2.1. What’s New in PPEM 2.4 #
Release date: 23 December 2025
For migration instructions and recommendations, refer to Section 6.1.
PPEM 2.4 introduces the following functional upgrades:
Backups.
Added the dashboard page that provides an overview of backups and related tasks.
Added the ability to specify logging levels when creating a backup or a backup schedule.
For more information, refer to the Dashboard, Creating a Backup, and Creating a Backup Schedule sections.
User authentication.
Added support of OpenID Connect (OIDC) for user authentication.
For more information, refer to the User Authentication via OpenID Connect section.
Query plan visualization.
Added the ability to share query plans with other users.
For more information, refer to the Sharing a Query Plan With Other Users section.
Operation management.
Added the ability to view steps of a specific operation as well as view details of these steps and restart them.
For more information, refer to the Monitoring Execution of a Mass Instance Operation and Restarting a Mass Instance Operation Step sections.
Alerts and triggers.
Added the ability to edit alerts as well as view and clear the alert history.
For more information, refer to the Editing an Alert, Viewing Detailed Alert Information, and Clearing Alert History sections.
Wait event profile.
Added the ability to edit configuration parameters of the wait event profile and wait history.
Improved the user interface page by expanding the wait event tooltip information, changing the time format, and adding session and history pagination.
For more information, refer to the Editing Wait Profile and History Configuration Parameters and Managing Wait Event Statistics sections.
Password management.
Added the requirement to change the password after the first log-in.
Added the ability to reset the user password.
For more information, refer to the User Management and Resetting a User Password sections.
Configuration presets management.
Added the ability to remove one or more configuration presets applied to a particular instance from the instance page.
Added the ability to apply presets to multiple instances from the configuration presets page.
For more information, refer to the Removing a Configuration Preset from an Instance and Applying a Configuration Preset sections.
Task console.
Added the ability to view the task with the task object as well as move to the object page from the schedule table.
For more information, refer to the Viewing Schedules section.
Containerized environments.
Added support for PPEM installation in containerized environments.
For more information, refer to the Installation in Containerized Environments section.