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Latest articles

  • Puppetlabs Modules Now Have Tiered Review Cycles

    Puppetlabs Modules Now Have Tiered Review Cycles

    Originally published on 2026-07-14: https://www.puppet.com/blog/puppetlabs-module-tiers If you’ve been watching the Puppetlabs namespace on the Forge (or waiting on a pull request you opened) you’ve likely noticed that the pace of inclusion of community pull requests and fixes into the module releases has slowed over the last several cycles. That isn’t how we want to serve the community… Read more

  • Building with AI: Our Approach to Responsible Agentic Development in Open Source

    Building with AI: Our Approach to Responsible Agentic Development in Open Source

    Originally published on 2026-07-24 at: https://www.puppet.com/blog/ai-open-source The tech world has been building up towards the shift to a fully agentic development life cycle for a few years now. AI is changing how software gets built.  Across the Puppet ecosystem, we’re seeing a shift toward more agentic engineering workflows. AI helps generate code, shape documentation, and accelerate how… Read more

  • Puppetlabs Modules Roundup – June 2026

    Puppetlabs Modules Roundup – June 2026

    Originally posted 2026-07-09 at: https://dev.to/puppet/puppetlabs-modules-roundup-june-2026-23da In June 2026 we saw the release of a new stdlib 10 that was mentioned in an earlier article along with numerous modules bumped to use the new stdlib 10. In total, 24 Puppetlabs modules were released to the Forge, ranging from a brand-new Windows security policy module to a large batch of third-party CVE… Read more

  • RHEL 10 support now available in Puppet SCE for Linux

    RHEL 10 support now available in Puppet SCE for Linux

    Originally posted 2026-06-18 at: https://dev.to/puppet/rhel-10-support-now-available-in-puppet-sce-for-linux-4opi Version 2.7.0 of Security Compliance Enforcement (SCE) for Linux is now available for download from the Forge! Support for the RHEL 10 family This release adds Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 CIS benchmarks (v1.0.1, Server Levels 1 and 2). Teams adopting RHEL 10 or a compatible platform can bring those systems… Read more

  • Security Compliance Management 3.8.0 Is Now Available

    Security Compliance Management 3.8.0 Is Now Available

    Originally posted 2026-06-16 at: https://dev.to/puppet/security-compliance-management-380-is-now-available-1o26 Security Compliance Management (SCM) 3.8.0 is here, with updates focused on keeping compliance scans running reliably with less manual intervention and an important license update. This release introduces automatic cleanup for stuck scans, improved control over scan behavior with configurable timeouts, extended CIS-CAT® Pro Assessor license support, and updated benchmark content. It… Read more

  • What You Need to Know About the New puppetlabs-stdlib 10 in June 2026

    What You Need to Know About the New puppetlabs-stdlib 10 in June 2026

    Originally posted 2026-06-11 at: https://dev.to/puppet/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-puppetlabs-stdlib-10-in-june-2026-1jah The TL;DR  Why a Major Release?  The puppetlabs-stdlib module is one of the most widely depended-upon open source modules in the Puppet ecosystem. Because of that, we take major version bumps seriously and want to be transparent about what is changing and why.  The last release of stdlib (9.7.0) was published in December 2024. Since then, maintenance work has… Read more