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| -rw-r--r-- | RELEASE_NOTES.md | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/dev/design_documents/bootstrap_with_train.md | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/chef/knife/bootstrap/templates/windows-chef-client-msi.erb | 4 |
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diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md index 0cb0257525..94caa8bab0 100644 --- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md +++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ Using removed options will cause the command to fail. |--kerberos-keytab-file| This option existed but was not implemented.| |--winrm-codepage| This was used under knife-windows because bootstrapping was performed over a `cmd` shell. It is now invoked from `powershell`, so this option is no longer used.| |--winrm-shell|This option was ignored for bootstrap.| -|--prerelease|Prerelease Chef hasn't existed for some time.| +|--prerelease|Chef now releases all development builds to our current channel and does not perform pre-release gem releases.| |--install-as-service|Installing Chef client as a service is not supported| #### Usage Changes @@ -112,13 +112,6 @@ the target hostname with the protocol in URL format. For example: knife bootstrap winrm://example.com ``` - -#### Windows Server 2008 - -The new bootstrap on Windows uses Powershell, and is compatible only in -versions of Powershell included in Windows Server 2008R2 and later. To bootstrap older/unpatched -Win2k8 nodes, please continue to use the `knife-bootstrap` plugin. - ### Audit Mode Chef's Audit mode was introduced in 2015 as a beta that needed to be enabled via client.rb. Its functionality has been superceded by InSpec and has been removed. diff --git a/docs/dev/design_documents/bootstrap_with_train.md b/docs/dev/design_documents/bootstrap_with_train.md index db92657fff..b4c3dbcc89 100644 --- a/docs/dev/design_documents/bootstrap_with_train.md +++ b/docs/dev/design_documents/bootstrap_with_train.md @@ -52,12 +52,12 @@ remains largely unchanged. We will also remove the following obsolete or unsupported behaviors: * `--prelease` flag - Chef hasn't been pre-released in quite some time. -* `--install-as-service` - this is an anti-pattern on Windows that we have +* `--install-as-service` - For many years we have suggested users not run chef-client as a service due to memory leaks in long running Ruby processes. * `--kerberos-keytab-file` - this is not implemented in the WinRM gem we use, and so was passed through to no effect. * remove explicit support for versions of Chef older than 12.8. Versions older than the supported Chef client distributions will continue to be use at your own risk. -* Remove support for Windows 2003 in the Windows bootstrap template. +* Remove support for Windows 2003 in the Windows bootstrap template as Chef does not support EOL Windows 2003 installs. ### CLI Flag Changes diff --git a/lib/chef/knife/bootstrap/templates/windows-chef-client-msi.erb b/lib/chef/knife/bootstrap/templates/windows-chef-client-msi.erb index 96aadede74..37fcf15682 100644 --- a/lib/chef/knife/bootstrap/templates/windows-chef-client-msi.erb +++ b/lib/chef/knife/bootstrap/templates/windows-chef-client-msi.erb @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ @rem @rem Author:: Seth Chisamore (<schisamo@chef.io>) -@rem Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2011-2017 Chef Software, Inc. +@rem Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2011-2019 Chef Software, Inc. @rem License:: Apache License, Version 2.0 @rem @rem Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ goto architecture_select @set MACHINE_OS=2016 goto architecture_select -@rem Currently Windows Server 2016 R2 is treated as equivalent to Windows Server 2016 +@rem Currently Windows Server 2019 is treated as equivalent to Windows Server 2016 :Version10.1 goto Version10.0 |