ActiveGate release notes version 1.275
Rollout starts: Oct 04, 2023.
With this release, the following are the oldest supported ActiveGate versions.
How long are versions supported following rollout?
New features and enhancements
New operating systems for Synthetic-enabled ActiveGate
Digital Experience | Synthetic Monitoring
The following operating systems are now supported for Synthetic-enabled ActiveGate.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0, 9.1, and 9.2
Oracle Linux 8.8 (uses the same Chromium package as for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8)
Note that for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, we also support the minor versions 8.7 and 8.8 in addition to versions 8.4 and 8.6.
Chromium support for private Synthetic locations
Digital Experience | Synthetic Monitoring
Chromium 117 is now the latest supported version for Synthetic-enabled ActiveGate installed on:
Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, and 22.04.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, 8, and 9.
CentOS 7.
Amazon Linux 2.
Oracle Linux 8.8.
Chromium 117 is bundled with the Windows ActiveGate installer.
Note that Chromium development for Ubuntu 18.04 stopped at version 112.
For more information on supported and provided Chromium versions, see Requirements for private Synthetic locations and Create a private Synthetic location.
Chromium WebP library vulnerability
Digital Experience | Synthetic Monitoring
Chromium 116.0.5845.187+ fixes a security issue in the Chromium WebP library. This version is available for Windows and Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 on ActiveGate 1.275. A Chromium 117 package that fixes this issue is available for supported Linux distributions.
Workload spec change detection for annotations and labels
Infrastructure Observability | Kubernetes
Workload spec change events are now also generated for changes in the workload pod template annotations and labels.
ActiveGate support archive tool
Infrastructure Observability | Hosts
You can now use the ActiveGate support archive tool to extract diagnostic data from non-responsive ActiveGate instances. This is useful when remote access is unavailable or doesn't work at all and data required for troubleshooting cannot be downloaded remotely.
Operating system support
- Added support for SUSE Enterprise Linux 15.5
Future Dynatrace ActiveGate operating systems support changes
The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 December 2023
- Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4, 8.7, 9.1
- Linux: Oracle Linux 8.4, 8.7, 9.1
- x86-64
- Vendor announcement
- Linux: Rocky Linux 9.1
- x86-64
- Vendor announcement
The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 January 2024
- Linux: Amazon Linux AMI 2018.3
- x86-64
- Vendor announcement
The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 May 2024
- Windows: Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2
- x86-64
- Vendor announcement
The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 June 2024
- Linux: Oracle Linux 8.8, 9.2
- x86-64
- Vendor announcement
- Linux: Rocky Linux 9.2
- x86-64
- Vendor announcement
The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 July 2024
- Linux: SUSE Enterprise Linux 15.4
Past Dynatrace ActiveGate operating systems support changes
The following operating systems are no longer supported since 01 September 2023
- Windows: Windows 8.1
- x86-64
- Vendor announcement
- Last compatible version: 1.271
The following operating systems are no longer supported since 01 November 2023
- Linux: SUSE Enterprise Linux 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
Resolved issues
General Availability (Build 1.275.145)
The 1.275 GA release doesn't contain any user-facing resolved issues.