Release 4.1: Azure 

April 11, 2025 (Updated on April 18, 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 Cloud:  Azure

• 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 the following new features for Azure.

• 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 current release has the following limitations:

Instance types with Accelerated Networking are not supported. Some of these instance families are included, but are not limited to, D-Series v5, B4-series v2, etc.  If such instances are encountered, the following error is displayed in the logs:

Different types/models of Network adapters are configured. Qualys advises against doing that.

To avoid this error, we recommend using supported instance families without Accelerated Networking, such as D-Series v4, A-Series v2, B-Series v2, E-Series v5, etc.