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 # Release notes for OpsCenter
 
+# Release Notes for OpsCenter 6.8.50
+13 May 2026
+
+## Security
+* Upgraded Apache mina-core version 2.2.5 to 2.2.7, addressing  CVE-2026-42779 (CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data).(OPSC-17893)
+* Upgraded to BouncyCastle (bcpkix-jdk18on, bcprov-jdk18on) version 1.84 to address CVE-2026-5588, CVE-2025-14813, and CVE-2026-5598. (OPSC-17881)
+* Upgraded Jackson libraries to version 2.21.2 to address CVE-2025-52999, CVE-2020-28491, and CVE-2025-49128. (OPSC-17882)
+* Upgraded to Logback version 1.3.16 and to SLF4J version 2.0.17 to address CVE-2024-12798 and CVE-2025-10226. (OPSC-17885)
+* Upgraded to commons-lang3 version 3.20.0 in the common module to address CVE-2025-48924. (OPSC-17883)
+
+
+## Backup Service
+* Fixed an issue that prevented post backup scripts from running. (OPSC-17889)
+
+## Core
+* Used the `--dereference` option when creating tarballs to archive symlink targets instead of the actual symlinks. (OPSC-17802)
+* Fixed installations failing with jvm8-server.options not found when using LCM to install DSE version 6.9. Because DSE 6.9 requires but does not ship Java 11, LCM now correctly skips it during a configuration  deployment. (OPSC-17867)
+
+## Dashboard
+* Fixed a regression introduced in the Java Driver 4.x migration where new-metrics requests took several minutes on large clusters. WrappedDriver.prepare() no longer issued a `PREPARE` command  to Cassandra, resulting in every metrics query running unprepared and paying full parse + plan cost. Restored proper running of the prepared-statement, and closed a related CqlSession leak during coordinator reconnect. (OPSC-17887)
+
 # Release Notes for OpsCenter 6.8.49
 23 April 2026