Service: 2026.8.0.608
Client: 2026.8.0.691

Service Changes

Features

• Message Ringbuffer action: Added the Message Ringbuffer action so stored messages can be queried through the metrics endpoint.
• 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 configuration-reload crashes around the metrics HTTP endpoint, and kept metrics state process-scoped across reload so concurrent diagnostics no longer race teardown.
• 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.
• 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 recovery paths.
• Listener services: Unblocked reload and shutdown for TCP 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.
• HTTP Request action: Enabled the HTTP Request action for Professional and higher editions (and trials).
• 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.
• HTTP Request action: Enabled the HTTP Request action for Professional and higher editions (and trials).
• 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 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.