Announce: Puppet Server 2.6.0 and 1.2.0 are available

[Jeremy Barlow]

We’re happy to announce the 2.6.0 and 1.2.0 releases of Puppet Server.  These are backward compatible feature and bug fix releases for versions 2.5.0 and 1.1.3, respectively.

NOTE: If you are upgrading to version 2.6.0 from a version earlier than 2.5.0 and you have modified the “bootstrap.cfg”, “/etc/sysconfig/puppetserver”, and/or “/etc/default/puppetserver” files, please read the following documents before proceeding with the upgrade:

• Potential breaking issues when upgrading with a modified bootstrap.cfg
  
• Potential warnings when upgrading with a modified init configuration
  
• Detailed bootstrap upgrade notes

Highlights for the releases include:

• New bundled version of JRuby, 1.7.26, which includes fixes for the following transient failures:
  
• Failed catalog compilations with error messages like “integer 2181729414 too big to convert to `int`”
  
• Service startup failures with error messages like “load error: jopenssl/load -- java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError”
  
• Replacement of logrotate with Logback for log file rotation.  Note that if you are upgrading Puppet Server on a Debian-based operating system that you will need to delete the "/etc/logrotate.d/puppetserver" file in order to avoid having both logrotate and Logback try to rotate log files.
• For 2.6.0 only, a whitelist of environment variables can now be made available to Ruby code running under Puppet Server.
• For 2.6.0 only, Puppet Server packages for SuSE Enterprise Linux (SLES) 12 have been released for the first time.

Release notes with more info can be found here:

• For 2.6.0, https://docs.puppet.com/puppetserver/2.6/release_notes.html
• For 1.2.0, https://docs.puppet.com/puppetserver/1.2/release_notes.html