# Release Notes: 2019-02-06

Welcome to today's release!

Some quick notes before we get to tonight's new features. First, a net-nerd news flash:

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Judging from the weather reports, we've hit the depths of winter in the northern hemisphere. If you need a break from frigid temperatures, or if you're in the southern hemisphere and laboring under heatwaves, then consider a quick trip to a place that has the same weather, year-round: San Francisco! NANOG 75 runs from February 17th to the 20th, and is happening in the home of ThousandEyes' HQ, a short walk from the site of NANOG. Hope to see you there!

In ThousandEyes blog news, we are very pleased to have a pair of great guest bloggers. First up: John Todd, the Executive Director of public DNS service Quad9. John favors us with his experience using ThousandEyes, in [Discovering Latent DNS Issues: A Quad9 Case Study](https://blog.thousandeyes.com/discovering-latent-dns-issues-quad-9-case-study/). And joining John is Jonathan Lewis, the VP of Product Marketing at cloud service provider NS1. His post, [Modern DNS and the Value of One Second](https://blog.thousandeyes.com/modern-dns-and-the-value-of-one-second/), dovetails nicely with John's, and provides a great overview of the advanced capabilities of DNS which enable a fast online experience. Thanks, guys!

Continuing with the DNS theme, our Senior Product Marketing Manager, Angelique Medina, gave us one post for [Surviving DNS Flag Day](https://blog.thousandeyes.com/surviving-dns-flag-day/), and a second to look forward to trends in IT infrastructure for the coming year, in [Five Infrastructure Trends to Watch for in 2019](https://blog.thousandeyes.com/five-infrastructure-trends-to-watch-for-2019/). Spoiler weather report: clouds get bigger, clouds get cloudier.

And now for the news of features...

## Cloud Agents

Welcome to a new IPv6 Cloud Agent in Strasbourg, France. Bienvenue!

## Mandatory TLS access for Appliances

Web access for management of Virtual Appliances and Physical Appliances now require a secure SSL/TLS browser connection (i.e. encrypted connection on port 443/TCP using an https\:// URL). Connections to the unencrypted http\:// URL will now be redirected to the https\:// URL.

Note that by default the secure connection uses a self-signed certificate, which will cause standard browsers to display security warnings. To prevent warnings and ensure secure access, customers can upload a valid server certificate via the **SSL Settings** tab of the web management interface. The interface also allows users to create a certificate signing request. For more information, check out the ThousandEyes Knowledge Base article [Secure access to ThousandEyes Appliances](https://success.thousandeyes.com/PublicArticlePage?articleIdParam=kA044000000XofqCAC_Secure-access-to-ThousandEyes-Appliances).

## Test filters

The Test Settings page now has display filters, similar to other settings pages.

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Available filters include Name, Type, Target, Test Label and Enabled.

## Endpoint Agents in the Agent Status widget

In Dashboards, the Agent Status widget can now display Endpoint Agents, using similar iconography to Enterprise Agents.

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The widget can be configured to display Endpoint Agents individually or grouped by one or more Endpoint Agent Labels, and can be configured to filter similarly.

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## Minor enhancements & bug fixes

Here are the minor enhancements and bug fixes in this week's release:

* Added the .pdf extension to Reports which are downloaded as PDF files
* Added support for unicode characters in Reports which are downloaded as PDF files

## Support coverage change

From February 22nd to March 3rd, ThousandEyes will have a minor reduction from 24 x 7 support coverage, in conjunction with our annual all-company event. Check the [announcement of reduced support coverage](https://success.thousandeyes.com/PublicArticlePage?articleIdParam=kA044000000UFZUCA4_Reduced-Support-Coverage-Feb-22-March-3) for full details.

## Questions and comments

Got feedback for us? [Send us an email](mailto:support@thousandeyes.com?subject=2019-02-05+Release+Update)!