Puppet users - Sep 2011 - ANNOUNCE: Facter 1.6.1rc3 available

Facter 1.6.1rc3 is a maintenance release containing fixes for issues
#8491 and #9457, as detailed below.

This release is available for download at:
 http://puppetlabs.com/downloads/facter/facter-1.6.1rc3.tar.gz

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

Please report feedback via the Puppet Labs Redmine site, using an
affected version of 1.6.1rc3:
 http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/facter/

Full Release Notes at: https://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/facter/wiki/

Facter 1.6.1rc3 Release Notes
==
CHANGELOG
--   Prevent repeated loading of fact files

    Fix #8491

    Fact loading could recurse indefinitely if a fact file attempted to call
    Fact#value on a fact that was not yet defined before the current file.
    If Fact#value was called outside of a setcode block, it would be
    evaluated at load time and the loader would rescan the fact path from
    the beginning and would reenter the current file, continuing until the
    stack was full. This is a byproduct of the more exhaustive fact
    searching introduced in 2255abee.

    The resolution for this is to track the files that have been loaded and
    ignore subsequent attempts to load them, emulating the behavior of
    Kernel.require. However, since facts can be legitimately refreshed
    over the life of a ruby process using Facter, Facter.clear will reset
    the list of loaded files by destroying the fact collection, and
    subsequently the loader.

    Currently puppet agent will reload all facts preceding a run, so normal
    puppet agent behavior will remain as expected. However, the facter facts
    terminus manually loads fact files itself and bypasses facter''s
search
    path and standard loading mechanism. While it will benefit from the
    recursion protection, it currently does not have a way to reset the
    loaded file list.

--     Fix logic for domain fact so hostname, then dnsdomainname and
finally resolv.conf is used.

    Fix #9457

    A recent commit changed the logic for how this fall-through logic was
    working. I''ve fixed the logic and added more coverage to pick up on
this.

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