Announce: Facter 1.7.5-rc2 now available

[Melissa Stone]

**Release Candidate**

Hiera 1.7.5-rc2

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Pre-release: Facter 1.7.5 is not yet released.

• RC1: January 21, 2014.
  
• RC2: February 3, 2014

Facter 1.7.5-rc2 Downloads
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Source: https://downloads.puppetlabs.com/facter/facter-1.7.5-rc2.tar.gz

Available in native package format in the pre-release repositories at:
http://yum.puppetlabs.com and http://apt.puppetlabs.com

For information on how to enable the Puppet Labs pre-release repos, see:
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/puppetlabs_package_repositories.html#enabling-the-prerelease-repos

Gems are available via rubygems at
https://rubygems.org/downloads/facter-1.7.5.rc2.gem
  or by using `gem install --pre facter`

Mac packages are available at
https://downloads.puppetlabs.com/mac/facter-1.7.5-rc2.dmg

Please report feedback via the Puppet Labs tickets site, using an 

affected facter version of 1.7.5-rc2:
https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/FACT

Facter 1.7.5-rc2 release notes
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Facter 1.7.5 is a bug fix release in the 1.7 series. It fixes two issues with the packaged installer on OS X 10.9 and adds support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Facter now supports RHEL 7, although it is currently limited to x86_64. Packages will be available in the near future.

Support for OS X 10.9

Facter DMG packages on OSX will attempt to load Facter from rbenv PATH and fail

The Facter DMG package on OSX was identifying the path to ruby with /usr/bin/env ruby, which would cause it to load Facter from the wrong path if rbenv was installed. The package now uses /usr/bin/ruby.

FACT-182: Facter Does not run on OS X 10.9 Mavericks

Previously, Facter would not run on OS X 10.9 when installed from the pre-built package, although installing through RubyGems would still work. Now, it runs properly either way.

Miscellaneous Fixes

FACT-82: Force ASCII-8BIT encoding on raw data in property lists

Facter now forces ASCII-8BIT encoding when reading from property lists whenever possible, which allows it to read strings encoded in binary plists. This fix primarily affects OS X Mavericks.

Facter 1.7.5-rc2 Contributors

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Adrien Thebo, Clay Caviness, Derek Yarnell, Dustin J. Mitchell, Joshua Hoblitt, Kylo Ginsberg, Matthaus Owens, Melissa Stone, Moses Mendoza, Ryan McKern

Facter 1.7.5-rc2 Changelog

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Adrien Thebo (1):

      b5da6ed (maint) Don't setup puppet.conf for facter acceptance setup

Clay Caviness (3):

      751a7fb 21760/22005 update preflight to delete old lib dir

      9773b99 Use Dir.glob(), don't require rubygems or rake, use Dir.chdir as

      190825c use instance_variable_get instead of eval

Derek Yarnell (1):

      1deddfe Adds support for building facter on RHEL7 via spec.

Dustin J. Mitchell (1):

      ecbe3ca (#22107) Force ASCII-8BIT encoding on raw data in property lists

Joshua Hoblitt (1):

      20141c5 (maint) restrict redcarpet gem to <= 2.3.0

Kylo Ginsberg (3):

      25e6531 (maint) Align acceptance/Gemfile's beaker with puppet's acceptanc

      6ab0a03 (maint) Workaround travis/rubygems failures with ruby 1.8.7

      e5ad5cb Revert "(maint) Workaround travis/rubygems failures with ruby 1.8

Matthaus Owens (2):

      299b865 (maint) Redirect dmidecode stderr to /dev/null

      b72da8b (maint) Update virtual spec to match dmidecode invocation

Melissa Stone (2):

      5e3d6f3 (packaging) Update FACTERVERSION to 1.7.5-rc1

      8ce7789 (packaging) Update FACTERVERSION to 1.7.5-rc2

Moses Mendoza (1):

      d32cbcb (21868) Move facter libary target to /Library/Ruby/Site

Ryan McKern (1):

      865b4ca Add initial support for building in a RHEL 7 mock

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Melissa Stone

Release Engineer, Puppet Labs

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