Scope and Timeline for Puppet Platform 5.5.4

[Kenn Hussey]

Now that Puppet Platform 5.5.2 and 5.5.3 have shipped, I would like to draw your attention to the scope and timeline for the next release in the 5.5.z series, Puppet Platform 5.5.4.

Scope

The scope of this release includes fixes for security vulnerabilities and problems with Puppet Platform 5.5.3 that are found by the community. Code for this release should land on the ‘5.5.x’ branch (and corresponding component branches) for puppet-agent, ‘5.2.x’ branch for PuppetDB, and ‘5.3.x’ branch for Puppet Server.

Timeline

The “String Freeze” milestone for this release is targeted for July 6. This is the date by which all changes affecting translatable strings must be complete (so that we have time to request, obtain, and merge translations before we ship).

The “Stop Ship Line” milestone, by which time all planned code changes must be complete, is targeted for July 11.

This means that all work for the release needs to be planned during the next four weeks, with the goal of shipping the release on July 17.

If you have any questions or concerns about any of this, please let me know.

Thanks,

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Kenn Hussey

Program Manager

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