IAC & DevX Team Status; module updates
Tags: team, status, apache
Published: 2021-09-15 19:57:29

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title: IAC & DevX Team Status; module updates
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date: 2021-09-13 00:00:00 UTC
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## Community Contributions

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

- [`puppetlabs-apache#2193`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-apache/pull/2193): “Restore Ubuntu 14.04 support in suphp”, thanks to [ekohl](https://github.com/ekohl)
- [`puppetlabs-apache#2189`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-apache/pull/2189): “Drop Debian < 8 and Ubuntu < 14.04 code”, thanks to [ekohl](https://github.com/ekohl)
- [`puppetlabs-apt#999`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-apt/pull/999): “(maint) Set DEBIAN\_FRONTEND=noninteractive on upgrade”, thanks to [smortex](https://github.com/smortex)
- [`puppetlabs-docker#773`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-docker/pull/773): “Fix facts gathering”, thanks to [smortex](https://github.com/smortex)
- [`puppetlabs-firewall#1010`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-firewall/pull/1010): “Fix “undefined method `gsub` for nil:NilClass” when changing existing rule UID from absent to any present”, thanks to [onyxmaster](https://github.com/onyxmaster)
- [`puppetlabs-firewall#1006`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-firewall/pull/1006): “Replace travis link in README.md with GHA”, thanks to [bastelfreak](https://github.com/bastelfreak)
- [`puppetlabs-haproxy#498`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-haproxy/pull/498): “Adding chroot\_dir\_manage parameter.”, thanks to [Tamerz](https://github.com/Tamerz)
- [`puppetlabs-java#493`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-java/pull/493): “Allow archive 6.x”, thanks to [smortex](https://github.com/smortex)
- [`puppetlabs-package#265`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-package/pull/265): “Expose package manager options to task”, thanks to [MartyEwings](https://github.com/MartyEwings)
- [`puppetlabs-stdlib#1209`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib/pull/1209): “Added to\_toml function”, thanks to [nmaludy](https://github.com/nmaludy)
- [`pdk-templates#451`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/pdk-templates/pull/451): “Remove env from GitHub template if all sub-keys are unset”, thanks to [thebeanogamer](https://github.com/thebeanogamer)
- [`pdk-templates#446`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/pdk-templates/pull/446): “Don’t append a tag to image name if one already exists”, thanks to [silug](https://github.com/silug)
- [`pdksync#156`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/pdksync/pull/156): “Remove reference to non existent branch”, thanks to [attachmentgenie](https://github.com/attachmentgenie)

Check [all the ways to reach us](/iac/team/2021/01/20/reaching-out.html) if you want to directly contact us about anything module related.

## New Module / Gem Releases

The following modules were released this week:

- [`puppetlabs-firewall`](http://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-firewall) (`3.2.0`)
- [`puppetlabs-kubernetes`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-kubernetes) (`6.3.0`)

## puppetlabs-apache module droppped code for Debian < 8 and Ubuntu < 14.04

Removed the Debian < 8 and Ubuntu < 14.04 code from the apache module with the following PRs. Thanks to [ekohl](https://github.com/ekohl)

- [`puppetlabs-apache#2189`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-apache/pull/2189): “Drop Debian < 8 and Ubuntu < 14.04 code”.
- [`puppetlabs-apache#2193`](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-apache/pull/2193): “Restore Ubuntu 14.04 support in suphp”.

This will be a backward incompatible changes and the next release will be major version bump `v7.0.0`.