Also if you are a mcollective user it might be worth waiting a bit. Many 
deprecation warnings will show on your client and server logs which are really 
annoying

I made PRs to fix them so maybe next release 

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> On 28 Jun 2017, at 16:28, R.I.Pienaar <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> People upgrading should note the PuppetDB dependency is now postgres
> postgresql96, this is not stated on the package dependency metadata so
> upgrade works fine but puppetdb fails to start until you update
> 
>> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017, at 15:40, Trevor Vaughan wrote:
>> Awesome! We'll start working on testing with this as soon as we can.
>> 
>> First issue found: When using rspec-puppet, we need to test with
>> 'server_facts' but now can no longer set those since they are 'reserved'
>> but appear to be unset by default. Any idea how to get around this?
>> 
>>> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 10:13 PM, Eric Sorenson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have run out of superlatives to try to express how excited I am for this
>>> release: the Puppet 5 Platform is available for download now.
>>> 
>>> The primary goals of this release are to harmonize numbering across the
>>> major components (Puppet Agent, PuppetDB, Puppet Server) to "5", as a first
>>> step towards delivering these components as a unified platform; include
>>> Hiera 5 with eyaml as a built-in capability; provide clean UTF-8 support;
>>> move network comms to fast, interoperable JSON. Our current Ruby versions
>>> are EOL'ed, so we're moving to MRI Ruby 2.4 on the agent and (opt-in)
>>> jruby9k on the server. The PE-only puppet-server metrics service is now
>>> open-sourced.
>>> 
>>> In addition to the features, there are some substantial performance boosts
>>> waiting for you. According to our perf testing (thanks Doug!):
>>> 
>>> • Puppet 5 Agent run-times were 30% lower at equivalent loads. (Average of
>>> 8 seconds vs 5.5 seconds)
>>> • Puppet 5 Server CPU utilization was at least 20% lower than Puppet 4 in
>>> all scenarios.
>>> • CPU utilization for Puppet 5 PuppetDB and PostgreSQL were also lower in
>>> all scenarios.
>>> • Puppet 5 catalog compile times reported by Puppet Server were between
>>> 7-10% lower than Puppet 4.
>>> • Puppet 5 scaled to an additional 40% increase in the number of agents
>>> while Puppet 4 agent run-times became dangerously high.
>>> 
>>> This is a "semver major" with some backwards incompatibilities, but we
>>> have worked very hard to retain module compatibility with Puppet 4.x
>>> modules. With a few careful (and hopefully rarely used) exceptions, *module
>>> code that works under Puppet 4 should not need revision to work under
>>> Puppet 5*.
>>> 
>>> For a full list of changes and download instructions, check out the full
>>> release notes: https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/5.0/release_notes.html
>>> 
>>> I'd like to send out huge thanks to the Puppet teams who worked on this
>>> release and to community members who provided feedback on both the design
>>> discussions and early preview releases — extra special thanks to Josh
>>> Cooper for shepherding this out the door. It has a special significance for
>>> me since it's version five and (by total coincidence!) yesterday was my
>>> five year anniversary at Puppet :) I think it's going to be a great release
>>> series.
>>> 
>>> Eric Sorenson - [email protected]
>>> director of product, ecosystem and platform
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