We are pleased to announce two new patch releases for CFEngine, version 3.15.7 and 3.18.3! These releases mainly contain bug fixes and dependency updates.
3.15: Last release and end of life
3.15.7 is the last planned release for the 3.15 LTS series, which is supported until December 2022. Please reach out to support if you need help with upgrading or need to purchase extended support; on January 1st 2023, 3.15 is no longer supported.
What’s new
As these are patch releases, there isn’t a lot of new functionality added or big changes introduced. Compliance reports and their exported PDFs have been significantly improved in 3.18.3:
Changelogs
As always, you can see a full list of changes and improvements in our changelogs:
- 3.15.7 Changelog for CFEngine Community
- 3.15.7 Changelog for CFEngine Enterprise
- 3.15.7 Changelog for Masterfiles Policy Framework
- 3.18.3 Changelog for CFEngine Community
- 3.18.3 Changelog for CFEngine Enterprise
- 3.18.3 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 | 3.15.6 | 3.15.7 | 3.18.2 | 3.18.3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 2.4.53 | 2.4.54 | 2.4.53 | 2.4.54 |
| Git | 2.36.1 | 2.38.1 | 2.36.1 | 2.38.1 |
| libcurl | 7.83.1 | 7.86.0 | 7.83.1 | 7.86.0 |
| libiconv | 1.16 | 1.17 | 1.16 | 1.17 |
| OpenSSL | 1.1.1l | 1.1.1q | 1.1.1l | 1.1.1q |
| OpenLDAP | 2.4.58 | 2.4.58 | 2.6.1 | 2.6.3 |
| PHP | 7.4.29 | 7.4.32 | 8.0.19 | 8.0.24 |
| PostgreSQL | 12.11 | 12.12 | 13.7 | 13.8 |
| rsync | 3.2.4 | 3.2.7 | 3.2.4 | 3.2.7 |
| SASL2 | 2.1.27 | 2.1.28 | 2.1.27 | 2.1.28 |
| zlib | 1.2.12 | 1.2.13 | 1.2.12 | 1.2.13 |
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.
At the time of writing, version 3.18.3 is currently the latest available LTS release, it will be the default version picked by cf-remote and the Quick install script. (This will change when 3.21.0 LTS is released, before the end of the year).
If you are using cf-remote, you can target versions like this:
cf-remote --version 3.15.7 listcf-remote --version 3.18.3 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:
- Explore CFEngine Build for modules made by the CFEngine team and community, and share your own modules
- 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
