Puppetboard 0.0.3 / pypuppetdb 0.1.0

[Daniele Sluijters]

Hi everyone,

It's taken longer than I would have liked but, it's that time of the season again.

## Releases

pypuppetdb 0.1.0 is now available on PyPi[1] and updated docs have been posted to Read The Docs[2].

[1]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pypuppetdb

[2]: http://pypuppetdb.readthedocs.org/en/v0.1.0/

The README and CHANGELOG should provide adequate information on what's changed. It's nothing

terribly major except for the SSL settings and behaviour which has been slightly changed and almost

complete support for v3. All the endpoints are supported, just not all the features.

Of far greater note is the release of Puppetboard 0.0.3. There have been plenty of changes over the

past few months. Since a lot of people have been running from source and pulling in changes regularly

the changes won't be that obvious but if you were running from a 'release' you're in for a party. I suggest

you have a look around the screenshots at available at the Github repository[3].

Up to now it's been a slight pain to install Puppetboard and get it running. As per 0.0.3 Puppetboard is

now packaged and available on PyPi, a simple `pip install puppetboard` is all it takes. The README has

received extensive updates with regard to how you configure Puppetboard and your webserver. Because

for some unknown reason PyPI has decided to not render my README as HTML but in stead serve up

the raw ReStructuredText you're better off using the Github[3] repository to browse the README.

[3]: https://github.com/nedap/puppetboard

## Future plans

I promised native packages for both pypuppetdb and Puppetboard a while ago. Packages for pypuppetdb

will hopefully be released in time for FOSDEM for Debian/Ubuntu and likely CentOS. Packages for

Puppetboard take a bit more doing as most distributions don't ship the dependencies we require.

As noted in pypuppetdb's README, 0.2.x series will drop support for API v3, so PuppetDB prior to 1.5.

This is also partially due to internal surgery that needs to happen to nicely support query pagination and

a few other long-standing feature requests.

Enjoy and as usual you can contact me or join #puppetboard for any help.

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Daniele Sluijters