Version 2018.11 of the Micro Focus CMS consists of Universal CMDB (UCMDB) and Universal Discovery (UD). Version 2018.11 is released with Content Pack 29.00.

This release supports running CMS products and components in FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) mode leveraging the BouncyCastle library for encryption.

The release also makes it easier to control the quality of the data of your discovery, by enabling you to set reconciliation prioritization for discovery jobs, including setting rules for prioritization of CI types and attributes from specific discovery jobs.

The release introduces new Query Designer module within the CMS UI to easily create complex queries to the UCMDB, and enhancing the Reconciliation Analyzer module with new troubleshooting tools to analyze and understand main issues on the quality of the data that is sent to the CMSB, and help you resolve cases when data is not at the right quality.

The release also adds new enhancements for cloud and container discovery, including open shift discovery, and enhancements to the AWS public cloud discovery.