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CFEngine 3.24.6 and 3.27.3 have been released to address the recent PHP vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 & CVE-2026-109619), popularly dubbed PHP2Shell. Read more:
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Happy friday! The latest patch releases of CFEngine are out - 3.24.5 and 3.27.2. Remember to push to prod and have a good weekend!
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CFEngine 3.28 is released, with the container inventory feature, allowing you to see information about running containers and container images for each host inside Mission Portal:
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CFEngine 3.24.4 and 3.27.1 have been released:
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CFEngine 3.27.0 LTS has been released! Explore your infrastructure with the AI agent. By connecting an LLM, you can now get help with answering questions about your infrastructure and creating new reports. Read more:
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CFEngine 3.21.8 and 3.24.3 LTS have been released. Upgrade today to get the latest bug fixes and improvements.
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CFEngine has integrated with librsync for efficiently transferring changes to files. We saw an 80% reduction in bandwidth usage in our testing. Read our latest developer post to learn more about how to use librsync in your projects:
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CFEngine 3.25.0 has been released! This version includes the audit log, useful for security and compliance purposes, tracking who's made changes to data, created users, deleted groups, etc.
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With CFEngine, you install a software agent on each host in your infrastructure, to perform the changes you want to automate. Our latest blog post takes a look at this approach, why it can be beneficial, and some real world examples of how to utilize it:
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Today, on Feature Friday #30, Nick highlights a little tool / script, which we've used to generate the CFEngine agent logo in SVG format, with options for different poses, colors, and resolutions:
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On the 26th Feature Friday, @cmdln_ shows off the groups promise type, for managing local user groups, including who should be in a group, who should not, etc.
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In today's post, @cmdln_ highlights 'agentsay', a 'cowsay' alternative for CFEngine fans:
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In @craig_comstock_'s latest blog post, he looks at recent vulnerabilities in OpenSSH, and how to get an overview of machines potentially affected;
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In CFEngine policy language, stakeholders can be used to document why something was added to policy, or who it was implemented for. Common uses of this knowledge management feature are adding ticket numbers, CVE IDs, URLs, or team names / email addresses:
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In the 20th post of the series, @cmdln_ takes a look at macros, which allow you to only parse and evaluate some of your policy based on which version of CFEngine you are running or what features are available:
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If you're relying on this inventory attribute for conditions or host filtering, please see the change in behavior blog post for more details: cfengine.com/blog/2024/chang…
The CFEngine team is please to announce the release of CFEngine 3.24.0 LTS, the first version of the 3.24 LTS series, which will be supported for the next 3 years. Read more in the release announcement blog post:
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Uninstalling unused packages is desirable from a security perspective. In @craig_comstock_'s latest blog post, he takes a look at the conditional-installer module which can both install and uninstall, based on flexible conditions:
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#security #infosec
It's Friday, and it's time for the 11th Feature Friday blog post - Today, Nick shows how namespaces are used to avoid name collisions with bundles and classes:
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