ActiveGate release notes version 1.285

Rollout start: Feb 27, 2024

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

Support level
Oldest supported version
1.267
1.261

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

Announcements

End of support for Synthetic-enabled ActiveGate on Ubuntu 18.04

Digital Experience | Synthetic Monitoring

Chromium development for Ubuntu 18.04 stopped at version 112. For important security and performance reasons, we’ve decided to discontinue our support for installing Synthetic-enabled ActiveGate on Ubuntu 18 after ActiveGate version 1.283.

ActiveGate version 1.283 is the last Synthetic-enabled ActiveGate supported on Ubuntu 18. Additionally, with Dynatrace version 1.284, we have introduced mechanisms preventing Synthetic-enabled ActiveGates on Ubuntu 18 from being updated beyond version 1.283.

New features and enhancements

New metrics for dropped and resent messages

Metrics

The following metrics for dropped and resent messages are being replaced by improved counterparts enriched with a sender dimension.

  • The deprecated metrics will eventually be removed.
  • The replacement metrics are available now.
Deprecated metric
Use this instead
dsfm:active_gate.communication.dropped_messages
dsfm:active_gate.communication.messages.dropped
dsfm:active_gate.communication.resent_messages
dsfm:active_gate.communication.messages.resent

Chromium support for private Synthetic locations

Digital Experience | Synthetic Monitoring

Chromium 121 is the latest supported version for Synthetic-enabled ActiveGate installed on:

  • Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, 8, and 9.
  • CentOS 7.
  • Amazon Linux 2.
  • Oracle Linux 8.8.

Chromium 121 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 2024
    The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 January 2025
    The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 June 2025
    The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 July 2025

    Past Dynatrace ActiveGate operating systems support changes

    The following operating systems are no longer supported since 01 May 2024
    The following operating systems are no longer supported since 01 June 2024
    The following operating systems are no longer supported since 01 July 2024

    Resolved issues

    General Availability (Build 1.285.30)

    The 1.285 GA release contains 1 resolved issue.

    ActiveGate

    • Trust store configuration used to fail on read-only filesystems due to file operations performed in the read-only directory. The working directory was changed to a directory with write permission. (DMX-6763)