PDK release notes

• PDK Templates have been updated to 2.7.4

• Fixes an issue with duplicate build-ids for RedHat 9 packages

For more more details, please feel free to check out our project changelog.

• A RedHat 9 compatible package has been added.

• A new Puppet validator for Bolt plans has been added by communit member jay7x.

• PDK Templates have been updated to 2.7.2.

• Puppet 7.23 has been added to the packages.

• Ruby 2.7.7 is now the default runtime used by packaged versions of PDK.

• The minimum ruby requirement has been raised to 2.5.9.

• Selecting a Puppet Enterprise version with PDK_PE_VERSION will resolve the latest puppet gem relative to the PE release.

• The vendored puppet-lint plugins have been updated to their latest compatible versions. This resolves an issue that top scope facts to be formatted incorrectly.

• Deprecation warnings for bundle show will no longer be displayed when using the release command.

• PDK no longer ships with OSX 10.15 packages.

• Legacy i18n support has been removed.

For more more details, please feel free to check out our project changelog.

• A Ubuntu 22.04 compatible package has been added.

• An OSX 12 compatible package has been added.

• Versions 6.29 and 7.22 of the Puppet gem have been added to the packages. The two new gem releases resolve an issue where an incompatible version of concurrent-ruby may be dowloaded when creating a new module or running pdk validate.

• Ruby 2.7.6 has been updated to 2.7.7 to address CVE-2021-33621.

• PDK Templates have been updated to 2.7.1.

• Support for Fedora 36 has been added.

• The vendored puppet-lint plugins have been updated to their latest compatible versions. This resolves an issue where a conflict between puppet-lint and the sytax validator would occur when using the auto fix feature of pdk validate.

• The vendored facterdb version has been updated. This brings in more supported facts for testing your Puppet code.

• PDK will no longer attempt to install missing dependencies when creating new modules with the default template.

• Package support for Fedora 32 and 34 has been removed.

• Puppet 5 and Ruby 2.4 support has been removed.

• Nokogiri and it's dependencies have been removed from the packages.

Support added for SUSE Enterprise Linux 15

Fix inconsistencies between the pdk validate and pdk release prep commands. The in_module_root function now checks to see if metadata.json is present instead of relying on folder names PDK-1758

Fixes a compatibility issue with psych gem dependency puppetlabs/pdk#1143

The PDK entry point is now Ruby 2.5, up from Ruby 2.4. This change should be transparent to users as the available Ruby versions are unchanged.

Support added for OSX 11, Debian 11, Fedora 32 & 34

A project level setting containing a list of ignored files or patterns for use with pdk validate puppetlabs/pdk#1114

Bump json_pure gem to ~> 2.5.1 on Ruby >= 2.7 puppetlabs/pdk#1124

Prevent errors when choosing not to set forge token prior to running pdk release puppetlabs/pdk#1121

Set skip_branch_with_pr to true by default in appveyor.yml template puppetlabs/pdk-templates#442

Run validation steps prior to the matrix build puppetlabs/pdk-templates#441

• Relocated theinventory.yaml file used by Litmus. This prevents accidental execution of acceptance tests in production systems. (https://github.com/pmcmaw)

• Removed Win32 gems from the Gemfile. These have been included in Puppet since version 5. (https://github.com/da-ar)

• Added Puppet 7 tests to .gitlab-ci.yml (https://github.com/silug)

• To set up code for the default Ruby 2.7 behavior, the Rubocop rule Style/BracesAroundHashParameters is now disabled by default. (https://github.com/alexjfisher)

• Improved flexibility of Appveyor configuration by providing a remove_includes option to manipulate the jobs to be run. (https://github.com/sheenaajay)

• Enabled VSCode's "Remote Containers" plugin to allow running all the backend tooling in a remote container, instead of requiring a local PDK install. (https://github.com/silug)

• Fixed setting strict_variables to false. (https://github.com/cdenneen)

• Updated GitLab CI config to new schema. (https://github.com/silug)

• Updated pdk build to automatically exclude .puppet-lint.rc and .sync.yml. (https://github.com/silug)

• Added an empty, commented .sync.yml to new modules to help folks jumpstart the customization process. (https://github.com/silug)

• Added ability to override GitLab CI global defaults in jobs. (https://github.com/cdenneen)

• Added Gitpod.io support to modules. (https://github.com/logicminds)

• Implemented Puppet's public Litmus runners in Github Actions workflows. This provides immediate feedback on testing through running the full test suite against ephemeral VMs on each PR update. (https://github.com/DavidS, https://github.com/ekohl)

• Travis config now allows setting the chosen distributions per Puppet collection for acceptance tests. (https://github.com/adrianiurca)

• Updated template-configured Rubocop to current version; updated default cops; updated target Ruby version to 2.4. (https://github.com/tuxmea, https://github.com/DavidS)

• Updated default Ruby version for static analysis steps run in Appveyor. (https://github.com/pmcmaw)

• Added a Github workflow to run module release prep on-demand or on a schedule. (https://github.com/carabasdaniel, https://github.com/pmcmaw, https://github.com/ekohl)

• Added an optional step to run Litmus on Gitlab CI. (https://github.com/cdenneen)

• Fixed new object templates to pass validation and unit tests after initial generation. (https://github.com/DavidS, https://github.com/cdenneen)

• Removed Puppet 5.x from default Travis and Appveyor configs. (https://github.com/carabasdaniel, https://github.com/cdenneen)