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Upgrade steps are described in the following KB: Upgrading PowerConnect ABAP 8.X to latest release
Known problems
Changes
New
New OpenTelemetry trace extractor based on STATS data (STATS_TRACE);
New SM20, SM21, SLG1 events can now use trace_id field to link logs data to traces;
New upload streams implementation;
New LOGS dev_rfc.log format parser;
Splunk REST endpoint is not supported anymore;
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LTRC_CHECK: Pulls only error messages by default;
TREAD_DYN: Can accept character date and time fields in the filter definition;
SM37: Ehanced Enhanced for new Filter options for Finished jobs;
SMMS: Ehanced Enhanced with few message server parameters;
SE16N_CD: Enhanced to set the right event time (when the event happend happened in the system);
S416N_CD: Enhanced to set the right event time (when the event happend happened in the system);
USER_AUTH: Reference user search;
SLM Control panel got an option to refresh system state;
LOGS: stability improvements and binary file determination;
CDPOS: Performance improvements for multiclient extractor;
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