SCM 2026.1 release notes

SCM RC documentation - The following content is a draft for a release candidate. All content subject to change. Some links might not function yet.

These release notes contain a description of features and functionality that SolarWinds intends to deliver in the next generally available release. However, SolarWinds reserves the right to remove, or otherwise elect not to deliver, such features and functionality from the final generally available release, and this is not a commitment of delivery.

RC release date: December 11, 2025

Here's what's new in SCM 2026.1. You can find the applicable system requirements here.

To view release notes, system requirements, and product guide PDFs for supported versions of SCM, see SCM previous versions. To view release notes for multiple versions and multiple SolarWinds Platform products on a single page, see the release notes aggregator.

SCM runs on the SolarWinds Platform (self-hosted). SCM release notes include the updates from the SolarWinds Platform (self-hosted).

New features and improvements in SCM

SCM can now compare node configurations of two servers

SCM can now display differences in configuration files between two SCM nodes and can check configuration drifts between the two servers. For example, it can check the settings of multiple nodes in the same cluster/HA or check differences between staging and production environments.

New features and improvements in SolarWinds Platform

Feature Adoption

The Feature Adoption section in My Deployment helps you enable and expand the use of key product features now includes suggestions for:

Gaining deeper insights into virtualization
Monitoring virtual servers
Monitoring storage arrays
Identifying unknown traffic
Monitoring configurations
Monitoring DNS and DHCP servers
Monitoring call quality
Monitoring configuration policies

Alerting

All Active Alerts page has been updated to the new framework. You can customize columns or edit the query used to build the table with custom entries.

Integrations

ServiceNow integration now supports OAuth based authentication.

SolarWinds Platform now integrates with SolarWinds Incident Response (earlier known as Squadcast). In this version, the integration is unidirectional - alerts from SolarWinds Platform are forwarded to SolarWinds Incident Response. Any acknowledgments on the incident response side are not reflected in SolarWinds Platform. Users can do additional correlation and suppress alerts using their Incident Response instance.

Maps

This release introduces several enhancements to map editing and management, making it easier to customize and work with Intelligent Maps.

Users can bulk edit multiple connections at once.
Users can import Network Atlas maps with linked backgrounds into Intelligent Maps.
Users must confirm that they want to remove a custom topology item before it is removed.
Users can see an icon and color indicator for text that contains hyperlinks.
Users can see hotkeys for actions in the More menu.
Users can hide autogenerated topology connections on maps.

Custom banners

Users can define customized in-product banners shown at the top of each page in the web console. These banners can be used for the following purposes:

Notification of scheduled upgrades
Classification of government data
Identification of deployments when multiple instances are deployed for a single customer
Notification of a known issue or outage

My Dashboards menu collapsed by default

For new installations, My Dashboards menu is set to the collapsed view. This provides a cleaner and easier to navigate experience for customers.

PerfStack metrics format change

PerfStack metrics now have a short, user-friendly unit format to simplify reading and understanding PerfStack charts. This helps with translating large numbers into more readable language, such as using kb, Mb, Gb instead of bytes.

Node status indicates polling issues

Node status now exposes any problem with failing WMI, WinRM, or SNMP polling when ICMP connection is working, including credential issues.

Updated MAC OUI data

The MAC OUI data has been updated to provide more accurate vendor details when analyzing MAC addresses in the SolarWinds Platform.

Fixed customer issues

Case number	Description	Platform product
02021822, 02030129, 02035052, 02036906, 02038463	Modern Dashboard KPI widgets automatically refresh data on the configured refresh interval.	Platform
02030578, 01961511, 01965096	Customers with restricted access privileges no longer experience access denied errors due to `Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SNI.dll` being loaded under the impersonated account instead of the system account.	Platform
02011517	Hiding custom edge in Intelligent Maps no longer hides both connections between nodes and interfaces.	Platform
00903841, 00584773, 00174609, 00328285, 00601814, 02011869	When managing entities, changes in the Edit Properties dialog no longer causes the Polling Method property to be lost.	Platform
01816357, 01801645	SolarWinds Administration service auto-update no longer fails.	Platform
02009240, 02020678	Creating new HA pools in systems other than EN-US works as expected.	Platform
01975077, 01909120	Applying limitations in big environments no longer decreases the SolarWinds Platform Web Console performance.	Platform
01760628	An issue has been fixed that caused the HTTP proxy settings to fail when Use Default OS Settings was configured as the source.	Platform
01978146	Hidden links are no longer displayed in the Intelligent Maps entity explorer.	Platform
N/A	Cloud dashboards are displaying the correct count of active alerts.	Platform
01979400, 01974410	The issue when CPU WMI polling stopped working for Windows 2008 R2 and earlier was fixed.	Platform
01968672	Updated polling logic ensures malformed PollingController.db files are always auto-recreated, improving reliability and reducing the risk of polling failures.	Platform
01893113, 01960987, 01980264, 01988371, 01992965	Additional checks in Active Diagnostics were added to capture when the SolarWinds Platform Web Console SSL certificate is incorrectly configured.	Platform
01958055, 02007668	The issue with website crashes caused by problematic custom queries and optimizing database performance was fixed.	Platform
01986456	The included Microsoft .NET 8.0 runtimes was upgraded to the latest versions.	Platform
01981129, 01958577, 01995892	An issue where the `Reboot pending` status is not cleared from agents, causing confusion and polling issues, was fixed.	Platform
01986010	The issue where audit events are only generated for changes to the `IP_Address` property of nodes via API, while other properties like `IPAddress` and `IP` do not trigger audit logs was fixed.	Platform
01748999, 02010493	The issue related to JobEngine jobs with future execution times caused by system time jumps, primarily in VMware environments was fixed.	Platform
01890199	The issue where users with insufficient permissions do not receive an error message when attempting to proceed in the Configuration Wizard was fixed.	Platform
01961749	Database stability issues, including recurring query timeouts, blocking, and orphaned volumes were fixed.	Platform
01797614, 01912259	The issue related to editing group accounts across multiple browser tabs was fixed.	Platform
00763611, 00765163, 01641392, 01741880, 01753713, 01899471, 01939288, 01945078, 01994080, 02014878	An option was added to use alternative calculation of memory volumes on Linux nodes that excludes buffered and cached memory from used space for SNMP-polled Linux nodes.	Platform
01616820, 01617205, 01796280, 01886117, 01959304	Node details such as machine type, vendor, and description are no longer missing or show as Unknown after changing the polling method from ICMP to Agent on Linux nodes.	Platform
01573310, 01654703, 01569218, 01687332	The issue where the installer cannot verify the manifest's signature when the user's TEMP path contains a `$` symbol was fixed.	Platform
01939802	An issue was fixed that caused higher-tier evaluations to not start successfully after removing or hiding previous evaluation licenses, despite UI indicating success.	Platform
01191493, 01294081, 00282808, 01991303	The issue with duplicate volumes being created when a device with multiple volumes sharing the same serial number is rediscovered and scheduled discovery is run was fixed.	Platform
01191634, 01799728, 01994080	The issue with incorrect memory values displayed in the Average CPU Load & Memory Statistics widget was fixed.	Platform
N/A	An issue was fixed that caused sensitive information to be displayed in logs.	Platform

Installation or upgrade

For new SolarWinds Platform deployments, download the installation file from the product page on https://www.solarwinds.com or from the Customer Portal. For more information, see Get the installer.

To activate your product in an existing SolarWinds Platform deployment, use the License Manager.

For upgrades, go to Settings > My Deployment to initiate the upgrade. The SolarWinds Installer upgrades your entire deployment (all SolarWinds Platform products and any scalability engines).

For more information, see the SolarWinds Platform Product Installation and Upgrade Guide.

For supported upgrade paths, see Upgrade an existing deployment.

Known issues

Upgrades fail when the Configuration Wizard attempts up create or update a configuration file

In some environments, the Configuration Wizard fails when attempting to create or update the sw.web.compression.config file.

Resolution or workaround: This issue will be fixed in a future release. Until then, complete these steps:

Open the following file in a text editor:

C:\ProgramData\SolarWinds\sw.web.compression.config

Update the contents of this file to the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
    <configSections>
        <section name="sw.web.compression" type="SolarWinds.Orion.Core.Common.Configuration.WebCompressionSection, SolarWinds.Orion.Configuration" />
    </configSections>
    <sw.web.compression>
        <settings>
            <add name="" level="4" enable="True" install="True" />
            <add name="static" level="9" />
            <add name="dynamic" />
            <add name="dynamic.IIS6" enable="False" />
        </settings>
    </sw.web.compression>
</configuration>

Save the file and rerun the configuration wizard.

The Last XX Audit Events widget does not load all events

After an upgrade to 2025.4, the Last XX Audit Events widget does not load events that occurred before the upgrade.

Resolution or workaround: You can use a custom table widget instead of the standard Last XX Audit Events widget.

This issue will be fixed in a future release.

URL-based filters in modern dashboards stopped working

Modern dashboards no longer recognize URL-based filters unless a global filter is explicitly configured on the dashboard.

Resolution or workaround: Use global filters. See Global filters on modern dashboards.

End of life

Version	EoL announcement	EoE effective date	EoL effective date
2024.1	February 2, 2025: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement – Customers on SCM version 2024.1 or earlier should begin transitioning to the latest version of SCM.	March 12, 2026: End-of-Engineering (EoE) – Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for SCM version 2024.1 or earlier will no longer actively be supported by SolarWinds.	March 12, 2027: End-of-Life (EoL) – SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for SCM version 2024.1.
2023.4	October 21, 2025: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement – Customers on SCM version 2023.4 or earlier should begin transitioning to the latest version of SCM.	November 20, 2025: End-of-Engineering (EoE) – Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for SCM version 2023.4 or earlier will no longer actively be supported by SolarWinds.	November 20, 2026: End-of-Life (EoL) – SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for SCM version 2023.4.
2023.3	October 21, 2025: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement – Customers on SCM version 2023.3 or earlier should begin transitioning to the latest version of SCM.	November 20, 2025: End-of-Engineering (EoE) – Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for SCM version 2023.3 or earlier will no longer actively be supported by SolarWinds.	November 20, 2026: End-of-Life (EoL) – SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for SCM version 2023.3.
2023.2	June 10, 2025: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement – Customers on SCM version 2023.2 or earlier should begin transitioning to the latest version of SCM.	July 10, 2025: End-of-Engineering (EoE) – Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for SCM version 2023.2 or earlier will no longer actively be supported by SolarWinds.	July 10, 2026: End-of-Life (EoL) – SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for SCM version 2023.2.
2023.1	February 11, 2025: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement – Customers on SCM version 2023.1 or earlier should begin transitioning to the latest version of SCM.	March 13, 2025: End-of-Engineering (EoE) – Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for SCM version 2023.1 or earlier will no longer actively be supported by SolarWinds.	March 13, 2026: End-of-Life (EoL) – SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for SCM version 2023.1.

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

End of support

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

Widgets that display a THWACK feed

Widgets that display the most recent content from a THWACK page are no longer supported and have been removed from the Web Console. This includes widgets such as:

Recent NPM Posts
Latest Universal Device Pollers
Recent NetFlow Posts
Latest Application Templates
Recent NCM posts
Recent VNQM posts
Recent IPAM posts
Recent 10 Patch Manager Posts

To exchange information and share content with other SolarWinds users, visit thwack.solarwinds.com.

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.

SolarWinds Platform Agent support for Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7

Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 reached End of Life and are no longer supported by SolarWinds Platform Agents. To continue monitoring them, consider switching the polling method to remote monitoring with WMI.

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