Release Notes 2024

Interested in previous release notes? See last year's feature releases: Release Notes 2023. Alternately, see our List of Bug Fix Reports or List of JumpCloud Agent Release Notes, updated weekly.

May 3, 2024

MacOS USB External Storage Restriction Policy

• JumpCloud administrators can now block external storage volumes connected over USB, Thunderbolt, or even SD Card readers with one simple policy, powered by the JumpCloud Agent and controlled over MDM.
• See Create a Mac USB External Storage Restriction Policy.

May 2, 2024

Updates to Dynamic Groups

• New Operators: We’ve added contains, does not contain, and ends with operators to help with more complex grouping needs.
• New User Attribute: We’ve added the Company Email attribute for user groups to help with targeting email domain-specific groups.
• See Configure Dynamic Device Groups and Configure Dynamic User Groups

May 1, 2024

Microsoft Store Application deployment

• Admins can now search for Microsoft Store apps in the Software Management section of the JumpCloud Admin Portal. Previously, Microsoft Store apps could only be added to by finding the PackageIDs (PIDs) in the Microsoft Store and manually adding them in the Admin Portal.
• See Manage Software for Windows with Microsoft Store.

April 30, 2024

JumpCloud University (JCU) Enhancements

JCU has some new features that make it easier for customers and partners to access and complete their learning:

• Updated Learning Paths: Our learning paths have been redesigned to support product feature solutions in JumpCloud, such as Identity Management, Device Management, and Access and Resource Management. Review our JumpCloud Learning Paths.
• Student Dashboard Filters: Use JCU’s student dashboard to identify the courses you’re enrolled in, which courses are in progress, and the courses you’ve completed.
• End User Resources Page: JCU has a great end user page that you can filter by topics and content. Explore our End User Resources.

April 18, 2024

Password Manager Desktop App new Linux RPM Build

• An RPM build for Linux is now available, in addition to the Debian build. Both of these builds auto-update and are stable Linux builds.
  • RPM works on x64 Architecture Red Hat distributions (Fedora).
  • Debian continues to work on Debian based distributions (Ubuntu, Debian).
  • We no longer support the .appimage build as of 04.18.2024.

Remote Assist

• macOS users will now be prompted to grant the required permissions to run JumpCloud Remote Assist (Screen Recording, Accessibility and Full Disk Access) every time you log in to the system until you grant all the required permissions.
• You can now directly grant these permissions using the Change Setting option in the pop-up window. 
  

April 8, 2024

JumpCloud Go

• JumpCloud Go now supports GNOME-based Linux devices using local device password verification. Biometrics authenticators aren’t supported for Linux in this release. 
• See Get Started: JumpCloud Go.

March 27, 2024

Temporary Elevated Device Privileges

• You can now grant a user temporary administrator/sudo permissions on their associated device. When the designated time frame expires, the user’s elevated permissions are automatically revoked.
• See Set Admin/Sudo Permissions.

Software Management - Microsoft Store

• Install software apps from the Microsoft Store (using the Package ID) on your JumpCloud-managed Windows fleet.
• See Manage Software for Windows with Microsoft Store.

March 26, 2024

Newly Improved Device Page

• We’re giving you a full page layout of the Devices Details page and everything within it to streamline navigation, surface more meaningful information, and allow you to do more, in one place. 
• See Improved Device Experience.

March 21, 2024

JumpCloud Go

• JumpCloud Go now supports the Firefox browser on macOS and Windows devices using the JumpCloud Go Firefox browser extension.
• See Get Started: JumpCloud Go. 

February 26, 2024

Software Management - JumpCloud Private App Repository

• Control the applications you deploy to your fleet without the time and expense involved in setting up and maintaining your own hosting solution…let JumpCloud do it for you!
• Currently, we support MSI package format for Windows and PKG package format for Mac.
• Windows MDM or Apple MDM required to get started.
• See Manage Software with JumpCloud Private Repository

Enable MFA for Administrator Accounts

• We’ve added a widget to the Homepage so that you can quickly view a list of the admins in your org who are not currently required to use MFA to sign in to the Admin Portal or Multi-Tenant Portal.
• From this widget, Admins with Billing can take quick action to enforce MFA for those admins.
• See Enable MFA for the Admin Portal or MTP Homepage for more info.

February 22, 2024

Password Manager Desktop App

• This release contains new functionality for archiving items; users will be able to view, delete, and restore archived items easily.
• Several improvements have been made to ensure Password Manager sync occurs quickly, appropriately, and without issues.
  • The sync improvements are especially important for customers syncing large numbers of users and folders.
    See JumpCloud Password Manager Desktop App

February 21, 2024

JumpCloud Go

• JumpCloud Go now supports Microsoft Edge, Brave, and other Chromium-based browsers. 
• All Chromium-based browsers use the JumpCloud Go Chrome web extension.
  See Get Started: JumpCloud Go.

February 8, 2024

Password Manager Browser Extension

• This release includes an enhanced design and updated functionality to increase usability and security:
  • updated design for easier navigation
  • expanded settings menu
  • enhanced sorting options
  • improved prompt for ignoring, saving, and using passwords on websites
  • easier to use password generator (using a randomly generated password greatly increases a user’s online security)
    See: JumpCloud Password Manager Browser Extension

January 30, 2024

Dynamic Groups

• We’ve added a starts with Operator to dynamic groups (users and devices).
  • For the time being, use of starts with is limited to one Value.
• We’ve added a Hostname Attribute for dynamic device groups (for use with equals, not equals, and starts with Operators).

January 10, 2024

Dynamic Groups

• Multiple values for the not equals operator are now supported for dynamic user and device groups.
  • In the following example, only users who are not assigned to any of the three departments indicated will be added to the new user group.
    

January 8, 2024

Password Manager for Admins

• We have added messages, guardrails, and labels to the Admin Portal to help prevent users from getting removed from a Password Manager enrolled user group and creating a scenario where users have to re-enroll and recover their passwords.
• Additionally, when enrolling user groups into Password Manager, the admin can filter the groups to hide dynamic user groups.
  See: Enroll users in JumpCloud Password Manager: Admins

January 3, 2024

Billing Only Role

• New year, new role! The Billing Only Role has very specific permissions to only view and access invoices, and billing information. This roles also gives access to Support and can create support tickets if needed. See Admin Portal Roles and Manage Admin Roles in the MTP.