Release 4.1.82: IBM | Oracle

October 17, 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 data centers and desktop platforms.

Public Cloud: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, IBM

This version is not limited to IBM and Oracle. It has already been released on Alibaba, Xenserver, KVM, Proxmox, AWS, GCP, and Azure. In upcoming releases, it will also be available for all other supported virtualization platforms.
The availability of scanners in cloud marketplaces depends on cloud vendors and usually takes a few weeks after general availability from Qualys.

New Features

With this release, we have introduced new features for:

IBM

qVSA 4.1 image version is based on Oracle Linux 8(x86_64) with UEK kernel-5.15.
The Scanner console displays the UI on tty1 and the system log on tty8.
Syslog forwarding is set up to forward all scanner logs, including both scanning-related logs, AUTOUPDATE logs, and all messages from /var/log/messages.
A Virtual Machine instance with a minimum of 2GB of RAM is required.
Support for TLSv1.3.

Oracle

qVSA 4.1 image version is based on Oracle Linux 8(x86_64) with UEK kernel-5.15.
The Scanner console displays the UI on tty1 and the system log on tty8.
Syslog forwarding is set up to forward all scanner logs, including both scanning-related logs, AUTOUPDATE logs, and all messages from /var/log/messages.
A Virtual Machine instance with a minimum of 2GB of RAM is required.
Support for TLSv1.3.

Issue Addressed

We have fixed an issue for the OCI platform where DNS entries configured via the Scanner Console were not being saved or applied.

Limitation

The following are the limitations of this release:

Currently, we are not supporting SCAP scanning.
UEFI(Secure Boot) is not supported on all platforms; it is currently supported only on GCE.
DNS server configuration using userdata is not supported on all platforms; it is currently supported only on AWS.