NQE Updates for 25.2.0

Release Date: February 13, 2025

We’re pleased to announce the latest enhancements to NQE as part of release 25.2.0.

For more details on platform-wide updates, see the full Forward Enterprise 25.2.0 Release Notes.

What’s New

• any and all are now recognized as functions.
• dataConnectors is now a field of Network.
• lifecycleData is now a field of AclEntry.

Improvements

• The osSupport field of Platform can now be present for the OS values:
  • CHECKPOINT
  • F5
  • FORTINET

Command Changes

Several command modifications have been made to improve accuracy and compatibility:

• CHECKPOINT (INTERFACES command type) – In some cases, show interface {} has been replaced with show interfaces in the command output.
• CHECKPOINT (VERSION command type) – In some cases, POST show-api-versions has been replaced with POST /web_api/show-api-versions in the command output.
• JUNIPER_JUNOS, JUNIPER_SRX (VERSION command type) – In some cases, show version invoke-on other-routing-engine has been added to the command output.
• NXOS (VRF_MCAST_ROUTING command type, ACI mode) – Added show ip mroute detail vrf all to the command output.
• NETSCALER (SLB_GSLB_VIRTUAL_SERVERS command type) – In some cases, show gslb vserver {} has been replaced with show gslb vserver in the command output.

Deprecations

Certain fields and functions are now deprecated and will be removed in a future major release.

Deprecated Fields

(Fields newly deprecated in this release are marked with (new))

CloudAccount

• publicUnallocatedIps

Cve

• criteria
• description
• severity

Ethernet

• negotiatedPortSpeed

ExternalSources

• cliSources
• httpSources (new)
• snmpSources

System

• uptimeSeconds

VpcData

• cloudType

Deprecated Functions

The following built-in functions are deprecated and will be removed in a major release:

• blockDiff_alpha1
• blockMatches_alpha1
• hasBlockMatch_alpha1

For each function, use the equivalent function without the _alpha1 suffix instead.