What's New in IBM® Rational® Build Forge®

This page provides a summary of enhancements and bug fixes for version 8.0.0.x.

8.0.0.27

Build Forge® 8.0.0.27 includes the following enhancements, upgrades, and security fixes.

Enhancements in platform support
Rational Build Forge 8.0.0.27 is enhanced to include:
  • Console support for Linux, AIX, and zLinux with Oracle 21c database.
  • Upgraded IBM JDK to v8.0.8.30
  • Upgraded OpenSSL to v3.0.15
  • Upgraded Apache HTTP to v2.4.62
  • Upgraded Apache Tomcat to v9.0.95
Security Fixes
This release includes security fixes for the Apache HTTP server, Apache Tomcat, and IBM Java. For more information, refer to the respective Security Bulletin.

8.0.0.27 Upgrade Notes

Server/agent version mismatch

You will notice the inconsistency between the versions of the Rational Build Forge server and agent installation files. Know that the version mismatch, server v8.0.0.27 and agents (Windows, AIX, HP-UX i-series agents, and the agent source package) v8.0.0.27, will not cause any installation or upgrade problems.

Known Issues

  • Perl 5.28 engine does not start on zLinux and AIX OS.

  • Windows server console has issues with Oracle 21C databases.

8.0.0.26

Build Forge® 8.0.0.26 includes the following upgrades, and security fixes.

Upgrades

  • Upgraded IBM JDK to v8.0.8.20
  • Upgraded OpenSSL to v3.0.13
  • Upgraded Apache HTTP to v2.4.58
  • Upgraded Apache Tomcat to v9.0.87

Security Fixes

This release includes security fixes for the Apache HTTP server, Apache Tomcat, and IBM Java. For more information, refer to the respective Security Bulletin.

8.0.0.26 Upgrade Notes

Server/agent version mismatch

You will notice the inconsistency between the versions of the Rational Build Forge server and agent installation files. Know that the version mismatch, will not cause any installation or upgrade problems.

Known Issues
  • Perl 5.28 engine does not start on zLinux OS.
  • Windows 2019, 2022 server console has issues with Oracle 12c/18c/19c databases.

8.0.0.25

Build Forge® 8.0.0.25 includes enhancements, upgrades, and security fixes.

Enhancements in platform support

Build Forge® 8.0.0.25 is enhanced to include:

  • Console support for MS Windows Server 2019, 2022 Standard with MS SQL 2019, 2022 databases.
  • Console support for RHEL 9.0 with DB2 11.5, MySQL 5.0x, and Oracle 18c/19c databases.

Upgrades

  • Upgraded IBM JDK to v8.0.8.10
  • Upgraded OpenSSL to v1.1.1w
  • Upgraded Apache HTTP to v2.4.57
  • Upgraded Apache Tomcat to v9.0.82

Security Fixes

This release includes security fixes for the Apache HTTP server, Apache Tomcat, and IBM Java. For more information, refer to the respective Security Bulletin.

8.0.0.25 Upgrade Notes

Server/agent version mismatch
You will notice the inconsistency between the versions of the Build Forge® server and agent installation files. Know that the version mismatch, server v8.0.0.25 and agents (Windows, AIX, HP-UX i-series agents, and the agent source package) v8.0.0.23, will not cause any installation or upgrade problems.
Known Issues
  • Perl 5.28 engine does not start on zLinux OS.
  • Windows 2019, 2022 server console has issues with Oracle 12c/18c/19c databases.

8.0.0.24

Build Forge® 8.0.0.24 includes enhancements, upgrades, and security fixes.

Enhancements in platform support

Build Forge® 8.0.0.24 is enhanced to include:

  • Console support for MS Windows Server 2019 Standard with DB2 11.5, MySQL 5.0x, and MS SQL 2016 databases.
  • Console support for RHEL 8.5 with DB2 11.5, MySQL 5.0x, and Oracle 18c/19c databases.

Upgrades

  • Upgraded IBM JDK to v8.0.7.20
  • Upgraded PHP to v7.4.33
  • Upgraded OpenSSL to v1.1.1t
  • Upgraded Apache HTTP to v2.4.56
  • Upgraded Apache Tomcat to v9.0.73

Security Fixes

This release includes security fixes for the Apache HTTP server, Apache Tomcat, and IBM Java. For more information, refer to the respective Security Bulletin.

8.0.0.24 Upgrade Notes
Server/agent version mismatch
You will notice the inconsistency between the versions of the Build Forge® server and agent installation files. Know that the version mismatch, server v8.0.0.24 and agents (Windows, AIX, HP-UX i-series agents, and the agent source package) v8.0.0.23, will not cause any installation or upgrade problems.
Known Issues
  • Perl 5.28 engine does not start on zLinux OS.
  • Windows 2019 server console has issues with Oracle 12c/18c/19c databases.

8.0.0.23

Build Forge® 8.0.0.23 includes security fixes.

Security Fixes

This release includes security fixes for Apache HTTP server, Apache Tomcat, and IBM Java. For more information, refer to the respective Security Bulletin.

8.0.0.22

Build Forge® 8.0.0.22 includes security fixes.

Security Fixes

This release includes security fixes for Apache Tomcat. For more information, refer to the respective Security Bulletin.

8.0.0.21

Build Forge® 8.0.0.21 includes security fixes.

Security Fixes

This release includes security fixes for Apache HTTPD, IBM Java and Log4j. For more information, refer to the respective Security Bulletin.

8.0.0.20

Build Forge® 8.0.0.20 includes security fixes.

Security Fixes

This release includes security fixes for Apache HTTPD. For more information, refer to the respective Security Bulletin.

8.0.0.19

Build Forge® 8.0.0.19 includes enhancement and security fixes.

Enhancement in platform support

Build Forge® 8.0.0.19 is enhanced to support:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 8.3 (Oopta).
  • DB2 11.5 Database platforms for management console.

Security Fixes

This release includes security fixes for IBM Java. For more information, refer to the respective Security Bulletin.