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CFEngine 3.24.4 and 3.27.1 released

May 8, 2026

We are pleased to announce two new patch releases for CFEngine, version 3.24.4 and 3.27.1! These patch releases contain bug fixes and dependency updates.

Changes

As these are patch releases for long term supported (LTS) branches of CFEngine, there are no new major features included.

Complete changelogs

As always, you can see a full list of changes and improvements in our changelogs:

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

We have updated the following dependencies:

CFEngine version 3.24.3 3.24.4 3.27.0 3.27.1
Apache 2.4.66 2.4.66 2.4.66 2.4.66
APR 1.7.6 1.7.6 1.7.6 1.7.6
apr-util 1.6.3 1.6.3 1.6.3 1.6.3
diffutils 3.12 3.12 3.12 3.12
Git 2.52.0 2.54.0 2.52.0 2.54.0
leech - - 0.2.0 0.2.0
libacl 2.3.2 2.3.2 2.3.2 2.3.2
libattr 2.5.2 2.5.2 2.5.2 2.5.2
libcurl 8.17.0 8.17.0 8.17.0 8.17.0
libcurl-hub 8.17.0 8.17.0 8.17.0 8.17.0
libexpat 2.7.3 2.8.0 2.7.3 2.8.0
libgnurx 2.5.1 2.5.1 2.5.1 2.5.1
libiconv 1.18 1.19 1.18 1.19
librsync - - 2.3.4 2.3.4
libxml2 2.15.1 2.15.3 2.15.1 2.15.3
LibYAML 0.2.5 0.2.5 0.2.5 0.2.5
LMDB 0.9.33 0.9.35 0.9.33 0.9.35
nghttp2 - - 1.68.0 1.69.0
OpenLDAP 2.6.10 2.6.13 2.6.10 2.6.13
OpenSSL 3.6.0 3.6.2 3.6.0 3.6.2
PCRE2 10.47 10.47 10.47 10.47
PHP 8.3.28 8.3.30 8.5.1 8.5.5
PostgreSQL 16.11 16.13 18.1 18.3
pthreads-w32 2-9-1 2-9-1 2-9-1 2-9-1
rsync 3.4.1 3.4.2 3.4.1 3.4.2
SASL2 2.1.28 2.1.28 2.1.28 2.1.28
zlib 1.3.1 1.3.2 1.3.1 1.3.2

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.

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 3.27.1 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:

command
cf-remote --version 3.24.4 list
command
cf-remote --version 3.27.1 list

Version selection works for list, download, and install commands. Read more about cf-remote here.

End of support for CFEngine 3.21 LTS

Pleae note that support for CFEngine 3.21 LTS series ended in January. If you are on 3.21 or an older unsupported version, please 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: