Announce: Puppet Enterprise 3.2.1 is available

[Rob Braden]

Dear Puppet Enterprise Users,

Puppet Enterprise 3.2.1 is now available.

This is a bugfix release of Puppet Enterprise. All users of Puppet Enterprise 3.x are encouraged to upgrade when possible to Puppet Enterprise 3.2.1

For information on the fixes in this release, see http://docs.puppetlabs.com/pe/latest/appendix.html#release-notes

As a current Puppet Enterprise user, you can upgrade to this new version as part of your annual subscription. If upgrading, it is recommended to upgrade your master and console servers first.

As always, we want to hear about your experiences with Puppet Enterprise. If you have any questions about upgrading, be sure to get in touch with Puppet Labs Support.

Thanks,

Rob Braden
Puppet Labs

[Jeremiah Powell]

From the release notes:

OpenSSL Support on AIX

With this release, it is no longer necessary to manually install OpenSSL on AIX nodes. OpenSSL is now automatically added with PE.

I can probably answer my questions faster by downloading and trying a few lab installs.  But for the sake of the PE list I am asking anyway.

Can this be installed on a TL7 or TL8 server and still operate when the server is upgraded to TL9 or do users have to first patch to TL9 then install or upgrade the puppet agent?

How is this support for TL9 implemented? Does the 3.2.1 PE installation change the system OpenSSL to a compatible 0.9.8 release?  Is PE shipping with its own libraries as with Redhat Enterprise Linux 4? Has some other solution been used (static linking, updated packages, etc)?

Affecting the system OpenSSL invalidates the TL level, required for support and PowerHA (https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1012517). As a bonus this can break the ssh service when OpenSSL doesn't support your OpenSSH anymore.  Consult your console access documentation and your logged in co-workers before work on either OpenSSL or OpenSSH services.

Sincerely,

Jeremiah Powell
Seagate Technology - U.S. Business Data Center
http://www.seagate.com
email : Jeremia...@Seagate.com
phone: +1(405) 324-3238

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[Thomas Willert]

Hi,

thanks your for this.

Your download server seem to be missing the "pe-puppet*" SRPM files for though:

http://downloads.puppetlabs.com/enterprise/sources/3.2.1/sles/11/

This is also the case for 3.2.0 it seems? :( For the 3.1.x release the pe-puppet* srpms were there. Is this on purpose? Have you changed your release policies?

Thanks,

Thomas Willert

[Rob Braden]

As of 3.2.1, PE for AIX ships with it's own OpenSSL library (as with EL4). There is no longer any dependency on the system OpenSSL, and everything should work as expected, regardless of TL.

Thanks!

Rob Braden

[Lars Wilke]

Hi,

* Thomas Willert wrote:
> Your download server seem to be missing the "pe-puppet*" SRPM files for
> though:
>
> http://downloads.puppetlabs.com/enterprise/sources/3.2.1/sles/11/
>
> This is also the case for 3.2.0 it seems? :( For the 3.1.x release the
> pe-puppet* srpms were there. Is this on purpose? Have you changed your
> release policies?

we have the same problem, has the release policy changed?
I did not find any announcement regarding this.

Maybe someone from puppetlabs would be so kind to comment on this ..?

Thanks
--lars