Deprecate CookbookVersion#latest_cookbooks

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 197d537d74..a4272b21db 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@
 * Add homebrew provider for package resource, use it by default on OS X (Issue #1709)
 * Add escape_glob method to PathHelper, update glob operations.
 * Verify x509 properties of certificates in the :trusted_certs_dir during knife ssl check.
+* Deprecate CookbookVersion#latest_cookbooks
 
 ## Last Release: 11.14.2
 
diff --git a/lib/chef/cookbook_version.rb b/lib/chef/cookbook_version.rb
index 1503add33a..73bff22a75 100644
--- a/lib/chef/cookbook_version.rb
+++ b/lib/chef/cookbook_version.rb
@@ -576,8 +576,12 @@ class Chef
     end
 
     # Get the newest version of all cookbooks
+    # Remove in Chef 13
     def self.latest_cookbooks
-      chef_server_rest.get_rest('cookbooks/_latest')
+      Chef::Log.warn("[DEPRECATED]: The method Chef::CookbookVersion#latest_cookbooks is deprecated in Chef 12" +
+        " and will be removed in future versions of Chef. Use method Chef::CookbookVersion#list for a list of" +
+        " available cookbooks and their latest version.")
+      self.list
     end
 
     def <=>(o)