Release notes
These release notes contain important information about the Puppet® 8.9.0 platform, including Puppet agent, Puppet Server, Facter, and PuppetDB.
This release incorporates new features, enhancements, and resolved issues from all previous releases. If you're upgrading from an earlier version of Puppet, check the release notes for any interim versions for details about additional improvements in this release over your current release.
- X must increase for major, backward-incompatible changes.
- Y can increase for backward-compatible new functionality or significant bug fixes.
- Z can increase for bug fixes.
The following table lists the maintained Puppet, Puppet Server, and PuppetDB versions. Developmental releases (known as latest) are superseded by new versions about once a month. Open source releases that are associated with Puppet Enterprise (PE) versions have projected End of Life (EOL) dates.
Puppet version | Puppet Server version | PuppetDB version | Associated PE version | Projected EOL date |
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8.9.0 | 8.6.3 | 8.7.0 | 2023.x | Superseded by next developmental release. |
7.33.0 | 7.17.2 | 7.19.1 | 2021.7.x | In overlap support. EOL February 2025. |
6.28.0 | 6.20.0 | 6.22 | 2019.8.x | February 2023 |
See the following pages for a full list of platform release notes in the Puppet 8 series.
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Puppet release notes
These are the new features, resolved issues, and deprecations in this version of Puppet. -
Puppet known issues
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Puppet Server release notes
These are the new features, resolved issues, and deprecations in this version of Puppet Server. -
Puppet Server known Issues
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PuppetDB release notes (link)
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Facter release notes
These are the new features, resolved issues, and deprecations in this version of Facter. -
Facter 4 known issues
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Upgrading from Puppet 7 to Puppet 8
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Experimental features
Released versions of Puppet can include experimental features to be considered for adoption but are not yet ready for production. These features need to be tested in the field before they can be considered safe, and therefore are turned off by default. -
Archived documentation
Open source Puppet docs for recent end-of-life (EOL) product versions are archived in place, meaning that we continue to host them at their original URLs, but we limit their visibility on the main docs site and no longer update them. You can access archived-in-place docs using their original URLs, or from the links here.