Announce: Puppet 3.7.0 Released!

[Eric Sorenson]

Puppet 3.7.0 is a backward-compatible features and fixes release in the Puppet 3 series. The biggest things in this release are:

• A nearly-final implementation of the Puppet 4 language
• Preview support for a new, fast, natively compiled Facter
• 64-bit Puppet packages for Windows
• Lots of deprecations to prepare for Puppet 4.0

Windows users: make sure you read the release notes, since the question of which package to install isn't necessarily obvious. (Depending on how your testing shakes out, you may need to continue using the 32-bit package for a while.)

Special community shout-out on this release to Daniel Berger, whose Ruby modules have helped make Puppet on Windows a reality.

Read the release notes here: https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/3.7/reference/release_notes.html
Installation instructions are here: https://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/install_puppet/pre_install.html

To track issues related to this release, you can follow the following JIRA queries:
• List of all bugs fixed in 3.7.0: https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/issues/?filter=12643
• New issues introduced in 3.7.0: https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/issues/?filter=12641

If there are bugs that you’re tracking, remember we now have “nightly” repositories available with packaged builds for our most-used operating systems. To use them, follow the install guide here: https://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/puppetlabs_package_repositories.html#using-the-nightly-repos

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