<font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><div><font face="Courier New,Courier,monospace">The IBM BigFix team is releasing 9.5 (9.5.0.311) of the BigFix Platform. The main features of this release include:<br><br> * Unicode Support<br> * SAML 2.0 authentication support for the BigFix Console<br> * Use of HTTPS protocol for site gathering and license updates<br> * Enablement of Agent on RHEL OS running on PowerPC LE hardware<br> * Database cleanup tools now included in BESAdmin <br><br><br>This release includes all Platform components.<br><br>For more details on the features in this release, see the following Wiki:<br><br><a target="_blank" href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#%21/wiki/Tivoli%20Endpoint%20Manager/page/IBM%20BigFix%209.5.0%20Release%20Notes">https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Endpoint%20Manager/page/IBM%20BigFix%209.5.0%20Release%20Notes</a><br><br>Downloads and release information are available at:<br><br><a target="_blank" href="http://support.bigfix.com/bes/release/9.5/patch0/">http://support.bigfix.com/bes/release/9.5/patch0/.</a><br><br>Upgrade Fixlets are available in BES Support version 1252 (or higher).<br><br>Discuss this on the forum:<br><br><a target="_blank" href="https://forum.bigfix.com">https://forum.bigfix.com</a><br><br>An announcement of the release will be posted on the forum shortly.</font></div><span><font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div><span class="s-pref-r-pane"><br></span></div></font></font></span></font><font size="2"><span><font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div><span class="s-pref-r-pane"></span><br></div></font></font></span></font><br></font><BR>