Changes

• S3 Object Locking: Object locking feature in Gateway 7.6 prevents object versions from being deleted or overwritten – for a fixed amount of time or indefinitely. (CLOUD-3247)

• CIDR Support in [scsp]allowSwarmAdminIP: This Gateway parameter now supports CIDR formatting in its values (CLOUD-1191)

Upgrade Impacts

See Upgrading Gateway to upgrade from a version of Gateway 6. See Upgrading from Gateway 5.x if migrating from Elasticsearch 2.3.3 and Gateway 5.

Address the upgrade impacts for this and each prior version since currently running version:

See Content Gateway 6 Release Notes for impacts from prior releases.

Watch Items and Issues

These are known operational limitations that exist for Gateway.

• When using the default RHEL/CentOS configuration of IPTABLES, traffic to the Gateway is blocked unless action is taken to disable IPTABLES or to enable inbound traffic to the front-end protocol port(s).

• Gateway is not compatible with Linux PAM modules that depend upon interactive validation operations such as OTP or biometric scanners.

See Content Gateway 6 Release Notes for known issues from prior releases that are still applicable, apart from those appearing above as Fixed.