At long last, 0.24.2 is out.  Here's the changelog:

     Fixing #1062 by moving the yamldir setting to its own yaml
     section.  This should keep the yamldir from being created
     on clients.

     Fixed #1047 -- Puppet's parser no longer changes the order
     in which statements are evaluated, which means that case
     statements can now set variables that are used by other
     variables.

     Fixed #1063 -- the master correctly logs syntax errors when
     reparsing during a single run.

     Removed the loglevels from the valid values for `logoutput`
     in the Exec resource type -- the log levels are specified
     using the `loglevel` parameter, not `logoutput`.  This never
     worked, or at least hasn`t for ages, and now the docs are
     just correct.

     Somewhat refactored fileserving so that it no longer caches
     any objects, nor does it use Puppet's RAL resources.  In the
     process, I fixed #894 (you can now copy links) and refactored
     other classes as necessary.  Mostly it was fixing tests.

     Hopefully partially fixed #1010 -- clients should now fail
     to install files whose checksums do not match the checksum
     from the server.

     Fixed #1018 -- resources now have their namevars added as
     aliases in the resource catalog, just like they were added
     in the resource classes.

     Fixed #1037 -- remote unreadable files no longer have the
     permission denied exceptions caught, thus forbidding them
     from being replaced with 'nil'.

     Fixed #1043 -- autoloading now searches the plugins directory
     in each module, in addition to the lib directory.  The 'lib'
     directory is also deprecated, but supported for now to give
     people a chance to convert.

     Fixed #1003 -- Applying DavidS's patch to fix searching for
     tags in sql.

     Fixed #992 -- Puppet is now compatible with gems 1.0.1.

     Fixed #968 again, this time with tests -- parseonly works,
     including not compiling the configurations, and also storeconfigs
     is no longer required during parse-testing.

     Fixed #1021 -- the problem was that my method of determining
     the in-degree sometimes resulted in a lower number than the
     number of in-edges.

     Fixed #997 -- virtual defined types are no longer evaluated.
     NOTE: This introduces a behaviour change, in that you previously
     could realize a resource within a virtual defined resource, and now
     you must realize the entire defined resource, rather than just
     the contained resource.

     Fixed #1030 - class and definition evaluation has been  
significantly
     refactored, fixing this problem and making the whole interplay
     between the classes, definitions, and nodes, and the Compile  
class much
     cleaner.

     Exec resources must now have unique names, although the commands  
can still
     be duplicated.  This is easily accomplished by just specifying a  
unique
     name with whatever (unique or otherwise) command you need.

     Fixed #989 -- missing CRL files are correctly ignored, and the
     value should be set to 'false' to explicitly not look for these
     files.

     Fixed #1017 -- environment-specific modulepath is no longer  
ignored.

     Fixing #794 -- consolidating the gentoo configuration files.

     Fixing #976 -- both the full name of qualified classes and
     the class parts are now added as tags.  I've also
     created a Tagging module that we should push throughout
     the rest of the system that uses tags.

     Fixing #995 -- puppetd no longer dies at startup if the server
     is not running.

     Fixing #977 -- the rundir is again set to 1777.

     Fixed #971 -- classes can once again be included multiple
     times.

     Added builtin support for Nagios types using
     Naginator to parse and generate the files.

As you can see, this is almost entirely a bugfix release.

Tarballs and gems are available at http://reductivelabs.com/
downloads/, and I'm in the process of pushing the releases to  
rubyforge et al.

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