Release 4.1: Oracle

May 08, 2025 

 The operating system for Virtual Scanner cannot be upgraded. You need to replace the scanner image or deploy a new scanner with the latest image, although this may not always be necessary. For details on when scanner replacement is necessary, refer to the Know when scanner replacement is needed section. 

What's New?

This release brings new features and updates to supported cloud platforms, data centers, and desktop platforms.

• Public Clouds: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 

• Availability of scanners in cloud marketplaces depends on cloud vendors and typically takes a few weeks after general availability from Qualys.
• This version is not limited to the platform listed above. In the upcoming releases, it will be available for all other supported virtualization platforms.

New Features

With this release, we have introduced new features for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

• qVSA 4.1 image version is based on Oracle Linux 8(x86_64) with UEK kernel-5.15.
• Syslog forwarding is set up to forward all scanner logs, including scanning-related logs, AUTOUPDATE logs, and all messages from /var/log/messages.
• Instance type with a minimum of 2GB RAM is required.
• Support for TLSv1.3.

Limitation

The Scanner Console, accessible via the instance's VNC Console connection, is not supported in the qVSA-4.1 release. All scanner configurations, such as perscode and proxy settings, must be established using the instance's cloud-init data. All other VM operations must be performed through the Oracle Cloud instance's operations.