Announce: Puppet 3.6.1 Available!

[Eric Sorenson]

Puppet 3.6.1 is a bug fix release in the Puppet 3.6 series. It addresses a few issues which were “in flight” but whose fixes did not land by the cutoff for Puppet 3.6.0 and some regressions in recent Puppet releases.

Here’s a summary of changes in this release:

• Changes to RPM Behavior With Virtual Packages
• Improvements to transaction_uuid in Reports and Node Termini
• Windows Start Menu Fixes
• Improved Passenger Packages on Debian/Ubuntu
• HTTP API Fixes
• Directory Environment Fixes
• Future Parser Improvements

If you're trying out directory environments, please set `environment_timeout=3m` in the `[main]` section of your master’s puppet.conf — this helps the new environment cache reduce CPU usage and will become the default in a future version. Read/comment on the puppet-users mailing list thread for more info or to contribute your experience: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/puppet-users/arLckU-mPhw/discussion


Please read through the Release Notes for the full list of changes: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/release_notes.html
To install Puppet, follow the Installation Guide: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/install_puppet/pre_install.html
To report issues with the release, file a ticket in the “PUP” project on https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/ and set the “Affects version/s” field to "3.6.1”.
To see a list of known issues slated for the next bugfix release, follow this JIRA query: https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/issues/?filter=12304


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