25.2 enhancements and patches

Review the BMC Helix CMDB 25.2 enhancements and patches for features that will benefit your organization and to understand changes that might impact your users.

Version	SaaS	On premises	Fixed issues	Updates and enhancements
25.2.02	✅️		Known and corrected issues	NA
25.2.01	✅️	✅️	Known and corrected issues	NA
25.2.00	✅️		Known and corrected issues	25.2 enhancements and patches

25.2.00

Improvements to reconciliation jobs with Merge activity

The reconciliation merge service performs with better speed and efficiency by processing the merge activity on a separate pod by default.

For more information, see Improving reconciliation job performance.

Update the Product Catalog with end-of-life attributes by using a normalization job

Use the Allow Updates to a Product Catalog Entry option in a normalization job to update the following end-of-life attributes:

StartAvailability
EndAvailability
EndOfLife
EndOfSupport
EndOfSecuritySupport
EndOfExtendedSupport

Allow Updates to a Product Catalog Entry

For more information, see Creating a normalization job.

What else changed in this release

The following table lists the changes in the product behavior:

Update	Product behavior in versions earlier than 25.2	Product behavior in version 25.2
Updates to the BMC_BaseElement class in the common data model.	Only the following end-of-life attributes are available: EndOfLife EndOfSupport EndOfSecuritySupport EndOfExtendedSupport	The following attributes are available along with the existing end-of-life attributes: StartAvailability EndAvailability For more information, see Summary of changes to the Common Data Model.
Reconciliation jobs that exclude CIs that failed in the previous run.	In a reconciliation job, you could not exclude those CIs that had failed in a previous run of the reconciliation job.	In a reconciliation job, use the Ignore Failed CIs option to exclude those CIs that had failed in a previous run of the reconciliation job. Ignoring failed CIs helps improve the performance of the reconciliation job. For more information, see Improving reconciliation job performance.
Updates to locales for CMDB Portal	Only the following browser locales were supported: de (German) en (English) es (Spanish) fr (French) it (Italian) ja (Japanese) ko (Korean) pt (portuguese) ru (Russian) zh (Simplified Chinese)	The following browser locales are also supported, in addition to the previously supported ones: en-CA (Canadian English) fr-CA (Canadian French)