[FRS-456] FusionReactor 8.x Release Notes
FusionReactor Rev. 8.x
RELEASE NOTES
Status: 14-August-2019
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RESOLVED ISSUES 8.2.0
| Key | Issue Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| FR7262 | New Feature | Added support for LDAP user authentication and group management. |
| FR7818 | Improvement | Add support for Microsoft SQL driver 7.2.2 / Java 11 driver. |
| FR7768 | Improvement | Add support for Spring Boot REST apis. |
| FR7763 | Improvement | Add support for Micronaut REST server. |
| FR7720 | Improvement | Add tracking for okHTTP client. |
| FR7795 | Bug | Fix a NullPointerException in the heartbeat plugin which sometimes occurs on startup (very rarely). |
| FR7839 | Bug | Fix a NullPointerException on shutdown in the json tracking. |
| FR7831 | Bug | Fix the debugger so that it correclty displays classes in the default package. |
| FR7830 | Bug | Fix an issue where the debugger's breakpoint window would not update the state of the breakpoint when a breakpoint is triggered. |
| FR7829 | Bug | Fix an issue where the debugger breakpoint window doesnt update the state when stepping over or continuing. |
| FR7808 | Bug | Fix an issue where the debugger classes and source tree would reset for not reason. |
| FR7804 | Bug | Fix an issue where Event Snapshot files could become corrupt if the same error occurred at the exact same time on more than 1 thread. |
| FR7786 | Bug | Fix kafka tracking for kafka clients 2.3.0. |
| FR7784 | Bug | Fix a Lucee 5.2.8+ session tracking where session creation was tracked twice when SessionRotate function was used. |
| FR7777 | Bug | Fix an issue where Redisson CONNECT commands were not tracked in FR. |
| FR7766 | Bug | Fix an issue where Jedis tracking would display the passwords in FR. |
| FR7750 | Bug | Fix an issue where Redisson time tracked was incorrect due to async handling. |
| FR7546 | Bug | Fix an html injection issue when viewing variables some object types in the debugger (toString() method had to return HTML). |
RESOLVED ISSSUES 8.1.1
| Key | Issue Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| FR7828 | Bug | Fix transaction naming with ColdBox 5.5. |
| FR7821 | Bug | Fix a NullPointerException with AMF requests. |
| FR7812 | Bug | Fix the Debug UI when using IE11. |
| FR7801 | Bug | Fix a race condition in the Debug UI which could cause certain sections to not update. |
| FR7800 | Bug | Fix instance manager so that it works when using IE 11. |
RESOLVED ISSSUES 8.1.0
| Key | Issue Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| FR7678 | Obsolete | FusionReactor has removed its 32 bit installers for 8.1.0, we only support manual install steps on 32bit operating systems. |
| FR7286 | New Feature | Add support for Ephemeral Instances, like docker, to auto register with the Enterprise dashboard. |
| FR7679 | New Feature | Enterprise EDDS: Status page for client and server |
| FR7701 | Improvement | Improve the Debugger UI so that it looks more like an IDE and is easier to use. This allows the loaded classes to be decompiled making it easier to set breakpoints aswell as many more improvements. |
| FR7164 | Improvement | Upgrade Highcharts to version 7. |
| FR7662 | Improvement | Upgrade jQuery to version 3 as older versions are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks- |
| FR7698 | Improvement | Improve the time to switch license from a cloud license to a none cloud license. |
| FR7702 | Improvement | Improve the transaction details page so that the event snapshot and profiler results have more space on the page. |
| FR7683 | Improvement | Ensure licensing changes reset the session_id used for licensing requests. This improves license handling on the server side. |
| FR7762 | Improvement | Improve the rendering of transactions in the top of the transaction details when no query params exist. |
| FR7677 | Improvement | Add a link to the License Connection banner to include a link to a technote to help resolve issues. |
| FR7642 | Improvement | Stop tracking FR resources in the PageUsageTracker on real FR pages. |
| FR7635 | Improvement | Use the fernflower decompiler for java 8 or newer. This compiler is faster and more reliable for new class files. |
| FR7293 | Improvement | Improve the HTTPClient transactions to include session information and other meta data. |
| FR7734 | Improvement | Change the default fire count to 1 for the debuggers default instead of always. |
| FR7735 | Improvement | Ensure HTTPClient calls that return 50x codes are tracked as errors same as FusionRequests and appear in the correct Errors page. |
| FR7733 | Improvement | Add a white list entry to fr-osgi.conf to support debugging FR code with nerdvison java client. |
| FR7610 | Improvement | Allow the decompile from the cloud to use the CFML source if the FR instance can find it. |
| FR5416 | Improvement | Fix a performance issue with the decompiler where it was very slow on some files. |
| FR7637 | Improvement | Fix a performance issue where the logging pointcuts would cause class loading performance issues. |
| FR7582 | Improvement | Fix a performance issue where the ED menu (top right) would take a long time to be built. |
| FR7633 | Improvement | Fix a performance issue where the 'stackTrace all' for the running requests is slower than the complete 'stacktrace all' for all threads. |
| FR6118 | Improvement | Fix a performance issue where large uploads would be a lot slower with FR installed compared to without. |
| FR7631 | Bug | Fix a bug in Json Data Tracker Plugin where it showed empty data when application/json header is set for a get request- |
| FR7630 | Bug | Fix a bug in the Json Data Tracker Plugin where it would not handle smile compressed data. |
| FR7772 | Bug | Fix a bug in Json Data Tracker Plugin where it would handle invalid json of a single byte. |
| FR7693 | Bug | Fix a bug where Json Data Tracker Plugin would look for exact content type and ignore any with character set at the end. |
| FR7765 | Bug | Fix a bug where Java would get stuck in java.util.zip.Inflater.inflateBytes(Native Method) when handling invalid Json Data. |
| FR7571 | Bug | Fix a bug where FR would break when you have a Cookie header and no value |
| FR7545 | Bug | Fix a bug where the debugger didnt show the classname for fields, variables in some cases. |
| FR7544 | Bug | Fix a bug where the debugger would break with some Lucee versions as CGI scope .size() throws an NullPointerException. |
| FR7747 | Bug | Fix an issue where the datasource name is very large for CFMAIL tags and can cause issues for both memory and sending the data to the cloud. |
| FR7730 | Bug | Fix a bug where JDBC transactions would never close the underlying Statement. This could cause memory leaks with some JDBC drivers (DB2). |
| FR7728 | Bug | Fix a bug where the daily, weekly and monthly reports would still be sent if if the license expired. |
| FR7725 | Bug | Fix a ConcurrentModificationException bug in the licensing request code which could cause the first license request after startup to fail. |
| FR7724 | Bug | Fix a UI issue in IE11 where the top menu (About/Logs/Plugins) wouldn't work. |
| FR7719 | Bug | Fix an issue in the Enterprise Dashboard where you would get a Javascript error when the last ED instance stopping was removed. |
| FR7716 | Bug | Remove the license key, which was visible to observer user, from the odl.log file. |
| FR7710 | Bug | Fix a bug where FR upgrade banner warning is not dismissable- |
| FR7708 | Bug | Fix an issue where the start_ts has been removed from licensing requests in FR 8.0.1 + 8.0.2. |
| FR7676 | Bug | Fix a bug where the Kafka mixin would fail with NoSuchField on Kafka 2.2.0. |
| FR7632 | Bug | Fix an issue where the legacy JDBC Wrapper only loads on Java 8 and not on Java 9, 10, 11. This could affect some fallback logic if customers had to enable the legacy wrapper instead of the default, faster, mixins. |
| FR7711 | Bug | Fix a NullPointerException in the thread list, if the thread finished at the correct time. |
| FR7462 | Bug | Fix a NullPointerException on Transaction History page when viewing all transactions but filtering on a subflavor which JDBC requests doesn't understand. |
RESOLVED ISSUES 8.0.2
| Key | Issue Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| FR7689 | Improvement | Add support for FusionReactors licensing notifications showing HTML links. |
| FR7688 | Improvement | Ensure the license session_id is cleared when the license key changes. |
| FR7687 | Improvement | Add a link to the support documentation in the the License Connection notification. |
| FR7681 | Improvement | Increase ASM version to 7.1 |
| FR7665 | Improvement | Add link to FR 8 specific Third Party License agreement, but its currently the same as FR 7. |
| FR7690 | Bug | Fix an issue where, after upgrading to FR 8 with a manual activated license, FR would become active (for a short period) when it should not. |
| FR7682 | Bug | Fix Kafka tracking with Kafka version 2.2.0. |
| FR7674 | Bug | The JSON capture feature of FR is showing empty data when application/json header is set but no body exists. |
| FR7654 | Bug | Fix the debuggers Resume Thread button so it works on Windows. |
RESOLVED ISSUES 8.0.1
| Key | Issue Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| FR7641 | Bug | Fix an issue where the debuggers UI would scale incorrectly after moving the slider / separators. |
| FR7640 | Bug | Fix a performance issue where the logging capture feature in FusionReactor could cause ColdFusion startup slowness. |
RESOLVED ISSUES 8.0.0
| Key | Issue Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| FR7247 | New Feature | Support the monitoring of Spring Sessions. |
| FR7443 | New Feature | Support the capturing of variables of the stack when transactions fail. |
| FR7137 | New Feature | Support for filtering the stacktrace all based on the locks currently being held or waited on. |
| FR7279 | New Feature | Support capture of JSON request and responses. |
| FR7477 | New Feature | Support for Java 11 (Oracle and OpenJDK). |
| FR7474 | New Feature | Capture log statements of slf4j, apache commons and log4j frameworks and CFLOG tags. |
| FR7589 | New Feature | Capture log statements via CFLOG tags. |
| FR7313 | New Feature | Add a new cloud status page to help support and customer track down connection issues. |
| FR7611 | New Feature | Add support for tracking Jedis v2 and v3. |
| FR7473 | New Feature | Support for MongoDB drivers > 3.8.0 |
| FR7408 | Improvement | UI pages with tabs maintain the selection on refresh. |
| FR7623 | Improvement | Improve the text fields on the debugger dialog to add more meaning to possible options. |
| FR7332 | Improvement | Improve the internal logging of Cloud based requests (IRs) to include more meta data. |
| FR7442 | Improvement | Use CF 2018 Monitor class to track all CF metrics. |
| FR7436 | Improvement | About page to show the licensing exceptions (in full) to the user. |
| FR7378 | Improvement | Add additional information to the Web Metrics summary tables to show Recent WebRequest count, JDBC count and error count. |
| FR7371 | Improvement | Improve the email alerts from the enterprise dashboard when a server comes online to include much more information about the server. |
| FR7204 | Improvement | Improve the robustness of the Cloud datapack shipping so that it can handle errors more effectively. |
| FR6775 | Improvement | Improve licensing so that the license server handles all state and messages so that these can be changed and updated without needing new client functionality or changes. |
| FR7561 | Improvement | Improve the debugger's exception error messages when the debugger doesn't have exception support enabled. |
| FR7560 | Improvement | Add support for Amazon Corretto 8. |
| FR7513 | Improvement | Show the Max MetaSpace value if its been set for the JVM. |
| FR7512 | Improvement | Add the actual exception type to the history pages so that the user can see what type of exception occurs without needing to use transaction details page. |
| FR7534 | Improvement | Make the server discovery code discover FRAM instances as FRAM server type instead of UNKNOWN. |
| FR6548 | Improvement | Improve the left menu of FR so that uncommon entries moved into sub menus and the main menu is more compact. |
| FR7548 | Improvement | Include ENV variables in license request data so that the cloud can filter based on this data. |
| FR7404 | Improvement | Make threads holding locks now have direct links to their stack trace via lock / thread ID. |
| FR7531 | Bug | Fixed a lock contention issue where JDBC, with no memory tracking enabled, would block on the JDBC by Memory series. |
| FR7509 | Bug | Fixed an issue where the debugger would not always show all locks currently held by a thread when using the "Suspend Thread" functionality. |
| FR7506 | Bug | Fixed a NullPointerException in FusionReactor when viewing profiles via the Cloud UI. |
| FR7507 | Bug | Fixed an issue where the Request Content Capture feature would affect ColdFusion AJAX request. |
| FR7494 | Bug | Fixed an issue where the "Stack Trace All" Plain view showed 'blocked' threads when the 'waiting' filter was active. |
| FR7492 | Bug | Fixed an issue with the licensing debug page 'ODL Information' Copy to Clipboard button throws a JavaScript TypeError. |
| FR7466 | Bug | Fixed an issue where ColdFusion requests could be stuck due to the line performance tool even when it is disabled. |
| FR7444 | Bug | Fixed an issue where the profiler would break on any java thread which doesn't have a stack trace. |
| FR7420 | Bug | Fixed an issue where pressing the start profiler button could result in incorrect profiling of the thread. |
| FR7421 | Bug | Fixed an issue where the duration of running profiles didn't update until the thread was profiled. I.e at each sample. |
| FR7413 | Bug | Fixed an issue with the decompiler breaking StringConcatFactory but never informing the user why if failed. |
| FR7409 | Bug | Fixed an issue with CFHTTP calls in CF 2016 which would throw a NoSuchFieldError when FusionReactor attempted to read the query_string property. |
| FR7533 | Bug | Fixed an issue where manually installing FusionReactor (outside of the normal install process) would cause the license activation to fail with a NullPointerException. |
| FR7498 | Bug | Fixed a ConcurrentModificationException which could occur if a new tracked statistical series became visible while FusionReactor was preparing a Cloud datapack for upload. |
| FR7481 | Bug | Fixed an issue with CFMAIL ColdFusion tag where the from and to addresses would be swapped around. |
| FR7472 | Bug | Fixed an issue where internal debug checks were enabled in the release version of FusionReactor which would then break CFPOP CFIMAP tags in ColdFusion. |
| FR7461 | Bug | Fixed a NullPointerException in the Cloud Retry thread which could occur when we log the internal state changes of the connection. |
| FR7416 | Bug | Fixed a ConcurrentModificationException in the Enterprise Dashboard when servers are registered and deregistered automatically. |
| FR7402 | Bug | Fixed the tracking of ColdFusion ASYNC requests in ColdFusion 2018. |
| FR7388 | Bug | Fixed an issue where ColdBox transaction names are tracked as index.cfm rather than using event name. |
| FR7338 | Bug | Fixed an issue where the description HTTP Client calls was incorrect with some versions. |
| FR7601 | Bug | Fixed an issue where the number of transactions sent to the cloud were unlimited. |
| FR7530 | Bug | Fixed an issue where the Debugger throws NumberFormatException when using the next frame button in the UI. |
| FR7482 | Bug | Fixed an issue where conditional breakpoints fail on CF 2018 because CFEVALUATE signature changed slightly. |
| FR7425 | Bug | Fixed a StringIndexOutOfBoundsException when FusionReactor tracks Mongo operations. |
| FR7426 | Bug | Fixed Crash Protection and Debug emails when triggered from Grizzly and Jersey WebRequests. |
| FR7412 | Bug | Fixed a java.lang.AbstractMethodError when monitoring using WebSockets in WildFly 13. |
| FR7406 | Bug | Fixed an issue where stack traces would show the incorrect hash code for a lock under ownable synchronizers. |
| FR7400 | Bug | Fixed an issue where the Docker truncated container ID in the license activation message is sometimes discovered incorrectly. |
| FR7382 | Bug | Fixed an issue where the host in the description on mongo transaction is sometimes null. |
| FR7207 | Bug | Fixed an issue where the profiler would show very short profile times when the profiler kicks in just as the transaction finishes. |
| FR7590 | Bug | Fixed an issue where Request would not be filtered / limited when running recent / history IR from the Cloud. |
| FR7455 | Bug | Fixed the HitCount data (application / database) information when its sent to cloud. It could sometimes contain partial data. |
| FR7417 | Bug | Fixed an issue where transactions do not have the correct application name for some transactions. |
| FR7617 | Bug | Fixed an issue where the Request detail from the Cloud would return invalid json. |
| FR7613 | Bug | Fixed an issue where the Database page would display negative memory allocations when the setting was disabled for sub transactions. |
| FR7427 | Bug | Fixed an issue where the sigar library (native system metrics library) cannot be loaded on IBM I and ARM operating systems and would cause FusionReactor to fail to start. |
| FR7626 | Bug | Fixed an issue where the Stack Trace All button would show the label twice due to a UI refresh timing problem. |
Issue Details
| Type: | Technote |
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| Issue Number: | FRS-456 |
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| Last Updated: | Today 7:35 AM |
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| Fixed Version: | 8.0.0 |
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