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Agent 5.0.0

We are pleased to announce the release of Forcepoint Data Classification (FDC) Agent v5. This version offers a smoother, faster, and more reliable experience for both users and administrators. This release introduces major improvements in offline activity handling, ensuring events are securely stored. You will notice a simpler experience with email classification in Outlook now requiring only two clicks instead of four, along with clearer notifications when working with empty or protected files. The agent has been upgraded to .NET 8 for improved performance and long-term support, while log management and diagnostic tools have also been enhanced. In addition to these updates, we have resolved a large number of bugs, further improving product stability and reliability.

Major Highlights

• Email Classification (Outlook): Reduced clicks required to classify emails from 4 down to 2 clicks, this will simplify the user workflows.
• File Classification Notifications: Clear user messages are now provided when:
  • Right-clicking an empty file.
  • Attaching an empty file.
  • Using the CLI with an empty file.
  • Attempting to classify a protected file.
• Offline Activity Handling: Activities are now stored in-memory and, once capacity (1,000 items) is reached, automatically written to file (up to 50,000 items). This ensures no data loss when agents are offline.
• Failed activity exports are retried after 1 minute, with incremental intervals up to a maximum retry window of 1 hour.
• .NET 8 Upgrade: The Agent has been upgraded to the latest .NET 8 framework, improving performance and long-term supportability.
• GVClient PowerTools Healthcheck: Updated logic for handling registry keys for more accurate diagnostics.

Points to note

Following are some important points to note:

• For Mac - Upgrade to .NET 8 manually before installing the agent. For windows it is part of the installer.
• Minimum required Agent Edge version is 2.259.0.
• When you print calendar the default printer cannot be changed. This is an outlook limitation. It works fine for email.
• When replying or forwarding an email that is not classified, make sure to open it in a new window else you will have to click send twice, or you can apply the below settings.

  

Resolved Issues in Agent 5.0.0

Following issues have been fixed in this version:

• [Agent - PPT] Visual labels were not updated when re-classification was done for duplicated the title page.
• [Agent] Suggestion cache is persisting on existing unclassified files.
• [Agent - Outlook] AI Suggestion mismatch warning message does not pop up on print.
• [Agent] Getvisibility agent was displayed on Forcepoint flavor build.
• [Outlook plugin - print] 4.7.5 - Print option was missing with Ignore setting on Print
• [Agent - UI] Fixed a bug where suggestions were note updated on tagging values when tagging popup was opened.
• [Empty Files] UI enhancements were done to follow same design as other warning messages.
• [Outlook] Classification of attachment same as the email was not working as expected.
• Right-click classification was not working as expected
• [Agent - Outlook] Wrong classification of warning messages with wrong distribution tag.
• [Agent - Word] H/F width changes in dashboard were not applied to previously tagged files.
• [Agent - PPT] Save prompt was getting triggered despite no changes after recent save.
• [Agent - Excel] 3rd-party labels were overwritten when enforce overwrite option was appended.
• Auto-update was not working as expected.
• [Outlook] Pop up with the message 'The following attachments are empty' appeared when sending an email with a signature as an image.
• [Outlook - Meetings] When accepting or proposing new time, meeting did not inherit the classification.
• [Outlook - Meetings] When reply or forward was classified for recurring meetings, classification was not inherited.
• MIP metadata was not written when tags are exclusive.
• Print Outlook calendar prints email instead.
• Office plug ins causing slow performance and hanging.

Known issues in Agent 5.0.0

Following are the known issues in this version:

Windows

• [AgentUI] It is possible to bypass lowering level of classification or distribution when not allowed.
• [Agent - Visual Options] Hide sheet or slide range option when 'All sheets' or 'All slides' is selected.
• [Agent - Excel] Visual Label Options pop up appears when saving or printing a classified file with a long h/f or using Moog config.
• [Agent - PPT] Visual Options pop up appears when alwaysShowPopup is false and slideLayoutOptions is set to other than AllSlides.
• [Agent - PPT] The footer is not removed correctly when overwriting a third-party footer and reclassifying using another title option.
• [Outlook - Meetings] Re-classification tags are not inherited on AgentUI when opening or canceling meeting.
• [Endpoint Discovery] Errors are preventing scan completion.
• [Agent - PPT] Title or subtitle is not removed if it was disabled on the dashboard.
• Suggestions are displayed in read mode on outlook, when you click on the set suggested button. It shows a dialog box that email is protected.
• No visual labels or metadata is added when Resending the message.
• Unknown Error is displayed when forwarding meeting invite with cache mode disabled.
• Classifying PDF by right-clicking in Windows Explorer hangs or fails.
• New email is automatically moved to the "Drafts" folder.
• Users are unable to save the shared Excel file from OneDrive, and an error message appears.

maC

• File Name is not displayed on new document.
• PPT/Excel Sliderange/Sheet range is not working as expected.
• PPT: Visual labels behavior is inconsistent, it will be updated. But it seems PPT has only issues with showing the proper formatting (after refreshing it is displayed correctly. This is an issue with PPT). Sometimes it does not show H/F on slide.
• [Office Addins - PPT] Refreshing the PPT presentation causes the file to lose its classification on task pane.
• [Office Addins - PPT] Suggestions not working on web browser.
• [Office Addins - Outlook] Unexpected error is displayed when triggering suggestions.
• [Office Addins - Outlook] Classifying emails same as attachments does not work as expected.
• [Office Addins] Inconsistent behavior is observed when clicking on the ribbon.