Puppet Enterprise 2021.5 is now available!

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Feb 15, 2022, 6:58:40 PM2/15/22
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The latest release for the Puppet Enterprise release track, PE 2021.5, is now available!

 

Enhancements in this release include:


  • Bypass node verification failure when primary server certificates are damaged. You can use --force to bypass node verification failure and force certificate regeneration when your primary server certificates are damaged.

  • Improved disk usage when syncing certificate authority data. Disk usage is better when syncing certificate authority data between the primary and replica.

  • Primary server support for: 

    • Amazon Linux 2

  • Agent support for: 

    • Microsoft Windows Server 2022 x86_64

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 x86_64

  • Patch management:

    • Amazon Linux 2

 

Resolved in this release:

  • Packages were not marked as automatically installed by APT if you set security_only to true. When running the pe_patch::patch_server task with the security_only parameter set to true, packages were not marked as being automatically installed by APT. This caused problems if you rely on this marking for APT autoremove to remove old packages. The patch_server task now marks packages as automatically installed, regardless of the security_only parameter.

  • r10k can recover from typos in the config or Puppetfile. r10k now updates its cache repos when the remote URL changes. This allows r10k to recover from typos in the config or Puppetfile.

  • Couldn't complete restoration if the r10k_remote parameter wasn't set. The r10k_remote parameter wasn't set when restoring a backup with scope set to certs, code, or puppetdb. This prevented you from finishing restoration because the commands necessary to finish restoring your primary server did not print.

  • Schedule task button sometimes failed to redirect. When scheduling a task to run at some later time or interval, under some circumstances, clicking Schedule task did not redirect you to the Scheduled tasks page.

  • The fail_plan function didn't show custom error information. The fail_plan function ignored the kind and details parameters, which are used to specify custom, machine-parseable information about an error.

  • Scheduled jobs failed on FIPS installs. Scheduled jobs, including tasks and plans, couldn't run or be listed on FIPS installs of PE and resulted in the error javax.crypto.BadPaddingException.

 

 

Check out the release notes: https://puppet.com/docs/pe/2021.5/release_notes_pe_index.html

 

Important note: If you are using Continuous Delivery for PE, upgrade to CD4PE 4.8.2 or a newer version prior to upgrading to Puppet Enterprise 2021.5. We resolved a PuppetDB issue causing the generation of new fact charts on the Nodes page to fail.

 

Download PE 2021.5 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.
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