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authorTim Smith <tsmith@chef.io>2017-08-10 15:11:21 -0700
committerTim Smith <tsmith@chef.io>2017-08-10 15:34:11 -0700
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Add release notes for 13.3
Signed-off-by: Tim Smith <tsmith@chef.io>
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# Chef Client Release Notes 13.3:
+## Unprivileged Symlink Creation on Windows
+
+Chef can now create symlinks without privilege escalation, which allows for the creation of symlinks on Windows 10 Creator Update.
+
+## apt_preference resource
+
+The apt_preference resource has been ported from the apt cookbook. This resource allows you to create APT preference files controlling which versions of packages will be installed.
+
+Further information regarding apt-pinning is available via <https://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences>.
+
+### Actions
+
+- `:add`: creates a preferences file under /etc/apt/preferences.d
+- `:remove`: Removes the file, therefore unpin the package
+
+### Properties
+
+- `package_name`: name attribute. The name of the package
+- `glob`: Pin by glob() expression or regexp surrounded by /.
+- `pin`: The package version/repository to pin
+- `pin_priority`: The pinning priority aka "the highest package version wins"
+
+### Examples
+
+Pin libmysqlclient16 to version 5.1.49-3:
+
+```ruby
+apt_preference 'libmysqlclient16' do
+ pin 'version 5.1.49-3'
+ pin_priority '700'
+end
+```
+
+Unpin libmysqlclient16:
+
+```ruby
+apt_preference 'libmysqlclient16' do
+ action :remove
+end
+```
+
+Pin all packages from dotdeb.org:
+
+```ruby
+apt_preference 'dotdeb' do
+ glob '*'
+ pin 'origin packages.dotdeb.org'
+ pin_priority '700'
+end
+```
+
+## zypper_repository resource
+
+The zypper_repository resource allows for the creation of Zypper package repositories on SUSE Enterprise Linux and openSUSE systems. This resource maintains full compatibility with the resource in the existing [zypper](https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/zypper) cookbooks
+
+### Actions
+
+- `:add` - adds a repo
+- `:delete` - removes a repo
+
+### Properties
+
+- `repo_name` - repository name if different from the resource name (name property)
+- `type` - the repository type. default: 'NONE'
+- `description` - the description of the repo that will be shown in `zypper repos`
+- `baseurl` - the base url of the repo
+- `path` - the relative path from the `baseurl`
+- `mirrorlist` - the url to the mirrorlist to use
+- `gpgcheck` - should we gpg check the repo (true/false). default: true
+- `gpgkey` - location of repo key to import
+- `priority` - priority of the repo. default: 99
+- `autorefresh` - should the repository be automatically refreshed (true/false). default: true
+- `keeppackages` - should packages be saved (true/false). default: false
+- `refresh_cache` - should package cache be refreshed (true/false). default: true
+- `enabled` - should this repository be enabled (true/false). default: true
+- `mode` - the file mode of the repository file. default: "0644"
+
+### Examples
+
+Add the Apache repository for openSUSE Leap 42.2
+
+```ruby
+zypper_repository 'apache' do
+ baseurl 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Apache'
+ path '/openSUSE_Leap_42.2'
+ type 'rpm-md'
+ priority '100'
+```
+
+## Ohai Release Notes 13.3:
+
+### Additional Platform Support
+
+Ohai now properly detects the [F5 Big-IP](https://www.f5.com/) platform and platform_version.
+
+- platform: bigip
+- platform_family: rhel
+
# Chef Client Release Notes 13.2:
## Properly send policyfile data
@@ -12,15 +110,13 @@ When sending events back to the Chef Server, we now correctly expand the run_lis
When Chef performs a reconfigure, it re-reads the configuration files. It also re-opens its log files, which facilitates log file rotation.
-Chef normally will reconfigure when sent a HUP signal. As of this release if you send a HUP signal while it is converging, the reconfigure
-happens at the end of the run. This is avoids potential Ruby issues when the configuration file contains additional Ruby code that is executed.
-While the daemon is sleeping between runs, sending a SIGHUP will still cause an immediate reconfigure.
+Chef normally will reconfigure when sent a HUP signal. As of this release if you send a HUP signal while it is converging, the reconfigure happens at the end of the run. This is avoids potential Ruby issues when the configuration file contains additional Ruby code that is executed. While the daemon is sleeping between runs, sending a SIGHUP will still cause an immediate reconfigure.
Additionally, Chef now always performs a reconfigure after every run when daemonized.
## New Deprecations
-### Explicit property methods
+### Explicit property methods
<https://docs.chef.io/deprecations_namespace_collisions.html>
@@ -74,12 +170,9 @@ In Chef/Ohai 14 (April 2018) we will remove the IpScopes plugin. The data return
## Socketless local mode by default
-For security reasons we are switching Local Mode to use socketless connections
-by default. This prevents potential attacks where an unprivileged user or process
-connects to the internal Zero server for the converge and changes data.
+For security reasons we are switching Local Mode to use socketless connections by default. This prevents potential attacks where an unprivileged user or process connects to the internal Zero server for the converge and changes data.
-If you use Chef Provisioning with Local Mode, you may need to pass `--listen` to
-`chef-client`.
+If you use Chef Provisioning with Local Mode, you may need to pass `--listen` to `chef-client`.
## New Deprecations
@@ -93,29 +186,21 @@ In Chef/Ohai 14 (April 2018) we will remove support for loading Ohai v6 plugins,
## Rubygems provider sources behavior changed.
-The behavior of `gem_package` and `chef_gem` is now to always apply the `Chef::Config[:rubygems_url]` sources, which may be a
-String uri or an Array of Strings. If additional sources are put on the resource with the `source` property those are added
-to the configured `:rubygems_url` sources.
+The behavior of `gem_package` and `chef_gem` is now to always apply the `Chef::Config[:rubygems_url]` sources, which may be a String uri or an Array of Strings. If additional sources are put on the resource with the `source` property those are added to the configured `:rubygems_url` sources.
-This should enable easier setup of rubygems mirrors particularly in "airgapped" environments through the use of the global config
-variable. It also means that an admin may force all rubygems.org traffic to an internal mirror, while still being able to
-consume external cookbooks which have resources which add other mirrors unchanged (in a non-airgapped environment).
+This should enable easier setup of rubygems mirrors particularly in "airgapped" environments through the use of the global config variable. It also means that an admin may force all rubygems.org traffic to an internal mirror, while still being able to consume external cookbooks which have resources which add other mirrors unchanged (in a non-airgapped environment).
-In the case where a resource must force the use of only the specified source(s), then the `include_default_source` property
-has been added -- setting it to false will remove the `Chef::Config[:rubygems_url]` setting from the list of sources for
-that resource.
+In the case where a resource must force the use of only the specified source(s), then the `include_default_source` property has been added -- setting it to false will remove the `Chef::Config[:rubygems_url]` setting from the list of sources for that resource.
The behavior of the `clear_sources` property is now to only add `--clear-sources` and has no magic side effects on the source options.
## Ruby version upgraded to 2.4.1
-We've upgraded to the latest stable release of the Ruby programming
-language. See the Ruby [2.4.0 Release Notes](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2016/12/25/ruby-2-4-0-released/) for an overview of what's new in the language.
+We've upgraded to the latest stable release of the Ruby programming language. See the Ruby [2.4.0 Release Notes](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2016/12/25/ruby-2-4-0-released/) for an overview of what's new in the language.
## Resource can now declare a default name
-The core `apt_update` resource can now be declared without any name argument, no need for `apt_update "this string doesn't matter but
-why do i have to type it?"`.
+The core `apt_update` resource can now be declared without any name argument, no need for `apt_update "this string doesn't matter but why do i have to type it?"`.
This can be used by any other resource by just overriding the name property and supplying a default:
@@ -123,36 +208,27 @@ This can be used by any other resource by just overriding the name property and
property :name, String, default: ""
```
-Notifications to resources with empty strings as their name is also supported via either the bare resource name (`apt_update` --
-matches what the user types in the DSL) or with empty brackets (`apt_update[]` -- matches the resource notification pattern).
+Notifications to resources with empty strings as their name is also supported via either the bare resource name (`apt_update` -- matches what the user types in the DSL) or with empty brackets (`apt_update[]` -- matches the resource notification pattern).
## The knife ssh command applies the same fuzzifier as knife search node
-A bare name to knife search node will search for the name in `tags`, `roles`, `fqdn`, `addresses`, `policy_name` or `policy_group` fields and will
-match when given partial strings (available since Chef 11). The `knife ssh` search term has been similarly extended so that the
-search API matches in both cases. The node search fuzzifier has also been extracted out to a `fuzz` option to Chef::Search::Query for re-use
-elsewhere.
+A bare name to knife search node will search for the name in `tags`, `roles`, `fqdn`, `addresses`, `policy_name` or `policy_group` fields and will match when given partial strings (available since Chef 11). The `knife ssh` search term has been similarly extended so that the search API matches in both cases. The node search fuzzifier has also been extracted out to a `fuzz` option to Chef::Search::Query for re-use elsewhere.
## Cookbook root aliases
-Rather than `attributes/default.rb`, cookbooks can now use `attributes.rb` in
-the root of the cookbook. Similarly for a single default recipe, cookbooks can
-use `recipe.rb` in the root of the cookbook.
+Rather than `attributes/default.rb`, cookbooks can now use `attributes.rb` in the root of the cookbook. Similarly for a single default recipe, cookbooks can use `recipe.rb` in the root of the cookbook.
## knife ssh can now connect to gateways with ssh key authentication
-The new `gateway_identity_file` option allows the operator to specify
-the key to access ssh gateways with.
+The new `gateway_identity_file` option allows the operator to specify the key to access ssh gateways with.
## Windows Task resource added
-The `windows_task` resource has been ported from the windows cookbook,
-and many bugs have been fixed.
+The `windows_task` resource has been ported from the windows cookbook, and many bugs have been fixed.
## Solaris SMF services can now been started recursively
-It is now possible to load Solaris services recursively, by ensuring the
-new `options` property of the `service` resource contains `-r`.
+It is now possible to load Solaris services recursively, by ensuring the new `options` property of the `service` resource contains `-r`.
## It's now possible to blacklist node attributes
@@ -160,9 +236,7 @@ This is the inverse of the pre-existing whitelisting functionality.
## The guard interpreter for `powershell_script` is Powershell, again
-When writing `not_if` or `only_if` statements, by default we now run
-those statements using powershell, rather than forcing the user to set
-`guard_interpreter` each time.
+When writing `not_if` or `only_if` statements, by default we now run those statements using powershell, rather than forcing the user to set `guard_interpreter` each time.
## Zypper GPG checks by default
@@ -170,9 +244,7 @@ Zypper now defaults to performing gpg checks of packages.
## The InSpec gem is now shipped by default
-The `inspec` and `train` gems are shipped by default in the chef omnibus
-package, making it easier for users in airgapped environments to use
-InSpec.
+The `inspec` and `train` gems are shipped by default in the chef omnibus package, making it easier for users in airgapped environments to use InSpec.
## Properly support managing Sys-V services on Debian systemd hosts
@@ -182,36 +254,29 @@ Chef now properly supports managing sys-v services on hosts running systemd. Pre
### Resource Cloning has been removed
-When Chef compiles resources, it will no longer attempt to merge the
-properties of previously compiled resources with the same name and type
-in to the new resource. See [the deprecation page](https://docs.chef.io/deprecations_resource_cloning.html) for further information.
+When Chef compiles resources, it will no longer attempt to merge the properties of previously compiled resources with the same name and type in to the new resource. See [the deprecation page](https://docs.chef.io/deprecations_resource_cloning.html) for further information.
### It is an error to specify both `default` and `name_property` on a property
-Chef 12 made this work by picking the first option it found, but it was
-always an error and has now been disallowed.
+Chef 12 made this work by picking the first option it found, but it was always an error and has now been disallowed.
### The path property of the execute resource has been removed
-It was never implemented in the provider, so it was always a no-op to use it, the remediation is
-to simply delete it.
+It was never implemented in the provider, so it was always a no-op to use it, the remediation is to simply delete it.
### Using the command property on any script resource (including bash, etc) is now a hard error
-This was always a usage mistake. The command property was used internally by the script resource and was not intended to be exposed
-to users. Users should use the code property instead (or use the command property on an execute resource to execute a single command).
+This was always a usage mistake. The command property was used internally by the script resource and was not intended to be exposed to users. Users should use the code property instead (or use the command property on an execute resource to execute a single command).
### Omitting the code property on any script resource (including bash, etc) is now a hard error
-It is possible that this was being used as a no-op resource, but the log resource is a better choice for that until we get a null
-resource added. Omitting the code property or mixing up the code property with the command property are also common usage mistakes
-that we need to catch and error on.
+It is possible that this was being used as a no-op resource, but the log resource is a better choice for that until we get a null resource added. Omitting the code property or mixing up the code property with the command property are also common usage mistakes that we need to catch and error on.
-### The chef\_gem resource defaults to not run at compile time
+### The chef_gem resource defaults to not run at compile time
The `compile_time true` flag may still be used to force compile time.
-### The Chef::Config[:chef\_gem\_compile\_time] config option has been removed
+### The Chef::Config[:chef_gem_compile_time] config option has been removed
In order to for community cookbooks to behave consistently across all users this optional flag has been removed.
@@ -221,8 +286,7 @@ The remediation is to set the manage_home and non_unique properties directly.
### Using relative paths in the `creates` property of an execute resource with specifying a `cwd` is now a hard error
-Without a declared cwd the relative path was (most likely?) relative to wherever chef-client happened to be invoked which is
-not deterministic or easy to intuit behavior.
+Without a declared cwd the relative path was (most likely?) relative to wherever chef-client happened to be invoked which is not deterministic or easy to intuit behavior.
### Chef::PolicyBuilder::ExpandNodeObject#load_node has been removed
@@ -246,21 +310,15 @@ Exceptions not decending from StandardError (e.g. LoadError, SecurityError, Syst
### Removed deprecated `method_missing` access from the Chef::Node object
-Previously, the syntax `node.foo.bar` could be used to mean `node["foo"]["bar"]`, but this API had sharp edges where methods collided
-with the core ruby Object class (e.g. `node.class`) and where it collided with our own ability to extend the `Chef::Node` API. This
-method access has been deprecated for some time, and has been removed in Chef-13.
+Previously, the syntax `node.foo.bar` could be used to mean `node["foo"]["bar"]`, but this API had sharp edges where methods collided with the core ruby Object class (e.g. `node.class`) and where it collided with our own ability to extend the `Chef::Node` API. This method access has been deprecated for some time, and has been removed in Chef-13.
### Changed `declare_resource` API
-Dropped the `create_if_missing` parameter that was immediately supplanted by the `edit_resource` API (most likely nobody ever used
-this) and converted the `created_at` parameter from an optional positional parameter to a named parameter. These changes are unlikely
-to affect any cookbook code.
+Dropped the `create_if_missing` parameter that was immediately supplanted by the `edit_resource` API (most likely nobody ever used this) and converted the `created_at` parameter from an optional positional parameter to a named parameter. These changes are unlikely to affect any cookbook code.
### Node deep-duping fixes
-The `node.to_hash`/`node.to_h` and `node.dup` APIs have been fixed so that they correctly deep-dup the node data structure including every
-string value. This results in a mutable copy of the immutable merged node structure. This is correct behavior, but is now more expensive
-and may break some poor code (which would have been buggy and difficult to follow code with odd side effects before).
+The `node.to_hash`/`node.to_h` and `node.dup` APIs have been fixed so that they correctly deep-dup the node data structure including every string value. This results in a mutable copy of the immutable merged node structure. This is correct behavior, but is now more expensive and may break some poor code (which would have been buggy and difficult to follow code with odd side effects before).
For example:
@@ -270,15 +328,11 @@ n = node.to_hash # or node.dup
n["foo"] << "buzz"
```
-before this would have mutated the original string in-place so that `node["foo"]` and `node.default["foo"]` would have changed to "fizzbuzz"
-while now they remain "fizz" and only the mutable `n["foo"]` copy is changed to "fizzbuzz".
+before this would have mutated the original string in-place so that `node["foo"]` and `node.default["foo"]` would have changed to "fizzbuzz" while now they remain "fizz" and only the mutable `n["foo"]` copy is changed to "fizzbuzz".
### Freezing immutable merged attributes
-Since Chef 11 merged node attributes have been intended to be immutable but the merged strings have not been frozen. In Chef 13, in the
-process of merging the node attributes strings and other simple objects are dup'd and frozen. In order to get a mutable copy, you can
-now correctly use the `node.dup` or `node.to_hash` methods, or you should mutate the object correctly through its precedence level like
-`node.default["some_string"] << "appending_this"`.
+Since Chef 11 merged node attributes have been intended to be immutable but the merged strings have not been frozen. In Chef 13, in the process of merging the node attributes strings and other simple objects are dup'd and frozen. In order to get a mutable copy, you can now correctly use the `node.dup` or `node.to_hash` methods, or you should mutate the object correctly through its precedence level like `node.default["some_string"] << "appending_this"`.
### The Chef::REST API has been removed
@@ -286,20 +340,15 @@ It has been fully replaced with `Chef::ServerAPI` in chef-client code.
### Properties overriding methods now raise an error
-Defining a property that overrides methods defined on the base ruby `Object` or on `Chef::Resource` itself can cause large amounts of
-confusion. A simple example is `property :hash` which overrides the Object#hash method which will confuse ruby when the Custom Resource
-is placed into the Chef::ResourceCollection which uses a Hash internally which expects to call Object#hash to get a unique id for the
-object. Attempting to create `property :action` would also override the Chef::Resource#action method which is unlikely to end well for
-the user. Overriding inherited properties is still supported.
+Defining a property that overrides methods defined on the base ruby `Object` or on `Chef::Resource` itself can cause large amounts of confusion. A simple example is `property :hash` which overrides the Object#hash method which will confuse ruby when the Custom Resource is placed into the Chef::ResourceCollection which uses a Hash internally which expects to call Object#hash to get a unique id for the object. Attempting to create `property :action` would also override the Chef::Resource#action method which is unlikely to end well for the user. Overriding inherited properties is still supported.
### `chef-shell` now supports solo and legacy solo modes
-Running `chef-shell -s` or `chef-shell --solo` will give you an experience consistent with `chef-solo`. `chef-shell --solo-legacy-mode`
-will give you an experience consistent with `chef-solo --legacy-mode`.
+Running `chef-shell -s` or `chef-shell --solo` will give you an experience consistent with `chef-solo`. `chef-shell --solo-legacy-mode` will give you an experience consistent with `chef-solo --legacy-mode`.
### Chef::Platform.set and related methods have been removed
-The deprecated code has been removed. All providers and resources should now be using Chef >= 12.0 `provides` syntax.
+The deprecated code has been removed. All providers and resources should now be using Chef >= 12.0 `provides` syntax.
### Remove `sort` option for the Search API
@@ -315,52 +364,33 @@ The core of chef hasn't used this to implement the Recipe DSL since 12.5.1 and i
### Simplify Recipe DSL wiring
-Support for actions with spaces and hyphens in the action name has been dropped. Resources and property names with spaces and hyphens
-most likely never worked in Chef-12. UTF-8 characters have always been supported and still are.
+Support for actions with spaces and hyphens in the action name has been dropped. Resources and property names with spaces and hyphens most likely never worked in Chef-12\. UTF-8 characters have always been supported and still are.
### `easy_install` resource has been removed
-The Python `easy_install` package installer has been deprecated for many years,
-so we have removed support for it. No specific replacement for `pip` is being
-included with Chef at this time, but a `pip`-based `python_package` resource is
-available in the [`poise-python`](https://github.com/poise/poise-python) cookbooks.
+The Python `easy_install` package installer has been deprecated for many years, so we have removed support for it. No specific replacement for `pip` is being included with Chef at this time, but a `pip`-based `python_package` resource is available in the [`poise-python`](https://github.com/poise/poise-python) cookbooks.
### Removal of run_command and popen4 APIs
-All the APIs in chef/mixlib/command have been removed. They were deprecated by mixlib-shellout and the shell_out mixin API.
+All the APIs in chef/mixlib/command have been removed. They were deprecated by mixlib-shellout and the shell_out mixin API.
### Iconv has been removed from the ruby libraries and chef omnibus build
-The ruby Iconv library was replaced by the Encoding library in ruby 1.9.x and since the deprecation of ruby 1.8.7 there has been no need
-for the Iconv library but we have carried it forwards as a dependency since removing it might break some chef code out there which used
-this library. It has now been removed from the ruby build. This also removes LGPLv3 code from the omnibus build and reduces build
-headaches from porting iconv to every platform we ship chef-client on.
+The ruby Iconv library was replaced by the Encoding library in ruby 1.9.x and since the deprecation of ruby 1.8.7 there has been no need for the Iconv library but we have carried it forwards as a dependency since removing it might break some chef code out there which used this library. It has now been removed from the ruby build. This also removes LGPLv3 code from the omnibus build and reduces build headaches from porting iconv to every platform we ship chef-client on.
-This will also affect nokogiri, but that gem natively supports UTF-8, UTF-16LE/BE, ISO-8851-1(Latin-1), ASCII and "HTML" encodings. Users
-who really need to write something like Shift-JIS inside of XML will need to either maintain their own nokogiri installs or will need to
-convert to using UTF-8.
+This will also affect nokogiri, but that gem natively supports UTF-8, UTF-16LE/BE, ISO-8851-1(Latin-1), ASCII and "HTML" encodings. Users who really need to write something like Shift-JIS inside of XML will need to either maintain their own nokogiri installs or will need to convert to using UTF-8.
### Deprecated cookbook metadata has been removed
-The `recommends`, `suggests`, `conflicts`, `replaces` and `grouping`
-metadata fields are no longer supported, and have been removed, since
-they were never used. Chef will ignore them in existing `metadata.rb`
-files, but we recommend that you remove them. This was proposed in RFC 85.
+The `recommends`, `suggests`, `conflicts`, `replaces` and `grouping` metadata fields are no longer supported, and have been removed, since they were never used. Chef will ignore them in existing `metadata.rb` files, but we recommend that you remove them. This was proposed in RFC 85.
### All unignored cookbook files will now be uploaded.
-We now treat every file under a cookbook directory as belonging to a
-cookbook, unless that file is ignored with a `chefignore` file. This is
-a change from the previous behaviour where only files in certain
-directories, such as `recipes` or `templates`, were treated as special.
-This change allows chef to support new classes of files, such as Ohai
-plugins or Inspec tests, without having to make changes to the cookbook
-format to support them.
+We now treat every file under a cookbook directory as belonging to a cookbook, unless that file is ignored with a `chefignore` file. This is a change from the previous behaviour where only files in certain directories, such as `recipes` or `templates`, were treated as special. This change allows chef to support new classes of files, such as Ohai plugins or Inspec tests, without having to make changes to the cookbook format to support them.
### DSL-based custom resources and providers no longer get module constants
-Up until now, creating a `mycook/resources/thing.rb` would create a `Chef::Resources::MycookThing` name to access the resource class object.
-This const is no longer created for resources and providers. You can access resource classes through the resolver API like:
+Up until now, creating a `mycook/resources/thing.rb` would create a `Chef::Resources::MycookThing` name to access the resource class object. This const is no longer created for resources and providers. You can access resource classes through the resolver API like:
```ruby
Chef::Resource.resource_for_node(:mycook_thing, node)
@@ -380,9 +410,7 @@ A resource declaring something like:
property :x, default: {}
```
-will now see the default value set to be immutable. This prevents cases of
-modifying the default in one resource affecting others. If you want a per-resource
-mutable default value, define it inside a `lazy{}` helper like:
+will now see the default value set to be immutable. This prevents cases of modifying the default in one resource affecting others. If you want a per-resource mutable default value, define it inside a `lazy{}` helper like:
```ruby
property :x, default: lazy { {} }
@@ -396,17 +424,11 @@ some_resource "name_one" do
end
```
-The fix for sending notifications to multipackage resources involved changing the API which inserts resources into the resource collection slightly
-so that it no longer directly takes the string which is typed into the DSL but reads the (possibly coerced) name off of the resource after it is
-built. The end result is that the above resource will be named `some_resource[name_two]` instead of `some_resource[name_one]`. Note that setting
-the name (*not* the `name_property`, but actually renaming the resource) is very uncommon. The fix is to simply name the resource correctly in
-the first place (`some_resource "name_two" do ...`)
+The fix for sending notifications to multipackage resources involved changing the API which inserts resources into the resource collection slightly so that it no longer directly takes the string which is typed into the DSL but reads the (possibly coerced) name off of the resource after it is built. The end result is that the above resource will be named `some_resource[name_two]` instead of `some_resource[name_one]`. Note that setting the name (_not_ the `name_property`, but actually renaming the resource) is very uncommon. The fix is to simply name the resource correctly in the first place (`some_resource "name_two" do ...`)
### `use_inline_resources` is always enabled
-The `use_inline_resources` provider mode is always enabled when using the
-`action :name do ... end` syntax. You can remove the `use_inline_resources`
-line.
+The `use_inline_resources` provider mode is always enabled when using the `action :name do ... end` syntax. You can remove the `use_inline_resources` line.
### `knife cookbook site vendor` has been removed
@@ -418,55 +440,42 @@ Please use `chef generate cookbook` from the ChefDK instead.
### Verify commands no longer support "%{file}"
-Chef has always recommended `%{path}`, and `%{file}` has now been
-removed.
+Chef has always recommended `%{path}`, and `%{file}` has now been removed.
### The `partial_search` recipe method has been removed
-The `partial_search` method has been fully replaced by the
-`filter_result` argument to `search`, and has now been removed.
+The `partial_search` method has been fully replaced by the `filter_result` argument to `search`, and has now been removed.
### The logger and formatter settings are more predictable
-The default now is the formatter. There is no more automatic switching to the logger when logging or when output
-is sent to a pipe. The logger needs to be specifically requested with `--force-logger` or it will not show up.
+The default now is the formatter. There is no more automatic switching to the logger when logging or when output is sent to a pipe. The logger needs to be specifically requested with `--force-logger` or it will not show up.
The `--force-formatter` option does still exist, although it will probably be deprecated in the future.
If your logfiles switch to the formatter, you need to include `--force-logger` for your daemonized runs.
-Redirecting output to a file with `chef-client > /tmp/chef.out` now captures the same output as invoking it directly on the command
-line with no redirection.
+Redirecting output to a file with `chef-client > /tmp/chef.out` now captures the same output as invoking it directly on the command line with no redirection.
### Path Sanity disabled by default and modified
-The chef client itself no long modifies its `ENV['PATH']` variable directly. When using the `shell_out` API now, in addition to
-setting up LANG/LANGUAGE/LC_ALL variables that API will also inject certain system paths and the ruby bindir and gemdirs into
-the PATH (or Path on Windows). The `shell_out_with_systems_locale` API still does not mangle any environment variables. During
-the Chef-13 lifecycle changes will be made to prep Chef-14 to switch so that `shell_out` by default behaves like
-`shell_out_with_systems_locale`. A new flag will get introduced to call `shell_out(..., internal: [true|false])` to either
-get the forced locale and path settings ("internal") or not. When that is introduced in Chef 13.x the default will be `true`
-(backwards-compat with 13.0) and that default will change in 14.0 to 'false'.
+The chef client itself no long modifies its `ENV['PATH']` variable directly. When using the `shell_out` API now, in addition to setting up LANG/LANGUAGE/LC_ALL variables that API will also inject certain system paths and the ruby bindir and gemdirs into the PATH (or Path on Windows). The `shell_out_with_systems_locale` API still does not mangle any environment variables. During the Chef-13 lifecycle changes will be made to prep Chef-14 to switch so that `shell_out` by default behaves like `shell_out_with_systems_locale`. A new flag will get introduced to call `shell_out(..., internal: [true|false])` to either get the forced locale and path settings ("internal") or not. When that is introduced in Chef 13.x the default will be `true` (backwards-compat with 13.0) and that default will change in 14.0 to 'false'.
-The PATH changes have also been tweaked so that the ruby bindir and gemdir PATHS are prepended instead of appended to the PATH.
-Some system directories are still appended.
+The PATH changes have also been tweaked so that the ruby bindir and gemdir PATHS are prepended instead of appended to the PATH. Some system directories are still appended.
Some examples of changes:
-* `which ruby` in 12.x will return any system ruby and fall back to the embedded ruby if using omnibus
-* `which ruby` in 13.x will return any system ruby and will not find the embedded ruby if using omnibus
-* `shell_out_with_systems_locale("which ruby")` behaves the same as `which ruby` above
-* `shell_out("which ruby")` in 12.x will return any system ruby and fall back to the embedded ruby if using omnibus
-* `shell_out("which ruby")` in 13.x will always return the omnibus ruby first (but will find the system ruby if not using omnibus)
+- `which ruby` in 12.x will return any system ruby and fall back to the embedded ruby if using omnibus
+- `which ruby` in 13.x will return any system ruby and will not find the embedded ruby if using omnibus
+- `shell_out_with_systems_locale("which ruby")` behaves the same as `which ruby` above
+- `shell_out("which ruby")` in 12.x will return any system ruby and fall back to the embedded ruby if using omnibus
+- `shell_out("which ruby")` in 13.x will always return the omnibus ruby first (but will find the system ruby if not using omnibus)
The PATH in `shell_out` can also be overridden:
-* `shell_out("which ruby", env: { "PATH" => nil })` - behaves like shell_out_with_systems_locale()
-* `shell_out("which ruby", env: { "PATH" => [...include PATH string here...] })` - set it arbitrarily however you need
+- `shell_out("which ruby", env: { "PATH" => nil })` - behaves like shell_out_with_systems_locale()
+- `shell_out("which ruby", env: { "PATH" => [...include PATH string here...] })` - set it arbitrarily however you need
-Since most providers which launch custom user commands use `shell_out_with_systems_locale` (service, execute, script, etc) the behavior
-will be that those commands that used to be having embedded omnibus paths injected into them no longer will. Generally this will
-fix more problems than it solves, but may causes issues for some use cases.
+Since most providers which launch custom user commands use `shell_out_with_systems_locale` (service, execute, script, etc) the behavior will be that those commands that used to be having embedded omnibus paths injected into them no longer will. Generally this will fix more problems than it solves, but may causes issues for some use cases.
### Default guard clauses (`not_if`/`only_if`) do not change the PATH or other env vars
@@ -474,7 +483,6 @@ The implementation switched to `shell_out_with_systems_locale` to match `execute
### Chef Client will now exit using the RFC062 defined exit codes
-Chef Client will only exit with exit codes defined in RFC 062. This allows other tooling to respond to how a Chef run completes. Attempting to exit Chef Client with an unsupported exit code (either via `Chef::Application.fatal!` or `Chef::Application.exit!`) will result in an exit code of 1 (GENERIC_FAILURE) and a warning in the event log.
-
-When Chef Client is running as a forked process on unix systems, the standardized exit codes are used by the child process. To actually have Chef Client return the standard exit code, `client_fork false` will need to be set in Chef Client's configuration file.
+Chef Client will only exit with exit codes defined in RFC 062\. This allows other tooling to respond to how a Chef run completes. Attempting to exit Chef Client with an unsupported exit code (either via `Chef::Application.fatal!` or `Chef::Application.exit!`) will result in an exit code of 1 (GENERIC_FAILURE) and a warning in the event log.
+When Chef Client is running as a forked process on unix systems, the standardized exit codes are used by the child process. To actually have Chef Client return the standard exit code, `client_fork false` will need to be set in Chef Client's configuration file.