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 # Chef Client Release Notes:
 
+#### Chef Solo Missing Dependency Improvments ([CHEF-4367](https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-4367))
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+Chef 11.0 introduced ordered evaluation of non-recipe files in
+cookbooks, based on the dependencies specified in your cookbooks'
+metadata. This was a huge improvement on the previous behavior for all
+chef users, but it also introduced a problem for chef-solo users:
+because of the way chef-solo works, it was possible to use
+`include_recipe` to load a recipe from a cookbook without specifying the
+dependency in the metadata. This would load the recipe without having
+evaluated the associated attributes, libraries, LWRPs, etc. in that
+recipe's cookbook, and the recipe would fail to load with errors that
+did not suggest the actual cause of the failure.
+
+We've added a check to `include_recipe` so that attempting to include a
+recipe which is not a dependency of any cookbook specified in the run
+list will now raise an error with a message describing the problem and
+solution.
+
 #### reboot_pending?  
 
 We have added a ```reboot_pending?``` method to the recipe DSL. This method returns true or false if the operating system