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KACE

COLLAB
Velocity5.0

A maintenance cadence: cloud fixes weekly, Patch Tuesday roundups monthly, a real release each quarter.

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◆Current state
KACE publishes three kinds of entry and little else. KACE Cloud fix notices land every week or two against named defect IDs - script re-runs, Apple WiFi and restriction sets, DEP profiles, MFA on new tenants. Microsoft Patch Tuesday roundups arrive monthly as a service to admins rather than as product news. The substantive releases are quarterly: SMA 15.1 in July added a Windows ARM64 agent and enforced HTTPS-only access, and the June KACE Cloud release added payload caching and custom inventory reporting.
◆Where it's heading
This is a mature endpoint management product in steady maintenance, and the fix notices show where the work actually goes: Apple and Android device management edge cases, which is the surface that changes underneath KACE whenever the OS vendors ship. The July SMA release is the more telling one, since ARM64 agent support and mandatory HTTPS are both catch-up moves to where the Windows fleet and security baselines have already gone.
◆Prediction
The weekly Cloud fix notices and monthly Patch Tuesday posts will continue unchanged; the next substantive release is more likely to be another SMA or Cloud point release absorbing Apple and Android platform changes than anything directional.

◆Recent moves

  1. 5d ago

    KACE Cloud: Fixed issue re-running edited scripts

    Fixes defect 716660, where re-running a previously executed script from Device Script History failed after the script was edited. A single scoped bug fix in the usual Cloud maintenance stream.

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  2. 6d ago

    August 2026 Microsoft Patch Tuesday

    The monthly Microsoft Patch Tuesday roundup. Useful to the admins who read this feed but it reports Microsoft's changes, not KACE's.

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  3. 13d ago

    KACE Cloud: Fixed issues with Apple WiFi and Restriction Set configurations

    Fixes for Apple WiFi and Restriction Set configurations in KACE Cloud. Another entry in the recurring Apple device-management defect stream.

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  4. 21d ago

    SMA Agent 15.1.46 fixes .NET dependency on Windows Server 2016/2019

    An SMA agent point release resolving a .NET dependency problem on Windows Server 2016 and 2019. Narrow compatibility maintenance on the older Windows fleet.

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  5. 1mo ago

    KACE Cloud: Fixed issues with Apple "Not Now" responses, DEP profiles, web app icons and Android AMAPI enrollments

    Fixes for Apple "Not Now" responses, DEP profiles, web app icons and Android issues. The mobile device management surface again, where most of the Cloud defect traffic originates.

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  6. 1mo ago

    July 2026 Microsoft Patch Tuesday

    The July Microsoft Patch Tuesday roundup, same monthly format as August's. Reported for admin convenience, not a product change.

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