Quick Friday Update 💨

I’ll be keeping this Friday update brief as a lot of work this week has been happening behind the scenes; mainly regarding evolving the product strategy and setting in place our planned delivery for the second half of 2022.

Welcome to the team Molly Erdle 🎉

I am excited to announce that Molly Erdle will be joining the CAT team as our new Product Manager. We are all looking forward to working with you!

Upcoming Apache Release

A new major version of the Apache module will be released next week. This release will include multiple backwards incompatible changes and a major rework of the module syntax and various datatypes.

Community Contributions

We’d like to thank the following people in the Puppet Community for their contributions over this past week:

• puppetlabs-apache#2266: “Define apache_name via a let block”, thanks to ekohl

• puppetlabs-apache#2263: “Drop suphp support”, thanks to ekohl

• puppetlabs-inifile#483: “Fix broken idempotency with empty sections”, thanks to kajinamit

• puppetlabs-java#519: “Make ubuntu 22.04 also default to openjdk-11”, thanks to rswarts

• puppetlabs-kubernetes#565: “Don’t try to guess docker_version (#564)”, thanks to deric and the following people who helped get it over the line (danifr)

• puppetlabs-stdlib#1240: “Switch parsejson() from PSON to JSON parsing”, thanks to seanmil