Tanzu Updates

Tanzu What’s New – October 25, 2024


     

    “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Oct 25 2024

Product NameVersionRelease DateRelated Links
VMware Tanzu Platform
Stemcells (Ubuntu Jammy)
Check Release Notes Security Fix and change details.
1.6212024-10-21Release Notes
VMware Tanzu Data Solutions
VMware Tanzu for Postgres
This release introduces a new extension
postgres_exporter. Check Release Notes for more details.
16.4.0
15.8.0
14.13.0
13.16.0
12.20.0
2024-10-22Release Notes
Release Notes
Release Notes
Release Notes
Release Notes
Other Releases
Scheduler
Security fix – Update java and cf cli version

GenAI on Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry
GenAI on Tanzu Platform is currently in beta and is
intended for evaluation and test purposes only.
Do not use it in a production environment.
2.0.11



1.0.1
2024-10-18



2024-10-23
Release Notes



Release Notes

VMware Tanzu Product Releases
In this section, we will add releases information on Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry, Tanzu Platform for Kubernetes, Tanzu Data Services, and Tanzu Spring Essentials Products that are part of Tanzu Platform and Standalone solutions along with its release date and release notes. 

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Tanzu Documentation Migrated to New Home – Please Read!!!!
Tanzu Documentation migrated from docs.vmware.com to techdocs.broadcom.com.  Some of the release notes are still in progress and will add a note if that is the case below.

Tanzu Security Team Disclaimer:
The summary below is a review of the above product release notes from a security and governance point of view and may not reflect specific security or governance requirements you may require. It also does not include all details from the release notes. Please review the full release notes for release details.

VMware Tanzu Platform
Stemcells (Ubuntu Jammy) 

  • USN-7064-1: nano vulnerability – Resolved 1 medium CVE
  • USN-7070-1: libarchive vulnerabilities – Resolved 3 high,critical CVEs
  • USN-7071-1: Linux kernel vulnerability – Resolved 1 medium CVE
  • USN-7072-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities – Resolved 3 medium,high CVEs
  • USN-7076-1: Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities – Resolves 4 medium,high CVEs

VMware Tanzu Data Solutions
VMware Tanzu for Postgres 

  • Issues resolved in Tanzu Postgres 16.4.0
    • Resolves a JDBC GSS checksum error when the network latency is high
    • Resolves a JDBC issue where GSS package will be rejected by the server
  • Features or changes in Tanzu Postgres 16.4.0:
    • New extensions: postgres_exporter, (16.4.0, 15.8.0, 14.13.0: pg_graphql, pg_strom)
    • etcd now installed in a separate directory as a standalone package supporting multiple PostgreSQL major versions.
    • Patroni will now be installed in a separate directory as a stand along package.
    • Newly added diskquote extension enables DBA to set limits on the amount of disk space used by schemas, roles and databases.
    • This version of Postgres supports etcd 3.5.15 and Patroni 3.3.3

Other Releases
Scheduler

  • [Security fix] Update java and cf cli versions.

GenAI on Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry

  • Ninth beta release of GenAI on Tanzu Platform.
    • GenAI on Tanzu Platform is currently in beta and is intended for evaluation and test purposes only. Do not use it in a production environment.
  • ai-server validates for deprecated/unsupported options prior to sending requests to the underlying model
  • ai-server checks the request is compatible with the underlying model capabilities
  • Bump genai-boshrelease, ollama, ai-server, go
  • A memory leak was identified in the route_registrar component shipped with the GenAI tile. For details, see Route Registrar Memory Leak Mitigation in the Broadcom Support Knowledge Base.
  • No known exploitable CVEs at time of release.

Check out the troubleshooting Tips and Resolutions on various Tanzu Products. This section is a great resource for you to bookmark and quickly prevent issues before pushing applications to Production.

VMware Tanzu Application Service (TAS)
Trusted CA certificates missing in docker apps under “/usr/local/share/ca-certificates”Credhub interpolation fails when executing ‘https://credhub.service.cf.internal:8844/api/v1/interpolate’ from a docker based image app in TAS.

Apps Manager is slow when querying from Metric Store in Tanzu Application Service for VMs 2.9+Apps Manager will take a long time to load, especially when loading Key Metrics. Some commands like restage could fail due to timeouts.

VMware Tanzu Operations Manager
Ops Manager 3.0.29 Certificates page fails with 500 error – When attempting to open the Certificates page in Ops Manager, it fails with “500 An error occurred”.

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Integrated Edition (TKGI)
Migrating TKGI cluster to the NSX Policy API fails with error:- no such file or directory – While migrating cluster to the NSX Policy API using tkgi promote-cluster-to-policy <cluster-name> it might fail. 

VMware Tanzu
Learn how to add AI to your platform at Explore 2024 (Blog) Michael Coté Exploring enterprise AI, the blog underscores the importance of defining roles and leveraging platform engineering to foster successful, scalable AI applications through strategic experimentation and collaboration.

VMware Tanzu CloudHealth
Broadcom Named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Financial Management Tools (Blog) TJ March This week, Gartner released the Magic Quadrant and Critical Capabilities for Cloud Financial Management Tools 2024 and Broadcom was named a leader.

Spring Updates
This Month in Spring – October 2024 (Blog) Josh Long Spring fans! Welcome to yet another installment of This Month in Spring! As usual, this is your one-stop shop for all things Spring.

Tanzu Platform Spring Essentials & Google Cloud Platform (Webinar Recording) Check out this recording to explore how Tanzu Platform Spring Essentials on Google Cloud enhances enterprise development, featuring insights from Broadcom and Spring experts in an exciting tour of Spring Cloud GCP and Spring AI.

Cloud Foundry Weekly Series  –  Subscribe  | RSS Feed
Cloud Foundry Weekly: Recap CF Day EU 2024: Ep 33(Video) Nicky Pike, Nick Kuhn. What to catch up on all Cloud Foundry excitement from Karlsruhe this year? Be sure to tune into the show as we recap all the great talks and topics from Cloud Foundry Day 2024 EU!

Upcoming Events and Webinars sorted in Date order below for your convenience with relevant links and information for you to not miss these key happenings.

VMware Tanzu Data Solutions

VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ
Unlocking the Power of Messaging: Introduction VMware Tanzu Rabbit MQ 4.0 November 13, 2024 @ 10AM PT (Webinar) Howard Twine Explore VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ 4.0’s groundbreaking features that enhance fault tolerance, boost throughput, and provide operational insights, simplifying architecture and increasing efficiency for microservices, IoT, and AI workloads.

VMware Explore 2024 Barcelona | November 4-7 2024

Join The Party at #VMwareExplore 2024 Barcelona!
Check out more details on this upcoming event  |  Content Catalog is Open now   | Register

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon | November 12-15 2024 
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities in Salt Lake City, Utah from November 12-15, 2024. 
Experience The Kubecon + cloudnativeconRegister for the event  | Schedule

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