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Fix list for IBM Edge Components V8.5

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IBM Edge Components provides periodic fixes for release V8.5. The following is a complete listing of fixes for V8.5 with the most recent fix at the top.

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Release Date
Total number of APARs
Total number of Security APARs
19 February 2024
7
0
31 July 2023
0
0
13 February 2023
10
0
25 July 2022
3
0
21 February 2022
4
0
26 July 2021
17
0
15 February 2021
7
0
28 September 2020
4
0
9 March 2020
10
0
3 September 2019
8
0
4 March 2019
13
1
20 August 2018
9
0
5 February 2018
26
1
21 July 2017
20
0
23 December 2016
11
0
15 August 2016
6
0
18 March 2016
4
0
11 December 2015
10
1
11 September 2015
26 June 2015
13 March 2015
8 December 2014
18 August 2014
28 April 2014
11 November 2013
14 June 2013
15 April 2013
29 October 2012
 
Fix release date: 19 February 2024
Last modified: 19 February 2024
Status: Recommended
Security APAR APAR Description
PH54179 Collocated server flag not set when server address matches NFA address
PH55313 The IBM WebSphere Load Balancer's custom properties should not be overwritten when software maintenance is applied
PH56287 Advisors do not run the standby Load Balancer
PH57603 Allow Load Balance high availability monitor interval to be set in milliseconds
PH57722 The High Availability log file (hamon.log) does not report an accurate heartbeat status
PH58223 Load balancer not invoking correct user exit when high availability is removed
PH57055 Log files shows size 0 and no data is saved to log for Content-Based Router
 
Fix release date: 31 July 2023
Last modified: 31 July 2023
Status: Superseded

Fix release date: 13 February 2023
Last modified: 13 February 2023
Status:Superseded
Security APAR APAR Description
PH47586 Edge Load Balancer crashes in IBMlb2 function lbll_select1_nl with affinity configured
PH48086 Actual advisor timeout exceeds specified timeout setting
PH48736 WebSphere Load Balancer allows invalid stickytime
PH49903 Load Balancer file descriptor leak when log file system full
PH49906 Load Balancer promiscous setting is not honored when configured in lbexecutor.conf
PH50064 Connection broken when takeover occurs
PH51426 Repstrategy port option not saved to configuration file
PH48264 Update gskit to 8.0.55.29
PH48288 Enable TLSv1.2 by default
PH48379 Caching proxy does not send TLS 1.2 signature_algorithms extension to backend
 
Fix release date: 25 July 2022
Last modified: 25 July 2022
Status: Superseded
Security APAR APAR Description
PH46229 Https advisor fails to open secure connection with Java 8.0.7.0 and higher
PH46644 Crash in ibmlb2.exe, faulting module name: ntdll.dll, exception code: 0xc0000374
PH42790 Add WarningHeaderHost directive
Fix release date: 21 February 2022
Last modified: 21 February 2022
Status: Superseded
Security APAR APAR Description
PH40350 Load balancer executor fails to start with file not found on Linux PowerPC LE
PH41417 Load balancer incorrectly marks server as collocated
PH41964 WebSphere Edge Load Balancer create an idle kernel process that is never destroyed
PH37318 Caching proxy does not release thread resources for thread used to archive log files
Fix release date: 26 July 2021
Last modified: 26 July 2021
Status: Superseded
Security APAR APAR Description
PH33032 Backup Load Balancer sends gratuitous ARPs for clusters high availability takeover may occur for no reason
PH33480 The load balancer problem determination tool does not work properly
PH33745 Dscontrol server status display wrong value in "scheduled quiesce"
PH34252 ULB slow to detect serverdown if the os goes down
PH34372 Edge Load Balancer crash in os_xmitraw6 function
PH34494 Advisor errors when server defined using IPv6 address
PH34518 The crossport will not function with more than 2 ports
PH35681 Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6 does not send resets to clients when server detected offline and port reset enabled
PH36012 Load Balancer not honoring modified fintimeout value
PH36755 Backup Load Balancer might receive cluster traffic
PH36996 Fragmented traffic not being forwarded through the Load Balancer
PH37311 Crash may occur on AIX with RoCE converged network adapter
PH37312 Load Balancer's high availability script goStandby may be invoked multiple times
PH37433 Manager report output gets corrupted partially
PH37663 Crash on backup Load Balancer
PH38034 IBM WebSphere Application Server Load Balancer unnecessarily changed some keywords in non-English languages
PH36302 IBM Caching Proxy must ignore if-modified-since if the request also contains an if-none-match header
Fix release date: 15 February 2021
Last modified: 15 February 2021
Status: Superseded
Security APAR APAR Description
PH26208 DSControl manager report does not show the cluster for the port
PH29210 Cross port setting not saved in Load Balancer configuration
PH29211 DSServer causes a Java crash running the load balancer on 64-bit Windows
PH29955 ULB dscontrol port status needs cross port displayed
PH30839 LB does not detect netmask 255.255.255.128 and higher
PH32085 LB does not compute stickymask correctly
PH31940 ULB fix packs overwrite the default.cfg file
Fix release date: 28 September 2020
Last modified: 28 September 2020
Status: Superseded
Security APAR APAR Description
PH20788 ULB is not handling mbufs correctly
PH22359 "Error: cannot update weights." logged to manager.log
PH22784 IBM WebSphere Application Server Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6 users
PH22820 Enable dscontrol and lbadmin support for fintimeout and stickymask
Fix release date: 9 March 2020
Last modified: 9 March 2020
Status: Superseded
Security APAR APAR Description
PH14307 ULB errors not accurately reported
PH14847 Configuration commands fail
PH15294 ULB hangs with multiple concurrent ARP responses
PH16674 ULB needs to persist LB_PROMISCOUS value after a fix pack update
PH16764 Request to the cluster IP sent from active LB cannot be responded
PH18920 Edge Load Balancer V9.50.1 crash in lbll_select1_nl with high availability replication and affinity based forwarding
PH19861 Server.log may reflect command failures from background manager or advisor functions
PH20059 Fixed weight not saved after unquiesce in standby mode
PH15678 UPDATE GSKit TO 8.0.55.9
PH18428 Wrong error message with "dirListingDisable" directive
Fix release date: 3 September 2019
Last modified: 3 September 2019
Status: Superseded
Security APAR APAR Description
PH07466 Crash in ULB dispatcher after update to 8.5.5.14 on Linux for System z
PH07516 Crash occurs if adding IPv6 addresses
PH07647 Log information about cause of HighAvailability takeover
PH10821 Edge Load Balancer ULB TLS advisor timeout is not working
PH11040 NAT connections fail under heavy load
PI79887 Fail to apply Fix pack on Edge LB v8.5.5 GA with CRIMA1161E
PH13516 Add Linux kernel support for RHEL6 2.6.32-754.14.2 and 2.6.32-754.15.3
PH14726 Add Linux kernel support 2.6.32-754.17.1.el6.x86_64, Edge LB for IPv4 v8.5
Fix release date: 4 March 2019
Last modified: 4 March 2019
Status: Superseded
Security APAR APAR Description
PH01552 Windows IPV6 not forwarding correctly
PH02089 Using ULB metric server on V9.0 and CPULoad not accurate on Windows 2012
PH02596 Edge Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6 v9.x - potential for long outage of cluster IP after an HA failover
PH03883 Edge LB should not key off the network adapter description, which may not be unique
PH05063 Server add fails when using the IPv6 IP address instead of the hostname
PH00196 Ignore lines starting with spaces in PAC configuration
PH00635 Upgrade gskit to 8.0.50.88
PH01138 Update Caching Proxy to allow ECDHE ciphers
PH01205 Do not log sensitive information when highest level of PACD debug is enabled
PH01698 When tunneling SSL requests through Caching Proxy, it is possible the connection can hang if data greater than 1024 bytes is sent
PH04660 Caching Proxy has hardcoded 10mb limit of post data
PH04912 Advisor connections which fail due to a time-out are not detected when the timeout value expires
PH06079 Custom advisors fail to load on Linux and AIX
Fix release date: 20 August 2018
Last modified: 20 August 2018
Status: Superseded
Security APAR APAR Description
PI91689 Edge LB for IPv4 & IPv6 has a limit number of ARP to 100 cluster IPs during takeover
PI91981 IMS does not inform sign on user that the verify keyword parm is ignored if password verification option is not enabled
PI95724 CBR MapPort Advisor uses wrong port
PI90112 Improve the default cipher suites for SSLv3, TLSv1.0, TLSv1.1, and TLSv1.2 in caching proxy to remove several weak ciphers
PI91825 Deprecate the caching proxy administration web console as it requires applet support which is rapidly becoming unavailable
PI92981 LLB fix pack update overwrites ddefault.cfg
PI95067 Unable to add servers to load balancer for IPv4
PI95286 Caching Proxy rc.ibmproxy is being relinked when upgrading between fix packs
PI97947 Load Balancer memload script does not provide accurate value on Linux
Fix release date: 5 February 2018
Last modified: 5 February 2018
Status: Superseded
Security APAR
APAR
Description
PI80330 WebSphere Edge Load Balancer for IPv4 & IPv6, crash in m_copydata on AIX
PI81102 Errors pinging the load balancer for IPv4 and IPv6 cluster address
PI82106 dscontrol does not save encapsulation related attributes to the configuration file
PI82335 NAT forwarding does not work with IPv6 clusters
PI82616 Load balancer for IPv4 and IPv6 high availability not replicating IPv6 connections
PI82916 IBM WebSphere load balancer for IPv4 and IPv6 users
PI83197 The encapsulated MAC forwarding method of the load balancer for IPv4 and IPv6 does not work with IPv6 traffic
PI83437 The load balancer for IPv4 and IPv6 connection table can get corrupted when using NAT and high availability
PI83438 Binary logging settings not saved
PI84190 Load balancer manager consumes unnecessary memory retaining weight history
PI84336 Load balancer for IPv4 and IPv6 crash with high availability affinity replication
PI84915 Packet forwarding problem on AIX
PI85184 Load balancer for IPv4 and IPv6 experiences delays invoking go scripts
PI85228 Executor crash with NAT servers and ICMP error to return address
PI85239 Some load balancer command shortcuts broken
PI85252 Load balancer configuration accepts invalid port numbers
PI86140 Site selector failures on 64bit architectures
PI86251 Executor doesn't function if started quickly after stopping on AIX
PI87274 IPv6 forwarding may fail on AIX
PI88624 ULB fix pack update overwrites default.cfg
PI89256 Edge load balancer for IPv4 and IPv6 transmits invalid packet
PI89698 ICMP errors occur for high availability packet
PI82587 Edge caching proxy HTTP splitting attack (CVE-2017-1503)
PI82867 LDAP not using SSL connections when conn_type is set to SSL
PI83768 Load balancer HTTPS advisor causing 400 bad input errors in web server log
PI86249 IBMProxy is down by SIGSEGV
Fix release date: 21 July 2017
Last modified: 21 July 2017
Status: Superseded
Security APAR
APAR
Description
PI70980 Load Balancer for IPV4 and IPV6 does not work on Solaris 11
PI71866 Duplicate HA records cause standby ULB hang
PI72199 Load Balancer crashes due to corrupted connection records
PI72444 Collocated server does not receive requests on backup load balancer
PI73727 Inaccurate timeout of arp entries and failure to send heartbeats
PI74424 Edge Load Balancer ipv6 with HA with repstrategy connection fails takeover
PI77783 Edge CBRServer V9 on AIX - executor will not start with Java 8
PI78140 Advisor failures occur with no indication of failure in advisor logs
PI75968 Enable TLSv1.0 and TLSv1.1 by default when SSL is on
PI67581 Add a flag to allow forcing Caching Proxy into the background
PI73088 Load Balancer for IPV4 and IPV6 does not send gratuitous arp
PI73295 TLS advisor fails to connect to the IBM HTTP Server when ECDHE ciphers are prioritized
PI73744 Add kernel support for 2.6.32-642.11.1
PI74512 Update default ciphers of TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2.
PI75118 CP accepts HTTP request lines that have extraneous whitespace
PI76339 Module loading fails on AIX Caching Proxy
PI76370 cpwizard.bat does not work when its path has spaces
PI79201 Caching Proxy 8.0 failed to log in Japanese
PI79351 Load Balancer for IPV4 and IPV6: large configurations may take a long time to load
PI79887 Fail to apply Fix Pack on Edge LB V8.5.5. GA with CRIMA1161E
Fix release date: 23 December 2016
Last modified: 23 December 2016
Status: Superseded
Security APAR
APAR
Description
PI64471 Sub-state shows "not synchronized" in hamon.log of ULB
PI65683 Edge Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6 hang on AIX
PI65765 Edge Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6 server.log shows confusing message after adding a rule.
PI66043 Script to start and stop the executor and the debugging shell script do not work properly on Solaris
PI66434 Crash in lbll_node2obj when LB is garbage collecting memory from connection table.
PI67617 Edge Load Balancer V8, changing the rule priority does not work
PI68270 Load Balancer can crash when some fragmented traffic is received.
PI72138 Upgrade the Java release for Edge Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6
PI62029 Support added to Edge Caching Proxy to disable directory listings
PI67408 Fail to install Edge Caching Proxy V8 on in a multi-zone Solaris
PI67658 Add support for kernel 2.6.32-642.EL6
Fix release date: 15 August 2016
Last modified: 15 August 2016
Status: Superseded
Security APAR
APAR
Description
PI22309 Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6 drops packets that are greater than 1500
PI54439 Edge LB internal logging contains verbose entries
PI55786 Updating Edge Load Balancer from V8.5.5 GA gets error: CRIMA1161E: Failed to find required installation files
PI58745 Add kernel support for RHEL6 2.6.32-573.18.1.el6
PI62762 Load Balancer Content Based Router executor fails to start
PI64471 Sub-state shows "Not Synchronized" in hamon.log of ULB
Fix release date: 18 March 2016
Last modified: 18 March 2016
Status: Superseded
Security APAR
APAR
Description
PI50644 New kernel support for 2.6.32-504.23.4.el6.x86_64
PI53275 TLS advisor for Edge Load Balancer products needs updated cipher support to reduce logging in backend server logs.
PI55250 Add Linux kernel support 2.6.32-573.8.1.el6.x86_64 in Edge
PI56009 Edge LB for IPv4 LLB V8.5 crash on AIX 7.1 PPC when iForwardPacket mbuf is null
Fix release date: 11 December 2015
Last modified: 11 December 2015
Status: Superseded
Security APAR
APAR
Description
PI39193 Edge ULB(user-space load balancer, or LB for IPv4 & IPv6) crashes when ULB tries to use and free ephemeral port 0.
PI42514 LogLevel setting ineffective for HA heartbeat logs in /var/log/messages
PI46283 Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6 for AIX sends HA packet every 1 second
PI46733 Java socket exception can occur when attempting to stop cbrserver
PI41476 CVE-2015-5004 in IBM WebSphere Application Server Edge Component Caching Proxy
PI41706 Edge Caching Proxy incorrectly sends SSLv2 client hello causing the back end server SSL connection to fail
PI43514 Ignore caching header for the forward proxy secure requests
PI46214 Edge Caching Proxy has a issue with CacheIgnoreCookieName directive with multiple entries.
PI47228 Add Linux kernel support 2.6.32-573.3.1.el6.x86_64 in Edge Load Balancer for IPv4
PM94463 Caching Proxy install does not set correct permissions for the logs directory.
Fix release date: 11 September 2015
Last modified: 11 September 2015
Status: Superseded
APAR
Description
PI38868 The LDAPS advisor needs to work with the TLSv1
PI39822 New kernel support 2.6.32-504.16.2.el6
PI40188 Edge Load Balancer HTTPs advisor incorrectly adds "Connection: Keep-Alive" header
PI41009 IPv4 load balancer subagent does not work
PI42048 Add a custom property to LDAPS advisory to denote protocol level
Fix release date: 26 June 2015
Last modified: 17 June 2015
Status: Superseded

Download Fix Pack 8.5.5.6
APAR
Description
PI06130 Edge Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6 crashes, when LB tries to remove a node
PI33513 Edge Load Balancer is observed using high CPU
PI37794 Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6 8.5.5 should work with Linux on Power system
PI38074 Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6 is hung under load
PI38211 Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6 gets a segfault attempting to access a null pointer.
PM83523 A javacore can occur indicating that the Load Balancer manager thread has terminated
PM86978 The dscontrol quiesce/unquiesce command fails intermittently after 250 runs
PI32034 HTTPs advisor retries the advisor request if the response does not match the advisorresponse.
PI32719 64-bit 2.6.32-358.18.1 kernel module for RHEL6 is not installed.
PI35473 There is a synchronization issue with quiesce and the server up and down commands.
PI40035 Update WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5.6 licenses
Fix release date: 13 March 2015
Last modified: 11 March 2015
Status: Superseded

Download Fix Pack 8.5.5.5
APAR
Description
PI28050 A directive is needed to enable only TLS without explicitly having to enable SSLV2 or SSLV3
PI30574 HTTPs advisor fails connecting to a server configured as TLS protocol only.
PI33253 DMZ proxy installation not writeable by wasadmin
Fix release date: 8 December 2014
Last modified: 3 December 2014
Status: Superseded

Download Fix Pack 8.5.5.4
APAR
Description
PI23780 Add directives to support different versions of TLS to be used in Caching Proxy with GSKit version 8.
PI27434 Load Balancer reach advisor pings the target server using the wrong network address order
PM85559 TLS Advisor missing in load balancer for IPv4 and IPv6
Fix release date: 18 August 2014
Last modified: 12 August 2014
Status: Superseded

Download Fix Pack 8.5.5.3
APAR
Description
PI12357 Caching Proxy responds 304 status code with content-length header
PI15701 The caching proxy forwards the keep-alive timeout which applies to the connection between the caching proxy and the client.
PI15765 Load balancer server up/down commands may not work during manager cycle
PI16378 LB on the standby state might fail to stop with SocketException
PI16633 New Linux kernel for Load Balancer. Kernel rh6 2.6.32-431.5.1.el6 for 8.5
PI21189 Potential Denial of Service with Microsoft Windows and WebSphere Application Server Load Balancer
Fix release date: 28 April 2014
Last modified: 21 April 2014
Status: Superseded

Download Fix Pack 8.5.5.2
APAR
Description
PI05524 Edge V8.5.5 ULB crashes when the Client Gateway is reset
PI10772 Instructions are truncated on window
PI04711 Edge LLB 8.5 - request support for Linux RHEL kernel 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6
PI09405 Eliminate misleading warning on Load Balancer for ipv4 install
PI09639 New kernel support 2.6.32-431.3.1.el6
PI10014 The uexc.log file grows with every start or stop of CBR.
PM88555 Admin forms do not work with Java 7 and above.
PM88901 A directive is needed to allow the proxy to enable or disable TLS renegotiation.
PM95413 Load Balancer for IPv4 crashed when xlog is enabled
PM99112 Load Balancer for IPv4 needs kernel support for 2.6.32.59-0.7
PM99545 Load Balancer might crash or hang on Microsoft Windows with multi-process machines.
Fix release date: 11 November 2013
Last modified: 10 November 2013
Status: Superseded

Download Fix Pack 8.5.5.1
APAR
Description
PM89712 IPV6 DYNAMIC ROUTE GETS DELETED ON AIX WHEN ULB TRIES TO FORWARD IPV6 TRAFFIC
PM89719 IPV6 NEIGHBOR ADVERTISEMENT FOR TAKEOVER IS NOT ETHERNET MULTICAST
PM86953 EDGE LOAD BALANCER FOR IPV4 V8.5 - IBMLB - LLB - NEED SUPPORT FOR RHEL LINUX KERNEL 2.6.32-279.5.2.EL6.X86_64
PM86963 LOAD BALANCER HEARTBEAT ADD MIGHT CAUSE OS HANG
PM88080 MICROSOFT WINDOWS CRASHES WHEN LB REASSEMBLES FRAGMENTED PACKETS
PM88416 JAVACORE FROM PARSEINTERFACES JNI CALL ON SOLARIS
PM89583 EDGE LOAD BALANCER FOR IPV4 V8.5 - IBMLB - LLB - NEED SUPPORT FOR RHEL LINUX KERNEL 2.6.18-348.4.1.EL5
PM91246 EDGE LLB 8.5.0.2 ON AIX 7.1 LDAPS ADVISOR DOES NOT DETECT THAT A SERVER IS DOWN.
PM92002 LOAD BALANCER FOR IPV4 ADDING KERNEL 2.6.32-358.0.1.EL6 SUPPORT
PM92583 EDGE LLB 8.5 - REQUEST SUPPORT FOR LINUX RHEL KERNEL 2.6.18-348.6.1.EL5 #1 SMP
PM94594 LOAD BALANCER FOR IPV4 ON WINDOWS MAY CRASH WHEN EXECUTOR IS STAEXECUTOR IS STARTED
PM96303 EDGE LOAD BALANCER (IPV4 LEGACY LLB IBMLB) V8.X FOR WIN2008: : FILES INSTALLED TO SYSNATIVE DIRECTORY INSTEAD OF SYSTEM32.
Fix release date: 15 Apr 2013
Last modified: 15 Apr 2013
Status: Superseded

Download Fix Pack 8.5.0.2
APAR Description
PM70118 Support TLS cipher specification in Caching Proxy version 8 and above.
PM70935 Installation Manager does not overwrite files previously laid down by running JTZU before installing fix pack 8.0.0.4.
PM73433 64-bit Installation Manager support for Edge.
PM75348 GSKit does not install with version 8 of Caching proxy using Linux on s390 architecture.
PM76209 Disk cache does not work on Microsoft Windows.
PM76351 Edge component for IPV4 on 64bit failed.
PM76438 Caching Proxy crashes under SSL load.
PM76719 Caching Proxy fails to make changes to ibmproxy.conf when configuration wizard is used.
PM81490 Load balancer RHEL 6.3 2.6.32-279.19.1 kernel support.
PM83610 GSKIt does not install with version 8 of Caching Proxy using Linux on s390 architecture.
Fix release date: 29 Oct 2012
Last modified: 26 Oct 2012
Status: Superseded

Download Fix Pack 8.5.0.1
APAR Description
PM55554 Caching Proxy does not parse the entire header name in determining the header.
PM58228 CP fails to bind to a port <1024 in Linux with kernel version greater than 2.6.
PM61046 The ldapuri advisor marks the server down when the account does not exist in LDAP.
PM64497 WebSphere Edge Caching Proxy converts UTF-8 encoded values to their ASCII characters when using redirect rules.
PM66937 Provide RH 6.3 kernel 2.6.32-279 update for Load Balancer.
PM67534 Add RHEL5 kernel support for 2.6.18-308.8.2.
PM68710 Manager unquiesce command does not set server weight to nonzero value.
PM73075 Load Balancer "ServerUp" script incorrectly runs.

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