Release Notes
Details the production release history for Patch My PC Cloud, the most recent release being shown first.
Applies to: Patch My PC Cloud
Note
We aim to release new features, updates, and fixes at 12:00 CEST every Wednesday.
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9th October 2024
New Features
Intune Apps
Deployments without assignments – You can now create a deployment without assignments [Note: You need to be using the Update Rings Feature currently in Public Preview to be able to use this functionality].
Update Rings can now be updated at the Ring level – You can now update a ring to any available version that is higher than the current version.
2nd October 2024
New Features
Portal
Discovery now shows the icon for an app – Discovery now shows the relevant icon for each app that’s managed/unmanaged.
Daily Updates Email Report includes newly created Deployments – The daily Updates Report now includes the details of any new deployments created in the previous 24 hours [Note: You need to be using the Update Rings Feature currently in Public Preview to receive the report with these improvements].
25th September 2024
New Features
Portal
Discovery now shows Publisher apps – The Managed tab of Discovery now includes apps deployed by our on-premises Publisher.
Recommended default name for the Branding App – We now provide a recommended default name for the branding app, which you can override.
Intune Apps
Update Rings [PUBLIC PREVIEW] - The Update Rings feature of Patch My PC (PMPC) Cloud allows you to deploy apps and updates in a phased manner across your Intune estate.
Increased number of characters for Additional Arguments - The maximum number of characters you enter in this field has been increased to 500.
Fixes
Portal
Resolved truncating issue with App Cat app names – When opened, apps with long names are no longer truncated but are displayed in full on the app’s properties page.
Binary Free Apps
Resolved “No Files Added” bug – After uploading a new version of the app.
17th September 2024
New Features
Portal
Discovery – The Discovery feature is now available in Public Preview. This feature lets you see which apps in our App Catalog are installed in your environment, including any Binary Free Apps or Custom Apps you may have added.
Note
As this is a preview feature, you must Enable Preview Features for the Discovery node to appear in your portal.
Folder installation log now shown – We now show the path to the installation log in the new Installation Logging section of the Summary tab. We currently do not support changing this.
Fixes
Portal
Sync Schedule – GMT is no longer shown in the UI of the Sync Schedule to avoid confusion.
11th September 2024
Note
No public facing changes were made on the 4th September.
New Features
Portal
Company ID shown during recovery – When you recover a company, we now include the company ID as well as the name of any companies you can recover in the Company to Claim dropdown.
Fixes
Intune Apps
Vendor Verbose Logging enabled – Resolved an issue with vendor verbose logging not being enabled by default for IntuneSync.
On Restart Notifications incorrectly configured – Resolved an issue where if the notifications for a deployment are configured for On Restart, the Show All option is actually selected on the dropdown, and not On Restart.
28th August 2024
New Features
Portal
Recover Your Company – We now provide a facility for you to regain access to your company by using the new Recover Your Company process.
21st August 2024
New Features
Portal
Latest Version added to app properties – Now when you open an app’s properties, we show the latest version number.
Binary Free Apps
Link to vendor download – When you upload the installer, we now provide a link to the official vendor’s website to ensure you download the most recent and official version.
14th August 2024
Fixes
Portal
Notifications – Resolved an issue with emails not being sent for some apps after the daily sync job ran.
Users – Resolved an issue where changing a user’s role resulted in several notification emails being sent instead of one.
Intune Apps
Naming Conventions – Resolved an issue where any tag added after a string was not recognized.
7th August 2024
New Features
Portal
Link to product documentation added to the support menu.
Users – The portal now displays a confirmation if you try deleting yourself.
Custom Apps
Improved App Icon UI – We now show the supported file types in the UI for the App Icon.
Intune Apps
Improved language support - English variants are now exposed. Previously, we only exposed English as a language for apps. We now expose all available variants such as English - Canada, English - United Kingdom, English - United States, etc.
31st July 2024
New Features
Intune Apps
Update-only assignments for user-based apps – You can now create update-only assignments/packages with Intune Apps in the same way as you can with our OnPrem Publisher.
Fixes
Custom Apps
Resolved an issue with Silent Install Parameters not being copied over when adding a new version of an app.
24th July 2024
New Features
Portal
Sync Schedule changed to UTC – To help avoid confusion, the Sync Schedule time is now based on Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
Fixes
Portal
Customer Support – Resolved an issue with being unable to edit a timer with less than 4 hours remaining.
Custom Apps
Deployments – Resolved an issue with some Custom Apps being stuck with the status of Retrying.
17th July 2024
New Features
Portal
Ability to opt-in to Preview Features – You can now opt-in to automatically gain access to pre-release features we mark as Public Preview.
Customer Support feature re-designed – You can now set a timer to limit the amount of time Patch My Support has access to your environment and the level of access.
Test buttons for Notifications – New buttons to allow you to send test notifications/emails when setting up Notifications to check they are configured correctly.
Intune Apps
Allow Available Uninstall – You can now configure a deployment to allow an app installed by the Company Portal to be uninstalled by Intune Apps.
Increased upload limits for pre/post scripts – Previously, the total size of all pre/post scripts for a deployment was limited to 1 MB. This has now been increased to 1 MB per script, with a total size limit of 4 MB.
Fixes
Portal
Deployments – Resolved an issue with the Edit button not being displayed if an app has already been successfully deployed.
Custom Apps
Resolved an issue with the MSI Product Code being displayed for a Custom App created with an EXE as the primary installer file.
10th July 2024
New Features
Portal
Improved sorting by column – Columns can be sorted by more headings in various nodes when working in the portal.
Improved user access requests — Users can now enter a message giving more information about why they are requesting access to a company.
Improved access denied flow – Admins can now provide a reason for declining a user's access request.
Revoking Access Management rights warning – Now if you try to revoke Access Management rights for your account, provided at least one other account has this right, you will still be prompted if you are sure you wish to proceed.
Search – General improvements to search.
Sync Schedule – The new Sync Schedule feature allows you to set a different time and frequency for the sync job to run.
Fixes
Branding – Resolved an issue where uploading a new logo with the same name as the existing one shows the old logo.
Notifications – Resolved an issue with Teams and Slack notifications cutting off CVE data and not containing release notes.
Update reports – Resolved an issue with the formatting of file sizes on the deployment email report.
3rd July 2024
New Features
Portal
Users – Now you cannot remove the Access Management right for the last admin user in your company. This prevents you from locking yourself out of the portal. If you are the last user and there is at least one other account with this right, if you try revoking it from your account, you are prompted to confirm because of the consequences.
Users – The Application Deployment Admin user role has been renamed Intune App Admin.
Intune Apps
Naming Conventions - You can now use the new Naming Conventions feature to configure custom naming conventions for all deployments created in Intune Apps for Cloud. This allows you to standardize the naming convention across all your Intune deployments.
Fixes
Portal
Deployments – Resolved an issue with two Update-only apps being created in Intune if the first one fails. Now, if an app fails to be created in Intune, we delete it.
Onboarding – Resolved a sign-in issue when a user accepts an invitation.
Custom Apps
Resolved an issue with the Naming page not being accessible.
26th June 2024
New Features
Portal
New Intune App Admin user role added.
General – Clicking our logo in the top left-hand corner of the portal returns you to the App Catalog and forces a refresh.
Fixes
Portal
App Catalog – If the name of an app is truncated, hovering over it now shows the full name as a tooltip.
Contact Form – Resolved a memory exception error when sending attachments to us through the Contact Form in the portal. You can now send up to 25 MB of attachments when using this form.
Deployments – Resolved issues :
with Pause Updates being disabled when editing an existing deployment where Pause Updates has been enabled.
when editing a deployment, any required assignments with an availability date set to ASAP are not modified until the next day at 12 AM.
Deployment Filters – When adding a deployment filter to an app deployment, we now only show filters for the Windows 10 and later platform, instead of all filters.
Various improvements to notification messages and tooltips to improve readability.
Custom Apps
Resolved an issue with the user being able to add the same conflicting process multiple times when creating a Custom App. We now do validation to prevent this.
19th June 2024
New Features
Portal
Contacting Support – You can now modify the From email address when using the Contact Support form.
Environments node – New Reconnect button added under the Intune connection.
Licensing – If you already have an active license with us and click Start Trial, we detect this and use your existing license to activate your portal.
Notifications node – New tooltips have been added so you know when you will receive notifications.
Primary buttons in the UI re-designed based on user feedback.
Fixes
Various improvements to notification messages and tooltips to improve readability.
5th June 2024
Fixes
The “Prevent from opening an application while the application is updating” checkbox is no longer checked by default on the Conflicting Processes settings pop-up.
Resolved an issue with the configuration of Conflicting Processes not being honored.
Various other bugs.
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