Puppet Platform 7.6.1 is now available

[Puppet Product Updates]

The next release in the Puppet 7 series, Puppet 7.6.1, is now available!

The release contains bug fixes, minor enhancements, and security fixes including:

• This release bumps Curl to 7.76.0, fixing the following CVEs: CVE-2021-22890, CVE-2021-22876
• This release bumps Ruby to 2.7.3, fixing the following CVEs: CVE-2020-25613, CVE-2021-28966
• Resolution of the following issues:
  • Race condition with agent_disabled_lockfile
  • Unable to install gems with the puppet_gem provider on Windows
  • Puppet cannot parse systemd instances when list-unit-files output has an additional column
  • This release includes minor dependency updates, including an update to Jetty 9.4.40 to resolve security issues.
  • Auto promoting dotted facts to structured facts is incompatible.
  • Facter breaks when querying custom facts.
  • Inconsistent handling of date types in custom facts.
• Minor Enhancement:
  • The processors fact includes sockets and threads details.

For the full list of changes, check out the release notes: https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/latest/release_notes_osp.html