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1.6.6

Facter version 1.6.6

100%

4 closed (100%)   0 open (0%)

Related issues
Bug #12079: Order-dependent test failure in new Eucalyptus support for EC2 facts.
Bug #12170: Add description attribute to Facter's Gem specs
Bug #12362: Don't rely on TMP environment variables during installation
Feature #11640: Support EC2 facts on OpenStack

1.6.x

Facter version 1.6.x - tickets not yet assigned to a precise revision

3%

0 closed (0%)   37 open (100%)

Related issues
Bug #1346: Using 'ip addr' over ifconfig
Bug #2211: Facter timeouts reap all subprocesses thus confusing Puppet
Bug #2543: Error messages with IPv6-enabled interfaces.
Bug #3356: fact domain empty if domainname doesn't contain a dot (.)
Bug #3357: fact fqdn doesn't get set if domain fact isn't set
Bug #3909: Facter does not behave properly with non-existent top-level domains.
Bug #4246: Threading issue in Facter initialization
Bug #5255: Wrong operatingsystem reported for XenServer
Bug #5486: facter does not work on iphone
Bug #6365: Plist parser can segfault
Bug #6955: Risk of malicious code execution
Bug #7138: Facter use exec + cat ( or exec = hostname ) when not needed
Bug #7484: facter fqdn is empty when domainnames aren't containing any dot (ie tld)
Bug #7547: Facter allows the creation of facts that Puppet/Ruby could not use
Bug #7722: Improve operatingsystemrelease detection for Ubuntu
Bug #7723: virtual xenu incorrectly detected on newer kernels.
Bug #8210: virtual => physical for kvm guests
Bug #8358: ec2 fact runs incorrectly on some xen setups
Bug #8963: facter-1.6.0 fails to run in some OpenSolaris|Indiana releases if no swap devices present.
Bug #9482: Fact virtual and is_virtual wrong for Solaris VM inside KVM/QEMU
Bug #10155: VMware virtualization is not xenu
Bug #10225: virtual fact does not detect linux vserver host/guest correctly
Bug #10278: some facts do not work with locales set
Bug #10626: Facter 'virtual' fact trusts path for lspci and dmidecode
Bug #10806: Facter 'virtual' has errors when no DISPLAY
Bug #11031: capturing ec2 userdata as a fact may be a security risk
Bug #11531: selinux fact can be wrong when livecd-tools is used
Bug #11695: factor comments
Bug #12504: operatingsystemrelease doesn't work for Ubuntu LTS 12.04
Bug #12556: ipv6 address facts
Feature #3734: ipaddress fact does not handle virtual and trunked interfaces gracefully
Feature #4995: LXC Container support
Feature #5021: Archserver detection.
Feature #6690: OpenIndiana facter(puppet) support
Feature #10251: Creating tarballs of RC's requires too much manual intervention.
Feature #11299: Facter should utilize CFPropertyList to read/write plist files
Feature #11612: add facter support for ia 11.31 hpux processor discover and a bug fix for network interface

1.7.0

Facter version 1.7.0

77%

10 closed (77%)   3 open (23%)

Related issues
Bug #2179: IP support calls 'ip' and 'ifconfig' ridiculous numbers of times
Bug #9929: Add support for Mageia OS
Bug #12012: Facter globally overrides LANG environment variable at load time
Bug #12311: Facter::Util::Resolution.with_env should use an "ensure" block
Feature #2157: External fact support
Feature #4519: Facter should provide a convenient way to cache values
Feature #6617: Deprecate DESTDIR env method for install.rb
Feature #6682: Solaris LDOM facts
Feature #9574: Add fact that exposes available file systems on Linux
Feature #10238: Add support for identifying block devices to Facter
Feature #10964: Add the ability to directly set values
Feature #11082: operatingsystemrelease for Solaris
Feature #11969: Solaris zfs/zpool version detection

1.7.x

Facter version 1.7.x - tickets not yet assigned to a precise revision

4%

0 closed (0%)   25 open (100%)

Related issues
Bug #3762: Implement UUID fact
Bug #5410: facter does not use return codes
Bug #8128: Some facts take a LOOONNGGG time to run
Bug #10508: EC2 facts not available if endpoint timesout or is unavailable
Bug #11658: Noticed operatingsystemrelease isn't trying to use lsbdistrelease on Linux boxes
Feature #2553: Support dmidecode UUID field to help with missing serialnumber cases
Feature #2847: mountpoint fact
Feature #3367: Path to ssh key should be configurable
Feature #4551: Command line add/remove search paths
Feature #5998: A /proc/cmdline fact
Feature #6801: Provide adminuser and admingroup facts for OSes where it makes sense.
Feature #7559: Fact for identifying Amazon VPC instances.
Feature #7621: Windows operatingsystemrelease support
Feature #7642: Windows architecture fact
Feature #7643: Export the Win32_OperatingSystem WMI/CIM class through Facter
Feature #9545: Greater controls for using cache
Feature #9546: Plugin sync support for external facts
Feature #9573: Add fact that exposes details about bonding interfaces on Linux
Feature #9575: Add fact that exposes disks and partitions available on Linux
Feature #9766: hostname fact doesn't handle hostnames with dots (relative to domainname)
Feature #10268: fact to determine gateway
Feature #10966: Add bios information to facter
Feature #11320: node_name_value unavailible as a fact
Feature #11663: Add FreeBSD support to blockdevice fact(s)
Feature #11666: Add is_ec2 and is_euca facts

2.0.0

Facter version 2.0.0

20%

4 closed (20%)   16 open (80%)

Related issues
Bug #1415: MAC addresses are truncated for Infiniband
Bug #2066: Make units optional
Bug #3226: Facter not stripping trailing whitespace in at least the productname fact
Bug #3926: Rename uniqueid hostid
Bug #4498: ipaddress* facts do not include secondary IPs
Bug #6677: Remove legacy selinix_mode fact and test
Bug #10625: Xen dom0 and domU hosts reported as physical without xenfs mounted
Bug #11466: Remove duplicated memorytotal fact
Feature #1424: Zone facts for Solaris
Feature #1919: Please have facter provide something other than arch to distinguish /usr/lib vs /usr/lib64, etc.
Feature #1981: Facter should support designating values as untrusted
Feature #2059: Exclude certain facts from executing
Feature #4468: Virtual fact should return a list for hosts that can support multiple virtual types
Feature #4561: Structured data should be supported
Feature #4566: Fact resolutions should be individually resolvable
Feature #5093: utility libraries for accessing Facter from other languages.
Feature #5205: facter does not have a manpage
Feature #10232: virtual: Get virtual information from sysfs (no dmidecode and lspci on virtualbox)
Feature #11660: ssh dns fingerprint facts (RFC4255)
Refactor #4565: The internal DSL should be rewritten