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AIX Changelog

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  • Set NLSPATH in the agent wrapper so the IBM MQ client library can locate its own message catalogs. Previously, ibm_mq check errors and other MQ client errors rendered as unreadable generic text (e.g. AMQ9211E: Failed to find error message id) instead of the real message, because the agent process only had AIX's default NLSPATH (/usr/lib/nls/msg/...), which doesn't include MQ's catalog directory.
  • Bump the embedded Python from 3.13.12 to 3.13.14, matching the version used by the Linux omnibus/bazel build
  • Build embedded OpenSSL with the same hardening flags as the Linux omnibus/bazel build (no-idea no-mdc2 no-rc5 no-ssl3 no-gost no-filenames, dynamic zlib loading) — the AIX build previously shipped OpenSSL with default settings, retaining legacy/weak algorithms and the GOST engine that Linux deliberately strips
  • Add a /usr/bin/datadog-agent convenience symlink to the agent wrapper on install, matching the Linux packages
  • Fix /var/log/datadog permissions: it was left world-readable (default 0755) after install instead of the restrictive 0750 (owner/group dd-agent) used on other platforms
  • Disable Python's dbm C-extension backends (dbm.gnu/dbm.ndbm) to match the Linux omnibus/bazel build, which links no dbm backend either; gdbm is no longer staged into the embedded tree

7.83.0-devel.git.104.a0e68a4-1 (2026-07-15)

  • Bundle the process check in the AIX package so operators can monitor processes by name without any manual install step; the check uses the psutil library already included in the embedded Python
  • Fix ibm_mq check queue discovery on AIX: patch pymqi's MQENC_NATIVE constant from 0x222 (little-endian) to 0x111 (big-endian) after install. The constant is generated from Linux headers and caused MQRCCF_CFH_LENGTH_ERROR when the check sent PCF commands to a local MQ queue manager.
  • Build scripts: remove all hardcoded /opt/datadog-agent source-tree references — AGENT_SRC is now auto-resolved by walking up from the script directory to the nearest .git ancestor, so the agent source can live at any path on the build host
  • Remove the obsolete packaged integration constraints artifact from the AIX BFF package
  • Remove sharedlibrarycheck from the AIX agent build (the shared-library check loader was included but not validated on AIX)
  • The embedded python3.13 binary and all Python extension modules now have the correct install-time library search path baked into their XCOFF loader section. Previously, the staging path was baked in, causing libpython3.13.so could not be loaded when running pip or python directly (without LIBPATH set). Operators can now run pip install without setting LIBPATH first.

7.81.0-devel.git.349.9b5ddbe-1 (2026-06-01)

  • Remove static libraries (libz.a, libbz2.a) from the installed package to avoid conflicts when installing Python C extensions with pip
  • Agent and trace-agent wrappers now append the caller's LIBPATH to the agent's own library search path, so operator-set paths (e.g. custom driver directories) are visible to the agent at runtime
  • pip install for C extensions (e.g. ibm_db for the DB2 check) no longer requires GCC 8 specifically; the embedded Python now records the compiler as gcc so any GCC version in the customer's PATH is used
  • Agent and trace-agent wrappers include the ibm_db clidriver path (embedded/lib/python3.13/site-packages/clidriver/lib) in LIBPATH so the ibm_db2 check can load libdb2 at runtime after pip install ibm_db
  • Bundle pymqi in the package so the ibm_mq and ibm_ace checks work out of the box (no manual pip install required); IBM MQ Client 9.1+ must be installed on the target host at runtime
  • Go checks: bundle conf.yaml.example and conf.yaml.default from integrations-core for all Go checks that have them, supplementing the agent-repo config (agent-repo takes precedence on filename conflicts)
  • Keep Python headers (embedded/include/) in the package so users can build C extension packages (e.g. ibm_db for the DB2 check) against the embedded Python, matching Linux/macOS omnibus behaviour
  • Include missing Go check configurations in the package: cisco_sdwan, snmp, cloud_hostinfo, discovery, telemetry, versa — these checks are compiled into the agent binary but their config files were missing from AIX_CORECHECKS
  • Fix SQLite build: link with -lm when SQLITE_ENABLE_MATH_FUNCTIONS is enabled
  • Fix Go agent/trace-agent build: unset OBJECT_MODE before invoking the Go external linker in stage 04 (OBJECT_MODE=64 and AIX_OBJECT_MODE=64 exported simultaneously cause the linker to pick up the 32-bit crt0.o)
  • Include final_constraints-py3.txt in the BFF package at /opt/datadog-agent/final_constraints-py3.txt
  • Fix Python entry-point script shebangs in the embedded tree (was pointing to build-host staging path, causing "No such file or directory" when running pip or other scripts post-install)
  • Upgrade embedded pip from 24.0 to 26.1 (patches CVE-2026-1703, CVE-2026-6357)
  • Set GOMEMLIMIT=2GiB on build hosts with less than 6 GiB RAM to prevent Go compiler swap thrash (grouped with the existing -p=1 flag for the same reason)

Note: datadog-agent-7.80.0-devel.git.446.66c9b62-18.aix.ppc64.bff and all older builds predate this changelog and do not have entries.