Facter 1.7.0-rc2 is a feature release candidate in the 1.x series with new features and bug fixes. For current documentation on Facter 1.7.0, please see: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/facter/1.7/
To see a list of the issues addressed by this release, check out the 1.7.0 version in our issue tracker at: https://projects.puppetlabs.com/versions/348 Downloads are available at: * Source https://downloads.puppetlabs.com/facter/facter-1.7.0-rc2.tar.gz Available in native package format in the pre-release repositories at: http://yum.puppetlabs.com and http://apt.puppetlabs.com For information on how to enable the Puppet Labs pre-release repos, see: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/puppetlabs_package_repositories.html#enabling-the-prerelease-repos Gems are available via rubygems at https://rubygems.org/downloads/facter-1.7.0.rc2.gem or by using `gem install --pre facter` Mac packages are available at https://downloads.puppetlabs.com/mac/facter-1.7.0-rc2.dmg Please report feedback via the Puppet Labs Redmine site, using an affected facter version of 1.7.0-rc2: https://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/facter/ ========================== ## Facter 1.7.0-rc2 Contributors ## ========================== Adrien Thebo, Andrew Elwell, Andrew Parker, Ashley Penney, Chris Price, Christopher Webber, Daniel Black, Daniel Pittman, Eric Sorenson, Erik Dalén, Evan Pierce, Garrett Honeycutt, Garrett Wollman, Gary Larizza, Grant Heffernan, Hailee Kenney, Hunter Haugen, Jacob Helwig, Jared Curtis, Jason Gill, Jeff McCune, Jeff Weiss, Jonathan Grochowski, Josh Cooper, Joshua Hoblitt, Ken Barber, Kyle Anderson, Luis Fernandez Alvarez, Luke Kanies, Marc Fournier, Matthaus Owens, Max Riveiro, Michael Kincaid, Michael Moll, Michael Renz, Mikael Fridh, Moses Mendoza, Nan Liu, Nicolas Vigier, Niels Abspoel, OMCnet Development Team, Patrick Carlisle, Pierre-Gilles Mialon, Rahul Gopinath, Russell Harrison, Stefan Schulte, Tim Sharpe, Timur Batyrshin, Todd Zullinger, Wolf Noble, rlinehan =========================== ## Facter 1.7.0-rc2 Release Notes ## =========================== External Facts It's now possible to create external facts with structured text (e.g. YAML, JSON, or a Facter-specific plaintext format) or with a script that returns fact names and values in a specific format (e.g. Ruby or Perl). Please see the custom facts guide for a detailed explanation and caveats. on_flush DSL method Also new in Facter 1.7 is the on_flush DSL method, usable when defining new custom facts. This feature is designed for those users who are implementing their own custom facts. The on_flush method allows the fact author to register a callback Facter will invoke whenever a cached fact value is flushed. This is useful to keep a set of dynamically generated facts in sync without making lots of expensive system calls to resolve each fact value. Please see the solaris_zones fact for an example of how the on_flush method is used to invalidate the cached value of a model shared by many dynamically generated facts. ========================= ## Facter 1.7.0-rc2 Changelog ## ========================= Adrien Thebo (25): 12bb73f (#2157) Add external fact support 19f8328 (#2157) external facts command line - bin/facter 223293c (#2157) external facts command line - lib/facter/application.rb 87fc73e (#2157) external facts command line - lib/facter/util/config.rb 45e5bf1 (#2157) external facts command line - lib/facter/util/directory_loader.rb 07720aa (#2157) external facts - lib/facter/util/directory_loader.rb 34a337e (#2157) parser classes can register an array of extensions - lib/facter/util/config.rb 3c12374 (#2157) raise error if parser doesn't implement #results - lib/facter/util/parser.rb a4317a5 (#2157) Catch infinite infinite loop when loading json - lib/facter/util/parser.rb cab9b7d (#2157) add support for scriptparser on windows - lib/facter/util/parser.rb 87e4691 (#2157) add powershell script parser - facter/util/parser.rb 45b8cf3 (#2157) external facts command line - install.rb c22b9ff (#2157) Add external facts README to redhat spec da1982b (#2157) add readme for libexec external facts 70ea5b1 (#2157) Update config spec to test ext_fact_dir 11535d0 (#2157) Used puppetlabs spec helper for directoryloader tests 76104aa (#2157) Update directory_spec to reference new libexec dir 22c5a25 (#2157) directory_loader uses results instead of values e0668a7 (#2157) test directory loader to make sure loading non-existing directories is all cool, yo becb778 (#2157) shorten spec_helper require in parser_spec.rb 75b7cea (#2157) cleanup and reformatting of directory_loader_spec 9285308 (#2157) Converted parser spec to use PuppetlabsSpec::Files helper 6f9a10a (#2157) Add test coverage for parser matches? function f188d09 (maint) centralize system fact stubbing in virtual specs 0818832 Revert "Merge branch 'pull-419' into 1.7.x" Andrew Elwell (3): b69e21f Update version nos to match Facter development 739879d Update version nos to match Facter development b292fdc Update version nos to match Facter development Andrew Parker (7): 83b43ff Revert "(#2157) external facts command line - install.rb" 2fd7f6e (Maint) Ensure that the right Facter is loaded during install df5b95c Revert "Merge pull request #205 from jeffweiss/ticket/master/12147_remove_iphostnumber_fact" 15f36bf Revert "Merge pull request #204 from jeffweiss/ticket/master/11466_remove_duplicate_memorytotal_fact" 290842f Revert "Merge pull request #208 from hkenney/ticket/master/14469_strip_whitespace_from_frozen_strings" e8ed813 Revert "Merge pull request #202 from hkenney/ticket/master/3226_strip_whitespace_from_fact" 1d36e02 (Maint) Properly mock SunOS in test for manufacturer Ashley Penney (7): 58a685b Add XenServer to operatingsystem for #5255. 36facb3 Add OpenIndiana to operatingsystem and osfamily, as well as check /etc/release for Solaris rather than just falling back to it. fa60a87 Modify this to handle Solaris a little better, via the use of uname -v. d8238fa Further tweaks for XenServer. 42d6dea In one of the more recent versions of rspec they changed calls from expect{} to be .to and .to_not instead of should/should_not. This fixes the three failure tests I see every time I run the tests. This was driving me crazy. 4842e0a Add XenServer test. 3d45e2b Add the uuid from dmidecode and add appropriate unit testing for it. Chris Price (7): 26918b3 (#12012) Move "with_env" utility method from test code into lib code 810c465 (#12012) Remove global override of LANG environment variable 66cbfac (#12012) Add spec unit tests for env/LANG changes d8be0a6 (#12012) Fix ruby 1.8.5 incompatibility in new spec test 9c2afdb (#12012) Fix bug with overriding LANG environment variable 4595c48 (#12012) removed extraneous nils f77584f (#12311) use 'ensure' to restore env vars in Resolution.with_env Christopher Webber (3): 51119c0 Add support for distingushing which Solaris 27ac413 Add new distros to Solaris family f3d9571 Update other facts to use osfamily instead of operatingsystem Daniel Black (3): 6c8683a (#11660) Adds feature SSHFP (#11659) Adds ssh spec 50f6da6 (#11660) Adds feature SSHFP 2a86219 (#11660) Adds feature SSHFP (#11659) Adds ssh spec Daniel Pittman (7): 2bdacfb Revert "(#11660) Adds feature SSHFP" 0010a65 (#10232) Tests for VirtualBox detection via sysfs cb429df Partial revert of CFPropertyList migration. 02ff878 Bump Facter version to 2.0.0 for the release. 8a49948 Delete the "ARP" facts, which are pathologically bad. bb44774 Delete Linux-only `get_arp_value` helper. 4b926d0 Faster MAC address load on Linux via sysfs Eric Sorenson (1): b7a7f50 Fixes behaviour change if /etc/release does not exist. Erik Dalén (1): a0b1acb (#17917) Allow case equality confinement matching Evan Pierce (1): ec9524f (#15585) Make ext fact regex not greedy Garrett Honeycutt (1): 4581b17 (maint) removing trailing whitespace Garrett Wollman (2): eba2036 Make zpool_version work on FreeBSD kernels as well. 6299040 Allow zfs_version to work on FreeBSD as well as Solaris. Gary Larizza (2): af682cc [#11299] Replace facter/util/plist with cfpropertylist 635ccc4 Namespace CFPropertyList under Puppet::Util Grant Heffernan (2): 976b7af fix xen0/xenu detection: https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/10625 40efab4 fix tests for virtual detection Hailee Kenney (42): 6b9e2e5 (#7484) Domain fact should handle only TLD 3168927 (#7484) Domain Fact should handle TLD 3a84a0e (#3226) Strip whitespace from fact 6e7d967 (#3226) Wire up fact preserve_whitespace DSL c13a517 (maint) Fix broken Windows tests fa38c60 (#14469) Strip whitespace from frozen strings e9326d7 (#14467) Warn when removing relative paths ffe7129 (#3909) Strip trailing dots from domain fact 4eaa7c4 (#14521) Ensure install only strips leading lib dir 0fa58fc (#14521) Ensure install propagates licenses 5a8547d (14466) Warn when no facts found 653e9e0 (#14466) Fix style issues 417d060 (#14690) Remove preceding letters from HP-UX release kernel 7e7fce2 (#14700) Add tests for kernel facts (#14700) Add tests for kernel facts 4c7abaa (#14690) Fix style issues 21b2c29 (#12649) Add memory and swap values for FreeBSD 7c18090 (#12649) Add specs for FreeBSD memory fact 16b58a2 (#14700) Fix whitespace and spelling issues d161c3e (#14700) Fix kernel version spec d88d7be (#14700) Fix kernel spec on Windows 56793c6 (#13049) Add tests for GNU/kFreeBSD e45ffde (#13047) Add tests for GNU/kFreeBSD 7d933fd (#2157) Remove JSON dependencies b0eea43 (#2157) Add util/json.rb file to support removing JSON requirement 5bc46a0 (#2157) Exit facter when specified directory for external facts does not exist ba83da9 (#2157) Make it possible to disable custom facts 9f3d8a9 (#2157) Make external facts compatable with facts_dot_d e381348 (#2157) Add composite loader 028bb31 (#2157) Refactor parser 008cc6c (#2157) Remove support for executable external facts on Windows 84d8393 (#2157) Ensure externals always overwrite other facts 70b801a (#2157) Removed skipping backup files 0464614 (#2157) Remove redundancy in directory loader spec 7c094f1 (#2157) Allow weight to be set during fact addition 088c6fe (#2157) Remove unused instance variable e062a77 (#2157) Removed directory_loader.rb's dependency on facter.rb bc0d831 (#2157) Collection is now constructed with it's loaders 03cf1d7 (#2157) Prevent external facts from attempting to parse directories 5c3d635 (#15514) Add compatibility with change to operatingsystem fact b1bcf31 (#1424) Fix up syntax in tests 3f0a335 Revert "(#1424) Fix up syntax in tests" cc8f574 Revert "(#1424) Added facts zones, zone_ & zonename for solaris." Hunter Haugen (1): c12d3b6 Add Amazon to the RedHat osfamily Jacob Helwig (1): e0cb1ae Revert "Merge branch 'ticket/10251' of git://github.com/jgrocho/facter" Jared Curtis (1): 17bfadb (#17083) Add rhev & ovirt support to the virtual fact Jason Gill (2): dd704c5 (#10238) Adds support for retrieving information about block devices in Linux, with tests; updated to include sizes and be more flexible for future additions f7c086a (#10966) Adds BIOS information facts Additionally includes tests for other dmidecode-based facts such as boardmanufacturer Jeff McCune (31): 9bc2432 (maint) Whitespace error cleanup commit 10c3986 (maint) Add trailing newlines to all files f85eebd (maint) Standardize on #!/usr/bin/env ruby -S rspec 082dba6 (#2157) Rename collection loader methods 8f7267e (#2157) Make JsonParser always available but disabled without json gem 5ba762c (#2157) Make parser matcher work with Enumerable c436ef2 (#2157) Remove needless methods 84bc0f8 (#2157) Change parser specs to not touch the filesystem 5075b50 (#2157) Fixup yaml typo in json spec test f273906 (#2157) Fix spec failures on Ruby 1.8.5 7d1fb72 (Maint) Whitespace fixup 250f930 (#2157) Fixup remove executable facts on Windows 7de57ba (#2157) Fix Mocha::StubbingError in loader_spec 2624508 (Maint) Fix Facter version to be 2.0.0-rc4 ff60b69 Improve Facter.version API to help automate releases 2674e0d Add Facter::Util::FileRead.read helper method b97337c Add expectations for operatingsystemrelease on Ubuntu 5a25b33 (#17794) Specify how zfs facts behave when tools are configured a43d6f8 (#17612) Follow Google docs to populate virtual => gce 41e9468 (#15001) Use the internal loader to load ipaddress de8bbb6 Fix newline in operatingsystemrelease fact edbad6f (refactor) Send operatingsystemrelease through Facter::Util::FileRead.read 25e194e (maint) Fix Solaris 10 spec failures da5d140 (maint) Update Gemfile to work well on windows ba9e1a2 (maint) Clean up require => false in Gemfile 9c38f19 (#16948) Fix hardwaremodel fact on windows 32 bit db8a80c (maint) Add pry to Gemfile as a development dependency 00544ca Add on_flush fact resolution DSL method e4eb583 (#17890) Refactor the facter solaris zone facts 80f9074 (maint) Fix unhandled exception when zoneadm is missing 5e7b695 (#14522) Force encoding of data read from /proc/self/status Jeff Weiss (9): 5aa2a6f (#12864) Windows: get primary DNS from registry 4a2d358 (#6955) Remove relative dirs from fact search path 9810595 (#11466) Remove deprecated memorytotal fact 9f01fe7 (#12147) Remove Darwin 6-specific iphostnumber fact 20f2d0e (#14689) Fix SSH fact for HP-UX b5dcc5b (#8963) Fix swap fact failure on SunOS if no swap 8db9596 (#8963) Test for Solaris memory & swap facts ec438d3 (#8923) Add real Solaris output to specs 611005b (#14827) Fix broken swap units on Mac Jonathan Grochowski (1): ce67c98 (#10251) Creating RC tarballs should be handled by rake. Josh Cooper (6): c93922c (#12012) Fix ENV['LANG'] spec tests on Windows 4a59d36 (Maint) Don't parse nil Facter::Util::Resolution output a9c82fd (Maint) Suppress spec test output 9cefa22 (#22072) Execute fully resolved virt-what 6ebe9d1 Maint: Colorize spec output on Windows 0598806 Maint: Fix order dependent test failure Joshua Hoblitt (1): 459801e (#17029) add osfamily Gentoo Ken Barber (2): a9140d5 (#6617) Deprecate DESTDIR environment variable for installer 64fa8ea (maint) Fix requires for newer rspec revisions so we don't break build Kyle Anderson (2): 5fc6485 (#19676) Add openwrt OS detection support 9e1223c Added OpenWrt (19676) ps detection and unit test for ps fact Lex Rivera (4): 4b44b79 [virtual] improve detection of proxmox-based KVM virtual machines 5c653e9 [virtual] rewrite cpu-based detection of KVM-based VMs edb7b66 [virtual] add tests for dmidecode / bochs and lspci / virtio 3eab7bf [virtual] use manufacturer instead of product name in Bochs/KVM detection Luis Fernandez Alvarez (1): 707dfc2 (#19761) Added virtual and is_virtual fact on Windows Luke Kanies (1): 844b67b (#10964) Adding the ability to directly set values Marc Fournier (1): e12965d (#17794) remove :kernel confinement of {zfs,zpool}_version Matthaus Owens (13): 1368bd6 Updating CHANGELOG, conf/redhat/facter.spec for 2.0.0rc1 release. 9006e74 (#15852) Allow RC in Puppet, Facter version strings edcfa9b (#17854) Allow install.rb to execute from outside of source root 682676d Remove unused code, globs from install.rb 7eb4d38 Add deprecation warning for --tests flag in install.rb 28141c5 Remove CHANGELOG from Facter bdf668d (packaging) Make dmidecode arch specific on debian a80fa94 (packaging) Add amd64 cows to the cows in build_defaults 08c9e7c (packaging) Add dependency on virt-what for rpm and deb packages 5a0291c (packaging) Update FACTERVERSION to 1.7.0-rc1 0c1fb74 (#20072) Redirect stderr to the correct null device on windows b5f50cf (#14522) Don't read /proc/self/status on Solaris aa4ce2d (packaging) Update FACTERVERSION to 1.7.0-rc2 Max Riveiro (1): 51cb8e2 Cleaned up Arch Linux detection routine Michael Kincaid (1): 2eb4ede (#9708) Confine facts by kernel not operating system and remove confine for hardwareisa Michael Moll (2): 332bf64 uname prints a version like "B.11.23" on HP-UX. Delete the first two characters. 8001440 HP's ssh package for HP-UX uses /etc/opt/ssh for its configuration files Michael Renz (10): dd57664 Fixes Bug # 1415: truncated Infiniband MAC addresses FOR LINUX ONLY. If interface starts with ib, uses one of two methods to get infiniband MAC address and fails with a MAC address of all FF otherwise. 3f78ad6 ifconfig should not run twice for Linux. 246a70f Handles ruby hanging of File.read of /sys/class/ with cat. 284bc45 #16005 Puppet agent generates ifconfig warnings on InfiniBand systems fix 7205d59 #1415 ip_spec.rb test added for linux_ifconfig_ib0 4c30c0c #1415 added two methods and spec tests b06708e ifconfig_interface should output its output 8c86551 #1415 fixed the regex map 29f5e22 #1415 ifconfig_interface change. 0bfca9e #1415 updated ipaddress6_spec.rb and macaddress_spec.rb to reflect updated ifconfig STDERR redirect Mikael Fridh (1): 64770d0 Try to get VirtualBox info without dmidecode Moses Mendoza (6): bf4c697 Update CHANGELOG, conf/redhat/facter.spec for 2.0.0rc2 6cc987c Update CHANGELOG, conf/redhat/facter.spec for 2.0.0rc3 857674b Update CHANGELOG, conf/redhat/facter.spec for 2.0.0rc4 6ab5426 Only use git describe in Rakefile if git is present 0d141bb Fixup redhat spec file for f17 1daadf0 Revert "Remove libexec from file list as its only in 2.x" Nan Liu (3): f47c592 (#1424) Add Solaris zonename fact. 5273842 (#6682) Add Solaris ldom facts and update virtual detection. c80de1c (#11969) Add zfs zpool version facts. Nicolas Vigier (1): 9df78a1 (#9929) Add support for Mageia to operatingsystem.rb and operatingsystemrelease.rb Niels Abspoel (1): e3b8ee4 (#17521) Add osfamily fact ArchLinux OMCnet Development Team (1): 56d0aef added freebsd support to processor.rb Patrick Carlisle (4): 1dd50f4 Use absolute path for $LOAD_PATH in installer 63d5296 Only run Facter::Memory.meminfo_number on supported platforms fee751e (#20053) Add missing require in ipaddress6 fact 9b29473 (Maint) Fix environment leakage in loader spec Pierre-Gilles Mialon (1): a36918a (#17612) Add Google Compute Engine support to virtual fact Rahul Gopinath (2): fec2276 (#1424) Added facts zones, zone_ & zonename for solaris. e6ba727 (#1424) Adds zone facts for solaris. Russell Harrison (1): 63d2d61 (#15001) Return correct value for ipaddress6 for Fedora 17+ Stefan Schulte (3): 7713d95 (#11082) Add fact operatingsystemrelease for Solaris 30e068a (#11082) Add negative tests for operatingsystemrelease 2e7a108 (#12790) Raise an exception if recursion is detected Tim Sharpe (1): 2fc1b0c (#9574) Add filesystem fact & tests Timur Batyrshin (1): 9ff4453 Removed exclusive threading Todd Zullinger (2): a67d440 Improve rubysitedir fact 2f02c82 (#19989) Filter virt-what warnings from virtual fact Wolf Noble (1): 43cff12 (19873) Add OS major release fact rlinehan (6): 6fc23a6 (#2066) Add memory facts fixed in MB units 890a90a (#2066) Refactor memory facts 1865953 (#2066) Refactor swap facts a95d38c (#2066) Add tests for AIX 0720bed (#2066) Refactor memory size and memory free facts 38b6ecf (#2066) Fix facts for Linux/kFreeBSD and add tests -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. 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