Cloud Agent for Windows Release 6.5

Limited Customer Release

April 09, 2026

Peer to Peer Patch Distribution

We are introducing peer-to-peer distribution for the Windows Cloud Agent to support a decentralized file-sharing mechanism. This enhancement enables Cloud Agent host to distribute the downloaded patch artifacts with other hosts within the same Local Area Network. 

This feature offers the following benefits:

• Peer-to-peer sharing reduces duplicate downloads and bandwidth use.
• Patch artifact files are split into chunks for parallel download from multiple peers, increasing download speed.
• Ensures patch artifacts are uniquely identified by cryptographic Content Identifiers (CIDs) to ensure only unmodified content is downloaded and shared.
• Reduces download failures by enabling assets to obtain patch artifacts from multiple peers instead of a single server.
• Peer hosts discover each other within the same Local Area Network (LAN), enabling faster and more efficient data sharing.
• Identical artifact files and chunks are downloaded once per network, optimizing memory usage.

This feature has limited availability. Contact your Technical Account Manager or Qualys Support to activate it.

You can enable peer-to-peer distribution when creating a new configuration profile or editing an existing profile.

To learn more about this feature, refer to Peer to Peer Patch Distribution.

Required Application Version

Cloud Agent Application 2.7.0

 

Behavior Change

There is no behavior change for this release.

Platform Coverage Support

No new platform coverage added in this release.

Issues Addressed

There are no notable and important issues for this release.

Known Issues, Limitations, and Workarounds

There are no known issues for this release.