# Agent Management plugin

Agent Management plugin
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The Agent Management plugin has CloudBees CD/RO procedures that you can use to manage CloudBees CD/RO agents, including how to publish an CloudBees CD/RO installer to the artifact repository.

[](#_prerequisites)Prerequisites
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This plugin uses an updated version of Perl, cb-perl shell (Perl v5.32), and requires CloudBees CD/RO agents version 10.3+ to work.

Plugin version 1.5.4.2023120116 Revised Decemember 07, 2023

The **Publish Installer** procedure is used when remote agents are installed or upgraded. For more information, refer to [Remote host traditional installation with Centralized Agent Management](/docs/cloudbees-cd/latest/install-trad/installing-or-upgrading-remote-agents) and [Upgrade remote agents](/docs/cloudbees-cd/latest/upgrade-traditional/remote-agents).

[](#rns)Release notes
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### [](#_ec_agentmanagement_1_5_4)EC-AgentManagement 1.5.4

*   Upgraded from Perl 5.8 to Perl 5.32. The plugin is not backward compatible with CloudBees CD/RO versions prior to v10.3. Starting from this release, a new agent is required to run EC-AgentManagement plugin procedures.