<div dir="ltr"><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant:normal;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The BigFix Inventory Team is proud to announce the new version of the </span><span style="font-variant:normal;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">BigFix Inventory</span><span style="font-variant:normal;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></font></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);white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Product:</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">BigFix Inventory application update 11.0.9.0</span></font></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Published site:</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">BigFix Inventory version 20</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Features:</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></font></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Key features in HCL BigFix Inventory <a href="http://11.0.9.0/" target="_blank">11.0.9.0</a>: </font></span></p><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">AI Management</font></span></li><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline">New </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">Blocklist</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline"> and </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">Unblock</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline"> actions in the AI Management dashboard</span></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">AI Web Assistants</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> inventory with a new </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">BigFix Scanner Browser</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">Extension</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. Data is presented in the</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline"> AI Management</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> dashboard and dedicated </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">AI Web Assistants</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> report.</span></font></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">For more details, refer to the release notes.</font></span></li></ul></ul><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">Oracle Database </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-variant:normal;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">License Optimizer</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-variant:normal;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline"> dashboards</span></li></ul><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.08;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A ready-to-use dashboards delivering AI-powered pricing insights and essential tools to optimize licenses and reduce costs, dedicated for Oracle Database products. For details, check </span><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/inventory/Inventory/overview/license_optimizer_for_Oracle_DB_products.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/inventory/Inventory/overview/license_optimizer_for_Oracle_DB_products.html</span></a></font></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline">Ideas </span><a href="https://bigfix.ideas.hcl-software.com/ideas/BFINV-I-384" target="_blank" style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">BFINV-I-384</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline">, </span><a href="https://bigfix.ideas.hcl-software.com/ideas/BFINV-I-79" target="_blank" style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">BFINV-I-79</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline">: Hardware Inventory data for macOS devices</span></font></li><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Support for Capacity and Detailed Hardware Scans</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Minimum requirements: macOS 12 or later, BigFix Platform Agent 11.0.6 or later, BigFix Scanner 11.0.44 or later</font></li></ul></ul><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Blocklist software actions</font></span></li><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Blocklist action is available now also on a Product level (<span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">Product & Metrics</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline"> report supports tags)</span></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">New <span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">Blocklist </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline">and </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">Unblock </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline">actions are available on </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">Software Classification, Catalog Components</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline"> and </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">Products & Metrics. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline">Those actions add/remove blocklist tags to selected Catalog definitions, Software Instances and Products.</span></font></li></ul></ul><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Catalog update enhancements</font></span></li><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Idea <a href="https://bigfix.ideas.hcl-software.com/ideas/BFINV-I-101" target="_blank" style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">BFINV-I-101</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline">: Automatic HCL catalog update is enabled by default for fresh installation and can be also configured after the upgrade. When this option is enabled then the catalog import time does not affect the scheduled data import time. </span>Note: IBM catalog is updated with the server upgrade or by using a dedicated Fixlet.</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">New advanced server settings are available to control when a new catalog is available to automatically download and update it on the server.</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">New option available in <span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">Management>Catalog>Server Software Catalog</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline"> to apply new catalog on demand not waiting for the scheduled import. This is for configuration where automatic catalog update is disabled.</span></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The <span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">Management>Catalog>Server Software Catalog</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline"> panel is updated to support the enhancements above</span></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Idea <a href="https://bigfix.ideas.hcl-software.com/ideas/IDEACNCTNS-I-2242" target="_blank" style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">IDEACNCTNS-I-224</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline">: New Rest APIs for catalog import</span></font></li></ul></ul><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Software bundling enhancements</font></span></li><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">A new option in the <span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">Assign Components to Product or IBM Product Bundle</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline"> panel, which allows narrowing the bundling options only to products detected on selected computers</span></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Allowed Bundlings<span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline"> report offers a new </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">Source</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline"> column.</span></font></li></ul></ul><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Software Discovery Evidence enhancements</font></li><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Package Data<span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline"> report is renamed to </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">Application Evidence</span></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Package Summary<span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline"> is renamed to </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">Application Summary Evidence</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline"> and it is calculated by default for All Computers (on demand option stays for remaining computer groups). </span></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Scanned File Data<span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline"> renamed to </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">File Evidence</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline"> and moved under </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">Software</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline"> menu </span></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Add signature<span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline"> option renamed to </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">Classify</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline"> and it is also added to the actions bar</span></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent">Note: Classification from the </span><span style="font-variant:normal;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Application Evidence Summary</span><span style="font-variant:normal;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is automatic based on the normalized name, vendor and version columns available in this report. Classification from the </span><span style="font-variant:normal;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Application Evidence</span><span style="font-variant:normal;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> report allows for a simple confirmation or advanced edit option (custom catalog signature panel).</span></font></li></ul></ul><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">User interface changes<span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></font></li><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Login window and Users reports - labels and styles adjusted to BigFix guidelines</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Style of selected widgets in Dashboard adjusted to BigFix guidelines</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Table grid style adjusted to BigFix guidelines</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Configurable table density in reports and management panels. A <span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">Comfortable </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline">density is set as default. A previous </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">Standard</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline"> density can be selected and is active for the user session time.</span></font></li></ul></ul><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">BigFix Inventory 11.0.9 is an equivalent to IBM License Metric Tool 9.2.44.X for IBM Virtualization Capacity reporting.</font></li><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The <span style="font-variant:normal;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">BigFix Inventory 11.0.9 is an IBM-approved tool</span><span style="font-variant:normal;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. For details refer to the IBM BFI FAQ document: </span><a href="https://www.ibm.com/downloads/documents/us-en/16ddd5a57a3948f6" target="_blank" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.ibm.com/downloads/documents/us-en/16ddd5a57a3948f6</span></a></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Note: The scanner equivalent is BigFix Scanner v11.0.44.0. For details refer to the platform announcements and the scanner release notes: <a href="https://support.bigfix.com/scanner/BigFix-Scanner-11.0.44.0-ReleaseNotes.pdf" target="_blank" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://support.bigfix.com/scanner/BigFix-Scanner-11.0.44.0-ReleaseNotes.pdf</span></a></font></li></ul></ul><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">mTLS support for License Reclamation functionality for BigFix DEX </font></li></ul><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Other usability and serviceability enhancements</font></li><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Saved Reports: Name <span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline">is sorted locally to assure alphabetical and not database order.</span></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">BigFix Inventory installer offers more granular error codes</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Software Summary<span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline"> report offers </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">Usage Actively Monitored</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline"> information</span></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Unsupported Virtualization status is available in the <span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline">VM Managers</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline"> panel</span></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The BFI utility supports an option to display the BigFix Inventory server and BFI Utility versions</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Datasource Delete process for DB2  - stored procedure for optimal removal of large data sets</font></li></ul></ul><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Catalog 20260913 is included in the server package</font></span></li></ul><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Support for new systems and platforms</font></li><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Debian 13 (x86-64) support for the managed devices</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">VMware ESXi 9.0 is supported virtualization</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">MS SQL Server 2025 and DB2 12.1.4 and higher are supported as BigFix Inventory server database</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Linux Red Hat Enterprise 10 x86-64 for BigFix Inventory server</font></li></ul></ul><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Security enhancements</font></li><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Open Liberty was upgraded to version 26.0.0.9</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Java JRE was upgraded to version 21.0.12.10 for all components</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">A number of other libraries have been updated.</font></li></ul></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">To view the complete list of new features and defects that were fixed in this application update, refer to the release notes.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Server and tools: </span><a href="https://support.bigfix.com/bfi/BigFix-Inventory-11.0.9.0-ReleaseNotes.pdf" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://support.bigfix.com/bfi/BigFix-Inventory-11.0.9.0-ReleaseNotes.pdf</span></a></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Catalog: </span><a href="https://support.bigfix.com/bfi/BigFix-Inventory-Catalog-20260913-ReleaseNotes.pdf" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://support.bigfix.com/bfi/BigFix-Inventory-Catalog-20260913-ReleaseNotes.pdf</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Scanner: </span><a href="https://support.bigfix.com/scanner/BigFix-Scanner-11.0.44.0-ReleaseNotes.pdf" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://support.bigfix.com/scanner/BigFix-Scanner-11.0.44.0-ReleaseNotes.pdf</span></a></font></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Actions needed:</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></font></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To upgrade the </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">BigFix Inventory server</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> to application update 11.0.9.0, run the </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Upgrade to the latest version of BigFix Inventory</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Fixlet from the BigFix console and the </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">BigFix Inventory</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> site.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Important! </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">It is recommended to restart the BigFix Inventory Server after successful database schema upgrade to ensure proper initialization of internal information about current database schema.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The complete upgrade procedure and post-upgrade steps are available in the product documentation:</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/inventory/Inventory/upgrading/t_upgrading.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/inventory/Inventory/upgrading/t_upgrading.html</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></a><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/BigFix_Scanner/BigFix_Scanner/Installation/upgrading_scanner_tools_actions.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/BigFix_Scanner/BigFix_Scanner/Installation/upgrading_scanner_tools_actions.html</span></a></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For more information about how to install, maintain, and use the BigFix Inventory application, refer to the user documentation: </span><a href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/inventory/welcome/BigFix_Inventory_welcome.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/inventory/welcome/BigFix_Inventory_welcome.html</span></a></font></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To find out more about Software Asset Management at BigFix, visit the BigFix page: </span><a href="https://www.hcl-software.com/bigfix/software-asset-management" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.hcl-software.com/bigfix/software-asset-management</span></a></font></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></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);white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">We hope you find this latest release of BigFix Inventory content useful and effective.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Thank you! </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">– The BigFix Inventory Team </font></span></p></div></div></div>