Puppet Enterprise - 2023.0 & 2021.7.2 LTS – Release Announcement

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Feb 1, 2023, 6:05:23 PM2/1/23
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The latest releases for Puppet Enterprise – 2023.0 and 2021.7.2 LTS – are now available!

 

This is a GA release for all Puppet Enterprise (PE) customers, with major improvements for task and plan management plus compliance and performance updates. 


This is the next release since 2021.7, now using updated versioning. It’s a backward-compatible release that contains enhancements and resolved issues from our previous major release. The following are a few highlights. For a detailed list of features and updates, see the release notes . 

 

New features and enhancements in this release include: 

  • NIST compliance: Clear sensitive information upon session timeout

    • Ensure that sensitive information is cleared when a session times out. You can customize the timeout to specify a default value and issue a confirmation message. In this way, you reduce compliance risk for InfoSecOps and administrators. This feature is designed for compliance with National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidelines.

  • Authenticate users in multiple Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) domains

    • Use a prioritized list of LDAP servers to get credentials. In this way, you reduce compliance risk and increase operational efficiency for administrators.

  • Streamlined user interface for tasks and plans

    • Increase observability, throughput, fault tolerance, and operational efficiency with new job and task queue status, task concurrency fine tuning, default job timeouts, and the capability to stop stalled jobs. View and edit task parameters, targets, and other details. The new functionality is designed to benefit users, operators, and managers.

  • Scalability performance improvements to deploy and manage more nodes

    • Increase operational efficiency and accelerate time to value with new orchestrator task concurrency defaults and improvements. Reporting, database performance, and agent certificate regeneration improvements are provided as well to benefit all users.


Component updates

  • Java 17


Deprecations: This version removes support for these platforms: 

Removed primary server platforms

  • CentOS 8

Removed agent platforms

  • CentOS 8

  • Debian 9

  • Fedora 32

  • Fedora 34

  • Ubuntu 16.04

Removed patch management platforms

  • Debian 9

  • Fedora 34

 

This announcement also pertains to PE 2021.7.2 LTS with the following updates:


Multiple resolved issues

Security fixes:

  • CVE-2022-41946

  • CVE-2022-41404

 

Check out the release notes for a complete list of changes and full descriptions.

 

Download PE 2023.0 from the Download Puppet Enterprise webpage.

 

As a current Puppet Enterprise user, you can update to this new version as part of your annual subscription. To successfully update PE, update infrastructure components first and then update agents. For detailed instructions, see the documentation. 



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