Announce: Puppet Platform 5.3.4 is now available

[Molly Waggett]

This is a bug-fix release of Puppet Platform. All three components - puppet-agent, PuppetDB, and Puppet Server - have been updated.

This release of Puppet Agent updates Puppet to 5.3.4 and Facter to 3.9.4. Puppet 5.3.4 adds two new settings, `sourceaddress` and `runtimeout`. It also adds module translation distribution to pluginsync, improves Japanese localization, and fixes several bugs. This release also adds support for macOS 10.13 (High Sierra), EL 7 on arm64, and Amazon Linux 2. For details, see the Puppet Agent release notes.

PuppetDB 5.1.4 and Puppet Server 5.1.5 add Debian 9 (Stretch) packages, as well as additional bug fixes. For details, see the Puppet Server and PuppetDB release notes.

Thanks!

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Molly Waggett

Release Engineer @ Puppet, Inc.

[Gavin Williams]

Just for community awareness, there appears to be a breaking interaction between this latest Puppet release and rspec-puppet. 

Tests are failing with 'no implicit conversion of nil into String'. 

Already raised on PL tracker as PUP-8418 [1], and I've just raised against rspec-puppet [2]. 

So for anyone with unbounded CI/CD pipelines, probably best to pin Puppet to 5.3.3 until the interaction is fixed. 

HTH

Gav

[1] https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-8418

[2] https://github.com/rodjek/rspec-puppet/issues/647

[Josh Cooper]

The "no implicit conversion of nil into String" error should be fixed with the recent release of "gettext-setup"[1][2]. While this resolves the issue seen in modules CI with puppet-agent 5.3.4, there was an unrelated regression in the same release, involving non-default environments[3]. So I'd recommend waiting for puppet-agent 5.3.5 (due out real soon now) before unpinning.

Josh

[1] https://rubygems.org/gems/gettext-setup/versions/0.30

[2] https://github.com/puppetlabs/gettext-setup-gem/issues/61

[3] https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-8419

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