Gateway Release Notes

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This page provides information about the latest Gateway 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.

Gateway 7.4.0 Copied

Released: 29 May 2025

The Gateway Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/gateway:7.4.0-r0) and Helm chart have been updated in this release.

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
AA-7255 The Gateway now publishes audit data as AUDIT_EVENT datapoints to ITRS Analytics instances that support audit events.
AA-7257 The Gateway now queries ITRS Analytics to determine if it supports the AUDIT_EVENT format before publishing audit data as AUDIT_EVENT datapoints.
AA-7277 Endpoint information is now collected by the Gateway and Netprobe ITRS Analytics Connection plugins. These are available as two new rows (dataEndpoint and ingestionEndpoint) in the Summary dataview.
AA-7287 IP addresses from dataviews are now correctly published to ITRS Analytics.
AA-7296 Defined datapoint types for built-in schemas.
AA-7309 Improved the gRPC throughput to mitigate latency issues between Gateways and ITRS Analytics.
AA-7329 Collection Agent reporters are now configurable from the Gateway Setup Editor.
COL-12531 The AwsCollector now supports monitoring of AWS Redshift cluster metrics, and the new AwsRedshiftDataCollector monitors SQL-level data from AWS Redshift clusters. Templates are also available in Geneos to support monitoring configuration.
COL-12554 Updated the Boost C++ Libraries to version 1.87.0 to address the security vulnerability CVE-2016-9840 (BDSA-2016-1107).
COL-12590 The new AwsCloudwatchLogsCollector is now available in Geneos, including templates to support monitoring configuration.
UTL-1338 Updated the Geneos Docker base images to ubi9-minimal:9.5-1742914212 to resolve the security vulnerability CVE-2025-0395.
UTL-1340 Updated the Geneos Docker base images to ubi9-minimal:9.5-1747111267.
UTL-1341 Updated the Geneos Docker base images to ubi9-minimal:9.6-1747218906 to resolve the following security vulnerabilities:
  • CVE-2020-11023
  • CVE-2025-24528
  • CVE-2024-12133
  • CVE-2024-12243

Issues fixed Copied

These are the issues we have fixed in this release:

Issue key Release description
AA-7262 The Active Console no longer displays an incorrect snoozed parent indicator on the importing Gateway.
AA-7327 Fixed an issue where the dataview from the Gateway-SQL plugin was duplicated after multiple failovers between primary and secondary Gateways.
AA-7331 Added backward compatibility to ensure the Collection Agent runs correctly when the Gateway is upgraded from version 6.x to 7.x.
AA-7340 Fixed a memory leak in the Alert Manager.

Gateway 7.3.1 Copied

Released: 24 April 2025

The Gateway Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/gateway:7.3.1-r0) and Helm chart have been updated in this release.

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
AA-7308 The Gateway now throttles the publishing of dataview cells that are not actively monitored.
UTL-1285 OpenSSL in Geneos is now upgraded from version 1.1.1w to version 3.4.1, applicable to aix_64, darwin_64, linux_64 [generic], and windows_64 systems. For generic Linux systems, the Kerberos implementation has been transitioned from Heimdal Kerberos to MIT Kerberos.

Issues fixed Copied

These are the issues we have fixed in this release:

Issue key Release description
AA-7307 Fixed an issue where the sample interval column was missing from the Excel file generated by the monitoring_report_to_excel.py script.

Gateway 7.3.0 Copied

Released: 03 April 2025

The Gateway Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/gateway:7.3.0-r0) and Helm chart have been updated in this release.

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
AA-6051 Fixed an issue where entering values with spaces in the CyberArk Application Id field returned an error.
AA-6866 New Advanced mappings settings have been added under Mapping type to enable applying environments created by the mapping type to dynamic entities.
AA-7256 Audit events are now stored on disk for recovery if the connection between the Gateway and ITRS Analytics is lost. A new parameter, grpc.audit.queue.size, can be added to the Additional settings field of the ITRS Analytics connection configuration to configure this.
AA-7270 Fixed an issue in Gateway publishing to ITRS Analytics where the Gateway would occasionally send corrupt data to ITRS Analytics.
AA-7282 Updated the following default values for ITRS Analytics publishing queue:
  • Batch size: from 1000 to 5000
  • Queue size: from 50000 to 200000
AA-7283 Dataview republishing to ITRS Analytics is automatically delayed if the Gateway publishing queue is almost full to prioritize new metrics.
AA-7284 The Gateway can now log ITRS Analytics statistics messages to a separate file.
AA-7285 Improved ITRS Analytics logging to capture the maximum queue size over the last 10 minutes and identify the top 10 dataviews contributing to traffic.
AA-7290 Improved the ITRS Analytics publishing throughput.
COL-12152 The following XML files in the Gateway templates directory have been renamed to better reflect their purposes:
  • From azure_mapping.xml to azure_config.xml
  • From remote_rtds_collector_tmpl.xml to remote_rtds_collector_config.xml
UTL-1326 Updated the Geneos Docker base image to ubi9-minimal:9.5-1741850109 to resolve the following security vulnerabilities:
  • CVE-2025-24928
  • CVE-2024-56171
UTL-1332 Updated the Geneos Docker base image to ubi9-minimal:9.5-1742914212.

Issues fixed Copied

These are the issues we have fixed in this release:

Issue key Release description
AA-6099 The time format in the scheduled command log now matches the format used in the Gatweway log.
AA-6330 Dataviews without headers are no longer published to prevent a crash in the Gateway.
AA-7197 The Gateway now sends delete notifications when data items with alerts are deleted.
AA-7245 On Ubuntu and SLES platforms, the Netprobe and Gateway can now verify HTTPS server certificates using the default CA bundle.
AA-7264 The Gateway no longer crashes when failing to sync an SSO user connection or when expiring multiple SSO users simultaneously.
COL-1334 Upgraded PCRE library to PCRE2 10.44 for improved regex handling.
COL-12488 Fixed an issue where the active time setting did not work correctly in FKM samplers under Dynamic Entities.

Gateway 7.2.2 Copied

Released: 25 February 2025

The Gateway Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/gateway:7.2.2-r0) and Helm chart have been updated in this release.

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
AA-7271 Fixed an issue in Gateway publishing to ITRS Analytics where the Gateway would occasionally send corrupt data to ITRS Analytics.

Gateway 7.2.1 Copied

Released: 13 February 2025

The Gateway Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/gateway:7.2.1-r0) and Helm chart have been updated in this release.

Issues fixed Copied

These are the issues we have fixed in this release:

Issue key Release description
UTL-1320 Updated the base image for the Netprobe and Gateway Docker images to ubi9-minimal:9.5-1739420147.

Gateway 7.2.0 Copied

Released: 30 January 2025

The Gateway Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/gateway:7.2.0-r0) and Helm chart have been updated in this release.

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
AA-5265 Gateway now supports installation using RPM for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) versions 7, 8, and 9.
AA-7009, AA-7189, AA-7190 SSL settings (Verify server certificate and Root certificates) are now passed from ITRS Analytics Connection configuration to HTTPS requests related to ITRS Analytics data access. See ITRS Analytics connection configuration.

Note

On Ubuntu and SLES platforms, when using the default CA bundle to verify the server certificate, you must perform certain steps. These steps were not necessary in previous releases because, even when the Verify server certificate setting was enabled, server certificate authenticity was not checked for HTTPS connections related to ITRS Analytics data access.
AA-7053 You can now specify namespaces in the header for the HashiCorp password provider.
AA-7176 You can now use the same collector multiple times using different environments for variable access in a MappingType.
AA-7192 Gateway can now publish the Group name set on the Dataview to ITRS Analytics as a logical-group attribute.
AA-7217 Gateway no longer requests a license token for samplers using the ITRS Analytics plugin.
AA-7227 AArch64 release packages now have the -el9-linux-aarch64.tar.gz extension.
AA-7228 The Forecaster plugin now uses filters from the ITRS Analytics configuration to filter metrics shown on the dataview.
AA-7239 Obcerv references in the Gateway Setup Editor have been updated to ITRS Analytics.
AA-7248 An optional Role name parameter has been added to the TLS editor setup for HashiCorp.
AA-7250 Updated Gateway and Netprobe base Docker images to registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9-minimal:9.5-1736404155.
COL-12422 The Linux OS tag has been added to ARM deliverable filenames. The file extension for 64-bit Linux executables has been changed from arm_64 to linux_64, regardless of the underlying architecture. This change affects the following components:
  • Netprobe
  • Gateway
  • Fix-Analyser 2
  • File Agent
  • License Auditor
  • License Daemon
  • Listener
  • Mkschema
  • Webslinger

Note

The -version command-line option can be used to retrieve additional information about these components, including the Build OS in the format <OS><Kernel Version><Build Version><Architecture>.

Issues fixed Copied

These are the issues we have fixed in this release:

Issue key Release description
AA-6772 The Suspend and Unsuspend Gateway commands now respect the disconnectedProbeTimeout setting when a probe is unreachable.
AA-7173 The LogLevel for RestService Dataview Snapshot has been changed from ERROR to WARN / INFO.
AA-7202 Emails are now properly fetched when the SSO Agent is used with Gateway.
AA-7216 Gateway now correctly drops the ITRS Analytics commands subscription when the URL is changed.
AA-7218 Added missing samplingStatus for Signals dataview to Dynamic Entities Health publishing schema.

Gateway 7.1.2 Copied

Released: 19 December 2024

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
AA-7240 The base images for Gateway and Netprobe have been updated to ubi9/ubi9-minimal:9.5-1733767867.

Issues fixed Copied

These are the issues we have fixed in this release:

Issue key Release description
COL-12449 Schema compatibility issues in FIX Analyser 2 plugin version 7.1.0 have been resolved. Additionally, improvements have been made to the MySQL and PostgreSQL configurations.

Deprecation Notice

The non-prefixed attributes (serverName, databaseName, port) for MySQL have been marked as deprecated and may be removed in a future release. Users are encouraged to migrate to the var- prefixed attributes to ensure future compatibility.

Gateway 7.1.1 Copied

Released: 05 December 2024

The Gateway Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/gateway:7.1.1-r0) and Helm chart have been updated in this release.

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
AA-7229 Updated Geneos and Netprobe base Docker images to 9.5-1731604394 to address the following security vulnerabilities:
  • CVE-2024-3596
  • CVE-2024-26462
  • CVE-2024-26461
  • CVE-2024-26458
  • CVE-2024-2236
  • CVE-2024-4741
  • CVE-2024-4603
  • CVE-2024-2511
  • CVE-2024-5535
COL-12380 Updated the curl version from 8.8.0 to 8.10.1 to address the following security vulnerabilities:
  • CVE-2024-8096 (BDSA-2024-6196)
  • CVE-2024-7264 (BDSA-2024-5030)
  • CVE-2024-6874 (BDSA-2024-4662)
  • CVE-2024-6197 (BDSA-2024-4663)

Gateway 7.1.0 Copied

Released: 12 November 2024

The Gateway Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/gateway:7.1.0-r0) and Helm chart have been updated in this release.

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
AA-6152 Improved error handling when running a Gateway in process-dump-files mode alongside an active Gateway.
AA-6970 Added new Obcerv attributes to Obcerv publishing:
  • On Sampler — itrsgroup.com/apps : logical-group
  • On Managed Entity, Sampler, and Dataview — itrsgroup.com/apps : display-name
AA-6974 The c-ares library has been updated to version 1.34.1 to address the security vulnerability BDSA-2024-0444.
AA-7035 Cached external passwords can now be refreshed at regular configured intervals or on setup reload.
AA-7046 Gateway no longer publishes null values unless the previous value was a non-blank string.
AA-7047 Gateway now indicates if there are changes to metric types when publishing data to Obcerv.
AA-7155 Dataviews published to Obcerv can now be snoozed.
AA-7159, AA-7174 Gateway can now generate monitoring reports via a new Gateway command and via REST endpoint.
AA-7170 The libxml2 has been updated to version 2.13.4 to address the following security vulnerabilities:
  • BDSA-2024-4704
  • BDSA-2024-2491
AA-7171 The gRPC library has been updated to version 1.67.0 to address the following security vulnerabilities:
  • CVE-2023-44487
  • BDSA-2024-5199
  • BDSA-2023-2427 (CVE-2023-4785)
  • BDSA-2023-2140 (CVE-2023-33953)
AA-7203 The lowest option under the Authentication > combineMode setting is now deprecated.
COL-12076 The Database option in Fix Analyser 2 now supports TLS configuration.
COL-12131 The IBMi-System plugin now includes percentPermanentAddresses and percentTemporaryAddresses metrics.
COL-12257 The new MarketsIO Collection Agent plugin is now packaged with the Netprobe standard package. Collector and Mapping configurations for the plugin are also available in the Gateway schema.

Issues fixed Copied

These are the issues we have fixed in this release:

Issue key Release description
AA-6932 Removed unexpected alerts generated when a rule becomes active again, even if the cell state is already OK.
AA-6999 Fixed the calculation of the Gateway roll time parameter during a change in Daylight Savings Time (DST).
AA-7175 Fixed an issue where the Gateway commands do not work when Hot Standby is enabled.
AA-7184 Gateway now resets its connection to Obcerv commands if the Obcerv data access credentials are changed.
AA-7188 Fixed an issue where a self-monitoring managed entity does not use the dynamic-entities-health schema.
AA-7210 The Gateway-forecaster plugin no longer requires a license.
AA-7214 The dataview name in Gateway-forecaster plugin now matches the sampler name.

Gateway 7.0.4 Copied

Released: 17 October 2024

The Gateway Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/gateway:7.0.4-r0) and Helm chart have been updated in this release.

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
AA-7042 Gateway now accepts encrypted command password arguments, preventing the storage of unencrypted passwords in the Active Console.
VI-9746 Beginning Gateway version 7.0.4, passwords entered in the command dialog of the Active Console will no longer be stored in memory.

Issues fixed Copied

These are the issues we have fixed in this release:

Issue key Release description
AA-7185 Gateway now reports errors detected when generating Netprobe configurations via XSLT.
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Gateway 7.0.3 Copied

Released: 30 September 2024

The Gateway Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/gateway:7.0.3-r0) and Helm chart have been updated in this release.

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
COL-12173 Added a showAllStates checkbox in the TCP Links plugin which displays LISTEN and blank ports.

Gateway 7.0.2 Copied

Released: Released: 18 September 2024

The Gateway Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/gateway:7.0.2-r0) and Helm chart have been updated in this release.

Issues fixed Copied

These are the issues we have fixed in this release:

Issue key Release description
AA-7169 Updated the base images of Gateway and Netprobe Docker containers to UBI 9.4-1227.1725849298 to address the security vulnerability CVE-2024-34397.

Gateway 7.0.1 Copied

Released: Released: 10 September 2024

The Gateway Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/gateway:7.0.1-r0) and Helm chart have been updated in this release.

Issues fixed Copied

These are the issues we have fixed in this release:

Issue key Release description
AA-7163 Fixed an issue preventing Obcerv users from running Gateway commands if their username is identical to a user defined in the Gateway where the command was to run.

Gateway 7.0.0 Copied

Released: Released: 29 August 2024

The Gateway Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/gateway:7.0.0-r0) and Helm chart have been updated in this release.

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
AA-6399 When the Gateway loses connection to Obcerv, all probes, managed entities, and sampler attributes will be republished to Obcerv upon reconnection.
AA-7011 Added gateway_host and gateway_port attributes to all license details in the License Daemon report and in the Details view on the web.
AA-7069 Gateway now allows users to run Gateway commands from the Entity Viewer app in Obcerv.
AA-7136 Data published in Obcerv are now Geneos-derived rather than obtained from Collection Agent coordinates.
COL-11955 TLS connection between Netprobe and Collection Agent is now supported.
COL-12192 Property names in the FluentD Forward configuration have been updated to Camel Case format.
COL-12217 Property names in the StatsD configuration have been updated to Camel Case format.
COL-12219 Property names in the OpenTelemetry configuration have been updated to Camel Case format.
COL-12237 Property names in the Prometheus and Kubernetes configurations have been updated to Camel Case format.
UTL-1289 The Netprobe and Gateway packages for RHEL 8 and RHEL 9 now include cURL libraries.
UTL-1290 Added probe information, such as host_name, port, version, os, os_type, and host_id, to the ca_plugin licence details in the Licence Daemon report and in the Details view on the web.
UTL-1291 Fixed an issue where error messages are not correctly suppressed when using OpenSSL 3.

Issues fixed Copied

These are the issues we have fixed in this release:

Issue key Release description
AA-7057 Variables in the SSL configuration options of database logging are now resolved correctly.
AA-7083 Gateway no longer crashes when selecting the Show Alerts option.
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