Puppet 0.24.6 released as stable!

[James Turnbull]

Hi all

Puppet version 0.24.6 code-named Camilla has been released as stable!

http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-0.24.6.tgz

There are a number of major new features including significant new
language features.

Of particular note is:

* Support for complex if/else operations, for example if $variable ==
'value', including arithmetic operations and Boolean and/or/not
operators. You can see full details at:

http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/LanguageTutorial#if-else
and
http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/LanguageTutorial#expressions

* Multiple relationships and overrides in a single statement, see:

http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/LanguageTutorial#resources

* Variables expressions, for example $variable = 1 + 3, see:

http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/LanguageTutorial#variable-expressions

* Appending to variables, see:

http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/LanguageTutorial#appending-to-variables

* Option (--exit-codes) to present more detailed exit codes from the
puppet binary

* Support for running the Puppet server as a Passenger
(mod_rails/mod_rack) application in Apache, see:

http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/UsingPassenger

* The user and package types now supports HP-UX

* The service type supports daemontools and runit

You can find the full CHANGELOG at:

http://github.com/jamtur01/puppet/tree/0.24.x/CHANGELOG

You can see all the tickets closed in release 0.24.6 at:

http://projects.reductivelabs.com/versions/show/19

Please report any bugs to:

http://projects.reductivelabs.com/

Regards

James Turnbull