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An Early Easter Present

Posted by dpeete Apr 5, 2012

Easter is here a little early this year: we were able to wrap up our Windows release of 5.0 for new customers running against Oracle 11G. You can find the details here: Not authorized to view the specified document 3146. The release also marks our first patch for 5.0 and with that we have a few important notes for you:

Our naming convention now includes patches as the last digit in the version. So "5.0 Patch 1" is called "5.0.1".
Our installer will be upgraded with every patch so that new installs will not need to install the software and then apply patches. (Hooray)
The same installer is used for new installs, and to apply patches. So to upgrade 5.0 to 5.0.1 you run the 5.0.1 installer against your nodes and it will detect you are performing an upgrade and behave differently.
The installer supports automated replay of an upgrade, so you can capture the upgrade of one node and then replay that install against other nodes.

We are working on our SQL Server new install release tentatively slated for May 31st and our 5.0 upgrader (to allow existing Clients to upgrade their system) which is set to release towards the end of Summer. However we don't want existing Clients to feel left out, so we rounded up a set of patches for both 4.0 and 4.1 Clients (Not authorized to view the specified document 3144).

Update: One other platform support item I forgot to mention on the original posting: for those of you who love Community Enterprise Operating Systems we now officially support CentOS as well as Red Hat!

Happy Easter!

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4.1 Integration Agent Patch 5

Posted by dpeete Jan 30, 2012

When it rains it pours... not only do we have a patch for the core product, but we also have a patch for the Integration Agent. The details are here: Not authorized to view the specified document 2981. And I think there might be one more new product tomorrow... but I forget what

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4.1 Patch 11 & 4.0 Patch 19 Are Available

Posted by dpeete Jan 30, 2012

Just a quick reminder for you folks that aren't subscribed to receive notifications from the patch download space... the latest patches are available and contain bug fixes AND some cool new functionality:

Escalation checks
Template company script packages
HTTP proxy for xMatters SMS

You can find some high level details and links to the nitty-gritty stuff here: Not authorized to view the specified document 3030

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4.1 Patch 9 and 4.0 Patch 17 Are Available

Posted by dpeete Sep 8, 2011

A quick reminder for you folks that aren't subscribed to receive notifications from the patch download space... the latest patches are available and contain important bug fixes, a workaround and some new functionality. The top two items are:

Blackberry OS6 support. We have worked long and hard to provide a workaround for Blackberry OS6's unintended push handling. See the release notes for full details, but suffice is to say we are happy to have a solution for our clients.
IIS7 support on WIndows 2008 R2.

We also have nearly 40 other fixes in this patch, so make sure you jump on.

You can find more details and links to the nitty-gritty stuff here: Not authorized to view the specified document 2439

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4.1 Patch 6 - Stuff It

Posted by dpeete Mar 11, 2011

How do you cram 10 pounds of stuff into a 2 pound bag? Compression Baby!

The latest 4.1 patch has a new feature you can set to automagically compress your log files on disk. You can select Zip or Gzip compression. The setting is None (off) by default. So go into your Admin->Global Configuration settings crank up your "Maximum File Size" and "Number of Backups" and then chose your "Compression" flavor of choice!