--- title: "Carbon Release Notes" canonical: "https://docs.perspectium.com/space/earlierReleases/1442006/Carbon%20Release%20Notes" format: markdown --- ## **Agent Release** --- ### Version 3.9.0 ### May 27, 2016 | | | | --- | --- | | Fixed: issue with column type mismatch upon replication to Database | Replicator Agent | | Enhancement: proper handling of long Table and Column names for [replication to Oracle DB](http://wiki.perspectium.com/doku.php?id=handling_of_long_table_and_column_names) | Replicator Agent | | Enhancement: increased security of information in the logs | Replicator Agent | | Enhancement: simplified the handling of column name mappings to make maintenance and availability easier | Replicator Agent | ### Version 3.8.0 ### April 22, 2016 | | | | --- | --- | | Enhancement: provide support for creating tables which contain the 'long' data type added in the ServiceNow version Geneva | SQL Subscriber | | Fixed: ensure that all resources are released when shutting down the agent. | Replicator Agent | | Enhancement: added the validate_certificate attribute to all connection directives to disable validation of the X509 Certificate when using the https scheme. | Replicator Agent | | Enhancement: Enabled additional configuration of the connection and other HttpClient timers and controls. | Replicator Agent | | Enhancement: Implemented initial support of the new 'long' data type introduced in the ServiceNow Geneva release. | SQL Subscriber | | Enhancement: support for [installing third-party libraries](http://wiki.perspectium.com/doku.php?id=installing_third_party_libraries) | Replicator Agent | | Enhancement: support for subscribing to messages with a specific [key](http://wiki.perspectium.com/doku.php?id=sql_replicator) | Replicator Agent | ### Version 3.7.0 ### March 30, 2016 | | | | --- | --- | | Enhancement: security is enhanced for [configuration file encryption feature](http://wiki.perspectium.com/doku.php?id=replicator_agent#encrypting_fields_inside_the_config_file) by [Specifying encryption key for encrypting configuration fields](http://wiki.perspectium.com/doku.php?id=specifying_encryption_key_for_encrypting_configuration_fields) | Replicator Agent | | Enhancement: handling of daemon threads has been improved to ensure proper termination when the stop method is called. | Replicator Agent | | Enhancement: added the ability to encrypt the contents of the agent.xml configuration file on Windows using 'dpapi'. [Specifying encryption key for encrypting dpapi configuration fields](http://wiki.perspectium.com/doku.php?id=specifying_encryption_key_for_encrypting_dpapi_configuration_fields) | Replicator Agent | | Enhancement: added support for authenticating to a proxy using either basic authentication or NTLM. [Configuring Replicator to leverage a Proxy](http://wiki.perspectium.com/doku.php?id=configuring_replicator_to_leverage_a_proxy) | Replicator Agent | | Fixed: replication of a table row when the size of a column has been increased. | SQLSubscriber | ### Version 3.6.1 ### March 15, 2016 | | | | --- | --- | | Fixed: Agent returns a SQLSubscriber error when replicating a larger dictionary value of a ServiceNow field | SQLSubscriber | | Fixed: Agent returns a SQLTableStructure error when replicating a larger dictionary from two different ServiceNow instances | SQLSubscriber | ### Version 3.6.0 ### March 8, 2016 | | | | --- | --- | | Fixed: ensure proper processing of both service now and salesforce source data against multiple target database servers | Replicator Agent | | Enhancement: duplicate named tasks will continue to run instead of throwing an error | Replicator Agent | | Fixed: table action invalid identifier error when adding a column to source table | SQLSubscriber | | Fixed: SQL statement errors when multiple agent tasks are running against same table using plugins | SQLSubscriber | ### Version 3.5.0 ### February 15, 2016 | | | | --- | --- | | Fixed: heartbeat thread now runs as a daemon to facilitate shutdown | Replicator Agent | | Fixed: ensure proper replication of a ServiceNow view when only a single pseudo primary key exists. | SQLSubscriber | | Enhancement: Agent now provides the command setLogging which provides the ability to dynamically enable or disable detailed logging without needing to restart the agent. | Replicator Agent | | Enhancement: Performance and management messages are now sent asynchronously instead of serially with payload (replication) messages which are the priority. | Replicator Agent | | Fixed: ensure proper state after closing of a connection. | Replicator Agent | | Fixed: ensure wrapper library does not start when the Replicator is started via the SDK. | SDK | | Enhancement: eliminated use of the conf/config.xml configuration file. | Replicator Agent | | Fixed: ensure default type of non-schema defined columns is string with a length of 250. | SQLSubscriber | | Fixed: removed public access to the Replicator class to prevent accidental use by SDK users who should be using ReplicatorAgent | SDK | | Enhancement: optimized connection timeout handling when connecting to the Message Bus. | Replicator Agent | ### Version 3.4.4 ### February 9, 2016 | | | | --- | --- | | Fixed: SetFetchSize to work with all DB drivers | SQL Agent | ### Version 3.4.2 ### February 3, 2016 | | | | --- | --- | | Fixed: test for primary key > 0 to handle views with multiple keys that have pseudo sys_ids with no value | SQL Agent | ### Version 3.4.1 ### January 26, 2016 | | | | --- | --- | | Fixed: SQL Server specific method of limiting rows returned for a select causing slow data processing | SQL Agent | ### Version 3.4.0 ### January 25, 2016 | | | | --- | --- | | Fixed: columns created in Oracle are the same case as created in ServiceNow. | SQL Agent | | Fixed: unknown column issue in Oracle when adding new columns to table in ServiceNow. | SQL Agent | | Fixed: data error when agent unable to obtain table schema | Replicator Agent | | Fixed: agent configuration file set to “http:” rather than “https:” for ServiceNow URL in instance_connection | Replicator Installer | | Enhancement: validate input of “https:” in Perspectium Cloud Server and ServiceNow instance fields to prevent duplicates | Replicator Installer | | Enhancement: default to “[perspectium.net](http://perspectium.net/)” in the Perspectium Cloud Server field | Replicator Installer | ### Version 3.3.0 ### January 5, 2016 | | | | --- | --- | | Fixed: dynamic creation of columns. | SQLSubscriber | | Fixed: Corrected consistency problem with the SQLSubscriberIODateTimePlugin setting the date and time properly based upon the SQL action against the target table. | SQLSubscriber Agent Plugin | | Enhancement: Unknown source data types will default to a character type instead of being omitted | SQL Agent | | Enhancement: support for excluding columns from being replicated | SQL Agent | | Enhancement: support for replicating database views from ServiceNow | SQL Agent | | Enhancement: [Subscriber Task Message Level Filter](http://wiki.perspectium.com/doku.php?id=subscriber_task_message_level_filter) filters all messages subscribed to by an agent's subscriber task based on values in topic, type, or key | Replicator Agent | | Enhancement: string fields larger than 251 characters will be created as CLOB fields | SQL Agent | | Enhancement: for string values less than 252 characters, if the value is larger what is defined by its schema, they will be truncated instead of generating an error | SQL Agent | | Enhancement: floating point and integer values that contain commas (,) will be corrected to remove the comma before updating the field | SQL Agent | | Fixed: name and key fields not showing the correct values when agent shares records | SQL Agent | ### Version 3.2.5 ### October 19, 2015 | | | | --- | --- | | feature: support the overriding of date and time format using the date_format and date_time_format configuration directives. | SQL Agent | | feature: share [VMware vSphere objects](http://wiki.perspectium.com/doku.php?id=vsphere_replicator#sharer_agent) to ServiceNow | vSphere Replicator | | feature: share to RabbitMQ | RabbitMQ Replicator | ### Version 3.2.4 ### August 13, 2015 | | | | --- | --- | | feature: all password fields are masked for security | Replicator Installer | | feature: passwords entered require matching to prevent user input error | Replicator Installer | | feature: support for replicator plugin framework [The Replicator Plugin Framework](http://wiki.perspectium.com/doku.php?id=replicator_agent_plugins) | File Agent | | Enhancement: support for saving records as XML [File Replicator](http://wiki.perspectium.com/doku.php?id=file_replicator) | File Agent | ### Version 3.2.3 ### July 15, 2015 | | | | --- | --- | | Enhancement: support for [Multiple Encryption Modes](http://wiki.perspectium.com/doku.php?id=multiple_encryption_modes) | SQL Agent | | Fixed: ignore SQL column values that contain a JSON Array | SQL Agent | | Fixed: modified processing of table existence validation to ensure minimal connections to the database are required | SQL Agent | | Enhancement: added configuration directive to disable the now default behaviour of growing a column to it's max size if it's great than 1000 bytes in length | Agent Configuration | | Enhancement: added support for the new ServiceNow internal type SCHEDULE_DATE_TIME | SQL Agent | | Enhancement: added configuration directive to ensure the table exists explicitly | SQL Agent Configuration | | Enhancement: modified SQL Agent to catch the failure of a call to get the database meta data and then create the table if the proper table missing code and state as defined in databases.xml is true. | SQL Agent | | Fixed: SQL Share only configurations do not require directive anymore | Agent Configuration | ### Version 3.1.15 ### April 29, 2015 | | | | --- | --- | | Enhancement: SQLShare support for Epoc last modified datetime | SQL Agent | | Enhancement: SQLShare support for timezone offset in last modified datetime | SQL Agent | | Fixed: clob field replication in SQLShare | SQL Agent | ### Version 3.1.14 ### April 13, 2015 | | | | --- | --- | | fix: agent name added to [wrapper.name](http://wrapper.name/) in wrapper.conf | Replicator Installer | | Enhancement: remove include/exclude section in agent.xml for SQL Replicator | Replicator Installer | | Fixed: dynamic table creation if table dropped since agent started | SQL Agent | ### Version 3.1.13 ### April 2, 2015 | | | | --- | --- | | Enhancement: installer supports configuration of file sharer and subscriber | Replicator Installer | | Fixed: installer missing configuration element for Solarwinds directory share | Aggregator Installer | | Fixed: interval counts in wrapper.log for bytes processed and number of records. | Replicator Agent | | Fixed: connection time-out issue on MySQL create table. | Replicator | ### Version 3.1.12 ### October 19, 2015 | | | | --- | --- | | Enhancement: installer removes previous /jars directory and performs field validations, pre-acknowledge EULA | Replicator Installer | | Enhancement: agent configuration file cleanup. Defaults values instead of requiring most configuration settings. | Agent Configuration | | Enhancement: added support for the configuration directive which provides SID based access to an Oracle database versus the default support of a Service Name. | SQL Agent | ### Version 3.1.9 ### March 10, 2015 | | | | --- | --- | | Fixed: determining the preexistence of a table. | SQL Agent | | Enhancement: added and configuraton directives within databases.xml which enable forcing of the column to a configured case. See: [Column Case](http://wiki.perspectium.com/doku.php?id=column_case) | SQL Agent | | Enhancement: added the ability to define Java plugins which are called prior to a row being replicated to the destination table. See: [Agent Plugins](http://wiki.perspectium.com/doku.php?id=replicator_agent_plugins) | SQL Agent | | Enhancement: added the ability to define additional columns that will be dynamically added to all target tables. See: [Dynamic Columns](http://wiki.perspectium.com/doku.php?id=dynamic_columns) | SQL Agent | Only authenticated users can access below: ### **Known Issues** | Versions Affected | Issue | Fixed Version | | --- | --- | --- | | 3.3.1+ | Status of Perspectium Main would continue to display as “running” until all headless processes have stopped | Not Fixed | | 3.3.0 | Messages are lost to Rabbit queue during a Bulk Share | 3.3.1 | | 3.2.9 | MBS error when reading error message sent by Replicator where the value field contain quotes | 3.3.0 | | 3.2.5+ | Support control messages to all nodes in an MBS cluster | Not Fixed | | 3.2.5 | Message being inserted into wrong date sharded table | 3.3.0 |