Puppet Platform 7.17.0 is now available!

[Puppet Product Updates]

The next release in the Puppet 7 series, Puppet 7.17.0, is now available!

 

The release contains enhancements and vulnerability fixes, including (Release Notes):

Enhancements:

• Add `virt-what` and`dmidecode` in Puppet Agent

• Puppet Agent now reloads its CA and CRL bundles every 30 minutes during each run

• Resolve deferred values on demand instead of at catalog read time

Resolved Issues:

• Remove compiler errors for deferred function mismatched types
• Puppet's http client can now establish a mutually authenticated TLS connection when passing "include_system_store: true" such as when retrieving file content from HTTPS servers. 
• Yum provider now accepts `disablerepo`, `enablerepo`, and `disableexcludes` install options if a range is specified

Security:

• Fix for CVE-2022-29181: Nokogiri vulnerability

 

We would like to thank the following Puppet community members for their contributions to this release: jplindquist and lollipopman,

 

For the full list of changes and detailed descriptions, check out the release notes: 

 

https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/7/release_notes_osp.html