# Fleet v4.79.0

- Product: Fleet (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/fleet)
- Vendor: Fleet Device Management
- Date: 2026-01-14
- Version: v4.79.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet/releases/tag/fleet-v4.79.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/fleet/releases/v4.79.0

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- **added** — Added ability to view past and upcoming MDM commands for a host in Fleet
- **added** — Added ability to apply Android app configurations
- **added** — Added support for resending Windows MDM profiles
- **added** — Added support for renewal of custom SCEP profiles for Windows
- **added** — Added support for team-specific labels
- **added** — Implemented ability to create, list, and delete Android certs from the UI
- **added** — Added Android agent application to support automated installation of SCEP certificates on Android hosts
- **added** — Added messaging around Apple VPP update failures due to the application being open
- **added** — Added ability to indicate that new MacOS hosts enrolling via ADE should be updated to the latest operating system version
- **added** — Added ability to edit Android software config in UI
- **added** — Added support for ingesting Windows certificates via osquery
- **added** — Added activities for when certificates templates are created or deleted
- **changed** — Implemented streaming for the GET /hosts API to improve performance
- **added** — Added ability to search teams in dropdown when transferring teams
- **added** — Added pagination metadata to the GET /mdm/commands endpoint
- **changed** — Changed the host details page to hide builtin labels in-line with other areas such as the label filter
- **fixed** — Fixed host query report to display 'Report clipped' when a query has reached the 1k result limit
- **fixed** — Fixed an issue where batch uploading .mobileconfig profiles failed due to display name checks
- **fixed** — Fixed an issue where GitOps would fail if $FLEET_SECRET contained XML characters in XML files due to not escaping the value
- **fixed** — Fixed a bug where iOS and iPadOS hosts enrolling via ABM MDM Migration did not have VPP apps installed

##### Fleet 4.79.0 (Jan 14, 2025)

###### IT Admins
- Added ability to view past and upcoming MDM commands for a host in Fleet.
- Added ability to apply Android app configurations.
- Added support for resending Windows MDM profiles.
- Added support for renewal of custom SCEP profiles for Windows.
- Added support for team-specific labels. Currently team-specific labels must be created via spec endpoints, used by GitOps.
- Implemented ability to create, list, and delete Android certs from the UI.
- Added Android agent application (automatically deployed via Android MDM) to support automated installation of SCEP certificates on Android hosts.
- Added messaging around Apple VPP update failures due to the application being open.
- Added ability to indicate that new MacOS hosts enrolling via ADE should be updated to the latest operating system version.
- Added ability to edit Android software config in UI.

###### Security Engineers
- Added support for ingesting Windows certificates via osquery.
- Added activities for when certificates templates are created/deleted.

###### Other improvements and bug fixes
- Implemented streaming for the `GET /hosts` ("list hosts") API to improve performance.
- Updated API and GitOps to support `AppleOSUpdateSettings.UpdateNewHosts`.
- Added ability to search teams in dropdown when transferring teams.
- Added pagination metadata to the `GET /mdm/commands` endpoint.
- Updated the `refresh_vpp_app_versions` cron job to only attempt to refresh versions for Apple app store apps.
- Improved edit VPP UX by disabling a form that hasn't been edited.
- Updated logic used for determining whether to update a macOS host during DEP enrollment based solely on UpdateNewHosts flag.
- Added note to descriptions on schema tables using "count" as column name.
- Aligned Android MDM unenrollment endpoint with the already existing endpoint, `DELETE /api/latest/fleet/hosts/{id}/mdm`, for consistency across MDM platforms.
- Added migration for adding `update_new_hosts` flag to both App and Team configs.
- Changed the host details page to hide builtin labels in-line with other areas such as the label filter.
- Changed iOS/iPadOS and Android enrollment links on Add hosts modal to monospaced font to improve readability.
- Improved software upload progress modal.
- Improved consistency of `gitops` output language.
- Added loading state to turn off Android modal UI.
- Updated the `migrate_to_per_host_policy` cron job to no-op if Android MDM is not enabled.
- Updated software table so that all teams selection will now remove any unsupported url params.
- Improved unclear error message when uploading an APNS certificate if the CSR was not downloaded.
- Refactored RDS IAM authentication logic into a dedicated `rdsauth` package.
- Modified the automatic enrollment profile verification logic to only verify with Apple when a profile changes
- Updated S3 username/password when running in dev mode to remove outdated mentions of MinIO.
- Hid option to transfer hosts to their current team.
- Updated setup experience links to point to add software page relevant to platform.
- Revised auth requirements for /debug endpoints.
- Added additional validation to URL parameter for MS MDM auth endpoint.
- Improved SOAP message validation on Windows MDM endpoints.
- Fixed host query report to display "Report clipped" when a query has reached the 1k result limit.
- Fixed UI error message regarding adding software to a team with a duplicate title.
- Fixed an issue where batch uploading .mobileconfig profiles failed due to display name checks.
- Fixed an issue where certificate details modal overflowed the screen.
- Fixed click area of edit software file button.
- Fixed an issue where GitOps would fail if `$FLEET_SECRET` contained XML characters in XML files, due to not escaping the value.
- Fixed query behind `fleetctl get mdm-commands` to correctly get completed Windows MDM commands.
- Fixed MDM in

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