Puppet-3.1.0 has been released on Feb 4 2013: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/puppet-users/FbQ-KNgiZpA/discussion http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Release_Notes#3.1.0 It contains many fixes against the 3.0.x branch and is also the version currently offered by puppet labs official repositories (for DEB and RPM based distros). No more new point releases will be made by upstream to the 3.0.x branch and all 3.0.x users are encouraged to upgrade to 3.1.0, which is guaranteed to be backward compatible to 3.0.x We currently have puppet-3.0.1 in Portage, there's a 3.0.2 release but there's no point in considering it now, I'd skip it entirely in favor of 3.1.0
namespaceauth.conf got removed, that's all :D feel free to test, I know I am on my 'cluster'.