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All too quickly we''re back with a maintenance release: 2.6.3. This release addresses some issues in the 2.6.2 release. 2.6.3 is a maintenance release in the 2.6.x branch and it contains only bug fixes and no new features or other changes. The release candidate is available for download at: http://puppetlabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-2.6.3rc1.tar.gz Please note that all final

Hi all We''ve just finished enabling ticket creation and updates via email. You can now send an email to tickets@puppetlabs.com to create a ticket. You must have a Redmine account to do this and your From address must match the address on your Redmine account. Any attachments added to the email will be applied to the ticket. By default, issues are added to the Puppet project but you

We are happy to announce the first public release candidate of our Puppet Cloud Provisioner. This release is available for download at our Module Forge: http://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/cloud_provisioner<http://downloads.puppetlabs.com/dashboard/> Extensive documentation can be found at: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/cloud_pack_getting_started.html Please report feedback via the

Puppet 3.0.0-rc5 is a feature release candidate for the 3.x series of Puppet. Downloads are available at: * Source http://downloads.puppetlabs.com/puppet/puppet-3.0.0rc5.tar.gz RPMs are available at http://yum.puppetlabs.com Debs are available at http://apt.puppetlabs.com Gems are available via rubygems at https://rubygems.org/downloads/puppet-3.0.0.rc5.gem or by using `gem install --pre

Last month, we started publicly posting monthly community metrics reports with all kinds of interesting information about the Puppet Community. I also realized that I did a couple of blog posts about this, but I had not posted it here on the mailing list for your reading pleasure. The latest version of the metrics can be found here: http://puppetlabs.com/community/metrics/ Here is a quick summary

Hey folks, Due to continuing problems with our datacenter, we''re moving some infrastructure this evening. During this period, both Redmine (https://projects.puppetlabs.com/) and the Forge (http://forge.puppetlabs.com) will be unavailable. Sorry about the short notice of this, and the outage earlier too [1]. If you have any issues in a couple of hours once it''s all back up,

Puppet 2.7.22 is now available. 2.7.22 addresses a security vulnerability discovered in the 2.7.x series of Puppet. This vulnerability has been assigned Mitre CVE number CVE-2013-3567. All users of Puppet 2.7.21 and earlier who cannot upgrade to the current version of Puppet, 3.2.2, are strongly encouraged to upgrade to 2.7.22. For more information on this vulnerability, please visit

Puppet 3.2.4 is now available. 3.2.4 addresses two security vulnerabilties discovered in the 3.x series of Puppet. These vulnerabilities have been assigned Mitre CVE numbers CVE-2013-4956 and CVE-2013-4761. All users of Puppet 3.2.3 and earlier are strongly encouraged to upgrade to 3.2.4. For more information on these vulnerabilities, please visit http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4761

Facter 1.6.8 is a maintenance release candidate with bug fixes and improvements. It includes contributions from the following people: Stefan Schulte, Ken Barber. This release is available for download at: http://downloads.puppetlabs.com/facter/facter-1.6.8.tar.gz http://downloads.puppetlabs.com/mac/facter-1.6.8.dmg http://apt.puppetlabs.com http://yum.puppetlabs.com See the Verifying Puppet

Puppet Dashboard 1.2.23-rc3 is a maintenance release candidate of the 1.2 series of Puppet Dashboard with bug fixes and minor features. This release is available for download at: https://downloads.puppetlabs.com/dashboard/puppet-dashboard-1.2.23-rc3.tar.gz Available in native package format in the pre-release repositories at: http://yum.puppetlabs.com and http://apt.puppetlabs.com For

Puppet 3.0.2-rc3 is a bugfix release candidate for the 3.x series of Puppet. This release candidate fixes bug #10963. To see a list of the issues addressed by this release, check out the 3.0.2 version in our issue tracter at: https://projects.puppetlabs.com/versions/337 Downloads are available at: * Source https://downloads.puppetlabs.com/puppet/puppet-3.0.2-rc3.tar.gz RPMs are available at

Puppet 2.6.12 is a security update release in the 2.6.x branch. The only changes since 2.6.11 are security fixes for the following vulnerability: * CVE-2011-3872, Altnames Vulnerability For more details on this vulnerability, follow the link on our blog post: http://puppetlabs.com/blog/important-security-announcement-altnames-vulnerability/ Other information available at:

Puppet 3.2.1-rc1 is a bugfix release candidate for the 3.x series of Puppet. This release addresses two major issues that were uncovered in 3.2.0 and caused us to pull that release (#20726 and #20742). It also includes a fix for Solaris support (#19760). Downloads are available at: * Source https://downloads.puppetlabs.com/puppet/puppet-3.2.1-rc1.tar.gz Available in native package format in

Puppet 2.7.17 is a maintenance release for Puppet in the 2.7.x series. It contains a fix for the ubuntu service regression in 2.7.16 (#15027, #15028, #15029). Downloads are available at: * Source https://downloads.puppetlabs.com/puppet/puppet-2.7.17.tar.gz Windows package is available at https://downloads.puppetlabs.com/windows/puppet-2.7.17.msi RPMs are available at

Facter 1.6.12-rc1 is a maintenance release candidate in the 1.6.x branch with bug fixes. Downloads are available at: * Source: https://downloads.puppetlabs.com/facter/facter-1.6.12-rc1.tar.gz RPMs are available at https://yum.puppetlabs.com/el or /fedora Rubygem available at http://rubygems.org/gems/facter or by using the --pre option to gem install. Debs are available at

Hiera 1.1.2-rc2 is a release candidate in the 1.x series with bug fixes. Downloads are available at: * Source: https://downloads.puppetlabs.com/hiera/hiera-1.1.2-rc2.tar.gz RPMs are available at https://yum.puppetlabs.com/el or /fedora Rubygem available at http://rubygems.org/gems/hiera or by using the --pre option to gem install. Debs are available at https://apt.puppetlabs.com Mac package

It seems like only yesterday that we were releasing Puppet 2.7.8. But a day has passed and here is Puppet 2.7.9. Puppet 2.7.9 is being released so shortly after Puppet 2.7.8 because it introduced a regression on Ruby 1.8.5. The regression, issue #11306 would cause a failure when handling non-empty recursive resources, such as a recursive file resource. The 1.8.5 incompatible code wasn’t caught

Puppet Dashboard 1.2.15 is a bugfix release of the 1.2 series of Puppet Dashboard. This release is available for download at: https://downloads.puppetlabs.com/dashboard/puppet-dashboard-1.2.15.tar.gz Debian packages are available at https://apt.puppetlabs.com RPM packages are available at https://yum.puppetlabs.com Please report feedback via the Puppet Labs Redmine site, using an affected

Puppet 3.0.1-rc1 is a bugfix release candidate for the 3.x series of Puppet. To see a list of the issues addressed by this release, check out the 3.0.1 version in our issue tracter at: https://projects.puppetlabs.com/versions/328 Downloads are available at: * Source http://downloads.puppetlabs.com/puppet/puppet-3.0.1-rc1.tar.gz RPMs are available at http://yum.puppetlabs.com Debs are available

Puppet 3.0.1 is a bugfix release for the 3.x series of Puppet. To see a list of the issues addressed by this release, check out the 3.0.1 version in our issue tracter at: https://projects.puppetlabs.com/versions/328. This release contains contributions from the following people: Andrew Parker, Jeff McCune, Josh Cooper, Matthaus Owens, Moses Mendoza, Nick Fagerlund, Niels Abspoel, Patrick