In November Perforce said bolt is dead, so let's see

did they publish that/communicate it widely?

yes somewhere. That's why Vox Pupuli will publish/maintain it now

ok, thanks

I'll have to follow up on what the exact details are here. From my understanding, the Bolt solution is not dead and is still being actively developed. Perhaps the original messaging that came out was referring to updates to the OSS library? In any case, I'll follow up to check on things. Bolt is still a very important piece of the Puppet solution.

I assume it's still developed because it's a huge part of Puppet Enterprise, but development now happens in a private fork and there are no open source releases anymore (at least that's what we were told)

I have confirmed that Bolt is indeed a continued part of the Perforce Puppet solution and is actively being developed and being made available out of private releases. The OSP version still remains as is in terms of licensing, but the Puppet team is not committing to an SLA on updates to this OSS repo at this time.