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diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md index 468fc72484..468b12a281 100644 --- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md +++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md @@ -9,10 +9,8 @@ This section serves to track things we should later document here for 17.0 - remove support for RHEL 6 i386 / Ubuntu 16.04 / macOS 10.13 - 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 -- macOS builds now use openSSL 1.1.1 - Knife Org commands from knife-opc are now part of chef itself - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/10187 - Chef packages on *nix now create the /etc/chef directory and subdirectories to make getting started easier - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11158 / https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11173 -- macOS m1 packages are now built - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11138 ### Infra Language Improvements @@ -29,21 +27,55 @@ This section serves to track things we should later document here for 17.0 - 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 -- file: only run verifiers when the contents changed - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11171 - execute: Add login property - https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/11201 ### 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 - Removed detection of discontinued antergos and Pidora distros - https://github.com/chef/ohai/pull/1633 / https://github.com/chef/ohai/pull/1634 +## What's New in 16.12.0 + +### Chef InSpec 4.28 + +Chef InSpec has been updated from 4.28 to 4.29.3 + +#### New Features + +- The JSON metadata pass through configuration has been moved from the Automate reporter to the JSON Reporter ([#5430](https://github.com/inspec/inspec/pull/5430)) + +#### Bug Fixes + +- The apt resource now correctly fetches all package repositories using the `-name` flag in an environment where ZSH is the user's default shell. ([#5437](https://github.com/inspec/inspec/pull/5437)) +- Updates how InSpec profiles are created with GCP or AWS providers so they use `inputs` instead of `attributes`. ([#5435](https://github.com/inspec/inspec/pull/5435)) + +### Resource Improvements + +#### service and chef_client_launchd + +The `service` and `chef_client_launchd` resources on macOS now use the full path to `launchctl` to avoid potential failures. Thanks [@krackajak](https://github.com/krackajak)! + +#### file + +Verifiers in the `file` resource are only run if the content actually changes. This can significantly speed execution of Chef Infra Client when no actual changes occur. Thanks [@joshuamiller01](https://github.com/joshuamiller01)! + +#### mount + +The mount resource now properly handles NFS mounts with a root of `/`. Thanks for reporting this [@eheydrick](https://github.com/eheydrick) and thanks for the fix [@ramereth](https://github.com/ramereth)! + +### Improved System Detection + +Ohai has been updated to better detect system configuration details: + +- Ohai now detects Chef Infra Clients running in the Effortless pattern at `node['chef_packages']['chef']['chef_effortless']`. +- Windows packages installed for the current user are now detected in addition to system wide package installations. Thanks [@jaymzh](https://github.com/jaymzh)! +- ` Sangoma Linux` is now detected as a the `rhel` platform family. Thanks [@hron84](https://github.com/hron84)! +- Docker is now properly detected even if it's running on a virtualized system. Thanks [@jaymzh](https://github.com/jaymzh)! +- Alibaba Cloud Linux is now detected as platform `alibabalinux` and platform family `rhel`. + ## What's New in 16.11.7 ### Native Apple M1 Architecture Packages |