ActiveGate release notes version 1.297

Rollout start: Aug 13, 2024

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

Support level
Oldest supported version

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. We plan to have ActiveGate version 1.305 as the last Synthetic-enabled ActiveGate supported on Red Hat/CentOS 7. Additionally, with Dynatrace version 1.306, we plan to introduce mechanisms preventing Synthetic-enabled ActiveGates on Red Hat/CentOS 7 from being updated beyond version 1.305.

  • Since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 reached End of Maintenance support on June 30, 2024, all of its packages have been archived. This means that it may not be possible to find the required dependencies for update.

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 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 1.297.3)

The 1.297 GA release contains 2 resolved issues.

Component
Resolved issues

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)