Gateway Release Notes

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This page provides information about the latest Gateway 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.

Gateway 7.1.1 Copied

Released: 05 December 2024

The Gateway Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/gateway:7.1.1-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)
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

Gateway 7.1.0 Copied

Released: 12 November 2024

The Gateway Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/gateway:7.1.0-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-6152 Improved error handling when running a Gateway in process-dump-files mode alongside an active Gateway.
AA-6970 Added new Obcerv attributes to Obcerv publishing:
  • On Sampler — itrsgroup.com/apps : logical-group
  • On Managed Entity, Sampler, and Dataview — itrsgroup.com/apps : display-name
AA-6974 The c-ares library has been updated to version 1.34.1 to address the security vulnerability BDSA-2024-0444.
AA-7035 Cached external passwords can now be refreshed at regular configured intervals or on setup reload.
AA-7046 Gateway no longer publishes null values unless the previous value was a non-blank string.
AA-7047 Gateway now indicates if there are changes to metric types when publishing data to Obcerv.
AA-7155 Dataviews published to Obcerv can now be snoozed.
AA-7159, AA-7174 Gateway can now generate monitoring reports via a new Gateway command and via REST endpoint.
AA-7170 The libxml2 has been updated to version 2.13.4 to address the following security vulnerabilities:
  • BDSA-2024-4704
  • BDSA-2024-2491
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)
AA-7203 The lowest option under the Authentication > combineMode setting is now deprecated.
COL-12076 The Database option in Fix Analyser 2 now supports TLS configuration.
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.

Issues fixed Copied

These are the issues we have fixed in this release:

Issue key Release description
AA-6932 Removed unexpected alerts generated when a rule becomes active again, even if the cell state is already OK.
AA-6999 Fixed the calculation of the Gateway roll time parameter during a change in Daylight Savings Time (DST).
AA-7175 Fixed an issue where the Gateway commands do not work when Hot Standby is enabled.
AA-7184 Gateway now resets its connection to Obcerv commands if the Obcerv data access credentials are changed.
AA-7188 Fixed an issue where a self-monitoring managed entity does not use the dynamic-entities-health schema.
AA-7210 The Gateway-forecaster plugin no longer requires a license.
AA-7214 The dataview name in Gateway-forecaster plugin now matches the sampler name.

Gateway 7.0.4 Copied

Released: 17 October 2024

The Gateway Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/gateway:7.0.4-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-7042 Gateway now accepts encrypted command password arguments, preventing the storage of unencrypted passwords in the Active Console.
VI-9746 Beginning Gateway version 7.0.4, passwords entered in the command dialog of the Active Console will no longer be stored in memory.

Issues fixed Copied

These are the issues we have fixed in this release:

Issue key Release description
AA-7185 Gateway now reports errors detected when generating Netprobe configurations via XSLT.
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Gateway 7.0.3 Copied

Released: 30 September 2024

The Gateway Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/gateway:7.0.3-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.

Gateway 7.0.2 Copied

Released: Released: 18 September 2024

The Gateway Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/gateway:7.0.2-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.

Gateway 7.0.1 Copied

Released: Released: 10 September 2024

The Gateway Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/gateway:7.0.1-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-7163 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.

Gateway 7.0.0 Copied

Released: Released: 29 August 2024

The Gateway Docker image (docker.itrsgroup.com/gateway:7.0.0-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-6399 When the Gateway loses connection to Obcerv, all probes, managed entities, and sampler attributes will be republished to Obcerv upon reconnection.
AA-7011 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 now allows users to run Gateway commands from the Entity Viewer app in Obcerv.
AA-7136 Data published in Obcerv are now Geneos-derived rather than obtained from Collection Agent coordinates.
COL-11955 TLS connection between Netprobe and Collection Agent is now supported.
COL-12192 Property names in the FluentD Forward configuration have been updated to Camel Case format.
COL-12217 Property names in the StatsD configuration have been updated to Camel Case format.
COL-12219 Property names in the OpenTelemetry configuration have been updated to Camel Case format.
COL-12237 Property names in the Prometheus and Kubernetes configurations have been updated to Camel Case format.
UTL-1289 The Netprobe and Gateway packages for RHEL 8 and RHEL 9 now include cURL libraries.
UTL-1290 Added probe information, such as host_name, port, version, os, os_type, and host_id, to the ca_plugin licence details in the Licence Daemon report and in the Details view on the web.
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-7057 Variables in the SSL configuration options of database logging are now resolved correctly.
AA-7083 Gateway no longer crashes when selecting the Show Alerts option.
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