Announce: Puppet 3.6.0 released!

[Eric Sorenson]

Hot on the heels of Puppet 3.5 comes Puppet 3.6.0. We said things were going to accelerate in Puppet's open-source release cadence, and here it is.

Puppet 3.6.0 is a backward-compatible features and fixes release in the Puppet 3 series. The biggest things in this release are:

• Improvements to directory environments, and the deprecation of config file environments
• Support for purging unmanaged ssh_authorized_key resources
• Support for installing gems for a custom provider as part of a Puppet run
• A configurable global logging level
• A configurable hashing algorithm (for FIPS compliance and other purposes)
• Improvements to the experimental future parser

Notable community contributions in this release include Felix Franks’ great work on the ssh authorized keys type, fixing a feature request from 2008, and Jared Jennings for dilligently working through some epic pull request threads to add FIPS compliance.

Please read through the Release Notes for the full list of changes: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/release_notes.html
To install Puppet, follow the Installation Guide: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/install_puppet/pre_install.html
To report issues with the release, file a ticket in the “PUP” project on https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/ and set the “Affects version/s” field to "3.6.0”.
To see a list of known issues slated for the next bugfix release, follow this JIRA query: https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/issues/?filter=12246

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