Facter 4.2.13
Released October 2022 and shipped with Puppet7.20.0.
Resolved issues
- Networking facts generating conversion error:
ERROR Facter::InternalFactManager - U+FFFF to CP850
in conversion from UTF-16LE to UTF-8 to CP850. Fixed a bug that prevented Facter from resolving its domain fact on Windows due to invalid strings in unrelated registry values. FACT-3145 ec2_metadata
is missing on FreeBSD. Restoredec2_metadata
fact to Facter 4 on FreeBSD. Contirbuted by Puppet community member raybellis. FACT-3137ipaddress_*
andipaddress6_*
facts missing on FreeBSD. Restored theipaddress
legacy facts on FreeBSD. Contributed by Puppet community member smortex. FACT-3130custom-dir
is silently skipped if it is not absolute path. Fixed a regression in Facter 4 that prevented the user from specifying a custom directory using a relative path on the command line. Contributed by Puppet community member smortex. FACT-3078