<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The BigFix Team is pleased to announce the release of version 11 Patch 4</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> (11.0.4</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">60</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">) of BigFix Platform. The main features in this release are as follows:</span></font><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(23,43,77);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(23,43,77);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-e7261044-7fff-ce3e-7473-e66c8d5746fa"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">You can now secure HTTPS communication in BigFix with your preferred Certificate Authority! (aka Bring Your Own CA)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 6pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">With the </span><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(238,238,238);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">setcustomca</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> BESAdmin command, you can install an external Certificate Authority (CA) in the BigFix Platform. When that happens, BigFix components at 11.0.4 and later versions will start using certificates generated from the imported CA to secure HTTPS traffic. Back level components will continue to use the current BigFix CA. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">For details, see </span><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/platform/Platform/Config/c_custom_CA.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Configuring the root server with a custom CA</span></a><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, </span><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_besadmin_windows_cli.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">BESAdmin Windows Command Line</span></a><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> and </span><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_besadmin_linux_cli.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">BESAdmin Linux Command Line</span></a><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">More console performance improvements!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p></span></span></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(23,43,77);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Prior releases have improved console load times and performance analytics.  Our goal was to cut console load times in half, and customers generally meet or exceed this goal.  With this release we have improved the general console performance, with a focus on process concurrency, efficiency, and device correlation impact.  The net is through our cumulative improvements, you have a more responsive console!</span></p></span></span></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(23,43,77);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">More options for High Availability & Disaster Recovery (HADR)!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p></span></span></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(23,43,77);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The BigFix HADR solution until now has involved the Disaster Server Architecture (DSA) based on proprietary replication code. We now offer a full HADR solution based on a combination of database replication (e.g., and MS SQL Availability  Group), cluster management, and shared file store.  The solution aligns with industry best practices, has reference level data integrity, and is operationally more scalable and lighter weight than the DSA solution. This is especially important if you consider BigFix “mission critical” to your business!</span></p></span></span></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(23,43,77);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p></span></span></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(23,43,77);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">For details, see </span><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_ha_dr_configurations.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">HA and DR configurations</span></a><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p></span></span></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(23,43,77);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Enhanced PeerNest!  Streamlined functionality and reduced network traffic</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p></span></span></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(23,43,77);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Significant advancement in PeerNest efficiency: agents can exchange payloads among themselves without the need of Multicast UDP. Root Server and Relays will be used as trackers, sharing information about which clients are able to share which files. This means reduced network traffic, possibility to leverage the capability in diverse networking environments, and improved efficiency especially in the early phases of the communication. </span></p></span></span></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(23,43,77);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">For details, see </span><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/platform/Platform/Config/c_peernest_without_multicast.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Configuring PeerNest without the multicast function</span></a><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> and </span><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/platform/Platform/Config/r_client_set.html#r_client_set__peer" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Peer to peer mode</span></a><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Higher Relay Scalability!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><br></span></p></span></span></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(23,43,77);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">A non-authenticating relay on Windows and Linux can now support up to 10000 endpoints!</span></p></span></span></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(23,43,77);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Increased number of persistent connections!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p></span></span></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(23,43,77);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Persistent connections can be enabled on network configurations where UDP notifications are not available. The limit of endpoints that can be configured in this way is increased to 1000 per Relay.</span></p></span></span></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(23,43,77);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">BigFix Relay metrics collected and exposed!</span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 6pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">You can now monitor the status and efficiency of your relay infrastructure. The relay is now able to collect and expose metrics related to its HTTP server operations and lets you use Prometheus to collect them. The collected data can then be viewed and analyzed by a visualization application such as Grafana.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">For details, see </span><a href="https://developer.bigfix.com/other/metrics-api/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,122,135);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Exposed Metrics</span></a><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> and </span><a href="https://developer.bigfix.com/other/metrics-api/metrics.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,122,135);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Exported Metrics</span></a><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p></span></span></div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-indent:36pt">Data upload infrastructure enhancement - Pass-Through mode on Relays!</span><br><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-indent:36pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-indent:36pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline">I</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-indent:36pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline">n file upload scenarios, BigFix Platform allows you to enable the BigFix Relays to immediately forward received file chunks upstream, instead of storing files locally, using a new setting named </span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-indent:36pt;font-family:"Courier New",monospace;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(238,238,238);vertical-align:baseline">_BESRelay_PostFile_PassThrough</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-indent:36pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline">.</span></div></blockquote><div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(23,43,77);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 12pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">For details, see </span><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/platform/Platform/Config/r_client_set.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">List of settings and detailed descriptions</span></a><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p></span></span></div></div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-weight:700"><div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-weight:700"><br></span></div>VMware cloud plugin connection secured with vCenter certificates!</span><br><font color="#000000" face="Open Sans, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></font><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">BigFix Platform allows you to install the vCenter certificates on the system where you intend to install the VMware cloud plugin; this allows it to open secure connections.</span></blockquote><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(23,43,77);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">For details, see </span><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/platform/Platform/Config/c_config_cplugins.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Configuring cloud plugins</span></a><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p></span></span></div><div><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br>Azure cloud plugin is able to put the VMs in a deallocated state!</span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 6pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 6pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Azure cloud plugin has a new command named </span><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(238,238,238);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">deallocate instance</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">; by leveraging this feature you can more closely control your infrastructure costs on Azure.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">For details, see </span><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/platform/Platform/Config/c_azure_cloudplugins_commands.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Microsoft Azure Plugin Commands</span></a><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Added BESAdmin command to convert BigFix operators from one Identity Provider to another!</span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 6pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 6pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">With the </span><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(238,238,238);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">converttoidpoperators</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> BESAdmin command, you can convert BigFix operators from one Identity Provider to another already configured Identity Provider. This is useful if, for example, you want to convert your BigFix operators from referencing MSAD to referencing Entra ID.  This command is available on Windows platform only.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt;padding:6pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">For details, see </span><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_besadmin_windows_cli.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">BESAdmin Windows Command Line</span></a><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Added BESAdmin command to set the priority in case of transaction deadlocks in the database!</span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 6pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 6pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">With the </span><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(238,238,238);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">databaseDeadlockPriority</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> BESAdmin command, you can set a "Low", "Normal" or "High" priority for the BigFix Administration tool Computer Remover and Audit Trail Cleaner so that you can influence how Microsoft SQL Server resolves the deadlocks. In particular, setting the </span><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(238,238,238);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">databaseDeadlockPriority</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> option value to "High" ensures that critical transactions are most likely not interrupted.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 12pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">For details, see </span><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_besadmin_windows_cli.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">BESAdmin Windows Command Line</span></a><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, </span><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_besadmin_linux_cli.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">BESAdmin Linux Command Line</span></a><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, </span><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_clean_up_computer.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Computer Remover</span></a><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> and </span><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_audit_trial_cleaner.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Audit Trail Cleaner</span></a><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Added BESAdmin command to rotate the BigFix WebUI certificate!</span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 6pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 6pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">With the </span><span style="font-family:"Courier New",monospace;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(238,238,238);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">rotatewebuicredentials</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> BESAdmin command, you can rotate one BigFix WebUI certificate associated to a given hostname, or the whole BigFix WebUI Certificate Authority (CA) and all BigFix WebUI certificates.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6pt 0pt 12pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">For details, see </span><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_besadmin_windows_cli.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">BESAdmin Windows Command Line</span></a><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> and </span><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_besadmin_linux_cli.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">BESAdmin Linux Command Line</span></a><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Inspector changes!</span></p><ul style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:36pt"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">New client inspector type named "cidr subnet" was added to represent the Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) value. For details, see </span><a href="https://developer.bigfix.com/relevance/reference/cidr-subnet.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="color:rgb(0,122,135);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">cidr subnet</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:36pt"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">New "named" constructor for process inspector on MacOS to return the process object corresponding to the specified name. For details, see </span><a href="https://developer.bigfix.com/relevance/reference/process.html" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">https://developer.bigfix.com/relevance/reference/process.html</span></a></p></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:36pt"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">New inspector properties named "first line of" and "last line of" were added to return specific lines of a given file. For details, see </span><a href="https://developer.bigfix.com/relevance/reference/file-line.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="color:rgb(0,122,135);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">file line</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:36pt"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">New inspector properties named "first rawline of" and "last rawline of" were added to return specific rawlines of a given file. For details, see </span><a href="https://developer.bigfix.com/relevance/reference/file-rawline.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="color:rgb(0,122,135);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">file rawline</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:36pt"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:14pt" role="presentation"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">New inspector properties named "enabled of", "global state of" and "stealth enabled of" were added on MacOS to return specific firewall information. For details, see </span><a href="https://developer.bigfix.com/relevance/reference/firewall.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="color:rgb(0,122,135);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">firewall</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p></li></ul><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Added Support for BigFix Server on Windows and Linux with database Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server 2022</span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 6pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Starting from Patch 4, BigFix Server on Windows Server (2019 or later) and on Red Hat 9 supports Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server 2022 database.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Added Support for BigFix Server on Windows and Linux with database Azure SQL Managed Instance for Microsoft SQL Server 2022</span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Starting from Patch 4, BigFix Server on Windows Server (2019 or later) and on Red Hat 9 supports Azure SQL Managed Instance for Microsoft SQL Server 2022 database.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Added Support for BigFix Agent</span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Added support for BigFix Agent running on Alma Linux 9.5 x86 64-bit.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Library and driver upgrades</span></p><ul style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);list-style-type:disc;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The boost library was upgraded to Version 1.87.0.</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);list-style-type:disc;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The jQuery-UI library was upgraded to Version 1.14.0.</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);list-style-type:disc;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The libssh2 library was upgraded to Version 1.11.1.</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);list-style-type:disc;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The OpenSSL library was upgraded to Version 3.2.4.</span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#000000">InstallShield was upgraded to Version 2024 R2. </font></span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:14pt" role="presentation"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#000000">The Xerces-C++ XML Parser library was upgraded to Version 3.3.0</font></span></p></li></ul><div style=""><font color="#444746" face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></font></div><div style=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b>Additional information about this release </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"></p><ul><li>The standalone BigFix tools are published under the <a href="https://support.bigfix.com/bes/release/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)">11.0 Utilities</a> section in BigFix Enterprise Suite Download Center</li><li>A Non-Functional Requirements checklist, covering both performance and security management of your BigFix deployment, is available at <span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/landing/Technical+Documents/Landing_page_shared/Technical_Documents.html" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)">BigFix Performance & Capacity Planning Resources</a> </li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b>References</b> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"></p><ul><li>See the full<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span>technical<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><a href="https://support.bigfix.com/bes/changes/fullchangelist-110.txt" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)">changelist</a> </li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b>Pre-Upgrade Considerations </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Important considerations<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span>to keep into account before upgrading to BigFix Platform Version 11 are: </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"></p><ul><li>BigFix<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span>Version 10.0.7<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span>is the minimum version supporting the upgrade of the BigFix server components to Version 11 </li><li>You must enable the “Enhanced Security” before upgrading BigFix Platform to Version 11 </li><li>The minimum TLS supported protocol in<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span>BigFix<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span>V11 is TLS 1.<span class="gmail-il">2</span> </li><li>The SHA1 hashing algorithm for content and action signature will no longer be supported. SHA1 is still supported for file download in actionscript. For details, see the <a href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_overview.html" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)">BigFix Platform V11 Overview Page</a>  </li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"></p><ul><li>The unixODBC RPM package is a prerequisite for the Server components on Linux systems (see Server Requirements). This applies to installations with a DB2 database.</li><li>The msodbcsql17 RPM package is a prerequisite for the Server components on Linux systems (see Server Requirements). This applies to installations with a MSSQL database</li></ul><p></p></div></span></div><div><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><div style=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"></p><ul><li>For detailed information on the specific changes to minimum supported versions of operating systems and databases for BigFix 11, see <a href="https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0104120" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)">Detailed system requirements</a>. </li><li>Before<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span>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). </li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b>Useful links </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"></p><ul><li><a href="https://support.bigfix.com/bes/release/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)">BigFix downloads and release information</a> </li><li><a href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/platform/welcome/BigFix_Platform_welcome.html" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)">BigFix 11 Platform Documentation</a></li><li><a href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_upgrading1.html" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)">Upgrade Windows considerations</a> </li><li><a href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/platform/Platform/Installation/c_upgrading1_linux.html" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)">Upgrade Linux considerations</a> </li><li><a href="https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0104120" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)">Detailed system requirements</a> </li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">A blog that discusses the benefits of BigFix 11 is available <a href="https://bigfix-mark.github.io/Blogs/BigFix%2011%20Improvements%20v1.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)">here</a> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Upgrade Fixlets are available in BES Support version 1600 (or later). </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Continue to discuss on the forum</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><a href="https://forum.bigfix.com/t/bigfix-11-0-patch-4-is-now-available/51502">https://forum.bigfix.com/t/bigfix-11-0-patch-4-is-now-available/51502</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">– HCL BigFix – Platform Team</p></div><p style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><br></p></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(23,43,77);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><br></p></span></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(23,43,77);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span><br><br></span></span></div></div>