In the long Puppet tradition of fast releases and agile iteration comes
the 2.6.1 release!
2.6.1 is a maintenance release in the 2.6.x branch.
It contains a number of functional and performance enhancements
including preliminary support for running Puppet under JRuby (thanks
Brice!).
We''ve include release notes below that you can also see at:
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Release_Notes
The release candidate is available for download at:
http://puppetlabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-2.6.1.tar.gz
Please note that this release of Puppet is signed with the
Puppet Labs key. See the Verifying Puppet Download section at
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Please select an affected version of 2.6.1.
RELEASE NOTES
Added R.I. Pienaar''s extlookup function (see release notes for
documentation). We''ll add JSON and YAML back-ends to the CSV back-ends
in future releases.
Added preliminary JRuby support
Added ext/puppet-load - a tool for testing master compilation speeds
Added md5 hash function
Migration of internal Restructured Text Documentation to Markdown
Added http_refresh and cost parameters to the yumrepo type
Minor supporting fixes including updated VIM syntax, logcheck, SuSE
packaging, Passenger configuration, new man pages, and Red Hat Spec file
amongst others.
CHANGELOG since 2.6.0
14f871d [#4756] addendum for #4756
9bdfe69 Fix for Bug #4756 - Providers no longer respect missing
features Restored deleted lines from type.rb and reinstated unit tests
14b3340 Fix for #4736 -- preserve case of defined resources
bd973a2 Fix for #4637 --use of namevar missed in refactor
efa834a Updated CHANGELOG for 2.6.1rc4
763e7cb Minimal fix for #4691 -- class name uppercased in $name
4a9c857 Fix for #4693 -- implicit stages should never be serialized
fa4d32c Fix for #4646 -- Missing stub
4d55c6e Fix for tests broken by fix for #4489 -- stub standalone
b397b69 Fix for #4489 -- apply was using the rest terminus
e91a8cc [#4462] uncaught Timeout::Error
4d36a51 Fixed alias metaparam docs error
b063635 Skip apt-listbugs and apt-listchanges when installing from puppet
e860907 [#4660] Avoid passing rake and autotest args to puppet tests
419e007 Fixed #4706 - logcheck patterns
f6c0265 Fixed queue require for #4555
07d0be4 [#4308] Remove puppettest from specs
9e69616 Fixed RSpec warning messages
8d24861 Fixed #4100 - Added http_caching to yumrepo type
8cd266e Added cost parameter to the yumrepo type
0056d41 Fixed extlookup documentation and spacing
e783a16 Fix for #4506 -- too much data being serialized
f59cfc8 Fixed terminus example documentation
690465e Fix #4615 - vim highlighting fails on slashes and colons.
078e4fd Updated man pages
7548c65 Updated Man page generation since move to Markdown
81a2725 Fix for #4456 -- need to accept some mime-type aliases
c318558 Fix for #4489 -- apply was using the rest terminus
491c31d Fix for #4542 -- included classes weren''t assigned proper
stages
302d657 Fix for #4501 -- reports not generated in standalone
1ea4ccf Start server before agent
4c28079 [#4555] puppet queue tries to call code it hasn''t required
d1150e0 fix #4528 - treat * as absent
20f4b90 Fix for #4518 -- classes not getting added to compiler.classes
57bb06b [#4545] Remove obsolete ''trac'' specs
82b4f04 Maint. -- Fix test failures broken by previous commit
0c30754 Maint. Removing code at the request of the original author
3df0490 [#4298] Puppet apply prints an error if the file to apply
doesn''t exist
5d4f222 Fixed #4527 correctly for 2.6.1
1b3d782 Updated config.ru example for 2.6.1
252c9b8 Further RST to Markdown fixes for types, values, tests
1157e8d Updated all types to Markdown output
fef8800 Updated reference output to generate valid Markdown
79e0a2e Reformatting documentation from RST to MarkDown (#4509)
Signed-off-by: Jes Fraser 62435e5 Rewrote functions documentation to
Markdown
e4b2aa6 Removed legacy Trac code
8ddea2a Maint. Passenger fix broke a test
f43e87b Fix for #4476 -- rails calling yaml internals
a23d80a Fixes #4485 -- single quoted strings should not treat \n as new
line
8e31b52 Passenger needs HTTP headers values to be string
037bb32 [#4404] Remove requirement for source on Parser::Resource::Param
0e4bc62 [#4364] Fix failing spec due to incorrect loglevel
3a6ca54 Fix #4458 - Do not dump the whole environment when instances
can''t be found
d909827 Fix for #4465 -- earlier "feature" patch broke ldap
47005aa Maint -- tests need to respect RFC-952
6aac8f0 [#4467] Make Puppet Master respect facts_terminus settings
1cba9a7 added md5 support as requested in
http://serverfault.com/questions/166199/puppet-md5-sum-of-string
1dfd2b6 [#4381] extlookup shouldn''t trigger reparses of .pp files
be2b1f3 [#4370] Fixes extlookup precedence getting overwritten between runs
03808fd Fixed #4364 - Reduced audit msg from info to debug
539b57c [#4347] run_mode was colliding with --mode for "puppet doc"
1faebdd [#4423] repair parameterized class instantiation
37568bd [#4423] class { shouldn''t get stored on the namespace stack
449315a [#4397]+[#4344] Move type-name resolution out of
Puppet::Resource into the AST resources.
daa801b [#4344] Temporary fix to stop agent from importing modules
00ebf01 [#4344] Fix for failing templates when module name matches file
in local dir.
e32320e [#4336] "reportdir" was in the wrong section
0f9672a Fixed #4311 - Typo in defaults.rb
f54d843 Fix #4461 - attempt to fix another performance issue
2c21fae Fix for #4300 Solaris svc files need new pid filenames
83c2419 [#4284] Fix failing specs run as root due to missing puppet group
8237f68 [#4242] Fixed (removed) a broken unit test
d5ad0fb Removed eventual documentation line ... eventually came
871e6fd Fixed #4368 - Updated clean stored configs ext script for new
config sections
cb64477 Updated version to 2.6.1
bdfcac5 Update Red Hat spec file for 2.6.0
9f08e7c Feature: puppet-load - a tool to stress-test master compilation
ef9a4a6 Fix #4245 - default insertion of ACL is not thread safe
4065e81 Fix race condition in rack autoloading of request/response
3163932 Fix #4244 - Cached Attributes is not thread safe
7d42f77 JRuby doesn''t implement Process.maxgroups
760e418 Fix #4349 - Parsing with ignoreimport=true was always loading
site.pp
67bdf89 Fix #4348 - Puppet doc single manifest broken
13c71b9 extlookup() is a builtin
d38e522 [#4333] old optparse doesn''t support default_argv86b0882
Fixed #4326 - Updated SUSE packaging
03313b8 Fix #4319 - source file url sent to the master is invalid
ac3a0d2 vim: highlight default parameters in definition/classes
be2141a vim: match collected resources.
c047c8d vim: added elsif
9569136 Fix for 4314 -- Need to allow ''-'' in class name for
refs
636079f Fixed #4304 - Changed logging level for auto import message
000fd1e Fix for #4303 -- reverting to old escaping in ''-strings
1d494a3 Tweak to fix for #4302--dangling ref to known_resource_types
2383050 Fix #4302 - Compilation speed regression compared to 2.6
63ec207 Minimal fix for #4297, with notes for follow-up
7ad7eb1 Fix #4286 - rename puppetdoc global module to __site__
28bb195 Fixed yumrepo type deprecation wanring `
067a46d Temporary tweak to tests for #4242
9778f2a [#4242] Fixed recursion due to parents including their children
59a23d6 Fix for #3382 -- Empty classes as graph placeholders
865282a Fixed example config.ru
a0a63c3 Fixed network and indirection reference
64386cf Fixed Indirection reference
Regards
James Turnbull
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Todd Zullinger
2010-Sep-14 03:32 UTC
[Puppet Users] Re: [Puppet-dev] ANNOUNCE: Puppet 2.6.1 released!
James Turnbull wrote:> In the long Puppet tradition of fast releases and agile iteration > comes the 2.6.1 release!For those using Fedora or RHEL/CentOS, I''ve updated the yum repos at: http://tmz.fedorapeople.org/repo/puppet/ Packages for EL 4 - 6 and Fedora 12 - 14 are available for testing. Add the puppet.repo file from either the epel or fedora directories to /etc/yum.repos.d to enable. If you find problems with the packaging, please let me know. If you find other bugs, please file them in redmine: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/issues I''m particularly interested in anyone updating from 0.25.x to 2.6.x and whether you run into regressions or other issues that would make this an unsuitable update to push into the stable Fedora and EPEL repositories. -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. -- G. K. Chesterton, "The Man Who Was Thursday", 1908
Luke Kanies
2010-Sep-14 03:36 UTC
Re: [Puppet Users] Re: [Puppet-dev] ANNOUNCE: Puppet 2.6.1 released!
On Sep 13, 2010, at 8:32 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote:> James Turnbull wrote: >> In the long Puppet tradition of fast releases and agile iteration >> comes the 2.6.1 release! > > For those using Fedora or RHEL/CentOS, I''ve updated the yum repos at: > > http://tmz.fedorapeople.org/repo/puppet/ > > Packages for EL 4 - 6 and Fedora 12 - 14 are available for testing. > Add the puppet.repo file from either the epel or fedora directories to > /etc/yum.repos.d to enable. > > If you find problems with the packaging, please let me know. If you > find other bugs, please file them in redmine: > > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/issues > > I''m particularly interested in anyone updating from 0.25.x to 2.6.x > and whether you run into regressions or other issues that would make > this an unsuitable update to push into the stable Fedora and EPEL > repositories.Thanks for being so prompt on this, Todd, and very happy to finally have the release out. -- The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others. -- Marcel Proust --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies -|- http://puppetlabs.com -|- +1(615)594-8199 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:26 PM, James Turnbull <james@puppetlabs.com>wrote:> In the long Puppet tradition of fast releases and agile iteration comes > the 2.6.1 release! > > 2.6.1 is a maintenance release in the 2.6.x branch. > > It contains a number of functional and performance enhancements > including preliminary support for running Puppet under JRuby (thanks > Brice!). > > We''ve include release notes below that you can also see at: > > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Release_Notes > > The release candidate is available for download at: > > http://puppetlabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-2.6.1.tar.gz > >I take it you mean ''release'', right? :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
Disconnect wrote:> > > The release candidate is available for download at: > > http://puppetlabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-2.6.1.tar.gz > > > I take it you mean ''release'', right? :) >Yes - that should be release. Regards James Turnbull -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
Nigel Kersten
2010-Sep-20 19:09 UTC
Re: [Puppet-dev] Re: [Puppet Users] ANNOUNCE: Puppet 2.6.1 released!
Mac packages all up, apologies for the delay. https://sites.google.com/a/explanatorygap.net/puppet/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.