We are pleased to announce two new patch releases for CFEngine, version 3.15.5 and 3.18.1! These releases mainly contain bug fixes and dependency updates.
What’s new
In addition to bug fixes, some smaller features and improvements were added to 3.18.1. These additions are focused on the Mission Portal UI and API, and were added due to user feedback.
Enterprise APIs
The new API endpoint - /api/hosts/deleted can be used to list previously deleted hosts.
As mentioned in a previous blog post, the Ansible compatible Host API got another option: inventoryFile.
This option allows you to control whether to use the format expected by Ansible when reading the output of a script (default) or a file (inventoryFile=true).
Visual / UX improvements
Various buttons, icons, logos and images in Mission Portal were improved. As an example, here are the new “toast” notifications:
URLs inside reports are now clickable links:
There are many more for you to discover once you upgrade. If you are interested in these UI/UX changes, check out out our blog posts on design.
Importable Compliance Reports
Compliance reports can now be stored and managed as JSON files. You can click Export within a compliance report, and choose the new “Report definition - json” type. This will give you a JSON file containing all the information needed to create the report, including the checks. (The report definition does not include data about your hosts, only the report).
The JSON definition can be edited / managed outside of Mission Portal, and will overwrite as necessary when importing. This functionality enables sharing reports between hubs / organizations, and will allow us to publish compliance reports as CFEngine Build modules in the future. Importing a report looks like this:
Changelogs
As always, you can see a full list of changes and improvements in our changelogs:
- 3.15.5 Changelog for CFEngine Community
- 3.15.5 Changelog for CFEngine Enterprise
- 3.15.5 Changelog for Masterfiles Policy Framework
- 3.18.1 Changelog for CFEngine Community
- 3.18.1 Changelog for CFEngine Enterprise
- 3.18.1 Changelog for Masterfiles Policy Framework
Please note that the Enterprise changelogs contain only changes specific to enterprise. To get a full overview of all changes in a version, read all 3 changelogs.
Dependency updates
The following dependencies were updated, see respective project websites for more information about the changes in those projects.
| CFEngine version | 3.15.4 | 3.15.5 | 3.18.0 | 3.18.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| diffutils | - | - | 3.7 | 3.8 |
| libcurl | 7.75.0 | 7.79.1 | 7.77.0 | 7.79.1 |
| OpenLDAP | 2.4.58 | 2.4.58 | 2.5.5 | 2.6.0 |
| OpenSSL | 1.1.1k | 1.1.1l | 1.1.1l | 1.1.1l |
| PCRE | 8.44 | 8.45 | 8.44 | 8.45 |
| Apache | 2.4.47 | 2.4.51 | 2.4.48 | 2.4.51 |
| Git | 2.31.1 | 2.33.1 | 2.32.0 | 2.33.1 |
| PHP | 7.4.19 | 7.4.25 | 8.0.7 | 8.0.12 |
| PostgreSQL | 12.7 | 12.8 | 13.3 | 13.4 |
Thank you to all the developers and maintainers of Open Source Software which make CFEngine possible!
Downloads
CFEngine Enterprise is free for up to 25 hosts, click here to go to the download pages with new packages.
Since version 3.18.1 is currently the latest available LTS release, it will be the default version picked by cf-remote and the Quick install script.
If you are using cf-remote, you can target versions like this:
cf-remote --version 3.15.5 listcf-remote --version 3.18.1 listVersion selection works for list, download, and install commands.
Read more about cf-remote here.
Contributions
We encourage all of our users to get involved in the community and contribute. Feel free to use one of the following channels:
- Ask for help, share an idea, or start a discussion on GitHub Discussions
- Submit a bug report or feature request in our issue tracker
- Look through our curated list of issues for new contributors
- Browse the code or submit a pull request through GitHub
- Improve the documentation by fixing typos, adding examples, or explaining things you found difficult
