UNIX Package Maintenance Levels - Agent 8.1.x
This page identifies the package contents for all Universal Agent 8.1.x for UNIX maintenance releases, including the initial release, and the maintenance level of every component in each package.
For each release, changes made to individual components for UNIX only, and for UNIX and one or more other platforms, are identified. Maintenance level changes to a component for non-UNIX platforms are not shown.
For a list of all changes in a release - all platforms, all components - see All Platforms Package Maintenance Levels - Agent 8.1.x.
For a list of all changes in a release - all platforms, specific components - see Component Maintenance Levels - Agent 8.1.x.
Universal Agent 8.1.x for UNIX Packages
This table identifies components generally available for UNIX.
For a list of components currently contained in specific UNIX platforms, see Platform Support for Universal Controller 8.1.x and Universal Agent 8.1.x.
Release | Release Date | Install | Universal | Universal | Universal | Controller | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal | Universal |
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8.1.0.0 | 8.1.0.0 | 8.1.0.0 | 8.1.0.0 | 8.1.0.0 | 8.1.0.0 | 8.1.0.0 | 8.1.0.0 | 8.1.0.0 | 8.1.0.0 | 8.1.0.0 | 8.1.0.0 | 8.1.0.0 | 8.1.0.0 | 8.1.0.0 | 8.1.0.0 | 8.1.0.0 | 8.1.0.0 | 8.1.0.0 | 8.1.0.0 |
Install changes refer to changes to the programs, scripts, or supporting files used to install the package. There are no changes to the actual product components.
Agent 8.1.0.0 - September 30, 2026
Platform | Component | Description | |
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B-09341 | All | UCERT | Change the default value for UCERT's SIGNATURE_ALGORITHM Changes the default signature algorithm used by the Universal Certificate utility from SHA1 to SHA256. |
B-20752 | Unix (Debian) | All | Migrate the Debian build platform to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. This effectively updates the minimum supported version for the Universal Agent 8.1.0.0 release to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS which runs Linux kernel 5.15. info This change required a change to the Debian distribution file name to include the updated kernel. For example, the UA 8.0.0.0 Debian distribution file was |
B-23005 | Unix | PYTHON | Update the Universal Agent's Python distribution to Python 3.14. |
B-23105 | Unix (except Solaris) | UAGSRV | Adds OpenTelemetry tracing support to Agent File Monitor tasks on Unix and Windows. This changes provides ability to log important events such as stability and size checks, creation/deletion of files, and when the file system is polled. To add this level of tracing, set the OTEL_ENABLE_TRACING option to debug. |
B-23294 | Unix | UPPS | Provides an update to UPPS to retry requests to the Integration Broker when an invalid (non-XML) response is received. This will allow UPPS to detect and handle failures not previously handled by network or application-level retry logic. As part of this change, the invalid response's content is written to stderr in order to facilitate problem diagnosis. |
B-23577 | Unix (Linux) | All | Certify Universal Agent for RedHat Enterprise Linux 10 on Intel, AArch64, PPC, and IBM Z (z/Linux, s390x). |
B-24058 | Unix Windows | All | Replace the Universal Agent's use of the zlib compression library on Unix and Windows with the contemporary zlib-ng library. |
B-24063 | Unix | UAGSRV | Add support for a Profile File option on Universal Agent tasks for Linux and Windows, to help customize the environment in which a task executes. For Linux/Unix tasks, this feature provides the ability to source a shell script before Universal Agent executes the specified command. For Windows tasks, this feature allows a text file that contains key=value pairs or a batch script to be evaluated prior to command execution. info This change requires Universal Controller item B-24064, delivered with the Universal Controller 8.1.0.0 release. |
B-24214 | All | UAGSRV | Provides a new SERVICE_TIMEOUT configuration option for the Universal Agent Server. When this option is set, the connection between the Agent and the OMS Server will no longer be recycled simply due to inactivity. If the Agent and Controller can successfully exchange a message, the connection will be kept as-is. The connection will continue to be recycled when a real network disruption has occurred and the connection needs to be recovered. info This change requires Universal Controller item B-24215, delivered with the Universal Controller 8.1.0.0 release. |
B-24501 | Unix | UAGSRV | Provides the ability to redirect Windows and Unix/Linux task's stdout and stderr to files specified in the task definition. When these files are specified, output will continue to be available in the task instance's output just as it was prior to this change. In other words, the stdout and stderr files specified in the task will contain copies of the output sent to the Controller's task instance. If the specified files exist when the task runs, they will be overwritten by default. The ability to append to either file is also provided. info This change requires Universal Controller item B-24473, delivered with the Universal Controller 8.1.0.0 release. |
D-11982 | IBM i | UAGSRV | Provides fixes to address stability issues encountered during frequent Agent shutdowns on systems operating under heavy load. |
D-12796 | All | All | General reliability, stability, and security fixes to address issues reported by static code analysis. |
D-13417 | Unix | Install | Delivers changes to usermode and system installation scripts to ensure the following:
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D-13712 | Unix | UAGSRV | Ensures that the "To Size" parameter is honored on Unix Agents for a "Change" Agent File Monitor task. |
D-13713 | Unix Windows | UAGSRV | Ensures that an Agent File Monitor ends with a Start Failure when invalid credentials are provided. |
D-13716 | Unix Windows | UAGSRV | For "Change" and "Exists" Agent File Monitor tasks, ensures the status reported when the file does not exist is consistent for Unix and Windows Agents. |
D-13991 | Unix | UAGSRV | Fix issue where network alias cluster resolution would fail with system mode agents configured with the OPSAUTOCONF netname. |
D-14347 | Unix | UFTP | Update the libcURL 3pp vendor library (used for UFTP file transfers and UPPS Web API calls) to address known CVEs. |
D-14379 | Unix | UAGSRV | Fixes an improper dynamic memory allocation that could occur during termination of a cancelled Universal Extenion task. |
D-14478 | Unix | USAP | Allows SAP tasks using SNC certificate authentication to successfully connect to an SAP server, without requiring a username and password. |
D-15491 | Unix | USAP | Fixes a problem that appears on Windows, but required a change for all platforms. Specifically, an SAP process chain ID that is prefixed with a forward slash ('/') was improperly handled on Windows. Because Universal Agent components on Windows recognize the forward slash or a hypen ('-') as a command option prefix (e.g., -chainid or /chainid), any command line value that contains a leading slash must be quoted with a preceding space (i.e., -chainid " /ABC/DEF"). This fix causes the leading space to be dropped from the actual chain ID value (i.e., "/ABC/DEF"). |
D-15560 | Unix Windows | OMSSRV | Prevent duplicate messages when OMS replication is enabled and a node switchover is initiated during a snapshot application. |
D-15725 | Unix | UFTP | Fixes a crash in the Universal FTP Client (UFTP) that causes Remote File Monitor tasks connecting to SFTP servers on Windows to report a Start Failure. |
D-15750 | Unix | PYTHON | Update the following "external" Python modules:
These external modules -- and their dependencies -- are provided by the Agent's Python distribution. A subset of these modules is installed to the |
D-15841 | Unix | UDM | Improve memory management and reduce overhead that could cause UDM to consume all available system memory when transferring very large files. |
D-15858 | Unix | UAGSRV | Fixes an issue where Agent File Monitor tasks could cause a UAG Server crash when:
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D-16020 | All | All | Update the OpenSSL 3pp vendor library to remediate Critical- and High-severity CVEs. Virtually all Universal Agent components use OpenSSL for cryptographic functions. Not all components have user-facing visibility, but for practical purposes, a change to OpenSSL is a change to all Universal Agent components. |
D-16353 | Unix | UDM | Ensures that a UDM open command is correctly parsed when it contains the "sni" and "comment" keywords in the same statement. |
D-16443 | IBM i | UAGSRV | Fixes a problem where the UAG Server could crash following a restart, particularly while trying to recover processing of several thousand tasks. |
D-16444 | Unix | UBROKER | Replaces the egrep command in the ubrokerd script with grep, to eliminate a warning about egrep obsolesence in newer Linux distributions. |