First published on 2026-03-31 at: https://dev.to/puppet/puppet-enterprise-202510-resolves-malformed-task-and-plan-metadata-failures-gp4

We’ve released a patch in Puppet Enterprise 2025.10 to resolve an issue affecting task and plan metadata handling.

Prior to PE 2025.9: Malformed task or plan metadata was logged in the bolt-server log, and the affected task or plan was ignored. Other tasks and plans continued to work as expected.

In PE 2025.9: Malformed metadata caused the task and plan listing to fail to load entirely and prevented affected tasks or plans from running. Errors were written to the bolt-server log.

With PE 2025.10: Task and plans retain the improvements from 2025.9 but will now also load correctly even when malformed metadata is present.

More: 👉 Official 2025.10 Release Notes