Message connector release notes
8.10-1.0.1585
October 17, 2024
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Resolved a connection issue when a proxy is configured in Expressway.
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Added Message connector support for Python 3.11.9.
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Added Message connector support for TLS 1.3.
8.10-1.0.1545
May 6, 2024
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Upgraded the CSB to 4.2.4.
8.10-1.0.1539
April 9, 2024
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Message connector queries have been updated to be compatible with all IM & Presence versions.
8.10-1.0.1535
March 28, 2024
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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
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Resolved inclusive language issues in code.
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Fixed an issue where Hybrid messaging was not happening after teams data migration.
8.10-1.0.1494
May 31, 2023
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Added support for Java 17.
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Added support for Python 3.
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Upgraded the CSB to 3.5.48.
8.10-1.0.1434
November 22, 2022
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Security updates to the Message connector.
8.10-1.0.1413
May 11, 2022
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Message logging improvements.
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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
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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
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Upgraded the CSB to 3.2.7.
8.10-1.0.1389
January 17, 2022
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Security updates to the Message connector.
8.10-1.0.1388
December 20, 2021
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Security updates to the Message connector.
8.10-1.0.1385
November 8, 2021
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Message connector now supports interoperability between Jabber and Webex App for Webex for Government customers.
8.10-1.0.1382
October 25, 2021
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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
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Fixed customer found issue with AXL connection to IM & Presence.
8.10-1.0.1373
August 5, 2021
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Upgraded the CSB from 2.x to 3.x.
8.10-1.0.1354
July 16, 2021
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Connector upgraded to show presence of Webex App users as @ Webex to Jabber users.
8.10-1.0.1348
June 25, 2021
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.1346
June 7, 2021
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Improved the connector's resilience to interruption of the cloud service.
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Fixed a connector thread handling issue that was causing a memory leak on the host Expressway.
8.10-1.0.1332
May 18, 2021
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Fixed an issue with the connector CPU metrics.
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Fixed an issue with memory heap dumping on the Expressway host.
8.10-1.0.1321
April 22, 2021
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Improved the connector memory metrics.
8.10-1.0.1320
April 15, 2021
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.1316
April 6, 2021
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Improved Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) compatibility of the Message Connector with the corresponding Webex microservice.
8.10-1.0.1311
March 12, 2021
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Extended troubleshooting information for Message Service.
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Enhanced logging.
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Fixed an issue with retrieving the latest conversation activity.
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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
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Enhanced metrics to improve troubleshooting of customer issues.
8.10-1.0.1298
February 17, 2021
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Upgraded the CSB to fix a potential key encryption issue in Key Management Server library.
8.10-1.0.1292
January 27, 2021
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Consolidated Federation settings into one setting group.
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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
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Improvements to connection alarms.
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Added support for Java Development Kit(JDK) 11.
8.10-1.0.1279
December 2, 2020
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.1275
November 11, 2020
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.1262
October 29, 2020
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.1252
October 22, 2020
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.1249
October 15, 2020
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Fixed an XCP session failure issue.
8.10-1.0.1227
October 7, 2020
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Fixed an AXL status connectivity issue for multi server deployments.
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Improvements around conversation quality.
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Added new metrics for XCP sessions.
8.10-1.0.1214
September 30, 2020
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Improvements around conversation quality.
8.10-1.0.1208
September 16, 2020
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.1202
September 7, 2020
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.1200
September 2, 2020
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.1197
August 27, 2020
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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.
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Logging enhancements.
8.10-1.0.1180
August 7, 2020
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Logging improvements for XCP and JSM sessions.
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Improvements around conversation quality.
8.10-1.0.1164
July 29, 2020
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Logging enhancements.
8.10-1.0.1152
July 22, 2020
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Improvements to message and presence logging.
8.10-1.0.1137
July 8, 2020
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Logging improvement for AXL Audit, XCP and JSM sessions.
8.10-1.0.1098
June 12, 2020
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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
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.1080
May 29, 2020
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.1079
May 8, 2020
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.1074
May 1, 2020
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.1064
April 17, 2020
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Fixes a customer issue with intermittent crash occurring after Message Connector upgrade.
8.10-1.0.1063
April 8, 2020
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Updated the Message Service Status information page to show the new presence transition of 72 hours.
8.10-1.0.1062
April 3, 2020
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The presence transition from Away to Offline is extended.
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Further improvements to encryption health monitoring.
8.10-1.0.1059
March 27, 2020
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Improves health monitoring around encryption.
8.10-1.0.1057
March 20, 2020
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.1055
March 6, 2020
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.1050
February 28, 2020
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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
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Updated fix for retrieving encryption keys in a deployment that is fronted by a proxy.
8.10-1.0.1046
February 14, 2020
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Fixes a customer issue with retrieving encryption keys in a deployment that is fronted by a proxy.
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Improves scheduled polling of IM&P servers.
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Fixes a customer issue with Message Service connector heartbeat connection.
8.10-1.0.1033
January 31, 2020
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.1029
January 24, 2020
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.1017
December 13, 2019
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.1016
November 28, 2019
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.1010
November 8, 2019
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.951
October 11, 2019
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.941
September 13, 2019
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.921
July 25, 2019
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.910
July 12, 2019
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.884
June 28, 2019
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.883
June 20, 2019
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New alarm for failure to send messages from Teams to Jabber.
8.10-1.0.862
May 31, 2019
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.860
May 22, 2019
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.832
May 3, 2019
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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).
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Continued preparation for next phase of Data Locality feature.
8.10-1.0.829
April 26, 2019
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New alarm for failure to send messages from Jabber to Teams.
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User assignment improvements.
8.10-1.0.824
April 18, 2019
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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.
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Prepares Message Connector for the next phase of the Webex Teams Data Locality feature.
8.10-1.0.815
April 5, 2019
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.807
March 29, 2019
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New alarm if unsupported IM and Presence Service version is detected.
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Serviceability improvements.
8.10-1.0.793
March 22, 2019
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Fixes an issue with Message Connector status logic.
8.10-1.0.781
March 15, 2019
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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
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Fixes an issue where connector status was reported as
initializing
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Fixes an issue where the XMPP connection may drop.
8.10-1.0.776
March 12, 2019
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Enhances logging for presence changes.
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Improves security.
8.10-1.0.771
March 7, 2019
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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
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Improves performance by refactoring presence update code.
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Retries connection on HTTP error 503 Service Unavailable from Webex.
8.10-1.0.747
February 27, 2019
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Adds filtering by module name "hybridservices.messageconnector", to help diagnose Message Connector issues on the host Expressway.
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Improves security.
8.10-1.0.743
February 26, 2019
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Fixes potential issue with messaging from Teams to Jabber for some conversations.
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Fixes an issue with unexpected logging at connector startup.
8.10-1.0.739
February 22, 2019
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Fixes a JSON parsing race condition discovered by internal testing.
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Enhances logging.
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Fixes a customer found issue with user assignment.
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Improves security.
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Improves error handling.
8.10-1.0.718
February 15, 2019
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Connector logging enhancements.
8.10-1.0.700
February 4, 2019
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A new alarm for AXL syntax errors in connections with IM and Presence nodes.
8.10-1.0.688
February 01, 2019
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Fix an issue with Teams to Jabber message failures, caused by deleted IM and Presence sessions.
8.10-1.0.680
January 24, 2019
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Add metrics on inbound messaging link from Webex Teams.
8.10-1.0.667
January 23, 2019
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Update the Webex Teams USS client library.
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Fix an issue with reconnecting to Webex Teams after interrupted connection.
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Add capability to user audit, to recreate a user's XMPP session if it is required but does not exist.
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Improve scalability by reducing AXL polling and user auditing during failover/fallback events on IM and Presence nodes.
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Increase user auditing speed by preventing unnecessary session assignments.
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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
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Reduce frequency of Key Management System (KMS) requests to improve performance.
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Make communications with KMS more robust.
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Improve error handling for connections attempted to unresolved IM and Presence hosts.
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Optimize connector tasks to improve performance and reduce recovery time.
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Improve quality metric by checking that Control Hub organization exists for entitled users.
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Improve user session creation.
8.10-1.0.630
December 12, 2018
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No release notes for this maintenance upgrade.
8.10-1.0.623
November 30, 2018
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Increased speed of user discovery.
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Fixed AXL timeout issue that occurred when connecting Hybrid Message Connector to Unified CM IM and Presence.
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Fixed issue with Message Connector sending null cluster id to Webex cloud.
8.10-1.0.598
November 14, 2018
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Fixed intermittent issue of AXL alarms persisting when they should clear.
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Improved high availability of Message Service by enabling the connector to respond to automatic failover of IM and Presence nodes.
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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!
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First release of Message Connector.
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See https://www.cisco.com/go/hybrid-services-message for more information.