Tanzu What’s New - Sep 20,2024 Edition

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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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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 FIPS) 

•         No high or critical USN’s in this release.
•         CVE-2024-6119
•         CVE-2024-43374
•         CVE-2024-41957
•         Bump OS Image

Stemcells (Ubuntu Jammy) 

•         USN-6993-1: Vim 2 Medium CVE resolved
•         USN-6995-1: Thunderbird 10 Medium CVEs resolved
•         USN-6997-1: LibTIFF 1 Medium CVE resolved
•         USN-7000-2: Expat 3 Critical CVEs resolved
•         USN-7007-1: Linux kernel 219 Low, Medium, High, Critical CVEs resolved
•         USN-7008-1: Linux kernel 222 Medium, High CVEs resolve
•         USN-7010-1: DCMTK 9 Medium, High CVEs resolved
•         USN-7011-1: ClamAV 2 Medium, High CVEs resolved
•         USN-7014-1: nginx 1 Medium CVE resolved
•         USN-7015-1: Python 5 Medium, High CVEs resolved
•         USN-7016-1: FRR 1 High CVE resolved
•         USN-7019-1: Linux kernel 429 Low, Medium, High, Critical CVEs resolved
•         USN-7020-1: Linux kernel 6 Medium, High, Critical CVEs resolved 

VMware Tanzu Data Solutions
VMware Tanzu Greenplum Backup and Restore

•         VMware Tanzu Greenplum Backup and Restore version 1.30.7 is a maintenance release that resolves several issues.
•         gpbackup, gprestore:added retry for ssh commands on unstable network, correctly dumps external tables as foreign tables
•         gpbackup_s3_plugin: upgraded golang dependencies

Other Releases
BOSH Backup and Restore (BBR)

•         Correct paths in bbr-artifacts archive
•         Replace cryogenics golang dep bumps with golang-package tasks
•         Update vendored dependencies

VMware Tanzu Platform Spring Essentials
Spring Cloud Data Flow for Kubernetes

•         Dependency Updates:
  
  •         Spring Framework to 5.3.39
  •         Reactor to 2020.0.47
  •         Netty to 4.1.113.Final
  •         Tomcat to 9.0.93
  •         Snappy Java 1.1.10.6
•         Known Issues
  
  •         Allow setting up more than one initContainer per platform
  •         Node Selector doesn’t get applied to K8s platforms
  •         User should be able to set app version when creating schedule
  •         Task table prefix is not resolved correctly in CTR
•         Update to 2.11.5-SNAPSHOT
•         Added verification of tasks/thinexecutions in DataflowOAuthIT

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)
Apply Changes fails with error cert_chain must include a subjectAltName extension - During Apply Changes, the tiles perform template rendering. This process can be affected if the correct certificates for secure communication are not in place or the format of the certificate placed in the tile is incorrect.

How to retrieve service credentials for a service instance bind to an application - This article demonstrates how to locate and retrieve the service credentials and connection information for a service instance that is bound to an application running on Cloud Foundry. This is useful if you need to connect directly to the service.

Tanzu Spring Cloud Service for TAS
How to retrieve Application Property Sources from a Spring Cloud Services for TAS Config Server - This article demonstrates the steps to retrieve application's environment variables used to enumerate property sources and publish them at a JSON endpoint. 

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition (TKGI)
How to change the Kubernetes Service Network CIDR Range of your existing TKGI cluster using k8s profiles - This KB will detail how to change the Service Network CIDR Range for existing clusters.
VMware Tanzu
To Improve Your Mean Time to Recovery, Start at the Beginning - (Blog) Rita Manachi with David Zendzian, For this article, we are using the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team’s definition of MTTR as the average amount of time it takes your team to restore service when there’s a service disruption, like an outage. 

VMware Tanzu® Greenplum
Customer Success Story
The Impact of Samsung Gen-5 NVMe on VMware Tanzu® Greenplum Optimization - (White Paper) The Samsung PM1743 NVMe SSD boosts VMware Tanzu Greenplum's big data handling, achieving 3.6x speed, 12x query efficiency, and 80% cost savings, transforming legacy systems to meet modern demands. You can download the whitepaper using the link above. 

MicroStrategy Integration with VMware Tanzu Greenplum 7 Certification Launched - (Blog) Discover how Tanzu Greenplum 7's certification with MicroStrategy enhances advanced analytics, empowering industries like finance and manufacturing with powerful data insights and decision-making tool

Cloud Foundry Weeklies Series  -  Subscribe  | RSS Feed
Cloud Foundry Weekly: Routing Platform logs with SCDF & Fynesy: Ep 28 - (Video) Nicky Pike, Nick Kuhn & Superstar Mark Fynes returns to the show this week to explore how platform engineers can use the Spring Cloud Data Flow (SCDF) tile to control log routing to various endpoints!

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
Research to Backlog in 36 hrs: Planning & Executing Successful On-Sites October 3, 2024 10AM PT - (Webinar) Wesley Chiu Join VMware Tanzu Labs, to see how our on-sites drove key insights, empowered decisive product decisions in 36 hours, and delivered software changes in users’ hands in within a week…even when only less than half of that team attended the on-site.

Go Fast and be More Secure: Lessons Learned from the Biggest Breaches of 2024 October 17, 2024 11:30AM PT - (Webinar) VMware Tanzu & Forrester Join us in conversation with three experts who have deep knowledge of and experience in cybersecurity as we discuss lessons learned from this year's biggest security breaches. 

Tanzu Spring & Google Cloud Platform October 22, 2024 9AM PT (Webinar) Michelle Sebek, DaShaun Carter, Josh Long, Jonathan Frader Join our VMware Tanzu Spring & Google webinar to learn about the latest Spring innovations, the Tanzu Spring Essentials offering, and how we partner with Google to elevate your enterprise development experience.

VMware Explore 2024 Barcelona  November 4-7 2024
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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.
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