Hosted Mender 4.2.0-saas.3 and Mender Client 6.0.0 released

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Hello friends, users and contributors of Mender!

Two fresh releases to share with you today.

Mender Client 6.0.0

The client components bundle gets a major version bump, driven by semantic versioning related to the mender-connect 3.0.0 component. And mender 5.1.0 gets you a bunch of new features on top!

mender 5.1.0 introduces device tier support

This adds a DeviceTier configuration option with standard, micro, and system tiers, and possibly more in the future. System-tier devices use system_type from the orchestrator’s topology.yaml instead of device_type for deployment polling and compatibility checking, the micro tier reflects the requirements of MCU/RTOS update scenarios such as Zephyr, and standard… is what you already know. :wink:

On the reliability side, a segfault triggered by D-Bus restarts has been fixed, and mender-authd is now auto-started when called over D-Bus.

mender-connect 3.0.0 brings a behavioral change: session expiration is now enabled by default (StopExpired: true, ExpireAfterIdle: 10 minutes). The reconnection backoff has also been significantly reduced, starting at 1 second instead of 1 minute.

mender-flash 1.1.0 now supports in-kernel copying via sendfile()/splice() and adds --write-everything and --fsync-intervaloptions. The binary is now dependency-free and under 10 KiB.

Also included: monitor-client 1.5.0 with flood detection warnings, and the first release of mender-container-modules 1.0.0.

Full release notes: Mender Client

Hosted Mender 4.2.0-saas.3

The server side brings device tier support across the board: tiers are now available in preauthorization, the device list supports filtering by tier, and service provider tenants get tier management in their dashboards and child tenant creation.

Full release notes: Hosted Mender

As always, feedback and questions are welcome right here on the Hub.

Greetz, Josef

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@TheYoctoJester Thanks for the release!

When will the next meta-mender tag be released? Will the target Yocto releases be scarthgap and wrynose? Also, will kirkstone be dropped given its upcoming EOL?

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Hi @nomtor0204,

We’re currently working on the corresponding scarthgap tag and plan to push it soon. Concerning kirkstone, it depends on required backporting effort. If it turns out to be straightforward, then you can expect a final tag release there too. Otherwise, we consider it effectively EOL by now, the Yocto Project also already had the last call for patches.

wrynose support is already in the making and should be visible within the next two weeks.

Greetz,
Josef

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Thank you for the update on the meta-mender release status and support plans! Looking forward to it.