Announcing stdlib 4.0.1

[Jeff McCune]

Hello,

We're pleased to announce the release of the stdlib module at version 4.0.1 [1].  Please keep in mind stdlib 2 is compatible with Puppet 2.6 and 2.7 while stdlib 3 is compatible with Puppet 2.7
and 3.  Version 4 drops support for Ruby 1.8.5 and Puppet 2.7 and maintains compatibility with Puppet 3.

[1] http://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/stdlib

The module may be installed from the Forge using the puppet-module tool:

    puppet module install puppetlabs-stdlib

Thank you to the following contributors.

Erik Dalén

 * Add a count function (f28550e)

Amos Shapira

 * (#19998) Implement any2array (7a2fb80)

Steve Huff

 * Enable num2bool to accept numeric input (e6916f8)

Erik Dalén

 * Allow comparisons of Numeric and number as String (ff5dd5d)

Richard Soderberg

 * prefix: fix doc typo Examles -> Examples (a83318d)

Richard Soderberg

 * add suffix function to accompany the prefix function (88a93ac)

Kristof Willaert

 * Add floor function implementation and unit tests (0527341)

Eric Shamow

 * (#13610) Add is_function_available to stdlib (961dcab)

Justin Lambert

 * str2bool should return a boolean if called with a boolean (5d5a4d4)

Uwe Stuehler

 * Fix number of arguments check in flatten() (5a11279)

Uwe Stuehler

 * Fix number of arguments check in flatten() (e80207b)

Jeff McCune

 * Add contributing document (96e19d0)

Raphaël Pinson

 * Add missing documentation for validate_augeas and validate_cmd to README.markdown (a1510a1)

Jeff McCune

 * (maint) Add Ruby 2.0.0 to Travis build matrix (03c5c4a)

Martin Hellmich

 * changed .count to .size to support legacy ruby (9fa70ae)

Joshua Hoblitt

 * (#19272) Add has_element() function (95cf3fe)

fatmcgav

 * (#19201) Add concat function to join two arrays (3cef5d9)

Raphaël Pinson

 * validate_cmd(): Use Puppet::Util::Execution.execute when available (69248df)

Raphaël Pinson

 * validate_cmd: Use Puppet::Util.execute (683ac8f)

Raphaël Pinson

 * Add an URL to a doc on how to activate augeas in puppet (c5f0309)

Raphaël Pinson

 * validate_augeas: requires augeas (35f9a01)

Raphaël Pinson

 * validate_augeas: Ensure tmpfile is closed and unlinked (d568c4e)

Raphaël Pinson

 * validate_augeas: Ensure augeas handler gets closed (41bc722)

Raphaël Pinson

 * Add validate_augeas function (3a97c23)

Raphaël Pinson

 * validate_cmd: Make sure tmpfile is always closed and unlinked (bda25ac)

Raphaël Pinson

 * Add validate_cmd function (6902cc5)

David Schmitt

 * Add geppetto project definition (b3fc0a3)

Jaka Hudoklin

 * Add getparam function to get defined resource parameters (20e0e07)

stephen

 * Add test/validation for is_float if created from an arithmetical operation (a773281)

stephen

 * Add test/validation for is_integer if created from an arithmetical operation (b86f5dc)

stephen

 * Add test/validation for is_numeric if created from an arithmetical operation (190b943)

Jeff McCune

 * Clarify that stdlib 3 supports Puppet 3 (3a6085f)

Erik Dalén

 * maint: style guideline fixes (7742e5f)

James Fryman

 * puppet-lint cleanup (88acc52)

Joe Julian

 * Add function, uriescape, to URI.escape strings. Redmine #17459 (fd52b8d)

Cheers,
-Jeff McCune