Release Notes

June 28, 2024

The GoGuardian App on Mac Release Notes

GoGuardian App

1.10.2

July ?, 2024‍

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Fixed

Reduced the latency on GoGuardian Admin Smart Alerts predictions for Google Docs.
Fixed a bug causing Beacon alerts to not generate in Office 365 Microsoft Word.

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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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