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Dec 13 2024
Dear Tanzu Update Readers,
Happy Holidays to you and your dear ones. This will be the last update for this year. We will take a break and resume back after the new year. We wish you all a happy holidays and a very happy new year 2025.
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. (Note : Broadcom Support portal requires you to register)
Tanzu Product Downloads | KB article on How to Download Products | Tanzu Product Lifecycle (Select Tanzu Division to find Tanzu product releases) | Tanzu Product Documentation
Note: VMware Postgres for VMware Tanzu Application Service has been renamed to VMware Tanzu for Postgres on Cloud Foundry.
| Product Name | Version | Release Date | Related Links |
| VMware Tanzu Platform Crowdstrike Falcon for VMware Tanzu Check Release Notes for details | 1.5.0 | 2024-12-09 | Release Notes |
| VMware Tanzu Data Solutions VMware Tanzu for Postgres on Cloud Foundry Tanzu for Postgres on Cloud Foundry was formerly known as VMware Postgres for VMware Tanzu Application Service. Check Release Notes for details | 1.2.1 | 2024-12-06 | Release Notes |
| VMware Tanzu Greenplum Maintenance release that resolves several issues. Check Release Notes for details | 6.28.1 | 2024-12-13 | Release Notes |
VMware Tanzu Product Security Updates
Within the release notes there may be security or governance specific updates that are worth highlighting. The Tanzu Security team reviews each release and summarizes security or governance specific highlights found within the release notes.
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
Crowdstrike Falcon for VMware Tanzu 1.5.0
- Tested support for Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry 10.0.0.
- Added guidance for upgrading from 1.1.0.
- Updated installer fixing timeout when installing via dpkg.
VMware Tanzu Data Solutions
VMware Tanzu for Postgres on Cloud Foundry 1.2.1
- Resolves ADBR backup/restore from failing with cert issues.
- This release is now compliant with FIPS. We have tested and verified the support on FIPS stemcell Ubuntu Jammy v1.639.
VMware Tanzu Greenplum 6.28.1
- VMware Greenplum 6.28.1 is a maintenance release that resolves several issues.
- Resolves a crash that occurred when starting or rebooting the cluster with a disk quota-enabled database containing over 10,000 tables.
- Resolves a database panic issue that occurred when the system ran out of memory.
- Resolves an issue which made other extensions unable to use ExecutorCheckPerms_hook when Diskquota is enabled.
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)
No valid placement found for VM compute and storage requirement while running apply changes – Customer added extra headers’ in the isolation-segment-uat Zone / Networking tab and reviewed Pending Changes then apply changes failed. Check this article for resolution.
How to troubleshoot app which fails during start phase on TAS – When an app passes staging successfully but fails to start and only generates limited logs, we can simulate the app start with the exact same container environment with start options manually for troubleshooting purposes.
VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Integrated Edition (TKGI)
How to rotate Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition tls-nsx-t cluster certificate – Check the article for steps on rotating certificates.
VMware Tanzu Support Scope
Scope of Support for TANZU Rabbit-MQ tile – Rabbit-MQ (RMQ) is a messaging broker/service owned and supported by VMware/Broadcom that is compiled of 3 different offerings. Check this article for support scope and end of support details.
VMware Tanzu Data Solutions
Simplifying Open-Source Data Engine Management with Tanzu Data Services (Blog) Arnab Chakraborty Tanzu Data Services is not just a data engine solution—it’s a catalyst for innovation.
VMware Tanzu Updates
Announcing General Availability of Bitnami Premium (Blog) VMware Tanzu Team Bitnami Premium, a new commercial upgrade to the Bitnami Application Catalog containers and Helm charts, is now Generally Available. We are also kicking off a new endeavor with Arrow Electronics to facilitate a streamlined Bitnami Premium purchase and support experience.
Cloud Foundry Weekly Series – Subscribe | RSS Feed
Cloud Foundry Weekly: Tanzu Value add for Cloud Foundry : Ep 38– (Video) Nicky Pike, Nick Kuhn This week, friends of the pod Tim Leong and Mark Fynes will join the show again to discuss all the goodness that Tanzu adds on top of the Cloud Foundry ecosystem.
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.
Spring Office Hours / Podcasts
S3E42 – IntelliJ Tips & Tricks with Siva Reddy Join Dan Vega and DaShaun Carter as they welcome Siva Prasad Reddy K, Developer Advocate at JetBrains. In this episode, Siva will be sharing tips and tricks for IntelliJ to help you get the most out of your development experience.
A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Security lead Rob Winch on the amazing Spring Security 6.4 release In this installment, we’ll talk to the amazing Rob Winch, lead of Spring Security 6.4, about the jam-packed new release!
Tanzu What’s New Series – Weekly Tanzu digest on Tanzu product Releases, KB Articles, Success Stories, Updates, Blogs, Videos & More – has been moved to a New Home Tanzu Blogs. You can also Subscribe for this weekly update on the official VMWare Tanzu Linked In Newsletter Now!!!! We now have 11k + subscribers and growing!!
Tanzu Academy – An on-demand, comprehensive learning hub for platform and application operators to become experts at achieving meaningful outcomes with Tanzu products.
Tanzu Fundamentals (Videos)
Tanzu Webinars – New home
Tanzu Blogs – Migration still in progress , some old blogs may not redirect to new home
Spring by VMware Tanzu Blog – Find all Spring updates, events, podcasts and more | Spring Office Hours
Spring Academy – The new Spring Academy Pro FREE is live! Check out the details hereTanzu Documentation – Tanzu Platform | Tanzu Data Solutions | Tanzu Platform Services | Tanzu Spring | Tanzu Standalone Components | Reference Architectures
Tanzu Hands on Labs (HOL) – Self Paced Labs to try hands on Tanzu Products
