Issues with Puppet 2.7.10: recommendation to stop using it

[Michael Stahnke]

We are continuing to see several issues introduced Puppet 2.7.10. We
are recommending that users discontinue its usage. This could mean
using 2.7.9 or waiting patiently until we can get 2.7.11 out the door.

These are the most significant tickets around the 2.7.10 regressions.

http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/show/12310
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/show/12269
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/show/12269
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/show/12588

We should have declared this as a problem release earlier. I
apologize for not doing so.

As always, if you have issues or questions, please contact us.

Mike Stahnke

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[Walter Heck]

Already reverted back to 2.7.9 indeed, but thanks for publically
acknowledging it. Honesty matters in such cases so people can stop
wasting time :)

Should 2.7.10 be removed from http://downloads.puppetlabs.com/puppet/ as well?

cheers,

Walter

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[Dan White]

+1 on that
Remove the troublesome version to prevent more folks from using it and having problems.

[Michael Stahnke]

> On Feb 19, 2012, at 6:48 PM, Walter Heck wrote:
>
>> Already reverted back to 2.7.9 indeed, but thanks for publically
>> acknowledging it. Honesty matters in such cases so people can stop
>> wasting time :)
>>
>> Should 2.7.10 be removed from http://downloads.puppetlabs.com/puppet/ as well?
>>

We pulled the native packages from our apt and yum repos, as well as
the gem from rubygems.org. We left 2.7.10 in the /downloads area in
the event that somebody was using it (and having it work) and wanted
to standardize their systems. It's not ideal, but we didn't have a
better option that seemed super obvious.

Mike

[Khoury Brazil]

Would it be worth updating the release notes wiki to note that the
release is no longer recommended? Generally that's where I look for
information about a particular release:

http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#2.7.10

Best,
Khoury

[Matthaus Litteken]

Khoury,
Good point. I've updated the wiki/release notes to reflect the change.

Thanks!
-Matthaus

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Not to sound impatient (grin), but any idea of a rough eta for 2.7.11?

I'm close to deploying puppet and have done all testing on 2.7.10,
need to make a decision on whether to wait or start testing with 2.7.9
in the next few days.

Thanks,

Adam

On Feb 19, 4:15 pm, Michael Stahnke <stah...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> We are continuing to see several issues introduced Puppet 2.7.10.  We
> are recommending that users discontinue its usage.  This could mean
> using 2.7.9 or waiting patiently until we can get 2.7.11 out the door.
>
> These are the most significant tickets around the  2.7.10 regressions.
>

> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/show/12310http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/show/12269http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/show/12269http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/show/12588

[Khoury Brazil]

Matthaus,

No problem. Another question, if you don't mind:

Should the dmg at http://downloads.puppetlabs.com/mac/ be removed, or
at the very least a 2.7.9 dmg be put up? I am rolling out puppet on
some OS X clients so I noticed it. For what it's worth I haven't seen
any issues on OS X with my manifests and 2.7.10.

Best,
Khoury

[Matthaus Litteken]

Khory,
Good point! I've moved the 2.7.10 dmg to
downloads.puppetlabs.com/puppet and added a dmg for 2.7.11.

-matthaus