Puppet 0.25.2 - code-named “Zoe” The 0.25.2 release is a significant maintenance release (123 tickets closed!) in the 0.25.x branch. Thanks to all who contributed to the release and tested fixes - especially (but not limited to!) Peter Meier (duritong), R.I. Pienaar (Volcane), Mark Plaskin, Dan Bode, Alan Harder, Ricky Zhou, Christian Hofstaedtler, Todd Zullinger, Till Mass, Nigel Kersten, and especially Markus Roberts and Jesse Wolfe who worked around the clock to get the release out the door.

The production line is one of the marvels of the industrial era. I’ve always been fascinated with production lines in factories and how a product, like a car, gets constructed from individual components and grows until finally it rolls off the production line as a finished product. In the last few years I’ve been thinking more and more about production lines and how they overlap with IT Operations. So do they have anything in common?

We’ve pounced on a few more bugs and Puppet 0.25.2 release candidate 3 is a go. Please test hard. The production release should be in a few days barring any more bugs being found.

We’ve powered our way through 118 tickets to get to 0.25.2 and have a release candidate in the wild - we actually have RC2 out because of a missing commit in RC1.