Domino 6.1.0 (June 2025) (LA)

New features

Domino Volumes for NetApp ONTAP

NetApp Volumes allow for users to instantly snapshot training data for auditability and reproducibility with no extra storage required.

Local IDE Support via SSH

Users are now able to use SSH to create a connection from their local machine to a remote Domino workspace, allowing them to browse and edit files (code, datasets, artifacts, etc.) in the remote workspace from their local IDE. Additionally, it allows users to connect their local desktop GUI tools to remote compute in Domino workspaces.

Improvements

Governance enhancements

Domino Apps Enhancements

Apps have been reimagined in Domino to include the following improvements:

  • Multiple apps can be deployed in a single project.

  • Custom URLs for easy sharing.

  • IAM-based access control and audit logging of apps and underlying data.

  • Smart app scaling of always-on apps for cost optimization.

Environment Enhancements

Domino Environments now offer the following:

Audit Trail Enhancements

  • Designate reason for change with electronic signature.

    • Users are now able to apply an electronic signature to complete certain tasks. From within the Audit Trail, Admins have full visibility into all e-signature details, including the username, user authentication status, action taken, timestamp of action, and additional metadata entered at the time of e-signature.

    • Domino’s new Download as CSV feature allows SysAdmin, CloudAdmin, and GovernanceAdmin users to export Audit Trail data directly from the interface. This functionality helps support both internal and external compliance requirements.

      When the Download CSV button is clicked, the generated CSV files will reflect the filters and table columns selected.

Domino Flows Enhancements

Publish Domino Flow Outputs as Reusable Datasets: Automatically convert Flow outputs (e.g., CSVs, files) to versioned Datasets for downstream use.

Cost Center Dashboard

The Cost Center Dashboard lets administrators easily view infrastructure costs across their Domino deployment. It provides quick insights into resource usage and cost trends over time. Learn more about the Cost Center.

Simplified Data Plane Management (Public Preview)

Admins are now able to more easily register and upgrade Data Planes through the UI. Any Data Planes installed before 6.1 will need to be migrated to this new model. Your Domino Account team will work with you to assist with this migration.

Configurable Idle Timeout

Admins now have the ability to configure an idle timeout period for automatic session management. When users remain inactive across all Domino tabs for a specified period, the system will now automatically log them out of their entire session for enhanced security. This intelligent timeout mechanism monitors actual user interaction rather than just session duration, providing better security without disrupting active work. Unlike the previous behavior where sessions remained active indefinitely or required manual logout, this new feature ensures automated session termination during extended periods of inactivity, even if the browser remains open or the system is locked.

Enhanced monitoring capabilities

Enhanced monitoring capabilities for Domino Admins with new metrics and dashboards that provide visibility into workload success rates and startup performance. These improvements enable proactive issue detection, faster debugging, and reduced reliance on external monitoring tools, ultimately improving administrator self-sufficiency and reducing resolution time for issues.

Bug fixes

  • When cache=True is set in a Flow, it now correctly uses cached outputs when the underlying code changes or other flow configuration settings are changed, even when use_latest=True or use_project_defaults_for_omitted=True is set.

  • Kerberos keytab is now mounted on the workload service, enabling jobs (batch or schedule) to work as expected.

  • Fixed an issue that caused authentication problems for Git projects on Bitbucket when tokens contained special characters requiring escaping.

  • Addressed a Jupyter AI Lab 2.24 issue where using /learn with wildcards could fail. A newer version that addresses the issue is included.

  • Keycloak chart has been enhanced to allow for idempotent installation after its deletion. Note that if this is done during an upgrade and the Keycloak version is prior to v22, some configuration may be lost. Reach out to Domino Support if this is the case.

  • GitHub Enterprise projects with internal visibility can be created.

  • Enhances reliability of MongoDB restart sequence by explicitly checking for port closure to avoid race conditions or startup conflicts.

  • The confirmation modal when transferring a Project was improved by removing redundant inputs.

  • The Environment’s "Pluggable Workspace Tools" property is now properly validated: Valid YAMLs with the wrong structure/values will display a validation error toast and prevent the revision from being created.

Known issues

  • Flows is only supported in Domino Cloud, AWS, and Azure. A future update will add support for Google Cloud and on-premises installs.

  • When annotating a Domino Flows sub workflow’s outputs as a Flows Artifact, the artifacts will not be properly exposed in the Artifacts UI for that Flow.

  • In Azure Blob Store deployments, Projects with many files may fail to sync through the Domino CLI. To work around this issue, do not disable file locking when prompted by Domino.

  • You cannot view the latest raw file if you click View Latest Raw File. In the navigation pane, go to Files and click a file to view its details.

  • If idle timeout is configured on a deployment, Domino may not recognize pages opened in spawned tabs (e.g., via Ctrl+Click) or outside of an iFrame as being active. Users may be unintentionally logged out despite activity in the spawned pages.

  • When uploading a large file to the Azure blob store by syncing a Workspace, you may encounter a Java Out of Memory error from Azure if the file/blob already exists. To work around this issue, use the Domino CLI to upload the file to the Project.

  • Model Monitoring data sources aren’t validated. If you enter an invalid bucket name and attempt to save, the entry will go through. However, you won’t be able to see metrics for that entry, because the name points to an invalid bucket.

  • When restarting an RStudio workspace with home directory persistence enabled, the user may see a notice stating that the previous session was abnormally terminated due to a crash. This notice is only due to how the new feature interacts with RStudio and does not result in any data loss.

  • Domino instances that make use of Azure Blob Storage may experience stalled Jobs within Projects with many large files.

  • If you attach a Git repository to a DFS Project that points to a tagged release, the tag won’t be honored when building a Domino endpoint in that Project. The build log will show an error similar to the following, and the model will be built using the default branch of your Git repository instead of the tagged branch:

    Jul 05 2023 14:36:27 -0500 #10 6.481 WARN [d.r.d.GitRepoUpdater] could not parse ref: v1.3.0 checking out default branch correlationId="iA2qWrYSLQ" thread="main"

    To work around this issue, use the branch name when building Domino endpoints instead of the release tag.

  • If an admin resets a user’s password, it invalidates all the user’s authentication tokens, including tokens used for long-running tasks like Jobs, Workspaces, or Apps. The user must create a new password, log back into Domino, and restart all executions. This also applies to CLI authentication; the user must re-login to their Domino CLI.

  • Data storage page fails to load when the dataplane agent in the remote data plane is scaled down to zero.

  • Nucleus Dispatcher restart hangs during Quartz Scheduler startup following a MongoDB replica set scale-down. As a workaround, manually remove the unavailable replica from the replica set using the Mongo CLI command.

  • SSH is not yet supported for Workspaces running in remote data planes, only the local data plane is supported. The fix is planned for 6.1.1.

  • If a project is created from a template that contains three or more Data Sources, only the first two Data Sources are included.

  • One misconfigured endpoint causes the mlflow-deployments pod to crashloop and AI gateway to fail with 502 errors.

  • During a 48-hour soak test, the nginx-ingress-controller pods exhibited a gradual increase in memory usage while handling heavy Domino Endpoint workloads. The cause is under investigation.

Validated frameworks

The following versions have been validated with Domino 6.1.0. Other versions might be compatible but are not guaranteed.

See also the ddlctl and fleetcommand-agent Release Notes.

Upgrade notes

  • OpenShift version compatibility remains at 1.30 (OpenShift 4.17).

  • GKE version compatibility remains at 1.32.

  • AKS version compatibility has been updated to 1.32.

  • EKS version compatibility remains at 1.32.

  • Discontinued support for connecting to the Domino Pinecone data source through Pinecone Python client versions < 3.0.0, as Pinecone has sunset all legacy environments.

  • The mixpanel.token configuration in the deploy.yaml file is no longer required. When mixpanel.enabled is set to true, the system automatically uses the appropriate token value. Remove mixpanel.token from your deploy.yaml if present, as it may cause issues during upgrades.

  • Upgraded Keycloak to 26.1.4.