What's new in this Catalog release

BigFix Inventory provides new features and enhancements that facilitate your work with the application. For more information, follow BigFix Forum - Inventory (Release Announcements).

Notice: Starting in July 2024, Catalog updates are available from a new BigFix Inventory Discovery site, and BigFix Inventory server version 11.x is required for this and all subsequent catalog releases. It is recommended to update to the latest versions, as every update may bring important security updates.

Below are the version numbers for the current release:

Products and published sites

BigFix Inventory Server version 11.0.0.0: BigFix Inventory site version 2

BigFix Inventory Catalog version 20240612: BigFix Inventory Discovery site version 2

Starting with BigFix Inventory version 10.0.13, the BigFix Inventory team initiated catalog-related improvements to be ready for more frequent and server-independent updates. All changes up to version 10.0.16 are summarized in a dedicated BigFix forum post.

Catalog update 20240612

Features available in the current release

  • A new BigFix Inventory Discovery site for catalog updates
  • Reduced catalog package size as backward compatible files were removed
  • Refined the main catalog content for streamlined processing and removal of orphan records
  • Integrated new definitions to reduce noise and enhance out-of-the-box discovery capabilities.
  • A new format of changelist that includes additions, removals, and modifications. The first changelist includes all changes between the 20240306 catalog and this release, and it will grow bigger with each update.
  • Discovery of 250+ new software versions with the use of standard and template signatures, including software manufacturers such as Adobe, Micro Focus, Microsoft, Oracle, VMware, etc.
  • The ideas implemented are BFINV-I-270 and BFINV-I-355. GUIDs are added to the new change list.
  • End-of-support information has been refreshed for Oracle software.

To view the complete list of new features and defects that were fixed in this application update, refer to the Catalog release notes.

To ensure a seamless transition without disrupting existing BigFix Inventory, deployments there is change to the distribution method and compatibility definitions of the catalog.

Upgrading the BigFix Inventory server to version 11 is required to activate the catalog import option. Previous versions of the BigFix Inventory server will ignore new catalogs during import time. For more information, refer to Upgrading BigFix Inventory.

Contact support if specific discovery gaps are noticed in reports before and after catalog updates.