Puppet users - Jan 2010 - ANNOUNCE: Puppet 0.25.4 - Release Candidate 3 available!

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You wanted "release early, release often" and the Puppet team has
delivered!

The 0.25.4 release is a maintenance release (with one important
feature - pre/post transaction hooks - discussed below) in the
0.25.x branch.  The release primarily addresses a regression
introduced in 0.25.3 that caused issues with creating cron jobs.

We apologise for the brief interval between releases and the failure
to identify this new regression sooner.

The Reductive Labs team is working to further extend the testing
infrastructure used for new releases to better help us better test
across multiple platforms and versions.

The release candidate is available at:

http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-0.25.4rc3.tar.gz

Please note that all final releases of Puppet are signed with the
Reductive Labs key.

http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/DownloadingPuppet#verifying-puppet-downloads

Please test this release candidate and report feedback via the
Reductive Labs Redmine site:

http://projects.reductivelabs.com

Please select an affected version of 0.25.4rc3.

RELEASE NOTES

Pre/Post Transaction hooks
- --------------------------

There is a new feature in this release: pre and post transaction
hooks.  These hooks allow you to specify commands that should be run
pre and post a Puppet configuration transaction.

They are set with the prerun_command and postrun_command settings in
the puppet.conf configuration file.

prerun_command = /bin/runbeforetransaction
postrun_command = /bin/runaftertransaction

The command must exit with 0, i.e. succeed, otherwise the
transaction will fail - if the pre command fails before the
transaction is run and if the post command fails at the end of the
transaction.

CHANGELOG

*  Bug #2845: Cron entries using "special" parameter lose their
title when changed
* Bug #3001: Can''t manage broken links
* Bug #3039: 0.25.3 gem spec specifies the executables incorrectly
* Bug #3075: sshkey host aliases broken by fix for #2813
* Bug #3088: Puppetd fails to stop after receiving SIGTERM
* Bug #3089: puppetlast gsub! error
* Bug #3093: Blastwave provider broken in 0.25.3
* Feature #2914: Transactions should have before and after hooks

Regards

James Turnbull

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James Turnbull wrote:
> The release candidate is available at:
>
> http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-0.25.4rc3.tar.gz
For anyone using Fedora or RHEL/CentOS, I''ve updated the yum repos at:

    http://tmz.fedorapeople.org/repo/puppet/

Hopefully that helps a few more folks test 0.25.4rc3 and will confirm
that it''s ready to be released (or finds and nasty new bugs before
it''s unleashed on the rest of the world).

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