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2020.04 Release Notes

The Managed Services Platform 2020.04 release is primarily a maintenance release.

IMPORTANT: Older-version Endpoints Have Been Discontinued

In release 2019.10, the deprecation of version 1 and version 2 requests was announced. The current release, 2020.04, no longer supports the older versions. An attempt to access an old URL will result in a 410, “Gone”, error code.

In order, each row of the following table shows (1) a description of the endpoint, (2) the endpoint that has been discontinued, and (3) the version-3 endpoint to be used from now on:

Get list of scans `GET v1/customer/get_scans` `GET v3/scans`
Schedule a new scan `POST v1/customer/scan/schedule` `POST v3/scans`
Download reports by a scan `GET v1/customer/get_reports` `GET v3/reports`
Get a list of targets `GET v2/customer/targets` `GET v3/targets`
Create a new target `POST v2/customer/targets` `POST v3/targets`
Upload files to be used by a scan `POST v2/file` `POST v3/scans//files`

What’s New

This release provides the following enhancement:

  • New test status of ‘Fixed’:

    Now customers can mark the date and time of a test as Fixed. This flag ensures that the scheduled date for this test is not affected by the rescheduling of other tests due to operations in the Gantt view or Calendar view.

    It remains possible to change the scheduled date of a fixed test by using the TEST > Test Info page.

Release Notes

Report format transition: The older report formats have been discontinued. The additional reports named xml_report (deprecated).xml and csv_report (deprecated).csv are no longer created.

Upcoming change to the format of vulnerability reports: Reports can contain vulnerability data. This includes reports retrieved by using the API request, Get Vulnerabilities. When in XML format, the vulnerability data can contain HTML markup. At present, HTML markup in a report is enclosed in HTML/XML-encoded angle brackets, and is otherwise unchanged; for example:

<xml>
    <description>
        ...
        &lt;script/&gt;        <!-- Where '&lt;script/&gt;' indicates the HTML markup. -->
        ...
    </description>
</xml>

As of Release 2020.06, reports in XML will begin to use character data (CDATA) notation to encapsulate HTML markup. The angle brackets are no longer encoded. For example:

<xml>
    <description>
        ...
        CDATA[<script/>]        <!-- Again '<script/>' indicates the HTML markup,
                                     but now the angle brackets are not encoded, and the markup is enclosed in
                                     the square brackets introduced by the keyword 'CDATA'. -->
        ...
    </description>
</xml>

Parent topic:2026.5.0 Release Notes