Greetings
The latest release for the Puppet Enterprise release track, PE 2021.6, is now available! This release incorporates new features, enhancements, and resolved issues from all previous major releases. The following are a few highlights. Please refer to the release notes HERE for a complete list and full descriptions.
New features in this release include:
PE version 2021.6 upgrades PostgreSQL to version 14
Lockless code deploys are no longer experimental
Run plans without blocking code deployments
RBAC API v2 GET /users endpoint
Enhancements in this release include:
Optimized some PuppetDB queries
Upgraded Bouncy Castle to 1.70
Report compilation failure results for apply blocks
This version adds support for these platforms:
Primary server
FIPS 140-2 compliant Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 x86_64
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 x86_64
Ubuntu (General Availability kernels) 20.04 x86_64
Agent
macOS 12 x86_64
Resolved in this release:
Code Manager didn't delete spec directories
Code Manager deployments failed to delete spec directories due to an issue with r10k. To fix this, we upgraded r10k to version 3.14.1.
LDAP connection timeout setting was ignored
In the console, the LDAP ‘connect_timeout’ field wasn't correctly passed to the connection attempt and, as a result, the value wasn't applied in the LDAP configuration.
The plan that upgrades the secondary node sometimes failed
When running puppet infrastructure upgrade compiler or puppet infrastructure upgrade replica, the plan that upgrades the secondary node sometimes failed on the step where install.bash runs on the node to update the agent.
Check out the release notes: https://puppet.com/docs/pe/2021.6/pe_user_guide.html
Download PE 2021.6 here: https://puppet.com/try-puppet/puppet-enterprise/download/
As a current Puppet Enterprise user, you can update to this new version as part of your annual subscription. When updating, you must update infrastructure components first and then update agents. For detailed instructions, see the documentation.