The next release in the Puppet 7 series, Puppet 7.19.0, is now available!
Note: New versions of Puppet now release every six weeks rather than every 4 weeks.
The release contains new features, minor enhancements, and bug fixes including:
Agent 7.19.0
Adds support for Fedora 36 (x86_64)
Bumped Augeas to 1.13.0 for all supported platforms except for Solaris and AIX
Server 7.9.1
The included Dropsonde gem has been upgraded to 0.0.8, which adds the ability to list unused modules to the telemetry client report generator
Facter 4.2.12
Facter now supports ERB changes introduced in Ruby 3.1
Resolved Issues:
Reports sent to PuppetDB using the Oj JSON backend are now properly formatted
`puppet module list --render-as json` now includes information about unmet dependencies
Puppet now handles misconfigured `/proc` filesystems correctly
Puppet now passes ERB arguments as keywords
Enabled YAML anchors in Facter 4, a feature that was available previously in Facter 3. Additionally, testing was added to ensure Facter continues to behave as expected when handling YAML anchors
Security:
FIPS OpenSSL: disable c_rehash binary Fixed CVE-2022-1292 and CVE-2022-2068
For the full list of changes and detailed descriptions, check out the release notes: https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/7/release_notes_puppet.html#release_notes_puppet_x-7-19-0
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