Configuration management
Process for maintaining consistency of a product attributes with its design
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| January 15 2025 |
PowerShell
First preview release of PowerShell 7.6 (v7.6.0-preview.2) was released, based on .NET 9
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| 2024 |
Nix
A team of volunteers released the first version of Lix, a fork of Nix focused on correctness and compatibility, using the Meson build automation system and intending to gradually rewrite parts of the code in Rust.
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| 2023 |
Microsoft Configuration Manager
The term 'endpoint' was removed, officially renaming the product to Microsoft Configuration Manager.
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| June 20 2023 |
Foreman
Foreman 3.7.0 released with plugin translation infrastructure and Puppet 6 support dropped
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| April 2023 |
Microsoft Configuration Manager
Configuration Manager Current Branch 2303 was released, marking the latest version in the Microsoft Configuration Manager product suite.
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| March 2023 |
Microsoft Configuration Manager
Microsoft introduced a new release cadence for Configuration Manager, shifting to two annual releases in March (xx03) and September (xx09), replacing the previous pattern of xx03, xx07, and xx11 releases.
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| March 21 2023 |
Foreman
Foreman 3.6.0 released, enabling Redis cache management by installer and disabling Puppetserver's telemetry by default
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| 2022 |
The Librarian
CA Librarian was mentioned in the O'Reilly Media book 'Modern Mainframe Development' as one of the source control systems still in use by mainframe developers.
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| 2022 |
SD-WAN
SD-WAN market expected to grow by 30% from the previous year.
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| August 2022 |
Cdist
Cdist was forked and renamed to skonfig, marking a significant transition in the project's development.
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| March 15 2022 |
Foreman
Foreman 3.2.0 released with Debian 11 support and deprecation of support for running on EL7 and Debian 10
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| 2021 |
Nix
Tvix, a reimplementation of Nix package manager, was announced with goals of modularity, full compatibility with Nixpkgs, and improved evaluator performance.
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| 2021 |
SD-WAN
Global SD-WAN market value reached $3.25 billion, with North America accounting for more than 77% of the market.
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| December 2021 |
SD-WAN
Gartner research firm estimated that by 2025, 50% of SD-WAN purchases will be part of a single vendor Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offering, highlighting the growing integration of network and security technologies.
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| September 7 2021 |
Foreman
Foreman 3.0.0 released, extracting Puppet ENC functionality to foreman_puppet plugin and adding Kerberos authentication
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| July 28 2021 |
Surround SCM
Version 2021.1 released, showing continued evolution and maintenance of the Surround SCM platform.
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| 2020 |
Dimensions CM
Dimensions CM version 14.5.2 is released, adding the capability to serve as a binary repository manager.
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| 2020 |
Infrastructure as code
Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks' threat intelligence unit) released the Cloud Threat Report, identifying approximately 200,000 potential vulnerabilities in infrastructure as code templates, highlighting significant security concerns in IaC technology.
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| October 2020 |
Progress Chef
The acquisition of Chef by Progress was completed, with the merged company being named Progress Chef.
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| September 8 2020 |
Progress Chef
Progress announced the acquisition of Chef, with the acquisition intended to be finalized in October and a purchase price of $220 million.
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| April 7 2020 | MIL-HDBK-61B Configuration Management Guidance was published by the United States Department of Defense. |
| April 2 2020 |
Foreman
Major Foreman 2.0.0 release with new sidekiq-based implementation for Dynflow and consolidation to PostgreSQL as the only supported database
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| 2019 |
Microsoft Configuration Manager
Configuration Manager moved to the Microsoft Endpoint Manager suite, integrating with Microsoft Intune and other endpoint management products to reduce naming confusion.
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| 2019 |
EIA-649 National Consensus Standard for Configuration Management
Release of ANSI/EIA-649-C-2019, the current version of the Configuration Management Standard
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| 2019 |
Progress Chef
A journalist revealed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was paying Chef approximately $95,000 annually for a software license, leading to a former Chef employee deleting his code repository in protest.
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| April 2019 |
Progress Chef
The company announced a change in licensing strategy, continuing to release source code under Apache 2.0 license but making binaries proprietary, which prompted the Cinc project to release Apache 2.0 licensed binaries.
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| February 11 2019 |
Surround SCM
Version 2019.1 launched, demonstrating ongoing development and support of the version control software.
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| 2018 | Updated version of ISO 20000:1 Service Management System standard was published. |
| 2018 |
HCL BigFix
HCL, an India-based software company, acquired BigFix from IBM for $1.8 billion as part of a select software product purchase.
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| 2018 |
The Librarian
Computer Associates was acquired by Broadcom, and the product was renamed to simply 'Librarian'.
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| 2018 |
Infrastructure as code
Pulumi was released, providing a push infrastructure as code tool with declarative and imperative approaches, written in Go.
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| October 31 2018 |
AnthillPro
Final day of support for AnthillPro, after which the product was fully retired and replaced by IBM UrbanCode Build and IBM UrbanCode Deploy.
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| July 19 2018 |
Foreman
Foreman version 1.18.0 released, adding template importing and RancherOS provisioning support
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| June 2018 |
Open-source configuration management software
Uyuni configuration management solution first introduced.
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| June 2018 |
Open-source configuration management software
First release of Uyuni, a Java, Python, and PL/SQL-based configuration management tool
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| April 17 2018 |
Foreman
Foreman version 1.17.0 released with HTTP proxy for outgoing requests, vertical navigation, and host interfaces auditing
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| January 11 2018 |
PowerShell
In a community interview, Microsoft's PowerShell team discussed the migration from Windows PowerShell 5.1 to PowerShell Core 6.0, highlighting cross-platform capabilities and open-source status as key improvements.
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| January 10 2018 |
PowerShell
PowerShell Core 6.0 achieved general availability for Windows, macOS, and Linux platforms.
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| 2017 | ISO published 10007:2017 Quality management guidelines for configuration management. |
| August 28 2017 |
AnthillPro
AnthillPro's retirement was officially announced, with the product to be discontinued and no longer supported after October 31, 2018.
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| January 19 2017 |
PowerShell
PowerShell 5.1 was officially released, marking the first version with separate 'Desktop' and 'Core' editions.
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| August 18 2016 |
PowerShell
Microsoft first announced PowerShell Core, revealing its decision to make the product cross-platform, independent of Windows, free and open source.
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| August 10 2016 |
Open-source configuration management software
First release of Pyinfra (version 0.1), a Python-based configuration management tool
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| August 2 2016 |
PowerShell
PowerShell 5.1 was released alongside the Windows 10 Anniversary Update and in Windows Server 2016, introducing new features like proxy support in PackageManagement, ViMode support in PSReadLine, and two new cmdlets: Get-TimeZone and Set-TimeZone.
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| July 22 2016 |
Microsoft Configuration Manager
Configuration Manager Current Branch 1606 was released with support for new Windows 10 features like Windows Information Protection and Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection, and improved Windows Store for Business integration.
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| July 16 2016 |
PowerShell
A preview of PowerShell 5.1 was released for multiple Windows and Windows Server versions, including Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, and 2012 R2.
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| March 11 2016 |
Microsoft Configuration Manager
Configuration Manager Current Branch 1602 was released with new features including conditional access for PCs, Office 365 Update Management, and enhanced mobile device and Windows 10 management.
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| 2015 |
Infrastructure as code
Otter was released by Inedo, a Windows-oriented push infrastructure as code tool with declarative and imperative approaches.
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