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LoadMaster 7.2.48.6 Release Notes

LMOS Version 7.2.48.6 is a bug-fix release for the LMOS Long Term Support (LTS) version 7.2.48, made available on 17 February 2022. Please read the sections below before installing or upgrading.

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Before You Upgrade (READ ME FIRST)

Please pay special attention to the issues below before you begin an upgrade to this LMOS release.

Best Practices Cipher Set

In LMOS 7.2.48.3, the BestPractices cipher set was updated. If you are upgrading from a version prior to 7.2.48.3, this change is effective immediately after upgrade to this release. This change was made to improve LoadMaster security and conform to the latest industry best practices.

If you depend on any of the cipher sets being removed from the BestPractices set, then before you upgrade you must create a custom cipher set that contains these ciphers and assign this new custom cipher set to the Virtual Services that are currently using the BestPractices cipher set. After this is done, you can upgrade to this release and your services will continue to use the old ciphers. If you do not, then after upgrade any clients that depend on these ciphers being available will no longer be able to connect.

It is recommended, however, that you migrate your services as soon as possible to use the new BestPractices cipher set. For more information on the cipher suites removed from the set, please see the LMOS 7.2.48.3 Release Notes.

Supported Models for Upgrade

This release of LMOS is supported on the Hardware and Virtual models shown in the first three columns of the table below. It is not supported and should not be installed on any model listed in the two columns at right. This update patch can be applied to any supported model regardless of licensing (e.g., SPLA, MELA) or platform (e.g., hardware, local cloud, public cloud).

Supported
Virtual
Models
Supported
Hardware
Models
Supported Bare Metal Models UNSUPPORTED
Hardware

Models
UNSUPPORTED
Virtual

Models

VLM-200
VLM-500
VLM-2000
VLM-3000
VLM-5000
VLM-10G
VLM-GEO
VLM-MAX
VLM-SPLA-50
VLM-SPLA-100
VLM-SPLA-500
VLM-SPLA-3000
VLM-SPLA-GEO

LM-X1
LM-X3
LM-X15
LM-X25
LM-X40
LM-X40M
LM-XHC-series
LM-3000
LM-3400
LM-4000
LM-5600
LM-8000
LM-8020
LM-8020M

LMB-1G
LMB-2G
LMB-5G
LMB-10G
LMB-MAX

LM-2000
LM-2200
LM-2400
LM-2500
LM-2600
LM-3500
LM-3600
LM-5000
LM-5300
LM-5500
LM-Exchange
LM-GEO
LM-UCS Series
LM-R320
LM-5400

VLM-100
VLM-1000

If your model number is not listed above, please see the list of End of Life models.

Upgrade Path

You can upgrade to this release of LMOS from any previous 7.2.x release. For full upgrade path information, please see the article Kemp LoadMaster Firmware Upgrade Path.

Upgrade Patch XML File Verification Notes

By default, verification of the digital signature on upgrade images is required in LMOS 7.2.50 and above. See the Update Verification Options setting under System Administration > Miscellaneous Options > WUI Settings. If the unit you are upgrading is set to require validation, you'll need to supply the XML Verification File supplied with this release.

Note that:

  • In previous releases, two verification files were provided: one for pre-7.2.51 systems and one for later systems. This restriction has been removed with this release; if upgrading from firmware 7.2.51.0 / 7.2.48.3 and above you can use the XML file provided with this release. If upgrading from any other firmware version you must following the upgrade path detailed in Kemp LoadMaster Firmware Upgrade Path article.
  • LoadMasters running an LMOS version prior to 7.2.49 do not provide the option of XML file verification in the UI or API. If you are upgrading from one of these releases to this release, you can verify the digital signatures offline using a manual process documented on the support website.

Issues Resolved

PD-19566
PD-19496

Stability: Fixed an internal error that caused an unexpected system panic and reboot when Virtual Service connections are dropped as new connection requests are being processed.
PD-19526 API: The ability to get, set, and remove the OCSP port value has been added to both the PowerShell and RESTful APIs.
PD-19468 API: Fixed a bug that prevented cloud HA Mode from being set via the API for both AWS and Azure public clouds.

Existing Known Issues

PD-13904

SSO: Password expiry notifications do not currently work with Forms Based Authentication (FBA) enabled on the server side.

PD-13873

10 Gb Interfaces (AWS only): The AWS driver for 10 Gb interfaces (ENA) does not provide a link indication in its output, and so ‘No Link’ is the status displayed for a 10 Gb interface on AWS. Interface graphs for 10 Gb interfaces on the statistics page are not scaled properly, and so can run off the display; this will be addressed in a future release.

PD-13385

WAF: With WAF enabled on a Virtual Service, HTTP PUT commands that use chunked transfer encoding are dropped. This issue will be fixed in a future release.

PD-12838

ESP / SSO: The ESP Permitted Group SID(s) setting is not working as expected when configured on a on a SubVS.

PD-12653

Networking: A Hyper-V VLM won't boot when a 4th NIC is added.

PD-12616

WAF / Compression: With Web Application Firewall (WAF) enabled, compressed files are incorrectly decompressed. As a workaround, ensure compression is enabled in VS Advanced Properties by selecting the Enable Compression option.

PD-12492

Downgrade: If an Azure VLM is downgraded to the firmware version 7.1.35.x, the WUI may display in the top right-hand corner that the VLM is a Hyper-V VLM. This indicates that the Azure VLM Add-On Package must be added to the system to provide full Azure VLM functionality. If this occurs, please contact Kemp Support to get the required add-on package.

PD-12354

Hardware Support: The LoadMasters LM-X25 and LM-X40 do not support the following SFP+ modules in this release: LM-SFP-SX (SFP+ SX Transceiver 1000BASE-SX 850nm, 550m over MMF), LM-SFP-LX (SFP+ LX Transceiver 1000BASE-LX 1310nm, 10KM over SMF).

PD-12237

HA / NTP: Configuring NTP for the first time after the system is running in High Availability (HA) mode and when the current time on the machines is not correct, may cause the systems to both go into the Master state.

PD-12147

ESP / RADIUS: In a LoadMaster configuration with ESP and Radius server-side authentication enabled, sessions may fail to be established.

PD-12058

Browser Support: An issue exists when connecting to the LoadMaster WUI when using newer versions of the Firefox browser on initial configuration of a hardware FIPS LoadMaster.

PD-11861

RADIUS / IPv6: IPv6 is not supported by the current RADIUS implementation in the LoadMaster for both WUI Authorization and ESP Authentication.

PD-11166

Networking: Azure LoadMasters are not translating the additional network address between the Master and Slave correctly.

PD-11044

SharePoint Virtual Services: A second authentication prompt is presented when a file is uploaded to SharePoint with the following configuration: WAF is configured with Process Responses enabled on the main Virtual Service and KCD is enabled on the SubVS level for server-side authentication.

PD-10917

HA: An issue exists when setting up a 2-armed HA Virtual LoadMaster in Azure.

PD-10784

HA: Configuring LoadMaster HA using eth1 on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Virtual LoadMaster does not work.

PD-10586

GEO: If a GEO FQDN is configured with All Available as the Selection Criteria, IP addresses are returned even if the cluster is disabled.

PD-10490

Content Rules: The vsremovewafrule RESTful API command does not allow multiple rules to be removed.

PD-10474

Intrusion Detection: A SNORT rule is triggering a false positive in certain scenarios.

PD-10466

Hardware Support: The LoadMaster LM-X15 does not support the following SFP+ modules in this release: LM-SFP-SX (SFP+ SX Transceiver 1000BASE-SX 850nm, 550m over MMF), LM-SFP-LX (SFP+ LX Transceiver 1000Base-LX 1310nm, 10KM over SMF).

PD-10193

Exchange 2010 Virtual Services: A WAF, ESP, and KCD configuration with Microsoft Exchange 2010 is not supported.

PD-10188

Browser Support: (Safari) When adding a Real Server to a Virtual Service or SubVS using the Safari browser, the list of available Real Servers is not available.

PD-10159

Statistics: When upgrading firmware from version 7.1.35.n, CPU and network usage graphs are not appearing. As a workaround, reset the statistics in the WUI.

PD-10136

Clustering: In a LoadMaster cluster configuration, a new node can be added with the same IP address as an existing node.

PD-10129

Virtual Services: There is a discrepancy in validation between global-level connection timeout and Virtual Service-level timeout.

PD-9854
PD-13385

WAF: When WAF is enabled, any requests received that have chunked transfer encoding enabled (e.g., POSTs) are not processed properly and are not forwarded to a real server.

PD-9816

WAF: There is an API command to list individual rules in a ruleset, but there is no command to list the available rulesets themselves.

PD-9765

GEO: DNS TCP requests from unknown sources are not supported.

PD-9507

Networking: Unable to add an SDN controller using the RESTful API/WUI in a specific scenario.

PD-9476

WAF: There is no RESTful API command to get/list the installed custom rule data files.

PD-9375

SharePoint Virtual Services: Microsoft Office files in SharePoint do not work in Firefox and Chrome when using SAML authentication.

PD-8853

GEO: Location Based failover does not work as expected.

PD-8725

GEO: Proximity and Location Based scheduling do not work with IPv6 source addresses.


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