diff --git a/build_utils/encrypt b/build_utils/encrypt
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+################################################################################
+#    HPCC SYSTEMS software Copyright (C) 2024 HPCC Systems®.
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#    you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#    You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#    limitations under the License.
+################################################################################
+
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import os
+import configparser
+from cryptography.fernet import Fernet
+import argparse
+
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+  description='Encrypt password using Fernet symmetric encryption',
+  prog='encrypt.py',
+  epilog='Example: python3 encrypt.py <option> <password>'
+)
+
+parser.add_argument('password', help='Password to encrypt')
+parser.add_argument('-k', '--key_file', help='Path to key file', required=False)
+parser.add_argument('-c', '--config_file', help='Path to configuration file', required=False)
+parser.add_argument('-o', '--output_file', help='Path to output file', required=False, default='password.enc')
+args = parser.parse_args()
+
+# Read the configuration file
+config = configparser.ConfigParser()
+if args.config_file:
+  config_file = args.config_file
+else:
+  config_file = os.path.join('/etc/hpccsystems', 'fetch_assets.ini')
+if not config.read(config_file):
+  print(f"Configuration file not found: {config_file}")
+  exit(1)
+
+if args.key_file:
+  encryption_key = args.key_file
+else:
+  encryption_key = config.get('security', 'key_path')
+
+# Read the encryption key and load cipher suite
+with open(encryption_key, 'rb') as key_file:
+  key = key_file.read()
+cipher_suite = Fernet(key)
+
+# Encrypt the password
+encrypt_password = cipher_suite.encrypt(args.password.encode())
+with open(args.output_file, 'wb') as output:
+  output.write(encrypt_password)
+ 
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diff --git a/build_utils/fetch_assets.ini b/build_utils/fetch_assets.ini
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+[repository]
+path = /path/to/local/repository
+url = https://github.com/myusername/myrepo/releases
+name = repositoryName
+owner = myGithubUsername
+[jfrog]
+username = myJfrogUsername
+encrypted_token = myEncryptedJfrogToken
+base_url = https://myJfrogUrl.com/artifactory
+[security]
+key_path = /path/to/secret.key
+[local]
+data_dir_base = /path/to/data/dir
+logdir = /path/to/log/dir
+username = myLocalUsername
+groupname = myLocalGroupname
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diff --git a/build_utils/fetch_assets.py b/build_utils/fetch_assets.py
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+################################################################################
+#    HPCC SYSTEMS software Copyright (C) 2024 HPCC Systems®.
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#    you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#    You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#    limitations under the License.
+################################################################################
+
+import os
+import subprocess
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta
+import re
+import configparser
+import requests
+from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
+from cryptography.fernet import Fernet
+import logging
+from pwd import getpwnam
+from grp import getgrnam
+import argparse
+import zipfile
+
+script_dir = os.getcwd()
+
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+  description='Fetch HPCCSystems assets from GitHub and JFrog',
+  prog='fetch_assets.py'
+)
+
+parser.add_argument('-k', '--key_file', help='Path to key file', required=False)
+parser.add_argument('-c', '--config_file', help='Path to configuration file', required=False)
+parser.add_argument('-t', '--tag', action='append', help='Tag to fetch assets for', required=False)
+parser.add_argument('-v', '--verbose', action='store_true', help='Enable verbose logging', required=False)
+args = parser.parse_args()
+
+
+# Read the configuration file
+config = configparser.ConfigParser()
+config_file = os.path.join('/etc/hpccsystems', 'fetch_assets.ini')
+if args.config_file:
+  config_file = args.config_file
+if not config.read(config_file):
+  print(f"Configuration file not found: {config_file}")
+  exit(1)
+
+# Define the path to the local GitHub repository
+repo_url = config.get('repository', 'url')
+repo_path = config.get('repository', 'path')
+repository_name = config.get('repository', 'name')
+repository_owner = config.get('repository', 'owner')
+encryption_key = config.get('security', 'key_path')
+if args.key_file:
+  encryption_key = args.key_file
+jfrog_username = config.get('jfrog', 'username')
+encrypted_jfrog_key = config.get('jfrog', 'encrypted_token')
+jfrog_base_url = config.get('jfrog', 'base_url')
+data_dir_base = config.get('local', 'data_dir_base')
+logdir = config.get('local', 'logdir')
+local_username = config.get('local', 'username')
+local_groupname = config.get('local', 'groupname')
+
+log_level=logging.INFO
+if args.verbose:
+  log_level=logging.DEBUG
+
+# Configure logging
+logging.basicConfig(
+  filename=f"{logdir}/fetch_assets.log",
+  level=log_level,
+  format='%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s'
+)
+
+# declare get_asset function
+def download_asset(url, username=None, decrypted_password=None):
+  filename = os.path.basename(url)
+  logging.debug(f"Attempting download of {url}")
+  if not username or not decrypted_password:
+    response = requests.get(url)
+  else:
+    response = requests.get(url, auth=HTTPBasicAuth(username, decrypted_password))
+  if response.status_code == 200:
+    with open(f"{filename}", 'wb') as f:
+      f.write(response.content)
+    logging.info(f"Downloaded {filename}")
+  elif response.status_code == 404:
+    logging.debug(f"Asset not found: {url}")
+  else:
+    logging.error(f"{response.status_code} Failed to fetch {filename}")
+
+# Recursively change ownership of files and directories
+def chown_recursive(path, uid, gid):
+  for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
+    for dir in dirs:
+      os.chown(os.path.join(root, dir), uid, gid)
+    for file in files:
+      os.chown(os.path.join(root, file), uid, gid)
+
+logging.debug(f"Generating cipher suite from {encryption_key}")
+with open(encryption_key, 'rb') as key_file:
+  key = key_file.read()
+cipher_suite = Fernet(key)
+decrypted_jfrog_password = cipher_suite.decrypt(encrypted_jfrog_key.encode()).decode()
+
+# Get the current date and time
+current_time = datetime.now()
+logging.debug(f"Current time is {current_time}")
+
+# Get the date and time 24 hours ago
+time_24_hours_ago = current_time - timedelta(hours=24)
+logging.debug(f"24 hours ago was {time_24_hours_ago}")
+
+local_gid = getgrnam(local_groupname).gr_gid
+local_uid = getpwnam(local_username).pw_uid
+logging.debug(f"UID: {local_uid}, GID: {local_gid}")
+
+version_list = []
+if args.tag:
+  for tag in args.tag:
+    version_list.append(re.sub(r'^community_', '', tag))
+else:
+  logging.debug(f"Repo path is {repo_path}")
+  # Navigate to the local GitHub repository
+  if not os.path.isdir(repo_path):
+    logging.info("Repository not found, cloning")
+    repo_head = os.path.split(repo_path)[0]
+    result = subprocess.run(
+      ['git', 'clone', 'https://github.com/hpcc-systems/hpcc-platform.git'],
+      capture_output=True, text=True, cwd=repo_head
+    )
+    for line in result.stderr.splitlines():
+      logging.debug(line)
+
+  # Refresh the local repository
+  result = subprocess.run(
+    ['git', 'fetch', '--all', '--tags'],
+    capture_output=True, text=True, cwd=repo_path
+  )
+  for line in result.stderr.splitlines():
+    logging.debug(line)
+
+  # List all tags and their creation dates, filter tags created in the last 24 hours
+  result = subprocess.run(
+    ['git', 'for-each-ref', '--sort=creatordate', '--format=%(refname:short) %(creatordate:unix)', 'refs/tags'],
+    capture_output=True, text=True, cwd=repo_path
+  )
+  for line in result.stderr.splitlines():
+    logging.debug(line)
+
+  for line in result.stdout.splitlines():
+    tag, timestamp = line.split()
+    timestamp = int(timestamp)
+    tag_time = datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp)
+    if time_24_hours_ago <= tag_time <= current_time:
+      logging.info(f"Tag: {tag}, Created: {tag_time}")
+      version_list.append(re.sub(r'^community_', '', tag))
+
+package_list = ['platform', 'clienttools', 'eclide']
+redhat_distributions = ['el7', 'el8', 'rocky8', 'amzn2']
+debian_distributions = ['noble', 'focal', 'bionic', 'jammy']
+plugin_list = [
+  'cassandraembed',
+  'couchbaseembed',
+  'eclblas',
+  'h3',
+  'javaembed',
+  'kafka',
+  'memcached',
+  'mongodbembed',
+  'mysqlembed',
+  'nlp',
+  'parquetembed',
+  'redis',
+  'sqlite3embed',
+  'sqs',
+  'wasmembed'
+]
+documentation_languages = ['EN_US', 'PT_BR']
+
+if not version_list:
+  logging.info("No new tags found")
+  exit(0)
+
+for version in version_list:
+  logging.info(f"Version: {version}")
+  base_version = version.split('-')[0]
+
+  # Fetch assets from GitHub
+  logging.info(f"Creating {data_dir_base}/CE-Candidate-{base_version} bin/platform, bin/clienttools, bin/ide, bin/plugins and docs directories")
+  os.makedirs(f"{data_dir_base}/CE-Candidate-{base_version}/bin/platform", exist_ok=True)
+  os.makedirs(f"{data_dir_base}/CE-Candidate-{base_version}/bin/clienttools", exist_ok=True)
+  os.makedirs(f"{data_dir_base}/CE-Candidate-{base_version}/bin/ide", exist_ok=True)
+  os.makedirs(f"{data_dir_base}/CE-Candidate-{base_version}/bin/plugins", exist_ok=True) 
+  os.makedirs(f"{data_dir_base}/CE-Candidate-{base_version}/docs", exist_ok=True)
+  # do CE platform
+  os.chdir(f"{data_dir_base}/CE-Candidate-{base_version}/bin/platform")
+  for distribution in redhat_distributions:
+    download_asset(f"{repo_url}/download/community_{version}/hpccsystems-platform-community_{version}.{distribution}.x86_64_withsymbols.rpm")
+  for distribution in debian_distributions:
+    download_asset(f"{repo_url}/download/community_{version}/hpccsystems-platform-community_{version}{distribution}_amd64_withsymbols.deb")
+    download_asset(f"{repo_url}/download/community_{version}/hpccsystems-platform-community_{version}{distribution}_amd64_k8s.deb")
+  # do CE clienttools
+  os.chdir(f"{data_dir_base}/CE-Candidate-{base_version}/bin/clienttools")
+  for distribution in redhat_distributions:
+    download_asset(f"{repo_url}/download/community_{version}/hpccsystems-clienttools-community_{version}.{distribution}.x86_64_withsymbols.rpm")
+  for distribution in debian_distributions:
+    download_asset(f"{repo_url}/download/community_{version}/hpccsystems-clienttools-community_{version}{distribution}_amd64_withsymbols.deb")
+  download_asset(f"{repo_url}/download/community_{version}/hpccsystems-clienttools-community_{version}Darwin-x86_64.pkg")
+  download_asset(f"{repo_url}/download/community_{version}/hpccsystems-clienttools-community_{version}Windows-x86_64.exe")
+  # do CE plugins
+  os.chdir(f"{data_dir_base}/CE-Candidate-{base_version}/bin/plugins")
+  for plugin in plugin_list:
+    for distribution in redhat_distributions:
+      download_asset(f"{repo_url}/download/community_{version}/hpccsystems-plugin-{plugin}_{version}.{distribution}.x86_64_withsymbols.rpm")
+    for distribution in debian_distributions:
+      download_asset(f"{repo_url}/download/community_{version}/hpccsystems-plugin-{plugin}_{version}{distribution}_amd64_withsymbols.deb")
+  # do CE eclide
+  os.chdir(f"{data_dir_base}/CE-Candidate-{base_version}/bin/ide")
+  download_asset(f"{repo_url}/download/community_{version}/hpccsystems-eclide-community_{version}Windows-i386.exe")
+  # do CE docs
+  for language in documentation_languages:
+    logging.info(f"Creating {data_dir_base}/CE-Candidate-{base_version}/docs/{language} directory")
+    os.makedirs(f"{data_dir_base}/CE-Candidate-{base_version}/docs/{language}", exist_ok=True)
+    os.chdir(f"{data_dir_base}/CE-Candidate-{base_version}/docs/{language}")
+    download_asset(f"{repo_url}/download/community_{version}/ALL_HPCC_DOCS_{language}-{version}.zip")
+    download_asset(f"{repo_url}/download/community_{version}/ECL_Code_Files_{language}.zip")
+    if os.path.exists(f"ALL_HPCC_DOCS_{language}-{version}.zip"):
+      with zipfile.ZipFile(f"ALL_HPCC_DOCS_{language}-{version}.zip", 'r') as zipped_docs:
+        zipped_docs.extractall(f"{data_dir_base}/CE-Candidate-{base_version}/docs/{language}")
+  chown_recursive(f"{data_dir_base}/CE-Candidate-{base_version}", local_uid, local_gid)
+
+
+  ## Fetch internal assets from JFrog
+  logging.info(f"Creating {data_dir_base}/LN-Candidate-{base_version}/bin/platform-withplugins directory")
+  os.makedirs(f"{data_dir_base}/LN-Candidate-{base_version}/bin/platform-withplugins", exist_ok=True)
+  os.chdir(f"{data_dir_base}/LN-Candidate-{base_version}/bin/platform-withplugins")
+  for distribution in redhat_distributions:
+    download_asset(f"{jfrog_base_url}/hpccpl-rpm-virtual/LN/{distribution}/x86_64/hpccsystems-platform-internal_{version}.{distribution}.x86_64_withsymbols.rpm", jfrog_username, decrypted_jfrog_password)
+  for distribution in debian_distributions:
+    download_asset(f"{jfrog_base_url}/hpccpl-debian-virtual/pool/LN/hpccsystems-platform-internal_{version}{distribution}_amd64_withsymbols.deb", jfrog_username, decrypted_jfrog_password)
+  ## internal clienttools
+  logging.info(f"Creating {data_dir_base}/LN-Candidate-{base_version}/bin/clienttools directory")
+  os.makedirs(f"{data_dir_base}/LN-Candidate-{base_version}/bin/clienttools", exist_ok=True)
+  os.chdir(f"{data_dir_base}/LN-Candidate-{base_version}/bin/clienttools")
+  for distribution in redhat_distributions:
+    download_asset(f"{jfrog_base_url}/hpccpl-rpm-virtual/LN/{distribution}/x86_64/hpccsystems-clienttools-internal_{version}.{distribution}.x86_64_withsymbols.rpm", jfrog_username, decrypted_jfrog_password)
+  for distribution in debian_distributions:
+    download_asset(f"{jfrog_base_url}/hpccpl-debian-virtual/pool/LN/hpccsystems-clienttools-internal_{version}{distribution}_amd64_withsymbols.deb", jfrog_username, decrypted_jfrog_password)
+  download_asset(f"{jfrog_base_url}/hpccpl-macos-virtual/LN/macos/x86_64/hpccsystems-clienttools-internal_{version}Darwin-x86_64.pkg", jfrog_username, decrypted_jfrog_password)
+  download_asset(f"{jfrog_base_url}/hpccpl-windows-virtual/LN/windows/x86_64/hpccsystems-clienttools-internal_{version}Windows-x86_64.exe", jfrog_username, decrypted_jfrog_password)
+  chown_recursive(f"{data_dir_base}/LN-Candidate-{base_version}", local_uid, local_gid)
+
+os.chdir(script_dir)
+logging.info("Assets fetched, exiting")