Geneos 7.x Known Issues

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This page contains a list of bugs and issues that may affect the performance of your applications and components in Geneos 7.x. To view the reported and resolved known issues for Geneos 6.x, see Geneos 6.x Known Issues.

ITRS works on isolating and fixing every product issue that we are aware of. We categorise a bug or an issue as a known issue if it meets the following criteria:

The Reported version is also provided for each known issue which indicates the Geneos version where the issue was found. However, these issues may be valid across multiple versions.

This list is always updated regularly, and issues that are resolved will be added in the Geneos release notes.

Geneos 5.x EOL

End of life for version 5.x.x is scheduled for 30 September 2025. If you are currently using version 5.x.x, we advise you to upgrade to the latest version before the EOL date.

Geneos release notes Copied

For detailed release notes for the latest version of Geneos, see Latest Geneos Release Notes.

Geneos follows a two-month release cycle. The next planned release for 7.2.x is January 2025.

Upgrade to Geneos 7.x Copied

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

Open known issues Copied

This section provides the list of known issues affecting this release, and are currently being investigated.

Issue key Affected component Reported version Known issue description
VI-9496 Web Server Geneos 5.14.x A security vulnerability (CVE-2016-1000027) has been identified, affecting the Pivotal Spring Framework library that is used in the Geneos Web Dashboard (Web Server) component. However, Web Dashboard is not impacted by this vulnerability based on the information mentioned in CVE-2016-1000027.

Note

The vendor is unlikely to fix this specific vulnerability or change the current behavior of the product because some users rely on deserialization of trusted data.
UTL-1135 Gateway, Netprobe Geneos 5.1.x

Gateway and Netprobe are unable to use MySQL 8.0 client libraries in SLES12.

Workaround: Revert to libmysqlclient.so.18 client libraries.

VI-9837 Active Console / GSE Geneos 7.0.0 Historical data charts cannot be created when using MySQL 8.4, despite the Database Logging being active.
COL-7759, COL-7760, COL-7761 Netprobe Geneos 7.1.x Creating or updating the configuration of the Control-M, E4JMS, and IBM i plugins will restart the Netprobe that runs them.

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This section provides the list of known issues that have been resolved in Geneos 7.x. The resolved known issues are added in the Latest Geneos Release Notes.

Issue key Affected component Reported version Known issue description Fix version
HAAW-481 AWS AWS 4.4.0 A security vulnerability (CVE-2024-47561(BDSA-2024-6954)) has been identified in the Apache Avro library, which impacts the AWS Kinesis Client library utilized by the AWS plugin. To address this issue, the AWS Kinesis client must update one of its dependencies; however, an updated library is not yet available. Geneos 7.1.1
COL-12172 Netprobe MDM Refinitiv RTO packages and uses its own libcurl at flm/refinitiv/libcurl.so for RHEL 8 and RHEL 9. Geneos 7.0.0
AA-7080 License Daemon Some ATS tests were failing when using the command ProposedSchema as the schema for License Daemon was not up-to-date. Geneos 7.0.0

Other Geneos releases Copied

Release Date
7.x Release Notes Released: August 2024
6.x Release Notes Released: September 2022
5.x Release Notes Released: December 2019

Note

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