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Important This documentation space contains information about the SaaS version of BMC Helix Discovery. If you are using the on-premises version of BMC Helix Discovery, see BMC Helix Discovery 25.2 (On-Premises).

25.1 Enhancements and Patches


Review the BMC Helix Discovery 25.1 enhancements for features that will benefit your organization and to understand changes that might impact your users. 

BMC applies upgrades as described in the BMC Helix Upgrade policy. BMC applies upgrades and patches during Maintenance windows.

25.1 (14.3)


Review the BMC Helix Discovery 25.1 (14.3) defect fixes that will benefit your organization and understand changes that might affect your users. 

Version

Fixed issues

25.1.01 (14.3.01)Recent-updates

25.1 (14.3)

25.1.01 (14.3.01)


Visualizations allow you to view their state at earlier dates

BMC Helix Discovery allows you to view visualizations on selected dates in the past. For more information, see Software-and-infrastructure-visualization.

Results from the discovery of additional endpoints are shown on the requesting DiscoveryAccess

Where the scan of an endpoint runs additional Discovery requests, such as runCommand, on remote endpoints, the details of that request are added to an existing DiscoveryAccess for the remote endpoint and related to the first (requesting) DiscoveryAccess. The details are shown on the first requesting DiscoveryAccess page. For more information, see the  DiscoveryAccess page.

Directly Discovered Data (DDD) aging displayed in a chart

The Directly Discovered Data removal statistics page shows how the automatic aging of DDD is keeping up with the creation of DDD. For more information, see Viewing-statistics-for-Directly-Discovered-Data-removal.

The 25.1 version also includes Technology-Knowledge-Update-TKU-2025-Feb-2.

25.1 (14.3)


Support for ECDSA SSH keypairs and OpenSSH formatted keypairs for target scanning

BMC Helix Discoverysupports ECDSA SSH keypairs for scanning discovery targets. ECDSA SSH keypairs and the other types of supported SSH keypair can be generated by using either OpenSSH or OpenSSL tools. 

Miscellaneous updates

  • Support for support for the BMC Discovery Outpost using an HTTPS proxy.
  • Add multiple related nodes to a visual query quickly without repeatedly clicking Apply and Add.

The 25.1 version also includes Technology-Knowledge-Update-TKU-2025-Jan-1.

What else changed in this release


Description

Reference

Latest weekly updates done in your Development and Production instances.

Nodes added, changed, or removed in BMC Helix Discovery.

Change of supported OS for BMC Discovery Outpost

The minimum supported version of the OS for the BMC Discovery Outpost is Windows Server 2016. Before upgrading your BMC Discovery Outposts you must upgrade any BMC Discovery Outpost hosts to Windows Server 2016 and later. 

 

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