xMatters Agent release notes

This page contains the cumulative release notes for the xMatters Agent.

(Numbers in parentheses are xMatters internal reference numbers.)

xMatters Agent 1.7.12

Released July 2024

  • Upgraded included libraries to address or prevent potential vulnerabilities. (COR-95115, COR-93273, COR-94390)
  • Updated list of supported operating systems (COR-95271)

xMatters Agent 1.7.11

Released January 2024

  • Upgraded included libraries to address or prevent potential vulnerabilities. (COR-90111)

xMatters Agent 1.7.10

Released July 2023

  • Added support for Docker image. (COR-67928)

xMatters Agent 1.7.9

Released June 2023

  • Upgraded included libraries to address or prevent potential vulnerabilities. (COR-74300, COR-74516)

xMatters Agent 1.7.8

Released May 2023

  • Upgraded included libraries to address or prevent potential vulnerabilities. (COR-71395)

xMatters Agent 1.7.7

Released April 2023

  • Fixed an issue where using a PAC file for proxy setup would cause an exception. (COR-70921)
  • Upgraded included libraries to address or prevent potential vulnerabilities. (COR-70592)

xMatters Agent 1.7.6

Released February 2023

  • Upgraded included libraries to address or prevent potential vulnerabilities. (COR-67037)

xMatters Agent 1.7.5

Released January 2023

  • Upgraded included libraries to address or prevent potential vulnerabilities. (COR-66629)
  • Note: Version 1.7.4 was an internal-only build used for testing and was not published for external use.

xMatters Agent 1.7.3

Released January 2023

  • Upgraded included libraries to address or prevent potential vulnerabilities. (COR-66533, COR-66534, COR-63243)

xMatters Agent 1.7.2

Released November 2022

  • Upgraded included libraries to address or prevent potential vulnerabilities. (COR-635435, COR-63637, COR-63518)

xMatters Agent 1.7.1

Released September 2022

  • Improved performance and addressed some minor issues when using the Create Alert step in Flow Designer with the xMatters Agent. (COR-48581)
  • Added support for the autoAppendCharset parameter in HTTP requests. See the scripting reference for more information. (COR-48676)
  • Upgraded included libraries to address or prevent potential vulnerabilities. (COR-48621)

xMatters Agent 1.7.0

Released June 2022

  • Addressed an issue on Windows installations where the UUID for an agent could change when updating the system's JRE. (COR-44537)
  • Updated included scripting libraries to ensure access to latest security and scripting features. Note: the xMatters Agent and Integration Builder do not support the globalThis variable. (COR-45906)
  • Upgraded included libraries to address or prevent potential vulnerabilities. (COR-47002)

xMatters Agent 1.6.16

Released May 2022

  • Added support for ECMAScript's Date and Intl functions to xMatters Agent scripts. This allows the use of JavaScript's native date functionality within custom steps. (COR-45906)
  • Upgraded included libraries to address or prevent potential vulnerabilities. (COR-46060)

xMatters Agent 1.6.15

Released April 2022

  • Upgraded included libraries to address or prevent potential vulnerabilities. (COR-44299)

xMatters Agent 1.6.14

Released March 2022

  • Upgraded included libraries to address or prevent potential vulnerabilities. (COR-44206)

xMatters Agent 1.6.13

Released December 2021

  • Upgraded included libraries to address or prevent potential vulnerabilities. (COR-42524)
  • Fixed an issue where agents could ignore communication exceptions from TLS 1.3. (COR-43819)

xMatters Agent 1.6.12

Released July 2021

  • Upgraded included libraries to address or prevent potential vulnerabilities. (COR-39001, COR-37845)

xMatters Agent 1.6.11

Released May 2021

  • Improved the ability of the agent to handle valid integration requests sent to xMatters that don't immediately succeed. Agents will now retry 429 errors until they succeed, and will retry network exception errors and some 4xx/5xx errors — those with a chance of succeeding — three times. (COR-36483)

xMatters Agent 1.6.10

Released May 2021

  • Improved logging for "Connection reset" exceptions. (COR-35864)
  • Upgraded included libraries to address or prevent potential vulnerabilities. (COR-37740)

xMatters Agent 1.6.9

Released April 2021

  • Upgraded included libraries to address or prevent potential vulnerabilities. (COR-34881, COR-36078)

xMatters Agent 1.6.8

Released March 2021

  • Updated some library dependencies and implemented changes to script executor to support new features in development. (COR-32103)

xMatters Agent 1.6.7

Released March 2021

  • Upgraded included libraries to address or prevent potential vulnerabilities. (COR-34880)
  • To help with troubleshooting, logging for "Connection reset" exception messages now includes the cause of the exception. (COR-35864)

xMatters Agent 1.6.6

Released February 2021

  • Updated the built-in HTTP client to retry certain failed requests (up to three times with a five-second interval), including 502 Bad Gateway, 503 Service Unavailable, and 504 Gateway Timeout failures. (COR-29300)
  • Fixed an issue where an agent could run an integration twice, or multiple agents could process the same update. (COR-34514)

xMatters Agent 1.6.4

Released October 2020

  • Updated the script execution process to prevent the xm-shell library from being incorrectly flagged as deprecated. (COR-28468)

xMatters Agent 1.6.3

Released September 2020

  • Updated the configuration files for the xMatters Agent log files to help keep the log footprint lighter, and provide additional customization options. (COR-28513)
  • Upgraded included libraries to address or prevent potential vulnerabilities. (COR-28471)

xMatters Agent 1.6.2

Released 2020

  • Upgraded included libraries to address or prevent potential vulnerabilities. (COR-28468)

xMatters Agent 1.6.1

Released July 2020

  • Upgraded included libraries to address or prevent potential vulnerabilities. (COR-27120)

xMatters Agent 1.6

Released 2020

  • Improved the ability of the xMatters Agent to recover from brief network or connectivity interruptions, and to handle situations where there are too many requests to send at once. The agent still queues all requests and processes them in order, but will now store requests that can’t be sent immediately and forward them when the connection is restored or resources become available. We’ve also updated the system requirements for the agent to account for any increased demand on local resources that this feature might require. (COR-11009)

As of Spring 2021, versions of the xMatters Agent prior to 1.6 are no longer supported.

xMatters Agent 1.5.7

  • Upgraded included libraries to address or prevent potential vulnerabilities. (COR-27119)

xMatters Agent 1.5.6

  • Increased maximum payload size to 10MB, and added message size logging to local agent logs. This should reduce or eliminate some common communication and flow execution failures due to previous size limitations. (COR-17687)
  • Improved error messaging and agent response when submitting a request without any body content. (COR-26648)
  • Updated the shutdown behavior for Windows-based agents to provide better handling of outstanding requests, similar to the process already in place for Linux-based agents. (COR-25649)

xMatters Agent 1.5.5

  • Updated the xMatters endpoint authentication mechanism to prevent requests from being dropped due to invalid or expired credentials, even when delayed by agent availability or heavy load. (COR-17293)
  • Upgraded included libraries to address or prevent potential vulnerabilities. (COR-22979)
  • Improved agent performance when connecting through a proxy server. (COR-24408)

xMatters Agent 1.5.4

  • Upgraded included libraries to address or prevent potential vulnerabilities. (COR-22978)

xMatters Agent 1.5.3

  • Improved the interactions between the xMatters Agent and Flow Designer to help point flow designers to the right place when part of a flow is not configured properly - such as when the flow does not indicate which agent a step should run on. (COR-23205)

xMatters Agent 1.5.2

  • Updated alert processing behavior to reduce the chances of an agent accidentally creating duplicate alerts. (COR-22426)

xMatters Agent 1.5.1

  • Updated the proxy routing to address some reported issues. (COR-21577)
  • Improved the recovery procedures when a connection is interrupted unexpectedly during script processing. (COR-20565)

xMatters Agent 1.5

  • Added support for OpenJDK 11.

xMatters Agent 1.4.2

  • Added support for Windows Server 2016.
  • Added support for features coming in the Galaga release. (COR-13457)
  • Made improvements to how credentials are handled, including trimming whitespace. (ACTO-2629, COR-16230)

xMatters Agent 1.4.1

  • Added support for features available in the Frogger release (running Flow Designer steps on an agent).

xMatters Agent 1.4.0

  • Added the ability to define an installation directory when installing on Windows (ACTO-2433)
  • Updated the permissions on installed agents to allow Company Supervisors to edit the list of registered users and status alert recipients, or to delete the configuration. (COR-7457)

xMatters Agent 1.3.1

  • Added the port number to the Agent details and changed the label of the URL field to Address. (COR-10526)
  • Added a field to the Agent details to include when a disconnected agent was last seen. (COR-9976)
  • Updated the OS Name field to show the particular flavor of OS the agent is running on. (COR-9975)
  • Updated inbound integration support to work in systems that use a proxy server and only filter on the hostname.

xMatters Agent 1.3.0

  • Added the ability to process inbound integrations. (COR-5105)
  • Updated to work in systems that use a proxy server and only filter on the hostname.

xMatters Agent 1.2.1

  • Added the ability to subscribe to notifications when an integration running on an xMatters Agent fails. (COR-6845)

xMatters Agent 1.2.0

  • Added the ability for xMatters Agents to connect to xMatters via a proxy server. (COR-4042)

xMatters Agent 1.1.0

  • Added information to the xMatters Agents page to indicate when a new version of the Agent is available, and when updating your installed version of the Agent is required or recommended. (COR-6051)
  • Added the ability to add or remove registered users for each xMatters Agent. (COR-6101)

xMatters Agent 1.0.1

  • Added the ability to run scripts locally on the host machine.

xMatters Agent 1.0.0

  • Welcome to the first release of the xMatters Agent.