PDK release notes

Support has been removed for SLES 12 and packages for it are no being longer built.

The in built forge upload functionality has been replaced with a call to the puppet_forge gem.

json-schema dependency updated to ~> 5.0 in order for it to be kept it in line with the wider Puppet products.

Support for RedHat 8 has been extended to AARCH64 with new packages built.

A parser swap to JSON::Pure has been removed from the metadata_syntax_validator changing the format of the output. This was required due to the parser used no being longer included within either the json or json_pure gems.

Removed the dependency on the json_pure gem as it is no longer necesary with json added as a default ruby gem.

Deprecated call Gem::Platform.match() replaced with the modern Gem::Platform.match_spec? within puppet_version.rb.

Updated vendored_file.rb to use vendored cert files and VERIFY_PEER with NET::HTTP on Windows machines.

The above change to vendored_file.rb has been updated to set http.ca_file rather than http.cert.

The PDK spinner has been updated on Windows to be more consistent, with tick marks now being given upon success.

The version of the git gem bundled within the runtime has been set to 2.39.4.

The json_pure gem has been removed from the runtime.

The puppet_forge gem has been added to the runtime pinned to 5.0.4, with the following dependencies also added:

• Dependency faraday pinned to 2.12.0.

• Dependency faraday-follow_redirects pinned to 0.3.0.

• Dependency faraday-net_http pinned to 3.3.0.

• Dependency semantic_puppet pinned to 1.1.0.

• Dependency minitar already present, pin kept at 0.9.

The puppet_blacksmith gem has been added to the templates, pinned to ~> 7.0.

The puppetlabs_spec_helper gem has been repinned to ~> 8.0.

Default lint configuration has been updated to match that within puppetlabs_spec_helper. Notation added to help ensure they are kept in sync.

Name validation now skipped for controlrepo's

The PDK has been updated to use the modulebuilder gem in place of duplicated code within the PDK.

Support for Debian 11 and 12 has been extended to AARCH64 with new packages built

Support for Ubuntu 18.04 to 24.04 has been extended to AARCH64 with new packages built

Support for RedHat 9 has been extended to AARCH64 with new packages built

Support for Mac OsX 13 has been extended to arm64 with new packages built

Windows 2019 package is now being tested on Windows 11 to ensure support

The childprocess gem has been updated and a patch for it has been removed.

pdk test --list has been updated to account for a change in how information is passed back to it.

Bolt-related files added to the .gitignore default paths

puppetlabs_sec_help pinned to 7.3 or newer and .rspec.erb removed to account

Pin added for rexml to account for Windows issues

deep_merge updated to require 1.2.2 or newer

Config extras handling added back into the Rakefile

.vendor added to .gitignore

facterdb repinned to ~> 2.1 and rspec-puppet-factsto ~> 4.0

Analytics have been removed from the code

Support has been officially withdrawn for Debian 9 and Redhat 6.

Support has been added and packages are now being built for Debian 12 and Mac OSX 13.

While not possessing an explicit package Windows 11 is now being verified as supported.

CFPropertyList has been pinned on Windows

Fix implemented so that .sync.yml will properly overide Rubocop rules

Duplicate gems have been removed

Executable templates are now supported

pdk convert and pdk updatecan now work in a ControlRepo context

The templates have been updated to allow Rubocop rules to be overriden.

CFPropertyList has been added as a pinned dependency on Windows.

Our Rubocop pin has been increased to 1.50.0.

The codecov gem has been removed.

The archived ruby vscode extension has been replaced.

Updated various dependencies

Added stricter puppetlabs_spec_helper dependency

Minor adjustments to our documentation

Ruby 3.2.2 is now the default version of Ruby.

Puppet 8 is now the default version of Puppet.

PDK no longer relies on PowerShell, you are able to use PDK from any terminal that honours your PATH variable.

As of this release, PDK now only includes the latest Puppet versions available at the time of build. This siginficantly reduces the package size and improves performance.

The bundle command is no longer experimental.

PDK now properly respects the verbose option when utilizing format options for unit testing.

PDK now supports the operatingsystem_support parameter from answers.json.

The --pe-version flag has been deprecated. It will continue to work but we advise moving to --puppet-version given that this flag will be removed in a future release.

The deprecated module command has now been removed.

The deprecated config command has now been removed.

The experimental console command has been removed from this release.