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February 2026
See updates for all products in this release in the Vista Cloud release summary: H1 2026 maintenance updates.
Fixes
Functionality
- Existing Cinema site information is correctly retrieved when connecting to a central Service Framework installation during a child Service Framework installation.
January 2026
Fixes
Functionality
- We fixed an error where the ServiceFramework installer stopped working while creating a new ServiceFramework domain-signed certificate.
Performance
- We've significantly improved the performance of the Configuration Service when it is queried. This is particularly important for on-premises, Central-machine upgrades for large circuits, but benefits all queries to the service, including in Cloud environments.
July 2025
New Features
Performance
- We've made performance improvements to decrease network traffic and CPU usage. The positive impact of this will scale with circuit size.
Fixes
Performance
- We've improved the performance of Central–Child server synchronisation when large circuits restart or upgrade their Central server.
May 2025
Fixes
Performance
We've improved the performance of API Router, fixing an issue which could cause issues when navigating to Cinema Manager or Service Framework Manager under a high load.
November 2024
New Features
Stability
Prerequisites now includes RabbitMQ 3.10.8 and 3.11.18 for Service Framework.
Improvements
Functionality
We've upgraded Service Framework's queuing system, RabbitMQ, to give us access to enhanced features and support.
Note: If you're running Service Framework with a central and child installations, after upgrading the central installation, you'll need to restart the Vista Service at all child installations to keep the synchronisation running.
Minor fixes and stability improvements.
Usability
RabbitMQ, the queuing system used by Service Framework, can now be upgraded in Central-Child mode without the child server having to be restarted afterwards.
Fixes
Functionality
Now when upgrading Service Framework, any deprecated Alert Manager, Configuration Distributor, Configuration Handlers and Content Delivery queue processor configurations are removed to improve performance.
Loyalty Manager now loads when an Organisation Code is entered in Service Framework Manager.
We've fixed an issue which prevented the Service Framework installer from completing successfully when upgrading a machine running instances of a service.
We've improved Service Framework logging (Vista.Service.ApiRouter.log) so that it now shows a logging level of WARN for 400 error codes and includes an external/remote IP address, for the client making the request.
If a new SSL certificate is configured (in the file Service.Configuration.Instance.json) for IPv6 for a Service Framework website, Service Framework now correctly uses it.
We've improved the way installers handle locked files. When the option Keep trying to update locked files is selected, the installer will now always retry locked files, including DBVERSION.ini.
Localisation
Text now appears correctly in your configured language in the Group Sales Manager user interface.
Security
When a URI path can't be found, the alert message no longer discloses internal server information.
When a URI path can't be found, we now make sure the log file contains the entire URI that was requested.
We've removed a low-risk security vulnerability associated with .NET 5 and .NET Core text encoding in our Service Framework package.
Stability
We've fixed an issue which could cause an error message when running the Setup Client Installer.
May 2024
New Features
Functionality
We've updated the Vista installer to allow you to choose how the installer behaves when attempting to overwrite a locked file. If you select the Keep trying to update locked files option, the installer will make multiple attempts to overwrite the file before reporting an error.
Note: This option is also available when using the installer in unattended mode.
Fixes
Functionality
Service Host now attempts to restart unhealthy services for a period of time before marking them Faulted.
The Service Framework installer no longer closes unexpectedly when installing to a machine with many active TCP connections on port 4443.
Caching issues no longer prevent users users who have signed out and cleared their browser cache from signing in again. Previously, this issue could occur when Service Framework was running on Windows Server 2019.
You can now successfully install Service Framework with RabbitMQ 3.11.
The following fields now appear correctly in Service Framework Manager's pages after installing:
- Service Provider
- Show errors on Screen
- Test Mode Cabinets
- Pre Load reporting Engine
- Logging Level
- Use Cinema Default Seat Allocation
- Log Activity
Active SSL certificates no longer appear as expired in Service Framework Manager.
Installation no longer fails at the INSTALLING Service Framework Services step when upgrading Vista applications using Service Framework Services.
The Service Framework web server now starts and the login page, dashboard, and other pages all appear as expected, even when a Service Framework component package was missing the Application.zip file.
Region-specific numeric formatting configuration no longer occasionally causes an error similar to "Failed to update Directory Service data.
Now when upgrading Service Framework, any deprecated Alert Manager, Configuration Distributor, Configuration Handlers and Content Delivery queue processor configurations are removed to improve performance.
Loyalty Manager now loads when an Organisation Code is entered in Service Framework Manager.
Performance
- Service Framework no longer sends update requests to the database continuously, preventing an unnecessarily large number of meaningless updates to the InstanceMetadata table.
Service Framework no longer continues trying to establish a connection with a service that has been stopped.
Security
When a URI path can't be found, the alert message no longer discloses internal server information.
Stability
The Service Framework landing page and web applications now load correctly without users needing to refresh the page.
October 2023
Fixes
Functionality
Some active SSL certificates no longer incorrectly appear as expired in Service Framework Manager.
Stability
We've fixed an issue in the Service Framework landing page, where users would see a blank screen and need to refresh the page to load information.
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Service Framework release notes have been updated for May 2025.
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See updates for all products in this release in the Vista Cloud release summary: H1 2026 maintenance updates.
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