The BigFix team is pleased to announce the release of version 10.0 Patch 3 (10.0.3.66) of the BigFix Platform.
The main features in this release are as follows:
- Added support for the BigFix Agent running on macOS 11 M1 / ARM64.
- Security enhancements
- Defect Articles (DA) and defect fixes
- Upgrade the following external libraries:
- The SQLite library was upgraded to Version 3.34.1.
- The OpenLDAP library was upgraded to Version 2.4.56.
- The OpenSSL library was upgraded to Version 1.0.2y.
Additional information about this release
- The standalone BigFix tools are published under the 10.0 Utilities section in BigFix Enterprise Suite Download Center.
References
- See the full technical changelist
Pre-Upgrade Considerations
- This release includes all the BigFix Platform components. It also includes the Plugin Portal that enables the Multicloud and Modern Client Management capabilities.
- The unixODBC RPM package is a prerequisite for the Server components on Linux systems (see Server Requirements). This applies to version 10.0 Patch 2 and later.
- Upgrade paths to BigFix 10 begin with v9.5.10 or later. For details, see Upgrade paths (Windows) and Upgrade paths (Linux).
- 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
Upgrade Fixlets are available in BES Support version 1451 (or later).