Geneos 7.x Release Notes

Overview Copied

Geneos release notes contain the list of enhancements of features, and a set of issues fixed in the current release. This page contains release notes for all Geneos 7.x releases.

For the latest highlights, see What’s New in Geneos.

Upgrading between Geneos versions can introduce different changes. For more information, see the Geneos Upgrade 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.

Upcoming Geneos release Copied

Geneos follows a two-month release cycle. The next planned release for 7.1.x is November 2024.

Geneos compatibility and lifecycle Copied

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 7.x Compatibility Matrix.

End of support Copied

The end of support means that the affected component, plugin, or feature is no longer supported and this ends the release of binaries. The table below lists the affected components, plugins, and features:

Notice of change Affected components Effective date Alternative or Upgrade path
End of support for MySQL 5.7 Version 5.7 29 August 2024 Upgrade to supported MySQL versions (8.0, 8.4).
End of life for Obcerv System Overview app Obcerv System Overview app 30 September 2024 Install the Obcerv Entity Viewer app, which replaces the Obcerv System Overview app, before the EOL date.
End of support for version 2.x.x and 3.x.x of Geneos Collection Agent plugins Geneos Collection Agent plugins version 2.x.x and 3.x.x 12 November 2024 (Release of Geneos 7.1.0) Upgrade to the latest available version of Collection Agent plugins
End of life for version 5.x.x Geneos version 5.x.x 30 September 2025 Upgrade to the latest version before the EOL date.

Security updates Copied

To view all the security updates for Geneos 7.x, refer to Geneos 7.x Security Updates.

Known issues Copied

To view the list of known issues for all 7.x releases, see Geneos 7.x Known Issues.

Geneos 7.0.4 Copied

Released: 17 October 2024

This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:

ITRS Downloads

ITRS Docker repository

ITRS Helm repository

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Component Release description
AA-7042 Gateway Gateway now accepts encrypted command password arguments, preventing the storage of unencrypted passwords in the Active Console.
COL-12287 Collection Agent, Netprobe 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
UTL-1246 SSO Agent Updated the xnio module to version 3.8.16 to address the following security vulnerabilities:
  • BDSA-2023-3831
  • BDSA-2022-1913 (CVE-2022-0084)
VI-9746 Active Console, Gateway Beginning Gateway version 7.0.4, passwords entered in the command dialog of the Active Console will no longer be stored in memory.
VI-9847 Web Server The Web Server now validates the Host header against a defined valid Host header in the run and geneosws scripts. Users loading the Web Dashboard must use a Host header that conforms to the defined valid Host header.
VI-9875 Web Server The Commons IO library in the Web Server has been upgraded to version 2.17.0 to address the security vulnerability CVE-2024-47554.
HAAW-479 AWS Updated the protobuf-java dependency to address BDSA-2024-6519 (CVE-2024-7254).

Issues fixed Copied

These are the issues we have fixed in this release:

Issue key Component Release description
AA-7185 Gateway Gateway now reports errors detected when generating Netprobe configurations via XSLT.
COL-12042 Netprobe The MQ plugins (Channel, Queue, and Queue Info) can now be used alongside the Hardware and Processes plugins.
UTL-1287 SSO Agent Fixed an issue where the SSO Agent becomes unresponsive when a Qualys scan is launched against it.

The undertow-core module has been updated to version 2.3.17 to address the following security vulnerabilities:

  • BDSA-2024-5641 (CVE-2024-7885)
  • BDSA-2024-0321
  • BDSA-2024-4198
  • BDSA-2022-4041 (CVE-2022-4492)
  • BDSA-2024-3899
  • BDSA-2023-2318 (CVE-2023-3223)
  • BDSA-2023-3683
  • BDSA-2024-4195
  • BDSA-2023-0526 (CVE-2023-1108)
  • BDSA-2024-0322 (CVE-2024-1459)
  • BDSA-2022-2482
VI-9854, VI-9861 Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor Fixed an issue where commands with authentication or password user inputs do not work.

Geneos 7.0.3 Copied

Released: 30 September 2024

This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:

ITRS Downloads

ITRS Docker repository

ITRS Helm repository

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Component Release description
AA-7181 Docker Image Updated the base images of Gateway and Netprobe docker containers to UBI 9.4-1227.1726694542 to address the security vulnerability CVE-2024-6119.
COL-12173 Gateway, Schema, Netprobe Added a showAllStates checkbox in the TCP Links plugin which displays LISTEN and blank ports.
UTL-1300 Docker Image Updated the Collection Agent docker base image to 1.20-2.1726695178.

Geneos 7.0.2 Copied

Released: 18 September 2024

This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:

ITRS Downloads

AWS Marketplace

ITRS Docker repository

ITRS Helm repository

Issues fixed Copied

These are the issues we have fixed in this release:

Issue key Component Release description
AA-7169 Docker Image Updated the base images of Gateway and Netprobe docker containers to UBI 9.4-1227.1725849298 to address the security vulnerability CVE-2024-34397.
HAAW-478 AWS Updated the org.json:json dependency used by the Amazon Kinesis Client to version 20240303 to address the security vulnerability CVE-2023-5072.

Geneos 7.0.1 Copied

Released: 10 September 2024

This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:

ITRS Downloads

ITRS Docker repository

ITRS Helm repository

Issues fixed Copied

These are the issues we have fixed in this release:

Issue key Component Release description
AA-7163 Gateway 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.
KUBE-5 Kubernetes The Kubernetes plugin no longer shows an exception when using both KubernetesLogCollector and KubernetesMetricsCollector.

Geneos 7.0.0 Copied

Released: 29 August 2024

This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:

ITRS Downloads

AWS Marketplace

Azure Marketplace

ITRS Docker repository

ITRS Helm repository

Highlights Copied

These are the highlights of this release:

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Component Release description
AA-6399 Gateway When the Gateway loses connection to Obcerv, all probes, managed entities, and sampler attributes will be republished to Obcerv upon reconnection.
AA-7011 Gateway, License Daemon 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 Gateway now allows users to run Gateway commands from the Entity Viewer app in Obcerv.
AA-7136 Gateway Data published in Obcerv are now Geneos-derived rather than obtained from Collection Agent coordinates.
AZUREMON-522 Azure Monitor The Azure plugin now supports password-less connection to Azure Event Hub for a more secure connectivity.
AZUREMON-536 Azure Monitor Subscription-wide events can now be published by the Azure Event Hub collector, allowing for Azure monitor metrics to be accurately traced back to their respective subscriptions.
COL-11885 Netprobe The libpcap has been upgraded to 1.11.0 to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2023-40400 (BDSA 2023-2588).
COL-11955 Gateway, Schema, Netprobe TLS connection between Netprobe and Collection Agent is now supported.
COL-12098 Netprobe 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-12151, COL-12234 OpenTelemetry OpenTelemetry Forwarding will be available in the OpenTelemetry plugin version 4.2.0.
COL-12155 Netprobe The Hardware plugin now supports disabling timesync checking.
COL-12172 Netprobe MDM RTO adapter now uses packaged cURL on RHEL 8 and RHEL 9.
COL-12175 Integrations The CorvilNet plugin is now compatible with RHEL 8 and RHEL 9.
COL-12192 Gateway Property names in the FluentD Forward configuration have been updated to Camel Case format.
COL-12217 Gateway Property names in the StatsD configuration have been updated to Camel Case format.
COL-12219 Gateway Property names in the OpenTelemetry configuration have been updated to Camel Case format.
COL-12231 FluentD Forward Enhanced the debug logging of the FluentD Forward plugin by logging messages being processed by the plugin.
COL-12237 Gateway Property names in the Prometheus and Kubernetes configurations have been updated to Camel Case format.
HAAW-95 AWS Added support for Cloudwatch metric streams via Amazon Data Firehose.
KUBE-1 Kubernetes The Kubernetes plugin now supports cAdvisor metrics related to CPU throttling and out of memory events for both pods and containers.
UTL-1289 Gateway, Netprobe The Netprobe and Gateway packages for RHEL 8 and RHEL 9 now include cURL libraries.
UTL-1290 Gateway, License Daemon Added probe information, such as host_name, port, version, os, os_type, and host_id, to the ca_plugin license details in the License Daemon report and in the Details view on the web.
UTL-1291 Active Console / GSE, Gateway, License Auditor, License Daemon, Netprobe, Web Server, Web Slinger Fixed an issue where error messages are not correctly suppressed when using OpenSSL 3.
UTL-1296 License Daemon Report columns in the Details view on the web now match those in the scheduled file reports.
VI-9820 Web Server The Web Dashboard no longer shows Java Stack Traces when an exception occurs during loading. This addresses the security vulnerability: QID 150896.

Issues fixed Copied

These are the issues we have fixed in this release:

Issue key Component Release description
AA-7057 Gateway Variables in the SSL configuration options of database logging are now resolved correctly.
AA-7083 Gateway Gateway no longer crashes when selecting the Show Alerts option.
AA-7141 Netprobe The numberCreated headline now displays the correct value for streams in the Dynamic Entities Health plugin.
COL-11338 Netprobe The XML-RPC API getParameter function call now encodes XML properly.
COL-12084 Netprobe The RMC Interface sampler no longer displays a double percentage symbol when showAsPercentage function is applied to two cells with values of 0.
COL-12154 Azure Monitor Updated the Azure identity dependency to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2024-35255.
COL-12243 Netprobe Fixed an issue where the Netprobe occasionally does not change the Collection Agent port when the GSE configuration is changed.
VI-1525 Active Console / GSE Disabling labels using gauge properties now works properly, even when the workspace is saved and reloaded.
VI-9751 Active Console / GSE Images in dashboards are now displayed correctly when opened in the Active Console.
VI-9801 Active Console / GSE Disabled height adjustment settings for pie charts to ensure proper aspect ratio when adjusting the size through the width setting.
VI-9814 Active Console / GSE The krb5.conf and login.conf files are now included in the resources folder of the MacOS standalone Gateway Setup Editor to enable connection to an SSO agent using Kerberos authentication scheme.
VI-9818 Active Console / GSE Clicking the Add or Remove button now works correctly when using the Object Inspector to edit a dashboard object’s modifiers.
VI-9832 Active Console / GSE, Web Server Fixed an issue where after a configuration change, dataviews in the Active Console would stop updating unless the user moves to another dataview.

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

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