Announce: Puppet 3.8.5 available

Eric Sorenson

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Jan 27, 2016, 5:58:29 PM1/27/16

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Puppet 3.8.5 is now available. This is a bugfix release that contains performance improvements to catalog compilation and Mac OS X service management, along with fixes for Windows agents and the Puppet 4 language parser. See the full release notes here:

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/3.8/reference/release_notes.html

For installation and upgrade instructions, see this doc:

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/3.8/reference/pre_install.html

A special community shout-out for this release to Github user 'earsdown' for the PR to fix PUP-5212, which added HTTP proxy support to the PIP package provider.

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Morgan Rhodes

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Puppet 3.8.5 for Windows included an updated version of Ruby to address CVE-2015-7551. More information is available at https://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/ruby-dec-2015-security-fixes.

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Christopher Wood

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For idle interest's sake, I calculated the catalog compilation times across our puppetmasters on Thursday January 28th with (open source) 3.8.4 and did the same thing just now for Thursday February 4th with (open source) 3.8.5.

Average catalog compilation times improved from 23.59 s to 20.44 s, or approximately 13% improvement.

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Kylo Ginsberg

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On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Christopher Wood <christop...@pobox.com> wrote:

For idle interest's sake, I calculated the catalog compilation times across our puppetmasters on Thursday January 28th with (open source) 3.8.4 and did the same thing just now for Thursday February 4th with (open source) 3.8.5.

Average catalog compilation times improved from 23.59 s to 20.44 s, or approximately 13% improvement.

\o/

We're giving more and more attention to performance improvements, so glad to get data-driven feedback like this. Thanks!

Kylo

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Christopher Wood

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Apr 4, 2016, 1:42:56 PM4/4/16

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(Pardon the necro, I felt these interesting results should be filed with the other ones.)

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 08:50:32AM -0800, Kylo Ginsberg wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Christopher Wood
> <[1]christop...@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> For idle interest's sake, I calculated the catalog compilation times
> across our puppetmasters on Thursday January 28th with (open source)
> 3.8.4 and did the same thing just now for Thursday February 4th with
> (open source) 3.8.5.
>
> Average catalog compilation times improved from 23.59 s to 20.44 s, or
> approximately 13% improvement.
>
> \o/
> We're giving more and more attention to performance improvements, so glad
> to get data-driven feedback like this. Thanks!
> Kylo

The above was all apache/passenger.

After another upgrade the puppetmasters here have been running these since Wednesday March 30th:

[root@puppetmaster4 ~]# rpm -q puppetserver
puppetserver-2.2.1-1.el6.noarch
[root@puppetmaster4 ~]# rpm -q puppet-agent
puppet-agent-1.3.6-1.el6.x86_64

On Thursday March 31st catalog compilation times averaged 5.93 s across all production puppetmasters.

>
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 02:58:29PM -0800, Eric Sorenson wrote:
> > Puppet 3.8.5 is now available. This is a bugfix release that
> contains
> > performance improvements to catalog compilation and Mac OS X
> service
> > management, along with fixes for Windows agents and the Puppet 4
> language
> > parser. See the full release notes here:
> >

> [2]http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/3.8/reference/release_notes.html

> > For installation and upgrade instructions, see this doc:

> > [3]http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/3.8/reference/pre_install.html

> > A special community shout-out for this release to Github user
> 'earsdown'
> > for the PR to fix PUP-5212, which added HTTP proxy support to the
> PIP
> > package provider.

> > Eric Sorenson - [4]eric.s...@puppetlabs.com - freenode #puppet:

> eric0
> > puppet platform // coffee // techno // bicycles
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Kylo Ginsberg

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On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Christopher Wood <christop...@pobox.com> wrote:

(Pardon the necro, I felt these interesting results should be filed with the other ones.)

Thanks for the necro actually. It's much appreciated to see the real-world improvements. And ~20s to ~6s is a very nice improvement!

Kylo

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