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The latest Elasticsearch release version was made available on September 24, 2020 and contains several bug fixes and new features from the previous minor version released this past August. This article highlights some of the crucial bug fixes and enhancements made, discusses issues common to upgrading to this new minor version and introduces some of the new features released with 7.9 and its subsequent patches. A complete list of release notes can be found on the elastic website.

Mattermost Release v5.28 is generally available today. The new feature release offers granular administrator roles, certificate-based authentication with AD/LDAP, and in-product notifications. The release includes the following new features.

We at Coralogix, believe that cloud security is not a “nice-to-have” feature – something that only large organizations can benefit from or are entitled to have. We believe it’s a basic need that should be solved for organizations of any shape and size. This is why we built the Coralogix Security Traffic Analyzer (STA) tool for packet sniffing and automated analysis. Today we’re announcing several new features to our security product you’ll find interesting.

Our October update brings the long-awaited mute-overwrite on iPhone (‘critical alerts’). We also introduce an undo action for Signl acknowledgements or closures. And in the web app you can now batch-ack and close to multiple Signls at once. All new features are introduced below – enjoy.

Today we are happy to announce that our MSSQL plugins for Icinga for Windows are enhancing the series of Icinga plugins and become released as version 1.0. With this first release we are sharing four plugins to check the current health of MSSQL itself but also internal metrics. In addition we provide a plugin to fetch MSSQL specific Performance Counters from within the database, similar to our Windows Performance Counter plugin and a backup check plugin.

The all-new UI of ServiceDesk Plus We are excited to launch the all new user interface for ServiceDesk Plus Cloud, the flagship ITSM software from ManageEngine. This latest UI update takes cues from the minimal design language and features restructured layouts that puts the user at the center of every module interaction. The new user experience is based on four dimensions. This redesign comes with multiple new features, as well.

On October 7th we released a new Enterprise Alert version, version 8.5.1. Included in this release are the following enhancements.

There is a growing ecosystem of vendors that are helping AWS customers gain better observability into their serverless applications. All of them have been facing the same struggle: how to collect telemetry data about AWS Lambda functions in a way that’s both performant and cost-efficient. To address this need, Amazon is announcing today the release of AWS Lambda Extensions.

We are excited to announce the preview of the Splunk extension for AWS Lambda, a new way to integrate monitoring and observability in Lambda environments. Splunk is already the pioneer in providing real-time observability into serverless environments. With the Splunk extension, capturing and ingesting observability data become seamless without the need to instrument function code.

Are you a managed service provider (MSP) who monitors the networks of multiple customers from a central location? ManageEngine launches OpManager MSP, tailored for MSPs with customer-centered network monitoring and seamless management of different customer networks over multiple locations.