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Follow the latest additions, performance improvements, and feature updates shipped by the Pylon team. From major releases to small refinements, everything is tracked here.
Delete applications you no longer need — with the audit trail intact
Remove empty applications from the Submitter dashboard — no Siphon support ticket required.
- Delete: Application card’s More menu → “Delete application…”
- Empty only: No connections, IP groups, configuration groups, pending approvals, or draft changes
- Audit preserved: Every deletion logs on the Approver’s Recently Implemented tab
- Hide unchanged: Still available for tidying without committing to permanent removal
The Approver Dashboard is redesigned — straight to Awaiting Approval
A focused workspace built around your actual workflow.
- Lands on Awaiting Approval: Your primary task, front and center
- Left-nav between views: Awaiting Approval, Rejected, Awaiting Implementation, Recently Implemented — with counts
- Toolbar everywhere: Search, filter by enclave, sort — your choices are remembered
- Compact view: One row per Change Request with aging badges (green / yellow / red)
Snappier Approve and Reject — no more full reload on large change-impact requests
A workflow-focused Firewall Engineer workspace
Three new views designed around your day-to-day.
- Overview: Workload tiles for waiting Change Requests, oldest age, count over 7 days, average age, last-30-days implementations
- Pending Implementation: Searchable queue with age chips (<3d / 3–6d / 7d+)
- Recently Implemented: Last 30 days of completed Change Requests, searchable by IP, port, or rule text
- Rule-level details preserved after implementation, with CSV download
- ServiceNow-style artifact links now work after implementation
IPv6 support is here
Use IPv6 anywhere you use IPv4 — IP Groups, dataflows, compliance scopes.
- Protocol badges: Explicit IPv4 and IPv6 tags on every IP row
- Mixed groups: Per-protocol counts (“3 IPv4, 2 IPv6")
- Specific validation: Clear error messages + “Did you mean…?” suggestions
- Canonical display: Same address always looks the same regardless of how you typed it
Role switching, plus two fixes
Switch roles from the header, plus two accuracy fixes to the SuperAdmin dashboard and inactivity emails.
Role switcher
- One click: Your avatar and role in the top-right open a menu with your identity, other roles, and Sign out.
- Always accurate: The role shown matches your access at the enclave you're viewing.
Fixes
- Rejected count: The Rejected card counts every rejected Change Request, including ones returned by the firewall team.
- Inactivity emails say the right thing: Warnings arrive at 30, 15, 5, 2, and 1 days out, and correctly state the 90-day deactivation window.
Manage your database backups
A new Backups screen lets you monitor, schedule, and manage database backups yourself.
- See your status at a glance: Green/red status names the reason when you're not protected, plus last backup time and next scheduled run.
- Set your own schedule: Daily, weekly, every few hours, or off — takes effect next cycle, every change audit-logged.
- Back up on demand: One click creates an encrypted backup with a checksum you can verify after moving it between servers.
- Restore yourself, safely: A guarded flow requires typing a confirmation phrase, takes an automatic safety backup first, and can even create the database on a brand-new server.
- More reliable: Backups now automatically include tables added after setup — no manual step.
Error messages and status pills are easier to read
Error pills, badges, and banners — expired flags, error banners, removed-item markers, stale network-path rows — are now easier to read and meet WCAG AA contrast standards.
Un-deploy: reverse a mistaken template provision
Reverse a mistaken template provision in-app — the template itself stays intact.
- Draft applications: Removed immediately
- Untouched deployments: Removed immediately, no re-approval needed
- Modified deployments: Sent to your Approver as a "no firewall change" acknowledgment
- Shared IP groups preserved — only what belonged to the un-deployed application is removed
- Own audit entry logged as "Un-Deployed" with reason, who, and when
Cascade Delete: cleanup that used to take multiple Change Requests now takes one
Removing a non-empty connection now packages the whole cleanup into a single Change Request — cutting a typical delete from multiple Change Requests down to one.
- One click: Delete a non-empty connection → services, IP groups, and IPs packaged as a single Change Request
- Smart scope: IP groups used only here are removed; shared ones are preserved
- Cascade pill: Cascade-originated Change Requests show a red Cascade badge on the Implemented and Awaiting Implementation lists
- Approve requires review: Approvers open Review Changes before Approve is available; Reject stays as-is
Delete applications you no longer need — with the audit trail intact
Remove empty applications from the Submitter dashboard — no Pylon support ticket required.
- Delete: Application card’s More menu → “Delete application…”
- Empty only: No connections, IP groups, configuration groups, pending approvals, or draft changes
- Audit preserved: Every deletion logs on the Approver’s Recently Implemented tab
- Hide unchanged: Still available for tidying without committing to permanent removal
The Approver Dashboard is redesigned — straight to Awaiting Approval
A focused workspace built around your actual workflow.
- Lands on Awaiting Approval: Your primary task, front and center
- Left-nav between views: Awaiting Approval, Rejected, Awaiting Implementation, Recently Implemented — with counts
- Toolbar everywhere: Search, filter by enclave, sort — your choices are remembered
- Compact view: One row per Change Request with aging badges (green / yellow / red)
Snappier Approve and Reject — no more full reload on large change-impact requests
A workflow-focused Firewall Engineer workspace
Three new views designed around your day-to-day.
- Overview: Workload tiles for waiting Change Requests, oldest age, count over 7 days, average age, last-30-days implementations
- Pending Implementation: Searchable queue with age chips (<3d / 3–6d / 7d+)
- Recently Implemented: Last 30 days of completed Change Requests, searchable by IP, port, or rule text
- Rule-level details preserved after implementation, with CSV download
- ServiceNow-style artifact links now work after implementation
IPv6 support is here
Use IPv6 anywhere you use IPv4 — IP Groups, dataflows, compliance scopes.
- Protocol badges: Explicit IPv4 and IPv6 tags on every IP row
- Mixed groups: Per-protocol counts (“3 IPv4, 2 IPv6")
- Specific validation: Clear error messages + “Did you mean…?” suggestions
- Canonical display: Same address always looks the same regardless of how you typed it

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