facter 3.0 not using /etc/facter/facts.d by default

[math...@therussells.me]

I just upgraded to puppet4.2 aio on some machines to fix a bug we have been having with puppet. 

But this introduced a new problem. It seems like out custom facts are not being loaded by puppet or facter. 

We have 3 external facts manually set in files. 

[root@xxxxx facts.d]# ll /etc/facter/facts.d/
total 12
-rw------- 1 root root 16 Jun 11 09:34 datacenter.txt
-rw------- 1 root root 13 Jun 11 09:34 stack.txt
-rw------- 1 root root 12 Jun 11 09:34 track.txt

but facter does not see them by default

[root@xxxxx facts.d]# /opt/puppetlabs/bin/facter | grep stack

If i use the externa-dir option it works. 

[root@java-d11ah facts.d]# /opt/puppetlabs/bin/facter --external-dir /etc/facter/facts.d/ | grep stack
stack => javaact

I dont see anything in the release notes that would of changed this. 

[math...@therussells.me]

I think this is a documentation issue only. 

Looking at this ticket 

https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/FACT-826

I see mention of a different fact directory. Once i copied my facts to that new directory it picks them up. 

[Josh Cooper]

This is an unintended change. It is being tracked as https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/FACT-1055, and a puppet-agent update should be released soon.