Blazing the trail CFEngine was the first Configuration Management solution on the market, and while we have made many and significant changes and improvements to CFEngine in that time, we stay true to the principles that make it such a great product and technology. There are many things that have …
CFEngine in HPC In High-Performance Computing (HPC) uptime and performance are very important. HPC is an area of computing that often focuses on research and development, supporting teams with extremely complex problems they need to solve, and heavy computation mathematical problems, such as protein …
Introduction In the CFEngine Core team, we have recently been working on a fix for our WaitForCriticalSection() function. In short, the function checks a timestamp in a chunk of (lock) data stored in a local LMDB database and if the timestamp is too old, it writes a new chunk of (lock) data with the …
Yesterday, packages for CFEngine 3.12.5 and 3.15.2 were made available. This release announcement was delayed in support of Blackout Tuesday in the United States of America. We are pleased to announce two new patch releases for CFEngine, version 3.12.5 and 3.15.2! These patch releases don’t …
Contributor and CFEngine Champion, Jon Henrik Bjørnstad, developed a tool for encrypting files using CFEngine host keys, called cf-keycrypt. Thank you to Jon Henrik and all of our contributors for helping improve the CFEngine project. Our developer, Vratislav Podzimek, recently took some time to …
A vulnerability was recently discovered in CFEngine Mission Portal and has now been fixed. Under certain circumstances, it was possible to inject JavaScript code into data presented in Mission Portal, that would be run in the user’s browser. This security issue was fixed in CFEngine 3.10.7, …
Today we released 3.12.4-2. Shortly after releasing 3.12.4-1, we identified a permissions problem that prevents 3.12.4-1 from contributing data to a 3.15 hub setup for federated reporting; this release fixes that permission issue. As always, you can find Enterprise packages on our Enterprise …
Announcing CF4! (or is it CF-FORTH?!) I imagine you didn’t expect such a big release so soon after our most recent release of 3.12.4 and 3.15.1 on March 26, but here it is: our alpha-release. Thus the reason for the .-4 in the version number. Of course choosing -4 has something to do with the …
We are today very excited to bring you new updates to CFEngine. This is a set of patch releases for the CFEngine 3.12 LTS and 3.15 LTS series. We usually release new patch releases every 6 months, but we want to bring new features and all improvements and bug fixes to our users as soon as possible. …
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic brings challenging times for many countries, companies, families, and individuals. Therefore we wanted to make a brief statement about the state of our operations. The CFEngine team has offices in Norway and the USA, as well as remote workers in Italy and other European …
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