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authorTim Smith <tsmith@chef.io>2021-03-10 13:54:20 -0800
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This section serves to track things we should later document here for 17.0
- Dropped support for Ruby 2.6
-- Lazy attribute loading: https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10861
-- Duping property defaults: https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11095
- Compliance Phase in GA: https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10547
-- gem resource: assume rubygems 1.8+ now: https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10379
- remove support for RHEL 6 i386 / Ubuntu 16.04 / macOS 10.13
-- don't write out node['filesystem2'] data on AIX/Solaris/FreeBSD: https://github.com/chef/ohai/pull/1592
-- Improved performance in systemd_unit resource - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10925
- Compliance cli report - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10939
- Remove ability to run client as a service on Windows - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10928
-- apt_package allow_downgrades now functions as expected, but also raises on invalid versions - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10993
-- reboot_pending? now works on all debian platform_family distros not just Ubuntu specifically - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10989
-- Alibaba Cloud support with node['alibaba'] showing metadata, `alibaba?` helper and node['cloud'] returning data now - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11004
- macOS builds now use openSSL 1.1.1
-- Ohai now detects systems running in the Effortless pattern at `node['chef_packages']['chef']['chef_effortless']` - https://github.com/chef/ohai/pull/1624
-- New Ohai habitat plugin at `node['habitat']` - https://github.com/chef/ohai/pull/1623
- Knife Org commands from knife-opc are now part of chef itself - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10187
-- Improved Docker container detection - https://github.com/chef/ohai/pull/1627
-- Improve idempotency debug logging in resources - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11149
- Chef packages on *nix now create the /etc/chef directory and subdirectories to make getting started easier - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11158
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+
+### Infra Language Improvements
+
- New effortless? helper - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11150
-- Resolve potential failures in chef_client_launchd and macosx_service - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11154
- Default values in custom resources are now dup'd - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11095
+- Lazy attribute loading: https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10861
+- reboot_pending? now works on all debian platform_family distros not just Ubuntu specifically - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10989
+
+### Resource Improvements
+
+- apt_package allow_downgrades now functions as expected, but also raises on invalid versions - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10993
- Use shell redirection in chef_client_cron when append_log_file is true - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11124
+- Improve idempotency debug logging in resources - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11149
+- Resolve potential failures in chef_client_launchd and macosx_service - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11154
+- Improved performance in systemd_unit resource - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10925
+- gem resource: assume rubygems 1.8+ now: https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10379
+
+### Ohai
+- Ohai now detects systems running in the Effortless pattern at `node['chef_packages']['chef']['chef_effortless']` - https://github.com/chef/ohai/pull/1624
+- New Ohai habitat plugin at `node['habitat']` - https://github.com/chef/ohai/pull/1623
+- Detect Sangoma Linux in Ohai - https://github.com/chef/ohai/pull/1631
+- Gather additional package information on Windows - https://github.com/chef/ohai/pull/1616
+- Detect guests running in Podman - https://github.com/chef/ohai/pull/1617
+- Improved Docker container detection - https://github.com/chef/ohai/pull/1627
+- don't write out node['filesystem2'] data on AIX/Solaris/FreeBSD: https://github.com/chef/ohai/pull/1592
+- Alibaba Cloud support with node['alibaba'] showing metadata, `alibaba?` helper and node['cloud'] returning data now - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11004
## What's New in 16.10.17