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Jan 17, 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 PlatformStemcells (Ubuntu Jammy) Check Release Notes for details | 1.719 | 2025-01-16 | Release Notes |
Stemcells (Ubuntu Jammy Azure Light) Check Release Notes for details | 1.719 | 2025-01-17 | Release Notes |
VMware Tanzu Platform Spring Essentials Spring Cloud Services for VMware Tanzu New features such as Updated Dashboard pages and bug fixes available. Check Release Notes for details | 3.3.0 | 2025-01-14 | Release Notes |
VMware Tanzu Data Solutions VMware Tanzu for MySQL on Cloud Foundry VMware Tanzu for MySQL 3.2.0 and later only support MySQL 8.0. Check Release Notes for details | 3.2.2 | 2025-01-15 | Release Notes |
VMware Tanzu Greenplum Maintenance Release and check Release Notes for details | 6.27.5 | 2025-01-17 | Release Notes |
Other Releases Single Sign-On for VMware Tanzu Single Sign‑On v1.16 is a long-term supported (LTS) version and is supported through April 2026. Check Release Notes for details | 1.16.7 | 2025-01-16 | 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
Stemcells (Ubuntu Jammy) & Stemcells (Ubuntu Jammy Azure Light)
- USN-7182-1 – Ceph – 1 medium CVE resolved
- USN-7206-1 – rsync – 6 medium, high CVEs resolved
VMware Tanzu Platform Spring Essentials
Spring Cloud Services for VMware Tanzu
- Configuration validation has been enhanced to reject unknown properties for service instances.
- Exposed actuator endpoints are limited to health, info, and env for service instances.
- Config Server refreshMirrors endpoint is only accessible by admins and space developers.
- Fixed missing timeout for all calls to CredHub
- Dependency Upgrades
- Spring Boot to 3.4.1, Spring Cloud to 2024.0.0, Git to 2.47.1, OpenJDK to 17.0.13+12, Routing to 0.328.0, Backup and Restore SDK to 1.19.37, PXC to 1.0.34, BPM to 1.4.9, Stemcell to 1.708
VMware Tanzu Data Solutions
VMware Tanzu for MySQL on Cloud Foundry
- VMware recommends that you upgrade to the latest patch available for your current minor, and then upgrade to the latest patch available for the next minor.
- For product versions and upgrade paths, see Upgrade Planner.
- Because VMware uses the Percona Distribution for MySQL, expect a time lag between Oracle releasing a MySQL patch and VMware releasing VMware SQL with MySQL for Tanzu Application Service containing that patch.
- Bugfix: Patches MySQL to fix a bug that can lead to increasing memory usage if the audit log plug-in is enabled.
- Bugfix: Backup process can exit successfully during network failures and when the backup is configured incorrectly in Tanzu Operations Manager.
- Feature: Improves logging during the backup process
- Upgrades dependencies, resolves CVEs: Stemcell 1.682, Percona Server, Percona XtraDB cluster, Percona XtraBackup, adbr-release, bpm-release, cf-cli-release, cf-service-gateway-release, dedicated-mysql-release, dedicated-mysql-adaptor-release, loggregator-agent-release, mysql-data-backup-restore-release, mysql-monitor-release, on-demand-service-broker-release, pxc-release, routing-release, service-metrics-release.
VMware Tanzu Greenplum
- VMware Greenplum 6.27.5 is a maintenance release that resolves the following issue.
- Resolves an issue where Orca would incorrectly fall back to the Postgres-based planner for queries involving Common Table Expressions (CTEs) and inter-slice motions. Orca now generates optimized plans for a broader range of these queries.
Other Releases
Single Sign-On for VMware Tanzu
- Single Sign‑On v1.16 is a long-term supported (LTS) version. Single Sign‑On v1.16 is supported through April 2026.
- Spring Boot 3.4 Dependency upgrade
- byte-buddy-1.15.11.jar, error_prone_annotations-2.36.0.jar, guava-33.4.0-jre.jar, hibernate-validator-8.0.2.Final.jar, kotlin-reflect-2.1.0.jar, kotlin-stdlib-2.1.0.jar, kotlin-stdlib-jdk7-2.1.0.jar, kotlin-stdlib-jdk8-2.1.0.jar, log4j-api-2.24.3.jar, log4j-to-slf4j-2.24.3.jar, micrometer-commons-1.14.2.jar, micrometer-core-1.14.2.jar, micrometer-jakarta9-1.14.2.jar, micrometer-observation-1.14.2.jar, spring-aop-6.2.1.jar, spring-beans-6.2.1.jar, spring-boot-3.4.1.jar, spring-boot-actuator-3.4.1.jar, spring-boot-actuator-autoconfigure-3.4.1.jar, spring-boot-autoconfigure-3.4.1.jar, spring-boot-jarmode-tools-3.4.1.jar, spring-context-6.2.1.jar, spring-core-6.2.1.jar, spring-expression-6.2.1.jar, spring-jcl-6.2.1.jar, spring-security-config-6.4.2.jar, spring-security-core-6.4.2.jar, spring-security-crypto-6.4.2.jar, spring-security-oauth2-client-6.4.2.jar, spring-security-oauth2-core-6.4.2.jar, spring-security-oauth2-jose-6.4.2.jar, spring-security-oauth2-resource-server-6.4.2.jar, spring-security-web-6.4.2.jar, spring-web-6.2.1.jar, spring-webmvc-6.2.1.jar, tomcat-embed-core-10.1.34.jar, tomcat-embed-el-10.1.34.jar, tomcat-embed-websocket-10.1.34.jar

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)
An abnormal message in apps manager UI, “The scheduler service has not been enabled yet” – This happens when duplicated scheduler service instances are created in a single space. Check the article for details.
Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry on Windows – Nov 2024 Stemcell (2019.79) Issue Causing Stuck/Hung BOSH Deployments on Windows Diego Cells – There is a compatibility issue between Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry on Windows, and the November 12, 2024 Windows patches. When encountered, Windows Diego Cells will hang indefinitely during a deployment. Check the article for details.
VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Integrated Edition (TKGI)
How To Relocate OpsMan VM After Completing Bosh Director Storage Migration – To migrate the OpsMan VM to the new datastore use the steps in this article to vMotion the OpsMan VM.

VMware Tanzu Data Services
Simplify Your Enterprise Database Management with VMware Tanzu Data Services (Video) Discover how VMware Tanzu Data Services simplifies enterprise database management by providing comprehensive support for open-source databases like PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ.
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Into the DMZ: 2025 Security Updates : CF Weekly Episode 41 – (Video) Nicky Pike, Nick Kuhn & DMZ will join the show to give the first Into the DMZ update for 2025. Be sure to check out this episode for the latest security updates in the Cloud Foundry ecosystem.

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