Fortra Appliance

August 2026

Version 3.1.2, build 54

August 26, 2026

NOTE:

  • By default, the appliance restarts automatically shortly after an upgrade is successfully prepared. Administrators can configure a manual restart instead.

  • Do not submit the same upgrade repeatedly while a restart is pending.

  • Secure Shell (SSH) access remains disabled after upgrading to Fortra Appliance 3.1.2.

  • To reset the local web interface administrator password, sign in to the appliance's limited console as fmasetup and run webui-admin-password-reset.

  • Direct upgrades from GSC 3.1.1 are supported.

Enhancements

  • Secured communication between appliance nodes in a cluster using WireGuard encryption, improving the protection and reliability of distributed workloads.

  • Improved package management recovery to help queued package operations resume reliably after an appliance leadership change.

  • Improved support diagnostics to help administrators investigate appliance issues more effectively.

  • Improved appliance startup and certificate recovery after configuration changes.

  • Strengthened validation of locally installed package archives to reject unsafe, malformed, or ambiguous package content.

  • Strengthened validation of appliance cluster network configuration to help prevent unsupported or unsafe networking changes.

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue that could prevent management access from recovering correctly when static IP-based networking is enabled.

  • Fixed cases where management certificates could fail to recover correctly after an IP address change or appliance restart.

  • Fixed upgrade and rollback scenarios that could leave appliance networking or cluster services in an inconsistent state.

  • Fixed conditions that could delay or prevent queued package operations from resuming after appliance leadership changes.

  • Improved preservation of appliance disk layout in delivered virtual appliance images.

Version 3.1.1

August 11, 2026

NOTE:

  • By default, the appliance restarts automatically shortly after an upgrade is successfully prepared. Administrators can configure a manual restart instead.

  • Do not submit the same upgrade repeatedly while a restart is pending.

  • Secure Shell (SSH) access remains disabled after upgrading to Fortra Appliance 3.1.1.

  • To reset the local web interface administrator password, sign in to the appliance's limited console as fmasetup and run webui-admin-password-reset.

Enhancements

  • Improved appliance upgrades to preserve network configuration, system identity, administrative access settings, and other essential configuration.

  • Added automatic restart handling after a successful appliance upgrade. Administrators can disable automatic restart when a manually scheduled restart is preferred.

  • Improved recovery when an appliance IP address changes.

  • Improved reliability when restoring service after network or firewall configuration changes.

  • Improved status reporting for managed appliances and Control Center connectivity.

  • Added diagnostic bundle support for FA appliance troubleshooting, including appliance deployments used as DSPM OnNetwork scanner nodes.

  • Added Syslog forwarding for audit and system events using configured logging destinations.

  • Improved air-gapped application uploads. Upload progress remains visible after navigating away, and interrupted uploads can be resumed safely.

  • Improved application deployment status reporting so active operations are no longer shown as completed before they finish.

  • Improved application package cleanup and storage management.

  • Strengthened protection of appliance sign-in credentials by requiring secure connections for production authentication.

  • Locked bootstrap account settings after initial setup and added UI guidance to prevent unsupported post-bootstrap changes.

  • Reduced appliance console access while retaining a limited, authenticated password-recovery workflow.

  • Further restricted external access to internal appliance services.

  • Removed unnecessary remote-management components from delivered appliance images.

Fixes

  • Fixed upgrade failures and configuration loss associated with DHCP-based appliances.

  • Fixed upgrade interruptions that could leave an appliance waiting for a restart.

  • Fixed an issue that could cause a "502 Bad Gateway" response during web interface sign-in.

  • Fixed login availability issues caused by internal network access rules.

  • Improved reliability when restoring service after network or firewall configuration changes.

  • Fixed storage changes that could inadvertently remove or reduce existing application storage allocations.

  • Added capacity checks to prevent storage growth that the appliance cannot safely accommodate.

  • Fixed application upload progress and recovery behavior.

  • Fixed misleading deployment and execution statuses.

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