As we enter 2020 and reflect on the various contributions the project has received we want to take a moment to recognize one of the more prolific contributors as a CFEngine Champion. It’s my honor to announce and welcome Dimitrios Apostolou as the latest CFEngine Champion. At the time of this …
We recently released new builds for our Enterprise and Community packages. This release fixes an issue causing Enterprise Hub packages to fail upgrade in some cases. As part of this release, we also made changes to package names to ensure consistent naming that also includes the target platform in …
CFEngine 2 network communication is insecure by today’s standards. CFEngine 2 CVE-2016-6329: CFEngine 2 uses Blowfish cipher (1993) which today is considered: Weak Deprecated Subject to key recovery attack No security fixes since 2008. Protocol communications not encrypted; only data transfer …
Today marks a new milestone for CFEngine, with the release of the new CFEngine 3.15.0 LTS. This is the newest Long Term Supported CFEngine series, introducing a lot of great stuff. The biggest new feature in CFEngine 3.15 is Federated Reporting, which we will cover later in this blog post, but there …
We are now happy to release two new LTS versions of CFEngine, 3.10.7 LTS, and 3.12.3 LTS. CFEngine 3.10.7 - end of life This will be the last release of the CFEngine 3.10 LTS series. Standard Support of CFEngine 3.10 LTS ends end of this year. If you would like extended support, please contact us. …
Due to a number of vulnerabilities found in the version of Apache we bundle with CFEngine hub, we have upgraded the CFEngine hub packages to use an updated version of Apache. We upgrade from Apache 2.4.39 to Apache 2.4.41. We are now releasing a new version, CFEngine Hub 3.12.2-5. Only new Hub …
Problem to solve When working on the new Federated Reporting feature for CFEngine we had to solve the problem of collecting data from multiple CFEngine hubs (feeders) on a single hub (superhub). CFEngine hubs are using PostgreSQL to store data, so, more specifically, the problem was how to collect …
Where we are This is a very exciting time for the CFEngine product team, the community, and the user base. As we are getting closer to the release of CFEngine 3.15 LTS, we can look back at some great improvements in the last few years. CFEngine was the first product to tackle the challenge of …
Today we are happy to announce the general availability of CFEngine 3.15.0 beta. CFEngine 3.15 is our upcoming LTS (Long Term Support) release. The main focus of this release has been the new Federated Reporting feature. It also contains a lot of performance work and stability improvements. You can …
Recently a security flaw, CVE-2019-1552, has been discovered in OpenSSL. This vulnerability affects the Windows Enterprise agent packages. To mitigate this security vulnerability we have rebuilt CFEngine with the fix to this issue. These packages have been re-released with the version number …
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