8.10-1.0.1681

August 28, 2025

• Resolved a KMS time-out issue

8.10-1.0.1675

July 30, 2025

• Maintenance and security updates to the Message connector.

8.10-1.0.1585

October 17, 2024

• Resolved a connection issue when a proxy is configured in Expressway.

• Added Message connector support for Python 3.11.9.

• Added Message connector support for TLS 1.3.

8.10-1.0.1545

May 6, 2024

• Upgraded the CSB to 4.2.4.

8.10-1.0.1539

April 9, 2024

• Message connector queries have been updated to be compatible with all IM & Presence versions.

8.10-1.0.1535

March 28, 2024

• Added JDK 11 and JDK 17 dependencies for upcoming version support.

8.10-1.0.1517

November 13, 2023

• Fixed an issue with presence updates from Webex to Jabber.

8.10-1.0.1509

November 3, 2023

• Resolved inclusive language issues in code.

• Fixed an issue where Hybrid messaging was not happening after teams data migration.

8.10-1.0.1494

May 31, 2023

• Added support for Java 17.

• Added support for Python 3.

• Upgraded the CSB to 3.5.48.

8.10-1.0.1434

November 22, 2022

• Security updates to the Message connector.

8.10-1.0.1413

May 11, 2022

• Message logging improvements.

• Fix for customer issue with enabling Hybrid Message for some users.

8.10-1.0.1405

April 12, 2022

No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.1397

March 16, 2022

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.1396

February 4, 2022

• Fixed a presence issue that was intermittently causing IM & Presence CPU spike and dropping Jabber registrations.
• Updated logging service to use new CSB version.

8.10-1.0.1391

January 31, 2022

• Upgraded the CSB to 3.2.7.

8.10-1.0.1389

January 17, 2022

• Security updates to the Message connector.

8.10-1.0.1388

December 20, 2021

• Security updates to the Message connector.

8.10-1.0.1385

November 8, 2021

• Message connector now supports interoperability between Jabber and Webex App for Webex for Government customers.

8.10-1.0.1382

October 25, 2021

• Message connector can now detect when a user's email address changed in IM & Presence and inform Webex services to reactivate the user.

8.10-1.0.1379

September 27, 2021

• Fixed customer found issue with AXL connection to IM & Presence.

8.10-1.0.1373

August 5, 2021

• Upgraded the CSB from 2.x to 3.x.

8.10-1.0.1354

July 16, 2021

• Connector upgraded to show presence of Webex App users as @ Webex to Jabber users.

8.10-1.0.1348

June 25, 2021

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.1346

June 7, 2021

• Improved the connector's resilience to interruption of the cloud service.

• Fixed a connector thread handling issue that was causing a memory leak on the host Expressway.

8.10-1.0.1332

May 18, 2021

• Fixed an issue with the connector CPU metrics.

• Fixed an issue with memory heap dumping on the Expressway host.

8.10-1.0.1321

April 22, 2021

• Improved the connector memory metrics.

8.10-1.0.1320

April 15, 2021

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.1316

April 6, 2021

• Improved Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) compatibility of the Message Connector with the corresponding Webex microservice.

8.10-1.0.1311

March 12, 2021

• Extended troubleshooting information for Message Service.

• Enhanced logging.

• Fixed an issue with retrieving the latest conversation activity.

• Fixed an issue that was preventing the Message Connector from shutting down gracefully when its Expressway host shuts down.

8.10-1.0.1300

March 5, 2021

• Enhanced metrics to improve troubleshooting of customer issues.

8.10-1.0.1298

February 17, 2021

• Upgraded the CSB to fix a potential key encryption issue in Key Management Server library.

8.10-1.0.1292

January 27, 2021

• Consolidated Federation settings into one setting group.

• Improvement fix for an issue where the presence status of a user, who never logged into webex, was shown as available.

8.10-1.0.1286

January 7, 2021

• Improvements to connection alarms.

• Added support for Java Development Kit(JDK) 11.

8.10-1.0.1279

December 2, 2020

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.1275

November 11, 2020

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.1262

October 29, 2020

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.1252

October 22, 2020

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.1249

October 15, 2020

• Fixed an XCP session failure issue.

8.10-1.0.1227

October 7, 2020

• Fixed an AXL status connectivity issue for multi server deployments.

• Improvements around conversation quality.

• Added new metrics for XCP sessions.

8.10-1.0.1214

September 30, 2020

• Improvements around conversation quality.

8.10-1.0.1208

September 16, 2020

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.1202

September 7, 2020

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.1200

September 2, 2020

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.1197

August 27, 2020

• Fixes an issue when a user is moved between IMP clusters. Message Connector can detect this and will send the updated cluster information to the Webex Teams Cloud.

• Logging enhancements.

8.10-1.0.1180

August 7, 2020

• Logging improvements for XCP and JSM sessions.

• Improvements around conversation quality.

8.10-1.0.1164

July 29, 2020

• Logging enhancements.

8.10-1.0.1152

July 22, 2020

• Improvements to message and presence logging.

8.10-1.0.1137

July 8, 2020

• Logging improvement for AXL Audit, XCP and JSM sessions.

8.10-1.0.1098

June 12, 2020

• Updated the Message Service Status information page to show AXL connectivity issues when the AXL connection is down.

8.10-1.0.1087

June 5, 2020

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.1080

May 29, 2020

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.1079

May 8, 2020

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.1074

May 1, 2020

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.1064

April 17, 2020

• Fixes a customer issue with intermittent crash occurring after Message Connector upgrade.

8.10-1.0.1063

April 8, 2020

• Updated the Message Service Status information page to show the new presence transition of 72 hours.

8.10-1.0.1062

April 3, 2020

• The presence transition from Away to Offline is extended.

• Further improvements to encryption health monitoring.

8.10-1.0.1059

March 27, 2020

• Improves health monitoring around encryption.

8.10-1.0.1057

March 20, 2020

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.1055

March 6, 2020

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.1050

February 28, 2020

• Improved fix for customer issue when retrieving encryption keys in a deployment that is fronted by a proxy.

8.10-1.0.1048

February 20, 2020

• Updated fix for retrieving encryption keys in a deployment that is fronted by a proxy.

8.10-1.0.1046

February 14, 2020

• Fixes a customer issue with retrieving encryption keys in a deployment that is fronted by a proxy.

• Improves scheduled polling of IM&P servers.

• Fixes a customer issue with Message Service connector heartbeat connection.

8.10-1.0.1033

January 31, 2020

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.1029

January 24, 2020

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.1017

December 13, 2019

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.1016

November 28, 2019

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.1010

November 8, 2019

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.951

October 11, 2019

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.941

September 13, 2019

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.921

July 25, 2019

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.910

July 12, 2019

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.884

June 28, 2019

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.883

June 20, 2019

• New alarm for failure to send messages from Teams to Jabber.

8.10-1.0.862

May 31, 2019

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.860

May 22, 2019

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.832

May 3, 2019

• The presence of a Hybrid Message Service user, as seen from Jabber, now indicates that the user is "@ Cisco Webex Teams" as well as the usual amber or green dot. The extra text does not show when the presence overlay is red (do not disturb).

• Continued preparation for next phase of Data Locality feature.

8.10-1.0.829

April 26, 2019

• New alarm for failure to send messages from Jabber to Teams.

• User assignment improvements.

8.10-1.0.824

April 18, 2019

• Extends presence mapping from Teams to Jabber. If a user manually sets "Do Not Disturb" in Teams, their Jabber presence automatically updates to the same state within 10 minutes.

• Prepares Message Connector for the next phase of the Webex Teams Data Locality feature.

8.10-1.0.815

April 5, 2019

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.807

March 29, 2019

• New alarm if unsupported IM and Presence Service version is detected.

• Serviceability improvements.

8.10-1.0.793

March 22, 2019

• Fixes an issue with Message Connector status logic.

8.10-1.0.781

March 15, 2019

• Fixes an issue that prevents the connector from discovering users from the IM and Presence publisher. This issue manifests as alarm ID 60612 on previous Message Connector versions.

8.10-1.0.780

March 14, 2019

• Fixes an issue where connector status was reported as initializing when no users were provisioned.

• Fixes an issue where the XMPP connection may drop.

8.10-1.0.776

March 12, 2019

• Enhances logging for presence changes.

• Improves security.

8.10-1.0.771

March 7, 2019

• Prepares Message Connector for the first phase of the forthcoming Data Locality feature of Cisco Webex Teams.

8.10-1.0.751

March 1, 2019

• Improves performance by refactoring presence update code.

• Retries connection on HTTP error 503 Service Unavailable from Webex.

8.10-1.0.747

February 27, 2019

• Adds filtering by module name "hybridservices.messageconnector", to help diagnose Message Connector issues on the host Expressway.

• Improves security.

8.10-1.0.743

February 26, 2019

• Fixes potential issue with messaging from Teams to Jabber for some conversations.

• Fixes an issue with unexpected logging at connector startup.

8.10-1.0.739

February 22, 2019

• Fixes a JSON parsing race condition discovered by internal testing.

• Enhances logging.

• Fixes a customer found issue with user assignment.

• Improves security.

• Improves error handling.

8.10-1.0.718

February 15, 2019

• Connector logging enhancements.

8.10-1.0.700

February 4, 2019

• A new alarm for AXL syntax errors in connections with IM and Presence nodes.

8.10-1.0.688

February 01, 2019

• Fix an issue with Teams to Jabber message failures, caused by deleted IM and Presence sessions.

8.10-1.0.680

January 24, 2019

• Add metrics on inbound messaging link from Webex Teams.

8.10-1.0.667

January 23, 2019

• Update the Webex Teams USS client library.

• Fix an issue with reconnecting to Webex Teams after interrupted connection.

• Add capability to user audit, to recreate a user's XMPP session if it is required but does not exist.

• Improve scalability by reducing AXL polling and user auditing during failover/fallback events on IM and Presence nodes.

• Increase user auditing speed by preventing unnecessary session assignments.

• Show users in error state in Control Hub if their Mail ID is duplicated on IM and Presence clusters.

8.10-1.0.665

January 17, 2019

• Reduce frequency of Key Management System (KMS) requests to improve performance.

• Make communications with KMS more robust.

• Improve error handling for connections attempted to unresolved IM and Presence hosts.

• Optimize connector tasks to improve performance and reduce recovery time.

• Improve quality metric by checking that Control Hub organization exists for entitled users.

• Improve user session creation.

8.10-1.0.630

December 12, 2018

• No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.

8.10-1.0.623

November 30, 2018

• Increased speed of user discovery.

• Fixed AXL timeout issue that occurred when connecting Hybrid Message Connector to Unified CM IM and Presence.

• Fixed issue with Message Connector sending null cluster id to Webex cloud.

8.10-1.0.598

November 14, 2018

• Fixed intermittent issue of AXL alarms persisting when they should clear.

• Improved high availability of Message Service by enabling the connector to respond to automatic failover of IM and Presence nodes.

• Decreased timeout on AXL connection to Unified CM IM and Presence.

8.10-1.0.593

November 9, 2018

Message Connector - enables messaging interop between Jabber and Webex Teams. Answer your instant 1-1 messages from Webex Teams or Jabber!

• First release of Message Connector.

• See https://www.cisco.com/go/hybrid-services-message for more information.