Changelog

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

KEY: Description (Ticket Number)

Ex. Added thresholds based on outbound traffic (1640)

Version 19.1.1 - October 2024

Note

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

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)

Version 19.1.0 - June 2024

Note

This release addresses CentOS going EOL. To migrate the OS to Oracle Linux 9, Plixer 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)

Version 19.0.1 - January 2024

Fixes

Addressed various security issues
Fixed authentication issue (150)

Version 19.0.0 - November 2023

Updates

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)

Version 18.14.1 - 1/28/2020

New Features

Updated the EULA
New Plixer Replicator UI skin

Fixes

Fixed a potential issue when setting up High Availability pairs (931)
Plixer Replicator’s vitals processes can no longer enter a bad state, which may cause it to lock up indefinitely (1739)
Plixer 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 Plixer Replicators will no longer crash due to a database integer overflow (2007)

Version 18.12.14 - 1/25/2019

Updates

Future Plixer Replicator releases will no longer support CentOS 6

Fixes

Replication no longer starts and restarts spontaneously (410)
Plixer Replicator will no longer attempt to sync with its own database (428)
system change now works on all configurations (436)
Plixer Replicator stats are now more reliable (611)

Version 18.5 - 5/31/2018

Updates

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)

Version 18.1 - 1/30/2018

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)

Version 17.6 - 7/14/2017

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

Version 16.9 - 10/3/2016

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