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authorLamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>2014-11-08 11:40:16 -0800
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# End-User Changes
+## Chef 12 Attribute Changes
+
+The Chef 12 Attribute RFC 23 (https://github.com/opscode/chef-rfc/blob/master/rfc023-chef-12-attributes-changes.md) has been merged into
+Chef. This adds the ability to remove precedence levels (or all levels) of attributes in recipes code, or to
+force setting an attribute precedence level. The major backwards incompatible change to call out in this RFC is that
+`node.force_default!` and `node.force_override!` have changed from accessors to setters, and any cookbook code that used these functions
+(extremely uncommon) simply needs to drop the exclamation point off of the method in order to use the accessor.
+
## Knife Prefers `config.rb` to `knife.rb`.
Knife will now look for `config.rb` in preference to `knife.rb` for its