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Release Notes 1.0.21.0
Release date: 28 June 2024
New Features and Capabilities
Description | Issue(s) |
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Long Term Statistics
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API Calls Version
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Supported Platforms
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Changes and Improvements
Description | Issue(s) |
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Reduced the size of the config DB (QueryExecution/ReportExecution tables) to prevents locks, internal alerts and large backups during upgrades. | |
Tuned the Store services heap sizes according to the deployment profile and OS memory. | |
Changed the memory sampling to use the | |
Limit the ephemeral port range to 10000-59999. | |
Revert the Docker Container for Developer Edition image name to the previous name ( | |
Including the limits and sysctl configuration files in the upgrade rollback. | |
Prevent an additional attempt to start the services while the services are already in the process of starting up. | |
Add firewall rules and system units to the gathered information in the must gather script. | |
Disable Tomcat JMX ports. | |
Add support in the Message filter to | |
Increase the auto-complete filter size limit and make it configurable via a system parameter. |
Bug Fixes
Description | Issue(s) |
|---|---|
Misconfigured timeout caused the audit log analysis task to sometimes hang, eventually leading to all housekeeping workers unable to perform other background tasks. | |
An error occurs when parsing Syslog messages containing IPv6 addresses. | |
Internal alerts are triggered for log targets that are down because the domain is disabled. | |
An error occurs when filtering by a boolean field in the Store Browse page. | |
An error occurs when updating the Store allocation. | |
An error occurs in the quick setup modal window when LDAP is already enabled. | |
Tooltips are missing some information in the services page in the Admin Console. | |
An error occurs when reallocating unassigned shards of the Store Dashboards (Expert Mode) indices. | |
In a cell environment, an old upgrade process could have created a Messaging agent with a wrong name. | |
An error occurs in the Store Status page when the Store nodes are in failure mode. | |
An error message is displayed for | |
An error occurs while performing a secure backup of DataPower Gateways that sign the secure backup with SHA512. | |
An error occurs when trying to purge data by multiple transaction IDs or by multiple global transaction IDs. | |
Wrong output message when provided password is not valid in the reset admin password script. | |
API Probe Capture may not display all captured transactions when there is a time difference between the DPOD and the DataPower Gateway server. | |
Missing validation when fetching a role by an invalid ID. | |
Store nodes health table displays non-heap usage instead of heap usage. |
Housekeeping
Description | Issue(s) |
|---|---|
Upgraded dependencies and added support for this new version in the installation and upgrade processes. | MNTR-4844, MNTR-6028 |
Release Notes 1.0.20.2
Release date: 19 April 2024
Bug Fixes
Description | Issue(s) |
|---|---|
When hovering over a chart, the vertical line only appears when the mouse is close to a marker in the chart and doesn’t display values for all markers in the tooltip. | |
An error message is displayed when clicking on one of the built-in roles. | |
In a cell environment, the upgrade process registers the wrong messaging agent name in the configuration database for the second Cell Member. | |
An error message is displayed when generating the must gather file in the Docker image about missing “/var/log/messages” files. |
Housekeeping
Description | Issue(s) |
|---|---|
Upgraded dependencies and added support for this new version in the installation and upgrade processes. | MNTR-5237, MNTR-6027 |
Release Notes 1.0.20.1
Release date: 8 March 2024
New Features and Capabilities
Description | Issue(s) |
|---|---|
Experimental support for OIDC. |
Changes and Improvements
Description | Issue(s) |
|---|---|
Allow Non-Appliance mode installation on | |
Additional data collected for support in the mustgather file. |
Bug Fixes
Description | Issue(s) |
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Error when parsing syslog messages containing GTID with the equals sign ( | |
Sessions of the Web Console and Admin Console expire too soon (after being idle for only 2 minutes). | |
System errors include irrelevant messages which cause false positive alerts. | |
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Must gather file is missing many directories. | |
Must gather script fails when there are a lot of internal alerts. | |
Avoid truncating domain names when the gateway name or domain name are too long. | |
Fixed the Cloud Agent images digests. |
Housekeeping
Description | Issue(s) |
|---|---|
Upgraded dependencies and added support for this new version in the installation and upgrade processes. | MNTR-6109, MNTR-6159 |
Resolved security issues. |
Release Notes 1.0.20.0
Release date: 8 December 2023
New Features and Capabilities
Description | Issue(s) |
|---|---|
API-Connect Probe Capture
| MNTR-4638, MNTR-5570 |
Enhanced Support for Containerized Gateways
| MNTR-960, MNTR-5283 |
Changes and Improvements
Description | Issue(s) |
|---|---|
Allowing the user to control the sampling of a specific gateway and cloud agent. | |
Added filters to Scheduler Info page. | |
New Overview, Browse and Query Store pages in Manage → DPOD Health, which includes the reallocate of unassigned shards functionality. | MNTR-5706, MNTR-5911 |
Keeping page scroll position when switching between tabs in the transaction details page (instead of scrolling to the top of the page). | |
Record REST API invocation and login data in the audit logs of the Web Console and the Admin Console. | |
Prevent services from starting if required port is taken by another process. | |
Better error handling in all SOMA, HTTP and REST API invocations from the system. | MNTR-5639, MNTR-5699 |
Improved user experience in self service portal (deprecated). | |
Removed the limitation of appliance migration to run in the Developer Edition. | |
Improved user notifications when federating a new cell member to be more informative. | |
Increased the Store thread count limit. | |
Secured the configuration export file by encrypting it. | |
Make sure the configuration export/import completes successfully even if the SSH session is terminated during the execution. | |
Added the custom logo to the configuration export/import. | |
Improved the file download processing performance (e.g.: for downloading the Audit logs from the gateways). | |
Change the reports server HTTP port from 8089 to 8093. | |
Reduced the amount of free disk space required by the must gather script to run. | |
Automatically try to recover from certain situations of unassigned shards in the DPOD Store. | |
Updated the external links to the DPOD documentation. | |
Improved the appliance migration process from DataPower IDG appliance to DataPower X3 appliance. | |
Prevented federating a cell member to a cell manager with a different version. | |
Increased the Store services heap size when the server’s RAM is at least 512GB. | |
Renamed "Raw Messages" to "Logs". | |
Tune the Store services heap size for the cell manager. | |
Tune the TomEE services heap size for the Docker Container for Developer Edition. | |
Reduced the number of audit log analysis files DPOD collects to 3 files by default. | |
Improved the DPOD Store client error handling. | |
Externalized the Store trans log size configuration and manage it from the Store Retention. | |
For certain gateway firmware levels, when Syslog log targets are configured with more than 1 connection and they get disconnected, the DataPower only tries to reconnect the first connection, while the second connection stays down, and the status of the log target is down as well. | |
Added password re-type when resetting the admin password via CLI. | |
Added restarts/reloads info to logs. | |
Displaying a more informative page for non-existing domains. | |
Generating an internal alert when the Messaging agent is down. | |
Allowing cell member federation to use SSH keys for authenticating to the cell member via SSH instead of user name and password. | |
Avoiding redundant log messages in the TomEE servers. | |
Displaying all events in one table in the API-Connect Extended Latency tab. | |
Periodically updating the domain cache and the Cloud Agent data in the Store. | |
Added additional product activation validations. | |
Added data to the must gather file (processes, umask, indices metadata, services status, etc.) | |
Improved user experience when IDG is down and trying to access the device from the "Gateways" page. | |
Added a new script to gather and display NVME details for configuring physical cell members. | |
New internal alert for enabled and down log targets. | |
Increase Syslog message size to 3K. | |
Improved error logging for REST APIs errors. |
Deprecated and Removed
Description | Issue(s) |
|---|---|
The Policy Variables Capture feature, which supports only v5/v5c APIs, is now deprecated and will be removed soon from DPOD. |
Bug Fixes
Description | Issue(s) |
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Service status displays | |
The payload tab in API-Connect early failing transaction details page shows backend-request/response inner tabs. | |
Auto-setup data is missing after adding a gateway via REST API. | |
An error occurs when removing a cell member from a cell environment. | |
The domain filter in the Explore pages does not include domains of gateways that were discovered by the Cloud Agent. | |
The Messaging agent NUMA configuration is missing in the cell member. | |
An error occurs when the Upgrade Assistant is reindexing. | |
Appliance Migration data should not be included in the configuration import/export. | |
API-Connect transactions with GET requests and captured payload display a warning that the request cannot be displayed. | |
Cell member federation rollback fails after the federation fails. | |
A duplicate key error occurs when adding a new entity (user, role, report, etc.) after a configuration import. | |
System parameters export fails when the system parameter name or category includes the space character. | |
System parameters export fails when exporting all System Parameters. | |
The device setup data (Syslog agents, WS-M agents, etc.) should not be included in the configuration import/export. | |
Auto-setup tries to set up a gateway that is currently still loading domains while booting up. | |
Non-recent time ranges (such as Yesterday or Last Week) used in reports and alerts had a 15 seconds offset. | |
The DPOD services don’t start if the DPOD backup fails (e.g.: due to running out of free disk space). | |
The gateway’s pods CPU sampling is inaccurate. | |
The Cloud Agent Manager pods run out of memory and restart due to an increasing number of open files. | |
Warnings "Unknown service URI" are displayed in the gateway’s logs due to SOMA requests made by DPOD. | |
The Cloud Agent operator incorrectly expects a | |
Multiple API-Connect transactions with the same ID might result in showing wrong data in the transaction details page. | |
The database cleanup task might time out when trying to lock the QueryExecution table due to its size. | |
Warning messages are written to the messaging agent logs when processing WS-M messages. | |
WS-M Agent keepalive connections disconnect due to a low HTTP socket timeout. | |
Log target stats table shows partial data. | |
A JavaScript exception appears in the Web Console when clicking on the Payload Capture tab for a Gateway Early Failing transaction. | |
The message filter in the Alerts History page does not work as expected. | |
Report update fails when the JSON query includes a parameter. | |
An error occurs in the Syslog Agent when parsing syslog messages containing frontend URIs with parenthesis. | |
Errors occur during agent shutdown because resources are being closed more than once. | |
Redeploy new IBM logo. | |
The table grid column is too narrow in small resolutions. | |
Uninformative error when trying to create a role with an existing name. | |
Housekeeping tasks might fail after a restart of DPOD due to long configuration database transaction duration. | |
Cannot pass the setup modal window when LDAP is enabled. | |
Error occurs when populating the transaction service configuration changes when the transaction is not part of a service. | |
The domain filter in the Payload Capture page includes domains that don’t belong to the current Product View. | |
The Payload Capture page doesn’t show a proper message when a device is not found. | |
The must gather file includes an empty directory named | |
Service didn’t start after process shutdown with the | |
After drilling down into a page from the System Health dashboard, clicking on the previous page button in browser doesn’t navigate back to the previous page. | |
Builtin roles that are not authorized to see the Payload Captures still have access to view Policy Variables Capture Grid. | |
Service memory page URL is | |
Sessions of the Web Console and Admin Console expire too soon (after being idle for only 2 minutes). |
Housekeeping
Description | Issue(s) |
|---|---|
Upgraded dependencies and added support for this new version in the installation and upgrade processes. | MNTR-5725, MNTR-5740 |
Resolved security issues. | MNTR-5290, MNTR-5292 |
Release Notes 1.0.19.0
Release date: 4 April 2023
New Features and Capabilities
Description | Issue(s) |
|---|---|
Support for Containerized Gateways
| MNTR-4884, MNTR-5208 |
Cell members can be removed from a cell environment for decommissioning or transferring to another cell environment. | |
A new tool for exporting and importing configuration between DPOD instances (reports, alerts, gateways, roles, LDAP, etc.). |
Changes and Improvements
Description | Issue(s) |
|---|---|
Improved reliability of system services startup/shutdown sequence by polling the process readiness and by proceeding with the startup/shutdown sequence even if one of the services fails to start/stop. | MNTR-4864, MNTR-5413 |
Added support for the new Syslog log target attributes (buffer size and connections count) in DataPower Gateway firmware 10.5.0 and 10.0.1.9. | |
Reduced the time to fetch device resources data by combining several SOMA requests into a single request. | |
Added support for installation in AWS and Azure. | |
Added support for using a host alias as the log target source when configuring Syslog. | |
New IBM logo. | |
Added REST API for API Connect Analytics payload capture. | |
Logging invalid Syslog message in the Syslog agent logs. | |
Added support for multiple selection and wildcards when creating API Connect Analytics endpoint payload capture. | |
Reduced the number of log messages that are collected per transaction for better throughput and longer retention period. | |
Added X3 as a supported gateway in the description of the appliance migration limitations. | |
Remove the limitation of appliance migration to run under the Developer edition. | |
Client IP filter added to reports and alerts. | |
Missing description for some of the API Connect extended latency transaction actions. | |
Improved unassigned shards reallocation performance. | |
Improvements to the must gather utility packaging and collecting process. | |
Added description to quiesce toggle button in maintenance plans. | |
Removed unused properties from properties files and changed | |
Improved some column headers of reports. |
Deprecated and Removed
Description | Issue(s) |
|---|---|
Removed REST APIs for Syslog and WS-M agents. |
Bug Fixes
Description | Issue(s) |
|---|---|
Improved the security and the stability (e.g.: by applying timeouts and connection re-establishment) of HTTP outbound requests, and avoiding Out-of-Memory errors during downloads of large files (e.g.: backup files), by implementing a unified HTTP client for HTTP requests. | MNTR-4610, MNTR-4759 |
Report update fails with a non-informative message when the report name is longer than 50 chars. | |
Cumulative upgrade fails with the error message | |
Domain sync fails when XML Manager is using an LB Group. | |
Syslog agents keepalive does not recover after Syslog agents restart. | |
Re-enabled backup utility in the Admin Console (reverted MNTR-5394). | |
The Developer edition trial limitations are not shown in Product Activation page. | |
The Developer edition trial period is based on browser time instead of server time. | |
Upgrade to 1.0.18.0 fails in the minimal deployment profile. | |
Filters and import service fail in DevOps Services Portal on a self service portal (deprecated). | |
Orphan JSON files under | |
Quick setup URL validation doesn't work in Internet Explorer 11. | |
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Error when parsing Syslog messages containing front-end URI with a comma or a semicolon. | |
Report files may overwrite each other if they complete at the same time. | |
Missing Error Analysis within Gateway early failed transactions. | |
Errors are reported to | |
Rollback on failure when resetting admin password from CLI. | |
Transactions may be assigned with | |
Error message | |
Maintenance tasks ignore the maintenance window. | |
Reallocation of unassigned shards fails from the Admin Console. | |
Audit log analyzer fails to detected truncated files and fails. | |
The Syslog agent may hang during shutdown due to dropped connections against the Store. | |
LDAP configuration fails on cell members. | |
DPOD backup fails on RHEL 8.x. | |
Error when populating transaction service configuration changes when transaction is not part of a service. | |
A JavaScript Exception appears in the console when clicking on the Payload Capture tab in APIC product view for a non API Connect transaction. | |
The Operation filter doesn’t work within the extended transactions page. | |
NUMA config is lost when upgrading a cell member. | |
Adding a local user fails. | |
Setup Syslog for all devices and domains doesn’t work when having multiple upgrades (Post Upgrade task). | |
Appliance migration fails when choosing the option "Remove source gateway". | |
Gateway-only reports and alerts continue to execute when changing to API Calls license. | |
Service configuration sampling fails when there is no FSH attached. | |
API-C Analytics rate limit data is not parsed for IDG 10.5.0.1 Analytics offload records. | |
Report execution and creation via REST API fail. | |
System Overview Dashboard - System Activity chart showing data from Gateway product view when in APIC product view. |
Housekeeping
Description | Issue(s) |
|---|---|
Upgraded dependencies and added support for this new version in the installation and upgrade processes. | MNTR-4054, MNTR-4894 |
Resolved security issues. | MNTR-5289, MNTR-5339 |
Implemented changes for test automation. |
Release Notes 1.0.18.0
Release date: 27 September 2022
New Features
Category | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
Alerts | Triggered alerts now include Investigate links, which display in DPOD the data that triggered each alert. | |
Alerts | Triggered alerts now include additional field names (such as “API”, “Service”, etc.) to identify the alert's subject. | |
Alerts | Some useless fields were removed from the triggered alert subject values. | |
Reports | The column headers of reports are now more human friendly (e.g.: no more | |
Reports | The report file format is now more human friendly (e.g.: background color for column headers). | |
Improved User Experience | Switching between product views (Gateway / API-C) keeps the current page. | |
Improved User Experience | Added Failed Objects page in API-C product view, to inspect object that are enabled but down. | |
Improved User Experience | Added rate limit filters in API Connect transactions page (requires offloading API Connect Analytics data to DPOD). | |
Improved User Experience | Added filters and columns in Gateways list. | |
API Calls Version | Added support for the new IBM DataPower Operations Dashboard For API Connect Hybrid version. | |
API Calls Version | A product activation key must be supplied for new installations after the initial login. | |
Cloud Agents | A new page for configuring Cloud Agents (FFU). | |
Cloud Agents | Support of Cloud Agents data in Syslog and WS-M agents (FFU). |
Fix List
Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
Reports | Total API Executions Report values are inaccurate. | |
Internal Alerts | A false internal alert “Could not find the latest successful Reindex Manager execution” appears after upgrade. | |
Payload Capture | Description changed for Payload Capture in Gateway product view. | |
Maintenance Plans | Maintenance plans status emails contain a wrong link to the Web Console. | |
Maintenance Plans | Sync tasks fail to deserialize task state from the DB while unquiescing after import has failures. | |
Admin Console | Disabled backup utility from the Admin Console (will be re-enabled in a future version). | |
Admin Console | Store reallocate unassigned shards failed in a Cell environment. | |
Install | Wrong log message when services start was unsuccessful during installation. | |
Upgrade | Rephrasing error message during upgrade. | |
Upgrade | Retention placeholder not replaced during upgrade. | |
Upgrade | Cumulative upgrade 1.0.14.0 -> 1.0.17.0 creates faulty opensearch.yml in cell member. | |
Upgrade | Cumulative upgrade 1.0.14.0 -> 1.0.17.0 added the OpenSearchDashboard service in cell member. | |
Upgrade | Don't print usage when error occurred on upgrade which is not related to wrong usage. | |
Upgrade | Confusing error message after applying upgrade on cell member. | |
Upgrade | Screen is cleared and squashfs warning is not noticeable during upgrade. | |
Gateways Auto-Setup | Auto setup fails to correctly detect domains without log targets and might loop on the default domain if log targets are missing. | |
Backup and Restore | Backup and restore of DPOD now always include both application and configuration database, to guarantee consistency with the encryption keys (formerly called | |
Store Dashboards (Expert Mode) | The OpenSearchDashboards service was starting prematurely on system startup. | |
Store Dashboards (Expert Mode) | Redirect the OpenSearchDashboards service logs into a log file. | |
Store | Longer timeouts for the Store service startup. | |
Configuration Database | The configuration databse service did not shut down properly. | |
Dependencies | Upgraded various packages and dependencies. | |
System | Internal stability fixes and housekeeping. |
Release Notes 1.0.17.0
Release date: 27 June 2022
New Features
Category | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
Improved User Experience | Show elapsed time for all transactions (instead of only successful ones) in Transactions page. | |
Improved User Experience | Improved default filters in user preferences, including the time filter and operators (equals/not equals). | |
Improved User Experience | Custom logo image may be added to the Web Console (in the login page and the top navigation bar). | |
Alerts | A new alert for API-Connect rate limit exceeding a utilization threshold. |
Fix List
Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
Admin Console | Backup logs could not be downloaded from the backup process output modal. | |
Filters | Some values might be missing from the auto-complete filters when some of the devices send Syslog messages with a timestamp in the future. | |
Syslog Agents | New log file for invalid messages sent to syslog agents. | |
REST APIs | Return the report and alert internal IDs in the REST API response. | |
Store | Increase heap size on store nodes with high memory. | |
Security | Require password change for admin user in quick setup modal. | |
Internal Alerts | Fixed false alarm about the retention service not running after an upgrade. | |
Service Configuration | Fixed service configuration sampling failure after service or domain removed from the DataPower gateway. | |
Cell Environment | Stopping unused services after federation completes. | |
Upgrade | Improved the detection of outdated OS. | |
Upgrade | Remove unused properties from configuration files. | |
Upgrade | Configuration database might get corrupted during rollback. | |
Upgrade | Upgrade fails with non-DPOD mountpoints that start with | |
Upgrade | Remove differences between an installation and an upgrade. | |
Upgrade | Placeholder file was not removed after an OS upgrade and reboot. | |
Upgrade | Invalid version in version-history.txt (e.g.: | |
Upgrade | Remove heapDump.out files from /logs directory during upgrade. | |
Upgrade | Warn in case SquashFS configuration is detected in | |
Product Activation | Update email address. | |
Configuration Database | Enhanced the security of the configuration database using the latest encoding and digest algorithms. | |
Dependencies | Upgraded OpenSearch to 1.3.2. | |
System | Internal stability fixes and housekeeping. |
Release Notes 1.0.16.0
Release date: 22 March 2022
New Features
Category | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
Improved User Experience | A new dashboard for API activity by time interval shows statistics and detailed data of the API calls per minute/hour/day/etc. | |
Improved User Experience | APIC Analytics payload capture link from payload tab when payload is missing. | |
Security | Custom roles may be used to allow users of any builtin role to access Expert Mode. | |
Security | Custom roles may be used to allow users of any builtin role to view and execute report and alerts. | |
Security | Sensitive data may be redacted based on patterns, to prevent DPOD from storing and displaying sensitive data. | |
Upgrade Assistant | A new Upgrade Assistant prepares the DPOD instance for upcoming upgrades. | |
REST APIs | A new set of REST APIs for managing and executing reports. | |
REST APIs | A new set of REST APIs for managing and executing alerts. |
Breaking changes
Reports REST API was replaced with a new improved and secure API.
Endpointshttps://<dpod hostname>/op/api/v1/report(s)moved tohttps://<dpod hostname>/op/api/v2/report(s). See Reports REST API for more details.Alerts REST API was replaced with a new improved and secure API.
Endpointshttps://<dpod hostname>/op/api/v1/alert(s)moved tohttps://<dpod hostname>/op/api/v2/alert(s). See Alerts REST API for more details.
Fix List
Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
UI | WS-M agent message rate does not include APIC analytics documents count. | |
UI | When filtering with both “Service” and “Payload” filters in Gateway Transactions page, the results are always empty. | |
UI | Auth category is not displayed as an option in Category filter. | |
UI | Raw Messages tab should be the first tab in transaction page. | |
UI | Negative drops count when no data found in Syslog agent details panel. | |
UI | Missing Error Analysis within early failed transactions. | |
Performance | Housekeeping and reports servers shutdown duration was long since they did not shut down gracefully. | |
Security | Random generated shutdown command for TomEE servers. | |
Security | Upgraded log4j to 2.17.1. | |
Security | Stronger random generated Store passwords. | |
Security | Better validation of downloadable files from Web Console and Admin Console. | |
Stability | Agents use an increasing amount of threads, due to a thread leak, if timeouts occur when accessing the Store, causing the entire server to become unstable once the limit of processes amount in the operating system is reached. | |
Stability | Change email in product activation request page. | |
Stability | Analytics data is not displayed within the transaction for v10 LTS Analytics offload records. | |
Stability | Scheduler Info start time column is updated only when task is finished. | |
Stability | SSH disconnection during a cell member federation may lead to unexpected results. | |
Stability | MNTR-4605 | Internal stability fixes and housekeeping. |
Release Notes 1.0.15.1
Release date: 28 December 2021
Fix List
Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
API Connect Payload Capture | Redact authorization header in response headers. | |
UI | Correctly display transactions with API-C Analytics data and no raw messages in the transactions list. | |
UI | API Connect assembly flow - OAuth2-server and Rate-limit V5/C policies are not marked as internal. | |
UI | JS Exception when clicking "default" domain in gateway setup. | |
Security | Upgraded OpenSearch to 1.2.2. | |
Stability | Internal stability fixes and housekeeping. |
Release Notes 1.0.15.0
Release date: 15 December 2021
New Features
Category | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
Improved User Experience | Custom roles may be used to limit user access to product views (Gateway / API-C). | |
Improved User Experience | Custom roles may be used to allow users of any role to edit report and alerts. | |
Improved User Experience | Reports and alerts are displayed per product view to easily distinguish between API Connect and DataPower Gateway services. | |
Improved User Experience | All tables now support the new context menu which allows easier filtering and copy. | |
Improved User Experience | Quick setup modal after installation/upgrade allows choosing the default product view and theme. | |
Improved User Experience | Changed the order of tabs under Transactions / Early Failing tabs. | |
Improved User Experience | Changed the order of the management tasks accessible through the UI. | |
API Connect Integration | API Connect Analytics Offload may be used to send payload and request/response headers to DPOD. | |
API Connect Integration | MNTR-2740 | When activating API Connect Analytics Offload, payload and HTTP headers are displayed per transaction and are available for filtering. |
API Connect Integration | Expert Mode provides access to the data that was captured from API Connect Analytics Offload with the ability to create custom dashboards. | |
API Connect Integration | Payload capture only supported if Analytics endpoint doesn’t exists. | |
API Connect Integration | Cleaner view of the assembly flow (toggle between primary policies and all policies). | |
Performance | Support for enhanced Syslog log target performance introduced in DataPower Gateway firmware v10.0.4.0. | |
Installation | Support for POC installation (Non-Appliance Minimal architecture with a single disk) |
Fix List
Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
UI | Fixed Free Text filter exception when entering a comma separated string. | |
UI | Removed message about DPOD Store history period. | |
UI | Do not show What’s New dialog after installing an iFix. | |
UI | Service latency dashboard shows infinity values for API Connect transactions. | |
DevOps Services Portal | DevOps Services Portal page unresponsive. | |
Performance | Improved performance and monitoring of the WS-M Agents for receiving API Connect Analytics data. | |
Security | User without payload permissions is still able to filter by payload. | |
Security | Reduce ephemeral port range. | |
Security | MNTR-4575 | Upgraded OpenSearch to 1.1.0. |
Stability | Syslog setup for API Connect domains of 7.6 firmware fails. | |
Stability | Admin Console becomes unavailable due to OutOfMemoryError. | |
Stability | Cell environment upgrade fails due to max shards per node setting. | |
Stability | Agents cannot persist data due to IllegalStateException after the Store is restarted. | |
Stability | MNTR-3174 | Internal stability fixes and housekeeping. |
Release Notes 1.0.14.0
Release date: 13 August 2021
New Features
Category | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
Improved User Experience | MNTR-3922 | Many filters (including device, domain, service, API name, product, etc.) support wildcards (*) for matching. |
Improved User Experience | Filters across the system support operators (including reports and alerts). | |
Improved User Experience | A new context menu in main tables (transactions, early failing, raw messages, etc.) allows easier filtering and copy. | |
Improved User Experience | Custom dashboards may be used as the home page. | |
Improved User Experience | Some widgets that could not be added to custom dashboards, such as Transactions List, are now supported. | |
Improved User Experience | CSV export size has been increased to 2,500 records instead of 1,000. | |
Improved User Experience | Any alert and report can now be duplicated, no matter if they arrive out-of-the-box or created from scratch. | |
API Connect Integration | Provider organization and consumer organization can be used in custom roles to limit user access. | |
API Connect Integration | Many filters have been added to API Connect dashboards, including provider organization, HTTP response code, HTTP method, elapsed time, request/response size, etc. | |
API Connect Integration | Added Top Consumers table in Recent Activity dashboard. | |
API Connect Integration | Status column in API Connect Transactions page was replaced by HTTP response code column. | |
API Connect Integration | Transaction error analysis now detects some more common error scenarios with API-C v10. | |
Deprecated Extended Transactions | The deprecated Extended Transaction functionality, which required instrumentation of the processing policy, and was replaced in 1.0.8.0 by a non-intrusive alternative, has been removed. |
Fix List
Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
UI | Reduce browser CPU utilization. | |
UI | Multiple selection checkbox is not aligned in Firefox. | |
UI | Wrong parameters in URL when navigating between transactions with the next/prev buttons. | |
UI | Several issues in export to CSV of DPOD Health → Devices list. | |
UI | URI filter for API-C does not work as expected. | |
UI | Multiple selection doesn't work for filters with numeric values (e.g. HTTP Res. Code). | |
UI | Non-filter parameters are kept in URL when navigating to a different page. | |
UI | Custom dashboards reset filters automatically when entering the page. | |
UI | The share function should only take filters and parameters related to the specific page the user wants to share. | |
UI | Executions status resets filters automatically when entering the page. | |
UI | Changed behavior of the filters in "Service Configuration Changes" page. | |
UI | Filters aren't being reset when navigating from a specific transaction to Dashboards/Explore pages in Gateway, and to Dashboards pages in API-C. | |
UI | Scheduler Info start time column was empty until task has finished. | |
UI | Kibana was not accessible in some installations. | |
UI | Side menu opens when page changes. | |
UI | Sometimes document type filter value cannot be changed when editing a report or an alert. | |
UI | Agent message rate chart doesn't include some API-C records. | |
UI | Service URI Calls dashboard has the filter "In URL" instead of "In URI". | |
Reports and Alerts | Alerts don't work for API-C 2018. | |
Syslog Agent | Deduplication of error messages arriving from non-default domains or from apigw category. | |
Maintenance Plan - Synchronization | Synchronization activity fails to detect domain configuration file in DataPower Gateway v10.x. | |
DevOps Services Portal | Error validating/promoting WDSL in DevOps Services Portal. | |
Kibana | Added utility to configure Kibana to access the store data in Non-Appliance mode. | |
Security | Harden TLS configuration in httpd (protocols, cipher suites and additional crypto properties). | |
Security | OS security updates for Appliance installations. | |
Security | New utility to replace the encryption key. | |
Security | Raw Messages dashboard was available to users without the permission to see raw messages. | |
Task Scheduler | Services configuration sampling task appears as STALE. | |
Performance | Increase performance of Recent Plan Executions. | |
Performance | Cleaning up recent executions by number of days as well (30 by default). | |
Stability | Start and stop the system services more reliably and faster. | |
Stability | MNTR-4088 | Internal stability fixes and housekeeping. |
Release Notes 1.0.13.0
Release date: 30 April 2021
New Features
Category | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
Improved User Experience | Quickly move to next and previous transactions from the transaction page. | |
Reports and Alerts | When duplicating a report navigate to the new report page. | |
API Connect Integration | Added support for Web Socket Upgrade policy (requires gateway firmware 10.0.2+). | |
Task Scheduling | Allow to mark a task as stale and rerun an existing task from the Scheduler Info page. | |
Improved User Experience | MNTR-3921 | Home page under User Preferences has many more options, changed the order of tabs under Investigate menu, better navigation in Early Failing tabs. |
Supported Platforms | Added support for RHEL 8.3 (non-appliance installation only). |
Fix List
Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
UI | Fixed issues with IE11. | |
UI | Favorite filter name breaks to new line. | |
UI | Export to CSV of the extended transactions list didn't always work. | |
UI | Export to CSV of the scheduler info list had several issues. | |
UI | Hovering with the mouse on charts shows duplicate tooltips when over areas that are between two values. | |
REST API | Add report and alert IDs and last execution time to the get report/alert list REST API. | |
REST API | Alerts API unavailable for DPOD installations started prior to v1.0.8.5. | |
Logs | Set fixed size and rotation to Kibana log files in appliance installations. | |
Simulator | Fixed false syslog agent internal alerts. | |
LDAP Integration | Wrong logs appear in the LDAP configuration utility log file. | |
Security | Increased encryption AES key strength to 256 bytes. | |
Security | Fix potential XSS in WS-M agent. | |
Security | Limit Tomcat listening address. | |
Security | Upgraded Elasticsearch to 7.10.2. | |
Stability | DPOD services don't start if the pid file takes too long to be created. | |
Stability | Remove leftovers in domains table after deleting a gateway. | |
Stability | MNTR-4095 | Internal stability fixes. |
Release Notes 1.0.12.0
Release date: 19 January 2021
New Features
Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
UI | Added filter operators, such as "Equal", "Not Equal", "Greater Than" and "Lower Than" to all dashboards. | |
UI | Improved Time filter - add previous and next time period buttons, add new options and allow to manually edit custom time. | |
Improved User Experience | Gateways Table - Gateways are sorted by name. | |
Task Scheduling | New task scheduling mechanism enhances the system stability and improves the response time of tasks including reports and alerts. New Scheduler Info page under the Manage menu displays information about the scheduled tasks. | |
Reports and Alerts | New Report - Service Request/Response Size Stats Report. |
Fix List
Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
Security | Upgraded ElasticSearch to 7.9.2. | |
Security | Upgraded Java to OpenJDK 11.0.9.1+1. | |
Security | Upgraded TomEE server to 8.0.5. | |
Security | Upgraded Apache HttpComponents to 4.4.13 and Apache HttpComponents Client to 4.5.13 | |
Security | Upgraded Boucycastle module to 1.68 | |
Security | OS security updates for Appliance installations | |
Stability | Supporting longer URIs for Elasticsearch queries. | |
Stability | Updating store allocation via the Admin Console or by running the script | |
Stability | Internal Alert - 'Could not find the latest Audit Log execution' when no monitored Gateways exists. | |
Stability | Upgraded Plot.ly library | |
Stability | Internal stability fixes. | |
Stability | Updating store allocation via the Admin Console or by running the script update_store_allocation.sh results in a wrong configuration due to detecting free space instead of total space. | |
Stability | Fixed issues in Cell Member federation rollback. | |
Stability | Mustgather failed to collect all logs. | |
Stability | Set net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle = 0 to allow communication behind NAT. | |
Stability | Increase GC logs in TOMEE servers | |
UI | Encoding issues: Tenant transactions cannot be displayed due to a URL encoding issue of special characters such as "@". Filters with multiple selected values change when navigating between pages due to a URL encoding issue. Filters in reports and alerts that contain specific characters such as "_d" are saved incorrectly due to an encoding issue. | |
UI | Alerts Edit Page shows "add new" button if user isn't authorized. | |
UI | For Backup and Sync plans - correctly store user selection for "Send Email via Web Service". | |
UI | Remove default Alerts Syslog host and port from system parameters. | |
UI | Reorder API-C transactions page filters panel, remove the redundant Request and Response latency filters. | |
API Connect Integration | APIs Latency (90th Pctl) is showing a number not in the chosen time frame in Recent Activity dashboard. | |
Internal Health | Change internal API-C routines log level. | |
Performance | Optimized Internal Health Agents page query. | |
Performance | Improved performance of indexing Syslog messages. |
Release Notes 1.0.11.0
Release date: 30 September 2020
New Features
Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
Correlated Transactions Tab | New tab in the transaction drill-down page, showing a list of all other transactions with the same global transaction ID. The list shows both APIC and Gateway transactions. | |
Raw Messages over Time Dashboard | Show amount of raw messages over time. Show total amount of raw messages grouped by message codes. | |
Reports and Alerts | New Alert - API Error Message Count Alert. | |
Reports and Alerts | New Alert - Trans. Over 30 sec by Service Name Alert. | |
Reports and Alerts | New Alert - Unavailable Devices Alert. | |
Reports and Alerts | New Report - Top Transactions Count per Interval. | |
Reports and Alerts | New Report - Top Documents Count per Interval. | |
Reports and Alerts | New Report - Top Documents Count per Agent per Interval. | |
Reports and Alerts | New Report - Service Latency Report - Extended. | |
Reports and Alerts | New Report - Service and URI Total Transactions Report. | |
User preference | New user preference to enable dependency between device, domain and service filters. | |
Failed Objects | Add GatewayPeering object to the list of monitored objects. | |
System | Added support for Microsoft Edge Chromium. | |
System | Added support for Gateway/APIC v10. | |
Internal Health | Added an internal alert when restart sampling isn't working. |
Fix List
Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
Security | Prevent XSS. | |
Security | Upgrade jquery to 3.5.1 and jquery-ui to 1.12.1. Upgraded TomEE server to 8.0.2. Upgraded Java to OpenJDK 11.0.8+10. Upgraded ElasticSearch to 6.8.11. Upgraded HTTPD to 2.4.6-93. Upgraded openSSL to 1.1.0k. Upgraded CentOS to 7.8. | |
Stability | Service configuration fails for services with a large amount of WSDLs. | |
Stability | Syslog message can't be parsed when URI contains curly brackets. | |
Stability | Added timeouts for SOMA requests to the gateways. | |
Stability | Excessive memory usage in SOMA requests caused Out Of Memory error. | |
Stability | Internal stability fixes. | |
Performance | Improved Retention queries performance. Delete empty indices that are not in use in the retention. Reduced number of collected logs for APIC v5/DataPower Gateway transactions. | |
Installation | DPOD upgrade fails because of /etc/yum.repos.d. | |
Installation | Uninstall does not remove logo rpm in CEF. | |
Firmware Upgrade | Firmware upgrade fails when IDG user is non-admin. | |
Syslog Agent | Supporting 3k Syslog messages. | |
LDAP | LDAP builtin role mapping doesn't allow reuse of values. | |
LDAP | LDAP disconnections cause first authentication to fail. | |
Custom Transaction | When a user specifies "customIsError" in the XSLT, there is an errorr in the Syslog agent and Service Activity Dashboard doesn't show data. | |
UI | Error message displayed when alert query does not contain a specific field. | |
UI | Display correct client IP and GTID for transactions. Minor changes to APIC transaction details page. | |
UI | The "security.limit.admin.ip" config didn't work as expected. | |
UI | Filtering expired certificates by domain doesn't work. | |
UI | Navigating to unauthorized page results in a blank page. | |
UI | Adding a report with duplicate name throws an error. | |
UI | When the gateway is down, show a meaningful message. | |
UI | When creating a user, the password validation message highlights the wrong field. | |
UI | When there are a lot of agents, the top of the dropdown is hidden. | |
UI | Reset filters when navigating from the transaction details page to the transactions list. | |
Internal Health | Misconfigured log target internal alert wrong when monitoring transactions in default domain. | |
Internal Health | Show only one misconfigured logtarget alert per domain. | |
API Connect Integration | APIC transactions status is solely determined by their front-end response code. | |
API Connect Integration | API Gateway mode - Payload is not available when there is only payload for the request or the response. | |
API Connect Integration | Showing a meaningful message when payload exists but cannot be displayed, or when the payload is empty. | |
API Connect Integration | HTTP method was wrong. | |
API Connect Integration | Datapower Gateway mode - Gateway type is N\A. | |
API Connect Integration | Fixed bugs and improved detection of side-calls. | |
API Connect Integration | Fixed bugs and improved detection of front-end response code. | |
API Connect Integration | Using policy type when title is not set. | |
API Connect Integration | Mismatch of successful APIs and activity by API name numbers in Recent Activity. | |
API Connect Integration | No data for DataPower API Gateway transactions in Recent Activity in Gateway view. | |
API Connect Integration | Unable to see transaction when URL is long. | |
API Connect Integration | API Gateway mode - distinguish between pre and post processing within the flow diagram. | |
Upgrade |
Release Notes 1.0.10.1
Release date: 17 March 2020
Fix List
Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
Security | MNTR-2759 | Deprecated SSH cryptographic settings, HTTP security header not detected, vulnerable Javascript library (CVE-2019-11358, CVE-2015-9251) |
Release Notes 1.0.10.0
Release date: 1 January 2020
New Features
Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
API Connect Integration Improvements | Support for DataPower API Gateway. | |
API Connect Integration Improvements | Extended transactions page now shows API Connect transactions (when extended transactions are enabled). | |
API Connect Integration Improvements | Reworked API Connect transaction drill-down page to show more accurate transaction flow and latency information. | |
LDAP Integration | Improved integration with LDAP to allow more flexibility and simplicity in the LDAP registry configuration. | |
LDAP Integration | Better support for secure LDAP (LDAPS) using TLSv1.2 and host name verifier. | |
Objects Down Monitor | Enabled but Down list of monitoring classes' can now be altered via a system parameter. | |
Reports and Alerts | New report - latency statistics grouped by gateway/domain/service name. | |
Reports and Alerts | Support TLSv1.2 for SMTP with STARTTLS | |
UI | New Device Information panel under Manage→Gateways, showing summarized information about the gateway, such as firmware level and device type |
Fix List
Component | Issue | Description |
|---|---|---|
API Connect Integration Improvements | API Policies dashboard are now sorted by API Name + Policy Name + Version | |
API Connect Integration Improvements | API Connect URI and URL calls dashboards can now be filtered by API attributes. | |
Objects Down Monitor | Speed up the Objects Monitor sampling | |
Support for IDG 2018 | SOMA messages containing errors were not parsed correctly for IDG 2018.4.1.X | |
Support for IDG 2018 | Some DPOD functionality, such as backup and DevOps portal operations, failed on IDG 2018.1.6 | |
Restart Analysis | Out of memory when reading audit log files. | |
Syslog Agents | Extended latency message was not parsed correctly in some cases. | |
UI | Add "Copy to Clipboard" button to the Manage->Debug Log page | |
UI | Reworked EULA/License page | |
General | Remove ES deprecation warnings from the UI and reports servers | |
DPOD Admin Interface | AppAdmin fails to parse available services when the customer has a custom message in /etc/profile | |
Documentation | Better documentation for the Cell environment upgrade process | |
Stability | Show an internal alert if DPOD's log targets are not configured correctly. | |
Security | Upgraded CentOS to 7.7 | |
Security | Upgraded TomEE server to 8.0.0 | |
Security | Upgraded ElasticSearch to 6.8.1 |