ActiveGate release notes version 1.297

  • Release notes
  • Published Aug 13, 2024

Rollout start: Aug 13, 2024

With this release, the following are the oldest supported ActiveGate versions.

Support levelOldest supported version
Standard Support1.279
Enterprise Success and Support1.273

For details, see How long are versions supported following rollout?.

Announcements

End of support for private Synthetic locations on Red Hat/CentOS 7

Chromium development for Red Hat/CentOS 7 stopped at version 126. For important security and stability reasons, we've decided to discontinue our support for installing Synthetic-enabled ActiveGate on Red Hat/CentOS 7 after ActiveGate version 1.305. ActiveGate version 1.305 is the last Synthetic-enabled ActiveGate to support Red Hat/CentOS 7. Additionally, with Dynatrace version 1.306, we have introduced mechanisms preventing Synthetic-enabled ActiveGates on Red Hat/CentOS 7 from being updated beyond version 1.305.

New features and enhancements

Unconnected UDP mode for SNMP

Infrastructure Observability | Extensions

Starting with this release of ActiveGate, SNMP extensions can be configured in the extension configuration with a new optional advanced property: Unconnected UDP.

When Unconnected UDP is turned on (default: off), the UDP socket becomes unconnected.

  • Responses from a different address (other than the address to which the request was made) are accepted.
  • Any ICMP packets originating from such an SNMP request are ignored.

ActiveGate self-monitoring metrics

Infrastructure Observability | ActiveGate

Descriptions of ActiveGate self-monitoring metrics have been improved.

Chromium support for private Synthetic locations

Digital Experience | Synthetic Monitoring

Chromium 126 is the latest supported version for Synthetic-enabled ActiveGate installed on:

  • Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9, 8.4, 8.6, 8.8, 8.10, 9.0, 9.2, 9.4
  • CentOS 7.9
  • Amazon Linux 2
  • Oracle Linux 8.8
  • Rocky Linux 8.9, 9.4

Chromium 126 is bundled with the Windows ActiveGate installer.

For more information on supported and provided Chromium versions, see Requirements for private Synthetic locations and Create a private Synthetic location.

Operating system support

Future Dynatrace ActiveGate operating systems support changes

The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 December 2025
The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 January 2026
The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 May 2026
The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 June 2026

Past Dynatrace ActiveGate operating systems support changes

The following operating systems are no longer supported since 01 June 2025
The following operating systems are no longer supported since 01 July 2025

Resolved issues

General Availability (Build 1.297.3)

The 1.297 GA release contains 2 resolved issues.

ComponentResolved issues
ActiveGate1
Installer1

ActiveGate

  • For Kubernetes pods with another pod as owner, a standard artificial 'pod' workload is now correctly created. The actual pod owner is not taken into account. (K8S-10504)

Installer

  • ActiveGate Linux Installation logs now include more detailed information about update failures caused by non-removable ActiveGate autobackup data from a previous update. (DMX-7167)