We’re proud to release the first Beta package of CFEngine 3.6 to the Community for testing. The new version of CFEngine introduces a huge number of new features to the CFEngine language and a lot of improvements behind the scene. Some highlights from the ChangeLog file: - New promise type “users” for managing local user accounts. - TLS authentication and fully encrypted network protocol - New attributes in ‘bundle server access_rules’ - New variable type ‘data’ for handling of structured data - Tagging of classes and variables with meta data - Many new built-in variables - Many new functions You can download the beta packages for Debian and RedHat based Linux distributions from https://cfengine.com/inside/myspace. The documentation for CFEngine 3.6 lives at https://cfengine.com/docs/master/index.html and is work in progress. We’d like to invite everybody to help us improve CFEngine 3.6 by giving this first beta a trial run. However, this version of CFEngine is not yet ready for production environments, so do not upgrade your existing installation to these packages. Due to the network protocol and authentication changes, compatibility between 3.6 and previous CFEngine versions is limited at this point, and will be improved over the coming weeks as we get closer to the release. To report bugs, use our bug tracker at https://cfengine.com/dev. Contributions in form of pull requests can be made on GitHub at http://github.com/cfengine/core. A big shout-out to all the contributors in the community that have supported our work with feedback, bug reports, input to design discussions and code contributions!
