[Puppet Users] ANNOUNCE: Facter 1.5.1

James Turnbull
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:16:04 -0000

Facter version 1.5.1 is now released.  There is quite a lot there
including Microsoft Windows support for a number of facts!

Thanks to Paul Nasrat for all his efforts on the Windows support and
this release in general.

You can download it from:

http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/DownloadingPuppet
http://reductivelabs.com/redmine/projects/list_files/facter

Here is the CHANGELOG:

Added a Process.waitall thread when there''s a timeout, to avoid
zombies.

Set the timeout the host-based and resolve-based resolutions to 2.

Fixed #1495 - CentOS version detection is now better.

Fixed #1422 - Facter now defaults to 0 timeout.

Fixes #1492 - added kernelversion fact

Added virtual fact

Modified the operatingsystem fact for Debian so it looks in
/etc/debian_version instead of /proc/version.

Fixes #1467 - macaddress not set on Ubuntu

Adding a rake task for creating an archive.

Adding better SuSE detection for both operatingsystem and release.

Add sample test and strawman solution for IP parsing code

Add module level tests for Facter::IPAddress

Fixed #1425 - Solaris

Feature #1487: Package creation scripts for Mac OS X

Feature #1478: Allow specification of --bindir --sbindir --sitelibdir
--mandir

Feature #1475: CONFIG[''bindir'']
CONFIG[''sbindir''] have undesirable
defaults on

Fixes #1467 - macaddress not set on Ubuntu

Enabled a number of Windows facts - operatingsystem, domain, ipaddress,
macaddress, kernel, ipconfig and others

Regards

James Turnbull

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