Announce: Puppet Platform 5.2 available

[Eric Sorenson]

A new release of the Puppet Platform is available. As a reminder, we're doing monthly releases of the platform components (Agent, Server and PuppetDB) which are tested and released together.

Puppet 5.2.0 is a feature and improvement release in the Puppet 5 series that also includes several bug fixes. This release ensures that translated strings can be loaded in the puppet gem. You can find more information in the Puppet 5.2 release notes: https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/latest/release_notes.html

Puppet agent 5.2.0 also includes a new release of Facter, Facter 3.9, which contains a new experimental fact, `hypervisors`. This fact returns the names of any detected hypervisors and any collected metadata about them.

PuppetDB 5.1.0 is a bugfix and performance release. It contains significant schema migrations, most notably for fact storage. It also improves handling of binary data in several places. For more information, see the detailed PuppetDB release notes: https://docs.puppet.com/puppetdb/latest/release_notes.html

Puppet Server 5.1 contains several new features and bug fixes. New features include:
• Automatic CRL refresh on certificate revocation
• Puppet agents retry requests on a configurable delay if Puppet Server is busy
• Autosigning supports CA certificate bundles
• Administrators can add Java JARs to be loaded on startup
For more information, see the Puppet Server 5.1 release notes: https://docs.puppet.com/puppetserver/latest/release_notes.html

Eric Sorenson - er...@puppet.com
director of product, ecosystem and platform

[Thomas Mueller]

Hi Eric

Am 14.09.2017 um 17:25 schrieb Eric Sorenson:
> A new release of the Puppet Platform is available. As a reminder, we're doing monthly releases of the platform components (Agent, Server and PuppetDB) which are tested and released together.

didn't know about the monthly schedule. Is there some blog post about it?

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> PuppetDB 5.1.0 is a bugfix and performance release. It contains significant schema migrations, most notably for fact storage. It also improves handling of binary data in several places. For more information, see the detailed PuppetDB release notes: https://docs.puppet.com/puppetdb/latest/release_notes.html

Can only see 5.0 with this link. Maybe some update job got stuck?

>
> Puppet Server 5.1 contains several new features and bug fixes. New features include:
> • Automatic CRL refresh on certificate revocation
> • Puppet agents retry requests on a configurable delay if Puppet Server is busy
> • Autosigning supports CA certificate bundles
> • Administrators can add Java JARs to be loaded on startup
> For more information, see the Puppet Server 5.1 release notes: https://docs.puppet.com/puppetserver/latest/release_notes.html
>

This link shows only 1 entry in the 5.1.0 section (the CRL feature).

- Thomas

[Garrett Guillotte]

Hey Thomas (and everyone),

Sorry for the docs deployment issues! The full Server 5.1 docs, and PuppetDB 5.1 docs, are all live as of a few minutes ago.

• https://docs.puppet.com/puppetserver/latest/ and https://docs.puppet.com/puppetserver/5.1/
  
• https://docs.puppet.com/puppetdb/latest/ and https://docs.puppet.com/puppetdb/5.1/
  

Thanks,

-Garrett Guillotte

Technical Writer

Puppet Inc.