Announce: Puppet Agent 1.8.0 is available
Geoff Nichols
I’m excited to announce a new backwards-compatible feature release of Puppet Agent. Puppet Agent 1.8.0 contains several updated component versions, including new feature releases of Puppet and Facter.
* Puppet 4.8.0 - This release includes several improvements to the type system and updates puppet module tool to use "forgeapi.puppet.com" (instead of "forgeapi.puppetlabs.com").
* Facter 3.5.0 - New feature release allowing settings for configuring external and custom fact directories, setting command line options, and blocking facts - loaded by default from /etc/puppetlabs/facter/facter.conf.
This release also adds support for macOS Sierra and Windows Server 2016.
Release notes for each of these are linked from the main puppet-agent note: https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/4.8/reference/release_notes_agent.html
For information on upcoming platform end-of-life (EOL) for Puppet Agent, please see our Platform Support Lifecycle page: https://puppet.com/content/platform-support-lifecycle
Community shout-out to Clay Caviness for several contributions to this release - including a fix for ‘tidy’ and additional fixes for Mac OS X.
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