Puppetlabs Modules Roundup – December 2025

Source: Dev.to

Overview

This series keeps you in the loop on what’s new and updated in the Perforce Puppet official module ecosystem.
The first update of 2026 looks back at the latest changes from December 2025.

Whether you’re just getting started with Puppet, managing a large‑scale solution with thousands of nodes, or simply curious about recent module changes, this is the place to find out what’s new!

Highlighted Updates

Big Upgrades for Observability

• Operations Dashboards needed major updates to work with the latest Grafana versions.
  Modules influxdb and puppet_operational_dashboards have both received new releases.
• The Observability Data Connector now supports the new real‑time webhook events available in Puppet Enterprise 2025.7.

Security Compliance Enforcement Now Supports Windows Server 2025

• The sce_windows module’s latest release enforces CIS Benchmarks on Windows Server 2025.

Puppet 7 Support Removed in a Few Modules

With Puppet 7 now end‑of‑life, the following modules dropped Puppet 7 support in December:

• influxdb
• puppet_operational_dashboards

What’s New in Puppetlabs Modules?

Below is an alphabetical list of modules that received updates in December 2025.
If a module had multiple releases, the notes are grouped together and the latest version is shown.

apt – 11.2.0

📅 Latest release: 2025‑12‑17
🌐 View on the Forge

• Small update adding support for Ubuntu 24.04.

comply – 3.6.0

📅 Latest release: 2025‑12‑17
🌐 View on the Forge

complyadm – 3.6.0

📅 Latest release: 2025‑12‑17
🌐 View on the Forge

Several updates in Security Compliance Management are detailed in the official release notes, including:

• New CIS‑CAT Pro Assessor benchmarks
• Security fixes for multiple vulnerabilities

cron_core – 2.0.2

📅 Latest release: 2025‑12‑02
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• Corrected the supported Puppet version to 8.x only (metadata update).

influxdb – 3.0.0

📅 Latest release: 2025‑12‑04
🌐 View on the Forge

Key changes:

• Puppet 7 support removed – now for Puppet 8+.
• Dependencies updated to recent versions and aligned with PDK 3.x.
• toml-rb upgraded from 2.1.1 to 4.0.0.
• Various fixes (PDK versions, APT module dependency, tokens with named buckets, metadata dependencies on puppet-archive).

peadm – 3.34.0

📅 Latest release: 2025‑12‑19
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• Resolved several issues and added support for Puppet Enterprise 2025.7 and 2023.8.7.
• Added timeouts around puppet runs on DB targets.
• Changed the order of “Convert” plans: the primary node now runs after all other nodes.
• Environment assignment to node groups is now configurable (default: production).
• Updated versions to support the new PE releases.

postgresql – 10.6.1

📅 Latest release: 2025‑12‑26
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• Replaced systemctl status calls with systemctl is-active to avoid Unicode output issues.
• Fixed handling of the postgresql_password parameter and type aliases.

puppet_data_connector – 2.0.0

📅 Latest release: 2025‑12‑19
🌐 View on the Forge

• Now supports webhook handlers for real‑time reporting on Puppet‑sourced metrics.
• Starting with PE 2025.7, you can set up alerts for patching operations (e.g., job completion, node errors).

puppet_operational_dashboards – 3.0.0

📅 Latest release: 2025‑12‑08
🌐 View on the Forge

Major updates:

• Added ability to edit datasource buckets (including deletion).
• Added support for Ubuntu 22.04 in metadata.json.
• Updated datasource setup to include firewall rules.
• Removed Puppet 7 support.
• Upgraded Grafana to 11.8.6.
• Increased plans ingest limit to 90 days.
• Fixed Ubuntu Hiera YAML formatting issue.

sce_windows – 2.2.0

📅 Latest release: 2025‑12‑09
🌐 View on the Forge

• SCE for Windows now enforces Center for Internet Security (CIS) controls on Windows Server 2025.

Additional Note

Ports CIS Microsoft Server 2025 Benchmark v1.0.0, Server Level 1

zone_core – 2.0.1

📅 Latest release: 2025‑12‑01
🌐 View on the Forge

• This small update specifies the correct supported Puppet version as 8.x only. The change functionally occurred in previous releases, but the metadata had not been updated to include it.

Until Next Time!

That’s a wrap for this roundup! If you want to dive deeper into any of these modules, check out the module documentation on the Forge or explore the individual module repos on GitHub for more details.

Got feedback or ideas for future updates? We’d love to hear from you! Add a comment here or join the conversation in the Perforce Community Slack.

Catch you at the next roundup in February!