PE 2023.8.11

Released September 2026

Puppet Enterprise (PE) 2023.8.11 improves platform reliability and security. This release resolves an issue that could prevent PCP Broker from recovering after temporary disconnections from the orchestrator and includes fixes for multiple security issues, including CVE-2026-85979.

Puppet Enterprise® (PE and PE Advanced) lifecycle update

Puppet is transitioning its Puppet Enterprise® software support offerings from the “Long Term Support” and “Short Term Support” model to the "Latest" and "Latest - 1" model starting in August 2026. To learn more, see Puppet Enterprise Platform Support Lifecycle.

Puppet Enterprise (PE) 2023.8.x is the final release series under Puppet Enterprise's Long-Term Support (LTS) model. Future major releases follow the Latest / Latest - 1 support model introduced with PE 2026.0.
To access the release notes for the Puppet® platform, including Puppet agent, Puppet Server, Facter, and PuppetDB, see Platform release notes.

Resolved issues

PCP Broker now recovers after disconnections from the PE orchestrator

In prior versions of Puppet Enterprise, PCP Broker disconnections from the PE orchestrator (such as during a temporary DNS outage) could cause PCP Broker on compiler nodes to remain in an error state. As a result, communication between affected compiler nodes and the orchestrator was not restored until pe-puppetserver on affected compilers was restarted. This issue is resolved in PE 2025.11.3 and 2023.8.11. [PE-35694]

Security fixes

In addition to CVE-2026-85979, the following CVEs were resolved in PE 2023.8.11:

  • CVE-2026-35611

  • CVE-2026-42245

  • CVE-2026-42246

  • CVE-2026-42257

  • CVE-2026-42258

  • CVE-2026-47240

  • CVE-2026-47242