We’re happy to announce that CFEngine 3.8.0 non-LTS now is released! A big thanks to everyone testing the 3.8.0 beta release! During the month it has been available, the 3.8.0 beta has seen hundreds of downloads widely distributed across platforms, both in Community and Enterprise editions. This testing helps ensure high quality of the final release. Of course, bugfixes in recently released 3.7.2 are also incorporated into 3.8.0. Please note that this is a non-LTS release, which means that it is maintained for 6 months from the release date and not supported for CFEngine Enterprise customers (but packages are available for testing).
We’re happy to announce that CFEngine 3.7.2 is released! With 3.7 being a stable LTS branch, 3.7.2 brings numerous stability enhancements and bugfixes to the CFEngine customers and community. The main focus area for 3.7.2 is to improve fault-tolerance and performance of policy distribution in unreliable networks.
Enhanced reliability of policy distribution The ability to distribute policy from the Policy Server to clients is a critical function of CFEngine, which also must work well in unreliable networks.
We’re happy to announce that CFEngine 3.7.1 is now ready! Given that this is the first maintenance release in the 3.7 branch, the focus is primarily on stability and reliability of new features added in 3.7.0. For improved resiliency of Enterprise High Availability in environments that need it, we also added support for an offsite replication node.
Offsite replication support for Enterprise High Availability The High Availability cluster has until now consisted of 2 nodes; an active and passive.
Now that CFEngine 3.7.0 is released, introducing simplified package management, change management, dashboard sharing and enhanced network security, it’s time to look forward. The CFEngine 3.7 and 3.6 releases will mainly include stability and security enhancements as they are now stable branches. A blog-post on the release schedule going forward explains this in more detail. The next feature-release up is 3.8 (non-LTS), due for December 2015, and we’d like to share that performance will be the main release theme for 3.
We’re happy to announce that CFEngine 3.6.6 is now ready! The new release has improved performance and reliability, especially on the CFEngine Enterprise backend, as well a stability and performance improvements across Unix and Windows agent platforms! Given that this is the sixth maintenance release in the 3.6 branch, the focus is primarily on stability and performance enhancements.
Enterprise report collection enhancements CFEngine 3.6.6 significantly improves the performance and reliability of the Enterprise reporting backend in several ways.
We’re happy to announce that CFEngine 3.7.0 is now ready! The 3.7.0 release contains a brand new packages promise, expanded platform support, enhanced network security, improved Enterprise reporting capabilities and much more!
New packages promise A new packages promise has been developed in collaboration the CFEngine community and users. It is designed to be reliable, simple and easy to use. We hope you enjoy the experience! It reuses the same promise type as the previous packages promise (packages:), but CFEngine will determine which one to use based on the attributes that are used in the promise type.
California, CA (Jul 17, 2015) - CFEngine, Inc., IT Automation pioneer and leader in infrastructure management software, today announced the general availability of its flagship product CFEngine Enterprise and CFEngine Community, version 3.7
Easier application deployment The 3.7.0 release contains a brand new technology for application deployments. According to Marcin Pasinski, a new packages deployment mechanism has been developed in collaboration the CFEngine community and users. It is designed to be more reliable, simple and easy to use.
We’re happy to announce that CFEngine 3.7.0 beta is now ready for testing! The 3.7.0 beta contains a brand new packages promise, enhanced network security, improved Enterprise reporting capabilities and much more!
New packages promise A new packages promise has been developed; it reuses the same promise type as the previous packages promise (packages:), but CFEngine will determine which one to use based on the attributes that are used in the promise type.
We’re happy to announce that CFEngine 3.6.5 is now ready! The new release has improved support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and CentOS 7, as well as other distributions using systemd. In addition, performance of the agent in the Enterprise edition has been greatly improved.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 support As CFEngine 3.6.3 introduced experimental support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, the main outstanding issue was proper management of CFEngine processes with systemd.
Sometimes you need to collect some small amount of data from your hosts and aggregate it to a central location for reporting. For example, you could have a command that returns the status of a hardware check that you run regularly to detect hardware faults. Or you could want a report of all the hosts’ DNS configuration. In either case, you can use the CFEngine Enterprise inventory collection and reporting mechanism.
