PDK release notes

New features, enhancements, and resolved issues for PDK.

PDK 3.2.0

Deprecations

  • Analytics have been removed from the code

  • Support has been officially withdrawn for Debian 9 and Redhat 6.

New features and enhancements

  • Support has been added and packages are now being built for Debian 12 and Mac OSX 13.

  • While not possessing an explicit package Windows 11 is now being verified as supported.

Template Changes

  • CFPropertyList has been pinned on Windows

  • Fix implemented so that .sync.yml will properly overide Rubocop rules

  • Duplicate gems have been removed

PDK 3.1.0

New features and enhancements

  • Executable templates are now supported

  • pdk convert and pdk updatecan now work in a ControlRepo context

Template Changes

  • The templates have been updated to allow Rubocop rules to be overriden.

  • CFPropertyList has been added as a pinned dependency on Windows.

  • Our Rubocop pin has been increased to 1.50.0.

  • The codecov gem has been removed.

  • The archived ruby vscode extension has been replaced.

PDK 3.0.1

New features and enhancements

  • Updated various dependencies

  • Added stricter puppetlabs_spec_helper dependency

  • Minor adjustments to our documentation

PDK 3.0.0

PDK 3.0 is a backwards incompatible release.

New features and enhancements

  • Ruby 3.2.2 is now the default version of Ruby.

  • Puppet 8 is now the default version of Puppet.

  • PDK no longer relies on PowerShell, you are able to use PDK from any terminal that honours your PATH variable.

  • As of this release, PDK now only includes the latest Puppet versions available at the time of build. This siginficantly reduces the package size and improves performance.

  • The bundle command is no longer experimental.

  • PDK now properly respects the verbose option when utilizing format options for unit testing.

  • PDK now supports the operatingsystem_support parameter from answers.json.

Deprecations

  • The --pe-version flag has been deprecated. It will continue to work but we advise moving to --puppet-version given that this flag will be removed in a future release.

  • The deprecated module command has now been removed.

  • The deprecated config command has now been removed.

  • The experimental console command has been removed from this release.