I'm really excited to announce the arrival of new feature releases: Puppet 4.4.0 and Puppet Server 2.3.0. The headline feature here is Static Catalogs: file resources with 'puppet:///' source attributes will now include the checksum of the file inside the catalog, rather than requiring additional http requests to the master as the catalog is being applied. This both dramatically improves performance and closes a "loophole" where agents could get file content that didn't match the catalog's original intent. You can read more (much, much more) about this on the doc site: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/4.4/reference/static_catalogs.html
In addition, there are several other noteworthy features including an awesome community contribution: * Felix Frank worked tirelessly to close a very long-standing feature request that ties in with static catalogs: HTTP(S) file sources. Now you can use plain http webservers as the `source` for file resources, so if you have content that's large in size or managed outside Puppet's fileserver, you can just point at it. Vielen dank, Felix! (PUP-1073) * There's a new API endpoint in the Puppet Server, `environment_classes`, that improves upon the old resource_types endpoint to enumerate classes, their parameters, and default values. (SERVER-1110) * The Puppet Server now reloads configuration immediately upon receiving a HUP signal, lowering restart times if you are changing values. (SERVER-86) * The Puppet 4 Language continues to improve: now you can alias Types directly in your manifests, there's a new Iterable type, and you can now reference earlier parameters in a class, define, or function. (various tickets) There's a lot more, so please read the release notes for details: Puppet Server: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppetserver/latest/release_notes.html Puppet: https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/release_notes.html Puppet 4.4.0 is contained inside the puppet-agent-1.4.0 package that Melissa announced yesterday, as well as being independently downloadable as a gem or tarball To install or upgrade puppet-agent, follow the getting started directions: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/index.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/1eaaa14c-943d-4ec0-bd19-9e45ba5ce625%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
