Service: 2026.8.0.688
Client: 2026.8.0.1771
Service Changes
Features
- Message Ringbuffer action: Added the Message Ringbuffer action so stored messages can be queried through the metrics endpoint.
- File Monitor service: Added support for multi-wildcard paths so directory and filename patterns can be combined (for example matching files under several similarly named folders).
- Core engine: Added direct foreground configuration options so the service can load file or registry settings without using the installed service Parameters path.
- Core engine: TCP listeners now request the system-supported maximum connection backlog instead of a fixed queue limit.
Bugfixes and improvements
- Service diagnostics: Fixed metrics HTTP startup when no services are configured, fixed configuration-reload crashes around the metrics endpoint, and kept metrics state process-scoped across reload.
- File Monitor service: Corrected state keys and parent-directory handling for multi-wildcard paths so sibling files are not ingested by mistake.
- Event Monitor service: Fixed a shared lookup-cache data race under concurrent Event Monitor instances, and aborted bookmark reset during shutdown while in error backoff.
- Syslog Server service: Hardened TCP session teardown and message-buffer handling to avoid use-after-free and buffer corruption during shutdown or large messages.
- Syslog Server service: Improved permitted-sender Event Log guidance for refused connections.
- RELP: Balanced Winsock reference counting across configuration reload so listeners and senders remain reliable after save.
- Message Ringbuffer action: Fixed registry initialization ordering and pruned stale buffer ids after configuration load so metrics ringbuffer queries stay accurate.
- Core engine: Modernized queue handle lifetime management and event-driven bounded termination for more reliable reload and service stop.
- Core engine: Fixed cancellable socket readiness races that could leave producers blocked during shutdown.
- Core engine: Hardened disk-cache replay and shutdown retry handling for queued outbound work, including database and RELP recovery paths.
- Listener services: Unblocked reload and shutdown for TCP and RELP listeners that previously waited out the full graceful-stop window.
- TLS: Improved customer-facing TLS failure Event Log descriptions and troubleshooting guidance.
- Service diagnostics: Expanded public Event Log guidance, made diagnostic Event IDs unique, and improved licensing-related Event Log operator actions.
Legacy Configuration Client
Features
- Message Ringbuffer action: Added configuration support for the Message Ringbuffer action.
- Core engine: Exposed the shutdown protection timeout.
- Licensing: Simplified the License page to license-file configuration only and removed obsolete legacy license-key entry.
Bugfixes and improvements
- Configuration UI: Preserved Metrics and other unsupported General settings across load and save.
- Configuration UI: Preserved unsupported General blocks during same-format configuration edits, with an explicit choice before cross-format export.
- Event Monitor service: Reloaded LastRecord data correctly when switching channels or reopening configuration forms.
- Licensing: Clarified license-file “not yet valid” errors with the valid-from time.
New User Interface
Features
- Service diagnostics: Added a local metrics dashboard with provisioning, live message viewing, and Message Ringbuffer live viewer support.
- Core engine: Exposed the shutdown protection timeout and restored dependent shutdown-protection settings.
- Configuration Workbench: Aligned service and action configuration coverage with the legacy client, closed remaining MonitorWare Agent parity gaps, and improved creation, navigation, and editor workflows.
- Event Monitor service: Made Event Log channel pins user-managed.
- Client Options: Added metrics security diagnostics.
Bugfixes and improvements
- Configuration UI: Preserved unsaved configuration edits across elevation restart.
- Service diagnostics: Recovered blocked service restarts during metrics setup, improved dashboard status and chart semantics, and allowed NTLM fallback for managed local metrics access.
- Configuration Workbench: Improved tabs, navigation, filter toolbox accessibility, checkbox layouts, and Syslog size editing; preserved tab context across editor saves; refreshed service runtime state safely.
- Event Monitor service: Improved editor state and accessibility.
- Help: Pointed online documentation links to the product manuals.
MonitorWare Agent 26.08 Version History