Happy Friday!!! Hey guys, back again with another Friday blog post. As we approach the middle of October, we can start to feel a hint of spookiness in the air (👻) with Halloween fast approaching. This week, as always, the CAT team have been working hard to get updates merged and releases published.

Puppet-lint improvements

To kick off, this week our team member Gavin has been continuing his great work on the puppet-lint plugin, which will help to detect potential security vulnerabilites in puppet code. Remember to check back for more updates on this!

Rolling out of new releases - some big changes!

Craig has been working behind the scenes to cut new releases for both our puppet-lint and puppet-strings repos. Perhaps one of the most important changes to note, is the bumping of the minimum supported Ruby version in both repos to 2.7. Some other important changes included is the refactoring of the repos against a new set of rubocop rules, and some general fixes and improvements.

Hacktoberfest

Just another quick reminder, if you are a regular contributor or want to get involved, ensure to sign up to Hacktoberfest. Most of our open source repos are participating, for an extended list check out our Hacktoberfest Dashboard.

Community Contributions

We’d like to thank the following people in the Puppet Community for their contributions over this past week:

• puppetlabs-apache#2312: “fix directory empty options if an empty array is being used”, thanks to bovy89 and the following people who helped get it over the line (ekohl)
• puppetlabs-docker#858: “Change stop_wait_time value to match Docker default”, thanks to sebcdri
• puppetlabs-docker#851: “Add missing extra_systemd_parameters values to docker-run.erb”, thanks to cbowman0
• puppetlabs-firewall#1066: “Add negate to match_mark”, thanks to Antiarchitect
• puppetlabs-postgresql#1375: “pg_hba_rule: Move type datatype to own type”, thanks to bastelfreak
• puppetlabs-postgresql#1372: “pg_hba_rule does not properly verify address parameter”, thanks to tuxmea and the following people who helped get it over the line (ekohl, bastelfreak)
• puppet-resource_api#301: “(packaging) Bump to version ‘1.8.17’ [no-promote]”, thanks to tvpartytonight
• puppet-strings#317: “Use tilde heredocs for readability”, thanks to danielparks

New Module / Gem Releases

The following modules were released this week:

• puppetlabs-stdlib (8.5.0)