In the following period, we will be releasing an update to MAV and AVD Bitdefender agents, starting with Tuesday, March 3rd. For MAV, the changes will be available across all regions by the end of the week (March 6th).
The initial AVD release will support AVD Updates, and by March 11th, we will support fresh installs, upgrades, repair tools, and uninstall tools.
🛠️ Key Changes:
- This is the last version that supports Windows Legacy Operating Systems: including Windows 7, Windows 8.x, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2
- OpenSSL has been upgraded to version 3.5.4 to incorporate recent security and stability improvements.
- Live Search: Osquery has been upgraded to version 5.19.0
🔧 Resolved issues:
- When a storage device is ejected, the scan task will now stop automatically.
- The event reporting in Windows Event Viewer is now improved for the Full Disk Encryption module
- Fixed an issue where certain applications prevented the security agent from installing.
- Resolved an issue that prevented the security agent from switching scan engines after a Reconfigure agent task.
- Resolved an issue that prevented the BDSysLog tool from collecting data when proxy credentials contained the forward slash (/) character.
- Fixed an issue where the security agent could not function after installation if certain fields contained unsupported characters.
- Advanced Threat Control: Fixed an issue that caused high memory usage and high CPU usage.
🗓️ Deployment Schedule:
- MAV APAC – March 3rd, 2026, starting at 08:00 AM EST / 01:00 PM UK / 03:00 PM Bucharest
- MAV EU-Central – March 4th, 2026, starting at 02:00 AM EST / 07:00 AM UK / 09:00 AM Bucharest
- MAV EU-West – March 4th, 2026, starting at 04:00 AM EST / 09:00 AM UK / 11:00 AM Bucharest
- MAV US – March 5th, 2026, starting at 04:00 AM EST / 09:00 AM UK / 11:00 AM Bucharest
- AVD Updates – Mach 3rd, 2026, starting at 04 AM EST / 09 AM UK / 11 AM Bucharest
- AVD Fresh Installs, Upgrades, Repair Tool, Uninstall tool – March 10th, 2026, starting at 04 AM EST / 09 AM UK / 11 AM Bucharest