Netprobe Release Notes

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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 7.1.2 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.

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:
  • 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)
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:
  • CVE-2023-5869
  • CVE-2021-32027
  • CVE-2020-25695
  • CVE-2020-25694
  • CVE-2016-0773
  • CVE-2016-5423
  • CVE-2016-5424
  • CVE-2023-39417
  • CVE-2020-25696
  • CVE-2020-14350
  • CVE-2020-14349
  • CVE-2021-32029
  • CVE-2021-32028
  • CVE-2015-0243
  • CVE-2015-0241
  • CVE-2015-3165
  • CVE-2024-10978
  • CVE-2018-1115
  • CVE-2015-3166
  • CVE-2024-4317
  • CVE-2023-39418
  • CVE-2015-3167
  • CVE-2015-0244

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:
  • CVE-2023-44487
  • BDSA-2024-5199
  • BDSA-2023-2427 (CVE-2023-4785)
  • BDSA-2023-2140 (CVE-2023-33953)
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:
  • 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

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.
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