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 19.0.1 - 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)