ActiveGate release notes version 1.299

Rollout start: Sep 9, 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.

Log attribute becomes a content-like field

Infrastructure Observability | Logs

Starting with Cluster and Environment ActiveGate version 1.303, the log attribute will be treated in a similar way to the content, message, payload, and body attributes. These attributes are considered a content attribute of the log message.

Action might be required: If there is no content attribute defined for a given log source, the log attribute will be treated as content. If you have any log processing, log metric, and/or log events rules set on the log attribute, you'll need to update your configuration.

This change will ensure data ingested in through the log attribute that exceeds 2.5 KB isn't trimmed and will be accepted up to 256 KB, which is the default content attribute limit in OpenPipeline. For classic log processing pipeline ingestion, the limits are 250 B for any log attribute and 64 kB for content.

New features and enhancements

Chromium support for private Synthetic locations

Digital Experience | Synthetic Monitoring

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

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9
  • CentOS 7.9
  • Amazon Linux 2

Chromium 128 is the latest supported version for Synthetic-enabled ActiveGate installed on:

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

Chromium 128 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 1.299.1)

The 1.299 GA release contains 1 vulnerability resolution.

ActiveGate

  • Vulnerability: OpenJDK has been updated to version 17.0.12+7 to improve security. (DMX-8022)