMG's quarantine functionality from your Control Center. 

This release also includes the following feature changes and updates: 

• The ability to increase the size of the usable disk drive after installation on all virtual platforms. See the CLI reference for grow-disk for more information. 
• Support for Domain Name Service Security Extensions (DNSSEC) is now available in host configuration pages. A checkbox to enable this option is available in the DNS server configuration. 
• Improved error reporting for Control Center backups. 
• Policy groups for outbound mail can now be assigned by recipient instead of sender. 
• The ability to add entries to the system /etc/hosts table. 
• The ability to create filtering rules based on the exact contents of a Subject, including spacing. 
• Ability to create filtering rules based on attachment name using regex. 
• Improved reliability of whitelisting IP addresses when Connection Classification and Virus Attack policies are enabled. 
• The ability to create filtering rules using emojis. 
• Improved reliability of URL modifications. 
• Enhanced reliability of the agent service. In prior releases the agent protected itself from unauthorized communications via restrictions within the TCP stack layer. A new layer of protection has been added at the firewall level. This change enhances protection against intentional and unintentional DoS attacks against the agent service. 
• A new command to define the idle timeout of the Control Center. See cc-config session-timeout in the CLI reference for details. 
• Multiple security updates. 
• Multiple reliability updates and bug fixes. 
• Multiple quality and supportability enhancements  

We have included a Product Brief that details the features and highlights of this release.  We also encourage you to visit the Symantec Messaging Gateway product information page on the Broadcom Support Online website at https://support.broadcom.com/ for more information 

You can download your copy of Symantec Messaging Gateway 10.8 from Broadcom Support Online https://support.broadcom.com/. If you have any questions or require assistance please contact Broadcom Customer Care online at https://www.broadcom.com/support/software/contact. You can also call Broadcom Customer Care at +1-800-225-5224 in North America or see https://www.broadcom.com/support/software/contact for the local number in your country. 

Your success is very important to us, and we look forward to continuing our successful partnership with you.

To review Broadcom Support lifecycle policies, please review the Broadcom Support Policy and Terms located at: https://support.broadcom.com/.  

Thank you again for your business.