Announce: Puppet 3.6.0-RC1 available!

[Eric Sorenson]

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

Read the full release notes here: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/release_notes.html#puppet-360
Get the downloads by following the directions here: 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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