VNQM 2023.1 release notes
Release date: February 15, 2023
These release notes describe new features, improvements, and fixed issues in VoIP and Network Quality Manager 2023.1. They also provide information about upgrades and describe workarounds for known issues.
If you are looking for previous release notes for VoIP and Network Quality Manager, see Previous Version documentation.
New features and improvements in VNQM 2023.1
VNQM 2023.1 offers the following improvement compared to previous releases of VNQM:
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The upgrade process has been improved to ensure a smooth upgrade to VNQM 2023.1 from a previously evaluated and disabled version of VNQM.
VNQM 2023.1 runs on SolarWinds Platform 2023.1. See also the SolarWinds Platform 2023.1 Release Notes.
New customer installation
For information about installing VoIP and Network Quality Manager, see the SolarWinds Installer.
How to upgrade
Go to Settings > My Deployment to initiate the upgrade. The SolarWinds Installer upgrades your entire SolarWinds Platform deployment (all SolarWinds Platform products and any scalability engines).
You must be on VNQM 2020.2.1 or later to upgrade to VNQM 2023.1. If you are on VNQM 2020.2 or earlier, first upgrade to 2020.2.6 and then upgrade to 2023.1.
Fixed issues
As VNQM now runs on the SolarWinds Platform, VNQM 2023.1 contains all of the fixed issues from the previous SolarWinds Platform releases as well as the new SolarWinds Platform 2023.1 Release.
VNQM 2023.1 fixes the following issues.
| Case number | Description |
|---|---|
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01190503, 01205944 |
The issue when Cisco FTP CDR/CMR polling attempts to establish too many connections was resolved. |
| 01076225 | The issue with wrong packet loss calculation for IP SLA UDP Jitter and VoIP UDP Jitter operations on Nexus devices. |
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01199059, 01116437 |
The issue when SIP trunk status calculation fails in some exceptions was resolved. |
| 01144505 | The issue with numerous SQL deadlocks on VoipCCMStats_DetailData during database maintenance was resolved. |
End of life
| Version | EoL Announcement | EoE Effective Date | EoL Effective Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020.2.6 | April 18, 2023: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement - Customers on VoIP & Network Quality Manager 2020.2.6 should begin transitioning to the latest version of VoIP & Network Quality Manager. |
May 18, 2023: End-of-Engineering (EoE) - Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for VoIP & Network Quality Manager 2020.2.6 will no longer be supported by SolarWinds. |
May 18, 2024: End-of-Life - SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for VoIP & Network Quality Manager 2020.2.6. |
| 2020.2.5 | January 18, 2023: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement - Customers on VoIP & Network Quality Manager 2020.2.5 should begin transitioning to the latest version of VoIP & Network Quality Manager. |
February 17, 2023: End-of-Engineering (EoE) - Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for VoIP & Network Quality Manager 2020.2.5 will no longer be supported by SolarWinds. |
February 17, 2024: End-of-Life - SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for VoIP & Network Quality Manager 2020.2.5. |
| 2020.2.4 | October 19, 2022: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement - Customers on VoIP & Network Quality Manager 2020.2.4 should begin transitioning to the latest version of VoIP & Network Quality Manager. |
November 18, 2022: End-of-Engineering (EoE) - Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for VoIP & Network Quality Manager 2020.2.4 will no longer be supported by SolarWinds. |
November 18, 2023: End-of-Life - SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for VoIP & Network Quality Manager 2020.2.4. |
| 2020.2.1 | October 19, 2022: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement - Customers on VoIP & Network Quality Manager 2020.2.1 should begin transitioning to the latest version of VoIP & Network Quality Manager. |
November 18, 2022: End-of-Engineering (EoE) - Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for VoIP & Network Quality Manager 2020.2.1 will no longer be supported by SolarWinds. |
November 18, 2023: End-of-Life - SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for VoIP & Network Quality Manager 2020.2.1. |
| 2020.2 | October 19, 2022: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement - Customers on VoIP & Network Quality Manager 2020.2 should begin transitioning to the latest version of VoIP & Network Quality Manager. |
November 18, 2022: End-of-Engineering (EoE) - Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for VoIP & Network Quality Manager 2020.2 will no longer be supported by SolarWinds. |
November 18, 2023: End-of-Life - SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for VoIP & Network Quality Manager 2020.2. |
| 2019.4 |
July 27, 2022: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement - Customers on VoIP & Network Quality Manager 2019.4 should begin transitioning to the latest version of VoIP & Network Quality Manager. |
August 26, 2022: End-of-Engineering (EoE) - Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for VoIP & Network Quality Manager 2019.4 will no longer be supported by SolarWinds. |
August 26, 2023: End-of-Life - SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for VoIP & Network Quality Manager 2019.4. |
| 4.6 | July 27, 2022: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement - Customers on VoIP & Network Quality Manager 4.6 should begin transitioning to the latest version of VoIP & Network Quality Manager. |
August 26, 2022:
End-of-Engineering (EoE) - Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for VoIP & Network Quality Manager 4.6 will no longer be supported by SolarWinds. |
August 26, 2023:
End-of-Life - SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for VoIP & Network Quality Manager 4.6. |
See the End of Life Policy for information about SolarWinds product life cycle phases. To see EoL dates for earlier VNQM versions, see VNQM release history.
Deprecation notice
This version of VoIP and Network Quality Manager deprecates the following platforms and features.
Deprecated 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.
| Type | Details |
|---|---|
| Browser support | All versions of Internet Explorer will become unsupported in a future release. Some pages are not compatible with IE 11. Do not enable Enterprise Mode in IE 11. It is not supported. |
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