Announce: Puppet 3.5.0-RC3 available.

[Eric Sorenson]

Not yet released. Entered RC3 on March 31, 2014. (RC1: March 14. RC2: March 24.) RC3 fixed a regression in the RPM package provider that prevented managing architecture-specific packages (PUP-2039). RC2 included a fix for the manifest setting not allowing certain directories as its value (PUP-1944), a fix for dynamic environments that use the manifestdir setting (PUP-2009), and several fixes to the future parser.

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

• A new way to set up environments, which replaces the popular "dynamic environments" pattern
• A cleaner replacement for the classic import nodes/*.pp pattern
• Scriptable configuration with a new puppet config set command
• A new global $facts hash
• Early support for hashes and arrays in fact values
• Improvements to the future parser
• Support for RHEL 7, Ruby 2.1, and Facter 2.0
...along with the usual flurry of smaller improvements and bug fixes.

Check out the full release notes: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/release_notes.html#puppet-350
And the installation guide: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/installation.html

Since this is a Release Candidate, you’ll need to enable the pre-release repositories as described here:
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/puppetlabs_package_repositories.html#enabling-the-prerelease-repos


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