{"id":4913,"date":"2025-10-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/?post_type=changelog&#038;p=4913"},"modified":"2026-10-19T12:21:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T09:21:42","slug":"elements-api-2025-10-01-update","status":"publish","type":"changelog","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/changelogs\/elements-api-2025-10-01-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Elements API &#8211; 2025-10-01 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 data-id=\"new-remote-operation-scan-for-software-updates\">New Remote Operation: Scan For (software) Updates<\/h2>\n<p>We&#8217;ve added a new remote operation <strong>scanForUpdates<\/strong> that allows you to scan for available software updates on target devices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What it does:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Remotely triggers a scan for available software updates on selected devices<\/li>\n<li>Works on computer-type devices only<\/li>\n<li>Requires no additional parameters &#8211; simply specify the target devices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This complements the existing <code class=\"code codeInline\" spellcheck=\"false\" tabindex=\"0\">installSoftwareUpdates<\/code> operation by providing a way to check what updates are available before deciding whether to install them.<\/p>\n<p>Read from from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/home\/leaving?allowTrusted=1&amp;target=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.withsecure.com%2Fapi-reference%2Felements%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\">Elements API specification page\u00a0<\/a>and look for the\u00a0<strong>POST\u00a0\/devices\/v1\/operations<\/strong>\u00a0endpoint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Remote Operation: Scan For (software) Updates We&#8217;ve added a new remote operation scanForUpdates that allows you to scan for available software updates on target devices. What it does: Remotely&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","changelog_product":[128],"class_list":["post-4913","changelog","type-changelog","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"release_date":"20251001","version":"","source_system":"vanilla-import","source_foreign_id":"","import_hash":"a3d35e919253397ba422895a5b569a2794e08a18","vanilla_article_id":32636,"legacy_author":"ArtoV","vanilla_url":"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/changelogs-en\/kb\/articles\/32636-elements-api-2025-10-01-update","vanilla_category_id":170,"machine_translated":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/changelog\/4913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/changelog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/changelog"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"changelog_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/changelog_product?post=4913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}