2023.10.2

Release date: February 28, 2024

Upgrade considerations

Automation Suite 2023.4.5 and 2023.10.2 include an upgrade to Kubernetes 1.26.11. As such, when upgrading Automation Suite, you must ensure you do not downgrade Kubernetes. To do that, when moving from Automation Suite 2023.4.5 or a later minor version to the next major version, you must upgrade to 2023.10.2 at a minimum.

Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2022

Erratum - Added March 25, 2024: We now support Microsoft SQL Server 2022.

New prerequisites validation check

Erratum - Added March 11, 2024: For optimal cillium functionality, we have improved the prerequisites script to validate that the reverse path filtering is disabled. This new check ensures that net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter is set to 0.

For more on the prerequisite script, see Validating the prerequisites.

New RHEL version support

We have expanded our OS support to include RHEL 8.9, alongside existing support for 8.6 and 8.8 versions.

Security enhancements

We continue to provide security updates and patches to address Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs).

Bug fixes

• We have fixed an issue causing the installer to wrongly ask you to provide a temporary registry whenever adding a new product to an existing Automation Suite installation. The issue caused a failure in the installation process.

• Previously, certain SQL server certificate validations within our flow were being suppressed. We have changed this practice to allow for earlier identification of potential problems.

• We have fixed an issue causing the side-by-side upgrade of Automation Suite 2022.10 or earlier to 2023.10.0 or 2023.10.1 to fail when Apps was enabled and you used Kerberos authentication for the SQL Server database.

• We have modified stored procedures to handle collation differences between the SQL server and SQL database.

Known issues

Error message while uninstalling rook-ceph post migrating to a S3 object-store

Erratum - added April 19, 2024: When uninstalling rook-ceph, an error message related to missing external object storage configuration is displayed. This issue accours even though the migration is succesful. This behavior is fixed in Automation Suite 23.10.3.

Issues affecting Ceph metrics and alerts

Erratum - added April 19, 2024: In certain situations, Ceph metrics and alerts are missing from the monitoring dashboards. To fix the issue, see the Troubleshooting section.

Issues related to CephMgrIsAbsent alerts

Erattum - added April 19, 2024: False positive CephMgrIsAbsent alerts are displayed even though there are no storage issues. This issue is fixed in Automation Suite 23.10.3.

Deprecation timeline

We recommend that you regularly check the deprecation timeline for any updates regarding features that will be deprecated and removed.

Bundling details

Product versions

To find out what has changed on each Automation Suite product, visit the following links.

If the product is greyed out, this new Automation Suite version does not bring any changes to it.

DISCOVER	BUILD	MANAGE	ENGAGE
Automation Hub 2023.10.2	Automation Ops 2023.10.2	AI Center 2023.10.2	Action Center 2023.10.2
Task Mining 2023.10.2	AI Computer Vision 2023.10.2	Insights 2023.10.2	Apps 2023.10.2
Process Mining 2023.10.2	Document Understanding 2023.10.2	Orchestrator 2023.10.3
		Test Manager 2023.10.2
		Data Service 2023.10.2

Internal third-party component versions

This Automation Suite release bundles the following internal components:

Component	Version
RKE2	1.26.11
ArgoCD	2.7.7
logging-operator	4.1.0
logging-operator-logging	4.1.0
gatekeeper	3.12.0
rook-ceph	1.9.4
prometheus-pushgateway	2.1.6
cert-manager	1.12.3
rancher-istio	102.2.0-up1.17.2
rancher-logging	102.0.1-up3.17.10
rancher-logging-crd	102.0.1-up3.17.10
rancher-monitoring-crd	102.0.1-up40.1.2
rancher-gatekeeper-crd	102.1.0-up3.12.0
rancher-gatekeeper	100.2.0-up3.8.1
rancher-monitoring	102.0.1-up40.1.2
longhorn	1.4.3
longhorn-crd	1.1.100
reloader	0.0.129
csi-driver-smb	1.10.0
velero	3.1.6
redis-operator	7.2.4-7
redis-cluster	7.2.4-64