Continuous Delivery for PE 4.6.0 released

[Carl Caum]

Hello, CD for PE customers! I'm happy to announce that CD for PE 4.6.0 is available with some great updates. Let's dive in!

New Promote permission  — Previous to 4.6.0, customers who wanted to allow team members to promote changes in pipelines were forced to give those team members administrator permissions for those pipelines. There are many customers who need to give senior team members the ability to promote infrastructure changes without being able to modify the delivery process.

With CD for PE 4.6.0, they can now give those team members the Promote permission. When you upgrade to CD for PE 4.6.0, existing workspace groups with the Edit permission will automatically be given the Promote permission as well to maintain existing permissions.

Fine grained RBAC permissions for control repositories — In CD for PE 3.7.0, we introduced the ability to assign group permissions on a specific set of module pipelines. Since that release, customers have shared with us the desire to have the same level of fine grained permissions on control repos as well. Without it, customers couldn't have more than one control repository in a workspace with different code owners having, for example, administrative permissions over one control repo but not the other.

With 4.6.0, we've expanded those fine grained permission controls to include control repositories.

Export Impact Analysis reports — Several customers in highly regulated industries require the ability to export Impact Analysis reports for inclusion in audit records. With 4.6.0, customers can export Impact Analysis reports as CSV files for inclusion in spreadsheets and change records.

Run multiple Puppet products on a single Puppet Application Manager instance — Previous to 4.6.0, customers couldn't install multiple Puppet products, such as Comply, on a single Puppet Application Manager instance. Customers were forced to install and manage individual clusters for Comply and CD for PE. With 4.6.0, Comply can be installed alongside CD for PE on the same installation cluster.

Usability improvements — Version 4.6.0 introduces several improvements to the design and usability of Continuous Delivery for PE, including:

• Several web UI pages have been updated with a cleaner, more streamlined design.
• Improved error messaging when a webhook cannot be automatically set up for a newly added control repo or module.
• The certificate preflight check now accepts a wildcard certificate as valid.

Bugs resolved in this release:

• Custom deployment policies no longer require environment branches to already exist on the target repository
  
• If a workspace has no owner, the Workspaces page in the root console now loads correctly so that you can reassign the workspace to a new owner.
• Information about global shared hardware is now correctly displayed when you navigate to the Hardware page in the root console from the individual workspace's Hardware page.

As always, release notes are here: https://puppet.com/docs/continuous-delivery/4.x/cd_release_notes.html#cd_release_notes-version-4-6-0