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Puppet 0.24.8 now available

From:  James Turnbull <james-AT-lovedthanlost.net>
To:  puppet-users-AT-googlegroups.com, puppet-dev-AT-googlegroups.com, puppet-announce-AT-googlegroups.com
Subject:  ANNOUNCE: Puppet 0.24.8 now available!
Date:  Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:47:00 +1100
Message-ID:  <49C776B4.9090107@lovedthanlost.net>
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Puppet 0.24.8 is now available!

This is a maintenance release for the 0.24.x branch but contains a small
number of new features including some significant performance
enhancements for large installations and stored configurations.

The tarball is available at:

http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-0.24.8.tgz

MD5 hash:

http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-0.24.8.t...

The gem at:

http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-0.24.8.gem

Or via the Redmine site:

http://projects.reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/files

CHANGELOG

New features

    Enhancements to file serving, module and stored configuration
performance

    Enhancements and fixes to Nagios support

    Support for Augeas 0.3.6 and 0.4 and fixes to a number of Augeas issues

    Provide dscl -url output support for OS X 10.4 clients using the
directoryservice provider.

    Fix launchd service provider so it is backwards compatible with OS X
10.4

    Fixed #1831 - Added sprintf function

    Fixed #1830 - Added regsubst function

    Fixed #1829 - Add puppet function versioncmp to compare versions

    Added ext/dbfix.sql script - fixes common errors in stored
configuration databases

Major fixes:

    Fixed #1629 - A refactoring of ssh_authorized_key parsed provider

    Fixed #2004 - ssh_authorized_key fails if no target is defined

    Fixed #1631 - adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to PATH

    Fixed #961 - puppetd creating too many/not closing TCP connections

    Fixed #1922 - Functions squash all arguments into a single hash

    Fixed #1852 - Correct behaviour when no SELinux bindings

    Fixed #1963 - Failing to read /proc/mounts for selinux kills file
downloads

Other fixes:

    Fixed incorrect detail variable in OSX check and ralsh on OSX

    Fixed #2000 - No default specified for checksum

    Fixed #2026 - Red Hat ignoring stop method

    Fixed #2025 - gentoo service provider handle only default init level

    Fixed #1910 - updated logcheck

    Fixed #1871 - Sensitive information leaked in log reports

    Fixed #1956 - Cleaned up variable names to be more sane

    Updated up2date and service confines to add support for Oracle EL

    Fixing #1948 and #1953 - augeas ins bug: wrong number of arguments

    Fixing #944 - changing error message from warning to info -

    Fixed #1959 - Added column protection for environment schema

    Fixing #1869 - autoloaded files should never leak exceptions

    Fixing #1543 - Nagios parse errors no longer kill Puppet

    Fixed #1420 - nagios_serviceescalation not allowing host_name more
than one type

    Fixed #1884 - Exported resources are marked as unexported when
collected on the exporting host

    Fixed #1538 - Yumrepo sets permissions wrongly on files in
/etc/yum.repos.d

    Fixed #1936 - Added /* */ support to the vim file

    Fixed #1541 -  nagios objects write files to clientbucket on every
change

    Fixed #1542 - cannot purge nagios objects

    Fixing #1912 - gid still works with no 'should' value fixing ralsh
issues

    Fixed #1920 - Shadow password corruption

Regards

James Turnbull

- --
Author of:
* Pulling Strings with Puppet
(http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590599780/)
* Pro Nagios 2.0
(http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590596099/)
* Hardening Linux
(http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590594444/)

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