Release notes and notices

This section provides information about what is new or changed in this space, including resolved issues, documentation updates, maintenance releases, service packs, and patches. Release notes in this documentation are specific to install and upgrade. For complete release notes, refer to the product documentation of the respective component.

Note

This section only includes information about changes since the most recent release of BMC Remedy IT Service Management (ITSM) Suite. If you are upgrading from a previous release, review the release notes for all applicable versions of the product. For example, if you are upgrading from version 7.6.04, review the release notes for both versions 8.0 and 8.1.

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Release announcements

The following topics provide information about the service packs and patches released so far on version 8.1.00

Known and corrected issues

This section includes the install and upgrade known and corrected issues, which are categorized as:

Platform
Application

Topic

Additional information

Platform installation and upgrade known and corrected issues

Refer to this topic for a list of known issues and issues corrected in a particular service pack or patch, for the following platform components:

BMC Remedy Action Request (AR) System
BMC Atrium Core

Application installation and upgrade known and corrected issues

Refer to this topic for a list of known issues and issues corrected in a particular service pack or patch, for the following application components:

BMC Remedy IT Service Management
BMC Service Request Management
BMC Service Level Management

Flashes

This section includes the install or upgrade issues that require your immediate attention.

Topic	Additional information
Issue when using BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite 8.1 on Microsoft Windows 8.0 with IE 10 or Microsoft Windows 8.1 with IE 11	Due to a Microsoft defect related to Internet Explorer 10 (Microsoft support ticket number 113100110828856) and Internet Explorer 11, when you use BMC Remedy IT Service Management version 8.1 on Microsoft Windows 8.0 or Microsoft Windows 8.1, you may experience performance problems wherein the Client CPU reaches 100% and does not respond for an extended period of time.
Issue while logging in to the BMC Remedy IT Service Management application	Due to a TCP connection leak with the C API, the BMC Remedy AR System server and any other ancillary binary that uses the C API (for example, arsignal.exe, driver.exe, arplugin.exe, etc.) causes the number of TCP ports that are being utilized to grow steadily.
Issue while upgrading to BMC Atrium Core 8.1 Service Pack 1	The upgrade from BMC Atrium Core 8.1 to BMC Atrium Core 8.1 Service Pack 1 fails in certain scenarios.
Compatibility issues with BMC Remedy ITSM SP 1 for version 8.1.00 and BMC Service Level Management 8.1.00	---
Installation issue: Language pack data and integration not imported	When you run the BMC Remedy IT Service Management (ITSM) or BMC Service Request Management installer to install additional language packs, the newly selected locale specific data and integration are not imported.
Step to delete attributes from BMC Atrium CMDB (Phase 3) run when upgrading to BMC Remedy ITSM SP1 for version 8.1.00 from version 8.x, if not completed when upgrading to version 8.x	If the BMC Remedy IT Service Management (ITSM) attribute deletion from BMC Atrium CMDB (Phase 3) step was not completed during previous upgrade to 8.x version, then the BMC Remedy IT Service Management 8.1.01 installer will run the step.

Product announcements

This section includes information about the changes that are planned in future releases of a product.

Topic	Additional information
Product announcements for BMC Atrium Core	This topic describes changes that are planned in future releases of BMC Atrium Core
Product announcements for BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite - copy	This topic describes changes that are planned in future releases of BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite

Related release notes

The following links provide access to the release notes in the individual product documentation for older releases:

Version	References
8.1	Release notes and notices in the BMC Remedy AR System online documentation. Release notes and notices in the BMC Atrium Core online documentation. Release notes and notices in the BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite online documentation. Release notes and notices in the BMC Service Request Management Suite online documentation. Release notes and notices in the BMC Service Level Management Suite online documentation.
8.0	What's new in the BMC Remedy AR System online documentation. What's new in the BMC Atrium Core online documentation. Release notes and notices in the BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite online documentation. Release notes and notices in the BMC Service Request Management Suite online documentation. Release notes and notices in the BMC Service Level Management Suite online documentation.
7.6.04	What's new in the BMC Remedy AR System online documentation. What's new in the BMC Atrium Core online documentation. What's new in the BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite online documentation. PDFs in the BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite online documentation. Note: The release notes for BMC Remedy ITSM, BMC Service Request Management and BMC Service Level Management are available in PDF format in this topic.