Collection Agent 4.x Release Notes

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This page provides information about the Collection Agent version 4.x release, including new features and resolved issues.

For a detailed overview of the Geneos 7.x.x release, including key highlights for other components, see Geneos 7.x Release Notes.

Collection Agent 4.7.0 Copied

Released: 17 October 2024 Packaged with Geneos 7.0.4

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These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
COL-12287 Updated the following to address CVE-2024-7254:
  • protobuf-java library to version 3.25.5
  • proto-google-common-protos to version 2.45.1
  • collection-agent and the corresponding collection dependencies to version 4.7.0
  • obcerv-platform-api to version 2.7.0

Collection Agent 4.5.2 Copied

Released:

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
COL-13035 Updated jackson-core to resolve the security vulnerability GHSA-72hv-8253-57qq, which may allow a denial-of-service condition.
COL-13017 Upgraded Netty to version 4.1.131.Final to resolve the following security vulnerabilities:
  • CVE-2025-24970 (BDSA-2025-1033)
  • CVE-2025-55163 (BDSA-2025-8614)
  • CVE-2025-58056 (BDSA-2025-10730)
  • CVE-2025-58057 (BDSA-2025-10732)
COL-13048 Updated the Collection Agent and certain Collection Agent plugins to the following versions:
  • Collection Agent 4.5.2
  • AWS Collection Agent plugin 4.3.2
  • Azure Monitor Collection Agent plugin 4.2.2
  • Fluentd Forward Collection Agent plugin 4.1.2
  • JDBC Collection Agent plugin 4.3.1
  • Kubernetes Collection Agent plugin 4.1.1
  • Prometheus Collection Agent plugin 4.1.1

Collection Agent 4.5.1 Copied

Released: 17 December 2024 Packaged with Geneos 6.9.1

New features and enhancements Copied

Issue key Release description
COL-12352 Proto-google-common-protos has been updated to version 2.45.1 to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2024-7254.
C2-458, COL-12426 Updated Netty to 4.1.115.Final to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2024-47535.

Collection Agent 4.5.0 Copied

Released: 2 July 2024 Packaged with Geneos 6.9.0

New features and enhancements Copied

Issue key Release description
C2-426 Updated existing plugin dependencies for Collection Agent plugins.

Collection Agent 4.0.3 Copied

Released: 21 May 2024 Packaged with Geneos 6.8.1

Issues fixed Copied

Issue key Release description
COL-12061 The Collection Agent and all associated Collection Agent plugins packaged in Netprobe have been updated to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2024-29025 (BDSA-2024-0720). The affected components have been updated to the following versions:
  • AWS plugin - 4.2.1
  • Azure plugin - 4.1.1
  • Collection Agent - 4.0.3
  • FluentD Forward plugin - 4.0.1
  • Google Cloud Platform plugin - 4.1.1
  • GRPC plugin - 4.0.1
  • JDBC plugin - 4.2.1
  • MongoDB plugin - 4.1.1
  • OpenTelemetry plugin - 4.0.1
  • Prometheus plugin - 4.0.1

Collection Agent 4.0.2 Copied

Released: 15 February 2024 Packaged with Geneos 6.7.0

New features and enhancements Copied

Issue key Release description
CAGC-108 Google Cloud Platform plugin can now monitor the following services:
  • apigateway
  • bigquery
  • bigtable
  • cloudkms
  • composer
  • dataproc
  • privateca
  • pubsub
  • spanner
  • trafficdirector

Additionally, you can now filter GCP plugin metrics via their labels, and you can now access GCP cloud through a proxy host.

COL-11803 The caFile configuration in the MongoDB plugin is now optional, and it will automatically default to the Java Truststore if not specified.
COL-11899 You can now monitor multiple MongoDB servers by using the connection string URI instead of the server host and port.
COL-11946 The configuration for the connection URI in the MongoDB plugin can now handle both the Standard and SRV connection formats.
COL-11959 Multiple database monitoring can now be performed in a single collector depending on the plugin’s configuration.
COL-11966 Multithreaded monitoring is now supported to prevent the monitor blocking that happens when a communication timeout occurs on a server that is down.
COL-11969 MongoDB plugin is now compatible with Collection Agent 4.0.
COL-11970 JDBC plugin is now compatible with Collection Agent 4.0.

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