McAfee Endpoint Security - New Update Cycle

[smarties11]

Hi All,

 

For anyone else using McAfee Endpoint Security - I was wondering if you had managed to work out their new update cycle?

 

From November 2018, they have moved to a monthly cumulative update cycle - deployed as a hotfix and released on the second Tuesday each month. However, they appear to be releasing main updates too.

 

So for example, on Tuesday the following appeared in ePO software manager....

 

Endpoint Security Platform 10.6.1.1124 (previous latest version as of November was 10.6.1.1103)

Endpoint Security Platform December Update 10.6.1.1125

 

Endpoint Security Threat Prevention 10.6.1.1208 (previous latest version as of November was 10.6.1.1169)

Endpoint Security Threat Prevention December Update 10.6.1.1209

 

I can't work out what they are doing and there is no info online. If I check in both versions for each product then clients update first to 1124/1208 and then the hotfix is applied for 1125/1209.

 

This seems so bizarre? Or is 1124/1208 supposed to be the 'install from fresh' version and 1125/1209 the 'update existing client' version? But if that's the case why have different version numbers?

 

The same happened in November. 10.6.1.1068 main/10.6.1.1103 hotfix for ESP and 10.6.1.1128 main/10.6.1.1169 hotfix for ETP.

 

I've looked around the McAfee site and Google and can find no answers so if anyone can shed any light I'd appreciate it!

 

Thanks.