5.5.77 Release (December 2024)
Important:After updating to version 5.5.77, you may notice that the banner erroneously indicates that a patch is available despite the deployment being fully up-to-date. This is a known issue. No further patching or updating is required.
To verify you are on version 5.5.77:
| • | In Data Platform, click the About link anywhere in the application. |
| • | In the User Console, click the logged in username in the top right corner and then click About. |
Note:Data Platform is now on a quarterly release plan. The next release after December 2024 will be the 2025 Q1 release, and it is expected to be delivered in March 2025.
New Features and Enhancements
The following table lists new features and enhancements for this release.
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DPFM-779 |
This release includes Active Directory fault tolerance improvements for the User Console. The User Console integration with Active Directory now identifies up to three domain controllers (primary, secondary (backup), tertiary (backup)) for authentication and authorization. The User Console will automatically use backup servers when the primary server is unreachable, and servers are chosen based on latency and availability during the execution of the User Console configuration wizard. This enhancement is backwards compatible and requires no additional changes to existing Data Platform deployments.
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User Console |
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DPFM-826 |
Data Platform’s SAML configuration now supports Ping Federate and Microsoft Entra. Customers using Entra can find configuration instructions in the Data Platform Installation Guide in the section named IdP Configurations Required for SAML Authentication. Customers using Ping Federate can contact Flexera technical support for configuration guidance.
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Data Platform and User Console |
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DPFM-828 |
The Normalization process has been improved for how certain Technopedia products are handled. In addition to the imported software evidence, Data Platform now also considers the mapped operating system device to more accurately map the evidence to a Technopedia release. In 5.5.77, this has been implemented for all Broadcom XCOM Data Transport products.
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Data Platform and User Console |
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DPFM-1064 |
Data Platform now verifies the file integrity of patch-set files before during execution. This verification allows for improved security—especially when using the offline update process—ensuring only valid patch sets can be deployed to systems.
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Data Platform and User Console |
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DPFM-1065 |
The following third-party components have been upgraded to the versions shown below:
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Data Platform and User Console |
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DPFM-1066 |
For better integration with certain identity providers, the assertion consumer service (ACS) URL has been moved to its own URL (/SAML/ACS). The deployment documentation for SAML authentication has been updated to reflect this. Existing deployments will continue to operate; however, we do encourage customers to update their configurations. In that case, administrators would update their Authentication settings in the configuration wizard as well as the endpoint URL in their IdP tool’s configurations. For example, if your domain for your Data Platform instance is https://prod.dp.flxra.mydomain.us, replace https://prod.dp.flxra.mydomain.us/bdna-admin/Admin.aspx with https://prod.dp.flxra.mydomain.us/bdna-admin/SAML/ACS Note:For more details about configuring SAML authentication for Data Platform, see Optional SAML Authentication Settings and Prerequisites in the Data Platform Installation Guide help library. |
Data Platform |
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DPFM-957 |
Improved the logic for the import step to catch and log an error when the API endpoint times out. |
Data Platform and User Console |
Resolved Issues
The following table lists the resolved issues for this release.
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ID |
Description |
Product |
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DPFM-956 |
An error would occur when creating a MSSQL data source-based process and checking Windows authentication as well as enabling the CyberArk integration for data sources. This issue has been fixed. |
Data Platform and User Console |
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DPFM-1098 |
This release fixes an issue that would happen when using SAML authentication, if the IdP (identity provider) configuration did not send roles, or sent roles using the “group” attribute string. In such cases, a 500 error would occur due to a null pointer exception. |
Data Platform and User Console |
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DPFM-1057 |
After upgrading to 5.5.76, it was not possible to create new or modify existing MySQL based data sources. This issue has been resolved. |
Data Platform and User Console |
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DPFM-963 |
Normalize process was not stopping when failures occurred in the Import Step. This has been corrected. |
Data Platform and User Console |
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DPFM-839 |
Fixed an issue where duplicate HTTP response headers caused Data Platform to throw a 500 error on load. |
Data Platform and User Console |
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DPFM-1010 |
Data Platform has been updated to use the HTTP Strict-Transport-Security header for all HTTPS responses. |
Data Platform and User Console |
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DPFM-987 |
In some circumstances, the configuration wizard was overwriting the SAML signing certificate location with a temporary location which would cause an error when the configuration wizard was rerun. This has been fixed. |
Data Platform and User Console |