Announce: Puppet 3.4.3 Now Available

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3.4.3 is a bug fix release in the Puppet 3.4 series.
  • Final: February 19, 2014.

Bug Fixes
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PUP-1473: User resource fails on UTF-8 comment

Puppet’s user resource now supports UTF-8 characters for the comment attribute, rather than just ASCII.

PUP-736: Encoding mis-matches cause package prefetching to fail

Previously, puppet could fail to process a package resource if it referred to an RPM whose description contained non-ASCII characters. Puppet now handles these resources correctly.

PUP-1524: Duplicate events since 3.4.0

Since Puppet 3.4.0, failed resources would sometimes be logged twice. These duplicate events were particularly problematic for PuppetDB, since they could cause the whole transaction to be rolled back. This release fixes the issue.

PUP-1485: test agent/fallback_to_cached_catalog.rb assumes no master is running by default

The acceptance test for falling back to a cached catalog would still run with a puppet master, even though the functionality assumed that the puppet master was unavailable. The test now guarantees that the master will be unreachable by specifying a bogus server.

PUP-1322: Puppet REST API always fails if there’s at least one broken manifest

Previously, REST API calls to <host>/production/resource_types/*?kind=class would fail completely if there was a syntax error in one or more manifests in the module path. This release changes that behavior so that the call will succeed and list all parseable classes.

PUP-1529: Usability regression caused by PUP-1322

Fixes a regression caused by the fix for PUP-1322: syntax errors reached while loading an include would be squelched, which would eventually result in a misleading “class not found” error.

PUP-751: Performance regression due to excessive file watching

This performance regression was also linked to PUP-1322: excessive file watching was causing a significant slowdown during catalog compilation. This release addresses the performance hit and improves benchmarking by adding tasks to measure the loading of defined types.

PUP-1729: Remove Debian Sid from build targets

Acceptance testing on Debian Sid (unstable) was failing regularly due to factors outside of our control, like broken packages in the distribution’s own repositories. Acceptance tests are still being run against the Debian “testing” release.

Windows-Specific Fixes

PUP-1211: Puppet Resource Package fails

On Windows, the puppet resource package command would fail immediately if at least one of the installed packages had non-ASCII characters in its display name. Puppet will now use the correct string encoding on Windows, which fixes this bug.

PUP-1389: Windows File resources generating 0 byte files when title has “-“

This bug prevented puppet from properly managing the content of file resources with “-“ in their titles on Windows. This release fixes the bug.

PUP-1411: Windows agents experience intermittent SSL_connect failures in acceptance testing

Acceptance tests would intermittently fail on Windows due to a bug involving OpenSSL and WEBrick that would cause the connection to time out after 6.2 seconds. This release improves the OpenSSL initialization process and extends the timeout interval to 10 seconds, which fixes the bug.


Puppet 3.4.3 Downloads

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Available in native package format in the Puppet Labs yum and apt repositories:

Gems are available via rubygems at
  or by using `gem install puppet`

Mac packages are available at

Windows packages are available at

Please report feedback via the Puppet Labs tickets site, using an
affected puppet version of 3.4.3:


Puppet 3.4.3 Contributors
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Adrien Thebo, Andrew Parker, Branan Purvine-Riley, Derek Yarnell, Henrik Lindberg, Jeff McCune, Josh Cooper, Josh Partlow, Kylo Ginsberg, Melissa Stone, Nick Fagerlund, Peter Huene, Rob Reynolds, Ryan McKern, fhrbek


Puppet 3.4.3 Changelog
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Adrien Thebo (2):
      aeffcfb (maint) Pass Facter.search arrays instead of strings
      5ea1d04 (maint) Don't check for Facter.search

Andrew Parker (1):
      3126e77 (PUP-751) Check for reparse once per compile

Branan Purvine-Riley (1):
      f17aba1 (PUP-1485) Don't use master when we want compilation to fail

Derek Yarnell (1):
      dca3788 Adds support for building puppet on RHEL7 via spec.

Henrik Lindberg (5):
      84aa7a3 (maint) Correct documentation of each function
      f29e697 (PUP-1529) Make squelch of parse error specific to resource_type command
      e8319c5 (maint) Backport benchmarking from 3.5 to 3.4.2
      125da65 (maint) Make benchmark:defined_types work on 3.4.2
      94c98ff (maint) Set required conf parameters to make benchmarks do something

Jeff McCune (1):
      d02820a (maint) Fix can't modify frozen Symbol error on Ruby 2.1.0

Josh Cooper (6):
      4582499 (PUP-1211) Force registry value encoding to match code page
      aead9c2 (PUP-1389) Ensure wide strings have double null terminators
      7ef76fd (PUP-1389) Simplify logic for appending extra NULL
      cabd95c (PUP-1389) Embed the extra NULL within the string
      d2c5553 (PUP-1411) Initialize OpenSSL before starting TCP connection
      df140e1 (PUP-1411) Increase CLIENT_HELLO timeout

Josh Partlow (3):
      476f5c2 (PUP-736) Do not test for package not found
      8821fb5 (maint) Fix acceptance test for scheduled_task deletion
      70b3734 (RE-902) Remove sid from build_defaults

Kylo Ginsberg (5):
      c0e689c Revert "(maint) Add temp workaround for travis"
      88dc253 (maint) Fix a comment.
      e4935c2 (maint) Fix rdoc generator for Ruby 2.1.0
      9d00fad (pup-1524) Correct resource_present? to account for purged
      5b72327 (maint) Switch from -fd to -fp for specs to reduce disk space usage

Melissa Stone (2):
      d01642a Revert "Add initial support for building in a RHEL 7 mock"
      bbe30e0 (packaging) Update PUPPETVERSION to 3.4.3

Nick Fagerlund (4):
      a6031cf Maint: Update docs for schedule type and metaparameter
      9ef0bfc Maint: Improve/reduce documentation of relationship metaparemeters
      b14b5e1 Maint: Standardize docs for refresh behavior in resource types; clarify exec docs
      c7656ac Maint: Clarify docs for stage type and metaparameter

Peter Huene (2):
      596d877 (PUP-1473) Fix issue with UTF-8 in user comments
      e7cf4ba (maint) Fix spec for UTF-8 strings in user comment properties

Rob Reynolds (2):
      9a35496 (PUP-736) Remove description from RPM/DPKG
      16ce8b4 (PUP-1389) ReplaceFile to FFI / move wide_string

Ryan McKern (1):
      b471b9d Add initial support for building in a RHEL 7 mock

fhrbek (1):
      9f00459 PUP-1322 Do not fail hard on unparseable files

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Melissa Stone
Release Engineer, Puppet Labs

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