Release Notes

April 24, 2025

The GoGuardian App on Mac Release Notes

GoGuardian App

1.17.2

April 24, 2025

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Fixed

Fixed a bug causing GoGuardian Admin to not capture device activity. This bug was an edge case and a rare occurrence in The GoGuardian App deployments.

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1.16.2

March 25, 2025

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Fixed

Fixed coverage for HTML pages to include misconfigured states.

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1.15.2

February 12, 2025

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New

Released support for GoGuardian Admin Smart Alerts for Proxies v1, which automatically detects proxy websites.

Changed

Changed routing of web servers with multiple or incorrect Transfer-Encoding headers to ensure websites are reachable.
Improved support for chunked <script> tags to help websites load.
Extended support for <meta> tags in Content Security Policy (CSP).

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1.14.2

January 16, 2025

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Fixed

Fixed a bug causing The GoGuardian App VPN to delay connecting.
Fixed a bug causing delayed browsing when switching network connections.
Fixed a bug causing delays with browsing activity showing in GoGuardian Admin after a new installation of The GoGuardian App.

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1.13.2

November 20, 2024

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New

Added support for Pause Beacon, which lets districts and schools with Core or 24/7 subscriptions pause alerts and notifications during specific times (e.g., holidays).

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1.12.2

October 9, 2024

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New

Added Pearson application domains and subdomains to Application Exceptions in Organization Management > Installation > The GoGuardian App > Manage Exceptions > Application Exceptions > Pearson. The domains and subdomains include:some text
- *.actaspire.org
- *.actonline.act.org
- *.testnav.com

Changed

GoGuardian Admin policies no longer treat www as a subdomain in URLs on The GoGuardian App deployments.

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1.11.2

August 31, 2024

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New

Released Teacher Override, letting teachers temporarily override blocks set up in GoGuardian Admin during classroom sessions. Please read our "Teacher Override" support article for mroe information.
Improved cross-origin (CORS) handling, specifically reworked Content Security Policy (CSP) code to minimally modify CSP headers and resolve CORS errors.
Added the ability to capture page titles for GoGuardian Admin Smart Alerts, which will now show in the Smart Alerts card as Website Title.

Fixed

Unable to close the Beacon student message on Google searches.
Beacon student messages appear broken or blank on Yahoo searches.
Continued improvements to CSP-related issues that prevent website resources from loading.

Changed

Changed The GoGuardian App hostname rules to match the GoGuardian extensions. When users block a domain or subdomain, it now prevents access to all endpoints without requiring a trailing wildcard. For example, docs.google.com blocks all Google Docs file URLs.

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1.10.2

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July 31, 2024‍

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Fixed

Fixed a bug causing Teacher Allow Scenes to not limit YouTube videos to only the specified URL until the page is refreshed.

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1.8.4

June 28, 2024‍

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Fixed

Fixed a bug preventing users from closing Smart Alerts student messages.
Fixed a bug slowing predictive search in Google.
Fixed the tab order and background color on the student privacy bubble message to meet accessibility standards.

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1.7.4

May 6, 2024‍

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New

Hardcoded Kandji's hostnames to avoid service disruption of MDM profiles.

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Fixed

Fixed a bug causing users to show as Pending in GoGuardian Admin after signing into The GoGuardian App via Google single sign-on authentication (SSO).

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1.6.2

March 25, 2024‍

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Fixed

Fixed a bug causing the GoGuardian Teacher Lock Device command to not persist through device restart.
Fixed a bug causing tabs opened before a GoGuardian Teacher session to not show in the student tile.
Improved the alerting of WikiHow searches via GoGuardian Admin Smart Alerts.

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1.5.2

February 20, 2024
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New

Improved accessibility by adding descriptions, labels, and drop-shadow contrast.

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Fixed

Fixed a bug causing some sub-page services and resources to be missing from Diagnostics in Organization Management.
Fixed a bug allowing YouTube filtering bypasses via the Preview feature in Google Mail (Gmail) and Google Docs.
Fixed a bug causing five-second delays for web requests made in Mozilla Firefox.
Fixed a bug preventing The GoGuardian App from attempting to sign web requests with an expired certificate.

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1.4.4

January 18, 2024
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New

Increased accessibility by improving element headers and focus for screen readers and supporting alternative input methods (e.g., keyboard navigation).
General improvements and fixes.

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Fixed

Fixed a bug allowing users to log in with the previous user's cached Google credentials at the single sign-on (SSO) screen.
Fixed a bug causing the default browser to continuously reopen when a user closes it out during SSO authentication.
Fixed a bug causing some websites to return empty responses on connections over HTTP/2 protocol.

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Changed

For GoGuardian Admin Website URLs and Website Categories, the proxy is now enforced only on HTML responses. This reduces excessive blocks, latency, and the frequency of manually exempting websites.

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1.2.2

September 29, 2023
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New

Improved alternative text for accessibility.

Fixed

Fixed a bug that caused the privacy bubble to show for students during out-of-school hours.

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1.1.2

August 6, 2023
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Changed

Hardcoded new Google domains for single sign-on (SSO) in The GoGuardian App.

Fixed

Fixed a bug where logs were created for expected behaviors with The GoGuardian App.
Addressed a bug that caused a block page to show when Admin filtering was disabled.

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1.0.68‍

July 25, 2023
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Changed

Hardcoded commonly used MDM hosts, allowing devices to access the internet on the macOS Setup Assistant screen. The GoGuardian App previously needed to be opened at least once for the device to access the internet.

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Fixed

Fixed a bug that caused foreign sites to throw privacy warnings due to The GoGuardian App misidentifying the top-level domain.
Fixed a bug that caused the "Next" button in the single sign-on (SSO) screen to not work.

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