NQE Updates for 24.11.0

Released: 2024-11-19

We are happy to announce the following enhancements to NQE as part of release 24.11.0.

See the full release notes for Forward Enterprise version 24.11.0.

What's New

• osSupport: Added as a field of type OsSupport in Platform.
• vendorInfos: Added as a field of type VendorCveInfo in Cve. Additionally, the fields criteria, description, and severity in CveProductCriteria.vendor are now deprecated.
• VendorCveInfo Enhancements: Added fields to provide the publication date and base severity scores of a Cve for specific vendors.
• accessLabelNames: Added as a field of Device.
• Function Updates:
  • date: Now supports an overload from Timestamp to Date.
  • timestamp: Now supports an overload from Duration to Timestamp.

Improvements

• The Command with CommandType value VXLAN_STATE has been updated for the OS value NXOS. It now uses the command show nve ethernet-segment in the Outputs of a Device.

Deprecations

Several fields and functions are deprecated and will be removed in a future major release:

Fields

• CloudAccount:

  • publicUnallocatedIps

• Cve:

  • criteria
  • description
  • severity

• Ethernet:

  • negotiatedPortSpeed

• System:

  • uptimeSeconds

• VpcData:

  • cloudType

Functions

• The built-in functions blockDiff_alpha1, blockMatches_alpha1, and hasBlockMatch_alpha1 are deprecated. Use the corresponding functions without the _alpha1 suffix.