What's New

This page summarizes new features and improvements for the NetQ 4.13 release. For a complete list of open and fixed issues, see the release notes.

What’s New in NetQ 4.13

NetQ 4.13.0 includes the following new features:

  • New option to add additional nodes to your scale-cluster deployment, supporting networks with up to 2,000 switches. Read more about NetQ deployment options.
  • Performance and usability improvements to queue length histograms
  • New functionality that allows you to create and save filters for system and What Just Happened events
  • Added ability to filter hostnames using regular expressions
  • Improved table layout and column order
  • Added support for Ubuntu 22.04 and deprecated support for Ubuntu 20.04
  • Security and performance improvements

Upgrade Paths

You can upgrade to NetQ 4.13 if your deployment is running version 4.12 or 4.11. For on-premises and cloud deployments, back up your NetQ data, then restore your data during a new NetQ 4.13 installation.

When you upgrade from NetQ 4.11 to 4.13, any pre-existing validation data will be lost.

Compatible Agent Versions

The NetQ 4.13 server is compatible with NetQ agents 4.12 and 4.13. You can install NetQ agents on switches and servers running:

  • Cumulus Linux 5.9.2 or later
  • Ubuntu 22.04

NVIDIA recommends upgrading to the latest agent version.