ANNOUNCE: Facter 1.5.4RC1

[James Turnbull]

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A new Facter release candidate is available - 1.5.4RC1. This is a
maintenance release combining a number of fixes including:

* Fixed #1927 - Failing facts don't kill Facter
* Fixed #1850 - Facter updates for Ruby 1.9
* Fixed #1926 - IPAddr to_s issue
* Fixed Ubuntu $operatingsystem identification
* Fixed generic uptime fact
* Fixed #1924 - Fixed lo / lo:0 local interface matching

The most critical change is now a failing fact shouldn't kill facter
but rather generate an error message and generate nil.

You can get the new release at:

http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/facter/facter-1.5.4rc1.tgz

Can people please test the release and the fixes - we'd like to limit
the candidate cycle to 5 days.

Please log any bugs to Redmine (http://projects.reductivelabs.com)

Thanks

James Turnbull

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[James Turnbull]

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A new Facter release is available - 1.5.4.

This is a maintenance release that will be the last of the 1.5.x branch.

It combines a number of fixes, a new fact - physicalprocessorcount,
and support for flavours of Oracle Linux.

Full list of changes include:

* Fixed #1966 - Added physicalprocessorcount fact
* Fixed #1761 - changes to Solaris facts:
operatingsystemrelease == kernel release (which is uname -r)
kernelrelease == uname -r
kernelversion == uname -v
* Added support for Oracle VM Server to operatingsystem and
operatingsystemrelease
* Added support for Oracle Enterprise Linux to operatingsystem and
operatingsystemrelease

* Fixed #1927 - Failing facts don't kill Facter
* Fixed #1850 - Facter updates for Ruby 1.9
* Fixed #1926 - IPAddr to_s issue

* Fixed Ubuntu operatingsystem identification

* Fixed generic uptime fact
* Fixed #1924 - Fixed lo / lo:0 local interface matching

The most critical behavioural change is now a failing fact shouldn't
kill Facter
but rather return an error message and generate nil.

You can get the new release in a tarball or Gem at:

http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/facter/facter-1.5.4.tgz
http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/gems/facter-1.5.4.gem

Or at:

http://projects.reductivelabs.com/projects/facter/files
http://rubyforge.org/projects/facter/

Please report any issues to:

http://projects.reductivelabs.com/projects/facter/issues/new

The next release of Facter (as yet unnumbered) will be a significant
refactor
(excuse the alliterative almost pun). You can read about some of the
details
in recent posts on the puppet-dev list.

Thanks

James Turnbull

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[Nigel Kersten]

We're not doing release candidates for Facter?

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Tech Lead - MacOps

[Luke Kanies]

On Feb 17, 2009, at 9:38 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote:

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> We're not doing release candidates for Facter?

The release candidate was published on February 3rd:

http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/8219ac60bd89a502/d4ed636131cf3a9c#d4ed636131cf3a9c

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[Nigel Kersten]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Luke Kanies <lu...@madstop.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 17, 2009, at 9:38 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote:
>
>>
>> We're not doing release candidates for Facter?
>
> The release candidate was published on February 3rd:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/8219ac60bd89a502/d4ed636131cf3a9c#d4ed636131cf3a9c

woops. I missed that completely... and I've been keeping an eye out :(

[James Turnbull]

Nigel Kersten wrote:
> We're not doing release candidates for Facter?
>

We did. Announced in all the usual places.

James

[Nigel Kersten]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:26 PM, James Turnbull <ja...@lovedthanlost.net> wrote:
>
> Nigel Kersten wrote:
>> We're not doing release candidates for Facter?
>>
>
> We did. Announced in all the usual places.

Yeah. Somehow I missed it. My fault entirely.