Facter 4.8.0

Released July 2024 and shipped with Puppet 8.8.1.

 

Enhancements

  • Support for Microsoft Azure Linux. Operating system facts were added for users of the Microsoft Azure Linux distribution.FACT-3471
  • Update for the Arch Linux distribution. Operating system facts are now supported on Arch Linux. Community member bastelfreak contributed this update. FACT-3114
  • Support for the CRI-O container runtime. CRI-O is an implementation of the Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface that supports Open Container Initiative-compatible runtimes. Community member lollipopman contributed this update. FACT-3202
  • New fact for x86_64 CPU microarchitecture levels. A fact was added to reflect the levels of x86_64 CPU microarchitectures.FACT-3453

Resolved issues

AIX mountpoints now include server names. Previously, Facter excluded the server name for mountpoints on IBM AIX. In this release, the mountpoint server names are included in the servername:/path/to/mountpoint format as reported for other operating systems. FACT-3463