Release Notes
November 20, 2024

The GoGuardian App on Mac Release Notes

GoGuardian App

The GoGuardian App on Mac Release Notes

1.13.2


November 20, 2024

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).

1.12.2


October 9, 2024

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.

1.11.2


August 31, 2024

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.

1.10.2

July 31, 2024

Fixed

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

1.8.4


June 28, 2024

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.

1.7.4


May 6, 2024

New

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

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).

1.6.2


March 25, 2024

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.

1.5.2


February 20, 2024

New

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

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.

1.4.4


January 18, 2024

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.

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.

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.

1.2.2


September 29, 2023

New

  • Improved alternative text for accessibility.


Fixed

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

1.1.2


August 6, 2023

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.

1.0.68


July 25, 2023

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.

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.

1.0.66


April 20, 2023

New

  • Improved GoGuardian Beacon machine learning models.


Fixed

  • Fixed a bug that caused the desktop version of YouTube.com to freeze.

1.0.50


February 13, 2023

Fixed

  • General improvements and fixes.

Additional Product Updates

GoGuardian Beacon
December 5, 2024
Configure Beacon to your holiday schedule
GoGuardian Beacon
October 1, 2024
After-Hours Email Summary
GoGuardian Teacher
October 1, 2024
Flexible Scheduling for Every Classroom
GoGuardian Teacher
August 30, 2024
Teacher-initiated Filter Override
GoGuardian Beacon
May 20, 2024
Snoozing Active Planning Alerts
GoGuardian Admin
July 12, 2024
Streamlined Smart Alerts Interface for Easier Management