New features and improvements in SolarWinds Platform

Intelligent Maps parity and migration

• Connections now support multiple links. You can connect more than a single interface between two entities. This covers one of the last major differences between Network Atlas and Intelligent Maps to make the migration of Network Atlas maps to Intelligent Maps possible.

• Background color is now supported in text boxes.

• Hyperlinks for lines are now supported.

• Dark Mode is supported in Intelligent Maps.

• Pills on connections can now be disconnected from the line to improve map readability.

Dashboard improvements

• Added support for Custom Properties in Modern Dashboard Global Filters

• Updated My Deployment tabs

  • Server: In previous versions, users configured High Availability in this tab. Starting with this version, the tab shows all SolarWinds servers, including their status and additional polling details. This tab displays the following SolarWinds Platform servers:

    • Main Polling Engine (MPE)

    • Additional Polling Engine (APE)

    • Additional Web Server (AWS)

    • Remote Collector

    • Standby HA servers (MPE and APE)

  • Pools (new tab): High Availability status and configuration were moved to this new tab. The tab was redesigned completely to show more relevant information regarding HA pools and to make it easier to manage them.

Recurring/scheduled maintenance windows

• Added support for scheduling recurrent maintenance windows. You can schedule maintenance windows daily, weekly or monthly. You can also pick if you want to mute alerts for the devices or unmanage devices, and quickly assign supported entities to the maintenance windows.

• Entities can have more than one recurring maintenance window, allowing users to schedule different maintenance timings on the same devices.

• Maintenance windows can be found on the Manage Nodes page by selecting a node and then hovering over the Maintenance Mode button.

• Existing functionality is preserved, including schedule management via SDK or API.

Alert variables for dependencies

• Added alert variables to show dependency relationships in alert actions. The variables help answer what entities are affected if something goes down.

  The new alert variables are ${N=SwisEntity;M=NodeDependencies} and ${N=SwisEntity;M=NodeDependenciesWithLinks}.

gMSA support for WinRM polling

• Added support for using gMSA (group managed service accounts) credentials when polling via WinRM.

  gMSA is supported for all generic regular WinRM polling of Nodes/Volumes/Interfaces, AssetInventory, IPAM and SRM polling.

  SAM has extended support with the exception of SAM real-time explorer, Service Control Manager, real-time Event Log Viewer, and AppInsight for Exchange.

Performance and other improvements

• Improved Agent/polling scalability: Polling engines can now collect data from up to 1,000 agents and 60,000 SAM components (agent-based). This is an increase from 500 agents and 40,000 SAM components (agent-based) per polling engine.

• Added more details on Windows Server connection methods for WMI, WMI (DCOM), and WMI (WinRM). These details include highlighting the connection mode in Add Node screens and displaying information about the last poll method in the Polling Details widget.
  

  Two new reports were added to better understand Windows Node connections:

  • Windows Nodes Connection Summary: This report provides details on the connection mode setting (WinRM Preferred, WinRM Only, WMI Only) and the connection mode used.

  • Windows Nodes with WMI Fallback: This report lists nodes that use the WinRM Preferred method and are falling back to WMI.

• Increased performance of PerfStack metric palette.

• Increased performance of Capacity Forecasting widgets and reports.

• Added the ability to manually change a SolarWinds Engine role via the API from Additional Polling Engine (Active) to Additional Polling Engine (Standby). Previously, this change was only possible through an uninstallation/reinstallation process. A new API verb called SelectiveSwitchover was introduced to facilitate the change.

• Full IPv6 address is now required in some Log Viewer conditions, such as starts with, ends with, or contains).

• To improve security in the Log Viewer, SNMP community is no longer stored with traps. You can still use SNMP community in rule conditions.

Fixed CVEs

At SolarWinds, we prioritize the swift resolution of CVEs to ensure the security and integrity of our software. In this release, we have successfully addressed the following CVEs.

SolarWinds CVEs

SolarWinds would like to thank our Security Researchers below for reporting on the issue in a responsible manner and working with our security, product, and engineering teams to fix the vulnerability.

Third-party CVEs

Fixed customer issues

*This fix was added after the RC release.

Installation or upgrade

Known issues

Last updated: May 20, 2025

Stacked polling engine licenses get unassigned after upgrading to version 2025.2 (modules only)

If you're using SolarWinds Platform module licenses with stacked additional polling engine licenses and upgrade to 2025.2 or run the migration.exe /migrate command, stacked licenses may become unassigned.

Resolution or workaround: Reassign the licenses to appropriate polling engines.

1. In the web console, go to Settings > All Settings > License Manager.

2. Select the license that was unassigned and click Assign.

3. Select a polling engine and click Assign again to confirm.

End of life

Integration with the SolarWinds Platform requires a supported version of the platform.

See the End of Life Policy for information about SolarWinds product life cycle phases. To see EoL dates for earlier SolarWinds Platform versions, see SolarWinds Platform release history.

End of support

This version of SolarWinds Platform no longer supports the following platforms and features.

Deprecation notice

The following platforms and features are still supported in the current release. However, they will be unsupported in a future release. Plan on upgrading deprecated platforms, and avoid using deprecated features.

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