Replicator changelogs#
Changelog entries are displayed in the format DESCRIPTION (Ticket Number).
Note
For more information on Replicator, visit www.plixer.com or contact Plixer Technical Support.
Please refer to our End of Life Policy for EOL schedule details.
Replicator v20.1.0 - July 2026#
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New features
Headless Replicator Vitals in the Management server UI
GCP-Ready Image for Scrutinizer and Replicator
Replicator v4 and v6 No Spoof profile types
The ability to use IP Groups to define Replicator policies
Enhancements
Allow Replicator default view in user preferences
Updated Replicator v20 API and documentation
Fixes
Disabling Profile Does Not Enable Save Button (260)
IPv6 packets with 0 checksums wont be ingested by collectors (31)
Keepalived configuration was incorrect after HA VIP setup (236)
Profiles - Editing a Spoofing policy opens tray with default /32 mask (2941)
Removing Collectors from Replicator UI does not rebuild config and service has to be manually restarted (266)
Replicator could stop updating config with ping collectors turned off (268)
Replicator v19 -> 20 - upgrade v19 backup file names not unique per run of upgrade script (5316)
Replicator v20 upgrade fails when there is a bond interface configured (5314)
Sorting exporters by Last Seen causes ‘Bad Gateway’ error (241)
Replicator v20.0.2 - January 2026#
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Fixes
Replicator hardware upgrade failing from v19.1.1 > v20.0.1 (244)
Replicator UI freezes upon loading of the topology view with a high exporter count (248)
Replicator v20.0.1 - November 2025#
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Fixes
Addressed various security issues
Headless Replicator failing to integrate when created with space characters in name (233)
Replicator upgrade fails (234)
Replicator v20.0.0 - October 2025#
Note
As of 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
HA configuration errors (170)
net-snmp package not in repo (178)
sethostname.sh script missing (187)
Set license command error (174)
Set password from CLI (189)
System metrics errors (167)
Web certificate file name (193)
Replicator v19.1.0 - June 2024#
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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
Added back missing enable_ssl.sh script (161)
Addressed various security issues
Replicator v19.0.1 - January 2024#
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Fixes
Addressed various security issues
Fixed authentication issue (150)
Replicator v19.0.0 - November 2023#
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Enhancements
Improved UI responsiveness
Updated branding
Updated EULA
Fixes
Addressed various security issues
API may hang on invalid input (23)
Exporter id out of range (25)
Improved process management (60)
Remote root access disabled by default (34)
Replicator v18.14.1 - January 28, 2020#
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New features
New Replicator UI skin
Updated the EULA
Fixes
Exporters will now be added to Profiles correctly regardless of the time of the matching Policy’s creation (1891)
Fixed a potential issue when setting up High Availability pairs (931)
Replicator excludes Collectors from being Exporters in Profiles with the same destination port the Collector is already receiving on (1771)
Replicator’s vitals processes can no longer enter a bad state, which may cause it to lock up indefinitely (1739)
Very high volume Replicators will no longer crash due to a database integer overflow (2007)
Replicator v18.12.14 - January 25, 2019#
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Enhancements
Future Replicator releases will no longer support CentOS 6
Fixes
Replication no longer starts and restarts spontaneously (410)
Replicator stats are now more reliable (611)
Replicator will no longer attempt to sync with its own database (428)
system changenow works on all configurations (436)
Replicator v18.5 - May 31, 2018#
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Enhancements
Updated the EULA (5633)
Fixes
show configoutput now has profile names enclosed in quotation marks (“”) (25257)Added the new online manual from docs.plixer.com (25828)
Fixed an issue where an install script was pointing to a previous version (25770)
Fixed an issue where Apache fails to start if SSL is enabled/setup via install script or enable_SSL.sh (25292)
Fixed an issue where
policy remove profile include/excluderesults 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)
Updated licensing checks (25653)
Replicator v18.1 - January 30, 2018#
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New features
Ability to make API calls via HTTPS
Ability to restrict snoop command by port
Backup process from the CLI
Current Plixer Replicator version displayed under the Status LED
LDAP authentication support
Postgres replicator database support
Profiles displayed in alphabetical order
Replicator install and upgrade logs
Support for upper case letters and spaces in profile names
Fixes
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)
Fixed an issue that could result in phantom Collector alarms (23977)
Improved performance and responsiveness of the web interface (22918)
Replicator now replicates SNMP traps on low port numbers (23820)
Search filters are no longer lost on page refresh (23904)
Upgrades no longer reset the web interface password (24299)
Replicator v17.6 - July 14, 2017#
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New features
Ability to receive packets from multiple interfaces
Fully supported and documented API
Profile singularity
Web interface updates
Fixes
ICMP drops have been added to iptables (19396)
Licensing says expired one day before expiration date (19835)
Removing a Policy doesn’t remove the associated Exporters (20848)
Replicator falsely reporting more packets inbound than out (21086)
Semicolon at end of command yields unexpected results (19285)
Replicator v16.9 - October 3, 2016#
Changelog
New features
Ability to receive packets from multiple interfaces
Fully supported and documented API
New web interface
Profile singularity
Fixes
ICMP drops have been added to iptables (19396)
Licensing says expired one day before expiration date (19835)
Removing a policy doesn’t remove the associated Exporters (20848)
Replicator falsely reporting more packets inbound than out (21086)
Semicolon at end of command yields unexpected results (19285)