Announce: Puppet 3.4.0-rc2 Available

[Melissa Stone]

**Release candidate**

Puppet 3.4.0-rc2
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Release Candidate: Puppet 3.4.0 is not yet released

• RC1: December 3, 2013.
• RC2: December 10, 2013.

3.4.0 is a backward-compatible feature and fix release in the Puppet 3 series. The main foci of this release are:

• New certificate autosigning behavior, to help quickly and securely add new nodes in elastic environments
  
• Fixes for some high-profile bugs and annoyances, including the "anchor pattern" issue and broken Rdoc on Ruby 1.9+
  
• Windows improvements, especially for file resources
  
• Trusted node data in the compiler

Puppet 3.4.0-rc2 Downloads
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Source: https://downloads.puppetlabs.com/puppet/puppet-3.4.0-rc2.tar.gz

Available in native package format in the pre-release repositories at:
http://yum.puppetlabs.com and http://apt.puppetlabs.com

For information on how to enable the Puppet Labs pre-release repos, see:
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/puppetlabs_package_repositories.html#enabling-the-prerelease-repos

Gems are available via rubygems at
https://rubygems.org/downloads/puppet-3.4.0-rc2.gem
  or by using `gem install --pre puppet`

Mac packages are available at
https://downloads.puppetlabs.com/mac/puppet-3.4.0-rc2.dmg

Windows packages are available at
https://downloads.puppetlabs.com/windows/puppet-3.4.0-rc2.msi

Please report feedback via the Puppet Labs Redmine site, using an
affected puppet version of 3.4.0-rc2:
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/


Puppet 3.4.0-rc2 release notes
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• Issue 23369: An existing but empty csr_attributes.yaml file could cause puppet agent to fail with Error: Could not request certificate: undefined method 'delete' for false:FalseClass when attempting to generate a keypair.
  
• Issue 23349: There was a regression when referencing $confdir from other settings in puppet.conf.
  
• Issue 23366: On Windows, there was a load-order bug causing run failures.

For release notes on the entire 3.4.0 series, see http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/3/reference/release_notes.html#puppet-340

All 3.4.0 Changes

See here for a list of all changes in the 3.4.0 release.

Puppet 3.4.0-rc1 Contributors
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Adrien Thebo, Josh Cooper, Kylo Ginsberg, Melissa Stone


Puppet 3.4.0-rc1 Changelog
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Adrien Thebo (2):

      bca628d (#23349) Create autosign setting for input validation

      f68aafc (#23349) Defer setting hooks to post app init when needed

Josh Cooper (4):

      39fa591 (#23366) Ensure we require ffi before using it

      1397c6b (Maint) Expand paths for windows

      4205a8c (#23369) Allow caller to override YAML.load_file returning false

      6bc761a (#23369) Handle invalid CSR attribute contents

Kylo Ginsberg (1):

      e55e75d (maint) Skip enc test on lucid

Melissa Stone (2):

      d28d966 (maint) Add f20 to default mocks

      a30cdb5 (packaging) Update PUPPETVERSION to 3.4.0-rc2

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Melissa Stone

Release Engineer, Puppet Labs

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