Puppet Enterprise 2021.1 is now available!

[Puppet Product Updates]

The latest release for the Puppet Enterprise release track, PE 2021.1 is now available!

 

New features and enhancements in this release include:

• Opt-in password complexity requirements for more secure access to PE.

• Customizable defaults of time freed for value reporting.

• Customizable banner for console login page.

• A new `crl_refresh_interval` parameter which updates agents’ CRL on a specified interval. 

For the full list of changes, check out the release notes: https://puppet.com/docs/pe/latest/release_notes_pe_index.html

 

Deprecations

Support for these agent platforms are deprecated in the PE 2021 release stream:

• Enterprise Linux 5

• Enterprise Linux 7 ppc64le

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 ppc64le

• Ubuntu 16.04 ppc64le

• Debian 8

• Solaris 10

• Microsoft Windows 7, 8.1

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2

 

Reminder: Whitelist and blacklist were deprecated in a previous release in favor of allowlist and blocklist. Classes, parameters, and file names that use these terms continue to work, but we recommend updating your classification, Hiera data, and pe.conf files as soon as possible in preparation for their removal in a future release.

 

Download PE 2021.1 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.