Just released:
Posted on 1/13/2016 4:44:13 PM:
We are excited to announce an endpoint protection upgrade to the most advanced technologies from Symantec to protect your computers from the growing number of threats. New endpoint installations will receive the upgraded agent and a staged release of the LiveUpdate for existing agents will take place over the next month. This update will not apply to server OSs.
During the entire update, you will continue to be fully protected, however, each computer will require a restart to complete the upgrade to the new protection agent. You will be able to see which computers require restarts to complete the update in your management console>Computers page and individual computers will receive local reminders to restart as well.
And as always, ensure that your redistributable packages are updated with the latest security software for distribution within your environment.
If you have questions or if you need technical help, please visit our self-help page at https://support.symantec.com/en_US/endpoint-protection-cloud.64355.html, contact the customer support team at 1-800-342-0652 or create a support ticket in your management console.
Sincerely,
The Symantec Customer Communications Team
What would have been normal for any other software vendor announcing an update would have been a link to a web page that contained a summary of the changes being made. But not Symantec! No, for some inexplicable reaon they would rather keep their partners and customers in the dark.
Here's hoping someone at that 800 number actually knows what is going on...