GNU cfengine

Cfengine is a tool for setting up and maintaining BSD and System-5-like operating system optionally attached to a TCP/IP network.

You can think of cfengine as a very high level language, much higher level than Perl or shell: a single statement can result in many hundreds of operations being performed on multiple hosts.

Cfengine can perform very good a lot of common system administration tasks, and allows you to build on its strengths with your own scripts. You can also use it as a netwide front-end for `cron'.

What is new in this release:

• Newsworthy features: XML editing capabilities, inheritance of local classes by bundles called using "usebundle", POSIX ACL support, an "outputs" promise type, remote syslog support, VirtualBox support for guest_environment promises, guest_environment promises are supported under OS X, the "depends_on" attribute is now active, for the partal ordering of promises, cf-promises --parse-tree option to parse policy file and dump it in JSON format, namespaces support for bundles and bodies, default arguments for bundles, and a metadata promise type.

What is new in version 3.3.8:

• Bugfixes and stability improvements.

What is new in version 3.3.1:

• This is a bugfix and stability release.

What is new in version 2.2.8:

• cfservd was patched so that it no longer serves wrong data when link->copy is used.
• Checksum changes now trigger persistent class "checksum_alerts" and log to WORKDIR/state/file_hash_event_history.
• A threading error was fixed for cfexecd.
• Windows compilation was fixed.
• Windows users might have to move keys and files from /home/user/.cfagent to /var/cfengine after the standardization of administrator paths for Windows where getuid is not 0.