ActiveGate release notes version 1.301

Rollout start: Oct 8, 2024 (planned)

For environments with Extensions 1.0, rollout starts after Oct 31, 2024. See End of life announcement.

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

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

Breaking changes

Extensions 1.0 framework end of life

ActiveGate 1.299 is the last version supporting Extensions 1.0 framework. You can continue using ActiveGate Extensions 1.0 if you stay at ActiveGate version 1.299. Note that this means you'll be using an unsupported Python version 3.8. We strongly recommend migrating your extensions to the latest Extensions 2.0 framework.

For environments with Extensions 1.0, the ActiveGate 1.301 rollout starts after Oct 31, 2024.

For more information, see General guidance and how to migrate.

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 will be the last Synthetic-enabled ActiveGate supported on Red Hat/CentOS 7. Additionally, with Dynatrace version 1.306, we will 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 as content, message, payload and body attribute. 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.

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

New features and enhancements

Amazon Linux 2023 for Synthetic-enabled ActiveGate

Digital Experience | Synthetic

The following operating system is now supported for Synthetic-enabled ActiveGate:

IPv6 support for Network Availability Monitors

Digital Experience | Synthetic

ActiveGate version 1.301+ Dynatrace version 1.302+

NAM has been improved by adding support for IPv6. Now, you can use NAM to check network and device availability in IPv6 networks.

Operating system support

Resolved issues