Replicator changelogs

Replicator changelogs#

Changelog entries are displayed in the format DESCRIPTION (Ticket Number).

Note

  • For additional details on any of the new features below, refer to the Replicator documentation on the Plixer website.

  • Please refer to our End of Life Policy for EOL schedule details.

Replicator v20.0.0 - October 2025#

Note

As v20.0.0, Replicator is fully integrated into the Plixer One platform UI. See this section for details on added features and functionality, or visit the Scrutinizer online manual for further information.

Changelog

New features

  • Add Support for IPv6

  • HA dual exporter profile type

  • Manage Auto Replicate through the UI

  • Single Sign On (SAML)

  • Support giant packets / Fragmented packets

Enhancements

  • Auto Replicate: Ability to support only new device discovery

  • Auto Replicate: Add logic so that if a policy is modified in the Seed profile, that policy change is applied in any collector profiles that include the same policy.

Fixes

  • Issues with more than 103 collectors (19)

  • User configurable timezones (8)

Replicator v19.1.1 - October 2024#

Note

This release addresses CentOS going EOL. To migrate the OS to Oracle Linux 9, the Replicator must be on version 19.0.1. Please contact Plixer Technical Support with any questions.

Changelog

New features

  • KVM virtual appliance image

Fixes

  • Addressed various security issues

  • System metrics errors (167)

  • HA configuration errors (170)

  • Set license command error (174)

  • net-snmp package not in repo (178)

  • sethostname.sh script missing (187)

  • Set password from CLI (189)

  • Web certificate file name (193)

Replicator v19.1.0 - June 2024#

Changelog

Note

This release addresses CentOS going EOL. To migrate the OS to Oracle Linux 9, the Replicator must be on version 19.0.1. Please contact Plixer Technical Support with any questions.

New features

  • Oracle Linux v9.4

Fixes

  • Addressed various security issues

  • Added back missing enable_ssl.sh script (161)

Replicator v19.0.1 - January 2024#

Changelog

Fixes

  • Addressed various security issues

  • Fixed authentication issue (150)

Replicator v19.0.0 - November 2023#

Changelog

Enhancements

  • Improved UI responsiveness

  • Updated EULA

  • Updated branding

Fixes

  • Addressed various security issues

  • API may hang on invalid input (23)

  • Exporter id out of range (25)

  • Remote root access disabled by default (34)

  • Improved process management (60)

Replicator v18.14.1 - January 28, 2020#

Changelog

New features

  • Updated the EULA

  • New Replicator UI skin

Fixes

  • Fixed a potential issue when setting up High Availability pairs (931)

  • Replicator’s vitals processes can no longer enter a bad state, which may cause it to lock up indefinitely (1739)

  • Replicator excludes Collectors from being Exporters in Profiles with the same destination port the Collector is already receiving on (1771)

  • Exporters will now be added to Profiles correctly regardless of the time of the matching Policy’s creation (1891)

  • Very high volume Replicators will no longer crash due to a database integer overflow (2007)

Replicator v18.12.14 - January 25, 2019#

Changelog

Enhancements

  • Future Replicator releases will no longer support CentOS 6

Fixes

  • Replication no longer starts and restarts spontaneously (410)

  • Replicator will no longer attempt to sync with its own database (428)

  • system change now works on all configurations (436)

  • Replicator stats are now more reliable (611)

Replicator v18.5 - May 31, 2018#

Changelog

Enhancements

  • Updated the EULA (5633)

Fixes

  • show config output now has profile names enclosed in quotation marks (“”) (25257)

  • Fixed an issue where Apache fails to start if SSL is enabled/setup via install script or enable_SSL.sh (25292)

  • Updated licensing checks (25653)

  • Fixed an issue where an install script was pointing to a previous version (25770)

  • Added the new online manual from docs.plixer.com (25828)

  • Fixed an issue where policy remove profile include/exclude results in an internal error (500) but still removes profile (25832)

  • Fixed an issue where the refresh countdown timer would default to one (1) day (26000)

Replicator v18.1 - January 30, 2018#

Changelog

New features

  • LDAP authentication support

  • Profiles displayed in alphabetical order

  • Replicator install and upgrade logs

  • Backup process from the CLI

  • Ability to make API calls via HTTPS

  • Support for upper case letters and spaces in profile names

  • Ability to restrict snoop command by port

  • Current Plixer Replicator version displayed under the Status LED

  • Postgres replicator database support

Fixes

  • Improved performance and responsiveness of the web interface (22918)

  • Replicator now replicates SNMP traps on low port numbers (23820)

  • Exporters no longer enter a false Alarm state at start up (23824)

  • Exporters not in Profiles and not sending packets are no longer displayed under ‘Exporters Not in Profiles’ indefinitely (23828)

  • Search filters are no longer lost on page refresh (23904)

  • Fixed an issue that could result in phantom Collector alarms (23977)

  • Upgrades no longer reset the web interface password (24299)

Replicator v17.6 - July 14, 2017#

Changelog

New features

  • Web interface updates

  • Fully supported and documented API

  • Ability to receive packets from multiple interfaces

  • Profile singularity

Fixes

  • Licensing says expired one day before expiration date (19835)

  • ICMP drops have been added to iptables (19396)

  • Semicolon at end of command yields unexpected results (19285)

  • Removing a Policy doesn’t remove the associated Exporters (20848)

  • Replicator falsely reporting more packets inbound than out (21086)

Replicator v16.9 - October 3, 2016#

Changelog

New features

  • New web interface

  • Fully supported and documented API

  • Ability to receive packets from multiple interfaces

  • Profile singularity

Fixes

  • Licensing says expired one day before expiration date (19835)

  • ICMP drops have been added to iptables (19396)

  • Semicolon at end of command yields unexpected results (19285)

  • Removing a policy doesn’t remove the associated Exporters (20848)

  • Replicator falsely reporting more packets inbound than out (21086)

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