Traditionally after a major release (like 4.0, 5.0, 7.0), BigFix releases a “minor” release (4.1, 5.1, 7.1). Minor releases are designed to concentrate on small features, enhancements, bugfixes, and customer requested changes whereas major releases tend to be centered around larger features/enhancements.
For BigFix 7.1, the new features and changelists are here:
Remember that with the release of BigFix 7.1, BigFix 5.1 is now no longer supported (meaning that if you call us with issues with 5.1, we will be happy to help, but we will continually remind you of all the benefits and wonderful enhancements in the newer versions).
We normally “roll out” our upgrade Fixlet by starting with deployments with fewer seats and then increasing it over time. This is to help protect us from everyone upgrading at the same time and overwhelming our support and leading to poor service.
If you would like to roll-out your upgrade ahead of our roll-out schedule, you can simple remove that relevance clause from your server/console upgrade Fixlet and start your upgrade (or upgrade the server manually and the rest of the Fixlets should start to become relevant).
Good to see you are still working hard. Just a suggestion…when the update available e-mail is sent out…how about including the rollout schedule instead of making it sound like it is available for everyone.
Your team always does a great job! Keep up the good work.
We normally don’t have a set schedule for rollout (and again, you should feel free to update whenever you want)… normally, we will wait and see the upgrade progress and support load before increasing the seat count.
I just checked our server logs and as far as I can tell, there is somewhere around 50 deployments upgraded to 7.1 as of yesterday (not bad for the first 2 days of the release)… and I don’t think we have had any reported issues with the upgrade so far (apart from curth here: http://forum.bigfix.com/viewtopic.php?id=2268 … but based on the initial description, it sounds like it was something specific to curt’s deployment).
If everything continues to go well, I expect that we would upgrade the seat count on Monday… probably to 10,000 seats or so…
Remember that with the release of BigFix 7.1, BigFix 5.1 is now no longer supported (meaning that if you call us with issues with 5.1, we will be happy to help, but we will continually remind you of all the benefits and wonderful enhancements in the newer versions).
Ben
Do you not think it would be prudent to emphasize that the changes you made to the Enterprise Security site impacts environments that have 5.x clients? Effectively a 5.x client can not perform its function any longer in regards to using the Enterprise Security site content.
