Release Notes - CAST Highlight Autumn 2024 Release

Release Notes – CAST Highlight Autumn 2024 Release

We’re very proud to announce the next major release of CAST Highlight, the software intelligence product that acts as a control tower for your application portfolio. This version introduces new innovations including: Role-based Dashboards, Monthly Digest Emails, Portfolio Advisor for VMware Departure, and many other new capabilities.

Role-based Dashboards

Get the intelligence that matters most to you instantly. Choose a pre-designed view for CIOs, Security Leaders, Cloud Architects and others and decide if you want to use it as your default home screen.

Monthly Digest Emails

Subscribe to a monthly email that automatically lands the latest insights about your application portfolio in your inbox on new vulnerabilities, updated scores, milestone progress and more. Click through to instantly view the details in CAST Highlight.

Portfolio Advisor for VMware Departure

Automatically build a roadmap for migrating applications from VMware virtual machines to the ideal cloud-based alternative with recommendations including Cloud-based VM, Containerize, Rearchitect, Rebuild, or Retire. Download this extension

New Mainframe Technology Support

Get enhanced insights for Mainframe applications with new detection and sizing support for CLIST, Easytrieve, EGL, RPG3, and RPG4. See technology coverage

Improved UI Navigation

Find the insights that matter to you most even faster with the new and improved menu system in the user interface.

Code Reader direct upload

Generate application insights faster by now being able to create an application and upload scan results directly from the CAST Highlight Code Reader user interface.

Go support for Green Insights 

Get enhanced insights for Go applications with new support for Green Impact and CO2 Emission Estimates. See technology coverage

Portfolio Advisor for Containerization Priorities

Automatically identify applications that have ideal characteristics for containers based on multiple factors such as containerization blockers, code-level blockers, framework-level blockers, architecture-level blockers, and more with the new free extension. Download this extension

New Package Manager Support

Get enhanced SCA insights with new package manager support for CMakeList (C/C++) and Conan (C++/Python). See supported package managers

Many other feature improvements

The product team also took the opportunity with this new release to introduce many additional enhancements such as: detection of Dockerfile as a Cloud Maturity booster, filter link sharing, bulk editing for Proprietary Component Governance, and much more.