Release 1.36.1
February 17, 2025 (Updated on February 25, 2025)
Qualys strongly recommends upgrading your Qualys Container Security Sensor to 1.36.1 version to avail the latest features and enhancements.
What's new?
Deprecated Flags in Helm 1.15.1 & Unified Helm Chart 2.2.1
With this release, the following flags are deprecated in order to maintain uniformity across Qualys sensors (Qualys CS Sensor, Cluster Sensor, and Container Runtime Sensor). With this change, the sensor development is more streamlined.
- pod_name - A part of Helm 1.14.0. It was used to indicate the name of the Enterprise TruRisk™ Platform (Qualys Cloud Platform) POD to communicate with.
- pod - A part of Unified Helm Chart 2.1.0. It was used to indicate the name of the Enterprise TruRisk™ Platform (Qualys Cloud Platform) POD to communicate with.
Helm Chart 1.15.1 Updates
The Qualys Container Security package consists of the 'values.yaml' file which deploys the sensor in various environments. This section explains the updates in the latest Helm chart (values.yaml) file. Refer to QCS Sensor Helm Chart (qcs-sensor).
Enhancements
With this release, the following flag is introduced or updated in the 'values.yaml' file.
| Flag/Entity | Status | Flag Location in YAML 1.15.0 | Description |
| storageDriverType |
Updated | Line no. 10 | Indicates type of the storage driver. With this release, the sensor installation will set storageDriverType=overlay. Now, by default, the scanning will be performed using overlay storage driver. Earlier, this flag was optional. |
| namespace | Updated | Line no. 33 | With this release, you can provide namespace value as per your requirement. To support this, namespace flag is provided as blank. |
Unified Helm Chart (qualys-tc 2.2.1) Updates
This is the unified helm chart to install Qcs Sensor, Admission Controller, Cluster Sensor, and Container Runtime Sensor. Refer to Qualys Unified Helm Chart (qualys-tc).
Enhancements
With this release, the following flag is introduced or updated in the 'qualys-tc 2.2.1' file.
| Flag/Entity | Status | Flag Location in qualys-tc 2.2.1 | Description |
| storageDriverType |
Updated | Line no. 10 of of qualys-tc > charts > qcs-sensor > values.yaml | Indicates type of the storage driver. With this release, the sensor installation will set storageDriverType=overlay. Now, by default, the scanning will be performed using overlay storage driver. Earlier, this flag was optional. |
| namespace | Updated | Line no. 33 | With this release, you can provide namespace value as per your requirement. To support this, namespace flag is provided as blank. |
Issue Addressed
The following issue has been fixed with this release.
| Category | Issue |
|---|---|
| Auto update feature of Registry Sensor | While the Registry sensor was being auto-updated on a Docker host, it got stuck in a loop. This happened because the auto-update process got triggered before initializing the scans. |