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+This is the legacy CHANGELOG.  Please see the new ChangeLog file and the ReleaseNotes page at:
+
+http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/ReleaseNotes
+
+0.25.0
+    Fixed #2280 - Detailed exit codes fix
+
+    Fixed #198 - Puppet man pages added
+
+    Moved puppetd, puppetmasterd, puppetrun, puppetca from bin to sbin
+
+    Fixed #2071 - Updated LDAP schema
+
+    Fixed #1849 - Ruby 1.9 portability: `when' doesn't like colons, replace with semicolons
+
+    Fixed #1910 - Updated logcheck regex
+
+    Fixed #1879 - Added to tidy documentation
+
+    Fixed #1881 - Added md5lite explanation
+
+    Fixed #1877 - Tidy type reference update for use of 0
+
+    Fix autotest on win32
+
+    Doc strings update for REST
+
+    Fixed #1840 - Bug fixes and improvements for Emacs puppet-mode.el
+
+0.24.8
+    Fixed #2077 - ralsh user broken on OSX
+
+    Fixed #2004 - ssh_authorized_key fails if no target is defined
+
+    Fixed #1629 - incorrect permissions on ssh_authorized_keys created files
+
+    Fixed #2000 - No default specified for checksum
+
+    Fixed #2026 - Red Hat ignoring stop method
+
+    Added ext/dbfix.sql script - fixes common errors in stored configuration databases
+
+    Fixed #1963 - Failing to read /proc/mounts for selinux kills file downloads
+
+    Fixed #2025 - gentoo service provider handle only default init level
+
+    Fixed #1910 - updated logcheck
+
+    Fixed #1871 - Sensitive information leaked in log reports
+
+    Fixed #1956 - Cleaned up variable names to be more sane, clarified error messages
+    and fixed incorrect use of 'value' variable rather than 'member'.
+
+    Fixed #1831 - Added sprintf function
+
+    Fixed #1830 - Added regsubst function
+
+    Updated up2date and service confines to add support for Oracle EL and VM
+
+    Fixing #1948 and #1953 - augeas ins bug: wrong number of arguments (1 for 3)
+
+    Fixing #944 - changing error message from warning to info - connection recycled
+
+    Fixed #961 - puppetd creating too many/not closing TCP connections
+
+    Fixed #1959 - Added column protection for environment schema migration
+
+    Fixing #1869 - autoloaded files should never leak exceptions
+
+    Fixing #1543 - Nagios parse errors no longer kill Puppet
+
+    Fixed #1420 - nagios_serviceescalation not allowing host_name more than one type
+
+    Fixed #1884 - Exported resources are marked as unexported when collected on the exporting host
+
+    Fixed #1922 - Functions squash all arguments into a single hash
+
+    Fixed #1538 - Yumrepo sets permissions wrongly on files in /etc/yum.repos.d
+
+    Fixed #1936 - Added /* */ support to the vim file
+
+    Fixed #1541 -  nagios objects write files to clientbucket on every change
+
+    Fixed #1542 - cannot purge nagios objects
+
+    Fixing #1912 - gid still works with no 'should' value fixing ralsh issues
+
+    Fixing the Rakefile to use 'git format-patch'
+
+    Added README.rst file
+
+    Enhancements to Stored Configuration performance
+
+    Added Reductive Labs build library to tasks directory
+
+    Fixed #1852 - Correct behaviour when no SELinux bindings
+
+    Updated Red Hat spec file 0.24.7
+
+    Fixed #1920 - Shadow password corruption
+
+0.24.7
+    Fixed #1804 - Added VDev and MultiVDev properties to the ZPool type
+
+    Fixed #1496 - nagios_servicedependency needs a unique host_name?
+
+    Fixed #1420 - nagios_serviceescalation not allowing host_name more than one type
+
+    Bug #1803 Zfs should auto require the ancestor file systems
+
+    Refactor #1802 Use 'zfs get -H -o value' instead of parsing output for value
+
+    Fixing #1800 - tidy now correctly ignores missing files and directories
+
+    Fixing #1794 - returning sync when it is already initialized
+
+    Fixing #1750 again - All of the properties and now :ensure check replace?
+
+    Deprecate the NetInfo nameservice provider. Use directoryservice instead
+
+    Add macauthorization type
+
+    Fixing #1703 - using a mutex around the sending of the tagmails
+
+    Fix #1788 - allow rspec rake to run only some tests
+
+    Fixing the AST constant warnings, using a variable instead of a constant
+
+    Feature #1696 Add support for branded zones
+
+    Feature #1783 - Add ZFS support
+
+    type/mcx.rb Feature #1026 - MCX Type
+
+    Fixing #1749 - Splay now hopefully behaves "better" for small values
+
+    Fix #1741 - Add inline_template function
+
+    Slight denormalisation to store a host's environment as a first class
+
+    Added Rake :ci namespace and CI tasks
+
+    Refactoring the thread-safety in Puppet::Util
+
+    Removing the included testing gems; you must now install them yourself
+
+    Refactoring of SELinux functions to use native Ruby SELinux interface
+
+    Removing all mention of EPM, RPM, or Sun packages.
+
+    Fixed #1496 - nagios_servicedependency needs a unique host_name?
+
+    Fixed #1420 - nagios_serviceescalation not allowing host_name more than one type
+
+    Fixed #1695 - Solaris 10 zone provider doesn't properly handle unknown zone attributes in newer releases
+
+    Fixed #1776 - Trivial fix for gentoo service provider
+
+    Fixed #1767 - Minor fix to emacs mode
+
+    Fixed #1711 - fileserver test fails due to incorrect mocking
+
+    Fixed #1751 - Mac OS X DirectoryService nameservice provider support for
+    plist output and password hash fil
+
+    Fixed #1752 - Add an optional argument to Puppet::Util.execute to determine
+    whether stderr and stdout are combined in the output
+
+    Added versionable feature to the RPM provider
+
+    Fixed #1668 - puppetca can't clean unsigned certs
+
+    Moved RRD feature from util/metric.rb to feature/base.rb
+
+    Fixed #1735 and #1747 - Fixes to confine system
+
+    Fixed #1681 - Add filesystem type check to test for per-file SELinux context support
+
+    Fixed #1746 - Sync SELinux file attributes after file contents created/modified
+
+    Replaced SELInux calls to binaries with Ruby SELinux bindings
+
+    Fixed #1748 - Include spec directory in packages
+
+    Fixes #1672 - unsafe crontab handling in Solaris
+
+    Fixed #1718 - Added preseed to apt uninstall and purge
+
+    Fixed #1739 - Added uninstall functionality to yum provider
+
+    Fixed #1710 - Spurious output in test run
+
+    Fixed #1667 - Documentation should specify natural language regexs, not Regexp objects
+
+    Fixed #1692 - k5login fails to set mode when file is created
+
+    Fixed #1660 - Added specific recurse values for tidy
+
+    Fixed #1698 - All logs should now show up in the reports
+
+    Fixed #1661 - Type reference: tidy should specify manditory parameters
+
+    Fixed #1104 - Classes and nodes should set $name variables
+
+    Updated Red Hat spec file for 0.24.6
+
+    Removed conf/debian directory - Debian packaging information
+    now maintained downstream
+
+    Added augeas type
+
+    Added support for @doc type and manifest documentation support - see:
+    http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetManifestDocumentation
+
+    Added multiline comment support
+
+0.24.6
+    Adding support to the user type for: profiles, auths, project,
+    key/value pairs (extension to Solaris RBAC support added in
+    0.24.6)
+
+    Fixed #1662 - Configuration Reference still references 'section'
+
+    Fixed #1460 - enhance redhat puppetmaster init.d script to easy start puppetmaster as a mongrel cluster
+
+    Fixed #1663 - Regression relating to facter fact naming from 0.24.5
+
+    Fixed #1655 - Provider::Confine::Variable tests are broken
+
+    Fixed #1646 - service puppet status does not work as non-root
+    on redhat system
+
+    Fixed #1649 - Updated OSX package cleanup
+
+    Fixed #1647 - puppetdoc -r providers now working again
+
+    Fixed #1639 - uninitialized constant Puppet::Type::User::ProviderUseradd
+
+    Fixed #1637 - With an inexistant (global) templatedir, modules
+    can't access their templates
+
+    Fixed #1202 - Collection attribute matching doesn't parse arrays
+
+    Fixed #1473 - Puppetd stops with error after puppetmasterd
+    is unavailable
+
+    Fixed #1354 - yum provider problems with RHEL 3
+
+    Fixed #1633 - Added support for --detailed-exits to bin/puppet
+
+    Fixed #381 - Allow Allow multiple overrides in one statement
+
+    Fixing #947 - pluginsync no longer fails poorly when no plugins exist
+
+    Fixed #981 - Removed 'Adding aliases' info message
+
+    Fixing #1089 - Log messages are now tagged with the log level,
+    making it easier to match messages in the 'tagmail' report.
+
+    Fixing #1098 - Multiline strings now correctly increment the line count
+
+    Fixing #1614 - Environments no longer have to be listed out
+
+    Fixed #1628 - Changed node search to use certname rather than Facter
+    hostname
+
+    Fixed #1613 - The client environment will be substituted when looking
+    up settings.
+
+    Updated puppet binary documentation
+
+    Feature #1624 - Added RBAC roles to solaris user provider
+
+    Fixed #1586 - Specifying "fully qualified" package names in Gentoo
+
+    Fixed #1620 - Add 'sles' to Puppet confines when 'suse' is used
+
+    Fixed #1585 - Allow complex 'if' and variable expressions
+
+    Fixed #1564 - Saving File#checksum to state.yaml broken
+
+    Fixed #1603 - Added support for running Puppet inside a Rack application
+    (mod_rails) with Passenger and Apache
+
+    Fixed #1596 - Deploying file resources with ++ generates error
+
+    Modified the group and zone resource types to no longer call
+    'currentpropvalues' as a means of setting all values to absent.
+    There should be no behaviour change from this change.
+
+    Modified the behaviour of resource-level 'retrieve' -- it only
+    calls 'retrieve' on each property if the resource exists.
+
+    Fixed #1622 - Users and their groups should again add in one transaction
+
+    Fixed #791 - You should now be able to create and find a user/group in one transaction.
+
+    Fixed #1610 - Raise "Filebucketed" messages to Notice priority
+
+    FIxed #1530 - ssh_authorized_keys provider does not crash anymore on SSH type 1 keys
+
+    Added a number of confines to package providers
+
+    Fixed #1609 - Added confines for the Gentoo, FreeBSD and
+    SMF (Solaris) service providers
+
+    Fixed #1608 - Added ubuntu to defaultfor for apt provider
+
+    Fixed #1607 - Added ubuntu to defaultfor for Debian service
+    provider
+
+    Fixed #1045 - Multiple metaparams all get added to resources.
+
+    Fixed #1472 -- defined, exported resources in the current compile
+    now get expanded correctly.
+
+    Fixed #1595 - Internally, Property#retrieve is no longer called
+    when no 'should' value is available for a resource.
+
+    Fixed #1588 - Fixed puppetca --clean --all
+
+    Fixed #1584 - Added support for appended variables
+
+    Fixed #1554 - Added support for multiple template directories
+
+    Fixed #1500 - puppetrun not working
+
+    Fixed #1579 and #1580 - errors in the Puppet RPM spec file
+
+    Fixed #1572 -- file purging now fails if remote sources do not exist.
+
+    Fixed #1521 -- ldap user and password are now used with the default connection.
+
+    Fixed issues with file descriptors leaking into subprocesses
+
+    Fixed #1568 - createpackage.sh
+
+    Fixed #1571 - Puppet::Util::binary returns incorrect results
+
+    Fixed #1553 - Puppet and Facter cannot both install the plist module into two different locations
+
+    Adjusted hpuxuseradd user provider to confine to HP-UX and fixed HP-UX user provider path regression
+
+    Fixed debug messages in package type - thanks to Todd Zullinger for this fix
+
+    Fixed #1566 - changed password property of the user type
+
+    Fixed debug messages in package type
+
+    Updated Red Hat spec file
+
+    Fixes #1455 - Adds HP-UX support for user type
+
+    Fixes #1551 puppetmaster.freshness xmlrpc call returns incorrect type
+
+    Fixes #1554 - Fix exception for undefined hostname
+
+    Fixed #1533 - changed permissions for man directory
+
+    Added daemontools and runit providers for service type
+
+    Added simple rake task for running unit tests
+
+    Added spec Rake task
+
+    Fixed #1526 - Fixed leak in template
+
+    Fixed #1506 - Removed storeconfig duplicate indexes
+
+    Fixed #1457 - case insensitive match for error
+
+    Fixed #1488 - Moved individual functions out of functions.rb into
+    lib/puppet/parser/functions directory.  New functions should be create     in this directory.
+
+    Fixed #1508 - Added HP-UX package provider
+
+    Fixed #1502 - Fixed poor stored configuration performance
+
+    Fixed #1510 - Storeconfiguration fixed for Rails 2.1
+
+    Add the -P/--ping option to puppetrun, fixes #1501
+
+    Fixed #1394 - Added stored configuration clearing script to /ext
+
+    Fixed #1442 - replaced use of Facter for report titling with certname
+
+    Fixed $1456 - add proxy configuration capability to yum repo
+
+    Fixed #1457 - removed confine warning
+
+    A working script to create an OS X pkg out of the Puppet repository
+
+    Fixed #1441 - Updated console colours
+
+    Expose all puppet variables as instance member variables of the template wrapper.
+    This helps resolve redmine #1427, by providing a safe mechanism to access variables.
+
+     * Implement Puppet::Parser::Scope#to_hash, which returns a hash containing all the
+       variable bindings in the current and, optionally, parent scope.
+     * Use that to set instance member variables into Puppet::Parser::Templatewrapper
+     * Report the time taken for variable binding at debug level, to help identify any
+       performance regression that is encountered in the real world.
+     * Rename the @scope and @file members of the template wrapper, to avoid clashing
+       with a scope variable exposed within puppet.
+
+    Ensure that we consistently use either string #{} interpolation or String.%
+    interpolation, not both, to avoid issues where a #{} interpolated value
+    contains a % character.
+
+    Feature #1476: Allow specification of --bindir --sbindir --sitelibdir --mandir --destdir
+    in installation
+
+    Added feature #1241 : Improve performance of group lookups
+
+    Fixed bug #1448: Puppet CA incorrectly writes out all certs to inventory .txt on each
+    certificate signing
+
+    Fixing puppetlast to make it work with 0.24.5 / 0.25.  Made puppetlast work on 0.24.5
+    by using the YAML indirector
+
+0.24.5
+    You can now select the encoding format when transferring the catalog,
+    with 'yaml' still being the default but 'marshal' being an option.
+    This is because testing has shown drastic performance differences
+    between the two, with up to 70% of compile time being spent
+    in YAML code.  Use the 'catalog_format' setting to choose your format,
+    and the setting must be set on the client.
+
+    Fixed #1431 - Provider confines must now specify similar tests in one call.
+    I.e., you can't do confine :operatingsystem => %w{a b} and then
+    confine :operatingsystem => %w{b c}; you'd need to do them in one command.
+    This now-obsolete behaviour does not seem to be used anywhere.
+    The fix for #1431 is actually just removing the tests that exposed
+    this change; the change happened when I refactored how confines work.
+
+    Removed faulty interface type
+
+    Updated /spec/unit/rails.rb test
+
+    Fix #1426 - services on redhat are restarted again and status is
+    called from the Red Hat provider
+
+    Fixed #1414 - Return code from waitpid now right shifted 8 bits
+
+    Fixed #174 - a native type type for managing ssh authorized_keys
+    files is available.
+
+    Further moves from the examples directory and ext directory
+
+    Fixed #1397 One line fix, fail instead of log
+
+    Moved debian to conf and updated examples directory
+
+    Fixed #1368 - updated Red Hat init scripts
+
+    Added message referencing ReductiveLabs build library
+
+    Fixed #1396 - Added sha1 function from DavidS to core
+
+    Fixed #1399 - the ldap user provider now knows it can manage
+    passwords.
+
+    Fixed #1272 - if you provide a group name as the gid to an ldap
+    user, the name will be converted to a gid.  Note that this only
+    looks up ldap groups, at this point; if you want to set an ldap
+    user's primary group to a local group, you have to specify the GID.
+
+    Fixed #1226 - gems can now specify source repositories.
+
+    Fixed #1232 - the rundir no longer specifies a user/group,
+    and there are now client- and server-specific yaml directories.
+
+    Fixed 1240 - puppet will function more like puppetd if graphing
+    or reporting are enabled.
+
+    Fixed #1231 - Exceptions during initialization should now be clearer.
+
+    Fixed #1006 - puppetrun --class works again.  I added the class
+    membership testing to the Ldap node terminus, and added tests,
+    so it shouldn't break again.
+
+    Fixed #1114 - Facts in plugin directories should now be autoloaded,
+    as long as you're using Facter 1.5.
+
+    Removed support for the 'node_name' setting in LDAP and external node lookups.
+    Fixed #1195 - Updated Gentoo init scripts
+
+    Fixed #1367 - Updated Rakefile for new daily builds
+
+    Fixed #1370 - removed test/util/loadedfile.rb tests
+
+    Fixed #1221 - aliases to titles now work for resources.
+
+    Fixed #1012 - templates in the templatedir are preferred to module templates.
+
+    Fixed #707 - special '@reboot'-style cron jobs work again.
+
+    Fixed #1360 - allowdupe works on groups again.
+
+    Fixed #1369 - the init service provider now supports HP-UX.
+
+    Removed support for the 'node_name' setting in LDAP and external node
+    lookups.
+
+    Also removed support for 'default' nodes in external nodes.
+    LDAP nodes now use the certificate name, the short name, and 'default',
+    but external nodes just use the certificate name and any custom terminus
+    types will use just the certificate name.
+
+    Fixing #1168 (for 0.24.x) -- automatically downcasing the fqdn.
+    Also requiring that passed in certnames be downcased; the setting
+    system isn't currently flexible enough to automatically downcase
+    it for the user.
+
+    Adding a ResourceTemplate class for using templates directly
+    within resources (i.e., client-side templates).  This would really
+    only be used for composite resources that pass the results of the
+    template on to generated resources.
+
+    Exporting or collecting resources no longer raises an exception
+    when no storeconfigs is enabled, it just produces a warning.
+
+    Always using the cert name to store yaml files, which fixes #1178.
+    The Master handler previously provided the support for the :node_name
+    setting, and that functionality has now been moved into the Node
+    class.  At the same time, the names to search through have been
+    changed somewhat:  Previously, the certificate name and the
+    hostname were both used for searching, but now, the cert name
+    is always searched first (unless node_name == facter), but only
+    the Facter hostname, domain, and fqdn are used otherwise.  We no
+    longer split the cert name, only the hostname/domain/fqdn.
+
+    Fixing transaction support for prefetching generated resources.
+
+    Adding support for settings within the existing Facter provider confines.
+
+    Moving all confine code out of the Provider class, and fixing #1197.
+    Created a Confiner module for the Provider class methods, enhanced
+    the interface between it and the Confine class to make sure binary
+    paths are searched for fresh each time.
+
+    Modified the 'factpath' setting to automatically configure
+    Facter to load facts there if a new enough version of
+    Facter is used.
+
+    Crontab provider: fix a parse error when a line begins with a space
+    character (fixes #1216)
+
+    Instead of deleting the init scripts (with --del) we should simply
+    disable it with chkconfig service off, and respectfully do the same
+    for enable => true;
+
+    Added ldap providers for users and groups.
+
+    Added support for the --all option to puppetca --clean.  If
+    puppetca --clean --all is issued then all client certificates
+    are removed.
+
+    Resources now return the 'should' value for properties from
+    the [] accessor method (they previously threw an exception when
+    this method was used with properties).  This shouldn't have any
+    affect functionally; it just makes the method equivalent to 'should'
+    for properties, but it works for all attribute types now.
+
+    Modified the 'master' handler to use the Catalog class to
+    compile node configurations, rather than using the Configuration
+    handler, which was never used directly.  I removed the Configuration
+    handler as a result.
+
+    Modified the 'master' handler (responsible for sending configurations
+    to clients) to always return Time.now as its compile date, so
+    configurations will always get recompiled.
+
+    Fixed #1184 -- definitions now autoload correctly all of the time.
+
+    Removed the code from the client that tries to avoid recompiling
+    the catalog. The client will now always recompile, assuming it
+    can reach the server.  It will still use the cached config if
+    there's a failure.
+
+    Fixing #1173 -- classes and definitions can now have the same
+    name as a directory with no failures.
+
+    Saving new facts now expires any cached node information.
+
+    Switching how caching is handled, so that objects now all
+    have an expiration date associated with them.  This makes it
+    much easier to know whether a given cached object should be used
+    or if it should be regenerated.
+
+    Changing the default environment to production.
+
+0.24.4
+    Pass source to pkg_add via the PKG_PATH environment variable if
+    it ends in a '/' indicating it is a directory. Allows pkg_add
+    to resolve dependancies, and make it possible to specify packages
+    without version numbers.
+
+    Fixing #571 -- provider suitability is now checked at resource
+    evaluation time, rather than resource instantiation time.  This
+    means that you don't catch your "errors" as early, but it also
+    means you should be able to realistically configure a whole host
+    in one run.
+
+    Moved the configuration of the Node cache to the puppetmasterd
+    executable, since it otherwise causes caches to be used in all
+    cases, which we don't want (e.g., bin/puppet was using them).
+
+    Ported #198 man page creation functionality to 0.24.x branch and
+    added man pages and man page creation logic to install.rb.  The
+    man pages are stored in man/man8 and will install to config::CONFIG
+    mandir/man8.
+
+    Fixing #1138 -- the yamldir is automatically created by the
+    server now that it's in the :puppetmasterd section rather than
+    a separate :yaml section.
+
+    Disabling http keep-alive as a means of preventing #1010.
+    There is now a constant in Puppet::Network::HttpPool that will
+    disable or enable this feature, but note that we determined
+    that it can cause corruption, especially in file serving (but
+    it's client-side corruption).
+
+    Applying patch by Ryan McBride to fix OpenBSD package
+    matching.  The actual problem was caused by the fix to #1001.
+
+    Found all instances of methods where split() is used without
+    any local variables and added a local variable -- see
+    http://snurl.com/21zf8.  My own testing showed that this
+    caused memory growth to level off at a reasonable level.
+    Note that the link above says the problem is only with class
+    methods, but my own testing showed that it's any method that
+    meets these criteria.  This is not a functional change, but
+    should hopefully be the last nail in the coffin of #1131.
+
+    Found an array that leaked pretty quickly between reparsing
+    files, thanks to work by Adam Jacob and Arjuna Christenson
+    (the finding, not the leak).  I'm going to act like this
+    fixes #1131, at least for now, but I doubt it does,
+    since that shows general memory growth over time, whereas
+    the leak here should go away as soon as files are reparsed
+    (because the parser is holding the reference to the leaking
+    array).
+
+    Fixed #1147: Cached nodes are correctly considered out of
+    date if the node facts have been updated (thus causing
+    node facts to again be available in manifests, for those
+    cases where they were not).
+
+    Fixed #1137: The certificate name is correctly being added
+    to the facts hash.
+
+    Fixed #1136: Verbose and Debug no longer clobber each other.
+
+    Hopefully *finally* fixed the "already being managed" problem
+    (#1036).  The problem only cropped up if there was a failure
+    when trying to manage the system -- this would cause the
+    setting-based resources not to get cleaned up.
+
+0.24.3
+    Modified the ldap node terminus to also use the facts version
+    as the version for a node, which should similarly encourage the
+    use of the yaml cache.  (Related to #1130)
+
+    Caching node information in yaml (I figured caching in memory will
+    cause ever-larger memory growth), and changing the external node
+    terminus to use the version of the facts as their version.  This
+    will usually result in the cached node information being used,
+    instead of always hitting the external node app during file
+    serving. Note that if the facts aren't changed by the client,
+    then this will result in the cached node being used, but at this
+    point, the client always updates its facts.  (#1130)
+
+    Fixing #1132 -- host names can now have dashes anywhere.
+    (Patch by freiheit.)
+
+    Fixing #1118 -- downloading plugins and facts now ignores noop.
+    Note that this changes the behaviour a bit -- the resource's
+    noop setting always beats the global setting (previously,
+    whichever was true would win).
+
+    The change in checksums from 'timestamp' to 'mtime' no longer
+    result in updates on every run (#1116).
+
+    Aliases again work in relationships (#1094).
+
+    The CA serial file will no longer ever be owned by
+    root (#1041).
+
+    Fixing the rest of #1113: External node commands can specify
+    an environment and Puppet will now use it.
+
+    Partially fixing #1113: LDAP nodes now support environments,
+    and the schema has been updated accordingly.
+
+    Always duplicating resource defaults in the parser, so that
+    stacked metaparameter values do not result in all resources
+    that receive a given default also getting those stacked
+    values.
+
+0.24.2
+    Fixing #1062 by moving the yamldir setting to its own yaml
+    section.  This should keep the yamldir from being created
+    on clients.
+
+    Fixed #1047 -- Puppet's parser no longer changes the order
+    in which statements are evaluated, which means that case
+    statements can now set variables that are used by other
+    variables.
+
+    Fixed #1063 -- the master correctly logs syntax errors when
+    reparsing during a single run.
+
+    Removed the loglevels from the valid values for `logoutput`
+    in the Exec resource type -- the log levels are specified
+    using the `loglevel` parameter, not `logoutput`.  This never
+    worked, or at least hasn`t for ages, and now the docs are
+    just correct.
+
+    Somewhat refactored fileserving so that it no longer caches
+    any objects, nor does it use Puppet's RAL resources.  In the
+    process, I fixed #894 (you can now copy links) and refactored
+    other classes as necessary.  Mostly it was fixing tests.
+
+    Hopefully partially fixed #1010 -- clients should now fail
+    to install files whose checksums do not match the checksum
+    from the server.
+
+    Fixed #1018 -- resources now have their namevars added as
+    aliases in the resource catalog, just like they were added
+    in the resource classes.
+
+    Fixed #1037 -- remote unreadable files no longer have the
+    permission denied exceptions caught, thus forbidding them
+    from being replaced with 'nil'.
+
+    The environment is now available as a variable in the manifests.
+
+    Fixed #1043 -- autoloading now searches the plugins directory
+    in each module, in addition to the lib directory.  The 'lib'
+    directory is also deprecated, but supported for now to give
+    people a chance to convert.
+
+    Fixed #1003 -- Applying DavidS's patch to fix searching for
+    tags in sql.
+
+    Fixed #992 -- Puppet is now compatible with gems 1.0.1.
+
+    Fixed #968 again, this time with tests -- parseonly works,
+    including not compiling the configurations, and also storeconfigs
+    is no longer required during parse-testing.
+
+    Fixed #1021 -- the problem was that my method of determining
+    the in-degree sometimes resulted in a lower number than the
+    number of in-edges.
+
+    Fixed #997 -- virtual defined types are no longer evaluated.
+    NOTE: This introduces a behaviour change, in that you previously
+    could realize a resource within a virtual defined resource, and now
+    you must realize the entire defined resource, rather than just
+    the contained resource.
+
+    Fixed #1030 - class and definition evaluation has been significantly
+    refactored, fixing this problem and making the whole interplay
+    between the classes, definitions, and nodes, and the Compile class much
+    cleaner.
+
+    Exec resources must now have unique names, although the commands can still
+    be duplicated.  This is easily accomplished by just specifying a unique
+    name with whatever (unique or otherwise) command you need.
+
+    Fixed #989 -- missing CRL files are correctly ignored, and the
+    value should be set to 'false' to explicitly not look for these
+    files.
+
+    Fixed #1017 -- environment-specific modulepath is no longer ignored.
+
+    Fixing #794 -- consolidating the gentoo configuration files.
+
+    Fixing #976 -- both the full name of qualified classes and
+    the class parts are now added as tags.  I've also
+    created a Tagging module that we should push throughout
+    the rest of the system that uses tags.
+
+    Fixing #995 -- puppetd no longer dies at startup if the server
+    is not running.
+
+    Fixing #977 -- the rundir is again set to 1777.
+
+    Fixed #971 -- classes can once again be included multiple
+    times.
+
+    Added builtin support for Nagios types using
+    Naginator to parse and generate the files.
+
+0.24.1
+    Updated vim filetype detection. (#900 and #963)
+
+    Default resources like schedules no longer conflict with
+    managed resources. (#965)
+
+    Removing the ability to disable http keep-alive, since
+    it didn't really work anyway and it should no longer
+    be necessary.
+
+    Refactored http keep-alive so it actually works again.
+    This should be sufficient enough that we no longer need the
+    ability to disable keep-alive.  There is now a central
+    module responsible for managing HTTP instances, along with
+    all certificates in those instances.
+
+    Fixed a backward compatibility issue when running 0.23.x
+    clients against 0.24.0 servers -- relationships would
+    consistently not work. (#967)
+
+    Closing existing http connections when opening a new one,
+    and closing all connections after each run. (#961)
+
+    Removed warning about deprecated explicit plugins mounts.
+
+0.24.0 (misspiggy)
+    Modifying the behaviour of the certdnsnames setting.  It now defaults
+    to an empty string, and will only be used if it is set to something
+    else.  If it is set, then the host's FQDN will also be added as
+    an alias.  The default behaviour is now to add 'puppet' and
+    'puppet.$domain' as DNS aliases when the name for the cert being
+    signed is equal to the signing machine's name, which will only
+    be the case for CA servers.  This should result in servers always
+    having the alias set up and no one else, but you can still override
+    the aliases if you want.
+
+    External node support now requires that you set the 'node_terminus'
+    setting to 'exec'.  See the IndirectionReference on the wiki for more
+    information.
+
+    http_enable_post_connection_check added as a configuration
+    option for puppetd.  This defaults to true, which validates the server
+    SSL certificate against the requested host name in new versions of ruby.
+    See #896 for more information.
+
+    Mounts no longer remount swap filesystems.
+
+    Slightly modifying how services manage their list of paths
+    (and adding documention for it).  Services now default
+    to the paths specified by the provider classes.
+
+    Removed 'type' as a valid attribute for services, since it's been
+    deprecated since the creation of providers.
+
+    Removed 'running' as a valid attribute for services, since it's
+    been deprecated since February 2006.
+
+    Added modified patch by Matt Palmer which adds a 'plugins' mount,
+    fixing #891.  See PluginsInModules on the wiki for information on
+    usage.
+
+    Empty dbserver and dbpassword settings will now be ignored when
+    initializing Rails connections (patch by womble).
+
+    Configuration settings can now be blank (patch by womble).
+
+    Added calls to endpwent/endgrent when searching for user and group IDs,
+    which fixes #791.
+
+    Obviated 'target' in interfaces, as all file paths were automatically
+    calculated anyway.  The parameter is still there, but it's
+    not used and just generates a warning.
+
+    Fixing some of the problems with interface management on Red Hat.
+    Puppet now uses the :netmask property and does not try to set
+    the bootproto (#762).
+
+    You now must specify an environment and you are required to specify
+    the valid environments for your site. (#911)
+
+    Certificates now always specify a subjectAltName, but it defaults
+    to '*', meaning that it doesn't require DNS names to match.  You
+    can override that behaviour by specifying a value for
+    'certdnsnames', which will then require that hostname as a match (#896).
+
+    Relationship metaparams (:notify, :require, :subscribe, and
+    :before) now stack when they are collecting metaparam values
+    from their containers (#446).  For instance, if a resource
+    inside a definition has a value set for 'require', and you call
+    the definition with 'require', the resource gets both requires,
+    where before it would only retain its initial value.
+
+    Changed the behavior of --debug to include Mongrel client
+    debugging information.  Mongrel output will be written to
+    the terminal only, not to the puppet debug log.  This should
+    help anyone working with reverse HTTP SSL proxies. (#905)
+
+    Fixed #800 -- invalid configurations are no longer
+    cached.  This was done partially by adding a relationship
+    validation step once the entire configuration is created,
+    but it also required the previously-mentioned changes
+    to how the configuration retrieval process works.
+
+    Removed some functionality from the Master client,
+    since the local functionality has been replaced
+    with the Indirector already, and rearranging how configuration
+    retrieval is done to fix ordering and caching bugs.
+
+    The node scope is now above all other scopes besides
+    the 'main' scope, which should help make its variables
+    visible to other classes, assuming those classes were
+    not included in the node's parent.
+
+    Replaced GRATR::Digraph with Puppet::SimpleGraph as
+    the base class for Puppet's graphing.  Functionality
+    should be equivalent but with dramatically better
+    performance.
+
+    The --use-nodes and --no-nodes options are now obsolete.
+    Puppet automatically detects when nodes are defined, and if
+    they are defined it will require that a node be found,
+    else it will not look for a node nor will it fail if it
+    fails to find one.
+
+    Fixed #832. Added the '--no-daemonize' option to puppetd and
+    puppetmasterd.  NOTE: The default behavior of 'verbose' and
+    'debug' no longer cause puppetd and puppetmasterd to not
+    daemonize.
+
+    Added k5login type. (#759)
+
+    Fixed CA race condition. (#693)
+
+    Added shortname support to config.rb and refactored addargs
+
+0.23.2
+    Fixed the problem in cron jobs where environment settings
+    tended to multiple. (#749)
+
+    Collection of resources now correctly only collects exported
+    resources again.  This was broken in 0.23.0. (#731)
+
+    'gen_config' now generates a configuration with
+    all parameters under a heading that matches the
+    process name, rather than keeping section headings.
+
+    Refactored how the parser and interpreter relate,
+    so parsing is now effectively an atomic process (thus
+    fixing #314 and #729).  This makes the interpreter less
+    prone to error and less prone to show the error to the
+    clients.  Note that this means that if a configuration
+    fails to parse, then the previous, parseable configuration
+    will be used instead, so the client will not know that
+    the configuration failed to parse.
+
+    Added support for managing interfaces, thanks to work
+    by Paul Rose.
+
+    Fixed #652, thanks to a patch by emerose; --fqdn again
+    works with puppetd.
+
+    Added an extra check to the Mongrel support so that
+    Apache can be used with optional cert checking, instead
+    of mandatory, thus allowing Mongrel to function as the CA.
+    This is thanks to work done by Marcin Owsiany.
+
+0.23.1 (beaker)
+    You can now specify relationships to classes, which work
+    exactly like relationships to defined types:
+        require => Class[myclass]
+    This works with qualified classes, too.
+
+    You can now do simple queries in a collection of
+    exported resources.  You still cannot do multi-condition queries,
+    though. (#703)
+
+    puppetca now exits with a non-zero code if it cannot
+    find any host certificates to clean. (Patch by Dean
+    Wilson.)
+
+    Fully-qualified resources can now have defaults. (#589)
+
+    Resource references can now be fully-qualified names,
+    meaning you can list definitions with a namespace as
+    dependencies.  (#468)
+
+    Files modified using a FileType instance, as ParsedFile
+    does, will now automatically get backed up to the filebucket
+    named "puppet".
+
+    Added a 'maillist' type for managing mailing lists.
+
+    Added a 'mailalias' type for managing mail aliases.
+
+    Added patch by Valentin Vidic that adds the '+>' syntax to
+    resources, so parameter values can be added to.
+
+    The configuration client now pulls libraries down to $libdir,
+    and all autoloading is done from there with full support
+    for any reloadable file, such as types and providers. (#621)
+    Note that this is not backward compatible -- if you're using
+    pluginsync right now, you'll need to disable it on your clients
+    until you can upgrade them.
+
+    The Rails log level can now be set via (shockingly!) the
+    'rails_loglevel' parameter (#710).  Note that this isn't
+    exactly the feature asked for, but I could not find a
+    way to directly copy ActiveRecord's concept of an environment.
+
+    External node sources can now return undefined classes (#687).
+
+    Puppet clients now have http proxy support (#701).
+
+    The parser now throws an error when a resource reference
+    is created for an unknown type.  Also, resource references
+    look up defined types and translate their type accordingly. (#706)
+
+    Hostnames can now be double quoted.
+
+    Adding module autoloading (#596) -- you can now 'include' classes
+    from modules without ever needing to specifically load them.
+
+    Class names and node names now conflict (#620).
+
+0.23.0
+    Modified the fileserver to cache file information, so that
+    each file isn't being read on every connection.  Also,
+    added londo's patch from #678 to avoid reading entire files
+    into memory.
+
+    Fixed environment handling in the crontab provider (#669).
+
+    Added patch by trombik in #572, supporting old-style
+    freebsd init scripts with '.sh' endings.
+
+    Added fink package provider (#642), as provided by 'do'.
+
+    Marked the dpkg package provider as versionable (#647).
+
+    Applied patches by trombik to fix FreeBSD ports (#624 and #628).
+
+    Fixed the CA server so that it refuses to send back a certificate
+    whose public key doesn't match the CSR.  Instead, it tells the
+    user to run 'puppetca --clean'.
+
+    Invalid certificates are no longer written to disk (#578).
+
+    Added a package provider (appdmg) able to install .app packages
+    on .dmg files on OS X (#641).
+
+    Applied the patch from #667 to hopefully kill the client hanging
+    problems (permanently, this time).
+
+    Fixed functions so that they accept most other rvalues as valid values
+    (#548).
+
+    COMPATIBILITY ALERT:
+    Significantly reworked external node support, in a way that's NOT
+    backward-compatible:
+
+        Only ONE node source can be used -- you can use LDAP, code, or
+        an external node program, but not more than one.
+
+        LDAP node support has two changes:  First, the "ldapattrs" attribute is
+        now used for setting the attributes to retrieve from the server (in
+        addition to required attriutes), and second, all retrieved attributes
+        are set as variables in the top scope.  This means you can set attributes
+        on your LDAP nodes and they will automatically appear as variables
+        in your configurations.
+
+        External node support has been completely rewritten.  These programs must
+        now generate a YAML dump of a hash, with "classes" and "parameters" keys.
+        The classes should be an array, and the parameters should be a hash.  The
+        external node program has no support for parent nodes -- the script must
+        handle that on its own.
+
+    Reworked the database schema used to store configurations with the
+    storeconfigs option.
+
+    Replaced the obsolete RRD ruby library with the maintained
+    RubyRRDtool library (which requires rrdtool2) (#659).
+
+    The Portage package provider now calls eix-update automatically
+    when eix's database is absent or out of sync (#666).
+
+    Mounts now correctly handle existing fstabs with no pass or dump values
+    (#550).
+
+    Mounts now default to 0 for pass and dump (#112).
+
+    Added urpmi support (#592).
+
+    Finishing up the type => provider interface work.  Basically, package
+    providers now return lists of provider instances.  In the proces,
+    I rewrote the interface between package types and providers, and also
+    enabled prefetching on all packages.  This should significantly speed
+    up most package operations.
+
+    Hopefully fixing the file descriptor/open port problems, with patches
+    from Valentin Vidic.
+
+    Significantly reworked the type => provider interface with respect to
+    listing existing provider instances.  The class method on both
+    class heirarchies has been renamed to 'instances', to start.  Providers
+    are now expected to return provider instances, instead of creating
+    resources, and the resource's 'instances' method is expected to
+    find the matching resource, if any, and set the resource's
+    provider appropriately.  This *significantly* reduces the reliance on
+    effectively global state (resource references in the resource classes).
+    This global state will go away soon.
+
+    Along with this change, the 'prefetch' class method on providers now
+    accepts the list of resources for prefetching.  This again reduces
+    reliance on global state, and makes the execution path much easier
+    to follow.
+
+    Fixed #532 -- reparsing config files now longer throws an exception.
+
+    Added some warnings and logs to the service type so
+    users will be encouraged to specify either "ensure"
+    or "enabled" and added debugging to indicate why
+    restarting is skipped when it is.
+
+    Changed the location of the classes.txt to the state
+    directory.
+
+    Added better error reporting on unmatched brackets.
+
+    Moved puppetd and puppetmasterd to sbin in svn and fixed install.rb
+    to copy them into sbin on the local system appropriately.  (#323)
+
+    Added a splay option (#501).  It's disabled when running under
+    --test in puppetd.  The value is random but cached.  It defaults
+    to the runinterval but can be tuned with --splaylimit
+
+    Changing the notify type so that it always uses
+    the loglevel.
+
+    Fixing #568 - nodes can inherit from quoted node names.
+
+    Tags (and thus definitions and classes) can now be a single
+    character. (#566)
+
+    Added an 'undef' keyword (#629), which will evaluate to ""
+    within strings but when used as a resource parameter value
+    will cause that parameter to be evaluated as undefined.
+
+    Changed the topological sort algorithm (#507) so it will always
+    fail on cycles.
+
+    Added a 'dynamicfacts' configuration option; any facts in that
+    comma-separated list will be ignored when comparing facts to
+    see if they have changed and thus whether a recompile is necessary.
+
+    Renamed some poorly named internal variables:
+        @models in providers are now either @resource or
+        @resource_type (#605).
+
+        @children is no longer used except by components (#606).
+
+        @parent is now @resource within parameters (#607).
+
+    The old variables are still set for backward compatibility.
+
+    Significantly reworking configuration parsing.  Executables all now
+    look for 'puppet.conf' (#206), although they will parse the old-style
+    configuration files if they are present, although they throw a deprecation
+    warning.  Also, file parameters (owner, mode, group) are now set on the
+    same line as the parameter, in brackets. (#422)
+
+    Added transaction summaries (available with the --summarize option),
+    useful for getting a quick idea of what happened in a transaction.
+    Currently only useful on the client or with the puppet interpreter.
+
+    Changed the interal workings for retrieve and removed the :is attribute
+    from Property.  The retrieve methods now return the current value of
+    the property for the system.
+
+    Removed acts_as_taggable from the rails models.
+
+0.22.4
+    Execs now autorequire the user they run as, as long as the user
+    is specified by name. (#430)
+
+    Files on the local machine but not on the remote server during
+    a source copy are now purged if purge => true. (#594)
+
+    Providers can now specify that some commands are optional (#585).
+    Also, the 'command' method returns nil on missing commands,
+    rather than throwing an error, so the presence of commands
+    be tested.
+
+    The 'useradd' provider for Users can now manage passwords.
+    No other providers can, at this point.
+
+    Parameters can now declare a dependency on specific
+    features, and parameters that require missing features
+    will not be instantiated.  This is most useful for
+    properties.
+
+    FileParsing classes can now use instance_eval to add
+    many methods at once to a record type.
+
+    Modules no longer return directories in the list of found
+    manifests (#588).
+
+    The crontab provider now defaults to root when there is no
+    USER set in the environment.
+
+    Puppetd once again correctly responds to HUP.
+
+    Added a syntax for referring to variables defined in
+    other classes (e.g., $puppet::server).
+
+    STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR are now redirected to /dev/null in
+    service providers descending from base.
+
+    Certificates are now valid starting one day before they are
+    created, to help handle small amounts of clock skew.
+
+    Files are no longer considered out of sync if some properties
+    are out of sync but they have no properties that can create
+    the file.
+
+0.22.3
+    Fixed backward compatibility for logs and metrics from older clients.
+
+    Fixed the location of the authconfig parameters so there aren't
+    loading order issues.
+
+    Enabling attribute validation on the providers that subclass
+    'nameservice', so we can verify that an integer is passed to
+    UID and GID.
+
+    Added a stand-alone filebucket client, named 'filebucket'.
+
+    Fixed the new nested paths for filebuckets; the entire md5 sum was
+    not being stored.
+
+    Fixing #553; -M is no longer added when home directories are being
+    managed on Red Hat.
+
+0.22.2 (grover)
+    Users can now manage their home directories, using the managehome
+    parameter, partially using patches provided by Tim Stoop and
+    Matt Palmer. (#432)
+
+    Added 'ralsh' (formerly x2puppet) to the svn tree.  When possible it
+    should be added to the packages.
+
+    The 'notify' type now defaults to its message being the same as its name.
+
+    Reopening $stdin to read from /dev/null during execution, in hopes that
+    init scripts will stop hanging.
+
+    Changed the 'servername' fact set on the server to use the server's fqdn,
+    instead of the short-name.
+
+    Changing the location of the configuration cache.  It now defaults to being
+    in the state directory, rather than in the configuration directory.
+
+    All parameter instances are stored in a single @parameters instance variable
+    hash within resource type instances.  We used to use separate hashes for
+    each parameter type.
+
+    Added the concept of provider features.  Eventually these should be able
+    to express the full range of provider functionality, but for now they can
+    test a provider to see what methods it has set and determine what features it
+    provides as a result.  These features are integrated into the doc generation
+    system so that you get feature documentation automatically.
+
+    Switched apt/aptitide to using "apt-cache policy" instead of "apt-cache showpkg"
+    for determining the latest available version. (#487)
+
+    FileBuckets now use a deeply nested structure for storing files, so
+    you do not end up with hundreds or thousands of files in the same
+    directory. (#447)
+
+    Facts are now cached in the state file, and when they change the configuration
+    is always recompiled. (#519)
+
+    Added 'ignoreimport' setting for use in commit hooks.  This causes the
+    parser to ignore import statements so a single file can be parse-checked.  (#544)
+
+    Import statements can now specify multiple comma-separated arguments.
+
+    Definitions now support both 'name' and 'title', just like any other
+    resource type. (#539)
+
+    Added a generate() command, which sets values to the result of an external
+    command. (#541)
+
+    Added a file() command to read in files with no interpolation.  The first
+    found file has its content returned.
+
+    puppetd now exits if no cert is present in onetime mode. (#533)
+
+    The client configuration cache can be safely removed and the client
+    will correctly realize the client is not in sync.
+
+    Resources can now be freely deleted, thus fixing many problems introduced
+    when deletion of required resources was forbidden when purging was introduced.
+    Only resources being purged will not be deleted.
+
+    Facts and plugins now download even in noop mode (#540).
+
+    Resources in noop mode now log when they would have responded to an event (#542).
+
+    Refactored cron support entirely.  Cron now uses providers, and there
+    is a single 'crontab' provider that handles user crontabs.  While this
+    refactor does not include providers for /etc/crontab or cron.d, it should
+    now be straightforward to write those providers.
+
+    Changed the parameter sorting so that the provider parameter comes
+    right after name, so the provider is available when the other parameters
+    and properties are being created.
+
+    Redid some of the internals of the ParsedFile provider base class.
+    It now passes a FileRecord around instead of a hash.
+
+    Fixing a bug related to link recursion that caused link directories
+    to always be considered out of sync.
+
+    The bind address for puppetmasterd can now be specified with
+    --bindaddress.
+
+    Added (probably experimental) mongrel support.  At this point you're
+    still responsible for starting each individual process, and you have to
+    set up a proxy in front of it.
+
+    Redesigned the 'network' tree to support multiple web servers, including
+    refactoring most of the structural code so it's much clearer and more
+    reusable now.
+
+    Set up the CA client to default to ca_server and ca_port, so you can
+    easily run a separate CA.
+
+    Supporting hosts with no domain name, thanks to a patch from
+    Dennis Jacobfeuerborn.
+
+    Added an 'ignorecache' option to tell puppetd to force a recompile, thanks to
+    a patch by Chris McEniry.
+
+    Made up2date the default for RHEL < 4 and yum the default for the rest.
+
+    The yum provider now supports versions.
+
+    Case statements correctly match when multiple values are provided,
+    thanks to a patch by David Schmitt.
+
+    Functions can now be called with no arguments.
+
+    String escapes parse correctly in all cases now, thanks to a patch by
+    cstorey.
+
+    Subclasses again search parent classes for defaults.
+
+    You can now purge apt and dpkg packages.
+
+    When doing file recursion, 'ensure' only affects the top-level directory.
+
+    States have been renamed to Properties.
+
+0.22.1 (kermit) -- Mostly a bugfix release
+    Compile times now persist between restarts of puppetd.
+
+    Timeouts have been added to many parts of Puppet, reducing the likelihood
+    if it hanging forever on broken scripts or servers.
+
+    All of the documentation and recipes have been moved to the wiki by Peter
+    Abrahamsen and Ben Kite has moved the FAQ to the wiki.
+
+    Explicit relationships now override automatic relationships, allowing you
+    to manually specify deletion order when removing resources.
+
+    Resources with dependencies can now be deleted as long as all of their
+    dependencies are also being deleted.
+
+    Namespaces for both classes and definitions now work much more consistently.
+    You should now be able to specify a class or definition with a namespace
+    everywhere you would normally expect to be able to specify one without.
+
+    Downcasing of facts can be selectively disabled.
+
+    Cyclic dependency graphs are now checked for and forbidden.
+
+    The netinfo mounts provider was commented out, because it really doesn't
+    work at all.  Stupid NetInfo stores mount information with the device as
+    the key, which doesn't work with my current NetInfo code.
+
+    Otherwise, lots and lots of bugfixes.  Check the tickets associated with the
+    'kermit' milestone.
+
+0.22.0
+    Integrated the GRATR graph library into Puppet, for handling resource
+    relationships.
+
+    Lots of bug-fixes (see bugs tickets associated with the 'minor' milestone).
+
+    Added new 'resources' metatype, which currently only includes the ability
+    to purge unmanaged resources.
+
+    Added better ability to generate new resource objects during transactions
+    (using 'generate' and 'eval_generate' methods).
+
+    Rewrote all Rails support with a much better database design.  Export/collect
+    now works, although the database is incompatible with previous versions.
+
+    Removed downcasing of facts and made most of the language case-insensitive.
+
+    Added support for printing the graphs built during transactions.
+
+    Reworked how paths are built for logging.
+
+    Switched all providers to directly executing commands instead of going through
+    a subshell, which removes the need to quote or escape arguments.
+
+0.20.1
+    Mostly a bug-fix release, with the most important fix being the
+    multiple-definition error.
+
+    Completely rewrote the ParsedFile system; each provider is now much
+    shorter and much more maintainable.  However, fundamental problems
+    were found with the 'port' type, so it was disabled.  Also, added
+    a NetInfo provider for 'host' and an experimental NetInfo provider
+    for 'mount'.
+
+    Made the RRDGraph report *much* better and added reference
+    generation for reports and functions.
+
+0.20.0
+    Significantly refactored the parser.  Resource overrides now consistently
+    work anywhere in a class hierarchy.
+
+    The language was also modified somewhat.  The previous export/collect syntax
+    is now used for handling virtual objects, and export/collect (which is still
+    experimental) now uses double sigils (@@ and <<| |>>).
+
+    Resource references (e.g., File["/etc/passwd"]) now have to be capitalized,
+    in fitting in with capitalizing type operations.
+
+    As usual, lots of other smaller fixes, but most of the work was in the language.
+
+0.19.3
+    Fixing a bug in server/master.rb that causes the hostname
+    not to be available in locally-executed manifests.
+
+0.19.2
+    Fixing a few smaller bugs, notably in the reports system.
+
+    Refreshed objects now generate an event, which can result in further
+    refreshes of other objects.
+
+0.19.1
+    Fixing two critical bugs:  User management works again and cron jobs are
+    no longer added to all user accounts.
+
+0.19.0
+    Added provider support.
+
+    Added support for %h, %H, and %d expansion in fileserver.conf.
+
+    Added Certificate Revocation support.
+
+    Made dynamic loading pervasive -- nearly every aspect of Puppet will now
+    automatically load new instances (e.g., types, providers, and reports).
+
+    Added support for automatic distribution of facts and plugins (custom types).
+
+0.18.4
+    Another bug-fix release.  The most import bug fixed is that
+    cronjobs again work even with initially empty crontabs.
+
+0.18.3
+    Mostly a bug-fix release; fixed small bugs in the functionality added in
+    0.18.2.
+
+0.18.2
+    Added templating support.
+
+    Added reporting.
+
+    Added gem and blastwave packaging support.
+
+0.18.1
+    Added signal handlers for HUP, so both client and server deal correctly with it.
+
+    Added signal handler for USR1, which triggers a run on the client.
+
+    As usual, fixed many bugs.
+
+    Significant fixes to puppetrun -- it should behave much more correctly now.
+
+    Added "fail" function which throws a syntax error if it's encountered.
+
+    Added plugin downloading from the central server to the client.  It must be
+    enabled with --pluginsync.
+
+    Added support for FreeBSD's special "@daily" cron schedules.
+
+    Correctly handling spaces in file sources.
+
+    Moved documentation into svn tree.
+
+0.18.0
+    Added support for a "default" node.
+
+    When multiple nodes are specified, they must now be comma-separated (this
+    introduces a language incompatibility).
+
+    Failed dependencies cause dependent objects within the same transaction
+    not to run.
+
+    Many updates to puppetrun
+
+    Many bug fixes
+
+    Function names are no longer reserved words.
+
+    Links can now replace files.
+
+0.17.2
+    Added "puppetrun" application and associated runner server and client classes.
+
+    Fixed cron support so it better supports valid values and environment settings.
+
+0.17.1
+    Fixing a bug requiring rails on all Debian boxes
+
+    Fixing a couple of other small bugs
+
+0.17.0
+    Adding ActiveRecord integration on the server
+
+    Adding export/collect functionality
+
+    Fixing many bugs
+
+0.16.5
+    Fixing a critical bug in importing classes from other files
+
+    Fixing nodename handling to actually allow dashes
+
+0.16.4
+    Fixing a critical bug in puppetd when acquiring a certificate for the first
+    time
+
+0.16.3
+    Some significant bug fixes
+
+    Modified puppetd so that it can now function as an agent independent
+    of a puppetmasterd process, e.g., using the PuppetShow web application.
+
+0.16.2
+    Modified some of the AST classes so that class names, definition names, and
+    node names are all set within the code being evaluated, so 'tagged(name)' returns
+    true while evaluating 'name', for instance.
+
+    Added '--clean' argument to puppetca to remove all traces of a given
+    client.
+
+0.16.1
+    Added 'tagged' and 'defined' functions.
+
+    Moved all functions to a general framework that makes it very easy to add new
+    functions.
+
+0.16.0
+    Added 'tag' keyword/function.
+
+    Added FreeBSD Ports support
+
+    Added 'pelement' server for sending or receiving Puppet objects, although
+    none of the executables use it yet.
+
+0.15.3
+    Fixed many bugs in :exec, including adding support for arrays of checks
+
+    Added autoloading for types and service variants (e.g., you can now
+    just create a new type in the appropriate location and use it in Puppet,
+    without modifying the core Puppet libs).
+
+0.15.2
+    Added darwinport, Apple .pkg, and freebsd package types
+    Added 'mount type
+    Host facts are now set at the top scope (Bug #103)
+    Added -e (inline exection) flag to 'puppet' executable
+    Many small bug fixes
+
+0.15.1
+    Fixed 'yum' installs so that they successfully upgrade packages.
+    Fixed puppetmasterd.conf file so group settings take.
+
+0.15.0
+    Upped the minor release because the File server is incompatible with 0.14,
+        because it now handles links.
+
+    The 'symlink' type is deprecated (but still present), in favor of using
+        files with the 'target' parameter.
+
+    Unset variables no longer throw an error, they just return an empty string
+
+    You can now specify tags to restrict which objects run during a given run.
+
+    You can also specify to skip running against the cached copy when there's
+    a failure, which is useful for testing new configurations.
+
+    RPMs and Sun packages can now install, as long as they specify a package
+        location, and they'll automatically upgrade if you point them to a new
+        file with an upgrade.
+    Multiple bug fixes.
+
+
+0.14.1
+    Fixed a couple of small logging bugs
+    Fixed a bug with handling group ownership of links
+
+0.14.0
+    Added some ability to selectively manage symlinks when doing file management
+    Many bug fixes
+    Variables can now be used as the test values in case statements and selectors
+    Bumping a minor release number because 0.13.4 introduced a protocol
+        incompatibility and should have had a minor rev bump
+
+0.13.6
+    Many, many small bug fixes
+    FreeBSD user/group support has been added
+    The configuration system has been rewritten so that daemons can now generate
+        and repair the files and directories they need. (Fixed bug #68.)
+    Fixed the element override issues; now only subclasses can override values.
+
+0.13.5
+    Fixed packages so types can be specified
+    Added 'enable' state to services, although it does not work everywhere yet
+
+0.13.4
+    A few important bug fixes, mostly in the parser.
+
+0.13.3
+    Changed transactions to be one-stage instead of two
+    Changed all types to use self[:name] instead of self.name, to support
+        the symbolic naming implemented in 0.13.1
+
+0.13.2
+    Changed package[answerfile] to package[adminfile], and added package[responsefile]
+    Fixed a bunch of internal functions to behave more consistently and usefully
+
+0.13.1
+    Fixed RPM spec files to create puppet user and group (lutter)
+    Fixed crontab reading and writing (luke)
+    Added symbolic naming in the language (luke)
+
+0.13.0
+    Added support for configuration files.
+    Even more bug fixes, including the infamous 'frozen object' bug, which was a
+        problem with 'waitforcert'.
+    David Lutterkort got RPM into good shape.
+
+0.12.0
+    Added Scheduling, and many bug fixes, of course.
+
+0.11.2
+    Fixed bugs related to specifying arrays of requirements
+    Fixed a key bug in retrieving checksums
+    Fixed lots of usability bugs
+    Added 'fail' methods that automatically add file and line info when possible,
+    and converted many errors to use that method
+
+0.11.1
+    Fixed bug with recursive copying with 'ignore' set.
+    Added OpenBSD package support.
+
+0.11.0
+    Added 'ensure' state to many elements.
+    Modified puppetdoc to correctly handle indentation and such.
+    Significantly rewrote much of the builtin documentation to take advantage
+        of the new features in puppetdoc, including many examples.
+
+0.10.2
+    Added SMF support
+    Added autorequire functionality, with specific support for exec and file
+        Exec elements autorequire any mentioned files, including the scripts,
+        along with their CWDs.
+        Files autorequire any parent directories.
+    Added 'alias' metaparam.
+    Fixed dependencies so they don't depend on file order.
+
+0.10.1
+    Added Solaris package support and changed puppetmasterd to run as
+    a non-root user.
+
+0.10.0
+    Significant refactoring of how types, states, and parameters work, including
+    breaking out parameters into a separate class.  This refactoring did not
+    introduce much new functionality, but made extension of Puppet significantly
+    easier
+
+    Also, fixed the bug with 'waitforcert' in puppetd.
+
+0.9.4
+    Small fix to wrap the StatusServer class in the checks for required classes.
+
+0.9.3
+    Fixed some significant bugs in cron job management.
+
+0.9.2
+    Second Public Beta
+
+0.9.0
+    First Public Beta