In the long Puppet tradition of fast releases and agile iteration comes the 2.6.1 release!
The fourth (and hopefully final!) release candidate is now available and is a maintenance release in the 2.6.x branch. It contains a number of functional and performance enhancements including preliminary support for running Puppet under JRuby (thanks Brice!). We've include release notes below that you can also see at: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Release_Notes The release candidate is available for download at: http://puppetlabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-2.6.1rc4.tar.gz Please note that all final releases of Puppet are signed with the Puppet Labs key. See the Verifying Puppet Download section at http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Downloading_Puppet Please test this release candidate and report feedback via the Puppet Labs Redmine site: http://projects.puppetlabs.com Please select an affected version of 2.6.1rc4. RELEASE NOTES Added R.I. Pienaar's extlookup function (see release notes for documentation). We'll add JSON and YAML back-ends to the CSV back-ends in future releases. Added preliminary JRuby support Added ext/puppet-load - a tool for testing master compilation speeds Added md5 hash function Migration of internal Restructured Text Documentation to Markdown Added http_refresh and cost parameters to the yumrepo type Minor supporting fixes including updated VIM syntax, logcheck, SuSE packaging, Passenger configuration, new man pages, and Red Hat Spec file amongst others. CHANGELOG since 2.6.0 763e7cb Minimal fix for #4691 -- class name uppercased in $name 4a9c857 Fix for #4693 -- implicit stages should never be serialized fa4d32c Fix for #4646 -- Missing stub 4d55c6e Fix for tests broken by fix for #4489 -- stub standalone b397b69 Fix for #4489 -- apply was using the rest terminus e91a8cc [#4462] uncaught Timeout::Error 4d36a51 Fixed alias metaparam docs error b063635 Skip apt-listbugs and apt-listchanges when installing from puppet e860907 [#4660] Avoid passing rake and autotest args to puppet tests 419e007 Fixed #4706 - logcheck patterns f6c0265 Fixed queue require for #4555 07d0be4 [#4308] Remove puppettest from specs 9e69616 Fixed RSpec warning messages 8d24861 Fixed #4100 - Added http_caching to yumrepo type 8cd266e Added cost parameter to the yumrepo type 0056d41 Fixed extlookup documentation and spacing e783a16 Fix for #4506 -- too much data being serialized f59cfc8 Fixed terminus example documentation 690465e Fix #4615 - vim highlighting fails on slashes and colons. 078e4fd Updated man pages 7548c65 Updated Man page generation since move to Markdown 81a2725 Fix for #4456 -- need to accept some mime-type aliases c318558 Fix for #4489 -- apply was using the rest terminus 491c31d Fix for #4542 -- included classes weren't assigned proper stages 302d657 Fix for #4501 -- reports not generated in standalone 1ea4ccf Start server before agent 4c28079 [#4555] puppet queue tries to call code it hasn't required d1150e0 fix #4528 - treat * as absent 20f4b90 Fix for #4518 -- classes not getting added to compiler.classes 57bb06b [#4545] Remove obsolete 'trac' specs 82b4f04 Maint. -- Fix test failures broken by previous commit 0c30754 Maint. Removing code at the request of the original author 3df0490 [#4298] Puppet apply prints an error if the file to apply doesn't exist 5d4f222 Fixed #4527 correctly for 2.6.1 1b3d782 Updated config.ru example for 2.6.1 252c9b8 Further RST to Markdown fixes for types, values, tests 1157e8d Updated all types to Markdown output fef8800 Updated reference output to generate valid Markdown 79e0a2e Reformatting documentation from RST to MarkDown (#4509) Signed-off-by: Jes Fraser 62435e5 Rewrote functions documentation to Markdown e4b2aa6 Removed legacy Trac code 8ddea2a Maint. Passenger fix broke a test f43e87b Fix for #4476 -- rails calling yaml internals a23d80a Fixes #4485 -- single quoted strings should not treat \n as new line 8e31b52 Passenger needs HTTP headers values to be string 037bb32 [#4404] Remove requirement for source on Parser::Resource::Param 0e4bc62 [#4364] Fix failing spec due to incorrect loglevel 3a6ca54 Fix #4458 - Do not dump the whole environment when instances can't be found d909827 Fix for #4465 -- earlier "feature" patch broke ldap 47005aa Maint -- tests need to respect RFC-952 6aac8f0 [#4467] Make Puppet Master respect facts_terminus settings 1cba9a7 added md5 support as requested in http://serverfault.com/questions/166199/puppet-md5-sum-of-string 1dfd2b6 [#4381] extlookup shouldn't trigger reparses of .pp files be2b1f3 [#4370] Fixes extlookup precedence getting overwritten between runs 03808fd Fixed #4364 - Reduced audit msg from info to debug 539b57c [#4347] run_mode was colliding with --mode for "puppet doc" 1faebdd [#4423] repair parameterized class instantiation 37568bd [#4423] class { shouldn't get stored on the namespace stack 449315a [#4397]+[#4344] Move type-name resolution out of Puppet::Resource into the AST resources. daa801b [#4344] Temporary fix to stop agent from importing modules 00ebf01 [#4344] Fix for failing templates when module name matches file in local dir. e32320e [#4336] "reportdir" was in the wrong section 0f9672a Fixed #4311 - Typo in defaults.rb f54d843 Fix #4461 - attempt to fix another performance issue 2c21fae Fix for #4300 Solaris svc files need new pid filenames 83c2419 [#4284] Fix failing specs run as root due to missing puppet group 8237f68 [#4242] Fixed (removed) a broken unit test d5ad0fb Removed eventual documentation line ... eventually came 871e6fd Fixed #4368 - Updated clean stored configs ext script for new config sections cb64477 Updated version to 2.6.1 bdfcac5 Update Red Hat spec file for 2.6.0 9f08e7c Feature: puppet-load - a tool to stress-test master compilation ef9a4a6 Fix #4245 - default insertion of ACL is not thread safe 4065e81 Fix race condition in rack autoloading of request/response 3163932 Fix #4244 - Cached Attributes is not thread safe 7d42f77 JRuby doesn't implement Process.maxgroups 760e418 Fix #4349 - Parsing with ignoreimport=true was always loading site.pp 67bdf89 Fix #4348 - Puppet doc single manifest broken 13c71b9 extlookup() is a builtin d38e522 [#4333] old optparse doesn't support default_argv= 86b0882 Fixed #4326 - Updated SUSE packaging 03313b8 Fix #4319 - source file url sent to the master is invalid ac3a0d2 vim: highlight default parameters in definition/classes be2141a vim: match collected resources. c047c8d vim: added elsif 9569136 Fix for 4314 -- Need to allow '-' in class name for refs 636079f Fixed #4304 - Changed logging level for auto import message 000fd1e Fix for #4303 -- reverting to old escaping in '-strings 1d494a3 Tweak to fix for #4302--dangling ref to known_resource_types 2383050 Fix #4302 - Compilation speed regression compared to 2.6 63ec207 Minimal fix for #4297, with notes for follow-up 7ad7eb1 Fix #4286 - rename puppetdoc global module to __site__ 28bb195 Fixed yumrepo type deprecation wanring ` 067a46d Temporary tweak to tests for #4242 9778f2a [#4242] Fixed recursion due to parents including their children 59a23d6 Fix for #3382 -- Empty classes as graph placeholders 865282a Fixed example config.ru a0a63c3 Fixed network and indirection reference 64386cf Fixed Indirection reference Regards James Turnbull -- Puppet Labs - http://www.puppetlabs.com C: 503-734-8571 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. 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