Announce: Facter 2.0.1-rc2 Now Available.
Ryan McKern
Facter 2.0.1-rc2
Pre-release RC2: March 12, 2014.
Facter 2.0.1-rc2 Downloads
Source: https://downloads.puppetlabs.com/facter/facter-2.0.1-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/facter-2.0.1.rc2.gem or by using gem install --pre facter
Mac packages are available at https://downloads.puppetlabs.com/mac/facter-2.0.1-rc2.dmg
Please report feedback via the Puppet Labs tickets site, using an affected facter version of 2.0.1-rc2: https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/FACT
Release Candidate: Facter 2.0.1 is not yet released. It entered RC 2 on March 12, 2014.
Facter 2.0.1 is the first release in the Facter 2 series. (See the note below about Facter 2.0.0.)
Features
FACT-134: Perform basic sanity checks on Facter output
Facter now does sanity checking on the output of facts. Facter previously assumed that all facts would be of type String but did not enforce this; Facter now validates that facts are one of (Integer, Float, TrueClass, FalseClass, NilClass, String, Array, Hash).
FACT-237: Allow fact resolutions to be built up piece-wise
FACT-239: Expose different resolution types in DSL
Introduces aggregate resolutions for facts. Aggregate resolutions allow facts to be extended at runtime and provide a simplified way of building up complex fact values.
FACT-341: Windows operatingsystemrelease support
On Windows, the operatingsystemrelease fact now returns XP,2003, 2003 R2, Vista, 2008, 7, 2008 R2, 8, or 2012, depending on the version reportedy by WMI.
Improvements
FACT-94: Unvendor CFPropertyList
Removes vendored code for CFPropertyList in favor of treating it as a separate dependency and managing it with Rubygems.
FACT-163: Fact loading logic is overly complicated
In Facter 1.x the fact search path would be recursively loaded, but only when using Facter via the command line. In Facter 2.0 only fact files at the top level of the search path will be loaded, which matches the behavior when loading facts with Puppet.
FACT-266: Backport Facter::Util::Confine improvements to Facter 2
Adds several improvements to Facter::Util::Confine, including the ability to confine a fact to a block.
FACT-321: Remove deprecated code for 2.0
Code that had previously been marked deprecated has now been removed.
FACT-322: Remove special casing of the empty string
Previous versions of Facter would interpret an empty string (and only an empty string) as nil. Now that facts can return more than just strings (i.e., they can directly return nil), empty strings no longer have this special case.
FACT-186: Build Windows-specific gem
Adds Windows-specific gem dependencies for Facter 2.
FACT-194: Merge external facts support to Facter 2
Adds pluginsync support for external facts to Facter 2.
FACT-207: Remove deprecated ldapname
Removes all instances of ldapname, completing its deprecation.
FACT-242: Remove Fedora 18 from default build targets
Fedora 18 has reached end-of-life and will no longer be supported. This release removes F18 as a build target.
FACT-272: Update Facter man page for 2.0
The man page for Facter 2 now includes the new command line options.
FACT-342: Add Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) support
This release adds spec and accceptance tests for Ubuntu 14.04, also known as Trusty Tahr.
Bug Fixes
FACT-202: Fix undefined path in macaddress.rb
One of the possible resolutions for the macaddress fact would incorrectly return nil. This release fixes the bug.
FACT-351: undefined method 'ipaddress' for Facter:Module
This bug would cause the netmask fact to fail on Darwin under some circumstances. This release fixes the bug.
FACT-357: lsb facts return the empty string when undefined
FACT-357: vlan fact returns the empty string when undefined
These two bugs were caused by FACT-322 (remove special casing of the empty string). Previous versions of facter would ignore facts that returned "", and the LSB and VLAN facts depended on this behavior to ensure that they wouldn't appear on systems where they weren't relevant. Once the special casing of the empty string was removed in Facter 2.0.1, facts that returned "" would show up in facter's output as "", rather than not showing up at all. The LSB and VLAN facts have been updated to fix this bug.
Facter 2.0.0
For historical reasons, Facter 2.0.0 was never released. Facter 2.0.1 is the first release in the Facter 2 series.
In May 2012, several release candidates were published for a Facter 2.0.0 release, using code that had diverged from the 1.6 series. After testing it, the Puppet community and developers decided that this code wasn't yet usable and the release was cancelled, in favor of continuing work that became the Facter 1.7 series.
Since the 2.0.0rc1 tag in the Facter repo was already occupied by that cancelled release, and since issuing a RC5 out of nowhere might have been confusing, we decided to go directly to 2.0.1 instead.
Facter 2.0.1-rc2 Contributors
Adrien Thebo, Jeff McCune, Kylo Ginsberg, Melissa Stone, Rob Braden, Ryan McKern
Facter 2.0.1-rc2 Changelog
Adrien Thebo (11):
ab78e3a (FACT-357) Raise errors when command execution fails
9bb5e11 (FACT-357) Extract virtual fact vmware resolution
85a6998 (maint) Only create LDOM facts if virtinfo available
92aba90 (maint) Confine lsbdistdescription to depend on lsb_release
aa1881a (maint) Stub all confines for lsbdistdescription on Solaris
1292427 (maint) Return nil on dns command lookup fail
cf899a3 (maint) Return nil on sysctl command lookup fail
e6f453b (maint) Return nil on uptime command fail
f836535 (maint) Return nil on zoneadm command fail
8e5e9e9 (FACT-379) Don't return VLANs when only header is present
Jeff McCune (1):
94c2188 Use simpler DSL for declaring external commands.
Kylo Ginsberg (1):
46be425 Use same one-line 'source' syntax used in acceptance/Gemfile
Melissa Stone (1):
ac366f3 (FACT-342) Add trusty cows
Rob Braden (1):
dbf53c5 (fact-242)(packaging) Remove Fedora 18 from the default set of package builds
Ryan McKern (1):
f8c124d (packaging) Update FACTERVERSION to 2.0.1-rc2
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Ryan McKern
Release Engineer, Puppet Labs