Announce: Native Facter 0.3.0 is available!

[Peter Huene]

Native Facter (cfacter) 0.3.0 is a features-and-fixes release in the Native Facter pre-1.0 series.

Included in this release is support for building Native Facter on Windows and Solaris.  The EC2 and GCE facts were also implemented in this release.

Notable updates:

• Windows is now a supported platform:
  
• Please see https://github.com/puppetlabs/cfacter/blob/master/WINDOWS.md
   for build instructions.             
  
• Solaris is now a supported platform:
  
• Please see https://github.com/puppetlabs/cfacter-build
   for build instructions. 
• Added a Fedora 20 package.
• Implemented overriding facts from FACTER_* environment variables.
• Added a new "networking" structured fact to organize networking data.
• Implemented the EC2 and GCE facts.
• Various bug fixes including a fix for a hang when exec'ing a shell script missing a hashbang and supporting custom facts on platforms with libraries in a lib64 directory. 

Packages for the following platforms have been distributed on the Puppet Labs Package Repositories:

• Debian/Ubuntu: Lucid, Precise, Squeeze, Trusty, and Wheezy.
  
• RHEL 5, 6, and 7.
• Fedora 20

Please see https://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/puppetlabs_package_repositories.html

 for information about installing from the package repositories.

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