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

DateTitleSummary
May 26, 2021Service Pack 5 for version 5.0

Enhancements and features available in this release:

December 18, 2020Service Pack 4 for version 5.0

Enhancements and features available in this release:

July 03, 20205.0.03.005: Patch 5 for Service Pack 3

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, 20205.0.03.004: Patch 4 for Service Pack 3

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, 20195.0.03.003: Patch 3 for Service Pack 3

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, 20195.0.03.002: Patch 2 for Service Pack 3

Fixes various issues and provides the following updates:

  • New rake tasks for purging data
  • Security enhancements
  • Usability enhancements
May 25, 20185.0.03.001 Patch 1 for Service Pack 3

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, 20175.0.03: Service Pack 3 for version 5.0

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, 20175.0.02: Service pack 2 for version 5.0

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, 20175.0.01.01: Patch 1 for Service Pack 1

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, 20175.0.01.00: Service Pack 1 for version 5.0

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, 20165.0.00.01: Patch 1 for version 5.0.00Provides updates to the reports and plan stages and fixes issues listed in Known and corrected issues.
September 8, 20165.0.00 enhancements

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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Creating PDF and Word exports

You can create a PDF of a page or a set of pages. (Non-English page exports are not supported.) You can also create a Word document of the current page.

To export to PDF or Word

  1. From the Tools menu in the upper-right, select a format:
    • Export to Word to export the current page to Word format
    • Export to PDF to export the current page or a set of pages to PDF
  2. If exporting to PDF, select what you want to export:
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Planning

 

Concepts, architecture, deployment, planning, and system requirements.

Installing

 

Information about installing the product and migrating product data.

Upgrading

 

Upgrade process, migration, and configuration.

Troubleshooting

 

Issues resolution, error messages, logs, and contacting Support.

Using

 

Interface descriptions, using the product.

Administering

 

Security, system administration, maintenance.

Developing

 

Development interfaces and toolkits.

Integrating

 

Integrations with other products.
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Videos

The following topics contain videos that supplement or replace the text-based documentation.

CategoryTopic
Integrating with JIRA and Remedy ITSM SuiteIntegrating overview
Deploying an application with BMC Release Lifecycle Management and JenkinsWalkthrough: Automating application release
How to enable debug on BMC Release Process ManagementManaging logs
How to manage automation categoryManaging automation categories
How to delete requests than an older dateManaging requests

FAQs and additional resources

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

Frequently asked questions

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

The following table describes where you can find information previously provided in release notes.

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New features (enhancements) and other information

Release notes and notices

  • Issues corrected by the base release and its service packs and patches
  • Issues that are currently open
Known and corrected issues

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.

The BMC Documentation portal gives you the ability to generate PDF and Microsoft Word documents of single pages, and to create PDF exports of multiple pages in a space.  

Creating PDF and Word exports

You can create a PDF of a page or a set of pages. (Non-English page exports are not supported.) You can also create a Word document of the current page.

To export to PDF or Word

  1. From the Tools menu in the upper-right, select a format:
    • Export to Word to export the current page to Word format
    • Export to PDF to export the current page or a set of pages to PDF
  2. If exporting to PDF, select what you want to export:
    • Only this page to export the current page
    • This page and its children to export a set of pages
    For example, selecting This page and its children from the home page exports the entire space to PDF.


 

Depending on the number of topics included in the export, it might take several minutes to create the PDF. Once the export is complete, you can download the PDF.

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

Additional resources from BMC

The following BMC sites provide information outside of the BMC Release Process Management documentation that you might find helpful: