Netprobe Release Notes
Overview Copied
This page provides information about the latest Netprobe 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.
Netprobe 7.4.0 Copied
Released: 29 May 2025
The Netprobe Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/netprobe:7.4.0-r0 and docker.itrsgroup.com/netprobe:7.4.0-privileged-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-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. |
| COL-12507 | The FKM plugin file source Windows NT Event Log now supports query filtering. |
| 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-12565 | The Netprobe Helm chart values now support configuration of common workflow processors. |
| 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:
|
Issues fixed Copied
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Release description |
|---|---|
| AA-7333 | Fixed an issue where the Netprobe on Windows could not send log events to ITRS Analytics. |
| COL-11510 | Updated the documentation to clarify that an Active Directory account must be a member of the local Administrators group to start the Netprobe service and run plugins, in line with stricter Windows security policies introduced in 2019. |
| COL-12502 | Fixed an issue in the Hardware plugin where accessing CPU performance data resulted in an error. |
Netprobe 7.3.1 Copied
Released: 24 April 2025
The Netprobe Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/netprobe:7.3.1-r0 and docker.itrsgroup.com/netprobe:7.3.1-privileged-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 |
|---|---|
| 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. |
Netprobe 7.3.0 Copied
Released: 03 April 2025
The Netprobe Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/netprobe:7.3.0-r0 and docker.itrsgroup.com/netprobe:7.3.0-privileged-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-12436 | The Collection Agent logs now use a default Logback rolling policy. |
| COL-12444 | When creating a view using the XML-RPC API plugin, dataview names must now be unique across all groups. |
| COL-12522 | The Netprobe 7.3.0 standard binary is packaged with the following Collection Agent & Collection Agent plugins:
|
| UTL-1326 | Updated the Geneos Docker base image to ubi9-minimal:9.5-1741850109 to resolve the following security vulnerabilities:
|
| 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-7245 | On Ubuntu and SLES platforms, the Netprobe and Gateway can now verify HTTPS server certificates using the default CA bundle. |
| COL-1334 | Upgraded PCRE library to PCRE2 10.44 for improved regex handling. |
| COL-9481 | Fixed an issue where the Netprobe crashed if the sampler name exceeded 250 characters. |
| COL-12482 | Fixed an issue in the MDM RFA Feed Adapter where status messages (State, Code, and Text) were not published. |
| COL-12506 | The MDM plugin now correctly handles empty updates from the Bloomberg feed by returning an empty string instead of the previous value. |
Netprobe 7.2.2 Copied
Released: 25 February 2025
The Netprobe Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/netprobe:7.2.2-r0 and docker.itrsgroup.com/netprobe:7.2.2-privileged-r0) and Helm chart have been updated in this release.
Netprobe 7.2.1 Copied
Released: 13 February 2025
The Netprobe Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/netprobe:7.2.1-r0 and docker.itrsgroup.com/netprobe:7.2.1-privileged-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 |
|---|---|
| COL-2361 | Fixed the formatting of the Time and DateTime fields processed by the RFA Feed Adapter of the MDM Plugin. |
| COL-12419 | The Processes plugin no longer removes the first character of the value in the third column of the dataview. |
| COL-12457 | The IBMi Disk plugin now displays all disk records available on the IBMi system. |
| UTL-1320 | Updated the base image for the Netprobe and Gateway docker images to ubi9-minimal:9.5-1739420147. |
Netprobe 7.2.0 Copied
Released: 30 January 2025
The Netprobe Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/netprobe:7.2.0-r0 and docker.itrsgroup.com/netprobe:7.2.0-privileged-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-7250 | Updated Gateway and Netprobe base Docker images to registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9-minimal:9.5-1736404155. |
| COL-3489 | The FKM plugin now supports data persistence, which preserves file monitoring and triggers across Netprobe restarts, non-FKM configuration updates, and Gateway switches. |
| COL-4774 | The RMC Sampler now displays an empty string instead of N/A for null values in cells to prevent errors in the Database Logger. |
| COL-12068 | The FKM plugin now has a laggingSize column, enabling early detection when an FKM sampler reaches the maxLinesProcessed limit. The new column provides real-time insight into unprocessed data, allowing users to monitor and address lagging issues promptly as they arise. |
| COL-12184 | Netprobe plugins have been validated with AArch64 architecture. For a complete list of supported Netprobe plugins, see Geneos Compatibilities. |
| COL-12354 | Updated the default values displayed in the FKM Advanced settings to enhance usability and alignment with typical configurations. This includes adjustments to the default/initial values for certain boolean fields and string parameters, providing a more intuitive starting setup for users. |
| COL-12359 | The fileSize and laggingSize columns now display in KiB (kibibytes) instead of Kb (kilobytes) and in B (bytes) instead of b (bits), while updateRate is now displayed in KiB/s (kibibytes per second) instead of Kb/s (kilobytes per second). Additionally, displayMode in Advanced configuration has been updated to reflect kibibytes consistently.
|
| COL-12365 | Updated the jackson-jq dependency from 0.0.9 to 1.0.1. |
| COL-12374 | Added a Fix Analyser ingestion hierarchy in ITRS Analytics. |
| COL-12386 | The IBMi JDBC plugin no longer fails when Streaming is enabled. The sqlite-jdbc-3.42.0.0.jar library has been packaged again. |
| 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:
|
| COL-12470 | Updated logback to 1.5.16 to address the following security vulnerabilities:
|
Issues fixed Copied
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Release description |
|---|---|
| COL-9278 | The Bloomberg B-Pipe plugin now attempts to reconnect to the Bloomberg server in the event of disconnection. |
Netprobe 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.
|
Netprobe 7.1.1 Copied
Released: 05 December 2024
The Netprobe Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/netprobe:7.1.1-r0 and docker.itrsgroup.com/netprobe:7.1.1-privileged-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:
|
| COL-12380 | Updated the curl version from 8.8.0 to 8.10.1 to address the following security vulnerabilities:
|
| COL-12421 | Updated Netty to 4.1.115.Final to address the security vulnerability CVE-2024-47535. |
| UTL-1308 | postgres dependencies have been removed from the Gateway and Netprobe Docker images to address the following security vulnerabilities:
|
Netprobe 7.1.0 Copied
Released: 12 November 2024
The Netprobe Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/netprobe:7.1.0-r0 and docker.itrsgroup.com/netprobe:7.1.0-privileged-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-6974 | The c-ares library has been updated to version 1.34.1 to address the security vulnerability BDSA-2024-0444. |
| AA-7171 | The gRPC library has been updated to version 1.67.0 to address the following security vulnerabilities:
|
| AZUREMON-550 | The Azure Collection Agent plugin has been updated to version 5.0.0 and now requires Java 21 as the minimum Java version. |
| CAGC-120 | The Google Cloud Collection Agent plugin has been updated to version 5.0.0 and now requires Java 21 as the minimum Java version. |
| 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. |
| COL-12260 | The JDBC Collection Agent plugin has been updated to version 5.0.0 and now requires Java 21 as the minimum Java version. |
| COL-12261 | The MongoDB Collection Agent plugin has been updated to version 5.0.0 and now requires Java 21 as the minimum Java version. |
| COL-12262 | The Collection Agent has been updated to version 5.0.0 and now requires Java 21 as the minimum Java version. |
| COL-12272 | The Geneos workflow plugin has been updated to version 5.0.0 and now requires Java 21 as the minimum Java version. |
| COL-12288 | The proto-google-common-protos dependency has been updated to version 2.46.0 to remove the transitive dependency to the vulnerable protobuf-java library. |
| COL-12291 | The deprecated Obcerv publishing option in the Publisher plugin is now removed. |
| HAAW-474 | The AWS Collection Agent plugin has been updated to version 5.0.0 and now requires Java 21 as the minimum Java version. |
| RTDS-4 | The Remote RTDS Collection Agent plugin has been updated to version 5.0.0 and now requires Java 21 as the minimum Java version. |
| VMW-10 | The VMware Collection Agent plugin has been updated to version 5.0.0 and now requires Java 21 as the minimum Java version. |
View the complete list of Collection Agent plugins that have been updated to version 5.0.0:
- AWS plugin
- Azure plugin
- FluentD Forward plugin
- Google-Cloud plugin
- Geneos Workflow plugin
- GRPC plugin
- HTTP/Json plugin
- JDBC plugin
- Kubernetes plugin
- MarketsIO plugin
- MongoDB plugin
- OpenTelemetry plugin
- Prometheus plugin
- Remote RTDS plugin
- Statsd plugin
- VMware plugin
Issues fixed Copied
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Release description |
|---|---|
| COL-12001 | FKM extractors now allow only one capture group in a regular expression. |
| COL-12258 | The Netprobe no longer crashes if it detects a Java plugin running below the minimum required version; it now displays an error message instead. |
| COL-12274 | The /groups field is no longer in the output when fetching the dataview of the Processes plugin using the REST API. The /groups setting in the Processes sampler and in the process descriptor static variable is now deprecated. |
Netprobe 7.0.4 Copied
Released: 17 October 2024
The Netprobe Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/netprobe:7.0.4-r0 and docker.itrsgroup.com/netprobe:7.0.4-privileged-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-12287 | Updated the following to address CVE-2024-7254:
|
Issues fixed Copied
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Release description |
|---|---|
| COL-12042 | The MQ plugins (Channel, Queue, and Queue Info) can now be used alongside the Hardware and Processes plugins. |
Netprobe 7.0.3 Copied
Released: 30 September 2024
The Netprobe Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/netprobe:7.0.3-r0 and docker.itrsgroup.com/netprobe:7.0.3-privileged-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. |
Netprobe 7.0.2 Copied
Released: 18 September 2024
The Netprobe Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/netprobe:7.0.2-r0 and docker.itrsgroup.com/netprobe:7.0.2-privileged-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. |
Netprobe 7.0.1 Copied
Released: 10 September 2024
The Netprobe Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/netprobe:7.0.1-r0 and docker.itrsgroup.com/netprobe:7.0.1-privileged-r0) and Helm chart have been updated in this release.
Netprobe 7.0.0 Copied
Released: 29 August 2024
The Netprobe Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/netprobe:7.0.0-r0 and docker.itrsgroup.com/netprobe:7.0.0-privileged-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-11885 | The libpcap has been upgraded to 1.11.0 to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2023-40400 (BDSA 2023-2588). |
| COL-11955 | TLS connection between Netprobe and Collection Agent is now supported. |
| COL-12098 | Netprobe now requires Java 11 as the minimum supported version beginning 7.0.0, while Java 8 will remain supported for versions 6.9.0 and earlier. |
| COL-12155 | The Hardware plugin now supports disabling timesync checking. |
| COL-12172 | MDM RTO adapter now uses packaged cURL on RHEL 8 and RHEL 9. |
| UTL-1289 | The Netprobe and Gateway packages for RHEL 8 and RHEL 9 now include cURL libraries. |
| 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-7141 | The numberCreated headline now displays the correct value for streams in the Dynamic Entities Health plugin. |
| COL-11338 | The XML-RPC API getParameter function call now encodes XML properly. |
| COL-12084 | The RMC Interface sampler no longer displays a double percentage symbol when showAsPercentage function is applied to two cells with values of 0. |
| COL-12243 | Fixed an issue where the Netprobe occasionally does not change the Collection Agent port when the GSE configuration is changed. |