Announce: Facter 2.4.3 available

[Will Hopper]

Facter 2.4.3 is an All-In-one Agent support release in the Facter 2.4 series that also includes two improvements to performance, as well as multiple bug fixes.

AIO Updates

  In this release, we've added a new external fact directory for the root user, `/opt/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d`. The corresponding new per-user external fact location is `~/.puppetlabs/opt/facter/facts.d`.

Performance Improvements

  Included in this release are two improvements to performance and speed:

• Reduced calls to `ip link show` within Facter's networking utilities. Previously, the number of times this call was made could present a problem if many interfaces were present.
• Improved the speed of the `puppetversion` fact in standalone Facter. 

Bug Fixes

• Two SELinux related fixes on Debian and RHEL7
• Increased the timeout threshold for `prtdiag` for large Solaris systems
• A `xendomains` fact fix for Debian hosts
• An update to the EC2 set of facts to only load once and avoid "already evaluated" errors
• An update to the operatingsystem set of facts to properly recognize CoreOS

To download Facter, follow the instructions here: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/install_puppet/pre_install.html

Release notes are available here: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/facter/latest/release_notes.html

 

To see a complete list of issues fixed in this release: https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/issues/?filter=13916

 

We're tracking bugs people find in this release with the "Affected Version" field set to "2.4.3": https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/issues/?filter=13915

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William Hopper | Software Engineer
Puppet Labs, Inc.
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Portland, OR 97204
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