Release date: October 7, 2026
Service build: 26.10.0.690
Configuration Client build: 26.10.0.1773
User Interface build: 26.10.0.1018
Upgrade assessment
Recommendation: Recommended update
Why update now: This release adds Azure Blob Archive, a File action filename preview in the User Interface, an OpenSSL update to 3.5.9, and corrections for configuration editing and service diagnostics.
If you defer: Existing processing continues, but installations cannot archive events with Azure Blob Archive, and the User Interface does not preview resolved File action filenames. The configuration-editing and diagnostic corrections in this release remain absent.
Who benefits most: Administrators who archive events to Azure Blob storage, operators who confirm File action output names, and anyone who edits configuration in the User Interface.
Upgrade and verification: Update MonitorWare Agent using the normal supported upgrade path. Confirm that the installed service version is 26.10.0.690. Test the changed functions that are relevant to your deployment.
Important changes
Azure Blob Archive action
- Change: The Azure Blob Archive action stores events as immutable gzip-compressed NDJSON segments in Azure Blob storage. A local spool holds events until the upload succeeds. Authentication uses Managed Identity or a SAS token file.
- Operational impact: Events can be archived durably in Azure Blob storage, including when the upload is delayed.
- Applies to: MonitorWare Agent deployments that archive events to Azure Blob storage.
- Verification: Configure the endpoint, container, blob prefix, local spool, and Managed Identity or a SAS token file, then confirm a test event is uploaded as a gzip-compressed NDJSON segment.
File action filename preview
- Change: The File action shows a preview of the resolved output filename.
- Operational impact: Administrators can confirm the output path before the service writes the file.
- Applies to: MonitorWare Agent installations that configure a File action in the User Interface.
- Verification: Open a File action in the User Interface and compare the preview with the expected resolved filename.
OpenSSL 3.5.9
- Change: The included OpenSSL libraries are updated to 3.5.9.
- Operational impact: TLS-using actions and services run with the updated library.
- Applies to: All MonitorWare Agent installations.
- Verification: After upgrade, confirm the installed service build and exercise one TLS-using function you rely on.
Configuration interface and diagnostics
- Change: Workbench edits are validated before saving, and the previous document is restored when a save fails. Leaving the page, reloading, switching the configuration source, or restarting asks whether to save or discard unsaved changes. Move rule up moves the selected rule when two rule names differ only by punctuation. Failures from an older remote registry session are ignored, and service commands that would change a remote target are blocked. Empty optional allowed-peer and TLS rows no longer block other edits. Configuration-tree navigation is denser, selection feedback is clearer, and license file path handling is clearer. The empty Advanced page is removed. Debug-log follow stays with appended lines and a replaced log file.
- Operational impact: Configuration edits are less likely to be lost or applied to the wrong rule, and commands that would change a remote target are blocked.
- Applies to: MonitorWare Agent installations using the User Interface for configuration or service diagnostics.
- Verification: Save a valid edit and a failing edit, move two rules whose names differ only by punctuation, and follow a debug log while new lines are appended.
Configuration Client
- Azure Blob Archive is available, including endpoint, container, blob prefix, local spool, and Managed Identity or SAS token file authentication.
- An empty blob prefix is saved as the default prefix.
User Interface
- Azure Blob Archive is available, including endpoint, container, blob prefix, local spool, and Managed Identity or SAS token file authentication.
- File action shows a preview of the resolved output filename.
- Workbench edits are validated before saving. If a save fails, the previous document is restored.
- Leaving the page, reloading, switching the configuration source, or restarting asks whether to save or discard unsaved changes.
- Move rule up moves the selected rule when two rule names differ only by punctuation.
- Failures from an older remote registry session are ignored, and service commands that would change a remote target are blocked.
- Empty optional allowed-peer and TLS rows no longer block other edits to the selected service.
- Configuration-tree navigation is denser, selection feedback is clearer, and license file path handling is clearer.
- The empty Advanced page is removed.
- Debug-log follow stays in view when lines are appended or the log file is replaced.
Partner deployment notes
Availability: Use the canonical MonitorWare Agent download and this Technical Release Notes page as the release reference; do not use temporary build links as the long-term reference.
Localization: The User Interface translation workflow is being prepared. Translation strings and contribution guidance will be published in the Adiscon community repository when available.
Partner verification: Confirm the installed service, Configuration Client, and User Interface builds. Where relevant, archive a test event to Azure Blob storage, save an empty blob prefix and confirm the default prefix, compare a File action filename preview with the expected path, and save a configuration change in the User Interface.