Geneos 6.x Release Notes

Upcoming Geneos release

Geneos follows a two-month release cycle. The next planned release for Geneos 6.3.x is March 2023.

Known issues

To view the list of known issues for all Geneos 6.x releases, see Geneos 6.x Known Issues. The known issues that are resolved will be added on this page.

Geneos compatibility and lifecycle

The notice of change in the Geneos compatibility identifies the components, plugins, or features that will no longer be supported by ITRS in any future releases.

To view all the changes to Geneos compatibility and lifecycle, refer to Geneos 6.x Compatibility Matrix.

End of support

Geneos 6.2.0

Released: 31 January 2023

This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:

ITRS Downloads

• Active Console

• AWS plugin

• Azure Monitor plugin

• Collection Agent

• Fluentd Forward plugin

• Gateway

• License Auditor

• Netprobe

• OpenTelemetry plugin

• Prometheus plugin

• SSO Agent

• Webslinger

AWS Marketplace

• AWS AMI (pre-configured for AWS monitoring)

Azure Marketplace

• Azure Virtual machine image (pre-configured for Azure monitoring)

ITRS Docker repository

• Gateway docker image

• Netprobe docker image

ITRS Helm repository

• Gateway Helm chart (pre-configured for Kubernetes monitoring)

• Netprobe Helm chart (pre-configured for Kubernetes monitoring)

Highlights

These are the highlights of this release:

• Active Console now supports Follow Selection mode for State Tree. This means the State Tree will automatically expand to select and identify items selected elsewhere in the Active Console. This makes it easier to find items in your State Tree without needing to search through a large number of items.

• Support integration with HashiCorp Password Vault that allows you to manage passwords in the Gateway configuration.

• Netprobe Helm Chart now supports additional configuration options.

Breaking changes

If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Geneos, please read Geneos Upgrade Notes for compatibility changes you should be aware of before upgrading.

New features and enhancements

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key	Component	Release description
AA-5460	Gateway	Added _ALERT_CLEARED that shows the date and time when the alert is cleared.
AA-6610	Gateway	HashiCorp Vault is now supported as an external password manager.
COL-9484	Gateway, Netprobe, Webslinger	Webslinger plugin now has the option to choose TLS versions.
COL-11312	Netprobe	You can now enable or disable the MultiSubnetFailover option in the SQL Toolkit plugin for the Microsoft SQL Server database. This setting is disabled by default.
COL-11340	Netprobe	The Gateway name is now included in the FKM outbound stream log data published to both Elasticsearch and Splunk.
COL-11519	Gateway	Netprobe logging is improved so that unnecessary setup changes are no longer logged.
COL-11568	Netprobe Helm Chart	The Fluentd Forward configuration has been added to the Netprobe Helm chart.
COL-11569	Netprobe Helm Chart	Managed Entities can now be configured for Netprobes deployed in Kubernetes environments using the Netprobe Helm chart.
COL-11574	Netprobe	The Netty libraries in Netprobe have been upgraded to 4.1.86-Final to address the following security vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-41915 (BDSA-2022-3560) CVE-2022-41881 (BDSA-2022-3559)
COL-11577	Netprobe	The following binaries are packaged with Netprobe 6.2.0, and are now available for download from the ITRS Downloads: Collection Agent 3.2.2 AWS plugin 3.3.0 Azure plugin 3.2.0 OpenTelemetry plugin 3.1.1 Fluentd Forward plugin 3.0.1 Prometheus plugin 3.1.1
VI-7912	Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor	When a notification pop-up, List View, or Event Ticker item is clicked, the corresponding node in the State Tree where that item belongs is also selected.
VI-9555	Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor	You can now enable or disable state tree follow selection by using the Enable follow selection option. Additionally, these modifications brought about adjustments to the Active Console settings: Some menu items, such as General, Connection, and System Tray, have been moved. The Appearance section was created.
AZUREMON-357	Azure	The Azure-core library has been updated to 1.35.0 to update the Netty project transitive dependency to version 4.1.79-FINAL. This addresses the following security vulnerabilities for Netty: BDSA-2021-0311 CVE-2022-24823 CVE-2021-43797
AZUREMON-476	Azure	The Azure-core library has been updated to 1.35.0 to update the Woodstox-core project transitive dependency to version 6.4.0. This addresses the following security vulnerabilities for Woodstox-core: BDSA-2022-2582 BDSA-2022-2580

Known issues

To view the list of known issues for all Geneos 6.x releases, see Geneos 6.x Known Issues.

Geneos 6.1.2

Released: 18 January 2023

This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:

ITRS Downloads

• Active Console

• Gateway

• License Auditor

• Netprobe

ITRS Docker repository

• Gateway docker image

• Netprobe docker image

ITRS Helm repository

• Gateway Helm chart

• Netprobe Helm chart

Breaking changes

If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Geneos, please read Geneos Upgrade Notes for compatibility changes you should be aware of before upgrading.

Issues fixed

These are the issues we have fixed in this release:

Issue key	Component	Release description
VI-9657	Active Console, Gateway, Netprobe	Fixed the incorrect display in Geneos 6.1.x of the following Dynamic Entities settings: Dynamic Entities > Collection Agent Parameters > Collection Agent Dynamic Entities > Collectors > Plugin

Known issues

To view the list of known issues for all Geneos 6.x releases, see Geneos 6.x Known Issues.

Geneos 6.1.1

Released: 4 January 2023

This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:

ITRS Downloads

• Active Console

• Gateway

• Geneos Workflow plugin

• License Auditor

• Netprobe

• OpenTelemetry plugin

• Web Server

ITRS Docker repository

• Gateway docker image

• Netprobe docker image

ITRS Helm repository

• Gateway Helm chart

• Netprobe Helm chart

Breaking changes

If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Geneos, please read Geneos Upgrade Notes for compatibility changes you should be aware of before upgrading.

New features and enhancements

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key	Component	Release description
C2-362	Collection Agent	Derived metrics from the OpenTelemetry plugin are now aggregated and exported similar to metrics received over the network.
C2-367	Collection Agent	Resource and scope attributes that are not selected for inclusion as dimensions are now retained as properties. This behavior may be disabled via configuration to drop the excluded dimension mappings. Individual metric, log, and trace attributes are now always mapped to properties and not to dimensions.
COL-11534	Netprobe	The Geneos Workflow plugin now correctly maps empty histogram data to empty cells in the dataview.
VI-9558	Active Console, Web Dashboard	The PostgreSQL library in the Active Console and Web Dashboard has been upgraded to version 42.5.1 to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2022-41946.

Issues fixed

These are the issues we have fixed in this release:

Issue key	Component	Release description
AA-6646	Gateway	Gateway publishing no longer crashes when Gateway-SQL clears dataview.
AA-6650	Gateway	Gateway no longer crashes when a command list is sent to the Gateway during Netprobe setup changes.

Known issues

To view the list of known issues for all Geneos 6.x releases, see Geneos 6.x Known Issues.

Geneos 6.1.0

Released: 1 December 2022

This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:

ITRS Downloads

• Active Console

• AWS plugin

• Azure Monitor plugin

• Collection Agent

• Fix Analyser 2 Netprobe

• Fluentd Forward plugin

• Gateway

• Kubernetes plugin

• License Auditor

• Licence Daemon

• Netprobe

• OpenTelemetry plugin

• Prometheus plugin

• SSO Agent

• StatsD plugin

• Web Server

• Webslinger

AWS Marketplace

• AWS AMI (pre-configured for AWS monitoring)

Azure Marketplace

• Azure Virtual machine image (pre-configured for Azure monitoring)

ITRS Docker repository

• Gateway docker image

• Netprobe docker image

ITRS Helm repository

• Gateway Helm chart (pre-configured for Kubernetes monitoring)

• Netprobe Helm chart (pre-configured for Kubernetes monitoring)

Highlights

These are the highlights of this release:

• New Fluentd plugin to aggregate log data.

  Fluentd is an open-source highly scalable log event data collector. Similar to Prometheus for metrics, Fluentd has become a popular choice of tool for log collection and aggregation in container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and OpenShift.

  The new Fluentd plugin allows you to receive logs directly from Fluentd so you don’t have to deploy additional toolsets to aggregate log data for monitoring. The plugin supports inbound Fluentd protocol messages over secure TCP connection. The inbound messages are dynamically organised into streams of log data for monitoring using popular plugins like File Keyword Monitor and State Tracker. Geneos can also publish that data onwards to ITRSObcerv platform, Splunk or Elasticsearch for log search and analysis.

• Monitoring Kubernetes control plane components with Prometheus plugin.

  The Prometheus plugin is now enhanced to support collecting metrics from Kubernetes endpoints such as the control plane components. The key to providing a scalable, fault-tolerant, highly available Kubernetes service are the control plane components of Kubernetes such as the scheduler, etcd, api-server, and control-manager. In order to maintain a healthy Kubernetes cluster, monitoring these components is crucial. These components can expose internal performance metrics using Prometheus format. The Prometheus plugin can scrape the metric endpoints exposed by these components directly, without the need to install Prometheus server to aggregate this data.

• Other improvements:

  • AWS plugin now supports monitoring custom namespaces (custom metrics), EC2 network interfaces and security groups. The plugin configuration is also updated to allow a single collector (plugin) to monitor multiple regions to minimise configuration.

  • Gateway publishing now supports exclude filter when publishing data to other systems like ITRSITRS Obcerv, Kafka and generic Http endpoints. This gives more control over the data published to other systems, helping to minimise downstream data requirements.

  • Market Data Monitoring (MDM) plugin now includes a new feed adapter for connecting to Refinitiv's Real Time Optimized data feed accessible via the cloud. This is available as pilot feature in this release.

  • SQL-Toolkit plugin for SAP ASE (Sybase) now support Kerberos authentication.

New features and enhancements

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key	Component	Release description
AA-6522	Gateway	Collectors now come with built-in mappings that are automatically added to the mappings used by the Netprobe.
AA-6532	Gateway	Gateway publishing now supports filtering based on exclude filters.
AA-6549	Gateway	Gateway can now connect to a Standalone SSO Agent using Basic Authentication to get a list of users for the User Assignment drop-down menu.
AA-6556	Gateway, Netprobe	Updated Protocol Buffers version to 3.19.4 to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2021-22570.
AA-6557	Gateway, Netprobe	Updated CAres version to 1.17.2 to address the security vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-3672 CVE-2020-8277
AA-6577	Gateway, Netprobe	Dynamic Entity metrics that are not updated within the configured stale data timeout are no longer published to Obcerv and are displayed as blank cells in Active Console.
AA-6592	Gateway	When Gateway publishes severity events to Obcerv, the message text now uses severity names instead of numeric values.
AA-6623	Gateway	Gateway name is now included as a datapoint property to all datapoints sent by Gateway to Obcerv.
AA-6627	Gateway	You can now configure the default GRPC connection parameters for Obcerv.
AA-6632	Gateway	TLS verification can now be disabled when connecting to Obcerv to publish data.
AA-6634	Gateway	Gateway now creates the dataview-dynamic-schemas cache only when publishing to Gateway Hub2.x.x .
COL-8662	Netprobe	MQ plugins now look up passwords from external password vault at the time of use.
COL-11302	Netprobe	Variables and external passwords are now supported in MQ plugins.
COL-11303	Netprobe	[Pilot Feature]: Add Refinitiv RTO Feed Adapter, a new MDM Feed Adapter which connects to Refinitiv's Real Time Optimized environment.
COL-11414	Gateway, Netprobe, Fix Analyser 2 Netprobe	SQL Toolkit plugin now supports Kerberos Authentication when connecting to Sybase.
COL-11427	Netprobe	The output of the ShowDynamicMappings now includes the last update time for the selected metric.
COL-11452	Netprobe	The Jackson databind library in the Netprobe package has been upgraded to 2.13.4.2 to address the security vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-42004 CVE-2022-42003
COL-11459	Gateway, Netprobe	Fluentd Forward plugin is now added to the list of Collection Agent plugins that can be configured and used in Geneos.
COL-11460	Netprobe	The Fluentd Foward plugin 3.0.0 binaries are packaged with Netprobe 6.1.0, and are now available to download from the ITRS Downloads.
COL-11490	Netprobe	For Obcerv destinations in the Publisher plugin, the default batch size is now 1000 and the default batch timeout is now 1 second. Also, the Publisher plugin now sends gRPC messages to Obcerv using GZIP compression.
COL-11501	Netprobe	The Prometheus plugin 3.1.0 binaries are packaged with Netprobe 6.1.0, and are now available to download from the ITRS Downloads.
COL-11502	Netprobe	The Azure plugin 3.1.0 and AWS plugin 3.2.0 binaries are packaged with Netprobe 6.1.0, and are now available to download from the ITRS Downloads.
COL-11505	Netprobe	The Collection Agent 3.2.1, Kubernetes Plugin 3.2.1, and OpenTelemetry Plugin 3.0.1 binaries are packaged with Netprobe 6.1.0, and are now available to download from the ITRS Downloads.
UTL-1225	SSO Agent	Updated Undertow Core version to 2.2.20 to resolve CVE-2022-1672.
UTL-1231	SSO Agent	SSO Agent is now allowed to use a Kerberos keytab instead of a password.
UTL-1242	SSO Agent	The default logback.xml in SSO Agent now includes the date in the log timestamp.
UTL-1244	Gateway, Netprobe	The base Docker container of Gateway and Netprobe is now updated to 8.7.929.
VI-9497, VI-9498, VI-9499	Active Console	The Java version packaged with Active Console for Windows, Linux, and macOS is now updated to OpenJDK 11.x.
VI-9500	Web Dashboard	The Java version packaged with Web Dashboard is now updated to OpenJDK 11.x.
VI-7821	Active Console	The command dialog box now resizes automatically when an error message is displayed in it.
VI-9485	Active Console	GSE now validates and colourises YAML in the relevant Dynamic Entities sections.
VI-9528	Gateway	After configuring and adding the Azure collector to the mapping type, the built-in mappings for Azure Monitor V3 are now automatically added. When self monitoring is enabled in the Collection Agent parameters, the built-in mappings for Collection Agent V3 are also automatically included.
VI-9534	Active Console	The Jackson Databind library in the Active Console has been upgraded to 2.13.4 to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2022-42004.
VI-9536	Active Console	The SnakeYAML library in the Gateway Setup Editor has been upgraded to 1.33 to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2022-38752.
VI-9539	Active Console	The Jackson Databind library in the Active Console has been upgraded to 2.13.4.2 to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2022-42003.
VI-9542	Web Server	The Spring Security libraries in the Web Dashboard have been upgraded to 5.7.5 to address the security vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-31690 CVE-2022-31692 Upgrading Spring Security also upgrades the Spring Framework libraries to 5.3.23.
HAAW-264	AWS	You can now monitor custom namespaces and gather custom metrics using the AWS plugin.
HAAW-338	AWS	You can now monitor non-active but non-terminated instances using the AWS plugin.
HAAW-364	AWS	You can now monitor network interfaces associated with each monitored EC2 instance.
HAAW-365	AWS	You can now specify a list of regions when using the AWS plugin so a single Collector (plugin) can monitor multiple regions.
HAAW-366	AWS	Users can now monitor the AWS/Usage namespace to track service quotas.
OACM-28	Prometheus	The Prometheus plugin now uses Netty v4.1.79-Final.
OACM-31	Prometheus	Prometheus plugin now supports the ability to scrape Kubernetes endpoints to collect metrics about control plane components and other services exposing metrics in Prometheus format.
C2-353	Collection Agent	Percent metric is now used when collecting Kubernetes node, pod, and container file systems.
AZUREMON-474	Azure	Addressed security vulnerability: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Jackson-databind.

Known issues

To view the list of known issues for all Geneos 6.x releases, see Geneos 6.x Known Issues.

Geneos 6.0.2

Released: 8 November 2022

This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:

ITRS Downloads

• Netprobe

• Kubernetes

• Collection Agent

ITRS Docker repository

• Netprobe docker image

ITRSHelm repository

• Netprobe Helm chart (pre-configured for Kubernetes monitoring)

Breaking changes

If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Geneos, please read Geneos Upgrade Notes for compatibility changes you should be aware of before upgrading.

Known issues

To view the list of known issues for all Geneos 6.x releases, see Geneos 6.x Known Issues.

Geneos 6.0.1

Released: 5 October 2022

This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:

ITRS Downloads

• Netprobe

AWS Marketplace

• AWS AMI (pre-configured for AWS monitoring)

Azure Marketplace

• Azure Virtual machine image (pre-configured for Azure monitoring)

ITRS Docker repository

• Netprobe docker image

ITRS Helm repository

• Netprobe Helm chart (pre-configured for Kubernetes monitoring)

Breaking changes

If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Geneos, please read Geneos Upgrade Notes for compatibility changes you should be aware of before upgrading.

Known issues

To view the list of known issues for all Geneos 6.x releases, see Geneos 6.x Known Issues.

Geneos 6.0.0

Released: 20 September 2022

Geneos new features and fixes are released on a regular two-monthly release cadence. Over the last two and a half years, we introduced many new features on the Geneos 5.x. We generally bump up the major version every two years, so it is time to move up to Geneos 6.x.

ITRS will continue to support Geneos 5.x at least until the end of 2024 because we recognise that not everyone will be able to upgrade to Geneos 6.x for some months. Currently, there is not yet a fixed end-of-life date for Geneos 5.x.

End of life for Geneos 4.x.x is 31 May 2023. If you are running Geneos 4.x, we advise you to upgrade to Geneos 5.x or newer. Please see Geneos 6.x Compatibility Matrix for more details.

This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:

ITRS Downloads

• Active Console

• AWS plugin

• Azure Monitor plugin

• Collection Agent

• File Agent

• Fix Analyser 2 Netprobe

• Gateway

• Geneos Workflow plugin

• Kubernetes plugin

• License Auditor

• Licence Daemon

• Netprobe

• OpenTelemetry plugin

• Prometheus plugin

• SSO Agent

• StatsD plugin

• Web Server

• Webslinger

AWS Marketplace

• AWS AMI (pre-configured for AWS monitoring)

Azure Marketplace

• Azure Virtual machine image (pre-configured for Azure monitoring)

ITRS Docker repository

• Gateway docker image

• Netprobe docker image

ITRS Helm repository

• Gateway Helm chart (pre-configured for Kubernetes monitoring)

• Netprobe Helm chart (pre-configured for Kubernetes monitoring)

Highlights

These are the highlights of this release:

• Ingest OpenTelemetry data for complete observability

  OpenTelemetry is an open, vendor-neutral toolset and standard for instrumenting your applications and services. With the increased use of highly distributed microservice architectures, OpenTelemetry has become a popular standard for collecting observability data. We are excited to introduce the new OpenTelemetry plugin supporting the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) for collecting metrics, logs, and traces (partially supported). This gives you full-stack monitoring of your systems and applications alongside your other monitoring using the extensive range of plugins in Geneos.

  While metrics and logs are fully supported, we currently extract important metrics from the trace data. We intend to fully support trace data in future releases. Geneos can be configured to dynamically create the monitoring entities and data structures so your monitoring can automatically scale with your application deployment.

• Improved visibility and management of Collection Agents

  Collection Agent and its plugins, first introduced in Geneos 5.x, gather data points (metrics, logs, and events) and report them to Geneos Netprobe. Collection Agent can be deployed alongside Netprobes and managed by Netprobes or installed and managed independently from Netprobe. For most host-based monitoring, it is useful to deploy Collection Agent managed by Netprobe. For containerised environments like Kubernetes, Netprobe and Collection Agent are typically managed using Kubernetes objects.

  This release introduces improvements to the Collection Agent and its plugins (or Collectors) managed by a Netprobe.

  • Collection Agent configuration (collection-agent.yml) can now be managed centrally in Gateway via the Gateway Setup Editor alongside your other Geneos configuration. This removes the need to manage YAML files on the host where Collection Agent is running. Support for variables and validation reduces complexity and improves the user experience.

    Note: This feature requires Gateway and Netprobe version 6.x. It is also recommended you upgrade Active Console and Gateway Setup Editor to version 6.x.

  • The lifecycle of the Collection Agent can be managed by the Netprobe, giving you more visibility and control of the Collection Agent and its plugins. Self-monitoring views and easy access to logs, errors, and configuration files from within Active Console mean you can easily diagnose any issues without needing access to host machines.

• Easily migrate AES keys for more secure password management

  Gateway supports private AES keys for encrypting sensitive data in configuration. When AES keys are changed, all encrypted data must be updated to use the new key. Gateway Setup Editor now supports a migration option to easily update the configuration to use the new key.

Breaking changes

If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Geneos, please read Geneos Upgrade Notes for compatibility changes you should be aware of before upgrading.

New features and enhancements

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key	Component	Release description
AA-5742	Gateway	Gateway no longer includes a plaintext version of the database logging password in the metadata provided to Active Console.
AA-6514	Gateway, Netprobe	Gateway can now manage the Collection Agent configuration and is able to: Check if the configuration is valid when the Collection Agent has been started. Monitor the Collection Agent process as part of the Gateway self-monitoring view.
AA-6377	Netprobe	Publishing Collection Agent 3.0.0 datapoints to the Netprobe is now supported.
AA-6378	Gateway, Netprobe	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and 22.04 LTS are now supported in Geneos 6.0.
AA-6417	Gateway	When Gateway validates its setup, it now reports an error for each AES password that cannot be decrypted and a warning for each AES password that can only be decrypted with a key loaded via the -previous-key-file option. Where Gateway uses AES passwords directly, for example, in Obcerv and database logging credentials, it will not attempt to connect if the password cannot be decrypted.
AA-6442	Gateway	In addition to the key-file command line option, a new command line option for Gateway -previous-key-file is now supported to facilitate the change of the Gateway AES key. When this option is used, the Gateway will decrypt passwords using the key-file or the previous-key-file, whichever succeeds first. Gateway Setup Editor allows you to migrate passwords encrypted using previous-key-file and re-encrypt them using the new key-file. This makes it easier to change AES key more often to improve security.
AA-6444	Active Console, Gateway	Gateway Setup Editor now supports the migration of passwords that are encrypted using previous-key-file and their re-encryption using the new key-file. This makes it easier to change the Gateway AES key more often to improve security.
AA-6445	Gateway, Netprobe, FIX Analyser 2 Netprobe	When a sampler setup contains an AES-encrypted password that cannot be decrypted by the Gateway, a parameter is set by the Gateway for the Netprobe to replace that sampler with another one. This new sampler has a dataview containing no rows and a sampling status stating the problem. This prevents the plugin from attempting to use the invalid password, which may cause the Netprobe to be locked out.
AA-6449	Gateway	Gateway Setup Editor now displays a warning message when the Data Access field for connecting to Obcerv is not set.
AA-6478	Gateway	Collection Agent 3 plugin licensing model now uses the itrsgroup namespace when publishing datapoints. This change will not affect any existing plugin licences in use.
AA-6487	Gateway	Gateway now adds a self-monitoring entity with a Dynamic Entity Health plugin to any Netprobe configured with a Dynamic Entity mapping type. This is the default behavior, but it can be disabled in the Operating Environment section in GSE.
AA-6494	Gateway	Collection Agent 3.0.0 is now packaged with Netprobe 6.0.0.
AA-6503	Gateway	The aesKeyType row describing the keys used by Gateway has been added to the GatewayData dataview.
AA-6506	Gateway	Validation of passwords is now skipped when the -hub-validation-rules command line option is set.
AA-6535	Netprobe	The Entities view of the Dynamic Entities Health plugin has been updated to publish metrics with names and meanings similar to the metrics published by the Collection Agents view of the Gateway-probeData plugin.
AA-6544	Gateway	The Netprobe view log command (/PROBE:viewLog) can now be run from the following: a Netprobe in Active Console. from cells in the Gateway-ProbesData Netprobe dataview using the /GATEWAY:PROBESDATA:viewNetprobeLog command.
AA-6585	Gateway	Collection Agent V3 built-in Dynamic Entity mapping has been added to support the Collection Agent 3.x.
AA-6588	Docker Image	The base UBI image for Geneos docker images has been updated.
AZUREMON-387	Azure	Azure Monitor plugin has been updated to support compatibility with Collection Agent 3.x.
AZUREMON-391	Azure	The Google Gson library in the Azure Monitor plugin has been upgraded to 2.9.0 to address the security vulnerability: BDSA-2021-4363.
AZUREMON-458	Azure	The Azure Marketplace VM has been updated to support Geneos 6.0.0 binaries.
AZUREMON-459	Azure	Azure Monitor V3 builtin mapping has been added to support the Azure Monitor plugin 3.x.
C2-184	Collection Agent	Individual components can now be enabled or disabled.
C2-187	Collection Agent	The delay between daemon start-up and the healthy state has been reduced.
C2-188	Collection Agent	A warning message about an undefined variable will no longer be logged when an environment variable substitution is commented out in the Collection Agent configuration file.
C2-195	Collection Agent	An option to publish derived timer histogram metrics (min/max/count/Nth) has been added.
C2-197	Collection Agent	The TimerHistogram has been replaced with a general purpose Histogram.
C2-223	Collection Agent	The attributes workflow pipeline has been separated from the Metrics workflow pipeline to apply different delivery guarantees.
C2-226	Collection Agent	The hostname dimension has been removed from the Kubernetes metrics.
C2-299	Collection Agent	The log verbosity of the plugin loader has been reduced.
C2-345	Collection Agent	A configuration test mode has been added to the Collection Agent.
COL-7674	Netprobe	SU plugin has been deprecated.
COL-11093	Netprobe	Netprobe can now search and try and locate Java when JAVA_HOME is not set. The precedence for locating Java are the following: -java-home command line option specified when running Netprobe. JAVA_HOME environment variable. Locate Java executable using PATH environment variable . Try the default installation folder:  Windows: C:\Program Files\Java Linux: /etc/alternatives
COL-11189	FIX Analyser 2 plugin, Netprobe	The following Netprobe plugins, which are already deprecated and not supported, are now removed from Netprobe: Citrix Apps, Citrix Processes, Citrix Sessions, Citrix Summary Combo Component Versions DQM Compare, DQM Updates Effix Status Fix Cameron Status Gissing RTIC Latency SWX Triarch Latency UL Bridge
COL-11281	Netprobe	The following plugins have been deprecated: GL Greffon, GL Lost Orders, GL Order Book, GL Permissions, GL SLC, GL SLC Relay, GL SLE, GL SLE TCP, MISS-X, PATS Status, PATS Trading Breaches, PATS Users, SETS SLC, and Tradeview.
COL-11327	Gateway	The Collection Agent and plugins included in the Netprobe package have been upgraded to version 3.x.
COL-11328	Netprobe Helm Chart	The Netprobe helm charts have been updated to use Collection Agent v3 docker image.
COL-11329	Gateway	Kubernetes V3 builtin mapping has been added to support the Kubernetes plugin 3.x.
COL-11361	Gateway	Prometheus V3 builtin mapping has been added to support the Prometheus plugin 3.x.
COL-11363	Netprobe	When Dynamic Entities are configured for Self-Announcing Netprobes, the Managed Entities are now optional.
COL-11399	Netprobe	The Kubernetes specific Netprobe package (geneos-netprobe-<version>-kubernetes.tar.gz) is no longer available to download from the ITRS Downloads website. We recommend that you set up Kubernetes monitoring using the Helm Charts available through ITRS Helm repository. See Installation using Helm for more information.
COL-11401	Netprobe	MDM plugin no longer requires the Application Key file, mdm_appkey.txt.
HAAW-64, HAAW-333, HAAW-345	AWS	AWS plugin now displays the following attributes of the monitored EBS volumes: VolumeType AttachedInstances CreateTime
HAAW-329	AWS	Metric names produced by the AWS plugin have been changed to be consistent with AWS convention. This may break existing x-paths that reference the old name. Please check the Gateway configuration to make sure AWS plugins related x-paths are valid.
HAAW-344	AWS	AWS plugin now displays the LaunchTime attribute of the monitored EC2 instances.
HAAW-350	AWS	The AWS Marketplace AMI has been updated to support Geneos 6.0.0 binaries.
UTL-1194	Gateway, Netprobe, Webslinger, Licence Daemon, FIX Analyser 2 Netprobe	Gateway, Netprobe, Webslinger, and License Daemon now allow the use of -minTLSversion option to specify 1.3 as the minimum TLS protocol version.
UTL-1221	SSO Agent	SSO Agent no longer supports Windows platforms.
VI-8743	Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor, Web Server	The date and time logging format for the Active Console and Web Dashboard is now yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS.
VI-9368	Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor	The Paths dockable now shows an orange or warning highlight for paths that use non-identifying predicates. Highlighted paths now show tooltips that gives a hint that the path may be inefficient.
VI-9514	Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor, Web Server	The PostgreSQL library in the Active Console and Web Dashboard has been upgraded to 42.4.1 to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2022-31197.
VI-9517	Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor	Active Console history charts using data from ITRS Obcerv now use buckets to improve performance. Adjusting the chart's horizontal scrollbar to select a date range or resizing the chart's width will trigger a chart update and select more or less bucketed data points depending on the chart's width and selected data range.
VI-9522	Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor, Web Server	The OpenJDK library in the Active Console and Web Dashboard has been upgraded to 8u345-b01 to address the security vulnerabilities: BDSA-2022-0129 BDSA-2022-0133 BDSA-2022-0134

Known issues

To view the list of known issues for all Geneos 6.x releases, see Geneos 6.x Known Issues.

Geneos 6.x Release Notes	Released: September 2022 Last updated: September 2022
Geneos 5.x Release Notes	Released: December 2019 Last updated: September 2022
Geneos 4.x Release Notes	Released: February 2017 Last updated: December 2019