Puppet Enterprise 2021.0 is now available!

[Puppet Product Updates]

The latest release for the Puppet Enterprise release track, PE 2021.0 is now available!

This is the first release in the Puppet Enterprise 2021 track. 

New features and enhancements in this release include:

• SAML 2.0 support, enabling single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) for more secure access to PE.

• A new token page that lets you manage access tokens from the console.

• A new patching plan that includes pre- and post-patching health checks, reducing manual steps for your patching process. 

• Performance improvements to PuppetDB. One customer saw a 750% improvement!

• Puppet 7, the latest version of our component software.

Deprecations

Support for these agent platforms are deprecated in this release:

• 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.

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

 

Download PE 2021.0 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.