The BigFix Team is pleased to announce the release of version 10 Patch 14 (10.0.14.63) of BigFix Platform.
The main features in this release are as follows:
Updated API version
- The API version used by agent to retrieve information from Azure Cloud was upgraded to Version 2023-07-01.
Upgrade of the following libraries/drivers
- libssh2 library upgraded to version 1.11.1
- Openssl library upgraded to version 1.0.2zl
Security enhancements
Defect Articles (DA), defect fixes and Serviceability enhancements
For details, see the technical specification section below.
Additional information about this release
- The standalone BigFix tools are published under the 10.0 Utilities section in BigFix Enterprise Suite Download Center.
- A Non-Functional Requirements checklist, covering both performance and security management of your BigFix deployment, is available at BigFix Performance & Capacity Planning Resources
References
- See the full technical changelist.
Pre-Upgrade Considerations
- This release includes all the BigFix Platform components.
- The unixODBC RPM package is a prerequisite for the Server components on Linux systems (see Server Requirements). This applies to version 10.0.2 and later.
- Upgrade paths to BigFix 10 begin with v9.5.10 or later. For details, see Upgrade considerations
- For detailed information on the specific changes to minimum supported versions of operating systems and databases for BigFix 10, see Detailed system requirements
- Before getting started with the upgrade process, stop any active application that is connected to the BigFix database (such as Web Reports, WebUI, BigFix Inventory, or BigFix Compliance).
Useful links
- BigFix downloads and release information
- BigFix 10 documentation
- Home page
- Upgrade considerations
- Detailed system requirements
Upgrade Fixlets are available in BES Support version 1502 (or later).