Puppet Enterprise 2023.8.0 LTS and 2021.7.9 LTS have been released!

[Puppet Product Updates]

We are excited to announce the release of Puppet Enterprise 2023 LTS, which includes features and updates designed to improve infrastructure performance and security. This release contains various new features to help your teams automate and manage infrastructure more efficiently.  

Key benefits of upgrading to PE 2023.8.0: 

• Puppet 8: This release is built on top of Puppet 8, and enhances automation capabilities, offering improved efficiency and security in managing your infrastructure. A complete list of features and improvements contained in Puppet 8 can be found here. 
• Improved performance: Various improvements have been made to our components and services to improve operations' performance. These include improvements to lockless deploys for Code Manager, PuppetDB, and Orchestrator. 
• Improved DR capabilities: We understand the critical nature of maintaining business continuity and have improved the resiliency of promotion and provision actions to help support better disaster recovery processes. 

This release also contains a variety of bug fixes alongside dependency and security updates. A complete list of changes can be found in our release notes here. 

 

EOL for Several Primary Server Platforms:  

In this release, we've removed support for the following End of Life (EOL) operating systems as infrastructure servers (Primary, Replica, Compiler, or Database) platforms: 

• CentOS version 7 
• Oracle Linux version 7 
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7 
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (FIPS 140-2 compliant) version 7 
• Scientific Linux version 7 
• Ubuntu 18.04 
• SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 

The Puppet Enterprise 2023 LTS release is designed to support your long-term success, providing stability and reliability. Whether upgrading from the 2021 LTS or implementing Puppet Enterprise for the first time, the 2023 LTS release is your gateway to a more robust and secure infrastructure. 

For information about upgrading to PE 2023 LTS, see Upgrading Puppet Enterprise 2023 documentation. 

The Puppet Enterprise 2021.7.9 LTS 

Alongside the release of our 2023.8.0 LTS, we are also releasing the final version of the 2021.x LTS release track with PE 2021.7.9. While this version will get security updates and remain supported for the next 6 months, this will be the last major update for this version. In future releases of Puppet Enterprise LTS, the 2021.x LTS release track will be replaced by the 2023.x LTS release track. 

This means that in order to continue using the latest version of Puppet Enterprise LTS beyond 2021.7.9, you will need to upgrade to the 2023.x release track — either with today's release of 2023.8.0 LTS or with the next release of the 2023.x LTS release track. 

The following enhancements are available in this release: 

• Disabling legacy facts ensures that your code base is Puppet 8 compatible and that there are no issues or blockers. 
• Disabling slow and I/O intensive operation codedirs chown in compiler catalogs. 
• Faster Events screen load in the PE console shows events in the last 30 minutes 

These two releases also add agent support for the following operating systems: 

• Ubuntu 24.04 (amd64 and aarch64) 
• RedHat Enterprise Linux 9 ppc64le 
• Alma Linux 9 (x86_64 and aarch64) 
• Rock Linux 9 (x86_64 and aarch64) 
• Amazon Linux 2 (aarch64) 
• Fedora 40 (x86_64) 

Release notes for Puppet Enterprise LTS 2021.7.9 can be found here. 

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