NQE Updates for 25.4.0

Release Date: April 22, 2025

We’re happy to announce the latest enhancements to NQE as part of release 25.4.0. This release introduces new fields for cloud, device, and file data models, refines behavior around CVE criteria, and includes updates to command outputs.

For more details on platform-wide changes, see the full Forward Enterprise 25.4.0 Release Notes.

What’s New

• A new field support (of type DevicePartSupport) is now part of the DevicePart model.

Improvements

• The dependsOnConfig field of CveOsCriteria can now be false in some cases, indicating that configuration data is not required to assess whether a CVE impacts a given OS.

• For RouteTable:

  • The name and region fields may now be present when the cloud type is AZURE.

  • The region field may now also be present when the cloud type is GCP.

• The locationName field of Device is now available for virtualized devices that have an inferred cloud region (e.g., AWS.eu-central-1).

• The config field of Files is now present when a device’s configuration is collected via API.

Command Changes

• For F5 devices, the command with type CONFIG was updated to include bigpipe stp list all in the outputs.

• For CHECKPOINT devices, the CONFIG command now uses either clish -c "show configuration" or show configuration, replacing previous commands.

• For CHECKPOINT devices, the INTERFACES command has been updated in some cases by removing show interfaces from the outputs.

Deprecations

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

Deprecated Fields

• CloudAccount

  • publicUnallocatedIps

• Cve

  • criteria

  • description

  • severity

• Ethernet

  • negotiatedPortSpeed

• ExternalSources

  • cliSources

  • httpSources

  • snmpSources

• System

  • uptimeSeconds

• VpcData

  • cloudType

Deprecated Functions

The following built-in functions are deprecated and will be removed in a future major release. Please use their standard equivalents (without the _alpha1 suffix):

• blockDiff_alpha1

• blockMatches_alpha1

• hasBlockMatch_alpha1