Release 1.42

March 16, 2026

- Qualys strongly recommends upgrading your Qualys Container Security Sensor to version 1.42.0 to avail the latest features and enhancements.

Added Support for new Operating Systems

CS Sensor 1.42 expands the coverage of scan targets' OSes by introducing support for the following Operating Systems.

• BellSoft Alpaquita Linux - A minimal, secure distro optimized for production workloads.
• Arch Linux - A highly customizable, advanced-user distro with rolling updates. 

Unified Helm Chart (qualys-tc 2.8.0) Updates

The unified helm chart can be used to install QCS Sensor, Admission Controller, Cluster Sensor, and Container Runtime Sensor.
Refer to Qualys Unified Helm Chart (qualys-tc).

Enhancements to Cluster Sensor values.yaml in qualys-tc

With this release, the following flag is introduced in the 'qualys-tc 2.8.0' file.  

Flag/Entity	Status	Flag Location (qualys-tc > charts > cluster sensor > values.yaml)	Description
priorityClass: enabled: true name: "cluster-low" #priority class name used in cluster sensor deployment value: 1000000 #value determines the priority e.g. 1000000 preemptionPolicy: "Never" #preemption policy for pod	New	Line No. 32 to 36	To specify the priority class of Cluster sensor.

Issue Addressed

The following issue has been fixed with this release.

Category	Issue
General Sensor	Sensor failed to report Containers having special characters in their environment variables when Mask Environment variable (--mask-env-variable / qcsSensor.qualys.args.maskEnvVariable) was used.