[Announce] Release of PDK v1.8.0

[Bryan Jen]

Hello Everyone,

PDK v1.8.0 is a feature release that is now generally available.

This release adds a few new features and enhancements, as well as a number of various bug fixes. In v1.8.0, we've added a new 'tasks' validator. With the new validator, users can test their tasks metadata as they could before, but PDK will also validate that their task names conform to requirements. PDK v1.8.0 also includes important enhancements to the packaged templates. Some of those enhancements include: default data-in-modules hiera.yml for new modules, updates to CI configuration files to test against ruby 2.5.1 to keep up with the latest Puppet releases, and more granular configuration of travis-ci stages. This release also includes a number of important bug fixes, the full list of changes in v1.8.0 can be found in the release notes.

Next steps:

• Download PDK 1.8.0 for your operating system to get started
• Or install or update to the latest PDK version via your native package manager!

Regards,

Bryan Jen