[Puppet Users] ANNOUNCE: Facter 1.5.9

Matt Robinson
Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:38:04 -0000

Facter 1.5.9 is a maintenance release containing fixes and updates.

This release is available for download at:
 http://puppetlabs.com/downloads/facter/facter-1.5.9rc1.tar.gz

See the Verifying Puppet Download section at:
 http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Downloading_Puppet#Verifying+Puppet+Downloads

Please report feedback via the Puppet Labs Redmine site, using an
affected version of 1.5.9rc1:
 http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/facter/

CHANGELOG
=========458a22d Incremented release to 1.5.9
4eb64fe Fixed #6719 Typo
ffd80ac (#5011) Adds swap statistics for OSX
1207765 (#6719) Restricts virtualization types for zones
8d71db3 Fixed #6616 - Stubbing in VMware tests on Linux
aa959df Remove Solaris from the list of confined systems. It won''t get
the original lsb facts, and it''s nonsensical too.
d718af4 Fix #6679 - Added Scientific Linux to operatingsystem fact
dea6f78 Further fix to #5485 - SELinux facts
6d6d8da (#2721) Merged patch from Brane GraAnar
868e7ba (#5485) Made selinux_mode fact work
214da73 Fixed #5485 - Updated selinux_mode fact
ba2601f Fix for #6495 - Updated interface detection
93461d9 Fixed #5950 - Solaris ipaddress incorrect after bonding failure
2e06cdc (#6615) fix missing stub calls in loader specs
3c7841e (#5666) windows support for facter/id.rb
dd5d5bf (#4925) - MS Windows doesn''t do man pages
52026ee Fixed #5699 - Added processorcount support for S390x
7dd730d Fixed #5699 - Added virtual support for s390x/Zlinux
d6ce08a Fixed #6611 - Fixed broken HPVM test and rationalised test structure
84fa3c4 (#6525) change semicolons to ''then'' in case statement
for ruby
1.9.2 compatibility
3e6217d Fixes #6521 and other Ruby 1.9 issues
eb5d6fc Fixed #6525 - Test failures on Ruby 1.9.x
cb25119 (#2270) add testing for the new ipaddress6 feature
ea29483 (#2270) add IPv6 support to facter core.
77eb512 (#2270) Remove DWIM code from ipaddress on Darwin.
f5bf0f5 (#6360) Flush Facter top level cache before every test case.
0d7a2e6 Fix #4755: add support for GNU/kFreeBSD platform where missing.
b88a088 (#5510) Facter should load custom fact definitions in filename order.
7a8be16 Refactor #6044 -- use _spec.rb as the pattern for spec tests.
b39f892 Refactor #6044 -- require spec_helper with a consistent path.
a4fe459 Refactor #6044 -- port testing to rspec2
af9134c (#5086) Try using kstat before falling back to ''who
-b'' to
determine uptime.
cbbfe55 Refactor util/uptime.rb tests to reduce duplication using contexts
f0cc2c0 (#4575) win32 support for manufacturer, productname, & serialnumber
c40fc07 (#1423) Memory facts for Solaris
1985528 (#4754) Change is_virtual logic to not enumerate virtual types
739040f (#4754) Add support for Darwin and Parallels VM to "virtual"
fact
9332f8a (#5325) Add tests for SPARC manufacturer and product name
5b561e3 (#5325) Manufacturer and product name on SPARC
9d99079 maint: Fix spec failures caused by having a space in the path
to facter''s source
89da001 maint: require rubygems so hudson can run the specs
1eef842 Maint: add "Local-branch:" info to mails sent by "rake
mail_patches"
f007a9d (#4989) Add xendomains fact
1fa87a9 JSON support. Works in 1.9.1. Warnings in 1.9.2. LoadError on
1.8.7 for some reason
43e203c (#5040) fact virtual should detect hpvm
7cec60a (#5016) is_virtual should be true on solaris zones
f2e66b6 (#5031) Remove redundant puts from RDoc.usage
f4da528 maint: Fix merge error
d62b013 Issue #4889 Fact values should all be strings
07f186d [#4552] Updating --timing to report in milliseconds instead of seconds
1f387a5 [#4552] Apply patch from Dean Wilson
244d2f1 Better fix for Bug 4569: Uptime Fact is incorrect on Windows
11544c1 [#4289] operatingsystemrelease fact for oel, ovs
e6bfdf9 Fix for bug #4569
8c4d0cd (#4558) Fail with message on --help errors
7210429 [#4558] Refactor facter binary using optparse
b5c85de [#4563] Add a --trace option to the binary
ebcb81b [#4558] Refactor facter binary using optparse
b8b7123 (#4567) Remove unnecessary or non-portable redirects
7ecba71 (#4567) Retain detached HEAD state
1125e1e Make sure FreeBSD spec also works on systems that have /proc/cpuinfo.
889e150 Sync rpm spec file from Fedora/EPEL
725dce0 Rename Reductive Labs to Puppet Labs
ff473ef Updated signing rake task
a85f2b0 [#2865] Fix reporting of virtual facts
f67ec05 [#4567] Add ext/facter-diff to compare output of 2 versions
4050acc Removing stupid .DS_Store files :(
016cf03 [#3703] Fix macaddress fact for Darwin