Facter 4.2.11

Released August 2022 and shipped with Puppet7.18.0.

Enhancements

  • Extend cloud.provider fact to Google Compute Engine The cloud.provider fact now returns gce when running on Google Compute Engine. Contributed by Puppet community member natemccurdy. FACT-1557

Resolved issues

  • Facter does not parse UTF-8 encoded facts Fixed an issue where, in the C locale, Facter failed to parse YAML-based external facts when the contents were UTF-8 encoded. FACT-3113
  • Failed to get networking information: "\xE5" to UTF-8 in conversion from ASCII-8BIT to UTF-8 to UTF-16LE Fixed an issue where Facter failed to collect networking information on some Windows hosts due to encoding issues. FACT-3109