PE release notes

These are the enhancements and resolved issues in this version of Puppet Enterprise (PE).

For security and vulnerability announcements, see Security: Puppet's Vulnerability Submission Process.

PE 2025.0.0

Released December 2024

Important: PE 2025 is our new leading-edge PE release stream (also referred to as STS). For important information about upgrading to 2025, see Upgrading Puppet Enterprise.

If you're on the LTS stream (2023.8), you'll find release notes and other information for that series in the 2023.8 documentation.

Customers on 2019.8.z, which is EOL, are encouraged to upgrade to either 2021.7 or 2023.

Note: To access the release notes for the Puppet® platform, including Puppet agent, Puppet Server, Facter, and PuppetDB, see Platform release notes.

New features

Launch of Advanced Patching service
Starting in PE 2025.0.0, if you have the Puppet Enterprise Advanced license, you have access to advanced patching capabilities on the PE console and API. This feature allows users to:
  • Automate patching workflows to ensure a secure infrastructure.
  • Designate when operating systems are patched to ensure as little disruption as possible.
  • Group nodes to effectively patch updates.
  • Create patch groups.
  • Create and define schedules for patch jobs, maintenance windows and blackout windows.
  • Create permissions in RBAC (Role-based access control). This feature includes additional permissions to view, create and edit patching groups, patching maintenance windows, patching blackout windows, and patching jobs.
  • View patch management reports to monitor the patch status across IT infrastructure.
For more information about the Puppet Enterprise Advanced license, see Getting a license.

Platform support

Primary server platforms added
This release adds support for the primary server on the following operating system platforms:
  • Debian 12 (x86_64)

Resolved issues

The toggle_lockless_deploy plan configures the replica in disaster recovery architecture
In PE 2023.8.0 and PE 2021.7.9, the toggle_lockless_deploys plan did not properly switch over a replica in disaster recovery to have lockless deploys because doing so requires updating Hiera data. This is fixed in PE 2025.0.0 and users who have disaster recovery enabled and are toggling lockless deploys no longer need to update their pe.conf after running the plan.
The toggle_lockless_deploy plan runs some actions verbosely, and failures are no longer expected while polling for changes
In PE 2023.8.0 and PE 2021.7.9, the toggle_lockless_deploys plan ran some actions verbosely, and failures were expected while polling for changes. This has been resolved in PE 2025.0.0.
The toggle_lockless_deploy plan supports Ubuntu 18.04
In addition to Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04, the toggle_lockless_deploys plan supports Ubuntu 18.04 in this release.