[BESAdmin-Announcements] BigFix 10.0 Patch 9 is now available!

Mon Mar 20 14:01:19 PDT 2023

The BigFix Team is pleased to announce the release of version 10 Patch 9 (10.0.9.21) of BigFix Platform. The main features in this release are as follows:

CORE PLATFORM
Improved certificate management for HTTPS downloads
This release introduces a more flexible management of the CA bundles used in HTTPS downloads. For details, see Customizing HTTPS for downloads <https://help.hcltechsw.com/Bigfix/HelpCenter/10.0/platform/Platform/Config/c_customizing_HTTPS_downloads.html>  and Download<https://help.hcltechsw.com/Bigfix/HelpCenter/10.0/platform/Platform/Config/r_client_set.html#r_client_set__dwld>

CLOUD
MongoDB dependency removal from Plugin Portal
BigFix Platform 10.0 Patch 9 helps to reduce the total cost of ownership of a BigFix deployment by removing the Plugin Portal dependency from MongoDB for cloud related scenarios. The Plugin Portal can now be installed or upgraded without the need to have MongoDB. In case of Plugin Portal upgrades, reports stored in MongoDB will be automatically migrated to the SQLite database tables. For details see The Plugin Portal<https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Config/c_pluginportal.html?hl=plugin%2Cportal>
Note that BigFix Modern Client Management / Mobile V2.1 application still requires MongoDB; if you are using this application, you cannot uninstall MongoDB after upgrading the Plugin Portal to version 10.0.9. The same applies if you are using the MongoDB instance for any non-BigFix-related purpose

Support for AWS IMDSv2
The BigFix Agent is now able to retrieve properties for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) instances that are configured to use AWS IMDSv2 protocol. This allows  to further enhance the security level of AWS instances by restricting IMDS usage to v2 only (IMDS v1 disabled) without any side effect on the BigFix deployment. For more details see: Correlated Devices<https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Config/c_assetcorrelation.html>

Added support for:

  *   Rocky Linux 9 (Agent, minimum supported version BigFix Platform 10.0.8)
  *   Oracle EL 9 (Agent, minimum supported version BigFix Platform 10.0.8)
  *   RHEL 9 ppc64le (Agent, minimum supported version BigFix Platform 10.0.8)
For more detail, see Detailed System Requirements<https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0087327>.

Upgrade of the following libraries:

  *   The cURL library was upgraded to Version 7.88.1
  *   The OpenSSL library was upgraded to Version 1.0.2zg

Defect Articles (DA), defect fixes and Serviceability enhancements<https://support.bigfix.com/bes/changes/fullchangelist-100.txt>

Additional information about this release

  *   The standalone BigFix tools are published under the 10.0 Utilities section in BigFix Enterprise Suite Download Center<http://support.bigfix.com/bes/release/>.
  *   A Non-Functional Requirements checklist, covering both performance and security management of your BigFix deployment, is available at BigFix Performance & Capacity Planning Resources<https://bigfix-mark.github.io/>

References

  *   See the full technical changelist<https://support.bigfix.com/bes/changes/fullchangelist-100.txt>

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<https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_bigfix_server.html>). This applies to version 10.0.2 and later.
  *   Upgrade paths to BigFix 10 begin with v9.5.10 or later. For details, see Upgrading on Windows systems<https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_upgrading1.html> and Upgrading on Linux systems<https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_upgrading1_linux.html>.
  *   For detailed information on the specific changes to minimum supported versions of operating systems and databases for BigFix 10, see Detailed System Requirements<https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0087327>.
  *   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 Enterprise Suite Download Center - 10.0 Patch 9<https://support.bigfix.com/bes/release/10.0/patch9/>
  *   BigFix 10 Platform Ddocumentation<https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/welcome/BigFix_Platform_welcome.html>
  *   BigFix Documentation Homepage<https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/index.html>
  *   Upgrading on Windows systems<https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_upgrading1.html>
  *   Upgrading on Linux systems<https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_upgrading1_linux.html>
  *   Detailed System Requirements<https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0087327>

Upgrade Fixlets are available in BES Support version 1477 (or later).

– HCL BigFix – Platform Team

Discuss further on the Forum<https://forum.bigfix.com/t/bigfix-10-0-patch-9-is-now-available/44615>
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