Tanzu What’s New - Apr 13,2024 Edition

"Keep going. Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life." - Roy T. Bennett

Check out Tanzu Product releases for this week with release notes and relevant links for more information. 
 

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)
Automation scripts for upgrading Small Footprint TAS for VMs 6.0 to 'full' TAS for VMs 6.0 - This article contains a download link to Bash scripts that can help automate the process of upgrading a Small Footprint TAS for VMs 6.0 deployment to a 'full' TAS for VMs 6.0 deployment. 
 
Route Emitter Condition Causes Routes to Not be Emitted - A rare bug has been discovered with the route-emitter service that sometimes prevents it from connecting to the nats service. Check the workaround in this article. 

Perform Blobstore Benchmark No Output - Recently there was an update that caused the utility to have no output. Check the article for patch and workaround detail. 

cf-java-client Timeout Workaround - This Knowledge Base (KB) article details a timeout error that may be experienced while pushing an app with cf-java-client.  Check the workaround in this article.

VMware RabbitMQ for TAS 
RabbitMQ Smoke Test exceeds 60 minutes and fails due to timeout - When running the On Demand Smoke test for RabbitMQ, smoke test will fail if it exceeds 1 hour. This can happen when a large number of plans have been configured on the platform, as the smoke test will test each of these plans.

VMware Tanzu Application Platform (TAP)
New in TAP 1.9: Innovating in Highly Regulated Environments  - (Blog) Lefteris Marakas With Tanzu Application Platform 1.9, available today, we boost innovation for highly regulated companies by further improving the experience of installing and running TAP in air- gapped environments and by reducing our release cycles.

VMware Tanzu Application Service (TAS)
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Episode 6 - TAS 6.0 Brings GenAI Updates and Boosts Developers and Platform Engineer Efficiencies - (Video) Cloud Foundry Weekly deep dives into various aspects of the Cloud Foundry ecosystem. Join Nick and Nicky as they interview special guests from the community and deep dive inenAI Updates and Boosts Developers and Platform Ento special features within the VMware Tanzu and Cloud Foundry ecosystem. Don't miss this week's episode of Cloud Foundry Weekly, to get a deep dive on TAS 6.0!

VMware Tanzu Application Service 6.0 Brings GenAI Updates and Boosts Developers and Platform Engineer Efficiencies  - (Blog) Nick Kuhn and Mia Villarreal the release of Tanzu Application Service 6.0 encompasses the Tanzu ‘5 S’ framework that includes speed, stability, scalability, security, and savings. 

VMware Tanzu Application Catalog (TAC)
Gain Insights into the Risks You Face from Open Source Dependencies with VMware Tanzu OSS Health Assessment - (Blog) Bala Bharathy The OSS Health Assessment can help you effectively identify, remediate, and mitigate risks in your application by making you aware of the potential vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that exist in the OSS your developers use. 

Spring Updates
Spring Cloud Gateway for Kubernetes 2.2: A Focus on Enhanced GraphQL API Support - (Blog) Michelle Sebek, this release includes advancements that cater to the evolving needs of Kubernetes implementations while improving API management through enhanced GraphQL support. 

Spring Academy Pro Content Now Free to Access - (Blog) Denise Martinez, we’re excited to share some great news! Spring Academy Pro will no longer require a paid subscription. It is available here to everyone who registers a work, vocational, or educational email address. 

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.

RabbitMQ
Apr 18 - Exploring RabbitMQ 4.0: Innovations and enhancements in messaging and streaming -  This session delves into the significant enhancements that redefine messaging and streaming for a new generation of modern data architectures.

Spring Webinar
Tanzu Spring Runtime (TSR)
Apr 24 - Enhancing Compliance and Security with Tanzu Spring Runtime - Learn how you can utilize Tanzu Spring Consulting to provide your organization with hands-on support to help upgrade a portfolio of apps to the latest version of Spring, build new Spring apps, or migrate an existing application portfolio to Spring.

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Thanks and Regards,
Aruna Srinivasan (She/Her)
Client Services Consultant - Tanzu Customer Success