Announce: Puppet 4 available!

[Eric Sorenson]

I'm super excited to announce the availability of Puppet 4. It's the first major version of Puppet in almost 2 years, and there are a ton of great changes and improvements. Stephanie Stouck wrote a post that summarizes the release:

https://puppetlabs.com/blog/say-hello-open-source-puppet-4

Read the release notes and install/upgrade guides carefully, especially if you haven't been tracking the Release Candidates:

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/4.0/reference/index.html

Also of note is that the repositories have changed in order to keep incompatible changes from auto-updating onto your systems. Read more about "Puppet Collections", our name for these Linux-distribution-like groups of packages, in Mike Stahnke's blog post:

https://puppetlabs.com/blog/welcome-puppet-collections

Please give it a try! If you file bugs, please make sure to flag them with an "Affects Version" of "PUP 4.0.0". 

You can see the bugs currently open against the release here: https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/issues/?filter=14021

Eric Sorenson - eric.s...@puppetlabs.com - freenode #puppet: eric0
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