OneAgent release notes version 1.195

Rollout start 29 June 2020

With this release, the oldest supported OneAgent versions are:

Dynatrace ONE Dynatrace ONE Premium
1.177 1.171

How long are versions supported following rollout?

New features and enhancements

.Net Core

  • Added support for gRPC 2.23.2 - 2.29.0

Node.js

  • Added support for Node.js 14 for Linux, Alpine Linux 64-bit (PPCLE)
  • Added support for Node.js 14 for Linux, Alpine Linux 64-bit (x86), Windows (x86)

Operating systems

Upcoming support changes

Upcoming OneAgent support changes

OneAgent 1.197 will be the last OneAgent version that supports the following technologies

  • Oracle Hotspot JVM 12
    • The vendor has de-supported this technology and version with 2019-09-30
  • OpenJDK 12
    • The vendor has de-supported this technology and version with 2019-09-30
  • SAP JVM 9, 10

OneAgent 1.201 will be the last OneAgent version that supports the following technologies

  • Oracle Hotspot JVM 13
    • The vendor has de-supported this technology and version with 2020-03-30
  • OpenJDK 13
    • The vendor has de-supported this technology and version with 2020-03-30

OneAgent 1.205 will be the last OneAgent version that supports the following technologies

  • Node.js 13
    • The vendor has de-supported this technology and version with 2020-06-01

Upcoming Operating systems support changes

The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 August 2020

  • Linux: Amazon Linux 2014.03 - 2018.03
    • x86 (32bit-only)
    • Last compatible OneAgent version: 1.197
  • Linux: CentOS 6.x, 7.x
    • x86 (32bit-only)
    • Last compatible OneAgent version: 1.197
  • Linux: Debian 8, 9, 10
    • x86 (32bit-only)
    • Last compatible OneAgent version: 1.197
  • Linux: Fedora 30, 31
    • x86 (32bit-only)
    • Last compatible OneAgent version: 1.197
  • Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4+, 6.x
    • x86 (32bit-only)
    • Last compatible OneAgent version: 1.197
  • Linux: SUSE Enterprise Linux 11.4
    • x86 (32bit-only)
    • Last compatible OneAgent version: 1.197
  • Linux: SUSE Enterprise Linux 12 (initial)
  • Linux: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS, 19.04, 19.10
    • x86 (32bit-only)
    • Last compatible OneAgent version: 1.197
  • Linux: Ubuntu 19.04
  • Linux: Ubuntu 19.04
  • Windows: Windows 7 and 8.1 7 SP1, 8.1
    • x86 (32bit-only)
    • Last compatible OneAgent version: 1.197
  • Windows: Windows Server 2008
  • Windows: Windows Desktop 7 SP1

The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 November 2020

  • Windows: Windows Desktop 1709

The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 December 2020

  • Linux: CoreOS 835.13 - 2512.3
  • Linux: Fedora 30
  • Windows: Windows Server 1809

The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 January 2021

  • Linux: Google Container-Optimized OS 73 LTS, 78, 79, 80
  • Windows: Windows Server 2008

Other support changes

OneAgent for z/OS

Installation

SMP/E is no longer used to install OneAgent components on z/OS. For more information, see Download OneAgent to z/OS.

z/OS Host metrics

z/OS host health metrics such as CPU usage and MSU consumption are monitored and presented in the Host overview page.

CICS code module

Added support for CTS 5.6 version.

IMS code module

  • The parameters for the IMS code module injection utility can now be specified in a SYSIN file using keyword names.
  • The IMS code module now traces purepaths for IMS systems that use LSO=Y and/or PARDLI=1 parameters.

Discontinued AppMon support

Connection of OneAgent components on z/OS and zRemote to AppMon Collector/Server is no longer supported.

Resolved issues in OneAgent for z/OS

Build 1.195.01

  • If the configuration update exceeds the allocated buffer, the ZDC996E Cfg1oZDTCONFG Buffer Overrun error message is sent to zRemote.

Build 1.195.02

  • Fixed a tagging limitation caused by CICS APAR PH21320

Resolved issues

General availability (Build 1.195.134)

22 total resolved issues

Component Resolved issues
Java 4
.NET 1
Node.js 1
JavaScript 1
IIB 1
AI causation engine 1
All modules 1
General 5
Logging module 2
Mainframe 2
OneAgent Installer 1
OS module 2

Java

  • Resolved issue in which additional extraneous nodes for "requests to unmonitored hosts" seen with WebFlux HTTP client introspection. (ONE-40297)
  • Fixed problem that resulted in rare crashes during real-time updates of Java custom services. (ONE-35692)
  • Fixed problem which resulted in rare freezes of the JVM during real-time updates of Java custom services. (ONE-37426)
  • Improved unloading of some classes while applying changes to custom services. (ONE-38077)

.NET

  • Improved handling of unsupported RabbitMQ versions. (ONE-41424)

Node.js

  • Fix problem in which a failed RUM injection could lead to HTML truncation in some Node.js corner cases. (ONE-34999)

JavaScript

  • Resolved OneAgent Basic XHR module issue in which some event handlers did not fire. (ONE-34914)

IIB

  • Dynatrace protocol tagging (HTTP, JMS, MQ over JMS) with IBM Integration Bus output nodes (HTTPRequest, SOAPRequest, RESTRequest, JMSClientOutput, MQOutput) may modify IIB message encoding in case the IIB has a local QMGR attached that is non UTF-8 configured (CCSID != 1208). (ONE-41068)

AI causation engine

  • The native correlation statistics output message is now correctly displayed. (ONE-39837)

All modules

  • Host memory metrics (free, reclaimable, used) for Azure, standalone mode, now gathered correctly. (ONE-39895)

General

  • Kernel crashes on AIX caused by OneAgent kernel module have now been fixed. (APM-243133)
  • RabbitMQ connection error handling is fixed ('url' attribute was missing). (APM-238742)
  • Process group names now displayed correctly. Stripping identifiers from process names is now enabled by default on the agent side. Before this change, OneAgent sometimes did not strip identifiers after a fresh install, before the first config from the server arrived. (APM-180422)
  • The format of OSI ID in the instance.properties file of zRemote is now plain hex. (APM-242778)
  • OneAgent process group detection corrected. Stripping identifiers from process names is now enabled by default on the agent side. Before this change, OneAgent sometimes did not strip identifiers after a fresh install, before the first config from the server arrived. (APM-181065)

Logging module

  • Added ability to disable spammer detection mechanism in LogAgent via agent debug flag. (APM-242056)
  • Custom date patterns with regex special characters are now escaped properly when parsing log records. (APM-234544)

Mainframe

  • OneAgent zOS module no longer crashes due to multiple connects from an overloaded ZDC task. (ONE-41761)
  • If config update won't fit, send zRemote error message ZDC996E Cfg1oZDTCONFG Buffer Overrun (ONE-42593)

OneAgent Installer

  • The /opt/dynatrace/oneagent/agent/agent.state file is no longer removed during autoupdate. (APM-242995)

OS module

  • Process connectivity alerts are displayed when the process shuts down. (APM-239811)
  • "Containers > CPU Throttling ratio" metric no longer missing fractional part. (APM-242594)

Update 139 (1.195.139)

This is a cumulative update that includes all previously released updates for the 1.195 release.

2 total resolved issues

Component Resolved issues
Mainframe 1
.NET 1

Mainframe

  • DLI connections from a CICS region are now handled correctly. (ONE-41767)

.NET

  • Added Setting to Workaround Problems with 3rd Party ISAPI-Modules that change Headers. (ONE-38026)

Update 142 (1.195.142)

This is a cumulative update that includes all previously released updates for the 1.195 release.

.NET

  • Fixed rare occuring race conditions which lead to OneAgent crash. (ONE-41227)

Update 161 (1.195.161)

This is a cumulative update that includes all previously released updates for the 1.195 release.

5 total resolved issues

Component Resolved issues
General 1
Go 1
IIB 1
Logging module 1
Mainframe 1

General

  • Kernel crashes on AIX caused by OneAgent kernel module have now been fixed. (APM-243133)

Go

  • Fixed possible crash of Go processes when enabling Infrastructure Monitoring mode. (ONE-43245)

IIB

  • Fixed problem with looping scenarios in message flows where the Dynatrace-created tagging data in HTTPRequestHeader caused misplacement of succeeding MQMD header. (ONE-42677)

Logging module

  • Square brackets "[]" can now be used as rotation/stream ID separators, so log files with names such as "file[1].log" are properly supported. (APM-248547)

Mainframe

  • Resolved crash in OneAgent zRemote module during ZDC re-initialization. (ONE-42737)

OneAgent for mobile resolved issues

OneAgent for mobile

  • OneAgent for Android: Improved resource handling (ONE-38130)
  • OneAgent for Android: Improved measurement for "onResume" lifecycle event (ONE-37410)
  • OneAgent for Android: Improved communication handling on privacy settings change during app startup phase (ONE-41144)

Early Adopter releases

The following Early Adopter releases are in progress starting with this OneAgent release.