Changelog

Bolt 4.0.0 (2024-11-20)

New features

Support for new platforms

Bolt packages are now available for Debian 12, Fedora 40, OSX 13 and OSX 14
Ship with Puppet 8 (#3353)

The Bolt gem and Bolt packages now ship with Puppet 8.
r10k: Allow >= 3.10 < 5 (#3312)

Bolt will now allow for r10k 4.
Update puppet modules shipped with bolt packages

Modules shipped with bolt packages have been updated to latest.

Contributed by Tobi Lehman
Updated puppet-agent module version to 4.21.0

Updated puppet-agent module in the Puppetfile from 4.20.1 to 4.21.0

Removals

Removed support for Fedora 36, Debian 9, Debian 10 and RHEL 6

Bug fixes

Allow ssh transport protocol (#3237)

Fix regression introduced by commit 0a09069. Allow install module from git private repository with SSH transport URI (e.g ssh://git@mygitlabserver:12345/namespace/myprivatemod.git)

Contributed by mcarrolle
Explicitly close Bolt::Shell::Bash file descriptors

Ensure file descriptors in Bolt::Shell::Bash are explicitly closed, helping to alleviate the chance of hitting file descriptor limits on systems with low defaults (e.g. Mac OS).

Contributed by Sean Millichamp

Bolt 3.30.0 (2024-05-22)

New features

add shell-command and tty support to the LXD transport (#3262)

Previously the LXD transport would always execute commands on the target with sh -c. The shell-command and tty options are added to provide a more consistent experience between the docker, podman and lxd transports.

Enable basic glob matching of target strings

Previously, only the '*' wildcard character would match when targets were resolved from areas other than the CLI (such as from within a Plan). With this change wildcard matching is switched to use Ruby's fnmatch with basic glob matching enabled. In addition to providing more wildcard matching options, it also provides a significant performance improvement over the prior implementation.

Contributed by Sean Millichamp
Optimize get_targets performance for exact-match cases

Attempt exact target name matches for strings passed to get_targets and only attempt the slower wildcard match if the string contains a valid glob wildcard character.

Contributed by Sean Millichamp

Bug fixes

Apply bundled-ruby defaults at target creation (#3309)

Ensure defaults associated with bundled-ruby transport config are applied at target initialization.
Ensure core types are available for apply over local transport #GH-3310

Previously when using bundled-ruby: true config on the local transport core types were not available during catalog application. This commit makes the core types available by loading the bundled bolt module content shipped with bolt packages if it is present on the target.

Bolt 3.29.0 (2024-04-16)

New features

Add file::delete() function Delete a file on localhost using ruby's File.delete. This will only delete files on the machine you run Bolt on.

Contributed by Yury Bushmelev
Minor add_facts optimization

Deep merge new facts into existing target fact hash, instead of creating and copying a new hash each time.

Contributed by Sean Millichamp
Update puppet modules shipped with bolt packages

Modules shipped with bolt packages have been updated to latest.

Bug fixes

Prefer cert based auth over token for puppetdb (#3296)

When both a token and cert are computed for puppetdb config, only use cert auth. This matches behavior of other puppetdb CLI tools.

Removals

Stop collecting bolt analytics (#3293)

Bolt no longer collects analytics by default.

Bolt 3.28.0 (2024-02-08)

New features

Allow running with concurrent-ruby 2.x

Previously bolt's gemspec prevented the 2.x series of concurrent ruby, bolt is now compatable with both major versions of concurrent-ruby.

Bolt 3.27.4 (2023-10-05)

Bug fixes

Stop restricting ruby version in Gemfile

The source of truth for minimum ruby version is in the gemspec. Stop duplicating that and risking conflicts in the Gemfile.

Contributed by donoghuc

Bolt 3.27.3 (2023-10-05)

Bug fixes

Only set ruby env vars for local transport when non empty strings (#3236)

Previously when using bundled-ruby=false for the local transport and not expliclty setting ruby environment variables internal apply tasks did not work due to ruby code not being able to be loaded. Now the local transport only preserves ruby environment variables when they are set to something other than an empty string.

Contributed by donoghuc

Bolt 3.27.2 (2023-08-14)

Bug fixes

Only log compiled catalogs at trace level (#3217)

Previously compiled catalogs would be logged per target at INFO level. This clogs up logs and can expose Sensitive data in catalogs. This commit moves logging of compiled catalogs to the TRACE log level only.

Contributed by donoghuc

Bolt 3.27.1 (2023-03-13)

New features

Support for running bolt with net-ssh 7.x (#3178)

Bolt now supports running with net-ssh 7. The 7 series of net-ssh contains breaking changes (removal of some supported algoriths for example) and bolt 3 packages will continue to ship with the 6 series.
Add transport for FreeBSD jails (#3160)

FreeBSD has support for jails since FreeBSD 4.0 (released in 2000).

Add a new 'jail' transport to Bolt to allow management of jails on FreeBSD. This feature is currently considered experimental.

Contributed by Romain Tartière

Bolt 2.27.0

This version of Bolt was not released.

Bolt 3.26.2 (2022-11-16)

New features

Support for new platforms

Bolt packages are now available for Fedora 36 and Ubuntu 22.04.

Removals

Removed support for Fedora 34, Debian 9

Bolt 3.26.1 (2022-08-15)

New features

Support globbing group names (#2818)

Bolt now supports selecting group names with glob patterns when selecting targets.

Bug fixes

Improve performance when using the 'puppetdb' plugin with many nodes (#3106)

Using the 'puppetdb' plugin with many thousands of nodes resulted in degenerate performance, sometimes taking minutes to resolve simple queries. This is now resolved and these queries should execute quickly.
Properly print hiera data with bolt lookup (#3144)

The human outputter can now properly print hiera data including values that are hashes.

Bolt 3.25.0 (2022-07-27)

New features

Include catalog in ApplyResult objects (#2618)

The ApplyResult object now includes a catalog attribute that includes the catalog used during an apply. The catalog is masked using the Sensitive data type to prevent sensitive information in the catalog from being printed to the console or Bolt logs.
Allow larger set of characters in group and alias names (#3122)

Group and alias names can now include any character other than whitespace characters and commas.
Support installing any git-based module (#3109)

Bolt now supports installing any git-based module. Previously, Bolt only supported installing and resolving dependencies for modules hosted in a public GitHub repository. Now, Bolt will check both GitHub and GitLab before falling back to cloning a module's metadata using the git executable. This allows users to install modules from private repositories, or from locations other than GitHub.
Add bash_task_helper to bundled modules (#2994)

Bolt now ships with the bolt_task_helper module which includes a library for helping write Bash tasks.
Update bundled modules to latest version (#3134)

The following bundled modules have been updated to their latest versions:
- puppet_agent 4.12.1
- stdlib 8.4.0

Bug fixes

Restrict whitespace characters and commas in target names (#3122)

Bolt now raises a validation error when a target name includes a whitespace character or comma. Previously, these characters were allowed, but Bolt would not be able to retrieve the target from the inventory by name.
Configure proxy when retrieving metadata for git-based modules (#3115)

Bolt now configures a proxy when module-install.proxy is set and it retrieves metadata for git-based modules. Previously, Bolt was only configuring a proxy when it resolved and installed modules.

Bolt 3.24.0 (2022-06-29)

New features

Support extended globs for target matching from CLI (#3105)

Bolt now supports extended globs for target matching in CLI --targets option.

Contributed by Yury Bushmelev
Support interpreters in LXD transport configuration (#3013)

Bolt now also supports setting the interpreters configuration option for the LXD transport.

Contributed by jonasdemoor
Update puppetlabs-reboot to 4.2.0 (#3124)

The bundled module puppetlabs-reboot has been updated to version 4.2.0.

Bug fixes

Execute commands over winrm in separate shell instances (#3111)

Bolt now opens a new shell instance each time it runs a command over winrm. Previously, Bolt used a single shell instance to run all commands, preventing Bolt from properly cleaning up temporary files in some instances.
Correctly print secret key paths when using rainbow format (#3120)

Bolt no longer errors when running bolt secret createkeys --format rainbow or New-BoltSecretKey -Format rainbow.
Don't store sensitive parameter values when running plans over PCP (#3117)

Bolt no longer submits sensitive parameter values to the PE Orchestrator service when running plans over the PCP transport.

Removals

Remove support for Fedora 32, Ubuntu 16.04

Bolt 3.23.1 (2022-06-15)

Bug fixes

Support extensions in local transport on Windows controllers (#3039)

The local transport now supports the extensions config option when running Bolt on a Windows controller.
Collect fact values from a named PuppetDB instance using puppetdb plugin (#3106)

The puppetdb plugin now correctly connects to a named PuppetDB instance when collecting fact values. Previously, the plugin only connected to the named PuppetDB instance when querying certnames.

Bolt 3.23.0 (2022-06-06)

New features

RedHat 9 packages (#3079)

Bolt now ships packages for RedHat 9.
SLES 15 packages (#3080)

Bolt now ships packages for SLES 15.
macOS 12 packages (#3088)

Bolt now ships packages for macOS 12.
Bolt can now be run with Ruby 3 (#2767)

The bolt gem can now be run with Ruby 3.

Contributed by Lucy Wyman
Connect to multiple PuppetDB instances (#1527)

Bolt now supports connecting to multiple PuppetDB instances. For more information, see Connecting Bolt to PuppetDB.
Update bundled modules to latest versions (#1527, #3093, #3097)

The following bundled modules have been updated to their latest versions:

Bug fixes

Include a plan's docstring in plan show output (#2974)

The bolt plan show <PLAN> and Get-BoltPlan -Name <PLAN> commands now include a plan's docstring in the output, even when the plan includes a @summary tag. Previously, Bolt would only display a plan's summary or docstring, but not both.
Support running tasks in no-op mode over pcp (#3063)

Bolt no longer errors when running tasks in no-op mode over the pcp transport.

Removals

Remove support for macOS 10.15 (#3088)

Bolt 3.22.1 (2022-03-30)

Bug fixes

Fix codesigning error for macOS packages

Previously, Bolt would fail when making SSH connections when run on macOS due to Bolt's packaged Ruby being erronously codesigned. Bolt packages no longer codesign Bolt's packaged Ruby.

Bolt 3.22.0 (2022-03-28)

New features

Warn when bolt-plugin.json is found (BOLT-1572)

Bolt will now warn if, while loading plugins, it finds a bolt-plugin.json file in a module. The correct filename is bolt_plugin.json, and Bolt will advise renaming the file in order for it to be loaded.

Contributed by Lucy Wyman
Allow reading manifests from a named pipe (#3057)

Bolt will now read manifests from a named pipe, treating them as files.

Contributed by Jesse Hathaway
Configure path to the rerun file (#3049)

You can now configure the path to Bolt's rerun file at the project level with the new rerunfile config option.
Option to parse data as JSON looked up with env_var plugin (#3072)

The env_var plugin now accepts a json option to allow the plugin to use data encoded as JSON stored in environment variables.

Bug fixes

Make native-ssh more portable (#3069)

Updates native-ssh so setting batch-mode: false omits -o BatchMode= and adds a double-dash separater -- before commands to execute.
Support resolving facts from nested arrays with puppetdb plugin (#3065)

Previously, indexing into arrays when resolving values from puppetdb facts using the target_mapping for the puppetdb plugin did not work. This is now possible by specifying the index of the array, for example: facts.my_fact_array.0.nested_value.

Bolt 3.21.0 (2021-12-16)

New features

policies configuration setting (#3041)

The project configuration file, bolt-project.yaml, has a new policies setting which lists the configuration policies available to a project.

This feature is experimental and subject to change.
policy subcommands (#3041)

Bolt now includes three new subcommands for interacting with a project's configuration policies:
- The policy new command can be used to create a new configuration policy in the project and add it to the project's configuration.
- The policy show command can be used to view which configuration policies are available to a project.
- The policy apply command can be used to apply one or more configuration policies to a list of targets.
This feature is experimental and subject to change.

Bolt 3.20.0 (2021-10-26)

New features

Support arrays and strings for interpreters transport configuration (#3035)

Bolt now supports arrays in addition to strings as the value for the interpreters transport configuration option, which enables passing flags in addition to a binary.

Bug fixes

Resolve puppetdb client configuration plugins as needed (#3034)

Bolt now only resolves plugins for the puppetdb client when needed. Previously, Bolt would attempt to resolve plugins for the puppetdb client for every command, which would cause Bolt to error if the plugin module was not available, such as when installing a project's modules for the first time.

Bolt 3.19.0 (2021-10-04)

New features

Debian 11 packages (#3027)

Bolt now ships packages for Debian 11.
Update bundled modules to latest versions (#3030)

The following bundled modules have been updated to their latest versions:

Bug fixes

Correctly set inventory config when resolving plugins (#3029)

Previously, Bolt would resolve plugins then set the config in the Inventory to nil, causing errors like undefined method 'merge' for nil:NilClass. Bolt now correctly returns the resolved config to the inventory.

Bolt 3.18.0 (2021-09-20)

New features

Support interpreters configuration when running scripts (#2698)

Bolt now supports the interpreters transport configuration when running scripts. To enable this feature, set the future.script_interpreter configuration to true.
Create .gitignore in new projects with local Bolt files (#2985)

The bolt project init command now lays down a .gitignore file to ignore local files that Bolt creates while executing.
Update bundled modules to latest versions (#3019)

The following bundled modules have been updated to their latest versions:
- package 2.1.0
- puppet_agent 4.9.0
- puppet_conf 1.2.0
- reboot 4.1.0
- service 2.1.0
- stdlib 8.0.0
  
  The stdlib 8.0.0 module includes breaking changes to the ensure_packages function. If you need to use an older version of the module, you can install the module in your project configuration.
Support Forge authorization token when installing modules (#3022)

Bolt now supports using a token to authorizing requests to the Forge when installing modules using the module-install.forge.authorization_token setting.
Look for scripts in a scripts directory (#3025)

Bolt now looks for scripts in a project's or module's scripts directory when provided a Puppet file path with the form <module>/scripts/<file>. Previously, this behavior was opt-in only by setting the future.file_paths configuration option.

Bug fixes

Return exit code 1 instead of 2 when Bolt errors (#2998)

Bolt will now exit with code 1 instead of 2 whenever a Bolt operation fails.
Update BoltSpec functions to allow absolute paths (#2905)

BoltSpec's allow_upload, expect_upload, allow_script, and expect_script functions now support passing absolute paths that rather than a module reference. The referenced path must refer to a real file or upload and script functions will still error.
Correctly set main plan ID (#2977)

Bolt now sets the main plan's ID to the correct value. Previously, the main plan ID was set incorrectly, causing Bolt to issue warnings during plan runs when it should not have.
Allow using the scripts file mount in Puppet manifests (#2921)

This fixes a bug where scripts/ directory files needed for the new Puppet scripts mount were not included in the tarball of dependencies for applying manifests. Users can now use the scripts mount from Puppet manifests.

Deprecations

Deprecate future.file_paths configuration option (#3025)

The future.file_paths configuration option has been deprecated.

Bolt 3.17.0 (2021-08-30)

New features

Pass --script to bolt plan new to wrap a script in a plan (hack) The bolt plan new command now accepts a --script SCRIPT parameter that will generate a plan that simply runs the script and returns the result. The flag only supports detailed (new-style) Puppet file references. Learn more about file references at http://pup.pt/bolt-scripts

Bug fixes

Do not wrap commands in sh -c when not using environment variables or privilege escalation

Bolt no longer wraps commands in sh -c when environment variables are not specified and not using privilege escalation. Previously, Bolt would wrap all commands in sh -c when using the SSH transport, which caused commands to fail on targets that do not recognize sh, such as some Windows targets.
Resolve plugins as needed (#2992)

Bolt now only resolves plugin configuration, plugin hooks, and inventory plugins as needed. Previously, Bolt resolved all plugins each time a command was run, causing some commands to fail when they should not.

Bolt 3.16.1 (2021-08-16)

Bug fixes

Handle empty response bodies in http_request task (#2984)

The http_request task no longer errors when a response does not include a body.
Fix stacktrace for conflicting module add and Puppetfile (#2966)

When a project's Puppetfile has a forge module without a version specified, Bolt now offers a more helpful error when attempting to do a module install/add of the same module.

Bolt 3.16.0 (2021-08-09)

New features

Continue executing when a plan over PCP restarts the Orchestrator (#2964)

Bolt will now retry a task once when running over PCP as part of a plan, if the task errors with plan-already-finished.

Bug fixes

Do not remove variables from scope when using parallelize() (#2889)

Bolt no longer removes variables from a plan's scope when invoking a custom Puppet language function that invokes a run_* function from a parallelize() block. Previously, a race condition would result in the current plan's variables to be removed from the plan's scope.
Attempt to restore Ruby environment on local with bundled-ruby false (#2922)

When executing, Bolt will unset several Ruby environment variables in it's own environment to avoid unexpected behavior. This can interfere with running Ruby on the local transport with Bolt though. Bolt will now attempt to restore Ruby environment variables like GEM_HOME and GEM_PATH when running over the local transport with bundled-ruby set to false.

Bolt 3.15.0 (2021-08-02)

New features

Add ability for --clear-cache to clear plan/task metadata cache. (#2915)

--clear-cache flag now clears plan/task metadata cache.
Support _catch_errors in apply_prep (#2925)

The apply_prep function now accepts the _catch_errors parameter. Additionally, the bolt apply and Invoke-BoltApply commands set _catch_errors to true, allowing an apply action to complete on as many targets as possible instead of erroring if even one target fails the apply_prep portion of the command.
Respect @api tag in Puppet language plans (#2945)

Bolt now respects the @api tag in Puppet language plans. If the @api private tag is present, the plan will be hidden from bolt plan show and Get-BoltPlan output.

Bug fixes

Ship with Bolt guides (#2959)

Bolt 3.14.1 neglected to updated the bolt.gemspec to include new guide files. This updates the gemspec to include the new guide files.

Deprecations

Deprecate @private tag in Puppet language plans (#2945)

The @private tag for Puppet language plans is deprecated. Use the @api tag instead.

Bolt 3.14.1 (2021-07-26)

New features

wait() without arguments waits on all Futures from plan (#2877)

Calling the wait() plan function without a list of Futures will now wait on all Futures created so far in the plan.
Ship puppetlabs/http_request 0.3.0 (#2939)

Bolt now ships with the latest version of the http_request module, which includes support for making patch requests.
YAML plan verbose step (#2926)

YAML plans now support a verbose step that prints a message when run in verbose mode.
Log messages from out::message and out::verbose (#2900)

The out::message plan function now logs messages at the info level and the out::verbose plan function now logs messages at the debug level. Both functions continue to print messages to the console.
Show detailed module information (#2938)

Bolt now supports showing detailed information about a module using the bolt module show <module> command and Get-BoltModule -Name <module> PowerShell cmdlet.
Beautify bolt guide output (#2937)

This converts our existing guides from flat text to YAML so that they can be pretty printed.
Add batch-mode configuration option for native-ssh transport (#2875)

The native-ssh transport has a new batch-mode configuration option that can be used to enable or disable BatchMode. For more information, see the documentation.
Format PlanResults if they are Bolt datatypes (#2941)

Bolt will now print a more human readable message for plan results that are Bolt datatypes when using the human output format, rather than printing JSON.

Bug fixes

Do not warn about analytics when analytics is disabled (#2947)

Bolt no longer displays a warning about analytics collection when analytics is disabled and the analytics.yaml file does not exist.

Removals

Remove support for Fedora 30, Fedora 31, and MacOS 10.14 (#2948)

Bolt 3.13.0 (2021-07-12)

New features

Add built-in log module (#2899)

Bolt now ships with a new built-in log module that includes plan functions for logging messages at each of Bolt's log levels. The new plan functions include log::trace, log::debug, log::warn, log::info, log::error, and log::fatal.
Fedora 34 packages (#2903)

Bolt now ships packages for Fedora 34.
Add out::verbose plan function (#2879)

Bolt now has out::verbose plan function, which allows for printing output when run in verbose mode.

Bolt 3.12.0 (2021-07-06)

New features

Support macOS 11 in `puppet_agent::install task (#2901)

The puppet_agent::install task now supports installing the puppet-agent package on macOS 11.
Disable 'exported resources' warnings from Puppet (#2889)

Warnings logged by Puppet when declaring or collecting exported resources in a manifest can now be disabled. To disable these warnings add the exported_resources ID under the disable-warnings configuration option.

Bug fixes

Do not stacktrace with non-existent files in plan or task cache (#2912)

Bolt no longer errors with a stacktrace when listing plans or tasks when the plan or task cache include paths to files that no longer exist.

Bolt 3.11.0 (2021-06-21)

New features

macOS 11 packages (#2855)

Bolt now ships packages for macOS 11 (Big Sur).
Update bundled modules to latest versions (#2883)

The following bundled modules have been updated to their latest versions:
- pkcs7 0.1.2
- puppet_agent 4.7.0
  
  The puppet_agent::install task now supports running in noop mode.
- scheduled_task 3.0.1
- stdlib 7.1.0
Ship with Puppet 7.7.0 (#2864)

Bolt now ships with Puppet 7.7.0.

Bug fixes

Handle printing command and script results with no output (#2863)

Bolt no longer errors when printing results from a command or script when the result does not include output on stdout or stderr. Previously, Bolt would error with an undefined method message.
Handle printing command and script results with pcp transport (#2863)

Bolt no longer errors when printing command and script results when using the pcp transport. Previously, Bolt would error with an undefined method message.
Install modules when using Bolt as a gem (#2891)

Bolt no longer errors when installing modules using the bolt gem. Previously, Bolt would error with a missing parameter message.

Bolt 3.10.0 (2021-06-14)

New features

Add plugin show command (#2872)

The bolt plugin show command and Get-BoltPlugin PowerShell cmdlet can be used to list plugins available to the current project.
Lookup hiera plan_hierarchy values from the CLI (#2815)

The bolt lookup command now has a --plan-hierarchy flag that will lookup values from Hiera's plan_hierarchy.
New Bolt debugging guide (#2871)

Bolt has a new guide with common debugging tips that can be accessed by running bolt guide debugging.
Builtin tab completion (#2869)

Bolt now supports tab completion for Bolt commands, subcommands, and any flags available for a command. It also supports tab completing tasks and plans for certain project types when tasks and plans have been cached.

Bug fixes

Test plans that use parallelize() plan function in BoltSpec (#2882)

BoltSpec no longer fails when testing plans that include the parallelize() plan function. Previously, testing plans that used this function would cause the plan to fail with an argument mismatch error.
Pass remaining arguments to PowerShell -Arguments parameter (#2788)

The PuppetBolt PowerShell module now correctly supports passing multiple arguments to the -Arguments parameter. Previously, any unbound arguments were not passed to this parameter, causing the PowerShell parser to error.

Deprecations

PuppetBolt PowerShell module will not ship with Bolt packages in a future release (#2550)

The PuppetBolt PowerShell module will no longer ship with Bolt packages on Windows in a future release. The PuppetBolt PowerShell module should instead be installed from PowerShell Gallery.

Bolt 3.9.2 (2021-06-08)

Bug fixes

Do not error when using --run-as on a Windows controller (#2874)

Bolt no longer raises an error when using the --run-as command-line option on a Windows controller.

Bolt 3.9.1 (2021-06-07)

New features

Ship PuppetBolt PowerShell module to PowerShell Gallery (#2550)

The PuppetBolt PowerShell module is now shipped to the PowerShell Gallery. For more information about installing the PuppetBolt PowerShell module, see the documentation.
Report whether tasks are run in no-operation mode (#2840)

Bolt now reports whether or not a task is run in no-operation mode when it collects analytics.

Bug fixes

Provide project for BoltSpec::Run::Runner#pal (#2858)

Fixes a project null reference in the invocation of the download_file() function in a plan driven by the BoltSpec::Run runner.
Undef variables are now included in Future block scopes (#2866)

Previously, Bolt would not include variables with a value undef in Future block scopes, leading them to be undefined. Bolt now includes those variables when creating the new scope for Future blocks.

Bolt 3.9.0 (2021-05-25)

New features

Plan functions to support fire-and-forget parallelism (#2764)

Bolt now includes two new plan functions, background() and wait(), to support fire-and-forget parallelism. Read more at https://pup.pt/bolt-parallelism.
Support run-as for container transports when running on nix (#2806)

The Docker, LXD, and Podman transports now support run-as configuration and related configuration options when running on nix systems. run-as is not supported for any Windows systems or the PowerShell shell over SSH.

Bug fixes

Upload project plugin files to correct directory when running an apply (#2832)

Project plugin files are now uploaded to the correct directory when running an apply. Previously, if a project used a Boltdir or had a directory name that did not match the project's configured name, apply blocks could not correctly reference files in the project using Puppet file syntax (puppet:///modules/<project name>/<file name>).
Correctly set DOCKER_HOST environment variable when connecting to remote Docker hosts (#2813)

Bolt now correctly sets the DOCKER_HOST environment variable when the docker.service-url configuration is set. Previously, this environment variable was not set correctly, preventing the transport from connecting to remote Docker hosts.

Contributed by Mic Kaczmarczik

Bolt 3.8.1 (2021-05-17)

Bug fixes

Support _run_as passed to apply_prep() (#2808)

Bolt now respects the _run_as metaparameter when passed to the apply_prep() plan function. This is the only supported metaparameter, and takes highest precedence per the Bolt configuration precedence
Don't stacktrace if welcome message file can't be written (#2814)

Previously, Bolt would stacktrace if it failed to make the directory to store the welcome message file in, which relies on tilde ~ expansion. Bolt now falls back to a system-level path, and then omits the welcome message entirely if the system-level path also fails to be created or written to.
Do not error in file::* plan functions when future is not configured (#2828)

The file::exists, file::read, and file::readable plan functions no longer error when invoked outside of an apply block when future is not configured.

Documentation

JSON output documentation (#2773)

The format for JSON output for each of Bolt's commands is now documented.

Bolt 3.8.0 (2021-05-03)

New features

Facts diff task accepts exclude parameter (#2804)

The puppet_agent::facts_diff task now accepts an exclude parameter to filter output based on a provided regex.
lookup command to look up values with Hiera (#2499)

The new bolt lookup and Invoke-BoltLookup commands can be used to look up values with Hiera.
Load files from specified Puppet paths (#2731)

If the project-level future.file_paths configuration is enabled, Puppet files can be loaded using the new loading syntax. For more information see https://pup.pt/bolt-loading-files.

Removals

Puppet5 collection no longer available for puppet_agent::install task (#2804)

Now that this collection is unavailable to download from, it's not a valid parameter to the puppet_agent::install task.

Bolt 3.7.1 (2021-04-26)

New features

Developer Update: Script loading changes

There's a new Developer Update in town, read it here.

Bug fixes

Allow Docker connections using full ID as the host

The Bolt Docker transport now successfully connects to containers when the full SHA 256 container ID string is provided as a name or URL. Previously, Bolt could only connect when the 12 character shortened form of the ID string was used.
Fixed incorrect param in Get-BoltTask text (#2795)

Fixed the 'Additional Information' section of the help text for the Get-BoltTask cmdlet having an incorrect parameter for the task name

Contributed by Malivil

Bolt 3.7.0 (2021-04-13)

New features

Default to showing all targets with bolt inventory show (#2747)

The bolt inventory show and Get-BoltInventory commands now default ot showing all targets in the inventory if a targetting option (--targets, --query, --rerun) are not provided.
Improved group information output (#2766)

The bolt group show and Get-BoltGroup commands now display human output in a similar format to other show commands. The json output now includes the path to the inventory file that the groups are loaded from.
puppetdb_command plan function (#2771)

The puppetdb_command plan function can be used to invoke commands in PuppetDB. Currently, only the replace_facts command is officially tested and supported, though other commands might work as well.

This feature is experimental and subject to change.

Bug fixes

Do not error when using metaparameters in YAML plans (#2777)

Bolt no longer errors for YAML plans that include a plan or task step that includes an additional option (e.g. _catch_errors) under the parameters key.
Output correct inventory source with inventory show (#2766)

The bolt inventory show and Get-BoltInventory commands now output the correct source of inventory when using the BOLT_INVENTORY environment variable. Previously, Bolt would output the path to the default inventory file.

Bolt 3.6.1 (2021-04-07)

Bug fixes

Ensure all messages print, even after thread finishes (#2770)

Bolt now ensures that all messages from a command or script are printed back to the user. Previously, some messages would be lost if they were read after the thread finished executing or when Bolt had been prompted for a sudo password.

Bolt 3.6.0 (2021-04-06)

New features

Improved inventory output (#2751)

The bolt inventory show and Get-BoltInventory command now display human output in the same format as other show commands.
Improved plan and task information output (#2754)

The bolt plan|task show <name> and Get-Bolt(Plan|Task) -Name <name> commands now display human output in a similar format to other show commands.
Podman transport (#2456)

The Podman transport connects to local running Podman containers, useful for testing scenarios or debugging.
Disable analytics in system, user, and project config files (#2759)

The new analytics configuration option can be used to disable data collection in Bolt and is supported in both bolt-defaults.yaml and bolt-project.yaml. Disabling data collection cannot be overridden by enabling it in another configuration file.

Bug fixes

Do not stack trace when missing project configuration file (#2756)

Bolt no longer stack traces when installing modules if the project does not have a bolt-project.yaml configuration file.

Bolt 3.5.0 (2021-03-29)

New features

Test plans that use run_task_with() plan function in BoltSpec (#2692)

Plans that use the run_task_with() plan function can now be tested with BoltSpec.
run_container() plan function (#2614)

Bolt now ships with a run_container() Puppet plan function that will run a container and return its output.
Update bundled modules (#2748)

The following bundled modules have been updated to their latest versions:
- aws_inventory 0.7.0
- gcloud_inventory 0.3.0

Bug fixes

Do not warn on top level plugin_hooks config (#2742)

Bolt no longer warns that plugin_hooks are an unknown option when configured in inventory file.
Allow version key in inventory files (#2746)

Bolt now recognizes the version configuration in an inventory file and doesn't raise a warning that the key is unknown.

Deprecations

Deprecate dotted fact names (#2737)

Dotted fact names (e.g. foo.bar) are now deprecated. Bolt issues a deprecation warning if it detects a target is loaded with these facts or has them added during a plan run.

Bolt 3.4.0 (2021-03-23)

New features

Display merged stdout and stderr output for commands and scripts (#2653)

The bolt command|script run commands and Invoke-BoltCommand|Script cmdlets now display merged output from stdout and stderr in the CLI. This merged output is also available to the Result object in plans and in the JSON output format under the merged_output key.
Convert YAML plans by name (#2712)

The bolt plan convert and Convert-BoltPlan commands now accept the name of a YAML plan to convert instead of just a path to a YAML plan.
Add default value for prompt plan function (#2704)

The prompt plan function has a new default option which can be used to return a default value when a user does not provide input or when stdin is not a tty.
LXD transport supports remote hosts (#2669)

The LXD transport includes a new remote option to configure connections to remote LXD servers.
Add welcome message when users first run Bolt (#2711)

Bolt now prints a welcome message when users first run Bolt if they run bolt, bolt --help, or bolt help.
prompt::menu plan function (#2714)

The new prompt::menu plan function can be used to prompt the user to select an option from a menu of options.
Upgrade bundled modules (#2734)

The following bundled modules have been updated to their latest versions:

Bug fixes

Ensure env_vars is a hash in commands and scripts (#2689)

Bolt now ensures that the env_vars option passed to commands and scripts in plans is a hash and will raise a helpful error message otherwise.
Convert env_vars hash values to JSON (#2689)

Bolt now converts hash values for an environment variable passed to a command or script to JSON. Previously, a hash value would be passed with Ruby-style syntax.
Don't stacktrace when showing tasks that include untyped parameters (#2719)

Bolt will now correctly show task details for tasks that include parameters that do not specify a type, instead of stacktracing.
Do not error when showing 'noop' task info (#2722)

Bolt no longer errors when printing task information for a task that supports running in no-operation mode.
Handle malformed _error values in task results in Orchestrator (#2723)

Bolt now handles _error from task results in the Orchestrator transport when the value of the key is not a hash, does not include the details key, or the details key is not a hash. Previously Bolt would error if any of these conditions was true.

Bolt 3.3.0 (2021-03-15)

New features

Add LXD transport (#2311)

Bolt now includes a new LXD transport to use when connecting with containers managed with LXD. See the transport configuration reference for configuration options. This feature is experimental and might change between minor versions.

Contributed by Coleman McFarland
Stream output from targets (#102)

You can now stream output from a target as actions are running using the stream configuration option or the --stream command-line option. For more information, see the documentation. This feature is experimental and might change between minor versions.
Support metaparameters as top-level keys in YAML plan steps (#2629)

YAML plan steps now support metaparameters as top-level keys. For example, the script step supports an env_vars key which accepts a hash of environment variables to set on the target when running the script.
Show plan descriptions in plan list (#2678)

Plan descriptions now appear in bolt plan show and Get-BoltPlan output.
Support Puppet paths when running scripts from the CLI (#2652)

You can now use Puppet paths (<MODULE NAME>/<FILE NAME>) to specify the path to a script when running bolt script run or Invoke-BoltScript.
Add pwsh_params option to run_script plan function (#2651)

The run_script plan function now accepts a pwsh_params option which can be used to pass named parameters to a PowerShell script.
Upgrade bundled modules to latest versions

Several of Bolt's bundled modules have been upgraded to their latest versions. Some modules have been upgraded to new major versions, which are not compatible with Puppet 5. Bolt officially dropped support for Puppet 5 in Bolt 3.0.

The following modules have been upgraded to new major versions:
The following module has been upgraded to the latest version and is still compatible with Puppet 5:
- puppetlabs-augeas_core 1.1.2
New analytics about plan function file source (#2687)

Bolt now reports whether a file path is an absolute path or a Puppet file path for the run_script, file::read, and upload_file plan functions.

Bug fixes

Handle plan parameter tags without descriptions (#2672)

Bolt no longer errors if a plan includes a Puppet strings @param tag that does not have a description.
Run YAML plan plan steps with targets key (#2677)

YAML plans that have a plan step with a top-level targets key now pass the targets to the plan.
Test YAML plans with BoltSpec (#2682)

YAML plans can now be tested with BoltSpec.
Convert YAML plans with a null eval step (#2677)

YAML plans that include a null eval step no longer raise an error when converted to a Puppet language plan.
Correctly read SSL key contents in http_request task (#2693)

The http_request now correctly reads key contents from the path passed to the key parameter. Previously, the task used the file path itself as the key contents.
Support run-as configuration when downloading files (#2679)

The run-as configuration for the SSH transport is now supported when downloading files.
Do not send task parameters over stdin when using a tty (#2680)

Tasks with a stdin input method that are run on targets with tty: true configuration no longer return the task's parameters as part of the task output. Previously, Bolt was sending these parameters to the task twice, causing them to be printed to standard out (stdout) and returned in the task output.

Bolt 3.2.0

This version of Bolt was not released.

Bolt 3.1.0 (2021-03-01)

New features

Add Bolt Task directory to PSModulePath (#2633)

Add the bolt task target directory to the PSModulePath to allow Bolt tasks to ship powershell modules that can be automatically imported
Ship with puppetlabs/powershell_task_helper module (#2639)

Bolt now ships with the puppetlabs/powershell_task_helper module, which includes helpers for writing tasks in PowerShell.
Added config_data helper to BoltSpec library (#2615)

The BoltSpec library includes a new config_data helper which can be used to set Bolt configuration in your plan unit tests.

Bug fixes

Support Puppet file syntax for files in a Bolt project (#2504)

Bolt now supports Puppet file syntax (puppet:///modules/<MODULE>/<FILE>) in apply blocks for files in a Bolt projec. Previously, apply blocks would not compile if using this syntax for files in a Bolt project.
Serialize Sensitive task output for Result.to_data method (#2633)

Previously, the to_data method on a Result object did not transform Sensitive task output. Now, the to_data method serializes the output by calling the to_s method on Sensitive output, which will simply print a "value redacted" message.
Improve error messages for bolt script in PowerShell (#2659)

Errors raised from running scripts in PowerShell on targets with an execution policy of Restricted or AllSigned now include clearer messages.
Expose inventory to BoltSpec stubs and mocks (#2615)

Stubs and mocks that use the return_from_targets modifier now have access to Bolt's inventory. Previously, the inventory was not exposed to these stubs and mocks, resulting in 'Undefined method' errors.

Bolt 3.0.1 (2021-02-16)

Bug fixes

Install Puppetfile without modules configured

Bolt now correctly installs a Puppetfile with bolt module install --no-resolve and Install-BoltModule -NoResolve even if the modules key is not configured or is an empty array.
Fix PowerShell Cmdlet Version detection (#2636)

PowerShell users can now run Get-BoltVersion to list the Bolt version. This, and bolt --version should both load more quickly.

Bolt 3.0.0 (2021-02-03)

New features

Ship with Puppet 7 (#2547)

The Bolt gem and Bolt packages now ship with Puppet 7.
Use bolt.bat for execution on Windows (#2551)

This removes the bolt PowerShell function and instead relies on a new bolt.bat file that is included in Bolt packages.
Update default modulepath (#2549)

Bolt's default modulepath is now ['modules'] instead of ['modules', 'site', 'site-modules']. Bolt will also automatically append the project's .modules/ directory to all modulepaths, whether a project uses the default modulepath or a configured modulepath.
Improve bolt powershell task error message (#2509)

Format the exception powershell type tasks throw to make it easier for a user to read the error message.
Local transport's bundled-ruby option defaults to true (#2552)

The local transport's bundled-ruby configuration option, which determines whether to use the Ruby bundled with Bolt packages for local targets, now defaults to 'true' instead of 'false'. The option can still be configured as before.
Ship with puppetlabs/stdlib 6.6.0 (#2606)

Bolt packages now ship with the latest version of the puppetlabs/stdlib module.

Bug fixes

Include plan name in missing_plan_parameter warnings (#2588)

The missing_plan_parameter warning now includes the name of the plan that the message was logged for.

Removals

Remove support for the bolt.yaml configuration file (#2557)

The bolt.yaml configuration file is no longer supported by Bolt. Use bolt-project.yaml and bolt-defaults.yaml instead.
Remove support for Debian 8 (#2556)

Bolt no longer builds or tests packages for the Debian 8 platform.
Remove support for puppet-agent < 6.0.0 (#2422)

Bolt no longer supports puppet-agent versions earlier than 6.0.0. While applying Puppet code to targets with earlier versions of the puppet-agent package installed may still succeed, Bolt no longer guarantees compatibility.
Remove support for PowerShell 2.0 (#2561)

Bolt no longer supports PowerShell 2.0 on the controller or on targets. While running commands and tasks in PowerShell 2.0 may still succeed, Bolt no longer guarantees compatibility.
Remove deprecated command-line options (#2559)

The --boltdir, --configfile, --debug, --description, and --puppetfile command-line options have been removed.
Remove deprecated configuration options (#2553)

The apply_settings, inventoryfile, plugin_hooks, and puppetfile configuration options have been removed.
Remove notice log level (#2560)

Bolt no longer accepts notice as a log level, via the command line or configuration. Use info instead.
Remove bolt puppetfile subcommand (#2558)

Removes the bolt puppetfile * and *-BoltPuppetfile subcommands. Use the bolt module * and *-BoltModule subcommands instead.
Remove support for private-key, public-key parameters in pkcs7 plugin (#2555)

Support for the private-key and public-key parameters in the pkcs7 plugin has been removed. Use the private_key and public_key parameters instead.
Remove source and target YAML plan step keys (#2554)

Support for the source and target keys in YAML plans has been removed. Use upload and targets instead.
Remove aggregate::nodes plan (#2565)

Bolt no longer ships with the aggregate::nodes plan. Use the aggregate::targets plan instead.

Bolt 2.44.0 (2021-01-27)

New features

Hide private plans from bolt plan show and Get-BoltPlan (#1549)

Users can now set the top-level private key in YAML plans, or the @private Puppet string, to mark a plan as private.
Add read-timeout configuration option for PCP transport (#2518)

Users can now configure a read-timeout for HTTP requests to the Orchestrator, which defines how long to wait for a response before raising a Timeout error.
Support additional Puppet settings in apply-settings (#2516)

The log_level, trace, and evaltrace Puppet settings can now be configured under the apply-settings configuration option. These settings will be applied when executing an apply block.
Add resolve key for Forge and git module specifications (#2522)

Forge and git module specifications in bolt-project.yaml now support a resolve key. When setting resolve: false, Bolt will skip dependency resolution for the module, allowing users to include modules with broken metadata or modules hosted in a repository other than a public GitHub repository in their project configuration.
Bolt modules usable with Puppet 7

Modules owned by the Bolt team now have a maximum Puppet version of 8, so are usable with Puppet 7 on the Bolt controller.
Suppress warnings with disable-warnings config option (#2542)

The disable-warnings configuration option accepts an array of warning IDs that are used to suppress warnings in both the CLI and log files. This configuration option is supported in both bolt-project.yaml and bolt-defaults.yaml.

Bug fixes

Only spin while executing run_* plan functions (#2511)

Bolt will now only print the spinner while executing run_*, file_upload, file_download, andwait_until_available plan functions. It also now spins while running those functions equivalent commandline commands. This prevents the spinner from spinning while prompting for output from a plan.
Correctly shadow fact/variable collisions in apply blocks (#2111)

Bolt now correctly shadows target and plan variables that collide with facts of the same name when running apply blocks.
Don't continue executing parallel block when prompting (#2543)

Bolt will now pause printing messages from parallel blocks when prompting the user for input, to avoid confusing printing to the screen.

Bolt 2.42.0 (2021-01-11)

New features

Support module-install config when resolving modules (#2478)

The bolt module add|install commands and Add|Install-BoltModule cmdlets now support the module-install config option when resolving module dependencies.
Updated bundled modules to latest version (#2514)

The following bundled modules have been updated to their latest versions:
Support for project-level plugins (#2517)

Bolt now supports project-level plugins. Similar to module plugins, project-level plugins are implemented as tasks that use specific hooks and are referred to using the name of the project.

Bug fixes

Allow entire inventory to be specified with a plugin (#2475)

Inventory files can now be specified with a plugin. For example, the following inventory file is now valid:
```
---
_plugin: yaml
filepath: /path/to/inventory_partial.yaml
```
Delete transport config keys that resolved to nil (#2512)

Previously, if a plugin reference resolved a transport config key to nil Bolt would still include that key in the target's transport config. This change ensures that nil-resolved transport config keys are deleted during inventory parsing.
Don't stacktrace when converting YAML plans with errors (#2515)

Bolt will now error cleanly instead of stacktracing when users try to convert a YAML plan that has type or syntax errors.

Deprecations

Deprecate puppetfile in favor of module-install (#2361)

The puppetfile configuration option has been deprecated in favor of module-install and will be removed in Bolt 3.0. Users should update their projects to use the module management feature, which uses the module-install option.
Deprecate puppetfile commands (#2361)

The bolt puppetfile * commands and *-BoltPuppetfile cmdlets have been deprecated and will be removed in Bolt 3.0. Users should update their projects to use the module management feature, which uses the bolt module * commands and *-BoltModule cmdlets.

Bolt 2.40.2 (2020-12-18)

Bug fixes

Only print spinner when stdout is a TTY (#2500)

We now only print the spinner when the STDOUT stream is a TTY.
Do not add localhost target to the all group by default in PowerShell (#2505)

Bolt no longer adds the localhost target to the all group by default. Previously, when running Bolt in PowerShell, the localhost target would be added to the all group unintentionally.

Bolt 2.40.1 (2020-12-16)

Bug fixes

Fix bug warning about keys under 'remote' transport (#2477)

Bolt now will not warn when keys are configured for the remote transport in inventory.
Support plugins for suboptions under options that allow plugins (#2483)

All suboptions for config options that support plugins once again support plugins. For example, the key-data suboption for the private-key option can use plugins again.
Load the correct data for plugin invocations (#2487)

Bolt now correctly loads data for the plugin invocation based on the plugin data, not just cache ttl. Previously, any plugins with the same cache configuration would collide in the cache data and overwrite each other, causing the wrong data to be loaded.

Bolt 2.38.0 (2020-12-14)

New features

bundled-ruby local transport config option to enable local defaults (#2400)

Set bundled-ruby in the local transport config to enable or disable the default config currently used for the localhost target.
module-install configuration option (#2303)

Bolt now supports a module-install configuration option in bolt-project.yaml and bolt-defaults.yaml. This option is used to configure proxies and an alternate forge when installing modules using the bolt module add|install commands or Add|Install-BoltModule cmdlets.

This option is not currently supported when resolving module dependencies.
Improved inventory validation (#2413)

Bolt now validates inventory against Bolt's inventory schema and indicates where errors are found.
CLI spinner for long running operations (#2432)

Bolt now has a spinner printed to the CLI for long-running operations, so that users know the Bolt process has not hung. Disable the spinner by setting spinner: false in any Bolt configuration file.
JSON schema for YAML plans (#2046)

Bolt now offers a JSON schema for validating YAML plans.

Bug fixes

Windows local transport returns correct exit codes and accepts pipes (#2299)

When running commands over the local transport on Windows machines, Bolt now returns the exit code returned by the command as opposed to just 0 or 1. It also accepts pipes as part of the command.
Accept plugins in puppetdb config (#2461)

Fixes a regression to once again allow plugins to be used for defining the values of the puppetdb config.

Contributed by Nick Maludy
Only warn that project content won't be loaded if there's project content (#2438)

Bolt will now only warn that project content won't be loaded if the proejct directory has a tasks/, plans/, or files/ directory that may contain content.
Allow caching for PuppetDB plugin (#2469)

Previously, our configuration validation would raise an error if users supplied _cache to the PuppetDB plugin. Cache is now configurable for the plugin.
http_request task converts header names to strings (#4

Headers set under the headers parameter are now converted to strings before making a request. Previously, headers were passed to the request as symbols.

Contributed by barskern

Bolt 2.37.0 (2020-12-07)

New features

Plugin caching (#2383)

Bolt plugins can now be configured to cache their results. Users can either configure a default cache time-to-live for all plugins, or configure each plugin's TTL individually. See the documentation for more information.

This feature is considered experimental.

Bug fixes

Support notice log level (#2410)

Log levels can now be set to notice. Previously, Bolt would raise an error saying that notice was not a supported log level.

Deprecations

Deprecate Powershell 2 support (#2365)

Support for Powershell 2 on both Bolt targets and controllers is deprecated, and will be dropped in Bolt 3.0.
Deprecate bolt.yaml (#2000)

The bolt.yaml configuration file is now deprecated, both at project-level and user/system-level.
Deprecate notice log level (#2410)

The notice log level is deprecated and will be removed in Bolt 3.0. Use the info log level instead.

Bolt 2.36.0 (2020-11-30)

New features

bolt plan new and New-BoltPlan commands no longer experimental

The bolt plan new and New-BoltPlan commands are no longer considered experimental.
Module management workflow no longer experimental

The module management workflow is no longer considered experimental. For more information, see the modules overview in the Bolt documentation.
Configure modules with bolt project init (#2110)

The bolt project init command will now configure the modules key in the bolt-project.yaml file, enabling the bolt module command.
Create inventory.yaml file when creating new projects (#2364)

The bolt project init and New-BoltProject commands now create an inventory.yaml file in the new project.
Log plugin task output at trace level (#2336)

Plugin task output is now logged at trace level.
Improved config validation (#2337)

Bolt now validates config files against Bolt's schemas and indicates which config file an error is found in.
Warn about unknown configuration options (#2376)

Bolt now issues a warning when it detects an unknown configuration option. The warning will indicate where the configuration option is located.
Added value() function to ApplyResult datatype (#2370)

The ApplyResult datatype has a new value() function that returns a hash that includes the Puppet report from an apply under the report key.

Bug fixes

Targets without a uri can now use apply() and get_resources() (#2346)

Previously, if a target had a host set instead of a uri it would error when trying to set the Puppet certname to the target's URI. We now use the target's name instead of the uri as the Puppet certname when compiling catalogs.
Allow loading SSH Config through net-ssh when using native-ssh to fail (#2289

As skipping loading SSH config through the net-ssh gem is not feasible, we allow loading the ssh config to fail and fall back to the inventory file settings or the logged in user.

Contributed by Robert Führicht
Ship puppet_agent manifests directory (#2368)

Bolt now includes the puppet_agent module manifests directory and it's classes in the Bolt gem and packages.

Deprecations

Deprecate --boltdir, --configfile, --puppetfile, and --description command-line options (#2362)

We are planning to remove the --boltdir, --configfile, --puppetfile, and --description command line flags in the next major version of Bolt. This adds deprecation warnings that are printed when users specify any of these flags.
Deprecate inventoryfile configuration option (#2363)

The inventoryfile configuration option has been deprecated and will be removed in Bolt 3.0. Users should move contents from non-default inventory files to the inventory.yaml file in a Bolt project, or can use the --inventoryfile command-line option to load a non-default inventory file.
Deprecate plugin_hooks in favor of plugin-hooks (#2358)

The plugin_hooks configuration option has been deprecated in favor of plugin-hooks.
Deprecate apply_settings in favor of apply-settings (#2357)

The apply_settings configuration option has been deprecated in favor of apply-settings.

Bolt 2.35.0 (2020-11-16)

New features

Set default ports for PuppetDB and Orchestrator (#2304)

Bolt now sets the ports for PuppetDB server_urls and Orchestrator service-url to 8081 and 8143 respectively if the port is not set in config.
Filter project plans and tasks with glob patterns (#2180)

The plans and tasks options in bolt-project.yaml now support glob patterns in addition to plan and task names. Plans and tasks that match a glob pattern will appear in bolt plan|task show and Get-Bolt(Plan|Task) output.
Execute plan functions in parallel with parallelize plan function (#2190)

The new parallelize plan function can be used to execute part of a plan in parallel. It accepts an array of inputs and a block, executes the block on each input, and returns a list of results. This function can be used to continue executing part of a plan across multiple targets without waiting on results to finish for each target.

This feature is experimental.

Bug fixes

Error with invalid YAML plan step type (#2309)

Bolt now errors if a YAML plan step is not a hash. Previously, YAML plans would execute even if a plan step was not a hash.

Bolt 2.34.0 (2020-11-10)

New features

Create new Puppet language plans with --pp flag (#2327)

Bolt can now create new Puppet language plans using the bolt plan new command with the --pp flag or the New-BoltPlan PowerShell cmdlet with the -Pp parameter.
Show PowerShell cmdlets in output when running in PowerShell (#2326)

Bolt output that includes commands will now show PowerShell cmdlets instead of *nix shell commands when running in PowerShell.

Bug fixes

Fix complicated quoting in PowerShell Cmdlets (#2272)

When using the Powershell cmdlets module, Bolt no longer wraps each command in single quotes allowing users to successfully use more complicated quoting patterns.
Don't log task output from plugins (#2329)

Bolt no longer logs the output from plugin tasks, to avoid printing sensitive information to logs.

Bolt 2.33.2 (2020-11-04)

Bug fixes

Fix module name validation for Forge and Git module specifications (#2314)

Forge and Git module specifications now correctly validate the module's name and permit uppercase letters in the owner segment of the module name. Previously, if the owner segment of a module name included uppercase letters, Bolt would raise an error.

Bolt 2.33.1 (2020-11-02)

New features

Updated bundled modules to latest version

The following bundled modules have been updated to their latest versions:
Include file and line number in YAML plan code evaluation errors (#2278)

Errors raised when evaluating code in a YAML plan now include the path to the YAML plan and the line number that the error occurred on in the plan.
File and line number included in plan function errors (#2057)

If the plan functions run_command, run_script, or run_task fail they will now include the file and line number in the details key of the Result object. This information will also be printed when run with info level logging or higher.

Bug fixes

Safely delete tmpdir used to configure Puppet for PAL (#2245)

Bolt now safely deletes the tmpdir used to configure Puppet when using PAL. Previously, if the tmpdir was deleted during a Bolt run before Bolt deleted the directory itself, an error with a stacktrace would be raised.
Do not override SSL variables in PowerShell module (#2171)

The PowerShell module no longer overrides the SSL_CERT_FILE and SSL_CERT_DIR environment variables if they are already set.

Removals

Folded scalar values in YAML plans no longer evaluated (#2306)

Folded scalar values in YAML plans are no longer evaluated and are instead treated as string literals.

Bolt 2.32.0 (2020-10-26)

New features

Add json_endpoint parameter to http_request task (#2)

The http_request task now accepts a json_endpoint parameter. When set to true, the task will convert the request body to JSON, set the Content-Type header to application/json, and parse the response body as JSON.
Git module support for module management feature (#2187)

Git modules can now be specified in bolt-project.yaml and used with the module management feature. Only GitHub modules are supported.

Bug fixes

Fix 'method not found' error when showing inventory (#2269)

Previously, when running bolt inventory show or Get-BoltInventory with a configured inventory path and the human format a 'method not found' error was raised. This now correctly prints the targets in the inventory.
Handle printing preformatted Puppet errors with out::message (#2241)

The out::message plan function now correctly prints preformatted Puppet errors. Previously, printing preformatted Puppet errors would result in a 'stack level too deep' error.

Bolt 2.31.0 (2020-10-19)

New features

Improved output for bolt inventory show and Get-BoltInventory (#2205)

The bolt inventory show command and Get-BoltInventory cmdlet now show if a target was not found in inventory. Output also includes the path to the loaded inventory file and the number of inventory targets and adhoc targets.
Print changes made to Puppetfile when adding modules (#2230)

The bolt module add command and Add-BoltModule cmdlet now display a message describing changes made to the Puppetfile, including modules that have been added, removed, upgraded, or downgraded.
Update bundled modules to latest versions

The following bundled modules have been updated to their latest versions:

Bug fixes

Log when default inventory file cannot be loaded (#2207)

Bolt now logs that it tried but failed to load the default inventory file when the default inventory file does not exist. Previously, Bolt would log that it loaded the default inventory file, even when it was unable to do so.
Add moduledir directive to generated Puppetfile (#2246)

Puppetfiles generated using the bolt module install command and Install-BoltModule cmdlet did not include the moduledir directive.

Bolt 2.30.0 (2020-09-30)

New features

Manage project dependencies with bolt module subcommand (#2082, #2083, #2131, #2134, #2135, #2182, #2184)

The new bolt module subcommand and modules key in project configuration can be used to manage a project's module dependencies, including resolving dependencies and version ranges. To learn more about managing a project's module dependencies with Bolt, see the documentation. To read about why we added this feature, see the developer updates.

This feature is experimental.
HTTP request task (#2103)

Bolt now ships with the http_request module, which includes the http_request task for making HTTP requests.

Bug fixes

Show missing module dependencies when resolving modules (#2224)

Bolt now correctly displays the names of missing module dependencies when resolving modules errors. Previously, if a module dependency was missing, Bolt did not display the name of the missing module.
Invalid YAML plans now fail gracefully (#2197)

Previously, if a YAML plan had a syntax error Bolt would stacktrace due to an assumption about what methods the resulting error had. It now fails gracefully with the line of the error.

Bolt 2.29.0 (2020-09-21)

New features

Read command from a file or stdin using bolt command run (#2125)

The bolt command run command can now read a command from a file or stdin.

Bug fixes

Reliably initialize logger with Bolt log levels (#2188)

Bolt now checks whether the logger includes all of Bolt's log levels if the logger has already been initialized.

Bolt 2.28.0 (2020-09-16)

New features

Define Hiera data to be looked up outside apply blocks under plan_hierarchy key (#1835)

Previously, Bolt used the same Hiera hierarchy for lookups inside and outside apply blocks. Interpolations are only supported in apply blocks, so if a hierarchy included interpolations the user could not look up data outside an apply block. Users can now define a separate, statically configured hierarchy in their Hiera config to be used outside apply blocks.

Bug fixes

Fix warning when running from a gem install

Bolt again properly detects when it's being run from a gem install and emits a warning.
Fix error 'no method found trace' error when running BoltSpec

There was one place where we didn't properly initialize the Bolt logger, causing a stacktrace in some BoltSpec uses. We now properly initialize the Bolt logger.

Bolt 2.27.0 (2020-09-08)

New features

Bolt will now warn if a project has the same name as a module (#2108)

Any module with the same name as the Bolt project will be ignored, and Bolt will now issue a warning to indicate that.

Bug fixes

Ensure task error objects have correct format (#2112)

Bolt now ensures that error objects returned from a task have the correct format and include a msg key. Bolt will also automatically add kind and details keys if they are absent from the object, with default values of bolt/error and {}.
Handle project file writing errors more gracefully (#2116)

Bolt will now warn and continue executing when it fails to write files to the active project. Additionally, any user-specified file data that fails to be written to will error.
Prevent data for the wrong target being used when compiling apply() blocks (#2156)

Previously, a race condition allowed apply() blocks to use data for the wrong target during compilation. This could cause targets to apply incorrect or invalid catalogs.

Bolt 2.26.0 (2020-08-31)

New features

Allow task output to be treated as sensitive (#2086)

Tasks can now return a _sensitive key in their output which can contain an arbitrary value which will be treated as sensitive by Bolt. This means that it won't be printed to the console or logged at any log level, and plans will need to use unwrap() to get the value.
Disable log files by setting them to disable (#2120)

Log files can now be disabled if they were set at a previous level of the hierarchy. This also allows the default bolt-debug.log file to be disabled.
Packages for Fedora 32 (#2042)

Bolt packages are now available for Fedora 32.

Bolt 2.25.0 (2020-08-26)

New features

Add puppet_agent::run plan to run the agent (#2022)

The puppet_agent::run plan will run the agent if it's available and returns a ResultSet including agents that failed and the results from runs that succeeded.

Bug fixes

Correctly handle array parameters in PowerShell (#2118)

Changes the switch statement in the Get-BoltCommandline function to an if/else statement to properly handle parameters that are arrays that are not supposed to be unwrapped.
Initialize logger in BoltSpec::Run (#2117)

Bolt now initializes the logger when using BoltSpec::Run methods. Previously, the logger was not initialized with Bolt's custom log levels, causing BoltSpec::Run to raise an error when it encountered a message being logged to one of these custom levels.

Bolt 2.24.1 (2020-08-24)

Bug fixes

Don't fail if bolt-debug.log can't be created (#2115)

This fixes a bug introduced in Bolt 2.24.0 where Bolt would fail when trying to create the bolt-debug.log file if the Bolt project didn't exist.

Bolt 2.24.0 (2020-08-24)

New features

PowerShell validation for -LogLevel, -Rerun, and -Filter (#2090)

Add PowerShell parameter validation for -LogLevel, -Rerun, and -Filter.
Write a default log file (#2068)

Bolt will now log activity at debug level to bolt-debug.log in the project directory. This log will be truncated each time Bolt runs.
View information about Bolt concepts and features from the CLI (#2078)

Bolt can now display information about various Bolt features and concepts with the new CLI command bolt guide and PowerShell command Get-Help about_bolt_*.
bolt project migrate now updates project files (#2081)

The bolt project migrate command will now update bolt.yaml to bolt-project.yaml and move transport configuration to inventory.yaml. Modified files are backed up to a .bolt-bak directory in the project directory.
Plan conversion maintains plan and parameter descriptions (#2039)

Converting a YAML plan to a Puppet plan will now preserve plan and parameter descriptions, so that plan show output is the same for the YAML plan as the converted Puppet plan.

Bug fixes

Fix PowerShell -Version parameter (#2090)

The PowerShell -Version parameter now looks at the RememberedInstallDir property for Bolt's version file location.
Show YAML plan parameters without default values as required (#2095)

Bolt was displaying YAML plan parameters without default values as optional in bolt plan show output. Now, Bolt will show a parameter without a default value as required.

Bolt 2.23.0 (2020-08-17)

New features

Print objects using out::message() plan function (#2012)

Users can now print any valid data type using the plan function out::message().
bolt project init and New-BoltProject now create bolt-project.yaml (#2003)

bolt project init and New-BoltProject now create a bolt-project.yaml file instead of bolt.yaml. The commands now accept a project name instead of a path to the project directory.
Set interval for repeating block in ctrl::do_until plan function (#2072)

The ctrl::do_until plan function now accepts an interval option. This option accepts a numeric value that specifies the number of seconds to wait before repeating the block.

Bug fixes

Include modules/ in displayed modulepath if it's in the user-configured modulepath

Bolt now includes <bolt-installation-directory>/modules in the displayed modulepath if the user has the path as a component of their configured modulepath. If installed as a package on *nix, bolt-installation-directory would be /opt/puppetlabs/bolt/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/bolt-x.y.z/.
Do not error when analytics configuration file is empty

Empty analytics configuration files would cause Bolt to raise a NoMethodError. Now, if an analytics configuration file is empty, Bolt will instead rewrite the file.
Correctly pass objects to YAML plan message step

Bolt was incorrectly passing objects used in the YAML plan message step, resulting in an error. Any objects used in YAML plan message steps are now correctly passed and printed to the console.

Bolt 2.22.0 (2020-08-10)

New features

Use -Name parameters in PowerShell task and plan cmdlets (#2049)

The Get|Invoke-BoltTask and Get|Invoke-BoltPlan cmdlets now use a -Name parameter instead of -Task and -Plan to specify the name of a task or plan.
Create new project-level YAML plans with bolt plan new (#2004)

Users can now quickly get started with writing a new project-level YAML plan using the bolt plan new command. The command accepts a single argument, the name of the plan to be generated, and creates the necessary directories and file in the project's plans directory.

Note: This feature is experimental and is subject to change.

Bug fixes

Do not modify order of plan variables in catalog compilation (#2025)

Bolt will no longer error during catalog compilation when a plan variable shares the same name as a target variable. Previously, Bolt would modify the order plan variables were listed in a catalog if they shared the name of a target variable, causing catalog compilation to fail when deserializing variables.
Fix parameter description parsing in PowerShell module (#2049)

Removes encoding HTML special characters from the parameter description fields in the PowerShell module.
Reject multi-line project names (#2061)

Previously, Bolt would accept a multi-line string as a project name, causing multiple errors. Bolt will now reject multi-line strings as project names.

Bolt 2.21.0 (2020-08-03)

New features

Specify remote environment variables using --env-var (#1980)

Users can now set environment variables on targets when running commands and scripts using the --env-var CLI option.
Add secure_env_vars plan (#1980)

The new builtin Bolt plan secure_env_vars reads JSON from a special environment variable, BOLT_ENV_VARS, and passes that hash to either run_command or run_script.
YAML plan message step (#2038)

YAML plans now support a message step that prints a message.
Service task now supports enable and disable when available (puppetlabs-service#151)

The builtin Bolt service task now supports enable and disable actions for agentless targets if the actions are available on the target.
New dir::children plan function (#2047)

The new plan function dir::children returns an array containing all of the filenames in the given directory, similar to Ruby's Dir.children().

Bug fixes

Gracefully handle WinRM connection loss (#1982)

Bolt will now detect WinRM connection loss and return an error rather than printing a stacktrace and deadlocking.
Handle existing file errors when downloading files (#2054)

Bolt now handles existing file errors raised when creating the destination directory for file downloads. Previously, if a file already existed somewhere on the destination directory path, Bolt would raise an error with a full backtrace.

Bolt 2.20.0 (2020-07-27)

New features

Added bolt file download CLI command (#1868)

Users can now download files and directories from targets to the local system using the bolt file download CLI command. This command accepts a path to the file or directory to download from the targets and a path to a destination directory on the local system. The destination directory is expanded relative to the project downloads directory, <project>/downloads/.
Add download_file plan function (#1868)

The download_file plan function can be used to download a file or directory from a list of targets to a destination directory on the local system. The result returned from this function includes the path to the downloaded file on the local system.
Add YAML plan download step (#1868)

YAML plans now support a download step which can be used to download a file or directory from a list of targets to a destination directory on the local system.
Add allow_download and expect_download stubs to BoltSpec (#1868)

Users can use the allow_download and expect_download stubs to test plans that contain calls to download_file.

Ship Bolt with PowerShell cmdlets on Windows (#1895)

Bolt now ships with PowerShell cmdlets on Windows. All Bolt commands are mapped to PowerShell cmdlets following approved verb-noun conventions. Unix-like CLI options are also mapped to equivalent PowerShell names (i.e. --targets becomes -targets).

The PowerShell cmdlets are autogenerated from Bolt's source code, ensuring both command-level and parameter-level help is available in the PowerShell help system.

Bolt commands are mapped to the following cmdlets:

Bolt	PowerShell
`bolt apply`	`Invoke-BoltApply`
`bolt command run`	`Invoke-BoltCommand`
`bolt file download`	`Receive-BoltFile`
`bolt file upload`	`Send-BoltFile`
`bolt group show`	`Get-BoltGroup`
`bolt inventory show`	`Get-BoltInventory`
`bolt plan convert`	`Convert-BoltPlan`
`bolt plan run`	`Invoke-BoltPlan`
`bolt plan show`	`Get-BoltPlan`
`bolt project init`	`New-BoltProject`
`bolt project migrate`	`Update-BoltProject`
`bolt puppetfile generate-types`	`Register-BoltPuppetfileTypes`
`bolt puppetfile install`	`Install-BoltPuppetfile`
`bolt puppetfile show-modules`	`Get-BoltPuppetfileModules`
`bolt script run`	`Invoke-BoltScript`
`bolt secret createkeys`	`New-BoltSecretKey`
`bolt secret decrypt`	`Unprotect-BoltSecret`
`bolt secret encrypt`	`Protect-BoltSecret`
`bolt task run`	`Invoke-BoltTask`
`bolt task show`	`Get-BoltTask`

Configure connection and read timeout length in PuppetDB client (#1994)

Users can now configure the connection and read timeout length for the PuppetDB client with the connect_timeout and read_timeout options under the puppetdb config option.
Environment preservation permission no longer required when using run-as (#1993)

Bolt no longer passes the -E flag to sudo when building commands using 'run-as', which allows users who do not have permission to use the flag to use Bolt.

Bug fixes

Do not re-rescue errors raised before config is loaded (#2005)

Errors raised before Bolt's configuration was loaded were raising a second, ambiguous NoMethodError. Bolt now correctly handles errors raised before configuration is loaded and will no longer trigger additional errors.

Deprecations

Deprecate source key for YAML plan upload step (#1868)

The source key used in YAML plan upload steps has been deprecated in favor of a less ambiguous upload key.

Bolt 2.19.0 (2020-07-20)

New features

Support rainbow format on Windows 10 (#1983)

The rainbow format is now supported on Windows 10.

Bug fixes

Do not fail for tasks referring to project-level files (#1984)

Tasks with a files key that refers to files that exist at the project level will now load properly rather than throwing an error.

Bolt 2.18.0 (2020-07-13)

New features

Specify module plugins to sync during apply and apply prep (#1934)

The apply_prep and apply plan functions now accept a _required_modules option that allows plan authors to specify a list of module plugins to sync to targets. When the _required_modules option is not set, all module plugins will be synced.

Contributed by Bert Hajee
Use native-ssh config option to enable native SSH (#1938)

Use the new native-ssh SSH transport configuration option or --native-ssh CLI option to opt-in to the experimental native SSH. The SSH transport configuration option ssh-command no longer enables native SSH.
Support configuring log files in bolt-defaults.yaml (#1968)

The system-wide and user-level default configuration file, bolt-defaults.yaml, now supports configuring log files using the log option.
Do not load projects from world-writable directories (#1894)

Bolt now raises an error when attempting to load a project from a world-writable directory on Unix-like systems. Users who wish to override this behavior and run a project from a world-writable directory should can set the BOLT_PROJECT environment variable to the project directory path.

Bug fixes

Validate inventory-config option in bolt-defaults.yaml (#1963)

Bolt now checks that the inventory-config option in a bolt-defaults.yaml file is a hash and is not a plugin reference before merging configuration files. Previously, setting this value to a hash or plugin reference would raise an unhelpful error.
Don't load default project for every Bolt invocation (#1917)

Bolt will no longer load the default project at ~/.puppetlabs/bolt for every Bolt invocation. Exceptions raised during project loading are now handled correctly and will not show a backtrace.
Correctly detect puppet agent install path on Windows (#1967)

Bolt now correctly detects the Puppet Agent install path on Windows during the initialization steps in a WinRM connection.

Bolt 2.17.0 (2020-07-07)

New features

Set environment variables for commands and scripts (#1899)

The run_command() and run_script() plan functions now support an _env_vars argument which accepts a Hash of environment variable declarations to set when running the command/script.
Add location of plan failures in error messages (#1923)

Errors raised by plan failures now include the location of the plan failure, including the filepath, line, and column.
Add --log-level CLI option (#1920)

The new --log-level CLI option can be used to override the console's log level. It accepts the following log levels: debug, info, notice, warn, error, fatal, any.

Bug fixes

Load projects with an embedded Boltdir when specified on the CLI (#1953)

Bolt now looks for a Boltdir in the directory specified by --project or --boltdir and uses it as the project directory if it is present. Otherwise, the specified directory is used as the project directory.
Support plugin references in JSON schemas (#1900)

The JSON schemas no longer mark plugin references as invalid values when the option can accept a plugin reference. Previously, the schemas would mark any plugin reference as an invalid value.

Bolt 2.16.0 (2020-06-29)

New features

Add --project as an alias for the --boltdir CLI flag (#1931)

The new CLI flag --project can be used in place of --boltdir.

Bug fixes

localhost default config is now target-level instead of group-level (#1904)

Previously, the 'localhost' special default config was merged at the group-level, meaning that group-level config in the inventory would override it. The config is now target-level and must be overridden at the target-level in inventory.
Output plan events when using rainbow format (#1926)

Plan events are now printed when using the rainbow output format
Fix use of spaces in powershell mkdir method (#1927)

Fixes the powershell mkdir command to correctly handle paths with spaces in them. When passed to the command line, paths have to be quoted, the previous code did not handle this. This uses double quotes instead of single quotes to allow string interpolation to happen when it is finally passed to PowerShell.
Upload files with the correct name when destination is a directory (#1928)

Files uploaded to directories will now retain the name of the original source file rather than changing their name to the same name as the destination directory. This also fixes the case where the destination was .

Deprecations

Project names must be explicitly specified (#1871)

Proejct names must now be specified in bolt-project.yaml in order for project-level content to be loaded, rather than the name being inferred by the name of the project directory.

Bolt 2.15.0 (2020-06-22)

New features

Add rainbow output format (#1911)

The new format option rainbow prints success messages in rainbow colors. This option is not available on Windows.
Add bolt-defaults.yaml configuration file (#1845)

Bolt now supports a new bolt-defaults.yaml configuration file in the system-wide and user-level directories. This configuration file is intended to replace the bolt.yaml configuration file in the system-wide and user-level directories in a future version of Bolt. If a bolt-defaults.yaml file exists alongside a bolt.yaml file, Bolt will ignore the bolt.yaml file.

Bug fixes

Log error for unhandled catalog compilation errors (#1881)

We now log whatever is on STDERR when catalog compilation fails in a way that isn't already handled, and raise an ApplyError.
Fix uninitialized constant error for bolt secret createkeys

Running bolt secret createkeys should now succeed, where previously it threw an uninitialized constant error.

Deprecations

System-wide and user-level bolt.yaml is deprecated (#1845)

The system-wide and user-level bolt.yaml files have been deprecated in favor of bolt-defaults.yaml.

Bolt 2.14.0 (2020-06-15)

New features

Load config from bolt-project.yaml (#1842)

Bolt configuration options, excluding transport config, can now be loaded from bolt-project.yaml. If both bolt-project.yaml and bolt.yaml are present in the project and bolt-project.yaml has bolt config keys (e.g. format), bolt.yaml will be ignored.
Specify preferred algorithms for SSH transport connections (#1862)

Users can now specify a list of preferred algorithms to use when establishing connections with targets using the SSH transport with the encryption-algorithms, host-key-algorithms, kex-algorithms, and mac-algorithms config options. Each option accepts an array of algorithms and overrides the default list of preferred algorithms. You can read more about these options in the Bolt configuration reference.
Add resource plan function to find a ResourceInstance on a target (#1874)

This adds a resource plan function that can be used to find a ResourceInstance on a Target object by type and title.

Bug fixes

Improve low ulimit warning (#1870)

Users running Bolt with a low ulimit should only be warned if the number of targets they're running against may cause file limit issues.
Raise correct error when passing unknown plan parameters (#1886)

Bolt was raising an obscure error when a plan received an unknown parameter. It now raises the correct error indicating that the parameter is unknown.
Return correct exit code when running commands in powershell (#1846)

Bolt will now display the correct exit code when running commands in powershell that exit with code > 1.
Empty apply blocks now error correctly (#1880)

This raises an appropriate error when an apply block is empty, instead of an undefined method error.

Bolt 2.13.0 (2020-06-08)

New features

Use task parameter default when specified parameter is Undef (#1847)

Task parameters that are specified with a value of Undef will now use the default parameter value if one is defined in the task's metadata.
Accept resource_type key in resource data hash for set_resources plan function (#1872)

The set_resources function now accepts resource data hashes that have a resource_type key instead of a type key. This allows users to set resources directly from reports from an apply block, which set a resource's type under the resource_type key.
Added [] function to the ResourceInstance data type (#1873)

The [] function can be used to directly access the state hash for a ResourceInstance object and return the specified attribute.

Bug fixes

Project-level content can now be used in apply blocks (#1836)

Project-level classes and defines can now be used in apply blocks and bolt apply.
Correct ResourceInstance.add_event return type (#1869)

Previously, the add_event function had a typo that prevented it from successfully returning. It now correctly expects an Array[Hash[String[1], Data]]].

Bolt 2.12.0 (2020-06-01)

New features

Support --hiera-config option when using bolt apply (#1839)

The --hiera-config option can now be used with the bolt apply command to specify the path to a Hiera configuration file.
Warn when applying manifests that only contain definitions (#1785)

Applying a manifest that only contains definitions with the bolt apply command will now display a warning that no changes will be applied to the targets.
Analytics configuration loaded from user-level config directory (#1843)

Analytics configuration is now written to and loaded from ~/.puppetlabs/etc/bolt/analytics.yaml by default. Bolt will fall back to loading analytics config from ~/.puppetlabs/bolt/analytics.yaml when the file does not exist in the user-level config directory.
Use Sensitive plan parameters with bolt plan run (#1790)

Plans now support parameters with the Sensitive wrapper type when run with the bolt plan run command. Parameters marked as Sensitive will be automatically wrapped with the Sensitive wrapper type upon plan startup.

Bug fixes

Fall back to system-wide config path if homedir expansion fails (#1829)

Bolt now falls back to /etc/puppetlabs/bolt as the default project directory if expanding the homedir fails.

Bolt 2.11.1 (2020-05-28)

Bug fixes

Do not attempt to use Etc::SC_OPEN_MAX when it is not defined (1858)

When the SC_OPEN_MAX constant is not defined (for example when running under JRuby) do not attempt to use it to determine default concurrency.

Bolt 2.11.0 (2020-05-27)

New features

Lower default concurrency when ulimit is low (#1789)

Concurrency defaults to 1/3 the ulimit if ulimit is below 300, and warns if lowered concurrency is used.
Type aliases are available in apply blocks (#1828)

Users can now use type aliases defined on their modulepath inside apply blocks.

Bug fixes

Add Puppet data types to plugin tarball (BOLT-1549)

Puppet types are now added to the plugin tarball when running an apply block.

Contributed by Bert Hajee
Add PuppetObject interface to Bolt data types (#1836)

Bolt data types would sometimes not be deserialized correctly when using apply blocks in plans. All Bolt data types now implement the PuppetObject interface so they can be deserialized correctly.

Bolt 2.10.0 (2020-05-18)

New features

Use plugins to set PuppetDB config (#1771)

Plugin references can now be used to set configuration options for the PuppetDB client used by Bolt, in the puppetdb section of the config.
Packages for Ubuntu 20.04 now available (#1782)

Bolt packages are now available for Ubuntu 20.04.
Added ResourceInstance data type (#1781)

The new ResourceInstance data type is available for use in plans and can be used to store the observed state, desired state, and events for a target's resource.
Added set_resources plan function (#1781)

The set_resources plan function can be used to set ResourceInstances on a Target.
Added resources function to Target data type (#1781)

Target objects have a new resources function that can be used to return a map of ResourceInstances for the target.
Specify a local project directory with a bolt-project.yaml file (#1816)

Directories containing a bolt-project.yaml file are now considered a local project directory.
Allow users to shell out to SSH (#1780)

Users can now specify an SSH command, which Bolt will shell out to when using the SSH transport. This allows users to run SSH as if it were run locally without worrying about Ruby library feature support.

Bug fixes

Expand filepaths passed on the CLI relative to the current working directory (#1791)

Config options hiera-config and private-key are now expanded relative to the directory Bolt was run from when specified on the CLI, inline with other CLI options.

Deprecations

Project configuration file changed to bolt-project.yaml (#1816)

The project configuration file name project.yaml has been deprecated in favor of a more-specific bolt-project.yaml. Bolt will no longer load project configuration from a project.yaml file.

Bolt 2.9.0 (2020-05-11)

New features

Warn when Bolt is installed as a gem (#1779)

Bolt now issues a warning when it detects that it may have been installed as a gem. This warning can be disabled by setting the BOLT_GEM environment to false.

To install Bolt reliably and with all of its dependencies, it should be installed as a package.
Added JSON schemas for validating Bolt configuration files (#1795)

JSON schemas are now available for validating bolt.yaml, inventory.yaml, and project.yaml files.

Bug fixes

Task output that contains invalid UTF-8 is now rejected (#1759)

Tasks are defined as returning UTF-8, but Bolt didn't handle the non-UTF-8 case explicitly, leading to messy error messages and stack traces. The error should now be clear and meaningful.
Non-UTF-8 characters in command and script output are removed before printing (#1759)

Commands and scripts are allowed to return UTF-8, but Bolt would error when trying to print those results or return them as JSON. Now, accessing fields of the result from a Puppet plan will return the values unmodified, but invalid characters will be replaced by their hex-escaped equivalents when printing the result or converting it to JSON.
Improved support for non-UTF-8 character encodings (#1759)

Commands run from a target where the default character encoding is non-UTF-8 will now return proper results when using the WinRM transport.
Fix bolt plan show <plan> for project-level plans (#1799)

This command was throwing errors due to a type mismatch that is now resolved.
Make an ApplyResult a valid PlanResult (#1807)

Plans may now return ApplyResults outside of a ResultSet.

Bolt 2.8.0 (2020-05-05)

New features

Support project-level Puppet content (#1267)

Users can now load Puppet content from the root of the Bolt project directory, such as <boltdir>/tasks. Users must opt-in to this experimental feature by creating a project.yaml in their project directory. This feature is experimental.
Project authors can whitelist bolt * show output (#1756)

Project authors can now whitelist individual bolt [plan|task] show content in project.yaml using the tasks and plans settings.
Added run_task_with plan function (#1673)

The new plan function run_task_with lets you run tasks on a set of targets with target-specific parameters. It accepts a lambda that returns a Hash of parameters for a particular target.
pkcs7 plugin converted to module-based plugin (#1736)

The pkcs7 plugin has been converted to a module-based plugin and includes the pkcs7::secret_encrypt, pkcs7::secret_decrypt, and pkcs7::secret_createkeys tasks.
Require --force option to overwrite existing keys (#1738)

The bolt secret createkeys command now accepts an optional --force option to force secret plugins to overwrite existing keys. The default pkcs7 secret plugin will now error when attempting to overwrite existing keys without the --force option set.
Support default task parameters in plugins (#1754)

Bolt now merges default task parameters for a plugin with parameters set in a bolt.yaml and inventory.yaml file.
Add --hiera-config option for bolt plan run command (#1403)

The bolt plan run command now supports a --hiera-config option that accepts an absolute or relative path to a Hiera config file.
Support lookup plan function outside of apply blocks (#1403)

Plans can now use the lookup plan function outside of apply blocks to look up data with Hiera. The lookup function will use the Hiera config file specified in the Bolt config. Interpolations are not available outside of apply blocks and will cause a plan to error.

Bug fixes

Target objects of the same name are now identical (#1773)

Target objects will now be considered identical in all cases if they have the same name. This allows uniq to operate on arrays of Targets as well as Targets to be used as Hash keys.
Fixed 'broken pipe' errors with SSH and local transports (#1769)

The SSH and local transports could experience broken pipes when using run-as while running a task that accepted input on stdin but didn't read it.
Set gcloud_inventory::resolve_reference task to private (#1783)

The gcloud_inventory::resolve_reference task has been set to private and will no longer appear when using bolt task show.

Deprecations

private-key and public-key options for pkcs7 plugin have been deprecated (#1736)

The pkcs7 plugin now accepts private_key and public_key options. Support for the private-key and public-key options will be removed in a future release of Bolt.

Bolt 2.7.0 (2020-04-27)

New features

Mock out sub-plans in BoltSpec testing (#1630)

New stubs allow_plan and expect_plan are available in BoltSpec::Plans for mocking out run_plan functions during Bolt spec testing. New flags execute_any_plan (default) and execute_no_plan are avilable to control the behavior of sub-plan executions. The new stubs allow_plan and expect_plan work with all of the existing action modifiers except for with_targets and return_for_targets.

Contributed by Nick Maludy
Experimental support for interacting with Windows hosts via PowerShell over SSH (#813)

The login-shell: powershell config setting can be set on a target to connect over SSH while running commands and tasks via PowerShell instead of Bash. This feature requires OpenSSH >= 7.9 on the target.
Print group membership for targets when running bolt inventory show --detail (#1701)

The bolt inventory show --detail command now lists a target's group membership.

Contributed by Nick Maludy
--no-cleanup option to leave behind temporary files (#1729)

The --no-cleanup flag or cleanup: false transport option can now be set to instruct Bolt not to clean up on a target after it's finished. This is useful for debugging what Bolt is doing on a system.
Add prompt plan function (#1755)

The new prompt plan function lets you pause plan execution and prompt the user for input.
OpenSSH config option StrictHostKeyChecking now honored (#1758)

Setting StrictHostKeyChecking in your ssh config will now be loaded and merged with config along with other OpenSSH settings
Support for ed25519 SSH keys (#1758)

Key exchange algorithm curve25519sha256 is now supported
New optional and default keys for the env_var plugin (#1768)

The env_var plugin accepts two new optional keys. The default key allows you to set a default value that the plugin should return when the environment variable is not set, while the option key allows the plugin to return nil when the environment variable is not set instead of erroring.

Bug fixes

Target facts with the same name as a plan or Target variable should not raise an error (#1725)

Previously, defining a fact with the same name as another variable would cause a redefinition error in the apply block, where now referencing the variable will refer to the fact value.

Bolt 2.6.0 (2020-04-20)

New features

Google Cloud inventory plugin (#1707)

Bolt now includes a gcloud_inventory plugin to generate inventory from Google Cloud compute engine instances.
Commands run over local transport on Windows use powershell (#1708)

Previously, the local transport on Windows would exec commands directly, meaning powershell constructs couldn't be used. These commands are now always executed through powershell, so powershell commands and script snippets can be run.
Commands and tasks on Windows now consistently return \r\n (#1708)

The local transport on Windows was returning \n while WinRM returned \r\n. They are now consistent and always use \r\n.

Deprecations

YAML plan step parameter target deprecated in favor of targets (#1722)

The target parameter for YAML plan steps has been deprecated in favor of targets and will be removed in a future release of Bolt.

Bolt 2.5.0 (2020-04-13)

New features

Add Boltspec helper to load Bolt constructs (#1688)

A new helper function in_bolt_context can be used to wrap code that references Bolt constructs, such as the Boltlib::TargetSpec datatype.
Added transport and transport_config functions to Target data type (#1686)

The Target data type now supports a transport function, which returns the transport used to connect to the target, and a transport_config function, which returns a hash of merged configuration for the target's transport.

Bug fixes

Bolt::Util.deep_clone can now clone frozen objects (#1696)

The Bolt::Util.deep_clone method can now clone frozen objects, preserving the 'frozen' attribute
Fix bug in Bolt::Result where nil actions threw an exception (#1714, #1724)

Returning from a plan with results of run_task() on a remote transport that returned nil, threw an exception. Returning from a plan with results of wait_until_available(), threw an exception.

Contributed by Nick Maludy
Fix a bug passing arguments to local shell transport (#1713)

Local shell transport could miss some bytes when writing non-ASCII characters to stdin.
Don't fail when the run-as user's home directory doesn't exist (#1702)

When running commands with run-as set, Bolt will try to cd to the new user's home directory before running the command. If that fails because the directory doesn't exist, it will now run the command from wherever it currently is rather than aborting.
Don't rely on sudo to preserve environment variables (#1702)

Bolt previously set environment variables when invoking sudo and relied on it to preserve them when running the task executable. That behavior isn't reliable for all configurations, so now environment variables are set directly when running the underlying executable.

Bolt 2.4.0 (2020-04-06)

New features

Populate all target attributes in the puppetdb plugin's target_mapping (#1689)

Previously, the target_mapping field only supported populating a target's uri, name and config values. All of a target's attributes can now be specified in the target_mapping field, including facts, vars, features, and alias.

Contributed by Nick Maludy

Bolt 2.3.1 (2020-03-30)

Bug fixes

Validate that a specified Hiera config file exists (#1692)

Bolt was not properly validating that a Hiera config file specified with the hiera-config option in a bolt.yaml existed.

Bolt 2.3.0 (2020-03-23)

New features

Enable basic-auth-only option for WinRM when using SSL (#1658)

Users can now use WinRM Basic authentication when SSL is configured.
Add debugging statements to task errors (#1647)

The ruby_task_helper and python_task_helper modules include new debug and debug_statements helper methods for adding debugging statements to task errors.
Initialize a Bolt project with modules and their dependencies (#1574)

The bolt project init command has a new --modules option that accepts a comma-separated list of modules to install when initializing a project. Modules and their dependencies are fully resolved, saved to a Puppetfile in the project directory, and then automatically installed with bolt puppetfile install.

Bug fixes

Handle cases where loading hardcoded homedir paths fail (#1671)

Bolt's user level config and analytics config paths are hardcoded and include ~, which errors out when getlogin fails to return a user. We now skip loading user level config if loading the file fails, and disable analytics if loading the analytics config fails.

Bolt 2.2.0 (2020-03-10)

New features

Support plugins in bolt.yaml transport configuration (#1591)

Plugins can now be used to configure transports in a bolt.yaml file. Bolt will also provide more helpful error messages when a plugin is used in an unsupported location.

Bolt 2.1.0 (2020-03-02)

New features

New write_file plan function (#1597)

The new plan function, write_file, allows you to write content to a file on the given targets.
Add --puppetfile option for puppetfile install command (#1612)

The puppetfile install command now supports a --puppetfile option that accepts a relative or absolute path to a Puppetfile.
Update reboot plan parameter nodes to targets (puppetlabs-reboot#223)

Users who explicitly set the nodes parameter will need to update the parameter name to targets. Calling the reboot plan with -t or run_plan('reboot', $mytargets) behaves the same as before and does not require an update.
Package Bolt for MacOS 10.15 (#1445)

Bolt packages are now available for MacOS 10.15.

Bug fixes

Fixed performance regression with large inventory files (#1627)

Large inventory groups were taking a long time to validate and should now be faster.
Modifications to an inventory when using run_plan are validated correctly (#1627)

When using run_plan(..., _catch_errors => true) and making invalid modifications to the inventory, errors would be caught but the modifications would still be made to the inventory. Modifications to the inventory are now validated prior to applying them to the inventory.

Bolt 2.0.1 (2020-02-25)

Deprecations and removals

WARNING: Starting with this release, new Bolt packages are not available for macOS 10.11, 10.12, 10.13, and Fedora 28, 29.

Bug fixes

Fixed a performance regression with large inventory files (#1625)

Large inventory groups were taking a long time to load and should now be faster.
project migrate command correctly migrates version 1 inventory files (#1623)

The project migrate command now correctly replaces all nodes keys in an inventory file with targets. Previously, only the first group in an array of groups was having its nodes key replaced.

Bolt 2.0.0 (2020-02-19)

Deprecations and removals

WARNING: Support for macOS 10.11, 10.12, 10.13, and Fedora 28, 29 will be dropped in the near future.

New features

Better output for errors in plans (#1607)

Plans that fail due to an unhandled error now print output the same as if the error were caught and then returned. Failures during compilation of apply() blocks now provide clean error messages.
Filter tasks and plans by substring (#1596)

Users can now filter available tasks and plans when using bolt task show and bolt plan show by using the --filter CLI option. This option accepts a substring to match task and plan names against.

Bug fixes

Bundled resolve_reference tasks set to private (#1599)

resolve_reference tasks in bundled content have been set to private and will no longer appear when using bolt task show.

Backward incompatible changes

Bolt 2.0 contains backward-incompatible changes to the CLI, plan language, and configuration files.

Output changes

JSON output now has target_count instead of node_count
JSON result objects now have target and value keys instead of node and result
The prompt plugin now prompts on stderr instead of stdout

CLI changes

--nodes is removed in favor of --targets
--password and --sudo-password now require an argument

These used to optionally take an argument and would prompt otherwise. Now they require an argument and the new options --password-prompt and --sudo-password-prompt can be used to trigger a prompt.

Plan language changes

add_facts() now returns the Target passed to it

Previously, this function returned the Target's set of facts.
Target.new no longer accepts an options key

Both Target.new("options" => ...) and Target.new($uri, "options" => ...) are now disallowed. Target.new now accepts either a string argument which is the URI or a hash argument shaped like a target in the inventory file.
Puppet datatypes are available in apply() blocks

These types include Target, Result, ResultSet and Error. They previously showed up in apply() blocks as strings or hashes.
get_target() and get_targets() are no longer allowed in apply() blocks

To access targets in an apply() block, call get_target() or get_targets() outside the block and assign the result to a variable.
run_plan(plan::name, $targets) will fail if the plan has both a $nodes and $targets parameter

If a plan has parameters called both $nodes and $targets, they must be set explicitly using named arguments.

Config changes

sudo-password now defaults to the value of password if unspecified
PuppetDB cert, key, cacert and token file paths are expanded relative to the Boltdir instead of the current working directory
Inventory v1 has been removed (#1567)

Inventory v1 is no longer supported by Bolt and has been removed. The inventory now defaults to v2.
The future flag is no longer honored (#1590)

All "future" behavior is now the only behavior.
Support for config key in a plugin's bolt_plugin.json has been removed (#1598)

Plugins can no longer set config in their bolt_plugin.json. Config is instead inferred from task parameters, with config values passed as parameters to the task.

Removals

Support for Ruby 2.3 and 2.4 has been dropped

Ruby 2.5 is now the minimum Ruby version.. This only affects gem installs, as OS packages of Bolt contain their own Ruby.
bolt-inventory-pdb command has been removed

Use the puppetdb plugin in an inventory file to replicate this functionality in a more dynamic way.

Bolt 1.49.0 (2020-02-10)

New features

Add Kerberos support for SSH transport

Users can now authenticate with Kerberos when using the SSH transport.

Bug fixes

Remove apply result hash from human output (#1585)

Apply result hashes will no longer be displayed when using human output. Instead, a metrics message will be shown.

Bolt 1.48.0 (2020-02-03)

New features

Warning when task metadata has unknown keys (#1542)

Unexpected keys in task metadata may signal either a typo or a task that depends on features that aren't in this version of Bolt, so Bolt will now print a warning if it sees such keys.
apply_prep plan function ensures Puppet agent version (#1208)

The apply_prep plan function now attempts to install the specified version of the Puppet agent on a target even when a version of the agent is already installed. If the specified version of the agent cannot be installed, then apply_prep will error.
Add show_diff configuration option (#1433)

Users can now configure the show_diff Puppet setting in their Bolt configuration file, which will be respected when applying Puppet code via Bolt.
Add env_var plugin (#1564)

Bolt now includes a plugin to look up data from an environment variable.
Support _description parameter for apply blocks (#1537)

apply blocks in plans now support a _description parameter that gives the block a description that is displayed in plan output.
Support for system-wide and user-level configuration files (#608)

Bolt now supports system-wide and user configuration files, in addition to the existing project configuration file. File precedence and merge strategy can be found in the Bolt configuration docs.

Bug fixes

Require a message when using the prompt plugin (#1568)

The prompt plugin now correctly requires a message option.

Bolt 1.47.0 (2020-01-27)

Deprecations and removals

The install_agent plugin has been officially removed. The install_agent plugin was deprecated in version 1.35 in favor of the puppet_agent plugin, and is now removed. The plugins have the exact same behavior.
Support for plan method Target.new(<uri>, <options>) will be dropped in Bolt 2.0. Use Target.new(<config>), where config is a hash with the same structure used to define targets in the inventory V2 file. See the docs for more information and examples.
Support for options key in the hash parameter for Target.new() plan function will be dropped in Bolt 2.0. Use Target.new(<config>), where config is a hash with the same structure used to define targets in the inventory V2 file. See the docs for more information and examples.

New features

Remove empty strings and objects from results in human output (#1544)

Human formatted results no longer show empty strings or JSON objects. When a result only has an _options key, and the value is an empty string or whitespace, a message will be displayed saying the action completed successfully with no result.

Bug fixes

SSH commands will run from the home directory of the run-as user, not the connected user (#1518)

Connecting via SSH and then switching users will now run as though it had connected as the new user in the first place, using that user's home directory as the working directory.

Bolt 1.45.0 (2020-01-13)

Deprecations and removals

Support for the bolt-inventory-pdb command will be dropped in Bolt 2.0. Users can use the puppetdb inventory plugin with a v2 inventory file to lookup targets from PuppetDB.
Support for the v1 inventory files will be dropped in Bolt 2.0. Inventory files can be migrated automatically using the bolt project migrate command.

New features

Packages for Fedora 31 (#1373)

Bolt packages are now available for Fedora 31.
Node definitions are supported when applying manifest code (#1338)

Node definitions can now be used with bolt apply (but not yet with apply() blocks in plans). This makes it easier to reuse existing Puppet codebases with Bolt.
Support trusted external facts (#1431)

A new Bolt configuration option trusted-external-command configures the path to the executable on the Bolt controller to run to retrieve trusted external facts. If configured, trusted external facts are available when running Bolt. This feature is experimental in both Puppet and Bolt, and this API may change or be removed.

Bolt 1.44.0 (2020-01-09)

New features

New file::join plan function (#837)

The new plan function, file::join, allows you to join file paths using the separator /.

Bug fixes

The ssh configuration option key-data was not compatible with the future flag (#1504)

Bolt no longer attempts to expand a private-key configuration Hash when key-data is being used in conjunction with the future setting.

Bolt 1.43.0 (2019-12-18)

New features

Plan language objects available inside apply blocks (#1244)

Previously, plan language objects (Result, ApplyResult, ResultSet, and Target) were not available inside apply blocks as objects, only as flat data. They're now accessible as read-only objects, where functions that modify the object (such as $target.set_var) are not available but functions that read data (such as $target.vars) can be used.
run_plan plan function will specify a plan's $targets parameter using the second positional argument (#1446)

When running a plan with a $targets parameter with the run_plan plan function, the second positional argument can be used to specify the $targets parameter. If a plan has a $nodes parameter, the second positional argument will only specify the $nodes parameter.
Add script-dir option for specifying predictable subpath to the tmpdir

When uploading files to remote targets, Bolt uploads them to a tmpdir which includes a randomized directory name. The script-dir option sets a predictable subdirectory for tmpdir where files will be uploaded.
Bundled content updated to use $targets parameter (#1376)

Plans that are part of the canary, puppetdb_fact, and aggregate modules have been updated to use a $targets parameter instead of $nodes. The aggregate::nodes plan still uses a $nodes parameter, but the module now includes a aggregate::targets plan that uses a $targets parameter.
Add sudo-executable transport configuration option (#1200)

When using run-as, the sudo-executable transport configuration option can be used to specify an executable to use to run as another user. This option can be set in a local or ssh config map or with the --sudo-executable flag on the CLI. This feature is experimental.

Bolt 1.42.0 (2019-12-09)

New features

CLI help text updated to be more consistent with other Puppet tools (#1441)

Bolt's help text has been reformatted to be more consistent with the formatting in other Puppet tools.
Packages for Debian 10 (#1444)

Bolt packages are now available for Debian 10.
SSH transport sets sudo-password to the same value as password by default (#1425)

If sudo-password is not set when using run-as, Bolt will set the value of sudo-password to match the value of password. This behavior is gated on the future config option, and will be available by default in Bolt 2.0.

Bug fixes

Default PuppetDB config lookup used hardcoded path in Windows (#1427)

Bolt will now lookup the default PuppetDB config at %COMMON_APPDATA%\PuppetLabs\client-tools\puppetdb.conf instead of the hardcoded path C:\ProgramData\PuppetLabs\client-tools\puppetdb.conf.
Bolt could not find plans in subdirectories of plans directory (#1473)

Bolt now searches for subdir paths, under the plans directory, for plan names when determining if the plan is a Puppet or YAML plan.

Bolt 1.41.0 (2019-12-03)

New features

Added target_mapping field in terraform and aws_inventory inventory plugins (#1404)

The terraform and aws_inventory inventory plugins have a new target_mapping field which accepts a hash of target configuration options and the lookup values to populate them with.
Ruby helper library for inventory plugins (#1404)

A new library has been added to help write inventory plugins in Ruby:
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-ruby_plugin_helper
Use this library to map lookup values to a target's configuration options in a resolve_references task.

Bolt 1.40.0 (2019-12-02)

New features

bolt plan show displays plan and parameter descriptions (#1442)

bolt plan show now uses Puppet Strings to parse plan documentation and show plan and parameter descriptions as well as parameter defaults.
New remove_from_group plan function (#1418)

The new plan function, remove_from_group, allows you to remove a target from an inventory group during plan execution.
Added target_mapping field in puppetdb inventory plugin (#1408)

The puppetdb inventory plugin has a new target_mapping field which accepts a hash of target configuration options and the facts to populate them with.

Bolt 1.39.0 (2019-11-22)

New features

Task metadata can now specify parameter defaults (#1394)

Parameter defaults can be set in the task metadata file and will be used if no value is supplied for the parameter.

Bug fixes

bolt inventory show --detail did not display all target aliases (#1379)

Bolt now displays aliases from all groups, where a target is a member, in the output for bolt inventory show --detail. Previously, only the rightmost alias appeared in the output.
Plugins did not ignore command line flags (#1382)

When running plugins locally to populate config or inventory information, command line flags such as --run-as will no longer be applied to the local transport.
Optional plan parameters referenced in apply blocks issued warning (#1288)

Previously, plan parameters that were explicitly set to undef (optional parameters) and were referenced in an apply block resulted in a warning message when applying Puppet code. The warning is no longer issued when optional parameters are referenced.

Bolt 1.38.0 (2019-11-15)

New features

Addition of a YAML plugin (#1358)

Bolt now includes a plugin to look up data from a YAML file which allows multiple YAML files to be composed into a single Bolt inventory file. This is useful to breakup a large monolithic inventory file or to load user specific data, like credentials, from outside the project directory.
Pass value of --targets or --nodes to TargetSpec $target plan parameter (#1175)

Bolt now passes the value of --targets or --nodes to plans with a TargetSpec $targets parameter.
Support _run_as parameter for puppet_library hook (#1191)

Bolt now accepts the _run_as metaparameter for puppet_library hooks. _run_as specifies which user the library install task will be executed as.
Added --password-prompt and --sudo-password-prompt to CLI flags (#1269)

Two new flags have been added to support users who would like to set a password or sudo-password from a prompt without using a plugin. A deprecation message will appear when a value is not supplied for --password or --sudo-password.
Subcommand project migrate new to the CLI (#1377)

The CLI now provides the subcommand project migrate which migrates Bolt projects to the latest version. When migrating a project the inventory file will be changed from v1 to v2. Changes are made in place and will not preserve comments or formatting.
Plugin support in bolt.yml (#1381)

Plugin configuration can now be set by looking up data from other plugins. For example, the password for one plugin can be queried from another plugin.

Bug fixes

Bolt issued an error for unset environment variables with system::env (#1414)

The system::env function no longer errors when the environment variable is unset.
Results from file::exists and file::readable errored (#1415)

The file::exists and file::readable functions no longer error when the file path is specified relative to a module and the file doesn't exist.

Bolt 1.37.0 (2019-11-08)

New features

New resolve_references plan function (#1365)

The new plan function, resolve_references, accepts a hash of structured data and returns a hash of structured data with all plugin references resolved.

Bug fixes

Allow optional --password and --sudo-password parameters (#1269)

Optional parameters for --password and --sudo-password were prematurely removed. The previous behavior of prompting for a password when an argument is not specified for --password or --sudo-password has been added back. Arguments will be required in a future version.

Bolt 1.36.0 (2019-11-07)

Deprecation

Change arguments for --password and --sudo-password from optional to required (#1269)

The --password and --sudo-password options now require a password as an argument. Previously, if the password was omitted the user would be prompted to enter one. To continue to be prompted for a password, use the prompt plugin.
Favor --targets over --nodes (#1375)

The --nodes command line option has been deprecated in favor of --targets. When using --nodes, a deprecation warning will be displayed.

New features

Add --detail option for inventory show command (#1200)

The inventory show command now supports a --detail option to show resolved configuration for specified targets.
prompt messages print to stderr (#1269)

The prompt plugin now prints messages to stderr instead of stdout.
Subcommand project init new to the CLI (#1285)

The CLI now provides the subcommand project init which creates a new file bolt.yaml in the current working directory, making the directory a Bolt project directory.
Bolt issues a warning when inventory overrides a CLI option (#1341)

Bolt issues a warning when an option is set both on the CLI and in the inventory, whether the inventory loads from a file or from the bolt_inventory environment variable.

Bug fixes

Some configured paths were relative to Boltdir and some were relative to the current working directory (#1162)

This fix standardizes all configured paths, including the modulepath, to be relative to the Boltdir. It only applies to file-based configs, not command line flags which expand relative to the current working directory. It is gated on the future config option, and will be available by default in Bolt 2.0.

1.35.0 (2019-10-25)

Deprecation

Replace install_agent plugin with puppet_agent module (#1294)

The puppetlabs-puppet_agent module now provides the same functionality as the install_agent plugin did previously. The install_agent plugin has been removed and the puppet_agent module is now the default plugin for the puppet_library hook. If you do not use the bundled puppet_agent module you will need to update to version 2.2.1 of the module. If you reference the install_agent plugin you will need to now reference puppet_agent instead.

New features

Support limit option for do_until function (#1270)

The do_until function now supports a limit option that prevents it from iterating infinitely.
Improve parameter passing for module plugins (#1322)

In the absence of a config section in bolt_plugin.json, Bolt will validate any configuration options in bolt.yaml against the schema for each task of the plugin’s hook. Bolt passes the values to the task at runtime and merges them with options set in inventory.yaml.

1.34.0 (2019-10-17)

New features

Harmonize JSON and Puppet language Result Objects (#1245)

Previously the JSON representation of a Result object showed different keys than were available when working with the object in a plan. This feature makes the same keys available in both the JSON representation and the Puppet object. It is only available when the future flag is set to true in the bolt configuration file.
The add_facts plan function returns a Target object (#1211)

The add_facts function now returns a Target object to match the set_* plan functions for consistency and to allow chaining. This feature is only available when the future flag is set to true in the bolt configuration file.

Bug fixes

Failed to log transport type when making a connection (#1307)

When making a connection to a target node, Bolt now logs the transport type (for example, WinRM or SSH) at debug level.
Error when calling puppet_library hook of external plugin (#1321)

Bolt no longer errors when calling the puppet_library hook of a module-based plugin.
apply_prep failed when plugin_hooks key was not set using inventory version 2 (#1303)

When the plugin_hooks key was not set for a target/group in inventory version 2, the apply_prep function would not work. Bolt now uses the default plugin_hooks and honors plugin_hooks from Bolt config when using inventory version 2.
Unhelpful error message when parsing malformed yaml files (#1296)

When parsing a malformed yaml file, Bolt now gives an error message containing the path to the file and the line and column in the file where the error originated.
run_task function didn't respect _noop option (#1207)

When calling the run_task function from a plan with the _noop metaparameter, _noop is now passed to the task.

1.33.0 (2019-10-10)

Bug fixes

Bolt failed to load azure_inventory plugin (#1301)

Bolt now looks in the default modulepath when loading plugins, so it can successfully load the Azure inventory plugin.

New features

When referring to Targets in log or output, use their safe_name (#1243)

When using inventory version 2, a Target's safe_name is the uri minus the password (unless the Target has an explicitly defined name, in which case safe_name is the value of name). For inventory version 1, safe_name is the value of host.
The ResultSet type is now indexable (#1178)

When working with ResultSet types in plans, use the bracket [] operator to get Results by index.
Log file transfer details at debug level (#1256)

When Bolt transfers a file, it logs hostname and filepath details at the debug level. Previously Bolt did not log this information.

1.32.0 (2019-10-04)

Bug fixes

The plan function apply incorrectly returned successful if the report was unparseable (#1241)

Unexpected results for the result of an apply are now treated as errors.
interpreters with spaces fail with the WinRM transport (#1158)

The interpreters setting on the WinRM transport now supports spaces in the path to an interpreter.
Resource Types were not registered while running plans (#1140)

Running puppetfile generate-types will now generate all built-in types and types on the modulepath, and make those resource types available for plan execution.

New features

Azure inventory plugin (#1148)

A new module based plugin allows the discovery of Bolt targets from Azure VMs.
Clear API for Target (#1125)

An updated Target API for creating and configuring Bolt Targets during plan execution with inventory version 2 is now available.
New stub for out::message available for BoltSpec::Plans (#1217)

Users can now use BoltSpec::Plans to test plans that contain calls to out::message.
New sub command bolt group show (#537)

The CLI now provides a new command bolt group show that will list all of the groups in the inventory file.

1.31.1 (2020-09-27)

Bug fixes

Spurious plan failures and warnings on startup

Eliminated a race condition with the analytics client that could cause Bolt operations to fail or extraneous warnings to appear during startup.

1.31.0 (2019-09-26)

Deprecations and removals

WARNING: Changes to aws::ec2, pkcs7, and task plugins.

To improve consistency of plugin behavior, there are three changes to plugins. The aws::ec2 plugin is now named aws_inventory. The pkcs7 plugin now expects a field called encrypted_value rather than encrypted-value. The task plugin now expects tasks to return both Target lists and config data under the value key instead of the targets or values keys.

Bug fixes

Tried to read cacert file when using WinRM without SSL (#1164)

When using the WinRM transport without SSL, Bolt no longer tries to read the cacert file. This avoids confusing errors when cacert is not readable.
Some configuration options would not support file path expansion (#1174)

The token-file and cacert file paths for the PCP transport, and the cacert file path for the WinRM transport all now support file expansion.

New features

Plugins can ship with modules (1.31.0)

Modules can now include Bolt plugins by adding a bolt_plugin.json file at the top level. Users can configure these task-based plugins in bolt.yaml. (#1133)

1.30.1 (2019-09-19)

Deprecations and removals

WARNING: Starting with this release the puppetlabs apt repo for trusty (Ubuntu 1404) no longer contains new puppet-bolt packages.

Bug fixes

apply blocks would ignore the _run_as argument passed to their containing plan (#1167)

Apply blocks in sub-plans now honor the parent plan's _run_as argument.
Task parameters with type in the name were filtered out in PowerShell version 2.x or earlier (#1205)

PowerShell tasks executed on targets with PowerShell version 2.x or earlier can now use task parameters with the string type in the name (though a parameter simply named type is still incompatible). PowerShell version 3.x or higher does not have this limitation.

1.30.0 (2019-09-05)

Deprecations and removals

WARNING: Ubuntu 14.04 support will be dropped in the near future. Users can install Bolt from the Ubuntu 16.04 package.

New features

Allow users to configure apply_prep plan function (#1123)

Users can now configure how the Puppet agent gets installed when a plan calls the apply_prep function. Users can configure two plugins:
- install_agent, which maintains previous apply_prep behavior and is the default
- task, which allows users to either use the puppet_agent::install task with non-default parameters, or use their own task.
Add CHANGELOG.md (#1138)

Bolt now tracks release notes about new features, bug fixes, and deprecation warnings in a CHANGELOG.md file in the root of the repo. This file is updated per pull request. As the CHANGELOG file, I'd argue it's the best file in the whole repo.

Bug fixes

task show and plan show modulepaths used incorrect file path separator (#1183)

The modulepath displayed by bolt task show and bolt plan show now uses an OS-correct file path separator.
bolt-inventory-pdb was not installed on path (#1172)

During Bolt installation, the bolt-inventory-pdb tool is now installed on the user's path.
Task helpers did not print errors (puppetlabs/puppetlabs-ruby_task_helper#5 and puppetlabs/puppetlabs-python_task_helper#)

The Ruby task helper and Python task helper now wrap error results in { _error: < error >} and correctly display errors.

1.29.1 (2019-08-22)

Bug fixes

Tasks with input method stdin hung with the --tty option (#1129)

Tasks no longer hang over the SSH transport when the input method is stdin, the --tty option is set, and the --run-as option is unset.
Docker transport was incompatible with the Windows Bolt controller (#1060)

When running on Windows, the Docker transport can now execute actions on Linux containers.

1.29.0 (2019-08-15)

New features

Remote state files for Terraform inventory plugin

The Terraform plugin for inventory configuration now supports both local and remote state files. (BOLT-1469)
Reorganized command reference documentation

The command reference documentation now shows a list of options available for each command, instead of having separate sections for commands and options. (BOLT-1422)

Bug fixes

Using --sudo-password without --run-as raised a warning

CLI commands that contain --sudo-password but not --run-as now run as expected without any warnings. (BOLT-1514)

1.28.0 (2019-08-08)

New features

YAML plans automatically call apply_prep before executing a resources step

Bolt automatically calls apply_prep on all target nodes before running any resources step in a YAML plan. (BOLT-1451)
Bolt images are published to Docker Hub

We now publish Bolt container images to the Puppet Docker Hub when releasing new versions. (BOLT-1407)
AWS plugin has a new location for configuring information

You now configure the AWS plugin in the configuration file's plugin section instead of its aws section. (BOLT-1501)
Use Vault KV secrets engine to populate inventory fields

You can now populate inventory configuration fields (such as passwords) by looking up secrets from a Vault KV engine. (BOLT-1424)
Users are alerted to analytics policies

When Bolt first runs, it warns users about collecting and sending analytics and gives instructions for turning analytics collection off. (BOLT-1487)
Improved documentation for converting plans from YAML to the Puppet language

Bolt documentation explains what structures within a YAML plan can't fully convert into a Puppet language plan. (BOLT-1286)

Bug fixes

Bolt actions hung over SSH when ProxyCommand is set in OpenSSH config

A new disconnect-timeout configuration option for the SSH transport ensures that SSH connections are terminated. (BOLT-1423)

1.27.1 (2019-08-01)

Bug fixes

Calling get_targets in manifest blocks with inventory version 2 caused an exception

get_targets now returns a new Target object within a manifest block with inventory version 2. When you pass the argument all with inventory v2, get_targets always returns an empty array. (BOLT-1492)
Bolt ignored script arguments that contain "="

Bolt now properly recognizes script arguments that contain "=". For example, bolt script run myscript.sh foo a=b c=d -n mynode recognizes and uses all three arguments. (BOLT-1412)

1.27.0 (2019-07-25)

New features

Use WinRM with Kerberos

You can now use Kerberos to authenticate WinRM connections from a Linux host node. This feature is experimental. (BOLT-126)
New analytics about Boltdir usage

Bolt now reports analytics about whether it is using a Boltdir in the default location, a Boltdir in a user-specified location, or a bare bolt.yaml without a Boltdir. (BOLT-1315)
AWS inventory discovery integration

You can now dynamically load AWS EC2 instances as Bolt targets in the inventory. (BOLT-1328)
New analytics for inventory plugins

Bolt now sends an analytics event when it uses the built-in inventory plugins. (BOLT-1410)

Bug fixes

Bolt debug output showed task and script arguments as Ruby hashes, not JSON

Bolt debug output now prints task and script arguments as JSON instead of Ruby hashes. (BOLT-1456)
out::message didn't print when format=json

The out::message standard plan function now prints messages as expected even when it is configured to use JSON. (BOLT-1455)

1.26.0 (2019-07-10)

New features

Options for PCP transport now configurable in bolt.yaml

The job-poll-timeout and job-poll-interview options for the PCP transport are now configurable in bolt.yaml. (BOLT-1425)
Task plugin improvements

The task plugin now enables you to run a task to discover targets or look up configuration information in the version 2 inventory file. (BOLT-1408)
Ability to see nodes in an inventory group

You can now see what nodes a Bolt command acts on using the bolt inventory show subcommand. Pass a targeting option, such as -n node1,node2, -n groupname, -q query, --rerun, and other targeting options to specify which nodes to list. (BOLT-1398)
Support for an apply step

YAML plans now support applying Puppet resources with a resources step. (BOLT-1222)

Bug fixes

Modulepath now handles folder names in uppercase characters on Windows

Bolt now prints a warning stating that it is case sensitive when the specified path is not found but another path is found with different capitalization. For example, if the actual path is C:\User\Administrator\modules but the user specifies C:\user\administrator\modules, a warning states that the specified path was not used and that the correct path is C:\User\Administrator\modules. (BOLT-1318)

1.25.0 (2019-06-28)

Bug fixes

out::message didn't work inside without_default_logging

The out::message standard library plan function now works within a without_default_logging block. (BOLT-1406)
Task action stub parameter method incorrectly merged options and arguments

When a task action stub expectation fails, the expected parameters are now properly displayed. (BOLT-1399)

Deprecations and removals

lookups removed from target_lookups

We have deprecated the target-lookups key in the experimental inventory file v2. To address this change, migrate any target-lookups entries to targets and move the plugin key in each entry to _plugin.

1.24.0 (2019-06-21)

New features

Help text only lists options for a given command

Help text now only shows options for the specified subcommand and action. Previously, all options were displayed in the help text, even if those options did not apply to the specified subcommand and action. (BOLT-1342)
Packages for Fedora 30

Bolt packages are now available for Fedora 30. (BOLT-1302)
Adds support for embedding eyaml data in the inventory

This change adds a hiera-eyaml compatible pkcs7 plugin and support for embedding eyaml data in the inventory. (BOLT-1270)
Allow $nodes as positional arg for run_plan

This change allows the run_plan function to be invoked with $nodes as the second positional argument, so that it can be used the same way run_task is used. (BOLT-1197)

1.23.0 (2019-06-14)

New features

catch_errors function

The new plan function, catch_errors, accepts a list of types of errors to catch and a block of code to run where, if it errors, the plan continues executing. (BOLT-1316)
Forge baseurl setting in puppetfile config

The puppetfile config section now supports a Forge subsection that you can use to set an alternate Forge location from which to download modules. (BOLT-1376)

Bug fixes

The wait_until_available function returned incorrect results using orchestrator

When using the PCP transport, the plan function wait_until_available now returns error results only for targets that can't be reached. (BOLT-1382)
PowerShell tasks on localhost didn't use correct default PS_ARGS

PowerShell scripts and tasks run over the local transport on Windows hosts no longer load profiles and are run with the Bypass execution policy to maintain parity with the WinRM transport. (BOLT-1358)

1.22.0 (2019-06-07)

New features

Proxy configuration

You can now specify an HTTP proxy for bolt puppetfile install in bolt.yaml, for example:
```
puppetfile:
  proxy: https://proxy.example.com
```
Support for version 4 Terraform state files

Target-lookups using the Terraform plugin are now compatible with the version 4 Terraform state files generated by Terraform version 0.12.x. (BOLT-1341)
Prompt for sensitive data from inventory v2

A new prompt plugin in inventory v2 allows setting configuration values via a prompt. (BOLT-1269)

1.21.0 (2019-05-29)

New features

Set custom exec commands for Docker transport

New configuration options, shell-command and tty, for the Docker transport allow setting custom Docker exec commands.
Check existence and readability of files

New functions, file::exists and file::readable, test whether a given file exists and is readable, respectively. (BOLT-1338)
Output a message

The new out::message function can be used to print a message to the user during a plan. (BOLT-1325)
Return a filtered ResultSet with a ResultSet

A new filter_set function in the ResultSet data type filters a ResultSet with a lambda to return a ResultSet object. (BOLT-1337)
Improved error handling for unreadable private keys

A more specific warning is now surfaced when an SSH private key can't be read from Bolt configuration. (BOLT-1297)
Look up PuppetDB facts in inventory v2

The PuppetDB plugin can now be used to look up configuration values from PuppetDB facts for the name, uri, and config inventory options for each target. (BOLT-1264)

Deprecations and removals

Configuration location ~/.puppetlab/bolt.yaml

When the Boltdir was added as the local default configuration directory, the previous directory, ~/.puppetlab/bolt.yaml, was deprecated in favor of ~/.puppetlabs/bolt/bolt.yaml. For more information on the current default directory for configfile, inventoryfile and modules, see Configuring Bolt. (BOLT-503)

1.20.0 (2019-05-16)

New features

Terraform plugin in inventory v2

A new plugin in inventory v2 loads Terraform state and map resource properties to target parameters. This plugin enables using a Terraform project to dynamically determine the targets to use when running Bolt. (BOLT-1265)
Type info available in plans

A new to_data method is available for plan result objects that provides a hash representation of the object. (BOLT-1223)
Improved logging for apply

The Bolt apply command and the apply function from plans now show log messages for changes and failures that happened while applying Puppet code. (BOLT-901)

Bug fixes

Inventory was loaded for commands that didn't use it

Inventory was loaded even for commands that don't use targets, such as bolt task show. An error in the inventory could subsequently cause the command to fail. (BOLT-1268)
YAML plan converter wrapped single-line evaluation steps

The bolt plan convert command wrapped single-line evaluation steps in a with statement unnecessarily. (BOLT-1299)

1.19.0 (2019-05-03)

New features

Convert YAML plans to Puppet plans

You can now convert YAML plans to Puppet plans with the bolt plan convert command. (BOLT-1195)
Improved error handling for missing commands

A clear error message is now shown when no object is specified on the command line, for example bolt command run --nodes <NODE_NAME>. (BOLT-1243)

1.18.0 (2019-04-25)

New features

Inventory file version 2

An updated version of the inventory file, version 2, is now available for experimentation and testing. In addition to several syntax changes, this version enables setting a human readable name for nodes and dynamically populating groups from PuppetDB queries. This version of the inventory file is still in development and might experience breaking changes in future releases. (BOLT-1232)
YAML plan validation

YAML plan validation now alerts on syntax errors before plan execution. (BOLT-1194)

Bug fixes

File upload stalled with local transport using run-as

The bolt file upload command stalled when using local the local transport if the destination file existed. (BOLT-1262)
Rerun file wasn't generated without an existing project directory

If no Bolt project directory existed, a .rerun.json file wasn't created, preventing you from rerunning failed commands. Bolt now creates a default project directory when one doesn't exist so it can generate .rerun.json files as expected. (BOLT-1263)

1.17.0 (2019-04-19)

New features

Rerun failed commands

Bolt now stores information about the last failed run in a .rerun.json file in the Bolt project directory. You can use this record to target nodes for the next run using --retry failure instead of --nodes.

For repositories that contain a Bolt project directory, add $boltdir/.last_failure.json to .gitignore files.

Stored information may include passwords, so if you save passwords in URIs, set save-failures: false in your Bolt config file to avoid writing passwords to the .rerun.json file. (BOLT-843)

Bug fixes

SELinux management didn't work on localhost

Bolt now ships with components similar to the Puppet agent to avoid discrepancies between using a puppet-agent to apply Puppet code locally versus using the Bolt puppet-agent. (BOLT-1244)

1.16.0 (2019-04-11)

New features

Packaged hiera-eyaml Gem

Bolt packages now include the hiera-eyaml Gem. (BOLT-1026)
Local transport options for run-as, run-as-command, and sudo-password

The local transport now accepts the run-as, run-as-command, and sudo-password options on non-Windows nodes. These options escalate the system user (who ran Bolt) to the specified user, and behave like the same options using the SSH transport. \_run_as can also be configured for individual plan function calls for the local transport. (BOLT-1052)
Localhost target applies the puppet-agent feature

When the target hostname is localhost, the puppet-agent feature is automatically added to the target, because the Puppet agent installed with Bolt is present on the local system. This functionality is available on all transports, not just the local transport. (BOLT-1200)
Tasks use the Bolt Ruby interpreter only for localhost

Bolt sets its own installed Ruby as the default interpreter for all *.rb scripts running on localhost. Previously, this default was used on all commands run over the local transport; it's now used when the hostname is localhost regardless of the transport. (BOLT-1205)
Fact indicates whether Bolt is compiling a catalog

If Bolt is compiling a catalog, $facts['bolt'] is set to true, allowing you to determine whether modules are being used from a Bolt catalog. (BOLT-1199)

Bug fixes

Linux implementation of the service and package tasks returned incorrect results

The PowerShell and Bash implementations for the service and package tasks are more robust and provide output more consistent with the Ruby implementation. (BOLT-1103, BOLT-1104)

1.15.0 (2019-03-29)

New features

YAML plans

You can now write plans in the YAML language. YAML plans run a list of steps in order, which allows you to define simple workflows. Steps can contain embedded Puppet code expressions to add logic where necessary. For more details about YAML plans, see Writing plans in YAML. For an example of a YAML plan in use, see the Puppet blog. (BOLT-1150)

This version also adds analytics data collection about the number of steps and the return type of YAML plans. (BOLT-1193)
Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

A Bolt package is now available for RHEL 8. (BOLT-1204)
Improved load time

Bolt startup is now more efficient. (BOLT-1119)
Details about Result and ResultSet objects

The Result and ResultSet objects now include information in the JSON output about the action that generated the result. (BOLT-1125)
Inventory warning about unexepected keys

An informative warning message is now logged when invalid group or node configuration keys are detected in the inventoryfile. (BOLT-1017)
BoltSpec::Run support for uploading files to remote systems

BoltSpec::Run now supports the upload_file action. (BOLT-953)

Bug fixes

Remote tasks could run on non-remote targets

Remote tasks can now be run only on remote targets (BOLT-1203)
known_hosts weren't parsed correctly

Previously, when a valid hostname entry was present in known_hosts and the host-key-check SSH configuration option was set, host key validation could fail when a valid IP address was not included in the known_hosts entry. This behavior was inconsistent with system SSH where the IP address is not required. Host key checking has been updated to match system SSH. (BOLT-495)
Plan variables were visible to sub-plans

Variables defined in scope in a plan were visible to sub-plans called with run_plan. (BOLT-1190)

1.14.0 (2019-03-15)

New features

Support for Puppet device modules in a manifest block

You can now apply Puppet code on targets that can't run a Puppet agent using the remote transport via a proxy. This is an experimental feature and might change in future minor (y) releases. (BOLT-645)
Validation and error handling for invalid PCP tokens

The PCP transport token-file configuration option now includes validation and a more helpful error message. (BOLT-1076)

1.13.1 (2019-03-07)

Bug fixes

The _run_as option was clobbered by configuration

The run-as configuration option took precedence over the _run_as parameter when calling run_* functions in a plan. The _run_as parameter now has a higher priority than config or CLI. (BOLT-1050)
Tasks with certain configuration options failed when using stdin

When both interpreters and run-as were configured, tasks that required parameters to be passed over stdin failed. (BOLT-1155)

1.13.0 (2019-02-27)

New features

SMB file transfer on Windows

When transferring files to a Windows host, you can now optionally use the SMB protocol to reduce transfer time. You must have either administrative rights to use an administrative share, like \host\C$, or use UNC style paths to access existing shares, like \host\share. You can use SMB file transfers only over HTTP, not HTTPS, and SMB3, which supports encryption, is not yet supported. (BOLT-153)
Interpreter configuration option

An interpreters configuration option enables setting the interpreter that is used to execute a task based on file extension. This options lets you override the shebang defined in the task source code with the path to the executable on the remote system. (BOLT-146)
Improved error handling

Clearer error messages now alert you when you use plan functions not meant to be called in manifest blocks. (BOLT-1131)

Bug fixes

Ruby task helper symbolized only top-level parameter keys

Previously the ruby_task_helperTaskHelper.run method symbolized only-top level parameter keys. Now nested keys are also symbolized. (BOLT-1053)

1.12.0 (2019-02-21)

New features

Updated project directory structure

Within your project directory, we now recommend using a directory called site-modules, instead of the more ambiguously named site, to contain any modules not intended to be managed with a Puppetfile. Both site-modules and site are included on the default modulepath to maintain backward compatibility. (BOLT-1108)
bolt puppetfile show-modules command

A new bolt puppetfile show-modules command lists the modules, and their versions, installed in the current Boltdir. (BOLT-1118)
BoltSpec::Run helpers accept options consistently

All BoltSpec::Run helpers now require the params or arguments argument to be passed. (BOLT-1057)

Bug fixes

String segments in commands had to be triple-quoted in PowerShell

When running Bolt in PowerShell with commands to be run on *nix nodes, string segments that could be interpreted by PowerShell needed to be triple-quoted. (BOLT-159)

1.11.0 (2019-02-08)

New features

bolt task show displays module path

Task and plan list output now includes the module path to help you better understand why a task or plan is not included. (BOLT-1027)
PowerShell scripts over the PCP transport

You can now run PowerShell scripts on Windows targets over the PCP transport. (BOLT-830)
RSA keys with OpenSSH format

RSA keys stored in the OpenSSH format can now be used for authentication with the SSH transport. (BOLT-1124)
Support for new platforms

Bolt packages are now available for Fedora 28 and 29 (BOLT-978), and macOS 10.14 Mojave (BOLT-1040)

Bug fixes

Unsecured download of the puppet_agent::install task

The bash implementation of the puppet_agent::install task now downloads packages over HTTPS instead of HTTP. This fix ensures the download is authenticated and secures against a man-in-the-middle attack.

1.10.0 (2019-01-16)

New features

Hyphens allowed in aliases and group names

Node aliases and group names in the Bolt inventory can now contain hyphens. (BOLT-1022)

Bug fixes

Unsecured download of the puppet_agent::install_powershell task

The PowerShell implementation of the puppet_agent::install task now downloads Windows .msi files using HTTPS instead of HTTP. This fix ensures the download is authenticated and secures against a man-in-the-middle attack.

1.9.0 (2019-01-10)

New features

Improved out-of-the-box tasks

The package and service tasks now select task implementation based on available target features while their platform-specific implementations are private. (BOLT-1049)
Respect multiple PuppetDB server_urls

Bolt now tries to connect to all configured PuppetDBserver_urls before failing. (BOLT-938)

Bug fixes

Bolt crashed if PuppetDB configuration was invalid

If an invalid puppetdb.conf file is detected, Bolt now issues a warning instead of crashing (BOLT-756)
Local transport returned incorrect exit status

Local transport now correctly returns an exit code instead of the stat of the process status as an integer. (BOLT-1074)

1.8.1 (2019-01-04)

Bug fixes

Standard library functions weren't packaged in 1.8.0

Version 1.8.0 didn't include new standard library functions as intended. This release now includes standard library functions in the gem and packages. (BOLT-1065)

1.8.0 (2019-01-03)

New features

Standard library functions

Bolt now includes several standard library functions useful for writing plans, including:
- ctrl::sleep
- ctrl::do_until
- file::read
- file::write
- system::env
See Plan execution functions and standard libraries for details. (BOLT-1054)

Bug fixes

puppet_agent::install task didn't match on Red Hat

The puppet_agent::install task now uses updates in the facts task to resolve Red Hat operating system facts and to download the correct puppet-agent package. (BOLT-997)

1.7.0 (2018-12-19)

New features

Configure proxy SSH connections through jump hosts

You can now configure proxy SSH connections through jump hosts from the inventory file with the proxyjump SSH configuration option. (BOLT-1039)
Query resource states from a plan

You can now query resource states from a plan with the get_resources function. (BOLT-1035)
Specify an array of directories in modulepath

You can now specify an array of directories for the modulepath setting in bolt.yaml, rather than just a string. This change enables using a single bolt.yaml on both *nix and Windows clients. (BOLT-817)
Save keystrokes on modulepath, inventoryfile, and verbose

You can now use shortened command options for modulepath (-m), inventoryfile (-i), and verbose (-v). (BOLT-1047)

Bug fixes

Select module content missing from puppet-bolt package

Previous releases of the puppet-bolt package omitted the python_task_helper and ruby_task_helper modules. These are now included. (BOLT-1036)

1.6.0 (2018-12-13)

New features

Remote tasks

You can now run tasks on a proxy target that remotely interacts with the real target, as defined by the run-on option. Remote tasks are useful for targets like network devices that have limited shell environments, or cloud services driven only by HTTP APIs. Connection information for non-server targets, like HTTP endpoints, can be stored in inventory. (BOLT-791)
reboot module plan

Bolt now ships with the reboot module, and that module now provides a plan that reboots targets and waits for them to become available. (BOLT-459)
Local transport on Windows

The local transport option is now supported on Windows. (BOLT-608)
bolt_shim module contents marked as sensitive

The bolt_shim module that enables using Bolt with PE now marks file content as sensitive, preventing it from being logged or stored in a database. (BOLT-815)

Bug fixes

wait_until_available function didn't work with Docker transport

We merged the Docker transport and wait_until_available function in the same release, and they didn't play nicely together. (BOLT-1018)
Python task helper didn't generate appropriate errors

The Python task helper included with Bolt didn't produce an error if an exception was thrown in a task implemented with the helper. (BOLT-1021)

1.5.0 (2018-12-06)

New features

Node aliases

You can now specify aliases for nodes in your inventory and then use the aliases to refer to specific nodes. (BOLT-510)
Run apply with PE orchestrator without installing puppet_agent module

Bolt no longer requires installing the puppet_agent module in PE in order to run apply actions with the PE orchestrator. (BOLT-940)

1.4.0 (2018-11-30)

New features

Bolt apply with orchestrator

A new puppetlabs-apply_helper module enables using Boltapply with orchestrator. For details, see the module README. (BOLT-941)
Add targets to a group

A new add_to_group function allows you to add targets to an inventory group during plan execution. (BOLT-942)
Additional plan test helpers

The BoltSpec::Plans library now supports unit testing plans that use the _run_as parameter, apply, run_command, run_script, and upload_file. (BOLT-984)
Data collection about applied catalogs

If analytics data collection is enabled, we now collect randomized info about the number of statements in a manifest block, and how many resources that produces for each target. (BOLT-644)

1.3.0 (2018-11-14)

New features

Docker transport for running commands on containers

A new Docker transport option enables running commands on container instances with the Docker API. The Docker transport is experimental because the capabilities and role of the Docker API might change.(BOLT-962)
Wait until all target nodes accept connections

A new wait_until_available function waits until all targets are accepting connections, or triggers an error if the command times out. (BOLT-956)

Bug fixes

Plans with no return value weren't marked complete in PE

Bolt now correctly reports plan completion to PE for plans that don't return a value. Previously, a plan that didn't return a value incorrectly logged that the plan didn't complete. (BOLT-959)
Some functions weren't available in the BoltSpec::Plans library

The BoltSpec::Plans library now supports plans that use without_default_logging and wait_until_available, and includes a setup helper that ensures tasks are found and that notice works. (BOLT-971)

1.2.0 (2018-10-30)

New features

Apply Puppet manifest code with bolt apply command

The command bolt apply has been added to apply Puppet manifest code on targets without wrapping them in an apply() block in a plan. Note: This command is in development and subject to change. (BOLT-858)
Python and Ruby helper libraries for tasks

Two new libraries have been added to help you write tasks in Ruby and Python:
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-ruby_task_helper
- https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-python_task_helper Use these libraries to parse task input, catch errors, and produce task output. For details, see Task Helpers. (BOLT-906 and BOLT-907)
Redacted passwords for printed target objects

When the Target object in a Bolt plan is printed, it includes only the host, user, port, and protocol used. The values for password and sudo-password are redacted. (BOLT-944)

Bug fixes

Task implementation not located relative to other files in installdir

When you use tasks that include shared code, the task executable is located alongside shared code at _installdir/MODULE/tasks/TASK. (BOLT-931)

1.1.0 (2018-10-16)

New features

Share code between tasks

Bolt includes the ability to share code between tasks. A task can include a list of files that it requires, from any module, that it copies over and makes available via a _installdir parameter. This feature is also supported in Puppet Enterprise 2019.0. For more information see, Sharing task code. (BOLT-755)
Upgraded WinRM gem dependencies

The following gem dependencies have been upgraded to fix the connection between OMI server on Linux and the WinRM transport:
- winrm 2.3.0
- winrm-fs 1.3.1
- json-schema 2.8.1 (BOLT-929)
Mark internal tasks as private

In the task metadata, you can mark internal tasks as private and prevent them from appearing in task list UIs. (BOLT-734)
Upload directories via plans

The bolt file upload command and upload_file action now upload directories. For use over the PCP transport these commands require puppetlabs-bolt_shim 0.2.0 or later. (BOLT-191)
Support for public-key signature system ed25519

The ed25519 key type is now supported out-of-the-box in Bolt packages. (BOLT-380)

Bug fixes

Error when puppet_agent task not run as root

The puppet_agent task now checks that it is run as root. When run as another user, it prints and fails with a helpful message. (BOLT-878)
Bolt suppresses errors from transport

Previously, Bolt suppressed some exception errors thrown by transports. For example, when the ed25519 gem was not present for an Net::SSH process, the NotImplementedError for ed25519 keys would not appear. These errors are now identified and displayed. (BOLT-922)

1.0.0 (2018-10-08)

Bug fixes

Loading bolt/executor is "breaking" gettext setup in spec tests

When Bolt is used as a library, it no longer loads code from r10k unless you explicitly require 'bolt/cli'.(BOLT-914)
Deprecated functions in stdlib result in Evaluation Error

Manifest blocks will now allow use of deprecated functions from stdlib, and language features governed by the 'strict' setting in Puppet. (BOLT-900)
Bolt apply does not provide clientcert fact

apply_prep has been updated to collect agent facts as listed in Puppet agent facts. (BOLT-898)
C:\Program Files\Puppet Labs\Bolt\bin\bolt.bat is non-functional

When moving to Ruby 2.5, the .bat scripts in Bolt packaging reverted to hard-coded paths that were not accurate. As a result Bolt would be unusable outside of PowerShell. The .bat scripts have been fixed so they work from cmd.exe as well. (BOLT-886)

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Bolt 3.27.4 (2023-10-05)

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Bolt 3.27.2 (2023-08-14)

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Bolt 3.26.2 (2022-11-16)

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Bolt 3.26.1 (2022-08-15)

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Bolt 3.25.0 (2022-07-27)

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Bolt 3.24.0 (2022-06-29)

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Bolt 3.23.1 (2022-06-15)

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Bolt 3.23.0 (2022-06-06)

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Bolt 3.22.1 (2022-03-30)

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Bolt 3.22.0 (2022-03-28)

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Bolt 3.21.0 (2021-12-16)

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Bolt 3.20.0 (2021-10-26)

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Bolt 3.19.0 (2021-10-04)

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Bolt 3.18.0 (2021-09-20)

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Bolt 3.17.0 (2021-08-30)

New features

Bug fixes

Bolt 3.16.1 (2021-08-16)

Bug fixes

Bolt 3.16.0 (2021-08-09)

New features

Bug fixes

Bolt 3.15.0 (2021-08-02)

New features

Bug fixes

Deprecations

Bolt 3.14.1 (2021-07-26)

New features

Bug fixes