BMC Release Process Management 5.0

BMC Release Process Management (RPM) helps you manage software release planning, release coordination, and application deployment automation. The product ensures the sound deployment of changes to your business-critical applications, helps you deploy more frequently, at lower cost, and with fewer errors.

Release notes and notices Updated 26 May 2021

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The following updates have been added since the release of the space:

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Title

Summary

May 26, 2021

Enhancements and features available in this release:

December 18, 2020

July 03, 2020

Provides the following enhancements:

  • Support for global request templates
  • Defining dependency for a step
  • Support for logo and banner
  • Restrictions on viewing full automation run results
  • Enhanced readability of audited changes
  • Support for Oracle Database 12c R2
  • REST API updates

February 21, 2020

Fixes various issues and provides the following enhancements:

  • Support for WildFly Application Server
  • Support for auditing of resources
  • Support for the self-signed certificate
  • Additional advanced filtering options in REST API v1 methods
  • Enhanced group search while creating LDAP group mappings
  • Binding of the standalone instance to node name and IP address

July 31, 2019

Fixes various issues and provides the following enhancements:

  • Exporting the map of properties
  • Enhanced filtering in reports and requests
  • Adding description for a server
  • Regenerating the REST API token using a rake task
  • Updating LDAP group mappings using a rake task
  • Exporting properties of all applications using a rake task

Feb 1, 2019

Fixes various issues and provides the following updates:

  • New rake tasks for purging data
  • Security enhancements
  • Usability enhancements

May 25, 2018

Fixes various issues and provides the following updates:

  • BMC Release Lifecycle Management Requester UI change of name
  • TeamCity integration
  • Logging updates
  • Purge requests for a specified period
  • Support for TLS 1.2 secure encryption protocol
  • Performance improvements
  • UI updates
  • BMC Release Process Management web services updates

December 21, 2017

Fixes various issues and provides the following enhancements:

  • Enhanced step details page for RLM Requester UI
  • Web services updates
  • Enhanced data retrieval
  • Usability enhancements
  • Installation enhancements
  • Logging enhancements

June 23, 2017

Fixes various issues and provides the following enhancements:

  • Enhanced request details page
  • Integration with JIRA
  • Enhanced steps
  • Additional and enhanced REST API v2 for requests and steps
  • Support for version 9.5.4 of PostgreSQL

April 13, 2017

The REST API for plans and plans stage instances has been updated so that you can use the advanced include_except filter to exclude unnecessary data and avoid the REST call timeout (DRZXB-15792).

For information about issues corrected in this hotfix, see Known-and-corrected-issues.

February 1, 2017

Enhancements in this service pack:

  • A new type of properties for requests
  • An update for REST requests
  • Rake tasks to remove large amounts of old requests in a batch
  • An update for managing components within an application
  • New tables color

October 28, 2016

Provides updates to the reports and plan stages and fixes issues listed in Known-and-corrected-issues.

September 8, 2016

Enhancements in this release:

  • BMC Release Lifecycle Management Requester UI
  • Autoincrement for release version tags
  • REST API version 2
  • RLM deploy package instance by component version

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Topic

Integrating with JIRA and Remedy ITSM Suite

Deploying an application with BMC Release Lifecycle Management and Jenkins

How to enable debug on BMC Release Process Management

How to manage automation category

How to delete requests than an older date

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This topic provides information that supplements the BMC Release Process Management documentation.

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This section provides answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) about BMC Release Process Management. 

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  • Issues corrected by the base release and its service packs and patches
  • Issues that are currently open
Where do I find information that was previously published as a flash bulletin?

Flashes contained urgent information about product issues and are delivered after a product is released. On docs.bmc.com, this information is delivered in an "Urgent issues" topic, under Release-notes-and-notices. If this topic does not exist for a given product release, no urgent issues have been discovered for that release.

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  3. Follow the prompts for page selection and other options.
  4. Click Export.

 

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Related spaces

BMC Release Process Management is a part of the BMC Release Lifecycle Management Suite, which includes BMC Release Process Management and BMC Release Package and Deployment products. 

BMC Release Lifecycle Management 5.0

BMC Release Package and Deployment 5.0

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