Announce: Facter 2.3.0

[Will Hopper]

Facter 2.3.0 is a backward-compatible features-and-fixes release in the Facter 2 series.

Included in this release are new or improved fact resolutions for several operating systems and expanded support for some existing facts. 

In addition, several facts now return a more appropriate data type, and there are several bug fixes.

Notable updates:

  - New or improved OS fact support

      - We've expanded support for Manjaro Linux and Arista EOS

      - Version number reporting has been fixed for Windows 8.1 and Windows 10

  - Improved accuracy in fact types

      - Several facts are now returned as boolean or integer values instead of strings

  - Virtualization data improvements and bug fixes

  - Fix for an IPv6 bug

  - Several Solaris bug fixes

  - An update to the 'processors' structured fact on OpenBSD

  - Silencing some noisy error messages

To download Facter, follow the instructions here: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/install_puppet/pre_install.html

Release notes are available here: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/facter/latest/release_notes.html

To see a complete list of issues fixed in this release: https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/issues/?filter=12860

We're tracking bugs people find in this release with the "Affected Version" field set to "2.3.0": https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/issues/?filter=12861

William Hopper | Puppet Labs