Puppet Enterprise 2015.2 is now available!

[Stephanie Stouck]

Hi all,

The new Puppet Enterprise 2015.2 is here! We've added features to help you deploy and move faster without sacrificing reliability, with new capabilities to:

• Visualize your infrastructure code to understand relationships across node configurations and respond to changes quickly
  
• Automate provisioning for VMware vSphere virtual machines
  
• Manage infrastructure faster with a next-generation Puppet Enterprise web UI
  
• Easily move your open source Puppet implementation to Puppet Enterprise with a new unified agent

You can check out this page to see more of what’s new: https://puppetlabs.com/puppet/whats-new

As always, let us know if you have questions or feedback.

Thanks,

Stephanie

[Vince Skahan]

On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 9:02:34 AM UTC-7, Stephanie Stouck wrote:

The new Puppet Enterprise 2015.2 is here! We've added features to help you deploy and move faster without sacrificing reliability, with new capabilities to:

I give up.  I can't tell what this is.

Is this the first PE based on open source 4.x ?
Or the next PE based on open source 3.8.x ?

You don't say either way.
Your download link points to 3.8

c'mon you have to at least 'try' to document thing

[Stephanie Stouck]

Many apologies if folks may be a little confused. This is a new versioning system for our enterprise product. We've done this in an effort to be more explicit about product versioning, which should also result in fewer namespace (version space) collisions with individual upstream projects.

This is a major release as Puppet Enterprise 2015.2 marks a new series. It has a new Puppet, new Puppet Server, totally new UI, and the all-in-one unified agent. For more information on the versioning please check out the blog post we released earlier today. 

Finally, thank you for catching the 3.8 reference at the bottom of the page. We've got that updated. 

[Stephanie Stouck]

Vince and I have been chatting about this offline for further clarification therefore I wanted to make sure I shared this with all.

Puppet Enterprise 2015.2 is based off the latest Open Source Puppet code base which is 4.2.1. This means you get everything that is currently available in Open Source Puppet 4.2.1 which includes:

• Language enhancements - https://puppetlabs.com/blog/puppet-language-enhancements-deliver-greater-reliability
• Citrix NetScaler module - https://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/netscale
• Unified Agent 

Plus commercial-only capabilities such as:

• Node Graph Visualization - This is really cool! Check it out: https://puppetlabs.com/blog/visualize-your-infrastructure-models
• Updated web UI
• VMware vSphere module - https://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/vsphere

Thanks again Vince for the excellent feedback.