We are pleased to announce two new patch releases for CFEngine, version 3.18.8 and 3.21.5! These patch releases contain bug fixes and dependency updates.
Changes
We’d like to highlight one specific change in behavior, which some users will want to adjust to;
Change in behavior - depth_search can now be used (but warns) with an individual file as source
Users of the depth_search attribute of file promises should be aware of this change in behavior.
See the blog post on the topic for more details:
Complete changelogs
As always, you can see a full list of changes and improvements in our changelogs:
- 3.21.5 Changelog for CFEngine Community
- 3.21.5 Changelog for CFEngine Enterprise
- 3.21.5 Changelog for Masterfiles Policy Framework
- 3.18.8 Changelog for CFEngine Community
- 3.18.8 Changelog for CFEngine Enterprise
- 3.18.8 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 upgrades
Compared to the previous releases, CFEngine 3.18.7 and 3.21.4, the following dependencies were updated for the client packages:
| CFEngine version | 3.18.7 | 3.18.8 | 3.21.4 | 3.21.5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| libcurl | 8.5.0 | 8.7.1 | 8.5.0 | 8.7.1 |
| libxml2 | 2.12.3 | 2.12.6 | 2.12.3 | 2.12.6 |
| OpenSSL | 1.1.1w | 1.1.1w | 3.0.12 | 3.0.13 |
| libacl | 2.3.1 | 2.3.2 | 2.3.1 | 2.3.2 |
| libattr | 2.5.1 | 2.5.2 | 2.5.1 | 2.5.2 |
| LMDB | 0.9.31 | 0.9.32 | 0.9.31 | 0.9.32 |
| OpenLDAP | 2.6.6 | 2.6.7 | 2.6.6 | 2.6.7 |
| zlib | 1.3 | 1.3.1 | 1.3 | 1.3.1 |
And for the hub packages, these additional dependencies were also upgraded:
| CFEngine version | 3.18.7 | 3.18.8 | 3.21.4 | 3.21.5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 2.4.58 | 2.4.59 | 2.4.58 | 2.4.59 |
| Git | 2.43.0 | 2.45.1 | 2.43.0 | 2.45.1 |
| PHP | 8.0.30 | 8.0.30 | 8.2.13 | 8.2.19 |
| PostgreSQL | 13.13 | 13.14 | 15.5 | 15.6 |
| rsync | 3.2.7 | 3.3.0 | 3.2.7 | 3.3.0 |
For a complete overview of all dependencies used in CFEngine and their licenses, please see the Legal and licenses part of our documentation.
Thank you to the developers, maintainers, and contributors to open source software which makes CFEngine possible.
New supported platform - Ubuntu 24
Ubuntu 24 is now supported, with 4 enterprise packages available for the platform;
- Ubuntu 24 hub package for 64-bit x86 (amd64)
- Ubuntu 24 hub package for 64-bit ARM (arm64)
- Ubuntu 24 client package for 64-bit x86 (amd64)
- Ubuntu 24 client package for 64-bit ARM (arm64)
See the Downloads section below for more details on how to download and install them.
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 3.21.5 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 3.18.8 listcf-remote --version 3.21.5 listVersion selection works for list, download, and install commands.
Read more about cf-remote here.
End of support for CFEngine 3.18 LTS
Please note that support for 3.18.8 ends in August (2024), and this 3.18.8 is the last planned release for the 3.18.x LTS series. If you still haven’t upgraded to 3.21 LTS, we encourage you to contact us for help with upgrading or to discuss an extended support contract.
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
