Puppet 7.6.1
Released April 2021.
We would like to thank the following Puppet community members for their
contributions to this release: gcampbell12 and ananace.
Enhancements
Puppet module type scripts directory
This release adds a new subdirectory to the scripts/ module class. It
automatically generates the functions in the class and retrieves the
available scripts. This helps to standardize specific file loading from
either the files directory or scripts directory. PUP-10996
Backport logic to detect migrated CA directory location
After migrating the CA directory, Puppet now reports the correct cadir
setting value. PUP-11004
Resolved issues
Race condition with agent_disabled_lockfile
This release fixes a race condition that caused the agent to become disabled
and no longer enforce desired state. Contributed by Puppet community member
gcampbell12. PUP-11000
User resource with forcelocal and groups attributes set fails if /etc/group contains empty lines
This release fixes an issue where Puppet failed when applying user resources
with forcelocal if there were empty lines in /etc/group. PUP-10997
Unable to install gems with the puppet_gem provider on Windows
Previously, if you used Puppet as a library, environment.bat was not sourced
and led to an unset PUPPET_DIR. As puppet_gem relied on this to build the
gem.bat path, it used a non-existing path, making this provider unsuitable.
This release updates the puppet_gem provider to use Gem.default_bindir,
which determines the location of the executables. To avoid accidental usage
of the puppet_gem provider with system Ruby, we have also added a confine to
the aio_agent_version fact. PUP-10964
Changing a Puppet setting in a catalog invalidates the environment cache in multithreaded mode
You can now change the value of Puppet's rich_data setting at runtime,
without it invalidating the environment cache. PUP-10952
Puppet cannot parse systemd instances when list-unit-files output has an additional column
This release fixes an issue affecting the parsing of systemd service
instances caused by a change in the systemctl list-unit-files command
output. PUP-10949
Cannot ensure dnfmodule with no default profile
Previously, using the dnfmodule provider to install a module with no default
profile -- without passing the enable_only parameter -- failed with newer
versions of DNF. PUP-11024
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