Anchore Enterprise Release Notes - Version 6.1.1
Anchore Enterprise v6.1.1
Enterprise Service
Anchore Enterprise v6.1.1 is a patch release for v6.1.0 that corrects excessive database and object store usage. Anchore recommends this release for all v6.1.0 deployments.
If you have been running v6.1.0 with an image that was analyzed before v5.25 and exists in
more than one account, your deployment is holding more data than it needs. Upgrading to v6.1.1 stops the excess growth
and reclaims that space automatically over the following cycles — no manual cleanup is required.
Reclaiming that data frees space inside the PostgreSQL data files but does not shrink them on disk. To return the space
to the filesystem, run
VACUUM FULL or pg_repack against object_store_documents once the backlog has
drained.Requirements
- Anchore Enterprise v6.x requires PostgreSQL 17 or greater with the pg_cron extension installed and accessible by Anchore Enterprise. Pre-flight checks verify at startup that the database version and required extensions are working correctly, and the deployment will fail to start if these requirements are not met.
- SBOM ingestion in v6.x drives larger parallel query plans against PostgreSQL, which use dynamic shared memory
(
/dev/shmon Linux). Docker’s default tmpfs of 64 MiB is insufficient for typical SBOM workloads. Operators running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes or self-managed hosts should size/dev/shmto at least 1 GiB - see Shared Memory for full guidance. Managed databases (Amazon RDS, Aurora) are unaffected.
Fixes
- Fixes an issue where Anchore Enterprise may use excessive amounts of object store space during periodic vulnerability scanning. This affected images that exist in multiple accounts and were analyzed prior to v5.25. For those images, cached SBOM data was regenerated on every vulnerability scan instead of being reused, and the routine cleanup that removes the superseded copies could stop running.
Recommended Component Versions
| Component | Supported Version | Helm Chart Version | Additional Info |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise | v6.1.1 | v4.1.2 | With Syft v1.46.0 and Grype v0.115.0 |
| Enterprise UI | v6.1.0 | ||
| AnchoreCTL | v6.1.0 | Deploying AnchoreCTL | |
| Anchore ECS Inventory | v1.4.3 | v0.0.17 | https://github.com/anchore/ecs-inventory |
| Anchore Kubernetes Inventory | v1.8.4 | v0.6.4 | https://github.com/anchore/k8s-inventory |
| Kubernetes Admission Controller | v0.8.4 | v0.8.4 | https://github.com/anchore/kubernetes-admission-controller |
| Jenkins Plugin | v3.3.0 | https://plugins.jenkins.io/anchore-container-scanner | |
| Harbor Scanner Adapter | v1.5.3 | https://github.com/anchore/harbor-scanner-adapter |
Anchore Helm Chart can be found at https://github.com/anchore/anchore-charts
Syft Release Notes can be found at https://github.com/anchore/syft/releases/tag/v1.46.0
Grype Release Notes can be found at https://github.com/anchore/grype/releases/tag/v0.115.0
Last modified August 14, 2026