Puppet Platform 5.5.17, 6.4.4, and 6.10.1 are now available!

[Puppet Product Updates]

The latest point releases in the Puppet 5.5, 6.4 and 6.10 series - Puppet 5.5.17, 6.4.4 and 6.10.1 are now available!

5.5.17

The release contains bug fixes and minor improvements, including: 

• The exec type’s onlyif and unless checks now return redacted output if it is marked sensitive.
• You can now specify no_proxy as a Puppet setting, consistent with other http_proxy_* Puppet settings.
• Installation time on larger modules has been improved.
• Puppet can now set Windows service startup type to Auto-Start (Delayed).
• This version includes security updates to Ruby 2.4.9, OpenSSL 1.0.2t, and curl 7.66.0.

For the full list of changes, check out the release notes: https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/5.5/release_notes.html

6.4.4

The release contains bug fixes and minor improvements, including:

• New no_proxy setting available in the puppet.conf file.
• serverip6 fact added.
• puppet plugin information is now included in help.
• Module installation performance with minitar improved.
• Automatic (delayed start) is now an option for Windows services.
• Agents now connect directly if target host is set to NO_PROXY.
• Query parameters for HTTP and HTTPS file resources are preserved.
• This version includes security updates to Ruby 2.5.7, OpenSSL 1.1.1d, and curl 7.66.0.

For the full list of changes, check out the release notes: https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/6.4/release_notes_puppet.html

6.10.1

The release contains bug fixes and minor improvements, including:

• Module installation performance with minitar improved.
• Automatic (delayed start) is now an option for Windows services.
• Module repository credentials redacted during installation.
• Sensitive values redacted in notify resource messages.
• This version includes security updates to Ruby 2.5.7, OpenSSL 1.1.1d, and curl 7.66.0.

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