Announce: Facter 1.7.4 Available

[Melissa Stone]

Facter 1.7.4
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• Final: Released December 17, 2013
  
• RC1: December 9, 2013

Facter 1.7.4 Downloads
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Source: https://downloads.puppetlabs.com/facter/facter-1.7.4.tar.gz

Available in native package format in the pre-release repositories at:
http://yum.puppetlabs.com and http://apt.puppetlabs.com

For information on how to enable the Puppet Labs repos, see:
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/puppetlabs_package_repositories.html#open-source-repositories

Gems are available via rubygems at
https://rubygems.org/downloads/facter-1.7.4.gem
  or by using `gem install facter`

Mac packages are available at
https://downloads.puppetlabs.com/mac/facter-1.7.4.dmg

Please report feedback via the Puppet Labs tickets site, using an
affected facter version of 1.7.4:
https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/FACT

Facter 1.7.4 release notes
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External Fact Fixes

This release fixes several issues related to external facts:

Bug #22944: External facts are evaluated many times

Facter was evaluating each external fact several times per run, which could cause significant slowdowns. This is now fixed, and Facter will load each external fact once.

Bug #22349: Facter fails to run as a non-root user when /etc/facter/facts.d is not readable

When running as a non-root user, Facter will now load external facts from a .facter/facts.d/ directory in the current user’s home directory. This works on both Windows and *nix. (Prior to this fix, Facter would try to load external facts from the system-wide external facts directory, and would bail with an error if that directory wasn’t readable.)

Bug #22622: Facter (and Puppet) broken when executable external facts return no output

Facter was making a bad assumption that the output of an executable external fact would always consist of at least one line of text. What this fix presupposes is… maybe it doesn’t??

Maint: Do not execute com, cmd, exe, or bat files if not on windows

In preparation for pluginsync support for external facts, Facter needed a bit of defense for situations where Windows external facts may be present on non-Windows systems.

Windows Fixes

Bug #22619: Error when NetConnectionId is missing on NetworkAdapter

This was a regression in Facter 1.7.3 — Facter would fail and quit on systems where a network adapter was configured in a specific way.

Bug #23368: Executable external facts fail on Windows 2003

This was a problem with file paths containing a space, which included the default directory for external facts under Windows 2003.

Miscellaneous Fixes

Bug #15586: ‘facter –help’ does not work with Ruby 1.9.3

Facter was using an Rdoc feature that went away, so we replaced it with something else. You can now get help on the command line when running Facter under Ruby 1.9.3.

Bug #22322: facter should suppress stderr from “swap” commands on Solaris

This was causing noisy logging on Solaris.

Bug #22334: Facter outputs information to stderr regardless of whether –debug is enabled

This was causing noisy logging everywhere.

Fact Resolution Fixes (Various OSes)

This release fixes several bugs where facts reported incorrect values on certain operating systems.

Bug #21604: Xen virtual fact doesn’t work on Windows

Bug #16081: Facter reports bogus arch on AIX

Bug #12504: operatingsystemrelease doesn’t work for Ubuntu LTS 12.04

Bug #18215: processorcount counting CPU cores on Solaris

Bug #20739: processorX facts fail on HP superdome servers

Bug #20994: memoryfree and memorysize facts are set to 0 on AIX

Bug #22844: The ‘virtual’ and ‘is_virtual’ facts are incorrect for Windows guests hosted on kvm

Bug #22789: is_virtual incorrectly shows true for vserver_host

Testing Fixes and Administrivia

Refactor #22651: add fixture access methods for example /proc/cpuinfo files

Bug #22238: Remove Fedora 17 from build_defaults.yaml

Bug #23135: Update Facter Master Windows/Solaris jobs to use vcloud.


Facter 1.7.4 Contributors
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Adrien Thebo, Alex Harvey, Andrew Parker, Aran Cox, Branan Purvine-Riley, Brendan Murtagh, Garrett Honeycutt, ImRaptor, Iristyle, John Julien, Josh Cooper, Josh Partlow, Joshua Hoblitt, Justin Stoller, Konstantin Orekhov, Kylo Ginsberg, Lorenzo J. Cubero, Melissa Stone, Rob Braden, Rob Reynolds, Scott Schneider, Theo Chatzimichos, rwelgan,


Facter 1.7.4 Changelog
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Adrien Thebo (4):

      1bc12b9 (maint) Refactor windows virtual fact for readability

      3849295 (maint) refactor processor specs, test sysfs fallback

      dec6f7d (maint) Simplify processor_spec sysfs stubbing

      f457f59 (#22322) Suppress swap stderr on AIX and Solaris

Alex Harvey (1):

      26a089b (#17894) Add fix to handle processorX facts on HP Superdomes.

Andrew Parker (3):

      132c0ce (#15586) Use OptionParser for help

      0d1f705 (#22334) Use Facter's logging system for warn

      178e2c6 (#22349) Read from user's home when non-root

Aran Cox (3):

      5acfe3a (#20994) fix incorrectly set memorysize on AIX using svmon (was set to 0) tested on AIX 5.3, 6.1, and

      1e7e369 (#20994) fix incorrect memoryfree fact on AIX (was set to 0) tested on AIX 5.3, 6.1, and 7.1

      9faf2c5 (#20994) add rspec tests for memoryfree and memorysize on AIX using svmon

Branan Purvine-Riley (3):

      681de63 (#23135) Support deploying to Solaris and Windows vcloud machines

      eadd368 (maint) Recognize `fc` as a type of redhat platform in acceptance setup

      4564240 (maint) convert fc to fedora in acceptance configs

Brendan Murtagh (1):

      08727dd (#12504) Read correct file for operatingsystemrelase on Ubuntu

Garrett Honeycutt (1):

      5dac5e4 (#12504) Read non-configurable file for operatingsystemrelease on Ubuntu

ImRaptor (1):

      17de341 Include Bochs as Windows virtual machine type.

Iristyle (1):

      d81601f (#22622) External output defaults to empty string

John Julien (1):

      20a2de6 (#9546) Do not execute com, cmd, exe, or bat files if not on windows

Josh Cooper (14):

      65c7b4e Maint: Only try to install json gem for ruby 1.8

      a598423 (#22349) Qualify WinBuiltinAdministratorsSid constant

      b1c8c56 Maint: Don't try to install json gem on Windows

      43540e3 (#20301) Handle different error in ruby 1.9

      5d3aab2 (Maint) Pin windows gems to match what we ship

      e6d76f8 (Maint) Execute test on all agents using beaker's DSL method

      0758ca2 (Maint) Allow acceptance tests to be run on preserved windows hosts

      f845df5 (Maint) Remove puppet specific setup steps

      132c25e (Maint) Change canonize to canonicalize

      f841065 (Maint) Override the `parse_results` method

      f2da8e4 (#23368) Simplify how parser is stubbed out

      5b745a7 (#23368) Quote scripts that contain spaces

      ab99981 (#22944) Don't execute external facts 19 times

      c4090f7 (#22944) Reload external facts after the collection is flushed

Josh Partlow (1):

      50ae44a (maint) Add acceptance setup steps from puppet-acceptance

Joshua Hoblitt (1):

      311699b (22651) add fixture access methods for example /proc/cpuinfo files

Justin Stoller (1):

      b49647e use the pooling api

Konstantin Orekhov (5):

      fd7203e (#18215) Updated processor_spec.rb for Solaris changes

      502fb5e processorcount spec wrongly used physicalprocessorcount fact

      0fba62b adding psrinfo from Solaris with 24 CPUs and using it in processor spec

      59c65cf removing double quotes in a spec

      54ba32e removed duplicate tests for Solaris

Kylo Ginsberg (1):

      5baa336 (maint) Add a Gemfile for acceptance testing

Lorenzo J. Cubero (1):

      87f345c (#21604) Detect xen virtual fact on windows   

Melissa Stone (4):

      cc5edf0 (Bug #22238) Remove EOL f17

      7f8d57b (maint) Add fedora 20 to build defaults

      b158c96 (packaging) Update FACTERVERSION to 1.7.4-rc1

      09cd4ea (packaging) Update FACTERVERSION to 1.7.4

Rob Braden (2):

      2c048fb (packaging) (#22726) Add saucy as a package build target

      4664fbe (packaging) Pass --man to install.rb to get man pages in Debian lucid and older

Rob Reynolds (1):

      874a5a9 (#22619) Error when NetConnectionId is missing

Scott Schneider (2):

      71f3aa1 Adding vCloud node configs

      f43bc1c Setup script to install Git on vCloud hosts

Theo Chatzimichos (1):

      fbb9007 (#22789) Add vserver_host in physical_types

rwelgan (1):

      28fe30d (#16081) Facter reports bogus arch on AIX

Melissa Stone

Release Engineer, Puppet Labs

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