Release Notes 4.0.0
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Introduction

This document describes the changes that have been made to the Anchor since the last release. Specific issues resolved in this release are listed in the Issues Resolved section at the end of this document.

What’s New in this Release?                                                                                                              

We are excited to release a number of new features and improvements in v 4.0.0 to make it easier to protect, share, manage, and deploy Anchor in your organization.

  • Source code protection with Anchor
    • Deploying Anchor to protect source code ensures your code is secure and protected during its journey from the repository down to the endpoint. Once on the endpoint, source code is stored with persistent and transparent encryption while at rest and in use. Anchor provides excellent protection without changing your workflow, impacting development teams, their tools (More Information)
  • Added right-click option to share Anchored file securely 
    • This feature allows users to share anchored files outside of the organization. This option will also give an option to anchor the unAnchored files before sharing. (More Information)
  • Allow unprotected download when sharing Anchored files
    • Users may now share Anchored files in a manner that securely delivers your data and allows the recipient to download the Anchored data in an unprotected format.
  • Manually add users to the Admin Dashboard 
    • Previously, users were added into the dashboard automatically once the agent was installed on their machine. Now users can be manually added prior to having an agent installed.
  • Removed edit access rules, and restore to the previous version in right-click context menu.
  • Moved Restart services option from right-click menu to tray app help menu.
  • Improved user messages.

Resolved Issues                                                                                                                                                 

Known Anchor Limitation                                                                                                                                 

Note: We have all these covered as part of our Future release roadmap.

  1. Anchored Files
    1. Printing: Physical printing is possible on Anchored files when opened by non-Microsoft Office applications. Anchor administrators may restrict all printing options (physical and digital) for Anchored files opened by Microsoft Office applications. This can be managed in the Anchor Dashboard.
    2. Saving
      1. Save as protection is only available for Anchor Certified Applications (More Information)
      2. Anchor-certified non-Microsoft applications (Acrobat Reader, Phantom PDF, Libreoffice, Wordpad, Irfanview Image Viewer). Users will not be allowed to save data into or out of Anchored folders. 
        1. Example: The following action will be blocked by Anchor - A user opens an unAnchored (plain text) file located in a folder not protected by Anchor, then attempts to save the file into an Anchored folder.
        2. Example: The following action will be blocked by Anchor - A user opens an Anchored file located in an Anchored folder and attempts to “Save-As” into a folder not protected by Anchor.
      3. Anchor admin-approved applications (More Information). Users will be allowed to save data into or out of Anchored folders.
      4.  The file may not be Anchored when the following use case. 
        1. The file may not be Anchored when the following use case.      A user opens an Anchored or unAnchored file in Adobe Acrobat Reader, DC Pro, DC standard, and save-as (replace an existing file)  to the Anchored folder. (More Information)
  2. Data Loss Protection: 
    1. Copy/Paste Controls: When copy/paste blocking is enabled, the user can only copy and paste in the same file. When an Anchored file(s) are open, the Anchor will not allow content to be moved from one file to another. (More Information)
    2. Screenshot Tool Blocking: When screenshot tool blocking is enabled, Anchor will not allow taking screenshots using default windows screenshot tools. (More Information
      1. Note: It is possible to take a screenshot using other 3rd party tools when screenshot tool blocking is enabled.
  3. Anchor Services
    1. File extensions and authorized applications: if the user opens an UnAnchored (plain text) file with an unauthorized extension using an Anchor authorized application (More Information) and saves the file. Anchor will encrypt the file when it is saved. For example: if .xml is not an authorized extension, but you open it within Microsoft Word (a certified application) and then save the file, Anchor will protect the saved output.Note: This behavior will only occur on Anchored folders.
    2. Microsoft Office protections: Should the Anchor Microsoft Office add-in be disabled (by the user or unintended actions), Anchor services will not allow any Anchored files to be consumed.

4. Installing and Uninstalling Anchor: If configured, Anchor allows individual users to protect folders they choose. Should Anchor be uninstalled and then reinstalled, personal protected folders beyond what is configured by Anchor Administrators in the dashboard will be lost or not restored. Files are not lost and the protection remains when Anchor is uninstalled. Users need to right-click on the previously Anchored folder and choose Anchor> Anchor my data > Add protection to add a folder as a protected folder.

5. Anchor Operations

Anchor can't anchor(encrypt) read-only files.

6. Source Code Protection:

In very rare cases, the Git clone command fails when users try to clone the git repository with more than 10k files in the Anchor-protected folder. Users need to delete the git repo folder from the Anchor-protected folder and retry the Git clone to mitigate this issue. Open the folder and confirm all the files are Anchored.

7. Anchor log:

Users will see 10 delays in populating Anchor logs after performing any actions on Anchored files.




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