CFEngine Enterprise 3.6.1 Maintenance Release Now Generally Available

If you’ve seen what we have delivered with CFEngine Enterprise 3.6.0 earlier this summer, I’m sure you realized what a feature-rich release this turned out to be. But we didn’t stop there. The CFEngine team has spent the past few weeks validating additional platforms, building a simplified upgrade process, and in the process, even added a few small enhancements to the mix! Today, we’re announcing CFEngine Enterprise 3.6.1 - a maintenance release with a number of goodies that I’m sure you will appreciate. Expanded Platform Coverage CFEngine Enterprise 3.6.1 now supports the following host platforms to provide you with comprehensive coverage within your IT infrastructure.

Streamlined Upgrade to CFEngine Enterprise 3.6.1 A lot of you are eager to get your environments up to version 3.6.x, and we want to make that upgrade process as seamless as possible for you. CFEngine Enterprise 3.6.1 supports automated upgrade from Enterprise versions 3.0 and 3.5.x. Upon upgrade of the policy hub, data from MongoDB will be extracted and imported in to the corresponding 3.6.1 schemas in PostgreSQL, as well as Mission Portal settings, user preferences, users and role definitions. Upgrading of agent hosts will be automated via the cf-upgrade binary. Additional information is available in the documentation. Minor Enhancements to the Mission Portal We’ve made some minor tweaks to the Mission Portal user interface that will improve the overall experience of the inventory module. For starters we’ve added an out-of-the-box “Disk Free (%)” inventory attribute that gives you an indication of how much disk space is available on the server. You can therefore be alerted during situations when the disk space is running low We’ve also made improvements to the inventory reporting column selector. It is now much more interactive, and simpler to add/delete columns on your reports on the fly: In addition, if your Mission Portal implementation leverages a 3rd-party authentication mechanism such as LDAP or Active Directory, we’ve made changes to drastically improve Mission Portal performance. Bug fixes As always, maintenance releases include a number of bug fixes, and this release is no different. Visit our changelog to view the bug fixes that have been merged into CFEngine Enterprise 3.6.1. So, go download CFEngine Enterprise 3.6.1 and experience it for yourself. Give it a whirl, and let us know what you think!