Technology Knowledge Update TKU 2026-Apr-1
Technology Knowledge Update TKU 2026-Apr-1 provides information about new scanning capabilities in the 23.3, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, and 25.2 versions of BMC Discovery.
Release compatibility
TKU 2026-Apr-1 is compatible with the following versions of BMC Discovery: 23.3, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, and 25.2.
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Release contents
The release comprises components packaged as the following entities:
- BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update
- Core - Patterns that model various software products.
- Extended Database discovery - Patterns that extend some of the core database patterns to obtain additional detailed information about certain databases.
- Middleware discovery - Patterns that obtain detailed information about certain J2EE Application Servers and Web servers.
- Network Device Integration Module with associated Network Device definition files, Printer definition files, and SNMP managed devices definition files.
System - Patterns that detect configuration issues and populate Discovery ConditionsBMC Discovery 23.3,BMC Discovery 24.1,BMC Discovery 24.2,BMC Discovery 24.3,BMC Discovery 25.2 and patterns used by the BMC CMDB sync system.
- BMC Discovery Extended Data Pack 2026-Apr-1
- Hardware Reference Data - Patterns and data import CSV file that populates BMC Discovery with power and heat consumption figures for various hosts.
- National Vulnerability Database - A pattern that populates BMC Discovery with information about the CPE ID of each product.
- Product Lifecycle - Patterns that populate BMC Discovery with information about End-of-Life, End-of-Support, and End-of-Extended-Support for versions of specific host Operating Systems and interpretations of certain software products.
- BMC Discovery for Storage is a separately licensable product.
- Storage Systems - Patterns that model many Storage Systems.
- Storage System Release Notes provides the latest Storage updates and improvements to existing Storage patterns.
- BMC Discovery for ServiceNow is a separately licensable product.
ServiceNow CMDB sync mapping patterns. The documentation ishere.
Command/File Matrix
The Command/File Matrix file (covering all commands executed and files retrieved by the patterns for TKU 2026-Apr-1 is available here.
Outpost updates
BMC Discovery Outpost version included in TKU 2026-Apr-1:
| Component | Version |
|---|---|
| BMC Discovery Outpost | 154.7.51.70051 |
The following BMC Outpost update is introduced within the scope of this release:
| Defect ref. | Description | Notes |
| DRUD1-58625 | Resolved an issue with OpenSSL 3.0.8 on Outposts that led to security vulnerabilities when updating to version 3.0.19. | NA |
Products
We have no new products to report at this time.
RFEs
The following RFEs are introduced within the scope of this release:
| RFE ref. | Enhancement | Product page | SI key change |
|---|---|---|---|
DRDC1-28714 DRDC1-28648 | Improved versioning. | N | |
| DRDC1-28890 | Updated the pattern to use the standard SoftwareInstance naming convention. | AppDynamics | N |
| DRDC1-28819 | Improved the pattern to ensure that SoftwareInstances age out correctly. | Contributed Systems Sidekiq | N |
| DRDC1-28710 | Updated the pattern to ensure discovered instances are correctly synced to the BMC_PRODUCT class. | Docker | N |
| DRDC1-28539 | Improved the pattern to prevent false identification of Illumio Consul as HashiCorp Consul. | N | |
| DRDC1-28640 | Added support for discovering IBM Workload Scheduler Agent Software Instances, including version and lifecycle details, on UNIX and Windows platforms. | IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler (Maestro) | N |
| DRDC1-28817 | Improved the pattern to prevent index out of range ECA errors. | IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus | N |
| DRDC1-28783 | Updated the pattern to ensure that it runs only when .NET is installed, and also corrected the pattern name to dotnet. | Microsoft .NET | N |
| DRDC1-28590 | Enhanced MongoDB extended discovery by adding an alternative command for database enumeration on Linux systems. | MongoDB - Database Detail Pattern | N |
| DRDC1-28835 | Improved MariaDB/MySQL discovery to correctly detect the datadir when it is specified in an included configuration file by using the my_print_defaults command. | MySQL RDBMS | N |
| DRDC1-28873 | Enhanced the Oracle RDBMS pattern to support the inferred-sync feature.
| The update involves the following modules: | N |
DRDC1-28559 DRDC1-27473 DRDC1-27132 | Enhanced Windows certificate discovery by extracting the following additional attributes from discovery.getCertificate():
Also, updated Windows certificate discovery to correctly process end-of-line characters. | TLS Certificates Discovery | Y |
Defects resolved
The following defects are fixed within the scope of this release:
| Defect ref. | Details | Product page | SI key change |
| DRDC1-28910 | Problem: The stable identity flag on a Kubernetes Node software instances can be incorrectly set. Solution: Code fix. | Kubernetes | N |
| DRDC1-28348 | Problem: PostgreSQL Extended Discovery does not correctly handle special database names containing spaces or quotes, as reported by the psql command. As a result, database nodes with such names are not created. Solution: Code fix. | PostgreSQL RDBMS - Database Detail Pattern | N |
| DRDC1-28803 | Problem: The pattern incorrectly identifies the WildFly software instance version. Solution: Code fix. | Red Hat JBoss Application Server | N |
| DRDC1-27885 | Problem: The pattern incorrectly parses JBoss EAP from the output of the run.sh -V command. Solution: Code fix. | Red Hat JBoss Application Server | N |
| DRDC1-28650 | Problem: The Windows Certificate pattern does not set the type attribute and has data quality issues, including missing Organizational Unit and invalid Public Key Size fields. Solution: Code fix. | TLS Certificates Discovery | N |