Content & Tooling Team Status Update
Tags: puppet, community, summer
Published: 2023-06-16 16:00:41

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title: Content & Tooling Team Status Update
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date: 2023-06-02 00:00:00 UTC
tags: puppet, community, summer
canonical_url: https://puppetlabs.github.io/content-and-tooling-team/blog/updates/2023-06-02-status-update/
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## The return of Perforce summer hours

Happy Friday everyone! Hope you are all looking forward to the weekend, I know we all are here in the CAT Team with the long awaited return of perforce summer hours. Summer hours mean we get our friday afternoons “back”, to spend some quality time with our family, friends or to just chill out after a hectic first half of the year.

## The LVM module

Some big news this week… [puppetlabs-lvm](https://forge.puppet.com/modules/puppetlabs/lvm) is now offically supported! The work to get this module officially supported was quite big, but some of the main bits were:

- Puppet 8 compatiblity added
- Dropping of Puppet 6 support
- Porting acceptance tests over to puppet\_litmus

## Deferred functions

[Sencha](https://github.com/Ramesh7) and [Parvez](https://github.com/malikparvez) have been continuing the rollout of deferred functions to our supported modules. This week [puppetlabs-sqlserver](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-sqlserver), [puppetlabs-tomcat](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-tomcat) and [puppetlabs-apt](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-apt) have all received updates.

## New release of Stdlib

Just a friendly reminder that [puppetlabs-stdlib](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib) v9.0.0 was released this week, which included alot of housekeeping like the removal, namespacing and deprecation of stdlib functions. So keep an eye out for any unfamiliar failures with your modules, as this may be the culprit.

## Check out an interview from our very own David Sandilands and Ben Ford

Join Mike Vizard in an interview with David Sandilands, PM of Ecosystems, and Ben Ford, director of community at Puppet, as they discuss the intersection of open-source software and DevOps.[David Sandilands and Ben Ford, Puppet | OSS North America 2023](https://player.vimeo.com/video/828817382?h=270cbe3b6a.img)

## Community Contributions

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

- [`puppetlabs-accounts#439`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-accounts/pull/439): “Remove workaround from user.pp”, thanks to [CoreyCook8](https://github.com/CoreyCook8)
- [`puppetlabs-stdlib#1364`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib/pull/1364): “Fix strings syntax issue and generate reference.md”, thanks to [MartyEwings](https://github.com/MartyEwings)
- [`puppetlabs-stdlib#1362`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib/pull/1362): “re-add support for loading aliases in yaml files”, thanks to [lollipopman](https://github.com/lollipopman)
- [`puppetlabs-stdlib#1356`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib/pull/1356): “Namespace Puppet 4.x functions”, thanks to [smortex](https://github.com/smortex)
- [`puppetlabs-stdlib#1349`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib/pull/1349): “Add a function to update / regenerate deprecated shims”, thanks to [smortex](https://github.com/smortex)
- [`pdk#1246`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/pdk/pull/1246): “(ISS-1123) Verbose output w/ junit file”, thanks to [coreymbe](https://github.com/coreymbe)
- [`metadata-json-lint#136`](https://github.com/voxpupuli/metadata-json-lint/pull/136): “Make semantic\_puppet a hard dependency”, thanks to [bastelfreak](https://github.com/bastelfreak)
- [`metadata-json-lint#134`](https://github.com/voxpupuli/metadata-json-lint/pull/134): “Drop pry development dependency”, thanks to [bastelfreak](https://github.com/bastelfreak)
- [`metadata-json-lint#133`](https://github.com/voxpupuli/metadata-json-lint/pull/133): “Add Ruby 3.1/3.2 support”, thanks to [bastelfreak](https://github.com/bastelfreak)
- [`metadata-json-lint#132`](https://github.com/voxpupuli/metadata-json-lint/pull/132): “GCG: Add faraday-retry dep”, thanks to [bastelfreak](https://github.com/bastelfreak)
- [`metadata-json-lint#131`](https://github.com/voxpupuli/metadata-json-lint/pull/131): “Add dummy CI job we can depend on”, thanks to [bastelfreak](https://github.com/bastelfreak)
- [`metadata-json-lint#125`](https://github.com/voxpupuli/metadata-json-lint/pull/125): “Drop Ruby =< 2.4 support”, thanks to [bastelfreak](https://github.com/bastelfreak) and the following people who helped get it over the line ([ekohl](https://github.com/ekohl))

## New Module / Gem Releases

The following modules were released this week:

- [`puppetlabs-stdlib`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib) (`9.0.0`)

- [`puppetlabs-tomcat`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-tomcat) (`7.1.0`)

- [`puppetlabs-chocolatey`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-chocolatey) (`8.0.0`)

- [`puppetlabs-kubernetes`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-kubernetes) (`7.1.1`)