PDK release notes

New features, enhancements, and resolved issues for PDK.

PDK 3.4.0

Deprecations

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

New features and enhancements

  • 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.

Bug fixes

  • 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.

Runtime changes

  • 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.

Template changes

  • 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.

PDK 3.3.0

New features and enhancements

  • 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 Red Hat 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

Bug fixes

  • 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.

Template changes

  • 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-facts to ~> 4.0

PDK 3.2.0

Deprecations

  • Analytics have been removed from the code

  • Support has been officially withdrawn for Debian 9 and Red Hat 6.

New features and enhancements

  • 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.

Template changes

  • CFPropertyList has been pinned on Windows

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

  • Duplicate gems have been removed

PDK 3.1.0

New features and enhancements

  • Executable templates are now supported

  • pdk convert and pdk update can now work in a ControlRepo context

Template changes

  • 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.

PDK 3.0.1

New features and enhancements

  • Updated various dependencies

  • Added stricter puppetlabs_spec_helper dependency

  • Minor adjustments to our documentation

PDK 3.0.0

PDK 3.0 is a backwards incompatible release.

New features and enhancements

  • 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.

Deprecations

  • 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.