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Windows Package Maintenance Levels - Agent 8.1.x

This page identifies the package contents for all Universal Agent 8.1.x for Windows maintenance releases, including the initial release, and the maintenance level of every component in each package.

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For the Universal Enterprise Controller and UEC Client Applications packages, the information provided is for their latest release: 6.3.0.0.

For each release, changes made to individual components for Windows only, and for Windows and one or more other platforms, are identified. Maintenance level changes to a component for non-Windows 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 Windows Packages​

Release

Release Date

Install

Universal
Broker

Universal
Automation
Center
Agent

Universal
Message
Service

Controller
Command
Line
Interface

Universal
Certificate

Universal
Command
Manager

Universal
Command
Server

Universal
Connector
for SAP

Universal
Connector
for PeopleSoft

Universal
Control

Universal
Database
Utilities

Universal
Data
Mover
Manager

Universal
Data
Mover
Server

Universal
Encrypt

Universal
Event
Monitor
Manager

Universal
Event
Monitor
Server

Universal
FTP Client

Universal
Query

8.1.0.0

September 30, 2026

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

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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.

Release 8.1.0.0 - September 30, 2026​

Change Id

Platform

Component

Description

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-23005

Unix
Windows

PYTHON

Update the Universal Agent's Python distribution to Python 3.14.

B-23105

Unix (except Solaris)
Windows

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
Windows

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-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
Windows

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.

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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.

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This change requires Universal Controller item B-24215, delivered with the Universal Controller 8.1.0.0 release.

B-24501

Unix
Windows

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.

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This change requires Universal Controller item B-24473, delivered with the Universal Controller 8.1.0.0 release.

D-11982

Unix
Windows
z/OS

UAGSRV

Provides fixes to address stability issues encountered during frequent Agent shutdowns on systems operating under heavy load.

D-12796
D-12797
D-12798
D-15589

All

All

General reliability, stability, and security fixes to address issues reported by static code analysis.

D-13567

Windows

UAGSRV

Add the FM_MAX_POLL_THREADS option to the Universal Agent Server configuration to improve Windows Agent File Monitor performance.

This new option will allow the number of polling threads used for Windows Agent File Monitor activity to be changed from its default value of 100. This will be particularly helpful in situations where a large number of Agent File Monitor tasks are running alongside each other on a Windows Agent.

D-13645

Windows

Install

Fixes a problem in the Windows system install that prevented updates to the UAG Server's AGENT_CLUSTERS configuration option. Prior to this fix, the installation's AC_AGENT_CLUSTERS command line parameter was ignored during an upgrade. The parameter is now honored and the UAG Server configuration is correctly updated.

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-13924

Windows

UAGSRV

Fixed an issue on Windows where the Agent File Monitor would immediately fail with Start Failure even when FM_FAULT_TOLERANT option was set to yes.

The monitor now correctly retries authentication for transient OS errors while still failing immediately for invalid credentials.

D-14347

Unix
Windows

UFTP
UPPS

Update the libcURL 3pp vendor library (used for UFTP file transfers and UPPS Web API calls) to address known CVEs.

D-14379

Unix
Windows

UAGSRV

Fixes an improper dynamic memory allocation that could occur during termination of a cancelled Universal Extenion task.

D-14478

Unix
Windows

USAP

Allows SAP tasks using SNC certificate authentication to successfully connect to an SAP server, without requiring a username and password.

D-15491

Unix
Windows
z/OS

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-15507

Windows

UAGSRV

Fixes a performance issue by reducing the number of redundant authentications performed for a Windows Agent File Monitor task.

D-15560

Unix Windows

OMSSRV

Prevent duplicate messages when OMS replication is enabled and a node switchover is initiated during a snapshot application.

D-15681

Windows

UAGSRV

Ensure the ops_trigger_file_name variable contains the actual file name for a Windows Agent File Monitor task that uses a '?' wild card in the file pattern.

D-15725

Unix
Windows
z/OS

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
Windows

PYTHON
UEXT

Update the following "external" Python modules:

  • cryptography
  • pyasn1
  • requests

These external modules -- and their dependencies -- are provided by the Agent's Python distribution. A subset of these modules is installed to the ./universal/uagsrv/uext directory to support the Universal Agent's OpenTelemetry integration.

D-15766

Windows

UAGSRV

Removes duplicate environment variable entries from a process' environment when a Windows task defines an environment variable that is already present in a credentialed user's profile. The environment variable defined in the task will be the one used.

D-15841

Unix
Windows
z/OS

UDM
UDMSRV

Improve memory management and reduce overhead that could cause UDM to consume all available system memory when transferring very large files.

D-15858

Unix
Windows

UAGSRV

Fixes an issue where Agent File Monitor tasks could cause a UAG Server crash when:

  • The File Monitor task has a type of CHANGE or DELETE, and
  • The file path specified in the File Monitor task contains a wildcard

D-15936

Windows

UAGSRV

Fixes a performance issue for Windows Agent File Monitor tasks that monitor directories containing several thousand files.

A new configuration option, FM_MAX_ALERTS_PER_TICK, is provided to manage OMS message delivery rates to prevent flooding.

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-16032

Windows

UAGSRV

Fixes an issue where the UBrokerService account attempts to access a UNC path specified in an Agent File Monitor task before user credentials are applied, causing repeated failed authentication events.

D-16033
D-16475

Windows

UAGSRV

Fixes an issue on Windows agents where Unicode characters were improperly handled during execution of the following:

  • A Windows task executed from Universal Controller, or
  • A Universal Task that executes PowerShell (.ps1) scripts

The improper handling was visible in resolved environment variables and task output.

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This item also includes proper handling for PowerShell scripts that start with a param() block. D-16033 was previously delivered as part of the Universl Agent maintenance releases for August 2026. That delivery introduced an issue where scripts starting with a param() block failed to execute. That fix will be provided by D-16475 in an upcoming maintenance release. The UA 8.1.0.0 delivery contains the complete fix for the issue originally reported by D-16033.

D-16060

Unix
Windows

UPPS

Fixes an issue where improper SSL configuration caused PeopleSoft tasks to fail during retrieval of the process' report.

D-16353

Unix
Windows
z/OS

UDM
UDMSRV

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
Unix
Windows
z/OS

UAGSRV

Fixes a problem where the UAG Server could crash following a restart, particularly while trying to recover processing of several thousand tasks.

Universal Enterprise Controller 6.3.0 for Windows Packages​

UEC 6.3.0.0 - January 18, 2016​

(There have been no changes to this release.)

Universal Enterprise Controller Client Applications 6.3.0 for Windows Packages​

UEC Client Applications 6.3.0.0 - January 18, 2016​

(There have been no changes to this release.)