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Last updated: 18.07.24 by Dominik Karch
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This Blog offers news that could be critical for the operation of your BVQ° environment. It is highly recommended to recognize them promptly. They contain information such as:

  • Notes about security issues

  • Warnings about platform vendor specific restrictions critical for the operation with BVQ°.

  • Announcement of new bugfix or major BVQ° releases

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BVQ 2024.H1.3 released - minor bugfix release
Leon Delicato posted on Sept 03, 2024

a new BVQ version has been released. This is a minor bugfix release.

Login to https://bvq-software.de to download the new version of BVQ.

BVQ 2024.H1.2 released - minor bugfix release
Thomas Sikora posted on Jul 25, 2024

a new BVQ version has been released. This is a minor bugfix release.

Login to https://bvq-software.de to download the new version of BVQ.

BVQ 2024.H1.1 released
Felix Schenkendorf posted on Jun 11, 2024

BVQ version 2024.H1.1 was released. After 1 Family & Friends versions this is now the first publicly available version for BVQ 2024.H1.x.

The release notes & changelogs for the new version can be found here:
https://bvq.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BVQ/pages/66977793/BVQ+2024.H1  

⚠ Please read the release notes carefully as longer migration times are expected during maintenance mode and a OS update may be necessary.

A brief overview of the new features in this release:

  • New Server WebUI with included online documentation

  • LDAP Authentication

  • Generic Storage Model

  • ITSM ServiceNow Conector

  • ...

The detailed changelogs for the 2023.H2.x releases can be found here:

Login to https://bvq-software.de to download the new version of BVQ.

BVQ 2023.H2.6 released - minor bugfix release
Felix Schenkendorf posted on Jun 11, 2024

BVQ version 2023.H2.6 has been released. This is a minor bugfix release.

Login to https://bvq-software.de to download the new version of BVQ.

BVQ 2023.H2.5 released - minor bugfix release
Felix Schenkendorf posted on Feb 26, 2024

BVQ version 2023.H2.5 has been released. This is a minor bugfix release.

Login to https://bvq-software.de to download the new version of BVQ.

BVQ 2023.H2.4 released - minor bugfix release
Felix Schenkendorf posted on Dec 20, 2023

December 20th 2023, BVQ version 2023.H2.4 has been released. This is a minor bugfix release.

Find a list of all the features in version 2023.H2.x here: https://bvq.atlassian.net/wiki/display/BVQ/BVQ+2023.H2 
Changelog of version 2023.H2.4: https://bvq.atlassian.net/wiki/display/BVQ/Changelog+2023.H2.4

Login to https://bvq-software.de to download the new version of BVQ.


As this will most likely be the last version for 2023, we say goodbye for this year with a:
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! 
...and Happy Monitoring for 2024!
🎄🎅☃️🎆🍀

BVQ 2023.H2.3 released
Felix Schenkendorf posted on Nov 23, 2023

November 22nd 2023, BVQ version 2023.H2.3 was released. After 3 Family & Friends versions this is now the first publicly available version for BVQ 2023.H2.x.

The release notes & changelogs for the new version can be found here: https://bvq.atlassian.net/wiki/display/BVQ/BVQ+2023.H2.
(warning) Please read the release notes carefully as longer migration times are expected during maintenance mode.

(info) This release also fixes the BVQ issue mentioned in the IMPORTANT information: SVC Code level 8.6.x - SVC GUI/CLI not accessible blog post.
This means that with BVQ version 2023.H2.3 SVC clusters with code level 8.6.x can be scanned again without any problems.

A brief overview of the new features in this release:

  • Improvements for the VMware Platform
  • Enhancements for Brocade (Director Blades & Power Supplies)
  • Optimized DataGrid in the BVQ backend
  • Grafana & MongoDB updates
  • ...

The detailed changelogs for the 2023.H2.x releases can be found here:

Login to https://bvq-software.de to download the new version of BVQ.

BVQ 2023.H1.6 released - minor bugfix release
Felix Schenkendorf posted on Nov 23, 2023

November 22nd 2023, BVQ version 2023.H1.6 has been released. This is a minor bugfix release.

Find a list of all the features in version 2023.H1.x here: https://bvq.atlassian.net/wiki/display/BVQ/BVQ+2023.H1 
Changelog of version 2023.H1.5: https://bvq.atlassian.net/wiki/display/BVQ/Changelog+2023.H1.6

(info) This release also fixes the BVQ issue mentioned in the IMPORTANT information: SVC Code level 8.6.x - SVC GUI/CLI not accessible blog post.
This means that with BVQ version 2023.H1.6 SVC clusters with code level 8.6.x can be scanned again without any problems.

Login to https://bvq-software.de to download the new version of BVQ.

IMPORTANT information: SVC Code level 8.6.x - SVC GUI/CLI not accessible
Felix Schenkendorf posted on Nov 07, 2023

A problem with code level 8.6.0.1 was discovered today at one of our customers.

Due to a change in SSH session memory handling, an unstable/unreachable CLI/GUI can occur in SVC clusters with ls commands in combination with loop functions (e.g. while loops).
The problem currently only occurs above a certain size (number of VDisks) in a cluster. In a test in our lab, we were able to reproduce the problem with 600 VDisks.

(info) BVQ has also been using ls commands for a very long time to recognize different object types in SVC clusters, some of which are also executed in a while loop.
(warning) Due to the above-mentioned error in the SVC code level as of 8.6.x, we therefore feel compelled to issue a warning! 
8.6.x SVC Code Level in connection with BVQ versions from 2023.H1.2 should therefore not be used in SVC clusters with more than 200 VDisks.

The problem has already been reported to IBM and is currently under investigation by IBM developers.

Further information can be found in the BVQ wiki on the supported environments → Storage layer