Release notes

These release notes contain important information about the Puppet® 8.8 platform, including Puppet agent, Puppet Server, Facter, and PuppetDB.

This release incorporates new features, enhancements, and resolved issues from all previous releases. If you're upgrading from an earlier version of Puppet, check the release notes for any interim versions for details about additional improvements in this release over your current release.

Version numbers use the format X.Y.Z, where:
  • X must increase for major, backward-incompatible changes.
  • Y can increase for backward-compatible new functionality or significant bug fixes.
  • Z can increase for bug fixes.

The following table lists the maintained Puppet, Puppet Server, and PuppetDB versions. Developmental releases (known as latest) are superseded by new versions about once a month. Open source releases that are associated with Puppet Enterprise (PE) versions have projected End of Life (EOL) dates.

Puppet version Puppet Server version PuppetDB version Associated PE version Projected EOL date
8.8.1 8.6.2 8.7.0 2023.x Superseded by next developmental release.
7.32.1 7.17.2 7.19.1 2021.7.x Superseded by next developmental release.
6.28.0 6.20.0 6.22 2019.8.x February 2023
Important: Security and vulnerability announcements are posted at Security: Puppet's Vulnerability Submission Process.
Important: Before you upgrade from Puppet 7 toPuppet 8, see Upgrading from Puppet 7 to Puppet 8.

See the following pages for a full list of platform release notes in the Puppet 8 series.