The next release in the Puppet 7 series, Puppet 7.6.1, is now available!
The release contains bug fixes, minor enhancements, and security fixes including:
- This release bumps Curl to 7.76.0, fixing the following CVEs: CVE-2021-22890, CVE-2021-22876
- This release bumps Ruby to 2.7.3, fixing the following CVEs: CVE-2020-25613, CVE-2021-28966
- Resolution of the following issues:
- Race condition with agent_disabled_lockfile
- Unable to install gems with the puppet_gem provider on Windows
- Puppet cannot parse systemd instances when list-unit-files output has an additional column
- This release includes minor dependency updates, including an update to Jetty 9.4.40 to resolve security issues.
- Auto promoting dotted facts to structured facts is incompatible.
- Facter breaks when querying custom facts.
- Inconsistent handling of date types in custom facts.
- Minor Enhancement:
- The processors fact includes sockets and threads details.
For the full list of changes, check out the release notes: https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/latest/release_notes_osp.html