The Puppet community and tools grew substantially in 2012. The mailing list and IRC channel memberships doubled, PuppetCamps increased from around 3 to 15, and PuppetConf had over 750 attendees. Puppet 3.0 was released with improved performance, Ruby 1.9 support, and data bindings. Hiera 1.x provided key-value configuration data storage. PuppetDB 1.x became the new store of Puppet-generated data. Puppet Enterprise 2.x offered a pre-configured complete stack including Puppet, MCollective, Hiera, and the Enterprise Console.